Series reveals FDR’s personal secrets

When Franklin Roosevelt died 63 years ago on April 12, 1945, many Americans felt as if they had lost a father or close friend. The two-part series “FDR: A Presidency Revealed” (8 p.m. Sunday, History, concludes Monday) looks at the personal secrets that FDR kept from his public even as he was using radio and newsreels to present a more familiar and intimate view of the presidency.

“Revealed” looks at how the White House and a complicit press hid Roosevelt’s paralysis from the public. The film also covers the president’s secret affections for other women and his estrangement from his wife, Eleanor, as well as his ability to mask his deteriorating health during his final years in office.

Today’s highlights

  • Threats from Indian neighbors on “Little House on the Prairie” (7 p.m., ABC).
  • Erich Von Stroheim stars in director Jean Renoir’s 1937 World War I drama “Grand Illusion” (7 p.m., Turner Classic Movies).
  • Antonio Banderas stars in the 2002 adventure sequel “Spy Kids 2” (8 p.m., ABC).
  • Scheduled on “48 Hours Mystery” (9 p.m., CBS): the parents of a 12-year-old accused of murder think they know the real killer.
  • Tom Brady is host on “Saturday Night Live” (10:30 p.m., NBC), featuring musical guest Beck.

Sunday’s highlights

  • Vern Yip (“Trading Spaces”) is host on “Home Intervention” (6 p.m., NBC).
  • Looks like another love TKO on “The Contender” (7 p.m., NBC).
  • Stiffed by their contractor, a Queens, N.Y., family gets their dream house on “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” (7 p.m., ABC).
  • “Nature” (7 p.m., PBS) will spend the next three Sunday nights in “Deep Jungle,” an exploration of never-before-photographed corners of the world’s rain forests.
  • Geraldine McEwan stars as “Miss Marple” on “Mystery!” (8 p.m., PBS).
  • Michael Douglas stars in the 2001 thriller “Don’t Say a Word” (8 p.m., CBS).
  • Valentine’s Day on “Desperate Housewives” (8 p.m., ABC).
  • Josh Groban, Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, Joss Stone, Rob Thomas and John Legend perform the “Save the Music” Concert (8 p.m., VH1).
  • Bill Pullman stars in the repeat opener of the creepy miniseries “Revelations” (9 p.m., NBC).