What’s recommended: A Sergio Leone classic, a Rob Reiner satire and a Keenen Ivory Wayans spoof

BABY BOOM

Director Charles Shyer and co-writer/producer Nancy Meyers have lots of fun in their 1987 comedy by sticking an adorable infant with an avowedly single workaholic (Diane Keaton, in a dream part). Shyer and Meyers aren’t afraid to be sophisticated and screwballish, and they know just how far to exaggerate for laughs without leaving touch with reality entirely or destroying sentiment. The film’s humor is sharp without being heartless.

Monday at 8 p.m. KTLA

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST

Sergio Leone’s triumphantly bravura 1969 shoot-’em-up is a glorious horse opera from the man responsible for breaking with the Western’s traditionally mythical confrontation between good and evil. In Leone Westerns, the question is not morality but survival. With Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards and Charles Bronson.

Tuesday at 1:35 p.m. Wednesday at 5 a.m. TMC

THE COURT JESTER

Norman Panama and Melvin Frank’s 1956 treat is a fast and witty spoof of swashbucklers, starring Danny Kaye (in top form) and featuring songs by Sylvia Fine and Sammy Cahn. With Glynis Johns.

Wednesday at 5 and 9 p.m. Family Channel

THIS IS SPINAL TAP

This 1984 Rob Reiner satire is one of the funniest films of the ‘80s, a delicious sendup on the making of a rock documentary in which Reiner casts himself as a filmmaker trying to make a record of a seedy English group on tour.

Friday at 11 p.m. KCET