With Metropolitan (KCET Monday at 10:30 p.m.)...

With Metropolitan (KCET Monday at 10:30 p.m.) debuting writer-producer-director Whit Stillman scored a success with his incisive, quietly ironic 1990 romantic comedy of manners among the young, very rich and social in Manhattan some 15 years earlier. Stillman’s alter ego (Edward Clements) is an outsider of sorts by way of diminished financial status, and he’s as attracted as he is repelled by his friends.

Be warned that this airing of the 1947 holiday classic about the spirit of Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street (KTTV Tuesday at 8 p.m.), starring Maureen O’Hara, is a colorized version.

As in the original, Lethal Weapon 2 (CBS Tuesday at 8:30 p.m.) has Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as a cop team, but this 1989 sequel is outrageously over-scaled and has the brain-rattling pace of a terminal speed freak going in the wrong direction on a freeway.

Two of the most beloved movies of all time air opposite each other Thanksgiving at 8 p.m. On CBS it’s the irresistible E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, with its adorable alien who lifts the spirits not only of a typical American family but most all who see this 1982 Steven Spielberg modern fairy tale.

On KCOP, it’s the 1942 romantic, Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, in the most durable ‘40s classic of them all.

Melville Shavelson’s 1968 Yours, Mine and Ours (KTLA Saturday at 6 p.m.) teamed Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda as the mother of eight who marries the father of 10--with delightful and genuinely amusing results; based on a true story.

In the new You Must Remember This (KCET Saturday at 6 p.m.), a young black girl discovers that her beloved great-uncle (Robert Guillaume) was once a well-known movie director. Satisfying, feverishly inventive and a technical marvel.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (CBS Saturday at 9 p.m.), Disney’s 1988 live-action, animation blockbuster, is an inked-in film noir with outrageous sight gags. Bob Hoskins stars as a seedy detective, and the film’s mystery plot involves a last great roundup of cartoon stars.

Perceptive, painfully honest, the 1985 Twice in a Lifetime (ABC Saturday at 9 p.m.) tells of the impact upon a middle-aged man’s (Gene Hackman) wife (Ellen Burstyn) and children, especially his enraged daughter (Amy Madigan), when he falls in love with another woman (Ann-Margret).

The Long Goodbye (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.), that sly, elegant 1973 classic, Robert Altman dared to drop Raymond Chandler’s private eye Philip Marlowe into contemporary L.A.--and to turn him into a shaggy, sloppy hangdog type (Elliott Gould, perfectly cast).

Smile (KCET Saturday at 11 p.m.), a tart 1975 satire starring Bruce Dern, was ahead of its time in its hilarious skewering of beauty contests.