The Journey of Natty Gann (KTLA Tuesday...

The Journey of Natty Gann (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is an affecting 1985 Disney picture about a girl (Meredith Salenger) who crosses the country during the depths of the Depression. Oh yes, she has a wolf for a traveling companion.

Breathing Lessons (CBS Tuesday at 9 p.m.), Anne Tyler’s 1988 Pulitzer-winning novel spanning a single day in the life of a middle-aged couple, has been warmly brought to the screen by James Garner and Joanne Woodward. Woodward’s irrepressible homemaker Maggie Moran is a relentless dreamer and incorrigible optimist who constantly blurs the line between meddling and caring. Garner’s husband, Ira, wryly maintains an embarrassed distance from his wife’s scheming while quietly cherishing her big, blundering heart. The 1994 TV film has a perfect non-ending for a deceptively ordinary day that makes our couple’s entire 29-year marriage seem eventful.

Jagged Edge (KCOP Thursday at 8 p.m.) may vanish from memory like an old grocery list, but while you’re in it you are caught. Shocked, intrigued, confused, unnerved and finally snapped right back in your seat with fright, you’re held all the way with the 1985 hit. It’s a roller-coaster ride in San Francisco’s playgrounds of the privileged in which attorney Glenn Close defends Jeff Bridges, accused of murdering his newspaper-heiress wife. The opening of Memphis Belle (ABC Thursday at 9 p.m.) is pure old-fashioned movie stuff, but once this 1990 saga--about one of the B-17s that flew daylight missions over Nazi-occupied Germany--gets into the air, it’s unstoppable. The film is a low-key portrait oftrue American grit under almost unbelievable conditions. Matthew Modine, Sean Astin, Eric Stoltz and Harry Connick Jr. stand out among this 10-man crew.

The holidays bring us these beloved chestnuts, The Sound of Music (NBC Friday at 8 p.m.) and Hans Christian Andersen (KCET Saturday at 8 p.m.).