In Pretty Woman (KTLA Tuesday at 7:30...

In Pretty Woman (KTLA Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.) an Oscar-nominated Julia Roberts and Richard Gere play a gorgeous hooker and tycoon, respectively, falling in love at the Beverly Wilshire. The two brought just enough reality to their roles to make this fairy tale one of 1990’s runaway hits. It works as long as you ask no more than to be diverted.

Much of the early buzz about The Mask (Fox Tuesday at 8 p.m.) in which a flesh-and-blood performer (Jim Carrey) is turned into an elastic, living cartoon, involved the wizardly computer-generated special effects that bullied bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss to turn into an off-kilter superhero whose rubber body contorts like Spiderman and absorbs punishment like something out of Looney Tunes. Masterminded by the imps at Industrial Light & Magic, the tricks in the 1994 hit are something to see.

Every body movement and facial tic of Carrey is so broadly exaggerated in the earlier Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (NBC Wednesday at 8 p.m.) that by comparison he makes goofy Jim Varney look like stoic Charles Bronson. A 1994 movie revolving around as manic a presence as Carrey sounds as if it could be hell, but his starring debut proves surprisingly capable of provoking giggle fits.

Edward Scissorhands (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 6 p.m.) stars Johnny Depp as an ordinary youth except for one thing: springing from his wrists are 10-inch-long razor-sharp metal blades that slice, zip and whoosh through the air with hedge-trimming deftness and Ninja ferocity. As filmmaker Tim Burton dreams him and Depp plays him, he’s a most original fantasy creation, an icon of tenderness and artistic alienation in a modern fairy-tale about a bewildered young manufactured boy, complete except for makeshift hands, pulled from Gothic horror-house into the screamingly pastel candyland of suburbia.

Interview With the Vampire (NBC Saturday at 9 p.m.), the 1994 film from Anne Rice’s best-selling book, is about how “the dark gift” of eternal life is passed on from the vampire Lestat (Tom Cruise) to the handsome Louisiana aristocrat Louis (Brad Pitt). Director Neil Jordan has a feel for the supernatural and a gift for establishing a creepy mood and atmosphere. Whatever else it lacks, “Interview” does a gorgeous job of re-creating not only 18th century New Orleans and 19th century Paris, but also the book’s genuinely disturbing world of those who can never die.