With Matthew Modine, Randy Quaid and Paul...

With Matthew Modine, Randy Quaid and Paul Reiser as a trio of divorced dads, the 1995 Bye Bye, Love (FOX Tuesday at 8 p.m.) sounds promising as a serious comedy. Writers Gary David Goldberg and Brad Hall, and director, Sam Weisman, betray their TV origins at every turn each time they convey the lingering pain of divorce for adults and children alike, putting a sitcom spin on it.

There is something almost cleansing about the tone that director Fred Schepisi sets in his masterly and resonating A Cry in the Dark (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.), his 1988 film about Lindy Chamberlain, accused of murdering her baby, that may really be about all of us. Meryl Streep, as Lindy (Oscar-nominated for Best Actress), dares monumentally in a performance to annihilate those who see her facility with accents as “all” there is to her art. Sam Neill, as Lindy’s husband Michael captures every small shift and nuance with intelligence.

Jeff Bridges was never better than in Peter Weir’s 1993 Fearless (NBC Saturday at 8:30 p.m.), in which he plays a man transformed by having survived an airplane crash. Rosie Perez overacts as a fellow survivor to whom he is is drawn in the aftermath of tragedy. But Isabella Rossellini really comes into her own as actress in her portrayal of Bridges’ wife, struggling to understand.

Twelve O’Clock High (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.) stars Gregory Peck in one of his finest films, a tense 1949 World War II picture about U.S. flyers stationed in England. Directed by Henry King and featuring Dean Jagger, who won a best supporting actor Oscar.