Surf Report

SERIES

“Backstory” (7 and 11:30 p.m., AMC) recalls “The Boston Strangler,” the 1968 film with Tony Curtis as notorious serial killer Albert DeSalvo.

“Biography” (8 p.m. and midnight, A&E;) recounts the bittersweet career of “Brady Bunch” patriarch Robert Reed.

SPECIALS

“The Making Of: La Traviata From Paris” (8 p.m., KCET), a behind-the-scenes look at last year’s unique production of Verdi’s masterwork, precedes a repeat of the opera staged on the streets in the City of Lights. Zubin Mehta conducts the performance featuring Argentine tenor Jose Cura.

MOVIES

Crusoe. “Robinson Crusoe.” That’s the role Pierce Brosnan plays in a 1995 adventure based on the classic novel. by Daniel Defoe (9 p.m., ABC).