Tube Notes

By Mike Hughes
Gannett News Service

TODAY'S MUST-SEE (cable): "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967), 2 and 8 p.m., and "It Conquered Hollywood," 4 p.m.; AMC. Here's a joyride through the extremes of 1960s Hollywood: a great movie, portraying real-life bank-robbers, then a profile of the studio that made hundreds of awful movies. Talented people — writers Robert Benton and David Newman, director Arthur Penn, actors Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway — proved that fun movies like "Bonnie and Clyde" could also be a high art form. "It Conquered Hollywood" tells of American International Pictures, which churned out cheapies. This delightful documentary — including frank comments from 80-year-old co-founder Sam Arkoff — makes it clear that the goal was always commerce, not art.

"That '70s Show," 7 and 7:30 p.m., Fox. There's a Teflon quality here. Even when "That '70s Show" has a silly plot or a cheap line, which is often, it remains fun. In the first, Fez needs to discourage a stalking ex-girlfriend. The solution is to have Donna pretend to date him. In the second, Eric reads Donna's diary, learning she wishes he were edgier.

"JAG," 7 p.m., CBS. Country star Trisha Yearwood returns to her guest role. This time, Cmdr. Harmon Rabb is a murder suspect.

"Frasier," 8 p.m., NBC. Daphne is back from the fat farm (she was missing because actress Jane Leeves was having a baby). Now she's back, spinning Niles into a tizzy.