THE SANTA CLAUSE (1994)

Wednesday,8 p.m.,Disney

Another first in the seemingly endless but delightfully good Tim Allen St. Nick fantasies.

In this one, a divorced executive at a toy company slowly thaws out when he unknowingly makes a deal to replace Santa after the old guy falls off his roof.

CARRIE (1976)

Tuesday,11:30 a.m.,USA

Sissy Spacek is the shy but telekinetic teen who suffers at the hands of a weird and cruel mom (Piper Laurie) and vicious schoolmates. When she’s had enough, she wreaks havoc at the prom. Seriously scary.

FANNY AND ALEXANDER (1982)

Friday, 2 a.m.,TCM

A joyous family that runs a local theater company in – yes – 1907 Sweden undergoes unhappy life changes when the dad dies and the mom marries an austere bishop. Not exactly mass media fare, but this Oscar winner’s really worth a watch. With Pernilla Allwin and Bertil Guve. Who?