Syfy devotes two hours of its prime-time schedule tonight to a celebration of its 20th anniversary – recalling the days when it was Sci Fi, not Syfy, and when the attention-getters on its network included Farscape (pictured) and Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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1985: CBS PRESENTS STAR-STUDDED ADAPTATION OF 'ALICE IN WONDERLAND' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1985, CBS premiered the first part of Alice in Wonderland, a star-studded, two-part adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass...

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THE SIMPSONS By David Bianculli

Portlandia fans, take special note: On tonight’s new episode, Homer and Marge get some new neighbors. They’re from Portland, and they’re aggressively trendy – and their voices are provided by Portlandia stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. What could be better? Well, how’s this? Their son is played, vocally, by Patton Oswalt – who already demonstrated his animated voice-work chops by starring as Remy the culinary rat in Ratatouille.

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MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET By David Bianculli

In honor of the holidays, AMC is showing this classic 1947 movie, starring Edmund Gwenn as an Oscar-worthy department-store Santa, at 8 p.m. ET tonight. And again tomorrow night. And Tuesday. And Wednesday. And Thursday. In TV terms, I guess, it’s the gift that keeps on giving. Maureen O’Hara and a very young Natalie Wood co-star.

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WARGAMES By David Bianculli

With so many Sunday night series already shut down for the holidays, there’s time to look around and see what else is on – including this 1983 thriller, made at the beginning of the home-computer era. That’s evidenced easy by the bright-type-on-dark-screen prompts, the high-pitched modem sounds, and the “war room” graphics that are charmingly basic – if not BASIC. Next year, WarGames will be 30 years old, but the story itself has aged very well. So has star Ma

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DEXTER By David Bianculli

It sure looks like love: Dexter (Michael C. Hall) has shown a protective streak towards Yvonne Strahovski’s Hannah. He’s resisted the request by his sister Debra (Jennifer Carpenter) to kill Hannah for her string of past murders, slept with her (Hannah, not Debra, though this season even that was a possibility), and, last week, made sure Hannah’s father wouldn’t be able to blackmail her. But this week, information from the father ends up in Debra’s hands, which make

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HOMELAND By David Bianculli

Last week, Carrie (Claire Danes) was captured by Abu Nazir (Navid Negahban) – something else she now has in common with Brody (Damian Lewis), besides having a somewhat tenuous grip on both reality and morality. She was released, but rather than running to safety, she ran back into the lion’s den, looking for Nazir herself. Crazy? Well, she was given that diagnosis last season…

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AMERICAN MASTERS: "LENNONYC" By David Bianculli

A repeat, but an excellent one: This 2010 documentary examines John Lennon’s years in New York. It’s a story about his arrival, his legal fight to stay there, and, eventually, his happy nesting phase with Yoko Ono and his artistic resurgence. It’s also about his murder, but it’s the life, not the death, that dominates here. Check local listings.

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WAR HORSE By David Bianculli

On stage, the titular equine was a thing of majesty – a skeletal maxi-puppet that, like the rest of this story about a horse and his trainer in WWI, left a lot to the imagination, in the very best interpretation of that phrase. This 2011 movie version, directed by Steven Spielberg, goes for the literal interpretations instead: real horses, real battlefields. The story is the same, but judge for yourself whether the same can be said of the dramatic impact. Jeremy Irvine stars.

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THE CRYING GAME By David Bianculli

Here’s a cinematic love story that’s far from the norm: Neil Jordan directed this 1992 character drama, which stars Stephen Rea as an IRA terrorist who finds himself sympathizing with a captive (Forest Whitaker), and being drawn to the captive’s enigmatic lover (Jaye Davidson). The movie is 20 years old now, but I still feel, in this case, saying more would be a major spoiler.

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