BEST BETS FOR DECEMBER 27, 2007

	MY NAME IS EARL NBC, 8 p.m. ET This repeat is the delightful episode introducing Alyssa Milano as convict Frank's girl friend, whom Earl meets when she shows up at prison for a conjugal visit - dressed in an imaginatively inappropriate prison-guard fantasy costume. Needless to say, she catches Earl's eye, too - and sparks his imagination. But while he inds his spark difficult to ignite, the imaginations of Earl's friends go wild.
	UGLY BETTY ABC, 8 p.m. ET Freddy Rodriguez, who played the young undertaker in Six Feet Under, started his run of Ugly Betty appearances with this repeat episode, playing the new sandwich guy at Betty's office. The way to this woman's heart, it turns out, may be her stomach, too.
	JOHN AND MARY Fox Movie Channel, 8 p.m. ET Dustin Hoffman made this 1969 movie the same year he starred in Midnight Cowboy - but this one is remembered, regarded and televised a lot less. With good reason: It's not a very good movie. But its story, about two people who meet in a singles bar, have sex, and wake up in the morning awkwardly trying to get to know each other, is pure, undiluted Sixties. And Hoffman's co-star is Mia Farrow, who was coming off Rosemary's Baby just as Hoffman was coming off The Graduate.
	I REMEMBER MAMA TCM, 8 p.m. ET This 1948 movie is one link in a long chain. It's based on a Broadway play, which was based on a novel - and a year after this movie was released, it inspired a television series, Mama, that was the first TV series based on a movie. Film, theater, TV, novel - that's pretty much a clean sweep. Irene Dunne stars as the matriarch in this nostalgia-steeped tale of a Norwegian family in San Francisco at the turn of the century, and the elder daughter is played by Barbara Bel Geddes. Decades later, she would star as a family matriarch herself - as J.R. Ewing's mother on TV's Dallas.
	30 ROCK NBC, 8:30 p.m. ET This rerun, from earlier this season, has Jane Krakwoski fitted out with a fat suit - and embracing her outer big girl, in attitude, TV sketches, and even in song.
	FRIED GREEN TOMATOES Lifetime, 9 p.m. ET Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy star in this 1991 character study, but supporting actresses Mary-Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson steal their share of scenes, too. If you're a fan of Parker in Weeds, catch her in this Southern-steeped movie from 15 years earlier in her career. Just as luminous, even then.