Off the Wall: The trek by 3 sci-fi pioneers

Off the Wall warns, "Danger, Will Robinson!"

TV FLASHBACK Science fiction launches WLIW's second season of "Pioneers of Television" (Saturday night at 8, WLIW/21) with oodles of clips from '60s groundbreakers like "The Twilight Zone" and "Star Trek," plus whatever "Lost in Space" was. WNET gets a Tuesday jump on "Pioneers of Television" (8 p.m., WNET/13), already moving on this week to Westerns. Trivia quiz, video, more at pbs.org/

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RICKY GERVAIS IS NOT AN IDIOT He's the joker, not the jokee, in the loopy new series "An Idiot Abroad" (Saturday night at 10, Science). Playing the title role is Karl Pilkington, the deadpan dunce of HBO's "The Ricky Gervais Show," now involuntarily plunged by Gervais into global travel that challenges his provincial disposition and peculiar preconceptions. See the sights at science.discovery.com/ tv/an-idiot-abroad.

JET TO HAWAII CBS is taking advantage of the rabid interest in the Jets-Steelers "AFC Championship Game" (Sunday at 6:30 p.m., CBS/2) to lead into a special fresh episode of "Hawaii Five-0" (Sunday around 10 p.m., CBS/2). Catch up with McGarrett and Dano at cbs.com/h50.

REALITY PREMIERES No, it's not the latest trashtastic E!/VH1 celebfest. "My Life Is a Zoo" (Monday at 10 p.m., NatGeo Wild) is actually about a zookeeping Michigan couple. Here's the trashtastic celebfest: "Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?" (Tuesday at 9 p.m., WE) in which New Yorker Joan Rivers decides to move into her daughter's overcrowded SoCal household. "A Stand Up Mother" (Tuesday at 10 p.m., WE) tracks the travels of Tammy Pescatelli, who juggles her Pennsylvania home life with the demands of a comedy-club career. "Desert Car Kings" (Wednesday at 10 p.m., Discovery) eyes an Arizona family that restores classic wheels like this week's 1965 Thunderbird. And "Face Off" (Wednesday at 10 p.m., Syfy) has special-effects makeup artists competing to design movie monsters. Makeup magic at syfy.com/faceoff.

'ANGELS IN CHAINS'! You betcha, it's the legendary 1976 chain-gang episode of "Charlie's Angels" (Tuesday 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., Sleuth). Eye-candy detectives Jaclyn, Kate and Farrah try to rescue wrongfully imprisoned Kim Basinger in the first of four episodes, getting a same-day encore on Sleuth's Old School Tuesday. Check out other Old School options at sleuthchannel.com.

'DEAD' LIVES! See why there's still a cult around the whimsical 2004 Showtime series "Dead Like Me" (Wednesday 8 a.m.-

4 p.m., Syfy). This eight-hour marathon showcases Mandy Patinkin's mentoring of young rookie reaper Ellen Muth. Lots more at deadlikeme.tv.

SUBURBAN SITCOM Melissa Peterman (of "Reba") and Ed Asner (of everything) star in the double-dose premiere of "Working Class" (Friday at 8 and 8:30 p.m., CMT). Peterman plays a city single mom who shifts her kids to the more upscale 'burbs. Asner is cast as the cranky neighbor. Preview at cmt.com/shows.

PETER SELLERS / PETER SELLERS / PETER SELLERS He's three of the stars of "Dr. Strangelove" (Thursday at midnight, Turner Classic Movies), director Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 satire of nuclear war and more, also starring George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn and the unforgettable Sterling Hayden ("precious bodily fluids!"). Also on tap for TCM's final Sellers star-of-the-month night: "Being There" (9:45 p.m. Thursday) and "Lolita" (1:45 a.m.). More at tcm.com.