SPECIALS

“Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties” (5 and 8 p.m. TCM) offers a look at the social significance of films produced during a decade in which American culture was seemingly simple and innocent.

Directors Lee Grant, John Carpenter and Paul Mazursky, film critic Molly Haskell, journalist Peter Biskind and producer Roger Corman supply observations about the making of such highly regarded movies as “The Wild One” (1953), “Rebel Without a Cause” (1955) and “Blackboard Jungle” (1955).

SERIES

The convoluted “Murder in Small Town X” comes to an end tonight with a two-hour finale starting at 8 on Fox.