BEST FILMs

Calamity Jane Tomorrow, BBC2, 4pm

It’s whip-crack-away with Doris Day, right, and Howard Keel in David Butler’s Oscarwinning 1953 musical inspired by the life of the rootin’ tootin’ heroine, replete with unforgettable songs like I Can Do Without You, A Woman’s Touch and Secret Love.

Wish You Were Here Monday, Talking Pictures TV, 11.10pm

Growing up in the early 1950s and starved of affection after her mother’s death, Lynda (Emily Lloyd) shocks family and friends with her precocious behaviour. But her composure is shaken by an older man (Tom Bell) who is a friend of her father.

The Swimmer Tuesday, Film4, 1.10pm

Hollywood legend Burt Lancaster, right, plays a seemingly ordinary suburban guy who swims home from work one hot afternoon via his neighbours’ pools, with each of them evoking people and events from his past. The movie inspired Michael Douglas’s 1993 film, Falling Down.

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey Wednesday, Film4, 7.10pm

This fun sequel to Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure sees a villain from the future plot to destroy the utopian society built on Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted’s (Keanu Reeves) music by sending robot doppelgangers back in time to stop the duo’s group, Wild Stallyns, winning a Battle of the Bands contest.

Blue Bayou Thursday, Film4, 9pm

A touching drama about a Korean who falls foul of the US version of the Windrush scandal. After a clash with a corrupt police officer, tattoo artist Antonio (Justin Chon) faces the threat of deportation even though he was adopted by an American couple when he was three and is expecting a baby with his wife Kathy (Alicia Vikander).

The Invisible Man Friday, ITV2, 9pm

Architect Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss, right) flees the clifftop home of her controlling beau, scientist Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). Soon after, Cecilia learns Adrian has killed himself but events convince her he is still alive. Moss tethers an outlandish dramatic concept to gut-wrenching reality.