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What towatch SATURDAY

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Disney Movie Marathon

Freeform, 6 a.m.

These eight family-friendly Disney films include: Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Princess Diaries, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, Brave, Tangled, Moana, Frozen and Pocahontas.

The Kitchen Food Network, 10 a.m.

In “Comfort Food Classics,” family adds an extra ingredient in a comfort-food lineup that includes a chicken-and-dumplings dish inspired by Katie Lee’s grandmothe­r and cheesestea­k tacos whipped up by Jeff Mauro and his father.

Secret State Ovation, 6 p.m.

The 2012 British political thriller (starring the great Gabriel Byrne as a newly elected prime minister who’s investigat­ing his predecesso­r’s untimely death in a plane crash) heats up in this episode. Be patient: Next week’s finale reveals all.

Just Mercy HBO, 7 p.m.

Based on attorney Bryan Stevenson’s powerful memoir about his decades working to overturn wrongful conviction­s for deathrow inmates, this stirring 2019 drama stars Michael B. Jordan (Creed) as a young, idealistic Stevenson, newly graduated from Harvard in the late 1980s. After founding the Equal Justice Initiative, the impassione­d lawyer interviews prisoners in Alabama — despite the disapprova­l of local authoritie­s. In his search for people in need, Stevenson comes across Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx), convicted of murdering an 18-year-old girl even though substantia­l evidence proves his innocence.

Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet

Animal Planet, 8 p.m.

Ahead of next Saturday’s season premiere,

Animal Planet takes us behind the scenes to show what life is really like as one of Dr. Jeff’s busy trainees. Plus, outtakes his team will wish had stayed in the vault!

Falling for Look Lodge

Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m. Original Film Clark Backo and Jonathan Keltz star in this new original movie. When the activities director at Look Lodge quits, Lily (Backo) seizes the opportunit­y for a promotion and must immediatel­y entertain a wedding party.

I Quit

Discovery Channel, 9 p.m.

In “Uncertain Futures,” in the wake of Esr ever’s trip to New Orleans, mentor Tricia

Clarke-Stone visits Ashanti, Tyshemia and Jasmine once more to find out if the three friends’ business has a future. Blue Coolers’ Marcus and Chris take their product on the road, and Vers attire’s Matteo and Julie fly to Paris Fashion Week, despite concern from their mentor.

Adventures of Superman

Decades, 10:30 p.m.

He’s faster than a speeding bullet and more powerful than a locomotive, but Superman still succumbs to kryptonite. In this marathon of the 1952-58 George Reeves classic, the alien mineral plays a big role in Season 2 standout “The Defeat of Superman,” with enemy Happy King (Peter Mamakos) acquiring a synthetic version.

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