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Saturday’s TV Highlights: “The Blind Side” on HBO.

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Quinton Aaron, left, and Oscar winner Sandra Bullock in the 2009 drama “The Blind Side,” at 8 p.m. on HBO.

SERIES

Kids shows: Nickelodeon premieres two new programs: “Planet Sheen” (11 a.m.) and “T.U.F.F. Puppy” (11:30 a.m.).

Iconoclasts: Dr. Jane Goodall and Charlize Theron profile each other in the season premiere (9 p.m. Sundance).

Austin City Limits: Jimmy Cliff performs in this new episode (11 p.m. KLCS).

Saturday Night Live: Bryan Cranston hosts with musical guest Kanye West (11:29 p.m. NBC).

MOVIES

Rambo series: Sylvester Stallone plays the emotionally shattered Vietnam veteran who’s bullied by a redneck sheriff (Brian Dennehy) in the 1982 drama “First Blood” (5 p.m. Spike). That’s followed by the 1985 sequel “Rambo: First Blood Part II” (7 p.m.) and 2008’s “Rambo” (9 p.m.).

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Bonnie and Clyde: Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway star in director Arthur Penn’s 1967 account of the gun-toting bank robbers and the trail of terror they blazed through the Southwest in the ‘30s (5 p.m. TCM).

Badlands: Writer-director Terrence Malick helped make stars out of Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as a pair of fugitive lovers who embark on a murder spree after he kills her disapproving father, in this controversial 1973 drama based on the real-life 1958 murders committed by Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate. Warren Oates costars (7 p.m. TCM).

Catch Me if You Can: Leonardo DiCaprio plays an impersonator who charms others into believing he’s a doctor, an airline pilot or anyone else in director Steven Spielberg’s 2002 drama. Tom Hanks and Christopher Walken also star (8 p.m. TNT).

SPORTS

College football: Tennessee at LSU (12:30 p.m. CBS); Oklahoma vs. Texas (12:30 p.m. ABC); Wisconsin at Michigan State (12:30 p.m. ESPN); Washington State at UCLA (12:30 p.m. FS Prime); Florida at Alabama (5 p.m. CBS); Stanford at Oregon (5 p.m. ABC); Penn State at Iowa (5 p.m. ESPN); Washington at USC (5 p.m. ESPN2).

Baseball: San Diego Padres at San Francisco Giants. (1 p.m. Fox); the Angels visit the Texas Rangers (5 p.m. FSN); the Arizona Diamondbacks visit the Dodgers (7 p.m. FS Prime).

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