Popeye’s got a brand new bag. The spinach-swilling seaman turns into a computer-generated cartoon hero in “Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy” (7:30 p.m., Fox), featuring the voices of Billy West and Kathy Bates.

• The families of three returning Iraq war veterans receive a surprise makeover on “At Home with the Brave” (8 p.m., A&E).

Shot entirely on-location in small towns across the country, “Home” spotlights the benevolence of neighbors helping neighbors. Paul DiMeo (“Extreme Makeover”) is host.

• Jennie Garth stars in the 2003 Christmas movie “Secret Santa” (7 p.m., NBC). She’s Rebecca, a spunky reporter sent to a picture-postcard Indiana town to expose a stranger who bestows life-altering holiday gifts. She’s dreadfully miscast as an investigative journalist. Her “feisty” acting range runs the gamut from Trista Rehn (“The Bachelorette”) to Leeza Gibbons.

Television’s everyman, Steven Eckholdt, plays the town’s young widowed millionaire, the man Rebecca suspects of being the undercover philanthropist.

• “NOW with Bill Moyers” (9 p.m., PBS) examines the effects of media consolidation on news and democracy. This marks Moyers’ final broadcast of “NOW.” Moyers is retiring and will devote his time to a biography of his former boss, President Lyndon Johnson.

Tonight’s other highlights

• Cicely Tyson plays a cheapskate with a lesson to learn in the 1997 TV film “Ms. Scrooge” (6 p.m., Lifetime).
• Misfit toys, outcast sled-pullers and dentally inclined elves find happiness in the holiday special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (7 p.m., CBS).
• Jo Jo, Avril Lavigne, Christina Milian, Maroon 5, Ashlee Simpson and others perform on “Jingle Ball Rock 2004” (8 p.m., Fox).
• Scheduled on “48 Hours Mystery” (9 p.m., CBS): after a carpool tragedy kills two children, a mother may be charged with homicide.
• Scheduled on “20/20” (9 p.m., ABC): ways to detect fake jewelry; exotic freebie trips for cops; using cell phones to snoop on kids and relatives.