November sweeps ends tonight, but the holiday specials have just begun. The folks at the peacock network don’t have far to go to document the beginning of the holiday season in midtown. “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” (7 p.m., NBC) takes place just outside the windows of NBC’s corporate headquarters.

¢ CBS broadcasts “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer” (7 p.m., CBS). A favorite since 1964, this animated tale was digitally remastered in 1998. Several songs that had been cut or truncated over the years also were restored.

“Rudolph” is based on the famous holiday song written by Johnny Marks and the hit record by Gene Autry released in 1949. Marks composed seven additional songs for the special: “Holly Jolly Christmas,” “Silver and Gold,” “We Are Santa’s Elves,” “We’re a Couple of Misfits,” “Jingle Jingle Jingle,” “There’s Always Tomorrow” and “The Most Wonderful Day of the Year.”

¢ Speaking of heart-warming songs, who can forget the immortal “Pressed Rat and Warthog”? “Great Performances” (8 p.m., PBS) presents the “Cream Reunion Concert” recorded some months back at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Cream, consisting of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, performed for only a few years during the late 1960s. The reunited blues-rock trio, now all in their seventh decade, perform such favorites as “Badge,” “White Room,” “Crossroads,” “I’m So Glad” and their biggest hit, “Sunshine of Your Love.”

And yes, they do let Baker warble the absurd nursery rhyme lyrics to “Pressed Rat and Warthog,” too. Sing along with me: “Selling atonal apples, amplified heat, and pressed rat’s collection of dog legs and feet!”

Tonight’s other highlights

¢ Hyde’s wife shakes things up on “That ’70s Show” (7 p.m., Fox).

¢ Popularity can be deadly on “Criminal Minds” (8 p.m., CBS).

¢ Designers in the driver’s seat on “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart” (8 p.m., NBC).

¢ A showdown in Utah on “Trading Spouses” (8 p.m., Fox).

¢ Kate’s past resurfaces as one of the stranded is laid to rest on “Lost” (8 p.m., ABC).

¢ Veronica sees her mother in a new light on “Veronica Mars” (8 p.m., UPN).

¢ Richard and Emily renew their vows on a memorable repeat of “Gilmore Girls” (8 p.m., WB).