Every summer brings us a new AFI salute and movie clip-athon. Don’t get me wrong. I love these popcorn countdowns. But, after nine years, the themes are getting a tad vague. I’m half-dreading the day, come 2019, when the AFI launches its version of the MTV movie awards, when we finally get, “100 Years … 100 Fight Scenes … 100 Buddy Cops … 100 Second Bananas” etc.

Tonight’s offering is “100 Years … 100 Cheers: America’s Most Inspiring Movies” (7 p.m., CBS). I guess that mean’s we’re going to celebrate feel-good flicks about characters who overcome adversity and triumph in the last reel. Can you feel the “Rocky” theme coming?

I like “inspiration” as much as the next guy, but from the list of films mentioned in the press release, I think we’re in for a night of heavy-handed Hollywood self-congratulation. We’re also in for a reminder of the kind of high-minded movies that get mentioned a lot during Oscar season and are then consigned to oblivion.

Let’s take the movie “Gandhi.” It’s on the list, and it won a bunch of Oscars back in 1982. Back when I lived in Weehawken, N.J., I used to frequent the back section of my video store just to see how much dust had accumulated on their one copy of “Gandhi.” According to my unscientific survey, no one has rented the film since 1987.

Other “inspiring” films on the list include “The Color Purple,” “Dead Poets Society,” “Good Will Hunting” and “Seabiscuit.” Has anyone, of their own volition, sat through any of these pictures more than once?

While it’s not mentioned in the press material, I can all but guarantee we’re going to have to sit through a few clips of “Forest Gump,” the most shamelessly contrived “feel-good” movie of all time.

All I want to know is, does “Caddyshack” make the list? After all, the poor kid wins the scholarship and triumphs in the end. The common if vulgar everyman trumps the hypocritical snob. The country club explodes. The gopher survives. And then we hear the 1812 Overture. Now that’s inspiration.

¢ Mac helps amend the Constitution and pass the Equal Rights Amendment on the series finale of “Commander in Chief” (9 p.m., ABC). Mac’s got her work cut out for her if she wants to repeal a quarter-century of American social, political and cultural history in her final 42 minutes.

Tonight’s other highlights

¢ Game five of the NHL Stanley Cup finals (7 p.m., NBC).

¢ Hoofers compete on “So You Think You Can Dance” (7 p.m., Fox).

¢ “Raising 16 Children” (7 p.m., Discovery Health) follows a Fayetteville, Ark., couple with 15 children and another on the way.

¢ The hatch reveals its secrets on “Lost” (8 p.m., ABC).