Music fans of a certain vintage should not miss “Monterey 40” (8 p.m. today, VH1 and VH1 Classic), recalling the Monterey Pop festival of June 1967. The film mixes footage from D.A. Pennebaker’s concert film “Monterey Pop” and contemporary interviews with musicians, journalists and producers who were there, including David Crosby, Michelle Phillips, Pete Townshend, Grace Slick and others.

It’s sobering to assess the countenance of these once and future hippies. Monkees member Micky Dolenz maintains his image as a teen court jester. Jann Wenner appears to be the Dorian Gray of rock. Slick, bless her, looks and acts her age (67). Don’t trust anybody over 80!

The documentary makes much of the cultural distrust between the Los Angeles music scene, home to commercially successful bands like the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and the Mamas and the Papas, and San Francisco, where the countercultural influence of bands including the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane was just beginning to receive national attention.

Although organized and conceived by John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas (and producer Lou Adler, also seen here), the concert would be a swan song of sorts for Phillips’ band and a launching pad for hitherto unknown acts, including Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. The concert also introduced soul sensation Otis Redding to a wider (and whiter) audience only months before his death in a plane crash on Dec. 10, 1967.

¢ Can you ever leave your past behind? And can you do it with your family in tow? The new eight-part thriller “Meadowlands” (9 p.m. Sunday, Showtime) offers a dark and alternately fascinating and repellent look at the notion of personal reinvention.

Meet the Brogans. They’re a good-looking family and have been relocated to an attractive, if forbiddingly uniform, housing development called Meadowlands. They are in the Witness Protection Program. Something to do with father Danny Brogan’s (David Morrissey) role in a murder and a fatal fire. It doesn’t take long to determine that the neighbors have secrets of their own.

It’s easy to get hooked on “Meadowlands.” The show gets stranger, more complex and more violent as it progresses. But it’s hardly groundbreaking. It follows in the rather crowded parade of family-as-prison drama/comedies from the “The Sopranos” to “The Riches.” And it’s British, to boot.

Today’s other highlights

¢ Amazing young talents perform on “The Music in Me: Children’s Recitals from Classical to Latin, Jazz to Zydeco” (6:15 p.m., HBO).

¢ Johnny Depp stars in the 2003 adventure “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” (7 p.m., ABC).

¢ Kelly Ripa hosts “50 Funniest Women Alive” (9 p.m., Oxygen).

Sunday’s other highlights

¢ Scheduled on “Dateline” (6 p.m., NBC): Vietnamese immigrants on the Gulf Coast regroup after Katrina.

¢ “Titanic’s Achilles Heel” (7 p.m., History) looks at the flaws in the ocean liner’s construction.

¢ Barry has new plans about the motel; Shaun competes on “John From Cincinnati” (8 p.m., HBO).

¢ “Robot Chicken” (9 p.m., Cartoon Network) salutes all things “Star Wars” as only “Robot Chicken” can.