Joni Mitchell once sang “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone :” Now the fashion series “I’ve Got Nothing to Wear” (9 p.m., TLC) adds a corollary: You won’t know what you’ve got until you throw out half the stuff in your closet and tear up the rest with scissors.

“Nothing” speaks to those viewers who have an accumulation of clothes but can’t find a thing. Each half-hour show addresses a single woman suffering a fashion crisis. Stylist Jorge Ramon and three assistants help their charge through a wardrobe “intervention.”

Not every fashion faux pas gets the heave-ho. Some articles are recycled and – to use a singularly ugly word now in fashion – repurposed. Parts of an old pantsuit might end up as an evening gown. It’s part chop shop and part alchemy.

And Ramon and his team aren’t content to recycle old fabric. They combine new creations with some of the keepers from the “victim’s” closet as well as newly bought classic clothes. Ramon then catalogs the collection into a “look book” that shows her how to mix and match and make the most out of her metamorphosed wardrobe.

¢ The thought of a “real” James Bond seems a trifle fantastic, sort of like a “real” Jack Bauer. But according to the documentary “True Bond” (7 p.m., Encore), novelist Ian Fleming had a flesh-and-blood spy in mind when he crafted the series of novels that inspired four decades of espionage adventure movies.

Fleming’s inspiration was not even British, but a Yugoslav named Dusko Popov. He was recruited by British intelligence during World War II, when the Nazis occupied (and brutalized) Yugoslavia. Popov acted as a double agent after agreeing to be recruited by the German spy service.

During this time, Fleming worked for British Naval Intelligence and had knowledge of Popov, who plied his trade with a certain panache, staying only at the finest hotels, drinking the most expensive liquor and consorting with the most beautiful women. In fact, his code name was “Tricycle,” and some believed that it was inspired by his habit of wooing more than one woman at a time.

Following “True Bond,” Encore will air a 52-hour marathon of James Bond movies, beginning with the 1962 adventure “Dr. No” (8 p.m.), starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress. The Bond-a-thon concludes with “From Russia With Love” (9 p.m., Sunday).

Tonight’s other highlights

¢ The baby boomer history series “Our Generation” (5:30 p.m., History) chronicles the rise of fast food franchises, processed snack food and other mass-marketed temptations.

¢ Melinda copes with mother-daughter poltergeist issues on “Ghost Whisperer” (7 p.m., CBS).

¢ Keeping secrets from his family proves painful on “Kyle XY” (7 p.m., ABC).

¢ A minister’s murderer may have been his bride on “Close to Home” (8 p.m., CBS).

¢ Scheduled on “20/20” (9 p.m., ABC): the ups and downs of home ownership and buying and selling real estate.