Network made-for-TV movies have become as rare as hen’s teeth. Or a CBS show without bloodshed. And NBC hasn’t made it easy to find “Secrets of the Mountain” (7 p.m., NBC) by airing it on Friday, when viewers for all shows except “Ghost Whisperer” seem to have vanished.

“Mountain” was produced and subsidized by two major advertisers in an effort to return “family-friendly” fare to prime-time. The film was not offered for review.

Time was, TV movies were a weekly affair, offering good, bad and so-bad-they’re-great fare starring familiar faces from Hollywood’s past and other talent more suited to “Love, American Style.”

Over the years, the number of nights devoted to such films dwindled from few to fewer to nearly none. Now CBS offers the occasional “Hallmark” movie and Jesse Stone sequel. ABC has the occasional prestige presentation from Oprah Winfrey’s production company, and that’s about it.

On basic cable, only Lifetime, Syfy and the Family network seem to be in the original-movie business, and most of their fare is aimed squarely at very specific slices of an already fragmented audience. Gone are the days when original movies or miniseries provided water-cooler conversation and generated some of the highest ratings of the broadcast year.

For the record, “Mountain” stars Paige Turco as a single mom who travels to the mountains to look into an offer on the cabin she inherited from her favorite uncle (Barry Bostwick). But there are secrets to learn and dangers to evade before anyone signs on the dotted line.

l A wedding-party catastrophe fills the wards with patients who present curious mirror images of the hospital staff on “Miami Medical” (9 p.m., CBS). While this is an interesting plot idea, it’s probably a tad too early in the game, since most viewers aren’t terribly familiar with the cast.

l “Fox Legacy with Tom Rothman” (7 p.m., Fox Movie Network) offers a behind-the-scenes glance at the making of “All About Eve,” the backstabbing 1950 backstage drama starring Bette Davis in one of her most memorable and quotable roles.

The film also starred the great George Sanders as the haughty theater critic Addison Dewitt who dismisses a floundering young actress (Marilyn Monroe) when she leaves the stage for a fledgling medium. “Television is nothing but auditions,” he cracks, a great line that resonates 50 years after the fact.

Tonight’s other highlights

• A blogger (Laura Prepon) may be too revealing on “House” (7 p.m., Fox).

• On two episodes of “Chandon Pictures” (Sundance), an infestation (8 p.m.), sects and violence (8:30 p.m.).

• Students don’t always pass the Pepsi Challenge on “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” (8 p.m., ABC).

• A new planet appears to be off the charts on “Stargate Universe” (8 p.m., Syfy).

• Scheduled on “Dateline” (9 p.m., NBC): A troubled woman relocates to a remote island, then vanishes without a trace.

• Scheduled on “20/20” (9 p.m., ABC): the murder of 7-year-old Somer Thompson.

• Morgana’s dark dreams affect her daylight hours on “Merlin” (9 p.m., Syfy).

• Spartacus puts revenge at the top of his agenda on the season finale of “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” (9 p.m., Starz).