Everyone credits Albert Einstein for the theory of relativity, though probably fewer than 10% of us can explain it (I cannot without Google). Everyone understands television, but about the same fraction of us know who deserves credit it for it. While Charles Francis Jenkins may have invented televsion, Philo T. Farnsworth was its first great pioneer here in the U.S.A. Plus, he has a more melliflous moniker.

Think of Farnsworthy as our daily guide to premium programming (all times Eastern)

• Elvis on Tour (TCM, 8 p.m.): Ironic that The King died while seated on a throne of sorts. On the 35th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death, TCM presents a documentary of his 1972 cross-country tour. Yes, this is Fat Elvis territory.
• Point Break (Reelz, 10 p.m.): “The FBI’s gonna pay me to learn to surf?” Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow directed this 1991 cult favorite about beach boy-bank robbers starring Keanu Reeves as Johnny Utah. Patrick Swayze is bad-guy Bodhi, a tremendous risk coming off “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost”, and yes, that is the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers in a minor role.
• Inside Fenway Park: An Icon at 100 (PBS, 8 p.m.): Reminding us that a heist was set inside this structure in Ben Affleck’s “The Town”, a film that used the same conceit — robbers wearing rubber masks that look like other people (presidents exchanged for nuns) — as Point Break. The Rolling Stones, Springsteen, the NHL, Notre Dame, FDR, Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore, and of course Oil Can Boyd,,
• have all frolicked in the shadow of the Green Monster.