Dateline: On Assignment

Sunday at 7 p.m., NBC

In New England, we’ve heard plenty about the opioid crisis and Gloucester Police Chief Leonard Campanello’s groundbreaking approach to it, his Angel Initiative. Now NBC is shining a national spotlight on the program, which encourages addicts to show up at the police station for help and legal immunity. The NBC piece — it’s short, about 10 minutes — follows a woman named Cassandra, who is trying to take advantage of the program. It also follows Nathan, who showed up at the station many months ago. Both stories are powerful, in very different ways. “If you’re going to accept it as a disease, you’ve got to accept that relapse is part of it,’’ Campanello says. “It’s not a perfect program. It’s a step toward treating the underlying cause of the crime.’’

Six Feet Under

HBO

Fifteen years ago last week, HBO premiered “Six Feet Under.’’ And it was good, very good. The series, available on HBO streaming and On Demand, had five mostly excellent years on the air. The first few episodes were underdeveloped, as they introduced the Fisher family and their funeral business. But the drama quickly found its character rhythms and thematic anchors, and it finished in 2005 with one of the best TV series finales ever made. I can’t think of a TV show that so honestly portrayed death and grief. The characters were remarkably complex and original, each of them tangled up in idiosyncratic webs of fear, hope, artistic frustration, sexual compulsion, and/or drug use. Without being excessively quirky, they were far from clichéd, from Rachel Griffiths’s Brenda, the brilliant masseuse, to Michael C. Hall’s David, a gay Christian fighting against his own doormat issues. Lauren Ambrose’s Claire brought depth and mystery to teen angst.

WTF With Marc Maron

Podcast

Recently, Marc Maron welcomed guest Rob Reiner, and it was a treat. He’s got great TV-related stories, told in his heavy Bronx accent, going back to his youth in a home swarming with his father Carl Reiner’s cronies. Norman Lear, Sid Caesar, and Mel Brooks were staples, and he talks about how Brooks and his father continue to see each other all the time. He remembers being a teenager and going to visit his father on the set of “The Dick Van Dyke Show,’’ where he once grabbed Mary Tyler Moore’s behind. And he remembers his time writing for “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.’’ He also remembers his years on “All in the Family,’’ but briefly. I wish Maron had pushed harder for more details about those days.

Seinfeld

Hulu

The dance moves heard around the world? Nope, I’m not talking about Michael Jackson or Bruno Mars. I’m talking about Elaine Benes, whose moves on the office-party dance floor in the episode “The Little Kicks’’ are classic. The episode, now 20 years old, is available on Hulu, but I’m watching Elaine do her dance over and over again right now, thanks to the obsession-fueling rabbit hole that is YouTube. It is the best worst dance ever and one of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s finest moments. It’s a vivid reminder of how sharp she can be with physical comedy, as she rocks her big hair like a crazy lady. The dance is just so oddly spasmodic, with a touch of rhythm in the context of no rhythm whatsoever. Elaine has her thumbs in the air as she jerkily throws her head back. Upon seeing Elaine dance, George makes one of the great exclamations in TV history: “Sweet fancy Moses!’’

MATTHEW GILBERT