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"Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers" (7 p.m., Sundance) is four hours of all Tom Petty, all of the time.

The only legendary singer I want to hear four hours of yapping about, is Kelly Clarkson, and no one seems ready to make that documentary just yet.

Maybe in another year or two, I hope, I hope, I hope.

The Tom Petty film has some great stories, like how the singer of "American Girl" declared bankruptcy to get out of a lousy recording deal and how the Traveling Wilburys, with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison, came into being.

I certainly learned more about Petty than I ever thought I would in this lifetime.

The documentary isn't exactly even-handed and tends to lean a lot toward "Tom Petty is the coolest musician ever, and you should go buy his greatest hits collections," but the interviews with fans and collaborators like Johnny Depp, George Harrison, Eddie Vedder and Dave Stewart make this four-hour documentary only seem like three.

"Journeyman" (9 p.m., KOB-Channel 4) is behind "The Bachelor" in the ratings.

Yup, more people would rather watch another doomed "showmance" than a time-traveling reporter.

I'm one of them.

Don't get me wrong, I desperately wanted to take a "Quantum Leap" and like this drama, but in the end, it just wasn't meant to be.

The journey part of "Journeyman" is too lame to hold my interest.

Dan Vasser (Kevin McKidd), a San Francisco newspaper reporter, starts taking day trips to the past, where he puts right what once went wrong.

He has no control over when he disappears or how long he'll be gone, which royally ticks off his boss and his wife.

So when he returns to modern times, his marriage to Katie (Gretchen Egolf) isn't on solid ground, and his kid is also getting the short end of the stick because of Dad's new hobby.

Then there's Dan's dead fianc‚e, Livia (Moon Bloodgood), who has a part in all of this too.

Dan's latest journey sends him to help brothers whose lives are scarred by their father's abuse.

And his brother Jack (Reed Diamond) suspects that Dan has fallen back into his old gambling habits.

Journey somewhere else on the TV dial, instead of settling for this implausible sci-fi family drama hooey.