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If you have just about lost your tolerance for portrayals of Los Angeles involving the oversexed and underappreciated, the dippy, the dopey, the hollow and the holistic, "Welcome to the Captain" (7:30, KRQE News 13) may not merely tax your immune system; it could also send you to the nearest virologist.

From "Swingers," it borrows an abject East Coast neurotic dumped by his girlfriend and plunked among the party boys. From "Curb Your Enthusiasm," it takes a distaste for show business bottom-feeders but forgoes the essential hostility. Like nearly every other middling sitcom of our age, it relies on references to the dubious product that came before and inspired it.

A kind of rooming-house comedy, "Welcome to the Captain" relocates familiar types to a new address, a grand 1930s apartment building in Hollywood, El Capitan, where old film stars have gone to croak and younger hacks have arrived to vaguely crack up.

The Captain, as the residents call the building, is a rental and has as its paterfamilias and manager a guy named Saul, played by the estimable Jeffrey Tambor. Saul was a writer on "Three's Company" and proud of it.

Tambor has a natural moroseness to his expression that gives his titans and egomaniacs dimension and eccentricity. As a loser he just makes you uncomfortable.

Saul spends his time intruding on the private lives of his neighbors, concentrating on a young writer named Josh (Fran Kranz), who won an Oscar for a short film some time back and hasn't finished a screenplay since. Thinking he might return to New York, Josh is persuaded instead to move into the Captain by his best friend, an accountant who advises his hot young actor clients to take condoms as tax deductions.

Creator John Hamburg, who made a bunch of film comedies wtih Ben Stiller, seems to like pitting the generically anxious against the baroquely loopy. But the result doesn't match up here, in part because Kranz, a placid actor, never musters more than bemusement.

Whatever the source of his irritation or confusion — a dimwitted young actress who wants advice, an erotically predatory former soap star who is after him (a great turn by Raquel Welch, whose character pretends to be 42), Josh nearly always registers the same look — of someone suffering a mild case of lactose intolerance.

Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and folkie Alison Krauss are sharing the stage on "Crossroads" (9 p.m., Country Music Television).

From their new album, "Raising Sand," they perform the songs "Please Read the Letter" and "Rich Woman," as well as Alison Krauss and Union Station's "The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" and Led Zep classics "Black Dog" and "When the Levee Breaks."