Tuesday's TV Highlights

Tim Balme guest stars in <i>Outrageous Fortune</i>. Photo / Supplied

Marathon Man
8.30PM, MGM Sky Digital
John Schlesinger directs this gripping thriller starring Dustin Hoffman as a history student in training to run marathons who is kidnapped and tortured in a plot involving diamond smuggling and Nazi war criminals. Also stars Laurence Olivier and Roy Scheider. (1976)

Seraphine
8.30PM, Rialto Sky Digital
Drama starring Yolande Moreau as the French painter Seraphine Louis. Follows her life from 1914 when her talent was discovered by German art collector Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur) through to her later years and her struggle with mental illness. (2008)

The Mentalist
8.30PM, TV2
Patrick Jane uses his unorthodox methods to coax a group of high school students into narking on one another so he can get to the bottom of a young girl's death.

Outrageous Fortune
8.30PM, TV3
The man behind Outrageous Fortune and Stolen: The Baby Kahu Story, Tim Balme, steps in front of the camera as a guest star.