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Quartet / Trio / Encore (Turner Classic Movies, Wednesday at 8 p.m. EDT). An ultra-rare back-to-back screening of the three anthology films based on the short stories of W. Somerset Maugham, none of which has ever been transferred to DVD. The stories include “The Alien Corn” (Alfred Kinsey’s favorite movie), “The Colonel’s Lady,” “The Verger,” and “Sanatorium,” the casts include Dirk Bogarde, Glynis Johns, and Jean Simmons, and Maugham himself supplies the on-camera introductions. Now that I’m writing the libretto for a Maugham opera, I wouldn’t miss it for the world. Neither should you (TT).