What’s on TV Friday: ‘Once Upon a Time’ and ‘Havana Time Machine’

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Henry Mills’s daughter urges him to fish for his memories in “Once Upon a Time.” And PBS celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with a new documentary and the 30th Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards.

What’s on TV

ONCE UPON A TIME 8 p.m. on ABC. Season 7 of this fairy-tale drama begins with some serious time-traveling. A young Henry Mills (Jared S. Gilmore) leaves Storybrooke and travels to the future to find himself. Years later, Henry (Andrew J. West) crosses paths with a Cinderella (Dania Ramirez) and redirects his existential quest. Fast-forward to the present: The adult Henry lives in Seattle and has struggled to begin his second novel. The plot picks up when his daughter (Alison Fernandez) appears at his door, reminds him of the curse that befell him and the other fairy-tale characters of “Hyperion Heights” and helps refresh his memory.

LIVE PD 9 p.m. on A&E. This documentary crime series returns for a second run. Through raw, live footage from dashboard and hand-held cameras, police departments across the country invite viewers to join them as they patrol some of the country’s busiest communities. The ABC News anchor Dan Abrams hosts as two Dallas police detectives analyze the footage in real time.

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GREAT PERFORMANCES: HAVANA TIME MACHINE (2017) 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Take a sonic tour of Cuba’s capital with this new documentary. Featuring the Latin-tinged rock band the Mavericks, the guitarist Eliades Ochoa and the pianist Roberto Fonseca, “Havana Time Machine” follows the Mavericks frontman Raul Malo as he explores his parents’ homeland. The celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month continues with the 30TH ANNUAL HISPANIC HERITAGE AWARDS at 10 p.m.

What’s Streaming

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SKYLANDERS ACADEMY on Netflix. A ragtag pack of superheroes returns to protect the Skylands universe in Season 2. Spyro (voiced by Justin Long) digs deep into his roots to uncover his superpower and finds a companion in the newcomer and fellow dragon Cynder (Felicia Day). Created by Eric Rogers (“Futurama”), this animated series about little heroes features some big names: Jonathan Banks, Susan Sarandon and Catherine O’Hara also lend their voices.

50 FIRST DATES (2004) on Hulu. Adam Sandler plays Henry, a Maui veterinarian who puts his usual flings behind him after meeting Lucy (Drew Barrymore), a painter who has short-term amnesia. When Henry learns that Lucy essentially relives the same day since a car crash damaged her temporal lobe a year before, he comes up with ingenious plans to win her heart from scratch. The filmmakers turned “an ending that could have been either laughable or appalling into something so effortlessly heartfelt as to be nearly sublime,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.

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