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Sunday, Oct. 8
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Showtime, 9pm
The final movie directed by William Friedkin follows a U.S. Navy officer who’s standing trial for orchestrating a mutiny after his captain shows signs of becoming unhinged and jeopardizes the lives of his crew. Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Clarke and Jake Lacy star.
NFL Football
NFL Network & NBC, beginning at 9:30am Live
The Jacksonville Jaguars battle the Buffalo Bills at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this morning on NFL Network. Sunday Night Football on NBC has the Dallas Cowboys at the San Francisco 49ers.
Halloween-Themed Sitcom Marathon
MeTV, beginning at 12pm
Enjoy six and a half hours of hilariously spooky episodes from The Brady Bunch, Leave It to Beaver, The Beverly Hillbillies, Gilligan’s Island, Mama’s Family, The Love Boat and The Andy Griffith Show.
Dan Curtis Icon-a-Thon
MOVIES!, beginning at 12:30pm
Catch a Classic!
Enjoy an afternoon and early evening of cool ’70s horror movies produced and directed by Dan Curtis. Up first is House of Dark Shadows (1970), a feature-length production based on Curtis’ famed 1966-71 gothic television soap opera Dark Shadows, with several stars from that show reprising their roles, including Jonathan Frid as vampire Barnabas Collins. Another famous vampire is the subject of the next title: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1974), a British TV movie adaptation of the classic novel with a screenplay by Richard Matheson and starring Jack Palance as the title bloodsucker. Following that, Karen Black gives bravura performances as four different characters in three different stories (adaptations of tales by Matheson) in the very scary TV movie anthology Trilogy of Terror (1975). The lineup concludes with Dead of Night (1977), another TV movie anthology of three stories (two of which were by Matheson, the other by Jack Finney) with a cast led by Ed Begley Jr. and Patrick Macnee.
The Simpsons: “A Mid-Childhood Night’s Dream”
FOX, 8pm
Marge (voice of Julie Kavner) feels an overwhelming dread of the empty nest in the new episode “A Mid-Childhood Night’s Dream.”
Professor T
PBS, 8pm
Season Finale!
In “Swansong,” the second season finale, after discovering the body of an undercover police officer in the trunk of a car, the CID team blunders into a drugs squad operation against a major trafficker that appears to implicate one of their closest colleagues.
Ice Airport Alaska
Smithsonian Channel, 8pm
Season Premiere!
In the Season 4 premiere, “Arctic Guardians,” a suspected toxic leak grounds a Boeing 737 at Anchorage International, engine trouble endangers the mid-air refueling of the USAF’s most advanced fighter jets, and a discovery at Anchorage customs uncovers clues to an international smuggling ring.
Krapopolis: “Prometheus”
FOX, 8:30pm
Tyrannis and Hippocampus (voices of Richard Ayoade and Duncan Trussell) release the only god they like, Prometheus (guest star Ben Stiller), from his eternity on the rock, only to find he’s friends with Deliria (Hannah Waddingham) in the new episode “Prometheus.”
Yellowstone: “The Remembering”
CBS, 9pm
In “The Remembering,” a new partnership threatens John (Kevin Costner) and the Yellowstone, while Jamie (Wes Bentley) ramps up his political campaign.
Bob’s Burgers: “The Amazing Rudy”
FOX, 9pm
The Belchers make an important casserole and Rudy (voice of Brian Huskey) attends an important dinner in the new episode “The Amazing Rudy.”
When Calls the Heart: “Long Time Running”
Hallmark Channel, 9pm
Lucas (Chris McNally) is the talk of Hope Valley. Elizabeth (Erin Krakow) and the whole town rally around him, but everyone still worries it won’t be enough to stop the governor.
Unforgotten
PBS, 9pm
Season Finale!
As Season 5 concludes, can Sunny (Sanjeev Bhaskar), Jess (Sinéad Keenan) and the team bring the clues in the case together and unravel the secrets to solve it?
Family Guy: “Supermarket Pete”
FOX, 9:30pm
With the brewery under construction, Peter (voice of Seth MacFarlane) takes a new job at the grocery store in the new episode “Supermarket Pete.”
Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein
MGM+, 10pm
Series Finale!
The true-crime docuseries about notorious 1950s grave robber and serial killer Ed Gein concludes with new reveals and never-before-heard recordings that unravel Gein’s twisted mind.
Van der Valk
PBS, 10pm
Season Finale!
Season 3 concludes with “Magic in Amsterdam, Part 2.” As the investigation continues into an occult-related death, Lucienne (Maimie McCoy) is forced to confront painful memories buried in her past before unearthing a deep-seated tale of medical negligence and personal revenge. Once the murder is solved, Van der Valk (Marc Warren) decides to open his heart up once more to Lena (Loes Haverkort); will he get his happily ever after?
Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror: “Tinker Swiss Cottage”
Travel Channel, 10pm
Jack and guest investigator Jenny McCarthy head to Tinker Swiss Cottage in Rockford, Illinois. Recent construction at the museum has upset ghosts of the Tinker family, leading to aggressive activity. Can Jack and Jenny soothe the restless souls?
Monday, Oct. 9
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
MOVIES!, 4:25pm
Catch a Classic!
One of the seminal giant monster movies of the early Atomic Age, and an influence on subsequent classics like Them! and Godzilla, this enjoyable 1953 creature-feature expands Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Fog Horn” into a tale of a dinosaur (a fictional “Rhedosaurus” invented by the filmmakers) awakened from its long Arctic hibernation by atomic testing. In a search for others like itself, the gigantic creature is impelled by primal instincts to make its way through the North Atlantic toward what used to be its ancestral breeding grounds millions of years ago, but what now happens to be, unfortunately, New York City. This production was the first on which legendary SFX artist Ray Harryhausen was in full charge of the technical effects, and the first on which he used his famed “Dynamation” stop-motion technique that effectively allowed models of fantastic creatures to seemingly interact with real-world footage. Harryhausen’s Rhedosaurus is as impressive as any of his later creations, and his animations of the creature simultaneously lend it not only a terrible ferocity, but also a bit of the pathos found in Bradbury’s tale, as the awakened beast rampages alone through an unfamiliar world. The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms airs third in a lineup of cool, if sometimes cheesy, ’50s/early ’60s giant creature features airing this afternoon and into early tomorrow morning on MOVIES! Ahead of it in the lineup are Earth vs. the Spider (1958) and Them! (1954). Following Beast are Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956), It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955), The Lost World (1960), The Giant Gila Monster (1959), Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) and War of the Colossal Beast (1958).
NFL Football: Green Bay at Las Vegas
ESPN, 8pm Live
Jordan Love’s Green Bay Packers head to Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium to duel with Josh Jacobs and the Raiders on Monday Night Football.
The Voice: “The Blind Auditions, Part 5”
NBC, 8pm
Coaches Niall Horan, John Legend, Reba McEntire and Gwen Stefani all vie to discover and mentor the next singing phenomenon on the fifth night of Blind Auditions.
Antiques Roadshow: “Vintage Hartford 2023, Hour 2”
PBS, 8pm
The show concludes its update on Season 13 finds and appraisals from Hartford, Connecticut.
The Matthew Shepard Story: An American Hate Crime
Investigation Discovery, 9pm
This two-hour documentary honors the life and legacy of Matthew Shepard ahead of the 25th anniversary of his murder on Oct. 12, 1998. When Shepard, a gay college student, was brutally tortured and left for dead in Wyoming, the shocking act of violence captured the nation’s attention and sparked a debate about the discrimination, danger and violence that many LGBTQ+ Americans face. This timely tribute to Shepard’s story features interviews with his friends and allies, and local journalists and community members, as well as key celebrity voices who were deeply affected by the event, including Rosie O’Donnell and Adam Lambert.
The Irrational: “The Barnum Effect”
NBC, 10pm
After a passenger plane crashes into the Potomac, suspicions focus immediately on the pilot. Alec (Jesse L. Martin) and the team are asked to investigate the pilot’s personal motivations and piece together clues in the hopes of revealing the truth.
Tuesday, Oct. 10
Last One Standing
Netflix
Season Premiere!
Japanese comedy duo Chidori (Daigo Yamamoto and Nobuyuki Hayakawa) are back for Season 2 of this “survival talk show.” The first season featured comedians and other talent engaged in talk battles to move on to the next stage — starring in a thrilling drama with established actors. A portion of the drama was unscripted, and the cast was tasked with sharing their stories in their own words. The competition will feature a similar premise, with new faces, this season.
NHL Hockey
ESPN, beginning at 5:30pm Live
The puck drops on the NHL season with the Nashville Predators at the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Chicago Blackhawks at the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Seattle Kraken at Vegas Golden Knights, who raise the franchise’s first Stanley Cup championship banner to the rafters of T-Mobile Arena.
Street Outlaws vs. the World
Discovery Channel, 8pm
New Series!
The quickest and most polarizing Street Outlaws (with BoostedGT as captain) travel abroad to represent Team USA as they take on stiff competition from Australia to prove that they are, in fact, the world’s fastest drivers.
The Voice: “The Blind Auditions Part 5 Cutdown” & “The Blind Auditions, Part 6”
NBC, beginning at 8pm
Coaches Niall Horan, John Legend, Reba McEntire and Gwen Stefani all vie to discover and mentor the next singing phenomenon on the sixth night of Blind Auditions.
Creepy Cinema: “Mad, Mad Mitchum” & “’70s Horror”
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
In tonight’s first two films airing as part of Turner Classic Movies’ monthlong Tuesday night Creepy Cinema block, you’ll see legendary actor Robert Mitchum starring in two of his most memorably evil roles, which rank among the greatest villain portrayals in screen history and should have both gotten him at least Oscar nods. First, in the suspenseful noir thriller Cape Fear (1962), Mitchum plays Max Cady, a convicted rapist who, upon his release from prison, proceeds to stalk the lawyer (Gregory Peck) who helped put him away, and the man’s family. As compelling as Mitchum’s performance is as Cady, he went even deeper and creepier into his villainous role in the next film, The Night of the Hunter (1955). Here he plays Reverend Harry Powell, who marries a widow (Shelley Winters) and ultimately kills her then pursues and torments her children, who know where their real dad has hidden the $10,000 in stolen money Powell desires. Starting later in the evening and into tomorrow morning, the theme shifts to four fright flicks from the early 1970s: From Beyond the Grave (1974), led by Peter Cushing and the last of the notable horror anthology movies produced by Britain’s Amicus Productions around that time; Blacula (1972), which stars William Marshall as the title vampire and is one of the earliest and better of the horror-themed movies to come out within this era’s wave of “blaxploitation” titles; House of Dark Shadows (1970), directed by Dan Curtis and based on Curtis’ gothic soap opera Dark Shadows; and The Night Digger (1971), a British thriller starring Patricia Neal and with a screenplay by Roald Dahl.
BET Hip Hop Awards 2023
BET, 9pm
Fat Joe returns to host this event (taped Oct. 3), which this year will continue the celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary. Cardi B and 21 Savage lead the nominees with 12 nods each, followed by Drake, with nine.
FBI True: “The Manhattan Bomber & Kidnapping of Hannah Anderson”
CBS, 9pm
This true-crime series from Paramount+ continues with “The Manhattan Bomber & Kidnapping of Hannah Anderson.” A search ensues after a homemade bomb explodes in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, injuring 30 people, and agents track down the so-called family friend who abducted a 16-year-old after killing her mother in the remote wilderness of Idaho.
Frontline: “Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover”
PBS, 9pm
This episode looks at Elon Musk’s long and often troubled relationship with the Twitter social media platform and his journey from being one of its most provocative users to becoming its sole proprietor. It explores his acquisition of the site, questions of free speech and the company’s uncertain future.
The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs: “Halloween (1978)”
AMC, AMC+ & Shudder, 10pm Live
Joe Bob celebrates the 45th anniversary of John Carpenter’s classic thriller Halloween.
Farmtruck and AZN Down Under
Discovery Channel, 10pm
New Series!
Farmtruck and AZN, from Street Outlaws, head to Australia to find their own races and fun antics in this fish-out-of-water racing series.
Found: “Missing While Sinning”
NBC, 10pm
The team mobilizes to search for Jinny Coe, a personal escort who disappeared near her apartment; news anchor Joy-Ann Reid launches a nationwide search for the person who abducted Gabi (Shanola Hampton) and Bella (Jasmine Washington) when they were young; and Dhan (Karan Oberoi) makes a breakthrough with Zeke (Arlen Escarpeta).
Wednesday, Oct. 11
Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul
Netflix
New Series!
This addictive, infuriating docuseries charts the origins of the once omnipresent electronic cigarettes created by Adam Bowen and James Monsees. From the Stanford pals’ start as self-imagined tech pioneers creating a safer smoking option to the brand’s explosive growth and insidious marketing to youths, Big Vape’s three episodes pack in testimony from former Juul employees and users who aren’t just blowing smoke about their negative experiences.
Awareness
Prime Video
Original Film!
This Spanish film follows Ian (Carlos Scholz), a rebellious teenager living on the outskirts of society who can manipulate minds with his ability to generate visual illusions. He uses this power to survive — running small, indiscreet scams. When one of Ian’s cons goes awry, his abilities publicly spiral out of control, and he becomes the target of two rival organizations, each seeking to exploit his powers. Pedro Alonso and María Pedraza also star.
NHL Hockey
TNT, beginning at 7:30pm Live
TNT begins its regular-season NHL game slate tonight with the Chicago Blackhawks at the Boston Bruins and the Colorado Avalanche at the L.A. Kings.
Quantum Leap: “Ben & Teller”
NBC, 8pm
Ben (Raymond Lee) takes on the role of a bank teller in the wrong place at the wrong time during a dangerous armed robbery; Addison (Caitlin Bassett), Magic (Ernie Hudson), Ian (Mason Alexander Park) and Jenn (Nanrisa Lee) come to terms with a shocking discovery; and the team adds a new member.
America Outdoors With Baratunde Thurston
PBS, 8pm
Season Finale!
Season 2 concludes with “Maine: Embrace the Cold.” With its magnificent coastline and densely wooded interior, Maine is a place where outdoor adventure has a long history, and a love of wilderness starts in childhood. In this episode, Baratunde meets a Mainer reviving the craft of harvesting ice, straps on snowshoes to understand how being outside can help people recovering from addiction and takes an icy plunge in the winter ocean to embrace the cold.
Star of the Month: Charlton Heston
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
Turner Classic Movies’ monthlong Wednesday salute to Charlton Heston during this centennial month of his birth continues tonight with five films. The lineup begins with writer/director Orson Welles’ film noir classic Touch of Evil (1958), also starring Welles and Janet Leigh. That’s followed by the lesser-known film noir Bad for Each Other (1953), costarring Lizabeth Scott; the comedy The Private War of Major Benson (1955), with Julie Adams; The Hawaiians (1970), a historical drama based on James A. Michener’s novel Hawaii; and another Hawaii-set production, the 1962 romantic drama Diamond Head, which also stars Yvette Mimieux.
Ghost Adventures
Discovery Channel, 9pm
Season Premiere!
Paranormal investigators Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley explore new haunted locations, spending a dusk-to-dawn lockdown in each place as they document key evidence to uncover the truth behind ghostly activity.
Crime Scene Confidential: “Investigating the Investigation”
Investigation Discovery, 9pm
Michelle O’Connell’s death by gunshot at age 24 isn’t a big story in St. Augustine, Florida. The single mom with the troubled past seems to have ended her own life. But Michelle’s outraged family is convinced law enforcement is ignoring all the signs of a brazen homicide for an obvious reason: They’re protecting one of their own.
Magnum P.I.: “Three Bridges”
NBC, 9pm
Magnum (Jay Hernandez) and Higgins (Perdita Weeks) try to help Zhao, a close friend of Kumu (Amy Hill), recover her life savings after it was all lost to a scammer. Meanwhile, TC (Stephen Hill) becomes increasingly frustrated at the lack of progress in his recovery and pushes everyone away.
NOVA: Ancient Earth: “Frozen”
PBS, 9pm
Seven hundred million years ago, Earth was a giant snowball cloaked in ice from pole to pole. How did life manage to hold on through this deadly deep freeze, find creative ways to bounce back and thrive in the dramatically different world that emerged?
Secrets of the Dead
PBS, 10pm
New Episodes!
The series’ 20th season picks up again with “The Sunken Basilica,” which uncovers the sunken remains of a fourth century basilica in western Turkey. Submerged beneath the waters of Lake Iznik for hundreds of years, the church could reveal crucial insights into the early days of Christianity.
Thursday, Oct. 12
The Fall of the House of Usher
Netflix
New Series!
Mike Flanagan, who created Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass, is back with another horror series. This eight-episode production is based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and follows ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher (Bruce Greenwood and Mary McDonnell), who have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege and power. But past secrets come to light when Roderick’s children, the heirs to the Usher dynasty, start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman from the siblings’ youth.
Good Night World
Netflix
New Series!
This anime adaptation of the hit Japanese manga follows a broken family — a shut-in older brother, a high-achieving younger brother, a father who is not respected by his own children and a mother who neglects her own household — seeking salvation, even though none of them know that they are all players in an online game.
Frasier
Paramount+
New Series!
Kelsey Grammer reprises his beloved, Emmy-winning role as Dr. Frasier Crane, which he originated during a nine-season stint on Cheers from 1984-93, followed by the first, 11-season incarnation of the character’s spinoff series from 1993-2004. This comedy, which, like the previous two series, is filmed in front of a live studio audience, follows Frasier in the next chapter of his life as he returns to Boston. Jack Cutmore-Scott costars as Frasier’s son Freddy. The first two episodes are available today on Paramount+ and CBS; new episodes stream Thursdays.
Hispanic Heritage: Starring José Ferrer
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
This evening is dedicated to Puerto Rican actor and director José Ferrer, who is best known for the first film of the night, Oscar winner Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), an adventure drama based on the 1897 Edmond Rostand play about a charismatic swordsman and poet who helps another woo the woman he loves. Next up is the biographical drama I Accuse! (1958), about a Jewish officer in the French Army who is falsely accused of spying for Germany in 1894, followed by Moulin Rouge (1952), the Oscar-winning musical and fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Crisis (1950), a crime drama costarring Cary Grant that follows an American neurosurgeon and his wife who get tangled up in a revolutionary uprising while on vacation in South America. Finally, purchasing manager Jim Fry (Ferrer) worries about a potential layoff after not being invited to a boardroom luncheon in the comedy drama The High Cost of Loving (1958).
LEGO Masters
FOX, 9pm
The pressure’s building up as teams have to construct spectacular volcanoes out of LEGO bricks in this new episode.
Transplant
NBC, 9pm
Season Premiere!
The new season of the hit medical drama finds Bashir “Bash” Hamed (Hamza Haq) continuing his journey to start over in Canada as a medical resident at the best hospital in Toronto, but with each new milestone comes a new challenge. While pursuing Canadian citizenship for himself and his younger sister, Amira (Sirena Gulamgaus), Bash closely examines who he’s becoming in his adopted country. At the same time, he and his colleagues continue to adapt to change and try to understand how they fit in, both within and beyond the walls of York Memorial Hospital. Rekha Sharma joins the cast as new boss Dr. Neeta Devi.
Little Bird
PBS, 9pm
New Series!
This six-episode Canadian drama series follows Bezhig Little Bird (Darla Contois), who was taken away from her family during “The Sixties Scoop” — a Canadian policy that enabled social services to take Indigenous children from their families and place them in foster homes — as she returns home and attempts to find her birth family. Also starring Janet Kidder, Alanna Bale and Ellyn Jade.
House of Villains
E!, 10pm
New Series!
E! brings together 10 iconic and infamous reality television villains (think Celebrity Apprentice’s Omarosa, Vanderpump Rules’ Jax Taylor, The Bachelor’s Corinne Olympios, Survivor’s Jonny Fairplay) under one roof for the new competition elimination series House of Villains. Hosted by Joel McHale, the series follows these notorious villains as they must outsmart, out-manipulate and out-scheme each other through a series of challenges in order to win a $200,000 cash prize and the title of “America’s Ultimate Supervillain.”
The Dead Files: “Isolated”
Travel Channel, 10pm
Seeking peace and quiet, Brittany and her father moved to a remote cabin in Tennessee, but dark and disturbing paranormal activity has made their lives anything but peaceful. Fearing something evil is possessing them, they call on Steve and Cindy for help.
Friday, Oct. 13
Goosebumps
Disney+ & Hulu
New Series!
R.L. Stine’s iconic ’90s horror books for kids are getting a tune-up in this 10-episode series, which follows a group of five teens as they uncover maddening mysteries in their small Pacific Northwest town. The first five episodes are available today; new episodes drop on Fridays. In the first hour, based in part on Stine’s 1992 novel Say Cheese and Die!, football star Isaiah (EastEnders’ Zack Morris) unearths a haunted Polaroid camera during a Halloween party, and “bad things start happening,” warns exec producer Conor Welch. “The final photo is of him hurt at the end of a game, so he spends the episode trying to make sure that doesn’t happen.” That’s only the scary start of a series featuring plot points from The Haunted Mask, Go Eat Worms! and The Cuckoo Clock of Doom — and an appearance by Slappy, the franchise’s fan-favorite living dummy. At the center of all the action is a decades-old tragedy involving the death of high schooler Harold Biddle (Ben Cockell) that has ties to the teens’ parents. New teacher Mr. Bratt (Justin Long), who moves into the Biddle house, becomes possessed by Harold. That leads to some of what EP Pavun Shetty calls the series’ “authentically funny” scenes. Adds Welch: “To watch Justin possessed by an awkward 15-year-old boy is really hysterical.” But maybe keep the lights on for this one, just in case. The first five episodes drop today on Disney+ and Hulu, with subsequent new episodes streaming weekly. The first two episodes also air tonight on Freeform. — Emily Aslanian
John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams
Peacock
New Series!
Legendary horror filmmaker John Carpenter executive produced, composed the theme music for and directed an episode of this anthology series that delves into the monstrous evil that lurks beneath the surface of friendly suburbia. Each episode focuses on one true tale of terror, told by the real people who lived through it. Their firsthand accounts are brought to life through premium cinematic scene-work, news clips, home photos and archival footage, combining the visual language of horror films with the tools and techniques of documentaries.
The Burial
Prime Video
Feature Film Exclusive!
Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones lead this legal drama inspired by true events. When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O’Keefe (Jones) enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary (Foxx) to save his family business. The unlikely pair bond as they expose corporate corruption and racial injustice in this inspirational, triumphant story. The cast also features Alan Ruck and Jurnee Smollett.
Everybody Loves Diamonds
Prime Video
New Series!
This Italian heist series with a comedic twist is inspired by the 2003 Antwerp diamond heist, which has been dubbed “the world’s largest theft of diamonds” by media around the world. The eight episodes follow a team of small-time Italian thieves, led by Leonardo Notarbartolo, who manages to deceive top-level security with a mastermind plan and steal millions of dollars’ worth of precious stones from the Antwerp Diamond Centre. Kim Rossi Stuart, Anna Foglietta and Gianmarco Tognazzi lead the cast.
Creepshow
Shudder & AMC+
Season Premiere!
This horror anthology based on George A. Romero and Stephen King’s 1982 feature film returns for Season 4. The full season drops today on Shudder and AMC+; new episodes will air every Friday night on the linear AMC channel beginning this evening.
Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court
Showtime, 8pm
Series Finale!
The fourth and final episode of the documentary series tracing the modern history of the Supreme Court covers the Court’s conservative shift in “Crisis of Legitimacy.”
TCM Spotlight: Gothic Movies: “Ungentlemanly Callers”
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
First up on tonight’s lineup of crazy men doing crazy things is the Patrick Hamilton play adaptation Gaslight (1944), which is also where the now-common term “gaslighting” originated. Gaslight is a dark thriller about a woman — played by Hollywood icon Ingrid Bergman — attempting to retain her sanity despite her husband’s slow and subtle psychological warfare on her mind. This is followed by another dark psychological thriller, the Oscar-nominated Experiment Perilous (1944), based on the Margaret Carpenter novel in which a New York psychiatrist is plunged into the world of a sinister family after a chance meeting on a train. Next up are two films about newlywed women with husbands who may want to kill them, Secret Beyond the Door (1947) and Suspicion (1941), followed by The Man in Grey (1943), which is centered around a brutish man who marries a pretty, young woman and then begins an affair with her friend. To end the lineup is the original film adaptation of Gaslight (1940), which studio execs attempted to destroy following the 1944 release.
Raid the Cage
CBS, 9pm
New Series!
Damon Wayans Jr. and Jeannie Mai Jenkins host this new game show based on an Israeli format. Two teams try to grab prizes from the Cage before their time runs out and the doors close. Correctly answering trivia questions adds more time to grab prizes. After three rounds, the team that banks the highest total dollar value in prizes wins the game, keeps what they grabbed and plays the final round for the biggest prizes of the night.
Curious Caterer: Fatal Vows
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, 9pm
Original Film!
In the third installment of the franchise, professional caterer and amateur detective Goldy Berry (Nikki DeLoach) is hired to cater a big wedding. The bride, Jessamyn Cole (Amanda Khan), is the ex-wife of Goldy’s current romantic interest, Detective Tom Schultz (Andrew Walker). The town is shocked when they find the groom dead and Jessamyn missing. To complicate matters, a new detective (Brock Morgan) with a vendetta against Tom is hired to oversee the case.
Shining Vale
Starz, 9pm
Season Premiere!
Season 2 of this darkly funny horror series picks up with Pat (Courteney Cox) returning home from the psychiatric hospital to discover a family that barely remembers her and a new neighbor who looks really familiar. Greg Kinnear and Mira Sorvino also star.
Saturday, Oct. 14
College Football: USC at Notre Dame
NBC, 7:30pm Live
Two legendary football programs meet tonight at Notre Dame Stadium as the USC Trojans duke it out with the Fighting Irish on NBC.
Field Day
Hallmark Channel, 8pm
Original Film!
Jen (Rachel Boston) is new to town and still trying to move on from the loss of her husband when she, Marissa (Carmel Amit) and Kelly (Shannon Chan-Kent) are thrown together to plan the annual Field Day at their kids’ school. With the encouragement of the school’s new PE teacher, Jen and the other moms navigate a myriad of obstacles, including an unsupportive head of the PTO.
Murdaugh Murders: The Movie (Part 1)
Lifetime, 8pm
Original Film!
This two-part, four-hour movie marks a major milestone for Lifetime as it’s the net’s 500th original movie. Bill Pullman steps into the titular role as Alex Murdaugh, who was found guilty in the double homicide of his wife Maggie and son Paul. For over 100 years, the wealthy and powerful Murdaugh family were a local dynasty in the South Carolina Lowcountry, where they oversaw the prosecution of all criminal cases in the state’s 14th circuit district. But behind all the power, black ties and fancy dresses, Alex had many secrets. When Maggie and Paul were found murdered, eyes began to turn to Alex. Part 2 airs on Sunday.
Svengoolie Classic Horror & Sci-Fi Movie
MeTV, beginning at 8pm
Sven hosts a double feature of creepy classics. Up first is Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), in which the dimwitted title duo tangles with classic Universal monsters Dracula (Bela Lugosi), the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.) and Frankenstein’s monster (Glenn Strange). After that is the original 1953 sci-fi/horror classic Invaders From Mars, in which a young boy (Jimmy Hunt) learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of the people around him.
Pets & Pickers
Animal Planet, 9pm
Season Premiere!
The series returns for Season 2, once again following the vet and thrift store team of the Regional Animal Protection Society, who work tirelessly to offer low-income families access to life-saving healthcare for their pets.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
MOVIES!, 10:20pm
Catch a Classic!
Horror movies have not often gotten Academy Award nominations, but the ones that have been nominated over the years have received nods in major categories and won a few of those times. The earliest instance came in this 1931 film, probably the best remembered of the many screen adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which earned star Fredric March a Best Actor Oscar (shared with The Champ’s Wallace Beery) for his terrific dual performance as Dr. Henry Jekyll and (with the help of some effectively monstrous makeup effects) his sinister alter ego, Edward Hyde. Costar Miriam Hopkins is also great in this film, which netted additional Oscar nominations for its screenplay adaptation and cinematography.