TBS, 8:00 p.m. ET
So far in the championship round of postseason baseball play, the home team has won every game. In the American League, the Kansas City Royals, playing at home, took the first two games from the Toronto Blue Jays – and last night, the New York Mets, playing at home, took Game 1 of the National League Championship Series from the Chicago Cubs. Tonight is Game 2, and that home-field-advantage streak will either be snapped – or extended.
Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET
This show’s annual Treehouse of Horror Halloween celebration is next Sunday – but in the meantime, tonight’s show offers up an all-new Halloween of Horror episode. Same holiday, different approach. The Simpsons go to Krustyland Halloween Horror Night, which scares Lisa so much that Homer has to take down his own holiday decorations. But that’s not an end to the Halloween scares, because the Simpsons’ house gets invaded by former Halloween revelers out for revenge – and with the rest of the family still out, Homer and Lisa end up hiding in the attic. They might find some handy things up there to help them in their plight: after all, they've been living in the same house for at least 25 years...
AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET
What a jaw-droppingly complicated of a season opener The Walking Dead rolled out last week. Past-tense flashbacks and present-tense scenes – and each was as tense a tense as the other. And those hundreds of walkers amassing around Alexandria (pictured)? It was like watching a colony of fire ants march through the rain forests of Brazil – only in search of brains. What could The Walking Dead possibly do to top that? We’ll all have to tune in and see. And I intend to do just that.
CBS, 9:30 p.m. ET
In court, Alicia (Julianna Margulies) defends a designer drug dealer – while, on TV, she appears in a cooking segment as part of the promise to help out with Peter’s campaign for vice president. Two different types of cooks, and, in each case, a potential recipe for disaster.
TCM, 9:30 p.m. ET
This particular movie, based on the iconic sleuth from the stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is quite a rarity in the Sherlock Holmes canon. Made in 1916, starring William Gillette as Sherlock, it’s a silent movie, so the usual verbal byplay between Holmes and Watson has to be relayed in dialogue cards. “Notice, Dr. Watson, that the type of liquid retained in this corpse’s digestive system suggests that he drowned in a nearby canal.” “What canal? How can you be certain, Holmes?” “Alimentary, my dear Watson…” (Okay, so that’s not really in the movie. Ask for a refund, if you want.)