MONDAY
NOVEMBER 18
2013

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BBC America, 9:00 a.m. ET

All this week, BBC America is building up to Saturday’s global simulcast of the 50th anniversary special episode of Doctor Who. The week’s festivities begin early today. At 8 a.m. ET, BBC America repeats Doctor Who: The Companions, its special devoted to the Doctor’s many traveling companions through the (past 49) years. Then, beginning at 9 a.m. ET, the network presents a 10-installment marathon of The Doctors Revisited, with individual one-hour specials devoted to the first 10 incarnations of Doctor Who, including Jon Pertwee, shown here. (The 11th and current Doctor, played by Matt Smith, gets his own special later this week.) Consider this all-day marathon the perfect way to get up to speed on one of the fantasy genre’s most iconic series – a virtual Doctor Who’s Who.

 
  
 
 

CBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

Barney’s biological father, played by John Lithgow, returns for this week’s all-new episode. Since Barney’s mother, played by Frances Conroy, and brother, played by Wayne Brady, already are here in this season-long story line, who’s left? Good question. Stay tuned.
 
  
 
 

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

This new series, from Fringe collaborators J.J. Abrams and J.H. Wyman, premiered last night on Fox, but slips into its regular Monday slot tonight, starring Karl Urban and Michael Ealy as a cop in the future and his android partner. Tonight’s second episode features something the premiere didn’t: a subplot involving sexbots, one of whom is seen in the accompanying photo. For Fox, leaving that plot line until episode two qualifies as corporate restraint. For a full review, see Eric Gould's Cold Light Reader.
 
  
 
 

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

Jackie Mabley, the crossover African-American comedienne featured on many mainstream TV variety shows in the Sixties, is profiled here, in a documentary profile presented by Whoopi Goldberg, another female pioneer in her field.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

Later tonight – much later, at 2:15 a.m. ET – TCM presents part 12 of its 15-part imported documentary on cinema history. It’s called The Story of Film: An Odyssey: 1980s – Moviemaking and Protest Around the World, and, as usual, is much more entertaining than its clunky, academic title. And one of the movies profiled in it is featured tonight in prime time, at 10 p.m. ET: 1980’s stirringly original The Elephant Man, starring John Hurt and directed by David Lynch. It’s produced by Mel Brooks, by the way, and features his wife, Anne Bancroft, in a very important and impressive role.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli

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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.