WEDNESDAY

MAY 3

2017

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ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET

Pop Quiz of the Day: Tonight’s episode of The Goldbergs is about the characters seeing, and reacting to, a frightening, Cold War-inspired ABC made-for-TV movie from 1983, called The Day After (pictured). It imagined a Soviet nuclear strike on the Midwestern U.S., and its aftermath. The pop quiz question is this: What other TV series, also set in the Eighties, presented the same basic plot last year, with its characters watching The Day After and reacting to it? (Hint: It wasn’t The Russians.)

NATURE: "DOLPHINS: SPY IN THE POD"

PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

Part 1 of 2. Nature established an instant hit, earlier this season, by following scientists who designed intricate robotic approximations of animals and set them loose in the wild, to watch how actual animals interacted with them. Tonight and next week, Nature provides a reprise, and an underwater one at that, by photographing the fish and mammals who encounter the scientists’ ingeniously designed and operated mechanical dolphins. Sometimes, the dolphin footage they capture is completely accidental. Other times, it’s photographed on porpoise. Check local listings.

FARGO

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

This new season of Fargo started with an extended segment enacted entirely in German, set in East Berlin in the late Eighties. Tonight, in episode three, part of the show flashes back again – this time to the Seventies (pictured), the heyday of the sci-fi writer who, under another name, was just murdered because of a case of mistaken identity. Or, at least, mistaken address…

BROCKMIRE

IFC, 10:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s episode is called “Road Trip,” and it sends Brockmire and his new minor-league employer, played by Amanda Peet (pictured), out to meet and greet their fans – and others. Based on their histories and personalities, not a great idea…

FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE: NOT THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER

TBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

This is the first time since Saturday night’s live Samantha Bee special, Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, that TBS has found a place and time to repeat that show in its entirety. It’s definitely worth watching – and among its many pleasant surprises was how adept a character actress Bee was in her “period” standup routines, when she appeared in costume to play various female comics through the ages. But other elements of the show were even more brilliant, including Allison Janney’s cold open, reprising her C.J. Cregg White House press secretary character from The West Wing, and – best of all – Bee watching an underground film of an alternate reality, in which Hillary Clinton won the election, in a sci-fi spoof called The Woman in the High Castle.

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