Decades, 12:00 a.m. ET
I promised more details of today’s portion of the Odd Couple marathon on Decades, and here’s the biggest thing you have to know: Tune in at 4:30 p.m. ET, because that’s when Decades televises the 1972 “Password” episode of The Odd Couple. It’s hilariously funny, and Jack Klugman, Tony Randall, Password host Allen Ludden and his wife, Betty White, all have great bits of business to do while playing a round of that classic game show.
HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET
Things are winding down for HBO’s Sunday night series. For Perry Mason, this is Episode 7 out of eight installments – and the episode in which Perry, played by Matthew Rhys, gets to flex his just-developing courtroom muscles in the art of cross-examination.
HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET
DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES FINALE: Last week’s installment of this HBO documentary series showed how, after the unexpected death of Michelle McNamara, her husband Patton Oswalt, and her friends and colleagues, kept both her book and her criminal investigations alive. Tonight, we witness what McNamara herself did not live to see: authorities using DNA evidence to identify and arrest, after so many decades, the Golden State Killer, who had assaulted and killed so many victims while evading capture.
HBO, 11:00 p.m. ET
I may as well just start reprinting the same sentences every Sunday here. What a week. Please, John Oliver, explain it to me, get me through it – and, if you can, make me laugh in the process.