TV THIS WEEK
SUNDAY
Get animated! James Woods and “Dr. Who’s” David Tennant lend their voices to a special behindthe-scenes episode of “Family Guy.” 9 p.m. Fox
There’s no rest for “The Walking Dead.” The horror drama is back for a seventh season, with a new episode of “Talking Dead” right on its heels. 9 and 10:06 p.m. AMC
Those terra cotta warriors line up for inspection in “China’s Megatomb Revealed.” 9 and 11 p.m. National Geographic Channel MONDAY
She’s got our vote: “Wonder Woman’s” Lynda Carter guest stars as the president of these United States on a new episode of “Supergirl.” 8 p.m. KTLA
“Joey’s” Matt LeBlanc is on the daddy track in the new sitcom “Man With a Plan.” 8:30 p.m. CBS
“Prisoners of War,” the Israeli drama that inspired the hit cable series “Homeland,” comes to local television. 10 p.m. KCET
A programmer and his wife craft a video game inspired by their young son’s battle with cancer in the poignant documentary “Thank You for Playing” on “POV.” 10 p.m. KOCE
There’s also no rest for Robert Kirkman, creator of “The Walking Dead,” who’ll be Neil deGrasse Tyson’s guest on a new “StarTalk.” 11 p.m. National Geographic Channel TUESDAY
Baseball’s best play for all the marbles — are marbles still a thing? — at the “2016 World Series.” 5 p.m. Fox; also Wed., Fri., Sat.
“All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons,” “Good Times” … and then there’s “Maude.” Norman Lear, the writerproducer behind these and other classic TV series, is saluted on a new “American Masters.” 9 p.m. KOCE
Adam Conover from “Adam Ruins Everything” gives democracy a swift kick in the pants in “The Adam Ruins Everything Election Special.” 10 p.m. TruTV WEDNESDAY
Why the long neck? “Giraffes: Africa’s Gentle Giants” are looked up to in this new episode of “Nature.” 8 p.m. KOCE
Orange is the new “Lip Sync Battle” when “OITNB” costars Laverne Cox and Samira Wiley go toe-to-toe on the reality series. 9 p.m. Spike
“Rectify” rises again for a fourth and final season. Aden Young stars. 10 p.m. SundanceTV
Get an altitude adjustment courtesy of mountaineer Jeff Evans and his rescue team in the new six-part docu-series “Everest Air.” 10 p.m. Travel Channel THURSDAY
“Community’s” Joel McHale plays a rugged writer stranded in an adventure magazine’s offices with a bunch of millennials — and we know how he feels, because … Oh, hi, kids! — in the new sitcom “The Great Indoors.” 8:30 p.m. CBS
The Anna Faris-Allison Janney sitcom “Mom” is back for a fourth season. 9 p.m. CBS
Rick Springfield puts his devilishly good looks to work guest starring as Lucifer on a new “Supernatural.” 9 p.m. KTLA
A Victorian-era psychologist and his wife encounter superstition and, perhaps, the supernatural in the six-part thriller “The Living and the Dead.” 9 and 10:15 p.m. BBC America
A brilliant surgeon (Dermot Mulroney) takes a job at a billionaire’s high-tech hospital in the new drama “Pure Genius.” 10 p.m. CBS FRIDAY
Teutonic meets tectonic when filmmaker Werner Herzog explores how volcanoes have shaped geography as well as indigenous cultures in the new documentary “Into the Inferno.” Any time, Netflix Courageous canines collect kudos at the “2016 American Humane Hero Dog Awards.” Beth Stern and James Denton host. 8 p.m. Hallmark Channel
The life comedic: The star of “Stripes,” “Ghostbusters,” etc., etc., gets what’s coming to him in the
new special “Bill Murray: The Mark Twain Prize.” 9 p.m. KOCE
Go on real-time ridealongs with cops all over the country — tape-delayed on the West Coast, of course — in the new docu-series “Live PD.” 9 p.m. A&E
Our favorite sketchy Brit does her best impressions of Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Angela Merkel, et al., in the imported comedy series “Tracey Ullman’s Show.” 11 p.m. HBO “The Big Bang Theory’s” Kaley Cuoco and “Community’s” Gillian Jacobs join in the shenanigans when “Comedy Bang! Bang!” returns with new episodes. 11 and 11:30 p.m. IFC SATURDAY
Gillian Anderson is back on the case in the third and final season of the Northern Ireland-set detective drama “The Fall.” Jamie Dornan also stars. Any time, Netflix
Two days before Halloween is apparently not too soon for a new made-for-cable Christmas movie, hence “A Wish for Christmas.” With Lacey Chabert. 8 p.m. Hallmark Channel
Now this is more like it: A reality-TV crew captures dark proceedings in Amish country in the new thriller “Amish Witches: The True Story of Holmes County.” 8 p.m. Lifetime
It is a truth universally acknowledged that 18th century novelist Jane Austen would be rightly horrified by the 2016 horror/ comedy/literary mashup “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” With Lily James (“Downtown Abbey”). 9 p.m. Starz