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The Hillside Strangler discovery+
A serial killer stalks Los Angeles in the 1970s, leaving bodies on display throughout the Hollywood Hillside. After a man named Kenneth Bianchi is arrested in 1979 on the suspicion of a double homicide in Bellingham, Wash., it doesn’t take long for L.A. investigators to connect the dots back to the serial killer they’ve dubbed “The Hillside Strangler.” But there’s a catch: Through a series of explosive recorded interviews with various psychologists and psychiatrists, Bianchi claims that the perpetrator is not him, it’s actually his multiple personality, “Steve” — and that’s not all he has to say on the matter.
Word Party Presents: Math! Netflix
This spinoff of “Word Party,” the Cg-animated children’s vocabularybuilding series from the Jim Henson Co., teaches math as baby animals Franny, Bailey, Kip, Lulu and Tilly count numbers, compare shapes and find patterns while using math and singing songs to solve problems.
2021 and Done With Snoop Dogg & Kevin Hart
Peacock
In this 75-minute year-end retrospective, hosts Snoop Dogg and Kevin Hart offer unfiltered takes on the past year, taking on everything from politics to pop culture to social media to sports and even space billionaires. Celebrity guests include Mark Cuban, DJ D-nice, DL Hughley, Loni Love,
Killer Mike, William Shatner, Stephen A. Smith and Michael Strahan.
TCM Morning & Afternoon Movies: ’50s Musicals
TCM, beginning at 9 a.m.
Tap your toes along with 10 hours of some of the finest big-screen musicals from the 1950s, beginning with one of the all-time best, 1952’s “Singin’ in the Rain,” the Oscar-nominated classic led by Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’connor. After that is the Oscar-winning “Calamity Jane” (1953), starring Doris Day and Howard Keel; the Oscar-nominated “Kiss Me Kate,” also from 1953, and starring Keel, Kathryn Grayson and Ann Miller; “Silk Stockings” (1957), led by Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse and Janis Paige; and another 1957 favorite, the Oscar-winning “Les Girls,” featuring Kelly and Mitzi Gaynor.
In Their Own Words PBS, 7 p.m.
Follow Angela Merkel’s meteoric rise from pastor’s daughter to Time magazine’s Person of the Year. As a young woman emerging from East Germany, Merkel successfully navigated the male-dominated sphere of German politics to become Germany’s first female chancellor.
Raid the Fridge Food Network, 9 p.m.
Looks can be deceiving and cooks can be deceived in this new competition that dares contestants to create cuisine from whatever food is stocked inside a refrigerator of their choice. The catch, host Dan Ahdoot says, is the chefs choose their fridge based solely on the photos and magnets on the door. Episodes put four chefs through three themed elimination rounds, with the winner taking $10K.
Great Escapes With Morgan Freeman
History, 9 p.m.
See how James Earl Ray, confessed assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., broke out of Tennessee’s Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary using a ladder made of plumbing pipe. He spent two days in the woods before being captured.