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11 a.m. on CBS

The Price Is Right

The longest-running game show in television history opens its 50th season with a special weeklong event, in which each day’s episode offers a game wherein contestants could win up to a million dollars. Bob Barker was host when The Price Is Right premiered on Sept. 4, 1972, and the Emmy-winning daytime series has featured 108 different pricing games since then. Two new games are being introduced this week to mark the milestone anniversary, including one — “Back to ’72” — that includes a retro look and feel. Drew Carey, pictured, is the show’s host.

7 p.m. on FOOD

Halloween Baking Championship John Henson returns to host Season 7 of this popular seasonal competition, which this fall uses classic 1980s slasher movies as the overall theme. In the season premiere, “Welcome to Camp Devil’s Food Cake,” ten bakers compete for a chance to win the ultimate $25,000 prize, if they can outwit the (metaphorical) mass murderer who takes out one chef each week. Their first challenges involve “cereal killer” pies and mega cakes. Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell are the judges.

8 p.m. on SHOW

Back to Life

Series creator and star Daisy Haggard returns to her role as good-natured former prison inmate Miri Matteson as this dramedy launches its sophomore season comprising six new episodes. The action resumes three weeks after the Season 1 finale. Miri is working a trial shift at the local supermarket and spending personal time with Billy (Adeel Akhtar), her neighbor. She’s still not talking to Caroline (Geraldine James), her mother, however, since finding out the older woman was having an affair with Miri’s old flame.

9 p.m. on AMC

Ultra City Smiths

An all-star cast provides the voices for this decidedly offbeat new series, in which the story unfolds via stop-action animation, using baby dolls to stand in for the tale’s adult characters. In the series premiere, which airs as two back-to-back episodes, Detectives David Mills and Gail Johnson (voices of Jimmi Simpson and Da’Vine Joy Randolph) launch an investigation after a mayoral candidate (voice of Kurtwood Smith) suddenly goes missing. The large voice cast also includes Kristen Bell, Bebe Neuwirth, Debra Winger and Tim Meadows; Tom Waits in the narrator.