TV TOP PICKS
7 p.m. on HIST Modern Marvels
This iconic docuseries opens Season 21 with two new back-to-back episodes celebrating the technology that has helped shape our lives. First, “Wild Rides” puts viewers behind the wheel of some of the biggest, fastest and most powerful machines on the planet, from battle tanks to blimps, and from harvesters to helicopters. Then, “Steam Power” explores one of the oldest means of locomotion. TV host Jay Leno owns steam cars, but carousels, boats and even some skyscrapers likewise use steam as their “fuel.”
7 p.m. on ID The Murder Tapes
This true-crime docuseries, which follows a real-life murder investigation as it is being conducted in real time, returns for Season 5 with a premiere called “Blunt Force Trauma.” The case involves a woman of faith, Susan Hernandez, who is the last person police would expect to find murdered in her own basement. Searching for suspects, detectives turn over every stone in the hunt for Susan’s killer, with a result that shakes their town to its very core.
7 p.m. on TLC Dr. Pimple Popper
Dr. Sandra Lee is busier than ever with a new caseload of patients as this somewhat improbable medical docuseries returns for a new season. Thankfully, she’ll have help from new associate Dr. Betty Song, who joins the practice ready and willing to help Dr. Lee with conditions that are unusual and even sometimes baffling. Among the new cases featured are a condition Dr. Lee never has seen before, in which a male patient has a facial cyst so large that it nearly covers one of his eyes almost entirely.
8 p.m. on ABC The Chase
Season 2 of this fast-paced game show wraps up with two back-toback episodes. First, James “The Highroller” Holzhauer returns as the Chaser for an episode called “There Is a Time and a Place for a Hawaiian Shirt,” in which he tries to beat three contestants in a race against the clock. In the finale that immediately follows, “This Is My Chair of Disappointment,” Ken “The Professor” Jennings, pictured, takes center stage as the last Chaser of the season.