What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Gifted’ and ‘City of Ghosts’

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A relentless hunt for X-men unites a half-mutant family in a new Marvel series. And “City of Ghosts” spotlights Syrian citizen journalists who risk their lives for their hometown.

What’s on TV

THE GIFTED 9 p.m. on Fox. A suburban couple in Dallas upend their ordinary lives when they discover that their two young children (Natalie Alyn Lind and Percy Hynes White) are X-kids. With the government on the hunt for mutants, the family must go on the run and seek help from an underground network of X-men. “The Gifted” follows countless Marvel series on the small screen, but it has a slight upper hand: It was created by Matt Nix (“Burn Notice”), and Bryan Singer, of the “X-Men” film franchise, directed this pilot.

THE HALCYON 10 p.m. on Ovation. The producers of the acclaimed British series “Downton Abbey” imagine another lavish world with this period drama. The pilot opens with a foreboding look ahead: It’s 1940, and a night of glitzy debauchery is in full swing at the five-star Halcyon Hotel when a bomb strike marks the beginning of the London Blitz. The show then backtracks to unravel the entanglements among the hotel’s aristocrats, mistresses and Nazi spies, whose glamorous lives take dramatic turns as World War II ravages Britain.

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CITY OF GHOSTS (2017) 10 p.m. on A&E. The director Matthew Heineman (“Cartel Land”) chronicles the growth of Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, or R.B.S.S., an activist group of citizen journalists who expose atrocities committed by the Islamic State in its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa. (United States-backed forces have been fighting to reclaim the city, a quarter of which is still under ISIS control.) The documentary centers on three R.B.S.S. members who led ordinary lives in Raqqa before fleeing for safety and anonymity. Mr. Heineman weaves the group’s harrowing footage with scenes of the exiled activists reporting in hotel rooms, crossing borders and grappling with mounting losses back home.

What’s Streaming

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DOCTOR WHO on Britbox. Whovians are in for a treat. A team at Britbox has been restoring lost episodes from this science fiction series’ first six years, nearly 100 of which are still missing. This episode — “Wheel in Space” — is the final serial of the fifth season and the latest to be recovered. A space station known as the Wheel rescues the Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and Jamie (Frazer Hines) from a violent robot. But the danger continues when Cybermen invade the Wheel, furthering their mission to reach Earth.

FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) on iTunes, Amazon and Hulu. A baby-faced Matthew Broderick plays Ferris Bueller, a popular high school senior who can sweet-talk his way out of anything. He wakes up one morning with a spontaneous plan to play hooky and convinces his best friend, Cameron (Alan Ruck), and girlfriend, Sloane (Mia Sara), to tag along. They cruise around downtown Chicago in Cameron’s father’s precious Ferrari, while unknowingly driving the school principal mad.

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