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Linus continues to search for the Great Pumpkin. Two prestige TV dramas present their season finales.
What’s on TV
AMERICAN MASTERS: FATS DOMINO AND THE BIRTH OF ROCK ’N’ ROLL (2016) 11 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) and streaming. Tributes and remembrances poured out of New Orleans and the rest of the world after Fats Domino died on Oct. 25. “He was one of my greatest inspirations,” Little Richard told The Associated Press. “God was tops — but earthly, Fats was it.” This documentary, made by Joe Lauro, focuses on the musician’s early years in the Ninth Ward and contains some particularly electric footage of Mr. Domino and his original band in France in 1962.
IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN (1966) 8 p.m. on ABC. Two years ago, the Peanuts gang arrived on the big screen in “The Peanuts Movie,” dancing in three shiny dimensions to Meghan Trainor and Flo Rida. Still, there’s nothing quite like watching a hand-drawn Lucy yank the football from Charlie Brown. That scene, and many more indelible moments — Snoopy’s battle with the Red Baron, Pig-Pen’s sooty ghost costume, Linus’s resolute quest for sincerity — are what make this melancholy, bittersweet special so beloved.
THE THING (1982) 8 p.m. on Flix. In John Carpenter’s frigid horror tale, Kurt Russell plays a helicopter pilot stationed at an Antarctica research base. He and the group of scientists based there soon come under siege by a mysterious creature that inhabits its prey. The screenwriter John Sayles told The Times that it was the scariest movie he had ever seen.
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THE DEUCE 9 p.m. on HBO. The first season of this drama, about the sex industry in 1970s New York City, wraps up with a screening of “Deep Throat.”
RAY DONOVAN 9 p.m. on Showtime. This sturdy Liev Schreiber-led drama has painted a quintessential portrait of Hollywood’s seedy underbelly for the last five years. In this season finale, Ray flies to New York to arrange an illicit surgery to save Smitty (Graham Rogers) and fix things with Bridget (Kerris Dorsey). The series’ showrunners have announced that Ray will remain in the Big Apple for its sixth season.
What’s Streaming
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STRANGER THINGS 2 on Netflix. The scrappiest, most adorable biker gang in Hawkins, Ind., returns for a second season (or a “movie sequel,” as Netflix prefers to put it). Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) is back in the real world with his friends, but is still traumatized by his ordeal in the Upside Down. The telepath Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) is still in hiding, and there may be more with powers like hers spread across the nation. “It may be last year’s Halloween candy, repackaged,” James Poniewozik wrote in his review in The Times. “That doesn’t mean it can’t still be sweet.”
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