Tonight on the Tube: NCIS, House, Boston Legal, Standoff, Veronica Mars and Overhaulin’

Happy Halloween. Many a show is Halloween themed tonight. Things you will want to see include: Abby’s costume on NCIS, a patient stand up to House, Veronica get robbed but not for long, wacky happenings on Boston Legal and Friday Night Lights if you didn’t watch it last night on NBC. Also this is the first night of the new NBA Basketball season. There are two games tonight on TNT. The rest of the teams get things started tomorrow night. Seems as though it wasn’t that long ago that I was watching the Miami Heat win the NBA Finals and tonight they will be receiving their rings. Time sure flies when you watch a lot of TV.

Prime Picks

NCIS (CBS): New. The team investigates after a Marine gets attacked in his home and the perpetrators take his daughter on Halloween.

House (FOX): New. The case this week involves a married couple that has similar symptoms. At the clinic a walk-in patient stands up to House.

Boston Legal (ABC): New. Denise is looking for her fiancé after she receives some bad news while Alan tries to help Jerry Espenson once again. Coho is sued for defamation stemming from the murdered judge case he won last week.

Solid Selections

Standoff (FOX): New. A boy takes hostages at a hospital in an attempt to force the hospital to perform surgery on his sister. Unfortunately the surgeon is out of town and the negotiators must talk him out.

Veronica Mars (The CW): New. It is Halloween and the underground casino on the Hearst campus gets robbed. The Dean wants to hire Keith to find the biological parents of Mindy’s son.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC): New. Benson is still undercover in Oregon and ADA Novak has called upon her to testify in a rape trial.

Cable Choices

Emeril Live (Food Network): Repeat. Emeril had a Halloween contest.

Overhaulin’ (TLC): New. A 1965 Buick is redone.

Nip/Tuck (FX): New. Sean offers to give some input on a surgical leg-lengthening procedure while Liz wants to go under the knife at the request of her new girlfriend. Runs 66 minutes and plays twice.

Other Options

• Caroline Rhea: Rhea’s Anatomy (Bravo): New. Caroline Rhea (The Biggest Loser, Sabrina) performs a new standup routine.
• Friday Night Lights (NBC): Repeat. If you didn’t catch this episode last night in the Studio 60 timeslot then it will be new to you.
• Gilmore Girls (The CW): Repeat. The season premiere episode, “The Long Morrow,” replays tonight.
• The Hungary Detective (Food Network): New. Restaurants in Atlanta are looked at.
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC): New. Liza Minelli guest stars as the mother of a beauty queen who was murdered and she was the original suspect. When another confesses to the crime the detectives investigate.
• Rachael Ray’s Tasty Travels (Food Network): New. Get some tips on how to spend a weekend getaway.
• Road Tasted (Food Network): New. The Deen boys visit St. Louis to taste the specialties the town has to offer.
• The Unit (CBS): New. It is “Old Home Week.”

Sports Notes

• ESPN has college football with Alabama-Birmingham at Southern Methodist.
• TNT has NBA Basketball as the season tips off tonight with a doubleheader. The first game has last season’s champs, the Miami Heat, playing the Chicago Bulls at home were they will receive their rings before the game. In the second game is the Phoenix Suns at the Los Angeles Lakers.

What looks good to you this Tuesday night?