Election-Night Alternatives

Viewers seeking alternatives from election coverage will have plenty of choices, including the Fox network’s initial night of Tuesday programming.

New episodes of “The Simpsons” and “Herman’s Head” air at 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on KTTV-TV Channel 11 and XETV-TV Channel 6, along with reruns of “Martin” (8:30 p.m.) and “In Living Color” (9 p.m.).

KTLA-TV Channel 5 and KCOP-TV Channel 13 are opting for movies as counterprogramming. KTLA is airing “Back to the Future” from 7:30-10 p.m., while KCOP has “Police Academy” from 8-10 p.m. Each will then deal with election results on its 10 p.m. newscast.

Cable’s Nick at Nite network has a themed night of election-related reruns from 8 p.m. to midnight. Highlights include pompous anchorman Ted Baxter’s (Ted Knight) bid for a Minneapolis City Council seat on the “Mary Tyler Moore” show (8:30 p.m.), another “Mary Tyler Moore” episode in which an election-night snowstorm knocks out the telephone lines and WJM’s children’s show host, Chuckles the Clown, ends up announcing the winner of the city’s mayoral race (11 p.m.), and a two-part episode of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” in which Rob (Van Dyke) runs for city council in New Rochelle, N.Y. (9, 9:30 p.m.).