SPECIALS
Liam Neeson narrates “Revenge of the Whale” (8 p.m. NBC), a two-hour program about the 1820 sinking of the whale ship Essex. Based on the Nathaniel Philbrick book “In the Heart of the Sea,” the report recalls how the ship was rammed by a whale and its survivors resorted to cannibalism.
SERIES
Dr. Sloan witnesses what he thinks was a murder in the first of a two-part repeat on “Diagnosis Murder” (8 p.m. CBS).
A new episode of “Encounters With the Unexplained” (9 p.m. Pax) looks at the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the friendship of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Max (Jessica Alba) launches an attack on Manticore in last season’s finale of “Dark Angel” (9 p.m. Fox).
MOVIES
George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez sizzle in Steven Soderbergh’s adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s “Out of Sight” (9 p.m. USA).
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