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Best-bets for April 7: opening day for baseball, every day for “Flatch”

1) “Welcome to Flatch,” 9:30 p.m., Fox. In its slow, droll way, “Flatch” can be both funny and poignant. Pretending to be a documentary about small-town life, it often views two cousins (shown here in a previous episode), drifting through their post-school life. Tonight, Kelly gets a rare chance to be with her dad; Shrub has two milestones – asking a girl for a date and (unrelated) seeing a naked female. There are also key moments for the pastor and his ex-wife, who edits the newspaper. Read more…

1) “Welcome to Flatch,” 9:30 p.m., Fox. In its slow, droll way, “Flatch” can be both funny and poignant. Pretending to be a documentary about small-town life, it often views two cousins (shown here in a previous episode) , drifting through their post-school life. Tonight, Kelly gets a rare chance to be with her dad; Shrub has two milestones – asking a girl for a date and (unrelated) seeing a naked female. There are also key moments for the pastor and his ex-wife, who edits the newspaper.

2) Baseball. It’s opening day … without the proper excitement. Cable usually has a three- or four-game in marathon; not this time. With the schedule hurriedly patched together after contract negotiations, the season starts with a shrug. There are plenty of regional telecasts, but the only national one has the Reds at the Braves, at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN2.

3) ”Station 19,” 8 p.m., ABC. Last week’s episode ended with Andy in mid-crisis. She was drinking heavily and flirting with a guy; when she said she didn’t want sex, he began pushing her. She hit him in the throat and he collapsed. Now he’s rushed to the hospital and she deals with the aftermath.

4) “Young Sheldon,” 8 and 9 p.m., CBS. Both reruns focus on the laundromat that Sheldon’s grandmother bought. In the first, she adds a gambling room in the back, then faces a problem; in the second, Georgie concocts a solution. These sandwich a “Ghosts” rerun at 8:30, with Hetty’s arrogant husband complicating plans for a wedding at the bed-and-breakfast.

5) “Dr. Who and the Daleks” (1965), 10:15 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies. The time-traveling Dr. Who has been on TV almost forever – 39 seasons spread over 59 years. But early on, there were also two Who films shown in theaters, starring Peter Cushing. Here they are, with “Daleks’ Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.” at midnight. They’re surrounded by sci-fi classics from 1968 – “Planet of the Apes” at 8 p.m. and “2001: A Space Odyssey” at 1:30 a.m.

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