1) “The Good Doctor’ season-opener, 10 p.m., ABC.. Over six seasons, Shaun has evolved from a timid teen, autistic and socially clumsy, to a gifted surgeon who’s now a husband and a new dad. Now the 10-episode final season begins, with a crisis. As Shaun and Lea (shown here) adjust to parenthood, he has a dilemma, with two babies needing a transplant.
2) “Will Trent” and “The Rookie” season-openers, 8 and 9 p.m., ABC. Two more dramas return. First, Will probes a car-bombing and works with an expert (Susan Kelechi Watson of “This Is Us”); Angie – nearly killed in last season’s finale, struggles with recovery. Then on “Rookie,” John Nolan has the last shift before his wedding.
3) “Quantum Leap” season-finale, 9 and 10 p.m., NBC. Last week, the goofy “La Brea” ended its final season. Now this show, with sharper science fiction, has what may or may not be its last hour. It’s a two-parter in which Ben leaps into a firefighter’s body … and again meets Hannah, the physicist he bumps into in different years.
4) “American Experience,” 9-11 p.m., PBS. As the world opened up in the 1950s, one job seemed promising. “You could go anywhere; you could crase a wedding if you were a stewardess,”:recalls Casey Grant, who was one. But you also might be fired if you married … or turned 32 … or topped the weight limit. This film doubles as fun nostalgia and a look at key moments in gender equality.
5) “Crime Nation” debut, 8-10 p.m., CW. Amid an overload of true-crime shows, here’s one produced by James Goldston, the former president of ABC News. The opener returns to Delphi, an Indiana town of 2,900. Two girls, 14 and 13, were killed in 2017, while walking a trail; one managed to use her smartphone to record a suspect.
— Mike Hughes, TV America