1) “Shifting Gears,” 8 p.m., ABC. On Halloween (shown here), plans grow. Recalling the wild days of her youth, Riley invites Gabe and Stitch to a party. Her dad invites Eve to the house … but frets when she wants it to be a sleepover.
2) “Abbott Elementary,” 8:30, ABC. Two days before the holiday, there’s more fun. Here, Barbara plans a camping trip for the older kids. Also, Freeform has animated movies — “Monsters, Inc.” (2001) at 6:30 p.m. and “Monsters University” at 8:30.
3) “Nova,” 9 p.m., PBS. In a one-year stretch, record floods hit Texas, North Carolina and Spain. The geography was very different, but the results were the same — as shown in powerful footage. Scientists probe what happened — with global warming playing a key part in each That’s followed by an interesting “Secrets of the Dead,” studying long-ago plagues.
4) “Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent,” 8 p.m., CW. When a vehicle-registration work is killed, theories range from a vast plot to something personal. That’s followed by a “Wild Cards” rerun, with Max visited by an old friend. Max has dropped her con-artist life; the friend hasn’t.
5) “The Golden Bachelor,” 9 p.m., ABC. This is the “women tell all” episode, leading into next week’s finale. That’s when Mel Owens, 66, a lawyer and retired pro football player, decides between two retirees: Cindy Cullers, 60, was a biomedical engineer; Peg Munson, 62, was a firefighter and bomb tech.
— Mike Hughes, TV America