1) “All Creatures Great and Small” season-opener, 9 p.m., PBS. The sixth season starts with what may be the show’s best hour yet. As James and Helen (shown here) build their life, the hour juggles three deeply moving stories: Since Mrs. Hall’s departure, Siegfried’s home and life are a shambles … a sheepdog’s ailment endangers the flock … and World War II is in its sixth year. The final minutes here are superb.
2) “Miss Scarlet” season-opener and “Bookish” debut, 8 and 10 p.m., PBS. After a clever (albeit irrelevant) opening, “Scarlet” has a sharp, one-hour episode, while introducing young additions at the police station. “Bookish,” however, shovels way too much into the first half of a story. Next week, it will make sense of some (but not all) of it.
3) Golden Globes, 8-11 p.m., CBS. After some shabby years, the Globes rebounded last year with Nikki Glaser hosting; now she’s back. Nominees include many of last week’s “Critics Choice” winners, but the categories are different. “One Battle After Another” and “Marty Supreme” are called comedies, leading to an open field in dramas.
4) Movies. Here are two gems. At 8 p.m., CW has “The Princess Bride”; director Rob Reiner deftly juggled comedy, action, romance and fairy-tale whimsy. At 8:33, ABC has “That Thing You Do”; Tom Hanks directed a buoyant tale of a new pop-music group.
5) Football. There are three pro-playoff games — Bills-Jaguars (1 p.m. ET, CBS), 49ers-Eagles (4:30, Fox) and Chargers-Patriots (8:15, NBC). After that middle game (about 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT), Fox has an advance hour of “Fear Factor: House of Fear”; the opener pits a coal-miner and a cheerleader.