What's On Tonight (Saturday): Crikey! Have a look at these Irwins

Crikey! It's the Irwins (via Giphy)

Merry Christmas! Tis the season... but before that, we head down under. The top pick is Animal Planet's Crikey! It's the Irwins, a mostly harmless and often delightfully charming wildlife show about Terri, Bindi, Robert, and the rest of the crew at the Australia Zoo as they manage the wildlife. Bindi's husband-to-be Chandler Powell is also a more prominent face this season. If you want even more light-hearted TV, Christmas has arrived. Both Lifetime and Hallmark begin their annual barrage of romantic Christmas movies though it's not even Halloween yet! Don't fret. Travel Channel (and us) hasn't forgotten, and expect some lol-y spooks from SNL, too. You could also enjoy some baseball and hope the home team kicks some touchdowns. Oh, and JoJo's back! So give a girl a break, Jimmy, here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, October 26!

EARLY PRIMETIME

Columbo 📺 (Cozi TV, 7 p.m.): Sigma Society member Theodore Bikel murders his business partner, who threatened to expose him as an embezzler, and constructs a seemingly foolproof alibi. Later, mystery writer Ruth Gordon suspects her niece's husband of murdering her, so she exacts revenge by asphyxiating him in her house safe.

Doctor Who 📺 (Retro TV, 6 p.m.): "The Mutants" ends and "Time Monster" begins, where the Master (Roger Delgado) seeks the power of Kronos, a being that exists outside of time and space, so that he can control the universe.✔️

FOR THE RECORD: The DNA of Murder with Paul Holes (Oxygen, 7 p.m.); Murder for Hire (Oxygen, 6 p.m.)

Doctor Who, "Time Monster" (via Giphy)

🕗 EASTERN / 🕖 CENTRAL

2019 World Series (Fox, 8 p.m.): Live from Washington, it's sportsball night!

Greta 🎥 (HBO, 8 p.m.): Co-written and directed by Neil Jordan, Chloë Grace Moretz befriends lonely widow Isabelle Huppert who's harboring a dark and deadly agenda toward her.

Christmas Wishes & Mistletoe Kisses 🎥🎄 (Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m.): Jill Wagner and Matthew Davis star in this Hallmark flick. Weeks before Christmas, an interior designer is hired to decorate the estate of a wealthy businessman.

⭐ Crikey! It's the Irwins (Animal Planet, 8 p.m.): Every episode has each Irwin narrating and/or involved in some story. Robert usually takes on the more dangerous animals. This week, Terri helps prepare the zoo's new baby rhino to receive a vaccine, Robert must save two black swans in really bad shape, and Bindi tries to determine if a cranky wombat named Poa might be preggo. (You can watch the season premiere from earlier this month for free here.)✔️

Oprah at Home with Lupita Nyong'o and Cynthia Erivo (OWN, 8 p.m.): SPECIAL. Lupita Nyong'o discusses her fast rise to fame, colorism and her new children's book, Sulwe. Cynthia Erivo talks about her starring role in Harriet.

The Road Home for Christmas 🎥🎄 (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): Rival musicians Marla Sokoloff and Rob Mayes suddenly find themselves without a gig on Christmas Eve and decide to road trip to their neighboring hometowns together. Marie Osmond also stars.

Svengoolie: The Mummy's Ghost 🎥 (MeTV, 8 p.m.): In the not-good fourth film of Universal's classic Mummy franchise, an Egyptian priest travels to America in search of the bodies of an Egyptian princess and her living, mummified guardian, with consequences.

FOR THE RECORD: WOW: Women of Wrestling (AXS TV)

Crikey! It's the Irwins (via Giphy)

🕘 EASTERN / 🕗 CENTRAL

A League of Their Own 🎥 (Showtime Showcase, 9 p.m.): If you want to know if the World Series players are allowed to cry, this is the movie for you.✔️

FOR THE RECORD: Cake Boss (Discovery Family); Dr. Oakley Yukon Vet (Nat Geo Wild); First Time Flippers (DIY); Live PD (A&E); Love & Marriage: Huntsville (OWN); New Japan Pro Wrestling (AXS TV); Pit Bulls & Parolees (Animal Planet)

A League of Their Own (via Giphy)

🕙 EASTERN / 🕘 CENTRAL

Destination Fear 🎃 (Travel Channel, 10 p.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. Ghost Adventurer Dakota Laden, his sister, Chelsea, and best friend, Tanner, travel the country to face fear head-on in a terrifying sleepover and psychological experiment. In this first episode: Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary and some confrontations in James Earl Ray's cell.

In the Heat of the Night 📺 (This, 10 p.m.): Gillespie is asked by a condemned prisoner to be present at his execution.✔️

FOR THE RECORD: Amanda to the Rescue (Animal Planet); Fear Thy Neighbor (ID); Ready to Love (OWN)

🕚 EASTERN / 🕙 CENTRAL

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 📺 (MeTV, 11 p.m.): A mysterious UFO leads Buck into a mission into another universe, but Princess Ardala (Pamela Hensley) is close behind. This is part 1 or 2 (and originally aired as a two-hour episode).

Ghost Story 📺🎃 (Decades, 11 p.m.): Like last year, this short-lived 1972 anthology, revamped as Circle of Fear in later episodes, gets Weekend Binge treatment. In this episode, Lynn Loring inherits a house after her mother dies in a mental institution. However, her family already there, Geraldine Page and Rip Torn, don't seem the warm person they first appear to be... Same goes for the house. ✔️

One-Punch Man (Adult Swim, 11:30 p.m.): Hero-hunter Garou battles the highly ranked Tank-top Master. Silverfang shuts down his dojo.

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Black Clover (Adult Swim, 2 a.m.): A visit from an old friend of the Wizard King turns into a fateful battle between two powerful wizards.

Demon Slayer (Adult Swim, 1:30 a.m.): Sakonji Urokodaki starts training Tanjiro for Final Selection, the test for joining the Demon Slayer Corps.

Dr. Stone (Adult Swim, midnight): After Gen is beaten in a surprise attack, Kohaku devises a plan to bring down the attacker once and for all.

Fire Force (Adult Swim, 12:30 a.m.): With Konro's help, the members of the 8th begin investigating events in the 7th's jurisdiction. Dozens of cases of mistaken identity crop up, and the town's people turn on each other.

Food Wars! (Adult Swim, 1 a.m.): Soma has a showdown with his dad with Isshiki, Tadakoro, and Fumio judging.

The Invaders 📺 (MeTV, midnight): Rising levels of radiation threaten Earth, but the aliens may have the solution. Like Buck Rogers, this is a part 1 of 2.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind (Adult Swim, 2:30 a.m.): PREMIERE. Set two years after Diamond is Unbreakable, Koichi arrives in Italy on a mission from Jotaro to find Giorno. They meet haphazardly when Giorno steals Koichi's luggage, and the ensuing chase leads Giorno into a Stand battle with the gangster Leaky Eye Luca. At one episode per week, this season will last about 10 months.✔️

Lost in Space 📺 (MeTV, 1 a.m.): Last week, the Robinsons were concerned with the excessive cold. This week it is the heat, caused by the planet's funky orbit. Dr. Smith doesn't want to move elsewhere because he denies the climate changing will be real.

Lupin the Third Part 5 (Adult Swim, 3:30 a.m.): Lupin heads to Northern Africa in response to a challenge from the wealthy Zylberstein and Jigen accompanies him to face off against Zylberstein's sniper, Mirage.

LATE-NIGHT TV

Austin City Limits (PBS, 11 p.m.): H.E.R.
The Greg Gutfeld Show (Fox News, 10 p.m.): Pete Hegseth, Joe Machi, Kat Timpf, and Tyrus
Johnny Carson 📺 (Antenna TV, 10 p.m.): Bob Hope, Carol Burnett, Joe Flynn, and William A. Nolen (7 Dec 1972)
Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:29 p.m.): Chance the Rapper (live-thread page)

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Note: All times are Eastern.

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