What's On Tonight (Saturday): Enjoy the Danger of being a kid

Henry Danger (via Giphy)

Hidee ho, TV watchers! With a lower-key Saturday night, the highlight is the Nickelodeon show Henry Danger. It is about Henry Hart, who lands a part-time job as the sidekick for the city's well-known superhero Captain Man. Such a life is balanced with his regular life of friends and family. At more than 100 episodes, the show's low-stakes, high-energy and physical humor is really being stretched thin. (It didn't survive in animated form.) I know. I could recognize the Christmas movies. However, I refuse to elevate them before Thanksgiving. The rest of the night is mostly business as usual plus a new HLN crime series and comedy special from Daniel Sloss. Oh, and another nature series courtesy the BBC, and horseys on NBC. So Danger, Will Robinson! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, November 2!

EARLY PRIMETIME

Columbo 📺 (Cozi TV, 7 p.m.): First up, behavioral psychologist Nicol Williamson whose wife died under suspicious circumstances, trains his dogs to kill on command using a telephone. Later, Columbo goes head-to-head with Robert Culp, a former cop turned private investigator.✔️

Doctor Who 📺 (Retro TV, 6 p.m.): The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) must stop the Master (Roger Delgado) from gaining the power of Kronos (Marc Boyle and Ingrid Bower), which would allow him to control the universe.

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

Columbo (via Giphy)

🕗 EASTERN / 🕖 CENTRAL

2019 Breeders' Cup (NBC, 8 p.m.): Run, horsey! Go! Go! 🏇

All That (Nickelodeon, 8:30 p.m.): America's Got Talent winner Darci Lynne Farmer and her puppet Petunia stop by the All That set. Pranklers return to wreak havoc in the locker room. Lex finds out his pet's thoughts. And Ariana reads classic fairy tales.

Christmas Reservations 🎥🎄 (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): Melissa Joan Hart, event coordinator at the Treeline Ski Resort, plans every event and keeps all the guests happy. But when her widowed college sweetheart, Ricardo Chavira, and his two children check in, she discovers she has her own reservations about life and love.

Crikey! It's the Irwins (Animal Planet, 8 p.m.): It's moving day for Acco, the zoo's biggest crocodile and a lil' beauty. All goes to plan until his mate Cassie goes into hiding as the team races to reunite the bonded pair in their new enclosure. The rescue unit must save a flying fox entangled in barbed wire.

⭐ Henry Danger (Nickelodeon, 8 p.m.): When labor pains leave Captain Man helpless, Henry Hart, alias Kid Danger, and Piper, Henry's sister, step up to take on a couple of slick grease thieves. So, she's kinda in a Batgirl role?

Merry & Bright 🎥🎄 (Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m.): Merry and Bright Candy Cane Company owner Cate (Jodie Sweetin) meets a man (Andrew Walker) during the busy Christmas season and assumes he is the suitor her mother (Sharon Lawrence) is trying to set her up with.

Real Life Nightmare (HLN, 8 p.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings disappears from her home after her dad's girlfriend puts her to bed.✔️

Svengoolie: The Invisible Man 🎥 (MeTV, 8 p.m.): Universal's 1933 film starring Claude Rains. This is a classic and a great adaptation of Wells' book.

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

🕘 EASTERN / 🕗 CENTRAL

Second Act 🎥 (Showtime, 9 p.m.): Jennifer Lopez could be on her way to her first Oscar nomination because she definitely didn't garner one for this 2018 movie about a big box store worker who reinvents her life and her life-story for Madison Avenue.

Seven Worlds, One Planet (BBC America, 9 p.m.): SPECIAL. The latest nature series from the always busy BBC Natural History Unit.✔️

FOR THE RECORD: Cake Boss (Discovery Family); Dr. Oakley Yukon Vet (Nat Geo Wild); Ghost Adventures (Travel Channel); Love & Marriage: Huntsville (OWN); New Japan Pro Wrestling (AXS TV); Pit Bulls & Parolees (Animal Planet)

🕙 EASTERN / 🕘 CENTRAL

Daniel Sloss: X (HBO, 10 p.m.): The Scottish comic skewers society's gender constructs and mines his own personal experiences to reveal the humor inherent in today's fraught masculinity.✔️

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

🕚 EASTERN / 🕙 CENTRAL

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 📺 (MeTV, 11 p.m.): The campy-but-fun first season ends with Buck and Twiki in another universe where Buck forms an uneasy alliance with Draconian Princess Ardala to defeat the planet's ruthless war witch.

The Dick Van Dyke Show 📺 (Decades, 11 p.m.): In the classic second episode, worries of a dull marriage turn to worries of Rob's reaction when Mary gets a big, big makeover. The show will play all weekend. ✔️

One-Punch Man (Adult Swim, 11:30 p.m.): Metal Bat begrudgingly guards his own son and a VIP and his skills are needed when a battle breaks out. Saitama poses as Charanko for a martial arts tournament.

The Dick Van Dyke Show, "My Blonde-Haired Brunette" (via MeTV)

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Black Clover (Adult Swim, 2 a.m.): Wizard King Julius puts his time magic to use as he battles the fast and fierce enemy leader.

Demon Slayer (Adult Swim, 1:30 a.m.): To pass Final Selection, one must survive for seven days on Mt. Fujikasane where demons captured by the Demon Slayers have been imprisoned. Armed with the breathing techniques and stances he'd learned from Sakonji Urokodaki, Tanjiro slashes demon after demon. But then, a morphed demon appears out of nowhere.

Dr. Stone (Adult Swim, midnight): Suika never wants to show her face for some reason that only a few know. Fortunately, Senku knows the solution to his annoying problem.

Fire Force (Adult Swim, 12:30 a.m.): To turn the tide against the imposters and save Asakusa, Benimaru asserts himself as leader with some coaxing from Konro. Konro asks Shinra for assistance.

Food Wars! (Adult Swim, 1 a.m.): Soma returns home and must serve his customers at Yukihira.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind (Adult Swim, 2:30 a.m.): Bucciarati goes after Giorno in retaliation for what happened to Leaky Eye Luca. In the middle of combat, Giorno discovers a new ability with his Stand.

Lost in Space 📺 (MeTV, 1 a.m.): Long-lost astronaut Warren Oates shows up, so Smith decides to use him to return to Earth

Lupin the Third Part 5 (Adult Swim, 3:30 a.m.): Inspector Zenigata goes on a crime spree in a remote Russian town, baffling Lupin and his gang.

LATE-NIGHT TV

Austin City Limits (PBS, 11 p.m.): Patty Griffin and The Revivalists
The Greg Gutfeld Show (Fox News, 10 p.m.): Drew Pinsky, David Angelo, Kat Timpf, and Robert J. O'Neill
Johnny Carson 📺 (Antenna TV, 10 p.m.): Charles Nelson Reilly, Mark Hamill, Eugene Fodor, and William A. Nolen (29 Nov 1977)
Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:29 p.m.): Kristen Stewart and Coldplay (live-thread page)
SNL Vintage 📺 (NBC, 10 p.m.): Melissa McCarthy and Lady Antebellum (1 Oct 2011)

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Note: All times are Eastern.

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🎄: Holiday-themed program
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Happy watching, everyone!