It’s one of the most spectacular crimes when priceless art gets lifted from museums and collections, where they are in public view all day. Stolen art is often worth millions and yet it seems the market for it would be extremely limited.
A new six episode series, with a regrettable name, “Raiders of the Lost Art” (Ovation, 7 p.m.) looks at the biggest mysteries in the field beginning with a huge collection of missing work discovered at the home of the son of a Nazi-era dealer, who had squirreled away art by Picasso and Matisse deemed degenerate by Hitler, rather than destroy it as ordered. The story of Cornelius Gurlitt is told in the episode that has another 80s pun in the title: “Tainted Trove: Gurlitt’s Hidden Collection.”
It’s the first Saturday with an onslaught of college football games including two in prime time: Fresno State at Southern California (Fox, 7:30 p.m.) and Florida State vs. Oklahoma State (ABC, 8 p.m.).
But it all starts at breakfast time with Penn State vs. Central Florida (ESPN2, 8:30 a.m.) and later includes Ohio State at Navy (CBS Sports, noon), UCLA at Virginia (ESPN, noon), Appalachian State at Michigan (ESPN2, noon), North Dakota State at Iowa State (Fox Sports 1, noon), Indiana State at Indiana (ESPNews, noon), Western Michigan at Purdue (ESPNU, noon), West Virginia vs. Alabama (ABC, 3:30 p.m.), Rice at Notre Dame (NBC, 3:30 p.m.), South Dakota State at Missouri (ESPNU, 3:30 p.m.), California at Northwestern (ESPN2, 3:30 p.m.), William and Mary at Virginia Tech (ESPNews, 4 p.m.), Clemson at Georgia (ESPN, 5:30 p.m.), Northern Arizona at San Diego State (CBS Sports, 7 p.m.), Idaho at Florida (ESPNU, 7 p.m.), N.C. Central at East Carolina (ESPNews, 8 p.m.), Wisconsin vs. LSU (ESPN, 9 p.m.) and Washington at Hawaii (CBS Sports, 10:30 p.m.).
There are a pair of new scripted show on broadcast TV, “Unforgettable” (CBS, 8 p.m.) and “Reckless” (CBS, 9 p.m.). Which is more than you could say about Friday.
OK, enough of this! Claire plots to escape on “Outlander” (Starz, 9 p.m.).
The introduction of Peter Capaldi as the new “Doctor Who” (BBC America, 9 p.m.) last week gave the series its highest rating yet, 2.2 million. It came with a lot of promotion, chronicled on the special “Doctor Who: Earth Conquest” (BBC America, 8 and 11 p.m.), which sandwiches the new episode. Last week’s season starter gets a replay at 6:15 p.m.
Last year’s sequel “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” (HBO, 8 p.m.), reuniting “Sherlock” stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, makes its three hour premiere on premium cable. Also making its debut: the action flick “R.I.P.D.” (Cinemax, 10 p.m.) with Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds.
In the new TV movie “Bait” (Syfy, 9 p.m.), it doesn’t take a Snarknado to get the beasts biting people, all it takes is a tsunami.
Jack searches for Amy Seattle and still not much is clear in “Intruders” (BBC America, 10 p.m.).
Betty Grable is star all day on Turner Classic Movies with “The Gay Divorcee” (6 a.m.), “The Nitwits” (8 a.m.), “Follow the Fleet” (9:30 a.m.), “Give Me a Sailor” (1 p.m.), “Meet Me After the Show” (2:30 p.m.), “The Dolly Sisters” (4 p.m.), “Mother Wore Tights” (6 p.m.), “How to Marry a Millionaire” (8 p.m.), “Down Argentine Way” (10 p.m.), “I Wake Up Screaming” (11:45 p.m.), “Coney Island” (1:15 a.m.), “The Day the Bookies Wept” (3 a.m.) and “Don’t Turn ‘Em Loose” (4:30 a.m.).
It’s Chicago at Indiana (NBA, 7 p.m.) in game 1 of the eastern conference WNBA finals.
Baseball has Yankees at Toronto (MLB, 1 p.m.), Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (Fox Sports 1, 4 p.m.) and Milwaukee at San Francisco (MLB, 9 p.m.).
And early round play continues in the U.S. Open (CBS Sports Network, 3:30 p.m; Tennis Channel, 7 p.m.).
In world cup basketball, it’s U.S. vs. Finland (ESPN, 3:30 p.m.).
Kecey Musgraves plays a replay of “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 9 p.m.).
The Lady Gaga-hosted “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) in which she is also the musical guest, is rerun. But there are “SNL” replays all night on TVLand, with Melissa McCarthy at 8, Justin Timberlake at 9 and Betty White at 10 p.m.