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‘Ugly Betty’
Returns: 8 p.m. Thursday

■ Recap: The lady or the tiger? It wasn’t

exactly that for Betty as year two ended, but
‘Samantha Who’ it was close as she had two romantic des-
Returns: 9:30 p.m. Oct. 6 tinies to choose between. (Hint: An actor
who played one of her suitors won’t be back
■ Recap: Sam told Todd he as a regular.) With ever-scheming
had to break up with Chloe. Wilhelmina the new editor-in-chief of the
He promised to do so, but magazine that employs Betty, professional
shortly afterward, she challenges face our
caught them making out. He heroine, too.
explained he couldn’t dump ■ Cast: America
Chloe because she was upset Ferrera, Vanessa
over a sick aunt. Sam was Williams, Eric
reminded that she once Mabius, Ana
advised Andrea to invent a Ortiz, Tony
dying relative to avoid a Plana, Becki
breakup, so she suspected Newton
Chloe was pulling a scam —
but a visit to the hospital America
confirmed she wasn’t. Todd Ferrera
dumped Chloe, who sought
out Sam for comfort. Later,
she caught Sam and Todd
together, and Sam confessed
she was seeing Todd, but
then said it wouldn’t work
because they had too much
‘Dirty Sexy Money’
baggage. Todd showed up at Returns: 10 p.m. Oct. 1
Sam’s birthday party with
balloons and introduced ■ Recap: At the end of a first season that was
himself — a fresh start. cut short by the writers strike, New York
■ Cast: Christina Applegate, Attorney General Patrick Darling found his
Barry Watson, Kevin Dunn, bid for a U.S. Senate seat was threatened by
Jennifer Esposito, Jean the disappearance of his transsexual mis-
Smart, Melissa McCarthy, tress. Elsewhere, family attorney Nick tried
Tim Russ to deal with his realization of his true feel-
Christina ings for rich, spoiled Darling daughter
Applegate Karen, whose involvement with the mysteri-
ous Simon Elder may have been engineered
by his main enemy: Karen’s father, Tripp.
■ Cast: Peter Krause, William Baldwin,
Donald Sutherland, Jill Clayburgh, Blair
Underwood, Natalie Zea
‘Eli Stone’
Returns: 10 p.m. Oct. 14
‘Grey’s Anatomy’
■ Recap: Where does a show
Returns: 9 p.m. Thursday
go after it’s revived its title
character from a coma, pos-
■ Recap: Meredith and McDreamy — togeth-
sibly changing his entire
life? That question hangs er again? That’s how it looked as the medical
over this fanciful drama, drama’s fourth season ended, and word has
which ended its freshman it they’ll be staying together now. Which
year by subjecting Eli to an isn’t to say it will be completely smooth sail-
operation involving his ing for them, or it wouldn’t be this show.
brain aneurysm. It also left George tried to cope with personal and pro-
the question of whether his fessional disasters, and Izzie attempted to
visions will continue — comfort an emotionally devastated Alex.
along with the musical numbers that often accompanied them. ■ Cast: Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey,
■ Cast: James Saito, Matt Letscher, Victor Garber, Natasha Henstridge, Jonny Lee Miller, Katherine Heigl, T.R. Knight, Chandra
Julie Gonzalo, Loretta Devine, Sam Jaeger Wilson, Justin Chambers