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‘The Big Bang Theory’

Returns: 8 p.m. Monday

■ Recap: Penny and her new boyfriend fought over

his allegedly posting details of their sex life on his
blog. Leonard read the material and told her it was
just the guy’s way of declaring his love. She went
to his house to reconcile and caught him with
another woman. It was then that she decided she’d
had enough of good-looking, rich fellows and just
wanted a nice guy. Leonard asked her out. Sheldon,
invoking a physics theory she didn’t quite under-
stand, advised her to go on the date. Penny and
Leonard kissed at her door before going out to a
Chinese restaurant, which they left when they
spotted Sheldon haranguing the manager — in
very bad Mandarin he learned for the occasion —
about a menu change.
■ Cast: Simon Helberg, Johnny Galecki, Kaley
Cuoco, Jim Parsons, Kunal Nayyar (pictured
at right)

‘Ghost Whisperer’ ‘Two and a Half Men’

Returns: 8 p.m. Oct. 3 Returns: 9 p.m. Monday
■ Recap: Melinda met her long-missing
father, Tom Gordon, and learned he had been ■ Recap: Charlie was dating Angie, who was
a prosecutor who had sent a man, Paul quite a few years his senior and had a son in
Eastman, to prison for the death of a boy his 30s. His therapist thought this was because
named Michael, whose spirit hadn’t crossed of unresolved issues with his mother, but
over. Michael’s ghost told her that his death Charlie discounted that idea. Alan was also
was an accident and that Paul simply found interested in Angie, so Charlie slept with her
the body. She rushed to warn Tom that Paul to strengthen their bond. Later, Charlie met
was after him, but Tom was in critical condi- Angie’s future daughter-in-law, who turned out
tion after a suicide attempt. Eventually she to be a woman he used to date. The young
found out Paul and her mother had been woman realized she still had feelings for
engaged and that Tom knew the truth about Charlie, and her fiance called off the wedding
Michael’s death, but he did nothing to help when he found out. A distraught Angie blamed
Paul because he wanted Melinda’s mother for himself, and after Paul escaped from prison, Tom Charlie for her son’s heartbreak and broke up
killed him. Finally, Melinda learned that Paul, not Tom, was her real father. with him. Unfortunately for Alan, however, she
■ Cast: Camryn Manheim, David Conrad, Jennifer Love Hewitt (pictured above) and Jay Mohr wasn’t about to start dating her ex’s brother.
■ Cast: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T.
‘The New Adventures Jones, Conchata Ferrell, Holland Taylor, Marin
Hinkle
of Old Christine’
Returns: 8 p.m. Wednesday ‘How I Met Your Mother’
Returns: 8:30 p.m. Monday
■ Recap: Christine began experiencing symp-
toms that her gynecologist, Dr. Palmer, said ■ Recap: Ted was in a cab when it got T-boned
were perimenopause — the first stages of the by another car, and he escaped without a
“change of life.” She decided to take her scratch. Marshall called it a miracle. Robin dis-
health into her own hands and borrowed agreed, and Marshall countered with several
some prescription hormone cream from her stories of close calls that ended well, involving
friend Barb. The cream contained the male Barney’s nose, a pencil, head lice and a stoned
hormone testosterone, and it had some inter- airport security guard. Ted broke up with
esting effects on Christine, making her more Stella but changed his mind. Lily called
aggressive and a force to be reckoned with Barney to tell him about Ted’s accident, and he
when “mean moms” Marly and Lindsay ran to the hospital after missing a cab but
crossed her. Christine and Richard had a dis- almost got hit by a bus. Robin explained that
agreement over whether to allow Ritchie to she doesn’t believe in miracles because of a lie
attend the school cotillion, which Christine her parents told her about the family dog when
considered too sexist and elitist for her tastes. she was little. Ted proposed to Stella, but her
■ Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Clark Gregg, answer wasn’t revealed.
Hamish Linklater, Trevor Gagnon, Emily ■ Cast: Alyson Hannigan, Jason Segel, Josh
Rutherfurd, Tricia O’Kelley Julia Louis-Dreyfus Radnor, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris