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‘Desperate Housewives’
■ Recap: Wayne killed Ellie, in whose
teddy bear Gabby and Carlos found
more than $100,000. Katherine revealed
Dylan was an orphan adopted to
replace her biological daughter, who
Returns: 9 p.m. Sept. 28
was killed as a girl. Katherine killed
Wayne after he tried to murder her. The
season finale ended five years in the
future with Gabby as a mom, Susan
married to someone new, and Bree run-
ning a media empire a la Martha
Stewart.
■ Cast: Eva Longoria Parker, Felicity
Huffman, Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher,
Nicollette Sheridan

‘Boston Legal’
Returns: 10 p.m. Monday

■ Recap: Alan and Denny were ecstatic to be accepted into the Auxiliary Coast Guard. Judge Harvey Cooper asked Alan to represent the town
of Concord, Mass., in its effort to secede from the United States. Denny called Alan a traitor and warned him that this case could damage
their friendship, then teamed up with Carl to represent the opposition. Despite everyone’s fears that Denny wasn’t up to this, he blew every-
one away by countering Cooper’s list of unacceptable new government practices and policies with similar ones from history. Later, he
explained to Alan why, as a child of World War II, he found secession so repugnant. Denny appears for his closing argument in his Coast
Guard uniform, but Alan’s heartfelt closing statement wins the case.
■ Cast: William Shatner, James Spader, Candice Bergen, John Larroquette, Christian Clemenson, Gary Anthony Williams

‘Brothers & Sisters’ ‘Pushing Daisies’

Returns: 10 p.m. Sept. 28 Returns: 8 p.m. Oct. 1
■ Recap: The visually and tonally distinctive com-
■ Recap: Could unfaithful Walker
edy-mystery left off with some tantalizing twists.
family patriarch William have
Ned’s true — and literally untouchable — love,
sired yet another child with anoth-
Chuck, turned out to be the daughter of Aunt Lily,
er woman before his death? It cer-
while private detective Emerson turned out to be
tainly looked that way as this
a father. Surrounding those developments was
drama ended its second season,
another plot about an unusual killer, the most
and now, the search is on to find
recent one a baseball-bat wielder out to even the
that previously unknown member
score over a desperately needed operation that
of their clan. It’s a scenario the
had been denied. The last new episode also had a
Walkers certainly have been
holiday feel, evidence of just how long a wait it’s
through before.
been for this critically lauded, Emmy-nominated
■ Cast: Sally Field, Calista
series to resume.
Flockhart, Rachel Griffths,
■ Cast: Swoosie Kurtz, Ellen Greene, Lee Pace,
Balthazar Getty, Dave Annable,
Anna Friel, Kristin Chenoweth, Chi McBride
Emily VanCamp
(pictured at left)