Tonight's TV highlights

Republic Of Doyle 10pm, Alibi Retro-ish Canadian comedy-drama about a father-and-son PI team – Malachy and Jake Doyle (Seán McGinley, Allan Hawco). Pop's a wry retired cop, junior's a roguish irresponsible charmer. Or "sleazebag". It's fun if familiar stuff, from the opening aerial shots, soaring over the waters of Newfoundland and Labrador to punchy guitar'n'synth, to the familial banter ("Move outta my house!") and gentle slapstick – say, chasing minor miscreants over rooftops and running out of puff. In tonight's opener, the boys help a family friend beat a manslaughter rap. AJC Mad Men 10pm, BBC4 "My mind is a jumble, I can't organize my thoughts." For once, Don narrates tonight's episode, sounding like Philip Marlowe without a case; his film noir drawl highlighting the shock of the new he must be experiencing when the Stones' Satisfaction blasts out of a transistor radio. Gene's second birthday, a chance encounter with Betty and Henry and a new approach to dating all provide hints that Don turned a corner after last week's dark night of the soul. RV Lie To Me 10pm, Sky1 Two episodes into its third season, Lie To Me is becoming no less preposterous, but in the way of high octane, high budget American television dramas, no less compelling. Tim Roth is terrific as Cal Lightman, the detective who specialises in decoding the neuroses of others while being prone to a few of his own. Tonight, he's running defence as opposed to prosecution, helping to spare a wrongly accused man from the wrath of the mob. In one of the adroitly deployed subplots, he disinters a family secret that reconciles an estranged mother and daughter. Not a bad hour's work. AM Agatha Christie's Poirot 8pm, ITV1 It's Halloween, Agatha Christie style, meaning jack-o-lanterns, apple bobbing – and child killing, in this adaptation by Mark Gatiss (lately proving jolly clever at this period lark). When a girl who claims to have witnessed a murder is herself done away with, the indefatigable Poirot takes on the case, alongside mystery novelist and friend Ariadne Oliver (Zoë Wanamaker). Cue swirling oboes, secrets and the usual gaggle of eccentric villagers and brutally middle-class ladies of certain vintage being absolutely beastly to one another. A dark delight. AJC Buried Alive: The Chilean Mine Rescue 8pm, Channel 4 You would need to have been buried even longer down a different mine to be unaware of the stirring survival of the 33 miners recently raised after 70 days in their temporary tomb in Chile. However, this swiftly assembled documentary looks like it might well be definitive. Channel 4 wrangled intimate access to the engineers and medics who planned and executed a brilliant rescue effort, and recorded the desperation and hope of the families who camped out and waited. AM Wonderland – Mad Cats And Englishwomen 9pm, BBC2 As far as pets go, cats are pretty independent creatures. They are willing to pretend to like you in return for some food and shelter, yet there are many supposed cat lovers who are incapable of giving them even that. Celia Hammond (a Vogue model in the 1960s) and her fellow cat rescuers are now inundated with unloved kitties. There are many incredibly depressing stories here – such as the couple who got rid of their black and white cat as it didn't go with their newly redecorated flat. PO'N