Tube Notes

By Mike Hughes
Gannett News Service

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE (network): "Family Guy," 8:30 p.m., Fox."Family Guy" premiered after the 1999 Super Bowl. Here was a funny cartoon with an average Rhode Island family and an angst-ridden dog. Fox kept "Family Guy" off the schedule this season but, partly as strike insurance, kept making new episodes. Now the show is back. Tonight, the dog gets a police job sniffing for narcotics. Guest voices include Haley Joel Osment, Patrick Warburton and Leif Garrett.

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE (cable): "Shot Heard Round the World," 5 p.m., HBO. It was a classic face-off. At the plate for the New York Giants was Bobby Thomson. On the mound for the Brooklyn Dodgers was Ralph Branca. Thomson hit a home run and gave the Giants the pennant. This documentary relives the moment.

"National Geographic: Air Force One," 8 p.m., PBS. Remember that haunting feeling as you rush to the airport that you've forgotten something? Jimmy Carter forgot to pick up his mother. He went back to get her, delaying an Air Force One flight to his inauguration. Such stories are scattered into a cool hour about the presidential plane.

"The Beast," 9 p.m., ABC. Alice and Tamir go undercover to probe biological weapons.