Yahoo Movies What to Watch Tuesday: New documentary recounts 1970s Yankees-Dodgers baseball rivalry
Here’s what’s on TV tonight.
Returning series with season premieres tonight:
ABC: “Bachelor in Paradise” (8 p.m.)
NBC: “La Brea” (9 p.m.)
Yankees-Dodgers: An Uncivil War (9 p.m., ESPN)
This new documentary from ESPN Films, “Yankees-Dodgers: An Uncivil War,” tells the story of the rivalry between the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers, who squared off in back-to-back World Series in 1977 and 1978.
The documentary features extensive interviews with virtually all the living protagonists of the tale, from Reggie Jackson and Steve Garvey to Ron Guidry, Tommy John, Willie Randolph, Ron Cey, Graig Nettles, Steve Yeager, Mickey Rivers, Bucky Dent and Dusty Baker, as well as many of the writers and reporters who covered the teams at the time.
It’s produced by Mark Shapiro and Peter Guber, directed by Fritz Mitchell and narrated by actor Rob Lowe.
From ESPN: “I’m old enough to remember the summer of 1977, the blackout, the Son of Sam and Reggie Jackson’s three home runs, but I had forgotten about the turmoil of the Yankees and was unfamiliar with the Dodgers clubhouse angst,” said Mitchell. “Both New York and Los Angeles were going through periods of profound change and despair. I found that the troubles of baseball’s free agency era mirrored those of society and the ‘me generation,’ a time that seems eerily similar to today.”
How to stream the documentary: You can watch on ESPN+ immediately after tonight’s TV premiere.
New series premiere: ‘The Rookie: Feds” — 10 p.m. on ABC
This “Rookie” spin-off series stars Niecy Nash as Simone Clark, a former high school counselor starting her FBI career at the age when many federal agents are starting to wind down. “Rookie” viewers got a preview of “Rookie: Feds” earlier this year, when the character was introduced in a two-episode arc that had Clark teaming with LAPD officer John Nolan (Nathan Fillion) to catch a bomber terrorizing the city.
Britt Robertson, a Charlotte native, stars as the youngest member of Quantico’s Behavioral Analysis unit, and Frankie Faison plays Clark’s dad.
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