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A select viewing guide for Monday, Nov. 28

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ANIMATION Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas ABC, 8 p.m. You’re a durable one, Mr. Grinch. A holiday staple since its first broadcast in 1966, this animated feature will air several times in the coming weeks. Based on the story by the inimitable Dr. Seuss, the special still ranks above most Christmas-TV perennials, courtesy of the brisk animation style of cartoon legend Chuck Jones and the inspired voice work of horror-film legend Boris Karloff, who both narrates and supplies the voice of the titular grump. And if there isn't a tear in your eye when the Grinch's heart grows three sizes, well, you're just not human.

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DRAMA House Fox, Global, 9 p.m. Tonight’s the last chance to get your fill of House for the foreseeable future. Fox is advertising tonight's new episode as the eighth-season “fall finale,” which really means the show is taking an extended break while the network tests out midseason fare before returning for February sweeps. To keep the fans hanging, tonight’s episode finds Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) on an all-out campaign to prove House (Hugh Laurie) is hiding something in his home. In actual medical plotlines, the entire team tackles the puzzling case of a gun-toting prosecutor stricken with cardiac arrest. Hurry back, House.

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MUSIC John Sebastian Presents Folk Rewind PBS, 9:30 p.m. Hosted by John Sebastian, this special recalls the biggest folk artists in music history. Half of the program was filmed last year at a live concert in Pittsburgh that reunited such folk notables as Roger McGuinn, Jesse Colin Young and The Chad Mitchell Trio. The other half is a collection of rarely-seen TV performances from artists like Rod McKuen, Bobby Darin and Pete Seeger, the granddaddy of all folk artists. Strangely, there’s no performance by Sebastian, whose group The Lovin’ Spoonful, was one of the biggest folk-rock acts of the sixties.

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DOCUMENTARY Spain's Stolen Babies CBC News Network, 10 p.m. Originally broadcast on the BBC, this documentary examines the shocking allegations of baby theft and baby trafficking in Spain. According to this report, the trade reportedly began toward the end of the Spanish civil war and carried on for the next half-century up to the 1990s. During that time, it's believed that nuns, priests and doctors participated in facilitating the kids-for-cash ring, which resulted in an estimated 300,000 babies being raised by people other than their biological parents. BBC correspondent Katya Adler interviews several of the mothers who have spent years searching for the children they were told died at birth.

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MOVIE Defending Your Life Vision, midnight Written and directed by Albert Brooks, this 1991 romantic comedy revolves around a smug advertising executive named Daniel, played by Brooks, who smacks his brand-new BMW into a bus and is thereafter whisked to the great hereafter, or more specifically, to a purgatory-like existence known as Judgment City. Once settled in, Daniel is assigned a gruff case worker named Bob (Rip Torn) and reviews past incidents from his life that he'd rather forget. Daniel also meets and falls for a divine soul named Julia (Meryl Streep). Watch for Shirley MacLaine in a brilliant cameo.

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