Monday’s highlights on TV

Published 1:30 am Friday, September 25, 2015

Monday’s highlights on TV include:

They’ve been throwing long-distance verbal jabs at one another for months. On Monday, the candidates — Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump — finally come face to face on the same stage at New York’s Hofstra University in the first of three scheduled presidential debates. NBC anchor Lester Holt will be the referee, er, moderator. 6 p.m. Pacific, on all the broadcast networks and cable news channels.

On “The Big Bang Theory,” the guys are in a tizzy when an Air Force big shot approaches them about their revolutionary guidance system project. Elsewhere, Penny accidentally leaks news of Bernadette’s pregnancy to the mom-to-be’s coworkers. 8 p.m., CBS.

— Chuck Barney, East Bay Times