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Best-bets for Friday, July 26: “SHIELD” tries to save the world

1) “Agents of SHIELD,” 8 p.m., ABC. A week from the season-finale (and a year from the series-finale), “SHIELD” has our attention. Tonight, ABC says, the team is in full crisis mode; that thrusts it toward next week’s two-hour finale, trying “to stop the end of everything,” a worthy goal. The series (shown here from its first year) had already been renewed for 13 episodes next summer, but ABC recently said that will be the end. Read more…

1) “Agents of SHIELD,” 8 p.m., ABC. A week from the season-finale (and a year from the series-finale), “SHIELD” has our attention. Tonight, ABC says, the team is in full crisis mode; that thrusts it toward next week’s two-hour finale, trying “to stop the end of everything,” a worthy goal. The series (shown here from its first year) had already been renewed for 13 episodes next summer, but ABC recently said that will be the end.

2) U.S. Track and Field Championships, 7-9 p.m. ET, NBC Sports Network. Next summer, these events will seize our attention, at the Olympics in Tokyo; for now, the national championships in Des Moines get scattered coverage. Much of it is on www.nbcsports.com/gold; however, the NBC Sports Network has a couple hours today and one at 7 p.m. ET Sunday. Also, NBC plans coverage for 4-6 p.m. ET Saturday and then will have some of the finals, from 8-9 p.m. Sunday.

3) “Toy Story” (1995) and “Toy Story 2” (1999), 6:30 and 8:30 p.m., Freeform. With “Toy Story 4” now in theaters, families can savor the early films. Both were careful to attract grown-ups. They had smart scripts – the first drew an Academy Award nomination – and likeable stars (Tom Hanks, Tim Allen) providing the voices. They also had Randy Newman’s music; both films have Oscar-nominated songs. And there was the nostalgia of long-ago toys, helping the family and each other.

4) “Hawaii Five-0,” 9 p.m., CBS. Why would someone murder a window-washer? In his rerun, the team finds that he was also a renowned street artist who may have been a political target.

5) “Veronica Mars” new season, Hulu. In the original series, Veronica was a teen-ager, poking herself into grown-up mysteries. Now, a dozen years after the show ended, she’s back for eight episodes; The adult Veronica (Kristen Bell is now 39) works with her dad, who’s also a detective. That comes on a busy day for streaming: Netflix has “The Boys” (a world filled with misbehaving superheroes), one day after debuting Katee Sackhoff (“Battlestar Galactica”) in the sci-fi “series, Another Life.”

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