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Drama Mama

Your weekly guide to TV’s best and worst one-hour shows.

Honoring those in uniform by checking in with law-enforcement series:

“Longmire” (Monday, 10 p.m., A&E)

The old sheriff (Robert Taylor) in town is back for his sophomore year on the range after refusing to confess to killing his wife’s murderer in the last season’s outstanding finale. If you didn’t catch it last summer, there’s a marathon Saturday starting at 2 p.m.., which Mama would highly recommend investigating, as this Western lawman series not only ditches the usual bright lights of Vegas for a beautifully rugged (and quieter) Western setting, but it also includes the rare credible depiction of Native Americans, most notably Lou Diamond Phillips as Henry Standing Bear.

“Rookie Blue” (Thursday, 10 p.m., ABC)

We last left the summer cop series with two of the “rookies” (the show is entering its fourth season — apparently the braintrust that named the series thought it would last either) going undercover for a drug sting. Andy (Missy Peregrym) and Nick (Peter Mooney) left their pals — and lovers — behind, so there’ll be some ‘splainin’ to do considering they’ve been MIA for six months. But if you think the big case will put an end to undercover operations where the female cops dress like hookers and end up bound and tied, you might be the one on drugs.

“The Glades”(Monday, 9 p.m., A&E)

It’s more golf shirts than uniforms in the fourth-season premiere for the Florida-based detective. The inexplicably charming Detective Longworth (Matt Passmore) proposed to Callie (Kiele Sanchez) last season, in the hopes of bringing her home from her burgeoning career in Atlanta.

“NCIS”(Sunday, 10 a.m – 4 a.m. and Monday, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., USA)

Finally, some actual military uniforms, and who doesn’t love two straight days of staring at Mark Harmon in his Navy duds.

“Body of Proof”(Tuesday, 10 p.m., ABC)

Sadly, the kiss of show killer Mark Valley dooms another series, as the Dana Delany vehicle parks its third and final year. This season’s revamp only pumped enough life into the middling detective show to give Delany’s Megan the chance to solve her dad’s murder in the finale. — Tiffany Wendeln Connors