Where there’s a long holiday weekend, there are sure to be TV marathons.
This Labor Day is no exception, with a host of binge-worthy options on the schedule between now and Monday including current-season repeats and dusting off some old classics.
Here’s a look at 12 marathons to break up the barbecues.
“The Simpsons” (Through Monday at midnight, FXX)
The record 12-day ’toon marathon continues throughthe long weekend with episodes featuring guest stars Zooey Deschanel, Angela Bassett, Sarah Silverman, Katy Perry, Jon Hamm, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber.
“Dirty Jobs” (Saturday, 6 a.m.-6 p.m., and Monday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Animal Planet)
Mike Rowe’s hard-labor reality series will feature cut-ins of labor of a different kind, as the network’s “Labor Live” camera captures animal births (calves, chicks, lambs, piglets) as they happen at the Nebraska State Fair.
“Being Mary Jane” (Saturday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., BET)
Binge-watch the first eight-episode season of this scripted drama that stars Gabrielle Union as a TV news anchor looking for Mr. Right (the show is renewed for Season Two).
“Hatfields & McCoys” (Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., History)
The 2012 three-part miniseries re-airs, starring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton as patriarchs of rival families on the West Virginia/Kentucky border in the years after the Civil War.
“Saturday Night Live” (Saturday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m., TV Land)
Get your “SNL” fix before the new season premieres in a 12-hour marathon that features hosts including Jerry Seinfeld, Justin Timberlake, Betty White and Tina Fey, plus “best of” episodes for Jimmy Fallon, Alec Baldwin and Amy Poehler.
“19 Kids and Counting” (Sunday, noon-9 p.m., TLC)
Reacquaint yourself with the ever-growing Duggar family clan (remember when there were just 17 kids?) with a marathon of Season Eight before the ninth season premieres on Tuesday.
“Breaking Bad” (Sunday 5 p.m.-Monday 1 p.m., AMC)
Fresh off its latest Emmy win for Best Drama Series, “Breaking Bad” on AMC continues its ongoing Sunday-night binge with episodes two through eight from Season Three.
“Walt Frazier Takeover” (Monday, 6 a.m.-6 p.m., MSG Network)
A 12-hour marathon featuring the “Best Of” moments from Knicks legend Walt “Clyde” Frazier.
“Mork and Mindy” (Monday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Ch. 10/55)
WLNY pays tribute to late comic Robin Williams with 22 episodes of the ABC comedy series that launched his career including classics like “Mork’s Mixed Emotions,” “Mork Goes Erk” (featuring David Letterman and Morgan Fairchild) and “Mork Meets Robin Williams.”
“Friday Night Tykes” (Monday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Esquire Network)
You can watch the entire 10-episode first season of this series, which follows five teams of kids ages 8-to-9-years-old in the Texas Youth Football Association throughout the 2013 season.
“Rizzoli & Isles” (Monday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m., TNT)
Catch up on the first 10 episodes of the drama’s current season — starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander as a Boston detective and medical examiner — whose season finale airs Tuesday.
“Mike & Molly” (Monday, noon-9 p.m., FX)
The Melissa McCarthy-Billy Gardell sitcom debuts on the network — celebrate with 18 episodes’ worth of fat jokes leading into the season finale of the network’s Kelsey Grammer-Martin Lawrence comedy “Partners.”