NBA basketball (5:30 p.m., Ch. 14): Jazz at Nets
My Wife and Kids (7 p.m., Ch. 4): There's a mouse in the house.
Ed (7 p.m., Ch. 5): Mike and Nancy try to get their house finished before Christmas; Ed faces temptation.
Dickens (7 p.m., Ch. 7): A two-hour profile of the 19th-century author.
That '70s Show (7 p.m., Ch. 13): Jackie invites the guys to her high school Christmas dance.
It's All Relative (7:30 p.m., Ch. 4): Bobby and Liz's families battle over the holidays.
A Minute with Stan Hooper (7:30 p.m., Ch. 13): Christmas caroling turns confrontational.
King of Queens (8 p.m., Ch. 2): Carrie (Leah Remini) starts working at the same place as Doug, and he can't stand it. (By the way, Remini is pregnant and due in June. There's no word on whether the pregnancy will be written into the scripts or whether they'll try to hide it from viewers.)
10 Most Fascinating People of 2003 (8 p.m., Ch. 4): Well, Barbara Walters' annual pop/fluff list actually has 15 people on it. She's counting the Fab Five of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" as one. And she's counting Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez as one, too. Others on the list include Beyonce Knowles, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Roy Horn (of Seigfried & Roy), Nicole Kidman, Martha Stewart, Arnold Schwarzenegger, LeBron James — and the single most fascinating person of the year, who will be (gasp!) announced tonight. Oooooh, the anticipation. Or not.
The O.C. (8 p.m., Ch. 13): Kirsten's rebellious younger sister visits, upsetting New Year's plans. (Jan. 1 seems to be coming a little early on this show.)
Jake 2.0 (8 p.m., Ch. 24): Lee Majors, whose "Six Million Dollar Man" was a predecessor to this series about an enhanced human, guest stars as a retired CIA operative who helps Jake track down a Russian agent who's still fighting the Cold War before she detonates a "dirty bomb" in Washington, D.C.
PrimeTime (9 p.m., Ch. 4): Diane Sawyer interviews Oprah Winfrey about her work to help South African children who have been orphaned as a result of the AIDS epidemic.
The Smoking Gun Year-End Special (9:30 p.m., Court): 'Tis the season to embarrass celebrities.