“In the Jury Room” (9 p.m., ABC) offers a fly-on-the-wall view of a real jury deciding a capital murder case. In tonight’s installment, ABC News was given unprecedented access to the trial of Mark Ducic, an Ohio resident accused of double homicide. The makers of “In the Jury Room” have documented every stage of the case against Ducic, from pretrial hearings right through the verdict.

We will get to see the defendant and his lawyers and public defenders, the judge in his chambers and the jury as they deliberate. For those who can’t get enough, ABC will post a complete transcript of the jury deliberations on the Internet immediately after the program airs. Future installments of “In the Jury Room” will cover six homicide cases from Arizona, Colorado and Ohio.

• “Doping to Win” (7 p.m., Discovery Times) profiles Dr. Don Catlin and other experts who have exposed the current doping scandal to involve the U.S. track and field team. With the opening ceremonies of the Athens Games just days away, this drug scandal has cast a pall over the Olympics and American athletes in particular. Catlin also discusses current investigations that he believes may result in one of the biggest drug arrests in sports history.
• As years go, 1979 may be remembered as one long bummer. You have to wonder about the psyche of an era when the most upbeat song was “I Will Survive.” If double-digit inflation and interest rates weren’t bad enough, there were gasoline shortages. Things became so dismal that President Jimmy Carter retreated to a mountaintop. When he came down, he addressed the nation with an address so dispiriting it became known as “The Malaise Speech,” even though he never uttered that French word.

But people can get nostalgic for anything, even malaise. “Class of 1979: Bio ’79” (7 p.m., Biography Channel) recalls and celebrates Sigourney Weaver’s starring role in “Alien,” The Village People, “Dallas”-mania and, of course, Three Mile Island and the Iranian hostage crisis. Those were the days!

• The truth emerges on a two-hour season finale of “Joe Schmo 2” (8 p.m., Spike). If you haven’t been following this season’s “Schmo,” you can catch up with an eight-hour “Joe Schmo 2” marathon (noon).

Tonight’s other highlights

• Deserted in the sand on “Amazing Race 5” (7 p.m., CBS).
• Prize money problems on “Trading Spouses” (7 p.m., Fox).
• A serial killer stalks the elderly on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (9 p.m., NBC).