Disney’s spooky fare fails to cast a spell

Tia and Tamera Mowry reprise their matching-bookend routine in the made-for-TV kids’ fantasy “Twitches” (7 p.m., Disney). The twin siblings starred in the sitcom “Sister, Sister,” broadcast on ABC from 1994 to 1995 before migrating to The WB, where it aired until 1999.

As on that show, “Twitches” casts the Mowrys as identical twins separated at birth. In this rather silly Halloween fare, they are royal infants taken out of an enchanted kingdom named Coventry just as an evil force is about to destroy them. In the logic of such things, they are spirited to the less-than-enchanting confines of greater Los Angeles, where one twin is raised as a spoiled princess right out of “Clueless,” while the other is adopted by a family that rides public transportation.

Comedy ensues when forces from their old realm arrive on their 21st birthday and try to cajole them back to Coventry to save the kingdom from forces of darkness and low-budget special effects.

¢ If you’re looking for a grownup twins saga with more supernatural bite, watch “Haunting Sarah” (8 p.m., Lifetime), a 2005 made-for-TV shocker starring Kim Raver as a fearful mother and her manipulative sister.

¢ Jennifer Aniston sits down with professor Richard Brown to discuss her acting career and films on “Movies 101” (9:30 p.m., AMC). Sure, they’ll talk about her work in the indie movie “The Good Girl” and hits like “Bruce Almighty.” But will they touch on “Leprechaun”?

Tonight’s other highlights

¢ Scheduled on “Dateline” (7 p.m., NBC): a troubled teen becomes her therapist’s lover and wife, and then, decades later, his killer. Is she a murderer or a victim of abuse?

¢ The White Sox and the Angels meet in game 3 of the American League Championship Series (7 p.m., Fox).

¢ A notable noise is heard at a Miami rave on “Threshold” (8 p.m., CBS).

¢ Reba takes in a family left homeless by Hurricane Katrina on “Reba” (8 p.m., WB).

¢ The murder of a corporate whistle-blower on “Numb3rs” (9 p.m., CBS).

¢ Detective Mike Logan (Christopher Noth) returns on “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” (9 p.m., NBC).

¢ Scheduled on “20/20” (9 p.m., ABC): flu worries; an interview with Saudi King Abdullah.

¢ “Movies that Shook the World” (9 p.m., AMC) discusses the impact of director D.W. Griffith’s 1914 feature “Birth of a Nation.”