What else is on TV on Super Sunday?
Super Sunday is here, but not all of us want to watch Richard Sherman and the Seattle Seahawks take on deflated ballhandler Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. (But if you do, game coverage begins at 5 p.m. Sunday on NBC. Katy Perry's doing the halftime show. But enough about all that.)
• Animal lovers are already familiar with Animal Planet's annual tradition of the Puppy Bowl, which runs concurrent to the football game, but this year also marks the second airing of the Kitten Bowl on Hallmark Channel. So fans of both canines and felines can squeal with delight as tiny animals play with each other on a fake football field.
• If you don't want to get warm and cuddly, you can get dirty and bloody on AMC, which will air a marathon of “The Walking Dead” from 9 a.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday. The zombie-killing action begins with the show's 2010 pilot and ends with 2012's Season 2 finale, so longtime fans can take a treacherous walk down memory lane Sunday.
• BBC America gets in on the marathon action as well, showing HD-remastered episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” from 11 a.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday. The lineup includes “The Royale,” a fun caper set in an intergalactic casino, and “Q Who?,” the classic Season 2 episode in which Capt. Picard's (Patrick Stewart) nemesis, Q (John de Lancie), introduces the crew of the Enterprise to the scary cyborgs called ... the Borg. (Creative, that!)
• HBO subscribers who miss Saturday night's premiere of “Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen” can catch an encore of the legend's one-man show at 6 p.m. Sunday on HBO Comedy, followed immediately by his black-and-white masterpiece, “Young Frankenstein.” If you like a little science-fiction with your comedy, perhaps Sunday's the day to introduce the kids to “Back to the Future” and “Back to the Future Part II,” airing at 6 p.m. on ABC Family.
• Turner Classic Movies' annual “31 Days of Oscar” programming block begins Sunday with 1956's big, broad, entertaining best-picture winner, “Around the World in 80 Days,” at 3:45. I'm sure the star of that film, David Niven, will appear in 7 p.m.'s documentary about the Oscars, “And the Oscar Goes To ...” He was, after all, at the podium in 1974 when a streaker ran by. Then at 9, watch the very first winner of the best-picture Oscar, the 1928 silent war film “Wings.”
• Sean Stangland is a Daily Herald copy editor and a tireless consumer of pop culture. He's betting all his bitcoins on the Patriots. You can follow him on Twitter at @SeanStanglandDH.