Thursday’s TV highlights

SERIES

Biography: Billy Joel, the original piano man, is profiled in this new episode (7 and 11 p.m. Biography).

Community: In this new episode, Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) is going over class schedules and discovers that Jeff (Joel McHale) has listed one that doesn’t exist, but a mystery man (Kevin Corrigan) says there is such a class, he teaches it, and Jeff is in it, which is all news to Jeff (8 p.m. NBC).

Bones: An event for a candymaker (Wayne Knight) turns bitter when human remains are discovered in the world’s largest chocolate bar, in this new episode (8 p.m. Fox).

The Mentalist: Jane (Simon Baker, who also directed this new episode) works with a local astrologer who insists on helping the team with a triple homicide involving two cops and Red John. Robin Tunney, Owain Yeoman, Tim Kang and Amanda Righetti also star (10 p.m. CBS).

Austin City Limits: Steve Martin plays the banjo with the Steep Canyon Rangers in this new episode that also features bluegrass musician Sarah Jarosz (10 p.m. KVCR).

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: In New York, nerves are raw on the day of Kelsey Grammer’s Broadway opening of “La Cage aux Folles,� but the women try to sweep their problems under the rug in this new episode (10 p.m. Bravo).

Burn Notice: After a malicious thief returns to Miami, Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) has little choice but to work with an enemy to keep a lethal chemical weapon out of the wrong hands in this new episode (10 p.m. USA).

SPECIALS

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: In this 1973 animated special, the pressure is on for Charlie Brown after pushy Peppermint Patty decides she and the gang will have Thanksgiving dinner at “Chuck’s� house, in this annual holiday treat (8 p.m. ABC).

SPORTS

Basketball: The Clippers visit the Indiana Pacers (4 p.m. FS Prime); the Phoenix Suns visit the Orlando Magic (5 p.m. TNT); the Denver Nuggets visit the Portland Trail Blazers (7:30 p.m. TNT).

College football: UCLA at Washington (5 p.m. ESPN).

College basketball: Virginia at Stanford (7:30 p.m. FSN).