BY CLIF GARBODEN

THURSDAY 1

8:00 [6] HAVE NO FEAR: THE LIFE OF POPE JOHN PAUL II | movie | Thomas Kretschmann (Captain Englehorn in Peter Jackson’s King Kong) stars as Karol "Lolek" Wojtyla a/k/a Pope JP2 in this spiritual and historically pretty accurate bio-pic. | Until 10 pm

9:00 [2] GREAT PERFORMANCES: CREAM REUNION CONCERT | Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker bring the sunshine of their love back to London’s Royal Albert Hall, the venue where Cream played their finale show in 1968 after only three years of heading the psychedelic-blues revolution. To be repeated on Monday at 10:30 pm on Channel 44. | Until 11 pm

FRIDAY 21

8:00 [10] THE HAPPY ELF | Harry Connick Jr., who emerged unexpectedly as a human being in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, is back to disappointing us with this 3-D animated "destined-to-be Christmas classic" about an optimistic elf named Eubie. With songs by Connick and the voices of Carol Kane, Lewis Black, Rob Paulsen, and Mickey Rooney. | Until 9 pm

9:00 [12] KNOTS LANDING REUNION: TOGETHER AGAIN | That’s as opposed to reunions where people remain separated. This is a 25-year-old drama about which we could care less. (We

favored the campier shenanigans on Dallas.) But any fans out there can learn more than we care to know at www.knotslanding.net/reunion/.| Until 11 pm

SATURDAY 3

1:00 [6] FOOTBALL | Texas versus Colorado in the Big 12 title game.

2:30 [44] CARLY SIMON: MOONLIGHT SERENADE ON THE QUEEN MARY II | Carly, what are you doing playing cruise ships? Standards, of course. And she has the voice for it. A concert filmed somewhere in the Atlantic between here and England in September 2005. A collection of romantic ballads, plus some acoustic reworkings of Simon’s well-known hits. To be repeated on Monday at 9 pm on Channel 2. | Until 4 pm

4:00 [44] PAUL ANKA: ROCK SWINGS — LIVE IN MONTREAL | Filmed at this year’s Montreal Jazz festival. Paul Anka, the long-ago alleged teen idol who later wrote the theme for The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, does swing covers of songs by Spandau Ballet, Eric Clapton, and Michael Jackson. Plus some of the original bubblegum ("Diana") that for reasons we never fully understood made him famous. | Until 5:30 pm

4:30 [6] FOOTBALL | UCLA versus USC.

6:00 [12] FOOTBALL | LSU versus Georgia in the SEC title game.

6:30 [2] DOO-WOP CAVALCADE: THE DEFINITIVE ANTHOLOGY | That’s a claim we very much doubt, but any doo-wop on TV is better than none. This will, alas, be disrupted by fundraising. Hosted by Jerry Butler, Johnny Maestro, and (via old film clips) Alan Freed and featuring the Platters doing "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," the Duprees doing "You Belong to Me," the Five Satins doing "In the Still of the Night," and more. For our money, we wouldn’t call anything definitive unless it included Clarence Frogman Henry doing "Ain’t Got No Home," but you never know what treats are in store. To be repeated tonight at 9 pm on Channel 44, and at 1 am back on Channel 2. | Until 9 pm

7:00 [44] GREAT PERFORMANCES: MY NAME IS BARBRA | It was 1965, and something musically new was overtaking just about every front of the entertainment biz. Cementing her legend in a single hour of black-and-white TV, 23-year-old Barbra Streisand did a one-woman show. She was incredible in a way that people who caught her only later in her career can’t imagine. This is a remastered 40th-aniversary presentation of that CBS special. What viewers didn’t know at the time was that Streisand, who was on Broadway in Funny Girl during the filming, had been given complete creative control over the production — location shooting and all. | Until 9 pm

8:00 [6] FOOTBALL | Virginia Tech versus Florida State in the ACC title game.

9:00 [2] FAWLTY TOWERS

REVISITED | A few years back, one of the public-TV stations (quite possibly the one in New Hampshire) ran an all-day Fawlty Towers marathon that proved you can have too much of a wonderful thing. Episode by episode you don’t notice how shrill John Cleese is; an entire day of him is too much. But this isn’t just replays of old shows: we also have two interviews with John Cleese discussing how he and Connie Booth put the series together some three decades ago. We assume there will be clips. We’re assured that other cast veterans will add some commentary. We’re afraid there’ll be an awful lot of fundraising. | Until 11 pm

SUNDAY 4

1:00 [12] FOOTBALL | The Cincinnati Bengals versus the Pittsburgh Steelers.

1:00 [64] FOOTBALL | The Dallas Cowboys versus the New York Giants.

4:00 [12] FOOTBALL | The Pats

versus the New York Jets.

8:00 [44] GREAT PERFORMANCES: MICHAEL BUBLÉ: CAUGHT IN THE ACT | Introducing another of those off-shore singing sensations that reach US audiences only through the clever tactic of selling their shows cheap to PBS for fundraising specials. Michael Bublé is a Canadian crooner in the tradition of the big-band crooners. He sings "I’ve Got You Under My Skin." He also sings "Save the Last Dance for Me." He’s probably a bit hit at the Ramada Inn. His concert is on all night. | Until 1 am

9:00 [2] MASTERPIECE THEATRE: SHERLOCK HOLMES; THE CASE OF THE SILK STOCKINGS | Repeating this season’s MT season opener. Rupert Everett stars as Holmes and does a passable job till the very end, when he cracks up posing in Dr. Watson’s wedding picture and breaks the mood. In this latter-day Holmes adventure that smacks of "Sherlock Holmes SVU," the deductive genius tackles the case of a serial killer who preys on young women with nice feet and dresses each victim in the previous victim’s clothing. To be repeated on Monday at 8 pm on Channel 44. | Until midnight, which means they’re padding this out with lots and lots of pledge breaks.

1:00 AM [44] AN EVENING WITH DIAHANN CARROLL | Gwen Ifill interviews model/singer/actress Carroll about racism in show biz and what it took for Carroll to become a star. She was the first African-American sit-com star (if you don’t count Amos & Andy, which you’re not allowed to count even though it was brilliant because somebody decided it was more racist than hilarious) on television with 1968’s Julia. To be repeated tonight at 4 am on Channel 2, and at 5 am back on Channel 44. | Until 2 am

MONDAY 5

7:30 [2] AMERICA’S HOUSES OF WORSHIP | A spiritual and architectural tour of 13 churches, synagogues, and cathedrals around the US. Included are the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham, the First Baptist Church in Providence, Trinity churches in Boston and New York, and the National Cathedral in DC. Not an ashram, Hindu temple, or Quaker meeting in sight. | Until 9 pm

9:00 [6] FOOTBALL | The Seattle Seahawks versus the Philadelphia Eagles.

TUESDAY 6

8:00 [2] BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND | Repeated from last fundraising period. An excellent 1975 Springsteen concert from the Hammersmith Odeon in London. The band were on tour to support Born To Run. To be repeated tonight at 9 pm on Channel 44. | Until 1:30 am

8:00 [64] 2005 BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS | A tribute to Tom Petty, who’ll receive an award just for still being alive. Plus a tribute to Kanye West for still being alive despite telling the truth about George Bush on national television. Plus performances by Green Day, Toby Keith, Ciara, and R. Kelly. |

Until 10 pm

9:00 [44] TOM JONES: THE LEGEND | You’ve heard the jokes, now meet the legend. Actually, Jones, behind the sweaty "ladies’ man for middle-aged ladies" exterior, turns out to be a pretty hip and musical guy. That may or may not come across in this 1981 concert of hits from his TV show taped in Vancouver. To be repeated on Thursday at 9:30 pm on Channel 2. | Until 10:30 pm

WEDNESDAY 7

8:00 [2] VISIONS OF SICILY | Yo!? You lookin’ at me? | Until 11 pm

9:00 [44] ROY ORBISON AND FRIENDS — A BLACK-AND-WHITE NIGHT | We’ve seen it; you’ve seen it. It’s been on so much it could be seen from the grave. Yes, it’s great, but too often . . . A 1988 Roy Orbison concert from the Coconut Grove in LA featuring Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Jackson Brown, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, and more. Good stuff, though once you realized that the hook in every Orbison song is the crescendo finale, things become less surprising. | Until 11 pm

THURSDAY 8

8:00 [6] HAVE NO FEAR: THE LIFE OF POPE JOHN PAUL II | movie | Thomas Kretschmann (Captain Englehorn in Peter Jackson’s King Kong) stars as Karol "Lolek" Wojtyla a/k/a Pope JP2 in this spiritual and historically pretty accurate bio-pic. | Until 10 pm

9:00 [2] GREAT PERFORMANCES: CREAM REUNION CONCERT | The best news we’ve had all week. See Wednesday at 4 am for details. The set where Clapton jams with André Rieu is unforgettable. | Until 11 pm