BY CLIF GARBODEN

THURSDAY 29

7:30 (2) Basic Black: Forgotten Warriors. Recollections of an all-African-American unit fighting the Korean War. (This was an Emmy-winning edition of Basic Black.) (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (2) Warrior Challenge: Gladiators. Repeated from last week. A collection of Royal Marines go to combat school with Kirk Douglas and Russell Crowe and then meet up in the arena. To be repeated on Sunday at noon and 5 a.m. (Until 9 p.m.)

8:00 (6) Alien: Resurrection (movie). Two centuries after Sigourney Weaver fought off the alien, the big ugly bitch is back — the alien, that is. Sigourney’s back as well, resurrected as a clone because she’s the alien-killer expert. Winona Ryder helps out. (Until 10 p.m.)

8:00 (64) Stupid Behavior Caught on Tape. Apparently Fox News is offering an early edition. (Until 8:30 p.m.)

FRIDAY 30

9:00 (2) Now with Bill Moyers. As usual, no details, but worth checking into. (Until 10 p.m.)

Midnight (2) Masterpiece Theatre: Lucky Jim. Repeated from last week. Ballykissangel’s Stephen Tompkinson stars in this adaptation of a Kingsley Amis satire about college life in the early ’50s. (Until 2 a.m.)

SATURDAY 31

Noon (44) Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: The Battle of Ideas, Thinking the Unthinkable, The Agony of Reform, From Marx to Markets, The Promise and the Peril, and The New Rules of the Game. An "encore" presentation of the entire series exploring the ins, outs, ups, and downs of the much-touted/much-debated Global Economy. This is a serious report that deals with nuances and new realities, but if you don’t have all afternoon, here’s our short version. There are about 128 people in the world who want to own everything. This has been true since World War II. Two things have stood in their way: the Soviet bloc and rich and powerful democracies like the US. The Soviet thing died from inbreeding not long ago. Now, the war on terrorism has given our bosses the perfect excuse to make the US impoverished and undemocratic. So corporations can take over the geo-political roles formerly filled by nations, and the world’s wealth and resources can be controlled by those 128 people, who, once they run out of poor people to exploit, will eventually start squabbling among themselves, and then we’ll have wars between Exxon-Mobil and General Electric. Whose side are you on? You’re the loser. (Until 6 p.m.)

1:00 (64) Baseball. The Chicago White Sox versus the Cleveland Indians, or (in case you haven’t seen enough Braves baseball) the Atlanta Braves versus the New York Mets.

4:00 (6) Basketball. The Washington Mystics versus the Indiana Fever in WNBA play.

7:00 (44) Gift of the Game. A film about a good-will mission to Cuba involving novelist Randy Wayne White, former Sox lefty hurler Bill "Spaceman" Lee, one-time Detroit Tiger Jon Warden, and a bunch of fellow travelers out to locate the now-adult players on a pre-Castro youth baseball team organized by Ernest Hemingway. Sounds outlandish, but it’s true. (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (2) Live from Lincoln Center: Marsalis at the Penthouse. A celebration of an innovative New Orleans drummer/composer identified only as Black. Plus performances by the Marsalis clan. (Until 9:30 p.m.)

8:00 (6) Hockey. The New Jersey Devils versus the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in Stanley Cup final game #3.

8:00 (10) Night of Too Many Stars. The highlight of this taped fundraiser for the Autism Coalition will likely be Lou Reed doing something unexpected with Walk on the Wild Side. The rest of the show features comedy from David Spade, Dana Carvey, Jimmy Fallon, and Tina Fey. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (10) Martha Inc. (movie). Probably. NBC had yet more Law & Order repeats slotted to fill out this evening, but now we hear rumblings that it’ll be re-running the Cybill Shepherd bio-pic about how Martha Stewart is really kind of bitchy off camera. (Until 11 p.m.)

9:30 p.m. and 2:30 a.m. (2) American Masters: Robert Capa: In Love and War. Repeated from last week. A career bio of war-documentary photographer Capa, a Hungarian expat who shot the Spanish Civil War and actually parachuted into the Rhine Valley on D-Day. He was killed in 1954 with the French in Indochina. (Until 11 p.m. and 4 a.m.)

Midnight (2) Austin City Limits. Featuring music from the ever-disturbing Joe Cocker. (Until 1 a.m.)

SUNDAY 1

Noon and 5:00 a.m. (2) Warrior Challenge: Gladiators. Repeated from Thursday at 8 p.m.

1:00 (2) The 2003 WGBH Auction. The station desperately needs the money, so we can’t complain too much. But . . . the Auction is still terrible television — an assault on intelligence made all the more intolerable by its context. Is this better than what’s on one of those cable shopping networks? Sure, because it’s all for a good cause and it’s not a scam. But who watches tele-shop TV? And who watches WGBH? And are they the same audience? (Until midnight.)

4:30 (44) Spellbound (movie). Repeated from last week. Ingrid Bergman stars as an analyst exploring the mysterious past of colleague Gregory Peck. From 1945 and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. (Until 6:20 p.m.)

6:20 (44) Notorious (movie). Also repeated from last week. Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman chase Nazi Claude Rains around South America in this 1946 Hitchcock film. (Until 8 p.m.)

7:00 (6) Ever After (movie). Drew Barrymore stars as a 16th-century orphan with enough spunk to counteract the cliché’d complaint that fairy tales teach girls to be distressed damsels. She rescues the prince, etc. So there, Snow White! Take that, Rose Red! You have nothing to lose but your chains, Cinderella! We thought we’d worked out this cultural conundrum less heavy-handedly with Princess Leia. P.S.: anyone whose self-image is really based on women in fairy tales needs more help than Drew can provide. (Until 9 p.m.)

8:00 (12) A Time To Kill (movie). This 1996 drama, based on the first novel by John Grisham, stars Matthew McConaughey and Samuel L. Jackson. McConaughey is a lawyer in Mississippi defending Jackson, who’s on trial for killing two white jerks. With Kevin Spacey and Sandra Bullock. (Until 11 p.m.)

8:00 (10) The Search for America’s Most Talented Senior. To be followed next month by the Spanish-language edition, The Search for America’s Most Talented Señor. (Until 9 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Another Thin Man (movie). A 1939 Thin Man film with Nick and Nora (William Powell and Myrna Loy) on Long Island looking into another confusing murder case. (Until 9:45 p.m.)

9:45 (44) Shadow of the Thin Man (movie). This 1941 Myrna Loy/William Powell entry in the Thin Man series has the often-soused couple investigating a racetrack murder. (Until 11:30 p.m.)

Midnight (44) Globe Trekker: Cuba and Haiti. Repeated from last week. Trekker Ian Wright rumbas around Havana’s street markets and the Bay of Pigs before joining the rodeo in Camaguey. Then it’s off to Port-au-Prince and the rest of benighted little Haiti for a little Rara band action and, of course, some voodoo. (Until 1 a.m.)

MONDAY 2

7:00 (2) Cold Metal: A Salute to Inuit Rock. Actually, it’s just more Auction, but would you be reading this if we’d said that? (Until midnight.)

8:00 (6) Hockey. The New Jersey Devils versus the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in Stanley Cup final game #4.

8:00 (44) Globe Trekker: Beijing City Guide. Trekker Megan McCormick, who’s rumored to be from the Boston area (we’d tell you more, but she was unable to stop by the office last week for a chat) visits the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, a Tibetan monastery, Mao’s mausoleum ("Hey, Mao, chair this!"), and the Great Hall of the People. (Given its origins, shouldn’t that be the Hall of the Great People?) She also does a lot of shopping and heads out of town to Marco Polo’s Bridge, the Great Wall, and the hole where they unearthed the bones of Peking Man . . . er . . . Beijing Man. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (44) Two Men in a Trench: Shrewsbury and Barnet, Hertfordshire. A pair of military archæologists sort through the muck at the scenes of historic British battles. Far more fascinating than it sounds. To be repeated tonight at 1 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 10:40 p.m.)

1:00 a.m. (2) Two Men in a Trench: Shrewsbury and Barnet, Hertfordshire. Repeated from this evening at 9 p.m.

TUESDAY 3

7:00 (2) How I Came to America and Learned To Hate My Foster Parents, Who Plucked Me from My Birth Mother’s Arms in a Political Prison after the Tiananmen Square Riots: One Transsexual’s Story. Sorry to disappoint; it’s really just another five hours of the Auction. (Until midnight.)

8:00 (44) Austin City Limits. Featuring music from Spoon and Ben Kweller. To be repeated tonight at 1 and 3:30 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (44) Indie Select: What Do You Believe? One of a series of June broadcasts of films from the Provincetown International Film Fest, this documentary by Sarah Feinbloom features a diverse bunch of teens discussing their thoughts on God, death, religious freedom, suffering, and prayer. (Until 9:50 p.m.)

9:50 (44) P.O.V.: Promises. Three filmmakers head for the Middle East (before our recent assault on the region) to interview children about war and peace. (Until 11:20 p.m.)

1:00 and 3:30 a.m. (2) Austin City Limits. Repeated from this evening at 8 p.m.

2:00 and 4:30 a.m. (2) P.O.V.: Promises. Repeated from this evening at 9:50 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 4

7:00 (2) Three Tenor Elvis Impersonators! You’ve probably caught on by now. More Auction inaction in action. (Until midnight.)

8:00 (6) Basketball. The New Jersey Nets versus either the Dallas Mavericks or the Sacramento Kings in NBA final game #1.

8:00 (44) P.O.V.: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin. A repeat airing of the excellent documentary about civil-rights leader Rustin, who was forced to do his good works behind the scenes because he feared his homosexuality would detract from the race issue. To be repeated tonight at 3 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 9:30 p.m.)

9:00 (10) The Miss Universe Pageant. Daisy Fuentes is one of the hosts. That’s about the high point of this 52nd annual beauty show. The parade of universal lovelies takes place in Panama City. Ms. Iraq doesn’t stand a chance. (Until 11 p.m.)

9:30 (44) An American Family. Back in 1973, PBS broadcast one of the first "reality" shows — a cinéma-vérité series about a middle-class California family named the Louds. This edition features Pat Loud (the mother) as she visits her son, Lance, in New York, where he tells her he’s gay. In 1973, this was not a TV event to be taken lightly. Follow-up show to ensue. (Until 10:30 p.m.)

10:30 (44) Lance Loud: A Death in an American Family. Lance Loud died, at age 50, in 2001. This follow-up revisits his life. (Until 11:30 p.m.)

3:00 a.m. (2) P.O.V.: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin. Repeated from this evening at 8 p.m.

THURSDAY 5

7:00 (2) Alan Alda Tours a Duct Tape Factory. A feeble bid at humor, we admit. More auction here. (Until midnight.)

8:00 (6) Hockey. The New Jersey Devils versus the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in Stanley Cup final game #5, if necessary.

9:00 (44) Mystery: The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: Speedy Death. Adela Bradley is played by Mystery host Diana Rigg. The series is based on a 1929 mystery novel by Gladys Mitchell, and there’s a lot of jazz-age atmosphere surrounding the crimes. To be repeated tonight at 1:30 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 10:30 p.m.)

1:30 a.m. (2) Mystery: The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: Speedy Death. Repeated from this evening at 9 p.m.