BY CLIF GARBODEN

THURSDAY 24

7:30 (2) Basic Black: A Conversation with Anita Hill. The Brandeis prof talks about the confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, the myths surrounding that truly embarrassing event, and her own legacy. (Until 8 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Wide Angle. Tonight’s edition looks at the Angolan military’s campaign against AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (44) Mystery: The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: The Rising of the Moon. Repeated from last week. Having solved a murder at the opera, Mrs. Bradley (Diana Rigg) investigates one at a circus. We presume she’ll move on to the races next week and so through the entire Marx Brothers catalogue. To be repeated on Friday at 12:30 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 10 p.m.)

10:00 (44) The 1900 House: A Rude Awakening. Repeated from last week. The Bowlers, a modern family who foolishly agreed to live life as it was lived in 1900, discover that 1900 was a sweaty, dirty place characterized by manual labor. Still, our ancestors couldn’t have complained as much these people do. (Until 11 p.m.)

FRIDAY 25

8:00 (2) Now with Bill Moyers. No details yet — but it’s a good bet you’ll learn something that George Bush doesn’t want you to know. (Until 9 p.m.)

12:30 a.m. (2) Mystery: The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: The Rising of the Moon. Repeated from Thursday at 9 p.m.

2:30 a.m. (2) Fiesta in the Sky. We think somebody gets closer to winning a bet every time this airs. Something about hot-air ballooning. To be repeated — a lot. (Until 3 a.m.)

SATURDAY 26

1:00 (64) Baseball. The Sox versus the New York Yankees.

3:00 (44) Fiesta in the Sky: The Director’s Cut. (Until 3:30 p.m.)

4:00 (6) Basketball. The New York Liberty versus the Houston Comets in WNBA play.

7:30 (44) Greater Boston Arts: Lowell Blues. A film from Gloucester’s Henry Ferrini mixing the words of Lowell’s Jack Kerouac with the blues-saxophone work of Lee Konitz. (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (6) Mighty Joe Young (movie). Another remake that should never have been. Charlize Theron stars as the pretty young thing who’s played mom to a giant gorilla and has to protect him from poachers. A sad and shallow reflection of the 1949 original. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (10) Antz (movie). Animated love and death and political intrigue inside an ant colony where the primary crawlers talk like Woody Allen, Gene Hackman, and Sharon Stone. (Until 11 p.m.)

Midnight and 5:00 a.m. (2) Austin City Limits. Featuring music from Lynyrd Skynyrd. (Until 1 and 6 a.m.)

SUNDAY 27

4:00 (2) The American Experience: The Donner Party. Repeated from last week. Dinner with the Donners, in the winter of 1846. The true story of a band of pioneers trapped in the High Sierras and driven to cannibalism. (Until 5:30 p.m.)

4:00 (44) Notorious (movie). In the first of three classic Hitchcock films today, spy Cary Grant gets Ingrid Bergman to help him chase Nazi Claude Rains around South America. From 1946. (Until 6 p.m.)

6:00 (44) Spellbound (movie). Not the one about the spelling bee. Ingrid Bergman again, this time (1945) as a doctor coming to aid of Gregory Peck as a colleague with a troubled past. Salvador Dal’ helped Hitchcock with some of this one. (Until 8 p.m.)

6:30 (2) The American Experience: Seabiscuit. Just in time for the big-screen version, we get a rerun of this documentary about the racing world’s unlikeliest champ. To be repeated on Monday at 9 p.m. and 1 a.m., and on Channel 44 at 1 and 4 a.m., and on Thursday at midnight. (Until 8 p.m.)

7:00 (6) The Pennsylvania Miners Story (movie). Yesterday’s front page on film. A TV-movie (Disney) retelling of the heroic survival and daring rescue of nine coal miners trapped under tons of earth in Quecreek, Pennsylvania. (Until 9 p.m.)

8:00 (2) Evening at Pops: Boston Pops Classic. Must be an old concert. Featuring pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Broadway’s J. Mark McVey. To be repeated tonight at 3 a.m. (Until 9 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Rebecca (movie). Young and cheerful Joan Fontaine marries creepy widower Laurence Olivier, who isn’t exactly over his first wife. Judith Anderson plays the truly disturbing Mrs. Danvers. From 1940. (Until 10:10 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Mystery: The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: Laurels and Poison. Damn, no racetrack; no Harpo. Bradley chases ghosts around an estate where two people died (we presume under suspicious circumstances). To be repeated tonight at midnight and 4 a.m., and on Channel 44 at 1 and 4 a.m., and also on 44 on Thursday at 9 p.m. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (12) Picnic (movie). Josh Brolin and Gretchen Mol are not William Holden and Kim Novak in this TV remake of the 1955 melodrama based on William Inge’s play about a drifter disrupting a Midwestern town’s Labor Day outing. (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (2) The 1900 House: A Women’s Place. Gripe, gripe, gripe. Mrs. Bowler of stern stuff is not made. Grandma Bowler would be ashamed. Can’t stand the heat, so she hires a maid. To be repeated tonight at 1 and 5 a.m., and on Channel 44 on Thursday at 10 p.m. (Until 11 p.m.)

Midnight (44) Globe Trekker: Globe Shopper. Repeated from last week. An anthology of Trekker shopping sprees in Sri Lanka (gems), Mexico (silver), Egypt (cotton), Ethiopia (spices), and Istanbul (everything else). (Until 1 a.m.)

1:00 and 4:00 a.m. (44) Mystery: The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: Laurels and Poison. Repeated from this evening at 9 p.m.

MONDAY 28

8:00 (44) Globe Trekker: Best Beaches. Lots of Justine Shapiro diving into an international selection of surf, plus segments featuring other wet-footed Trekkers. Sampling the sands in Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Zanzibar, and Thailand. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (2) The American Experience: Seabiscuit. Repeated from Sunday at 6:30 p.m.

9:00 (44) Journey of Man. Make that the genetic journey of man, as geneticist Spencer Wells tours the world scrounging DNA samples to support the theory that all humans are descended from one African guy who jump-started our species 60,000 years ago. (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (2) Great Performances: The Three Pickers: Legends of American Music. Repeated from last week. Picking their way through the top tier of US roots are Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, and Ricky Skaggs. To be repeated tonight at 3 a.m., and on Channel 44 at 2 and 5:30 a.m. (Until 11 p.m.)

1:00 a.m. (2) The American Experience: Seabiscuit. Repeated from Sunday at 6:30 p.m.

2:00 and 5:30 a.m. Great Performances: The Three Pickers: Legends of American Music. Repeated from this evening at 10 p.m.

3:00 a.m. (2) Globe Trekker: Best Beaches. Repeated from this evening at 8 p.m.

TUESDAY 29

7:30 (2) La Plaza: Conversations with Ilan Stavans: Paquito D’Rivera. Chatting with the legendary Cuban musician. (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (2) Nova: Spies That Fly. Our Air Force has unmanned airplanes that fly around spying on people. And looking for weapons of mass destruction. And proofreading the State of the Union Address from 30,000 feet. (Until 9 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Soundstage. Repeated from last week. Featuring music from Alison Krauss and Union Station, plus Jerry Douglas. To be repeated tonight at 4 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (44) P.O.V.: 90 Miles. Juan Carlos Zald’var’s memoir of his journey from his homeland Cuba to the US. (Until 10 p.m.)

10:00 (44) Indie Select: Shahrbanoo. A film by Hamid Rahmanian and Melissa Hibbard about an American woman’s meeting with a conservative Iranian family in a Tehran slum. (Until 11 p.m.)

4:00 (2) Soundstage. Repeated from this evening at 8 p.m. With Alison Krauss and Union Station.

WEDNESDAY 30

8:00 (2) Live from Lincoln Center: Mostly Mozart. Linc Cent music director Louis LangrŽe oversees the Overture to Le nozze di Figaro, Chinese pianist Lang Lang plays Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1, mezzo Stephanie Blythe sings two arias from La clemenza di Tito, and LangrŽe and the gang do Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4. (Until 10 p.m.)

8:00 (44) The American President: Expanding Powers. The episode of the American President series dealing with presidents who did things that weren’t in their job descriptions. A good lead-in to the 9 p.m. show. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (44) Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History. Thirty years ago this summer, some of us were glued to our portable black-and-white TVs praying that the Senate Watergate Committee would hang that traitorous bastard Nixon out to dry. This film by Frontline’s Sherry Jones (produced with help from the Washington Post) relives that scandal of scandals and revisits some of the surviving players. This all, of course, gets us in the mood for the upcoming congressional Iraqi War hearings that will hang that traitorous bastard George W. Bush and his putrid henchmen out to dry. Okay, look . . . for those of you who haven’t puzzled it out yet. Here’s the big Òduh.Ó The United States has been subject to a right-wing coup ever since the Nixonian GOP had the mob kill JFK. Watergate allowed the anti-fascist forces to regain some measure of control, but mostly we’ve been ruled and abused by right-wing figureheads ever since. Clinton was actually a populist-insurgence victory, but the puppetmasters neutralized him as best they could. With G.W., the GOP put itself back in power through simple election fraud — avoiding any highly publicized murders. Now it’s our turn again. Bush must go. His Congress must go. And the Republicans’ current Mongol Horde foreign-policy mentality is going to give us the chance to get them out. Don’t believe any of that? Bet you used to believe there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. To be repeated tonight at 1 and 4 a.m. on Channel 44. (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (2) American Masters: The Education of Gore Vidal. A profile of the longstanding author, actor, playwright, commentator, etc., featuring lots of co-conspirators — from George Plimpton to Tim Robbins. To be repeated tonight at 2:30 a.m., and on Thursday at 4 a.m. (Until 11:30 p.m.)

4:00 a.m. (2) Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History. Repeated from this evening at 9 p.m.

4:30 (44) Fiesta in the Sky. With special bonus footage: The Making of ÒFiesta in the Sky.Ó Live-performance soundtrack available now on DVD. (Until 5 a.m.)

THURSDAY 31

7:30 (2) Basic Black: A Conversation with Antwone Fisher. A talk about overcoming adversity with the real Fisher. (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (6) Mary and Rhoda (movie). Sort of a Vex and the City reunion with Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper widowed with children and together in New York. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (64) 101 Things Removed from the Human Body. And all their uses. Perhaps they did an autopsy on that old lady who swallowed the fly, spider, bird, horse, etc. (Until 10:30 p.m. — this is a 90-minute show!)

9:00 (44) Mystery: The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: Laurels and Poison. Repeated from Sunday at 9 p.m.

10:00 (44) The 1900 House: A Women’s Place. Repeated from Thursday at 10 p.m.

Midnight (2) The American Experience: Seabiscuit. Repeated from Sunday at 6:30 p.m.

1:00 a.m. (2) Great Performances: The Three Pickers: Legends of American Music. Repeated from Monday at 10 p.m.

4:00 a.m. (2) American Masters: The Education of Gore Vidal. Repeated from Wednesday at 10 p.m.