BY CLIF GARBODEN

THURSDAY

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). This reunion TV-movie finds 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. Victims of . . . uh . . . unusual injuries, such as swallowing a live hand grenade or having a boat anchor embedded in one’s skull, discuss their conditions. "It hurt like hell, y’know . . . " (Until 10:30 p.m.)

9:00 (44) Mystery: The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: Laurels and Poison. Repeated from last week. Bradley (Diana Rigg) chases ghosts around an estate where two people died (we presume under suspicious circumstances). To be repeated on Friday at 12:30 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 10 p.m.)

10:00 (44) The 1900 House: A Women’s Place. Repeated from last week. A modern family try to live like middle-class Victorians in a retro-fitted house in Greenwich. Mrs. Bowler can’t stand the heat, so she hires a maid. (Until 11 p.m.)

Midnight (2) The American Experience: Seabiscuit. Repeated from last week. Just in time for the big-screen version, we get a rerun of this documentary about the racing world’s unlikeliest champ. (Until 1 a.m.)

1:00 a.m. (2) Great Performances: The Three Pickers: Legends of American Music. Repeated from last week. Relentless showstopping performances from bluegrass leading lights Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, and Ricky Skaggs. (Until 2 a.m.)

FRIDAY

8:00 (2) Now with Bill Moyers. How many guns do we need? Well, if the war-happy Bushies have their way, lots. And since the "market" for weapons depends on demand, and demand is linked to shooting things, it’s a good bet they’ll keep us at war just to prop up the military-industrial complex. In fact, Moyers notes on tonight’s show, we are already spending more for defense than we are for education, the environment, agriculture, and education combined. This show ventures into the Pentagon to see whether they’re spending wisely. Featured interviewee is Pentagon whistle blower Chuck Spinney. (Until 9 p.m.)

12:30 a.m. (2) Mystery: The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: Laurels and Poison. Repeated from Saturday at 9 p.m.

SATURDAY

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

8:00 (6) The Three Stooges (movie). Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly, Curly Joe, and Shemp Howard got through their careers without help, hype, or documentation from Entertainment Tonight. Yet there is a story to be told. This film, put together by Stooge freak Mel Gibson, rehashes the group’s bio from vaudeville-duo-turned-trio to short-subject legends. Featuring Michael Chiklis as Curly. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (10) The Unauthorized Story of Three’s Company (movie). As if it mattered. It transpires that John Ritter, Suzanne Somers, and Joyce DeWitt weren’t all buddy-buddy off the set of the popular late-’70s sit-com. Now it can be told. Now that none of them has much of a career left except Ritter, who has a TV series nobody watches and threatens to appear in the role of a mall manager in the upcoming Billy Bob Thornton/Bernie Mac feature Bad Santa. (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (2) Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session with Carl Perkins. This 1983 concert has the indigo-shoe rocker jamming with Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Earl Slick (fabulous guitar player; once with Bowie), and Rosanne Cash. (Until 11:30 p.m.)

10:30 (44) John McDermott: A Time To Remember. Another "international recording artist" (translation: a minor talent known mostly in Flanders and other tragically unhip parts of Europe) sings "Danny Boy" and similar chestnuts. For the record: McDermott is Canadian, and one of the three Irish Tenors. (Until midnight.)

Midnight (2) Austin City Limits. Featuring music from Bruce Hornsby and Eric Johnson. (Until 1 a.m.)

Midnight (44) Soundstage. Featuring music from Lucinda Williams and Kasey Chambers. To be repeated on Tuesday at 8 p.m., and on Channel 2 at 3 a.m. (Until 1 a.m.)

SUNDAY

7:00 (44) He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley. A recap of the King’s love of gospel tunes through photos, footage, and off-stage performances. (Until 8:30 p.m.)

8:00 (2) Evening at Pops: John Williams Show. John Williams never gave a shit about Boston or the Pops when he was that orchestra’s conductor, but he never fails to exploit his connections here to promote his movie-soundtrack career. He’s back for the annual celebration of soundtracks, several of them his. Daniel Higgins performs John’s almost interesting theme from Catch Me If You Can on the saxophone; Nancy Wilson steps up and sings "All of Me" and "Embraceable You" (neither of which Williams wrote). (Until 9:05 p.m.)

8:30 (12) Instinct (movie). You may have missed this 1999 effort, in which Anthony Hopkins walks out of the African jungle acting like an ape. No surprise, then, that he’s accused of ape-murdering some park rangers and is handed over to a shrink played by Cuba Gooding Jr. It must be August. (Until 11 p.m.)

9:05 (2) Mystery: The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: The Worsted Viper. Bradley (Diana Rigg) unravels a jumble of murder, missing church records, a smuggling ring, and an advice columnist. To be repeated tonight at 1 and 4 a.m. on Channel 44, and again on 44 on Thursday at 9 p.m. (Until 10:05, and be advised that the odd start time probably means fundraising.)

10:05 (2) The 1900 House: The End of an Era. The conclusion, in which the Bowler family return to the 20th century in defeat. To be repeated tonight at 2 and 5 a.m. on Channel 44, and again on 44 on Thursday at 10 p.m. (Until 11 p.m.)

1:00 and 4:00 a.m. (44) Mystery: The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: The Worsted Viper. Repeated from this evening at 9:05 p.m.

2:00 and 5:00 a.m. (44) The 1900 House: The End of an Era. Repeated from this evening at 10:05 p.m.

MONDAY

8:00 (44) Globe Trekker: Hungary and Romania. This one is trekker Ian Wright’s adventure. The itinerary includes sausage in Budapest, a Communist theme park, a zoo-animal refuge, grape picking, going Baroque (in the architectural sense), stomping through Dracula’s natal stomping grounds in Sighisoara (Transylvania/Romania), a tour of Bucharest, and a Gypsy festival. To be repeated tonight at 3 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (2) The American Experience: Lost in the Grand Canyon. Sure, it’s big, but if you keep walking downstream, you won’t go round in circles. The saga of John Wesley (a Civil War vet with one arm, not the famous Methodist) and his pioneering 1869 trip through that huge hole in the American West. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (44) The Atlantic Charter: The End of Colonialism. Why did Churchill dismantle Victoria’s hard-won empire? Because Roosevelt traded him for US military support. A detailed account of those leaders’ secret 1941 meeting. Years from now, we’ll be watching a documentary on the 2002 secret meeting where G.W. Bush promised Tony Blair a cowboy hat and a pony ride in exchange for military support in Iraq. To be repeated tonight at 2 and 5 a.m. (Until 10 p.m.)

10:00 (44) The Wind of Change: The End of Colonialism in Africa. Between 1959 and 1964, 26 African nations shed the paternalistic chains of foreign control. Three of them — the Congo, Guinea, and Ghana — had a particularly rough time making the transition. (Until 11 p.m.)

3:00 a.m. (2) Globe Trekker: Hungary and Romania. Repeated from this evening at 8 p.m.

TUESDAY

8:00 (2) Test of Courage: The Making of a Firefighter. Becoming a fireperson isn’t easy. The application process itself can defeat young prospects. And if that doesn’t get them to quit, the rigors of many fire academies weed out all but the strongest candidates. This film follows recruits through the process in Oakland, California. To be repeated tonight at 1 a.m. (Until 9 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Soundstage. Repeated from Saturday at midnight — with Lucinda Williams and Kasey Chambers.

9:00 (2) Nova: Fire Wars. Smoke jumpers lead interesting (and perilous) lives. This old Nova show follows an elite team of high-flying firefighters into the biggest wildfire of 2000. To be repeated tonight at 1 a.m. (Until 11 p.m.)

9:00 (64) The O.C. The first edition of a new young-adult soaper. We’re led to believe that "O.C." stands for Orange County, but we suspect it really stands for Old Country. Falngmn, the son of a poor goatherd, has dreams of making the Old Country national bowling team. Singredd, his childhood sweetheart, has been indentured to a cruel shoemaker named Thagarr and must leave Falngmn’s mountain village for Dolnth, the bustling and corrupt O.C. capital. Will Falngmn follow his dream or his heart? (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (44) P.O.V.: American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i. Hawaiian pride centers on ancestral music and dance, and these days, more Hawaiians live on the US mainland than in our island state, so the real hula tradition (i.e., beyond grass skirts and coconut bras) has come ashore with them. A look at all that. To be repeated tonight at 4 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 10 p.m.)

10:00 (44) Independent Lens: Heart of the Sea: Kapolioka’ehukai. Surfing was once a men-only sport. Then came pioneer female surfer Rell Kapolioka’ehukai Sunn. To be repeated tonight at 5 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 11 p.m.)

3:00 a.m. (2) Soundstage. Repeated from Saturday at midnight — with Lucinda Williams and Kasey Chambers.

4:00 a.m. (2) P.O.V.: American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i. Repeated from this evening at 9 p.m.

5:00 a.m. (2) Independent Lens: Heart of the Sea: Kapolioka’ehukai. Repeated from this evening at 10 p.m.

WEDNESDAY

8:00 (2) Defiant Requiem. Prisoners in the Nazi concentration camp at Terezin/Theresienstadt once entertained their captors with a performance of Verdi’s Requiem. That performance is re-created here by the Oregon Symphony and the Portland Opera Chorus. (Until 9:30 p.m.)

8:00 (44) The Spartans. A serious look at the yahoos of Ancient Greece — those mean-spirited, warrior-driven communals from the city state of Sparta. No wonder that they resented the more intelligent Athenians. Knowing better than to try to beat their foes at Scrabble, the Spartans tried brute force and set the tone for every jock-thinker encounter since by destroying civilization. They probably had one hell of a football team, though. (Until 11 p.m.)

9:30 (2) Great Performances: Berlin Philharmonic Europakonzert: From Palermo. Taped in Sicily at the Teatro Massimo opera house. Former Berlin Phil music director Claudio Abbado runs through the Overture to Verdi’s I vespri siciliani, the Brahms Violin Concerto, with Gil Shaham, and Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9 (From the New World). To be repeated tonight at 3:30 a.m. (Until 11:30 p.m.)

5:30 a.m. (2) Fiesta in the Sky. Again with the fiesta. We’ve got to watch this some day. Perhaps when Channel 2 finally does its Fiesta in the Sky marathon. (Until 6 a.m.)

THURSDAY

7:30 (2) Basic Black: A Conversation with George Wolfe. Darren Duarte talks with Tony-winning Broadway director Wolfe about Topdog/Underdog, Bring In the da Noise, Bring In da Funk, Angels in America, and more. (Until 8 p.m.)

9:00 (44) Mystery: The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: The Worsted Viper. Repeated from Sunday at 9:05 p.m.

10:00 (44) The 1900 House: The End of an Era. Repeated from Sunday at 10:05 p.m.