BY CLIF GARBODEN

THURSDAY 11

7:00 (2) André Rieu: Live from Dublin. Christ! Him again. That freak with the violin and the all-Strauss orchestra performs, in his fashion, from Ireland. (Until 9 p.m.)

8:00 (64) The 35th NAACP Image Awards. Just what sort of image is being encouraged by OutKast and Beyoncé, UPN’s Girlfriends, Ice-T, and the TV-movie about the DC sniper is a bit cloudy, but congrats to the usually right-wing Fox network for airing this awards show in prime time. (Until 10 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Viewer Favorites. Let’s see . . . which of the past week’s fabulous fundraising shows would we like to watch again? The André Rieu concert? The stain-removal marathon? The Carpenters retrospective? Connie Podestra’s lecture? That transformational-wisdom doctor? Frankly, we have to go with the ’70s soul concert or the Dead or Andy Williams. But you never know. (Until midnight.)

9:00 (2) Peter, Paul and Mary: Carry It On: A Musical Legacy. P. Yarrow, P. Stookey, and M. Travers get together to recall those glory days of the early 1960s when the trio’s deceptively normal appearance and melodic delivery allowed them to bring subversive folk songs to AM radio. It was, believe it or not, a world-changing situation, with millions of high-school baby-boomers being exposed to Dylan’s lyrics while their parents hummed along. Featuring clips from early performances, including their 1963 rendition of " Blowin’ in the Wind " at Martin Luther King’s " I Have a Dream " March on Washington. (Until 11 p.m.)

FRIDAY 12

7:00 (2) Visions of Italy: Southern Style. An aerial-photo tour of the boot, home of the famous Calabria Fried Pollo fast-food chain. (Until 7:30 p.m.)

9:30 (2) Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers. The classic Moyers interview about humanity, gods, art, mythology, and kitchen sinks, shown in its entirety (with likely breaks for fundraising). (Until 1:30 a.m.)

9:50 (44) Coupling. No specific episode promised, but they’re all funny even the second or third time through. (Until 10:30 or so.)

SATURDAY 13

1:30 (12) Basketball. Big Ten semifinal play straight on through to 6 p.m.

7:00 (2) Baby Animals and Their Fuzzy Friends. Now here’s a nature show we can look forward to. This is, after all, PBS, so we can’t promise for certain, but it’s very unlikely that any of the cute critters showcased here will die violently on camera. It appears to be a cuddly-beast video, with classical music playing to footage of the furred, feathered, and fuzzy. (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (2) Irish Tenors: Live in Belfast. Those three tenors — Ronan Tynan, Anthony Kearns, and Finbar Wright — bring their occasionally creepy stage presences to the North for a concert of trad and pop Irish faves: " Scorn Not His Simplicity, " " Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go? " " Why Not? " , and " Star of the County Down. " To be repeated on Wednesday at 8 p.m. on Channel 44, by which time Lassie may have made up her mind. (Until 10 p.m.)

8:00 (6) Atlantis (movie). Our personal search for " Atlantis " on the Internet Movie Database Web site yielded 20 results including The Big, Big Talent Show and (at the top of the list) a 1984 indie Albanian effort titled Taulanti kërkon një motër. Something must be wrong. This is a Disney animation about a young man who stumbles (or splashes) into the secret of the ancient empire. Perhaps Taulanti kërkon një motër will air on PBS later this month. (Until 10 p.m.)

1:00 a.m. (44) Austin City Limits. Featuring music from Shemekia Copeland and Jimmie Vaughan. (Until 2 a.m.)

SUNDAY 14

12:30 (6) Basketball. The Philadelphia 76ers versus the Detroit Pistons.

2:30 (2) Viewer Favorites. Here we go again. More tenors, more oldies, more channel surfing to find something easier to watch. PBS fundraising is always a dark time, but this recent foray seems to be an all-time low — as if WGBH had given up even the appearance of integrity. With few exceptions, it’s been pretty much all crap all the time. Which, when you think about it, is preferable to ruining good programs with pledge breaks. Note that sporadically through the late-night hours during pledge weeks, they’ve been showing that repulsive adaptation of Gormenghast (the classic tale of a lonely Ehrmb who falls in love with a beautiful Clomt from the land of Forghty who’s kidnapped by marauding Flengsters and spirited away to the Mysterious Kingdom of Thom). You can catch part one of that unintelligible masterpiece tonight at 4 a.m. (Until 7 p.m.)

3:30 (12) Basketball. The Big Ten championship game.

3:30 (6) Basketball. The San Antonio Spurs versus the Sacramento Kings.

8:30 (44) Viewer Favorites. This viewer’s favorites include the second season of Hill Street Blues, the Al Hodge episodes of Captain Video, the first two seasons of Saturday Night Live, the Law & Order shows with Jill Hennessey, Have Gun, Will Travel, the first season of Miami Vice, and Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss in He and She. But none of those will be shown here tonight. (Until midnight.)

7:00 (2) Neil Diamond: Special Moments from Ireland. The Irish have some great music, but they also have a lot of unsophisticated middle-aged pub widows who go nuts for acts like Neil Diamond. (Until 8:30 p.m.)

9:00 (12) Family Sins (movie). James Farentino and Jill Eikenberry star in a 1987 TV-movie about an abusive father whose oldest son commits murder. Or, Kirstie Alley stars in a 2003 TV-movie of the same name, which could be about anything and is likely the one that’s actually on. Thanks, CBS, for having such a crack publicity machine. The word is really out on this one. (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (10) Crossing Jordan. Ready to give this series another chance. Jill Hennessey’s always fun to watch, and perhaps the show’s creators learned something in the wake of all the CSI success — that medical examiner Jordan should have focused on ugly crimes instead of her confusing personal life the first time they tried this series. (Until 11 p.m.)

Midnight (44) Globe Trekker: South Africa and Lesotho. Repeated from recently amid the fundraising. Trekker Justin Shapiro revisits her native South Africa for a look at how things have changed since the demise of apartheid. (Until 1 a.m. — when, in fact, WGBH is repeating part one of Gormenghast.)

MONDAY 15

7:00 (2) Boston: The Way It Was. A great idea for a series — a nostalgic look back at post-WW2 Boston with rare old footage and still photos and interviews with survivors of the days when beer and hot dogs were cheap and plentiful. This effort, however, is extremely disappointing. Boston College prof Thomas O’Connor, who put the shows together, turns out not to be much of a documentarian and is victimized by his sources. It all ends up being too much of an insider look at how it was. (Until 8:30 p.m.)

8:00 (6) The Green Mile (movie). Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, and Michael Clarke Duncan star in a Stephen King story about prison guards working death row while an innocent man with miraculous healing powers awaits execution. (Until 11 p.m.)

8:30 (2) Sinatra: Classic Duets. Performance clips from Frankie’s 1957-’60 TV series featuring that Ol’ Blue Eyed Voice himself singing along with Elvis, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Sammy Nixon Davis Jr., Louis Armstrong, the always adorable Dinah Shore, and Dean Martin. (Until 10 p.m.)

10:00 (2) Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey on Broadway. This Channing-Bailey concert took place in 1969 at the Winter Garden Theater and involved the two singing show tunes from shows they weren’t in. (Just where either one would have fit into The Music Man — Bailey as Mrs. Paroo? Channing as Eulalie Shinn? — is interesting to speculate on.) What Channing and Bailey had in common was the starring role in Hello, Dolly! (Channing in 1964’s original cast, Bailey in the all-black replay opposite Cab Calloway). This voice meld originally aired on ABC, which staged it just for that purpose. To be repeated on Tuesday at 8 p.m. on Channel 44. (Until 11:30 p.m.)

TUESDAY 16

8:30 (2) Proud To Serve: The Men and Women of the US Army. Hoping that after a week or so of Dr. Wayne Dyer and Neil Diamond nobody’s watching anyway, WGBH offers us a send-up of our darling men and women in uniform — complete with fond recollections of being comrades in arms on a shared mission to kill foreigners by Bob Dole, Jessica " It Never Happened! " Lynch, and GI Joe (the doll) creator Don Levine. Okay, guys, enough. You’re not fooling anybody. It’s well known that WGBH does not hire people who voted for Bush — which is a good thing, because the people who voted for Bush are morons and morons already run commercial and cable TV. So what’s with the sudden burst of shallow patriotism? ( " Ah jeez, yes, those were the days — hang out in the mess for breakfast, go out and gun down a few North Koreans before lunch . . .  " ) ’GBH, you are not a conservative operation, and neither are you a jingoistic/chauvinist/patriotic operation. Showing junk like this isn’t going to fool the Republican creeps who cut your funding. But it is going to offend good decent people who don’t think glorification of the military is a positive step toward geo-political problem solving. So you show this junk and make enemies out of your friends and your enemies don’t even notice. Get real instead. (Until 10 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey on Broadway. Repeated from Monday at 10 p.m.

9:30 (44) Sinatra: Classic Duets. Repeated from Monday at 8:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 17

7:00 (2) Viewer Favorites. Whatever. (Until 11 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Irish Tenors: Live in Belfast. Repeated from Saturday at 8 p.m. Find out: will Lassie stay or will she go?

10:00 (44) John McDermott: A Time To Remember. Yet another Irish tenor who is now alleged to be an " international recording artist. " Tonight he remembers the lyrics to " Danny Boy " as well as stuff like " As Time Goes By. " Let grandma stay up for this one. (Until 11:30 p.m.)

THURSDAY 18

Noon (12) Basketball. First-round NCAA championship play, through 5 p.m.

7:00 (2) The Great Flood of 1936: The Connecticut River Story. Filmmaker Ed Klekowski (who, a few years back, gave us the thoroughly disappointing documentary Under Quabbin, which involved diving into the Quabbin Reservoir and discovering that the towns that were flooded out to create the pond had been torn down before they let the water in) looks back at the Connecticut River’s greatest recorded disaster, the flood of March 1936, when a freak warm spell dumped multi-inches of rain on an already saturated snowpack in northern New England and the rushing result did $500 million damage and washed 430,000 people out of their homes. (Until 8:30 p.m.)

7:00 (12) Basketball. More first-round NCAA championship play.

8:30 (2) Broadway’s Lost Treasures. This fundraising regular features old Tony Award production numbers, with Yul Brynner, Angela Lansbury, Zero Mostel, and more of that era doing their showstoppers. Much more entertaining than it sounds, and far more entertaining than any Tony Awards show. (Until 10:30 p.m.)

10:30 (2) Johnny Cash Anthology. At last, something worth watching. An excellent career recap of the late Johnny Cash featuring performances from his TV show and early concerts. If you don’t understand how good Cash really was, check this one out. (Until midnight.)