BY CLIF GARBODEN

THURSDAY 29

7:30 (2) Basic Black: Forgotten Warriors. An Emmy-winning edition covering the experience of African-American troops in the Korean War. (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (2) Queen Victoria’s Empire: Engines of Change. A repeat airing of a four-parter about Britain under Vicky, a situation that dragged on for 64 years. The first installment covers Victoria’s birth, her marriage to Prince Albert, the drastic social changes brought on by industrialization, and the various visions of Empire that extended England’s reach into eternal sunlight. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Frontline: The Jesus Factor. A new Frontline show that looks at that vacuous moron G.W. Bush and his simple-minded grasp of Christian theology. Okay, we know the guy is either stupid enough to fall for the fundamentalist evangelical nonsense or smart enough to exploit it. Either way, the question is, does he really make political decisions based on chats with his God? To be repeated tonight at 5 a.m., and on Channel 44 at 2 and 4 a.m. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:05 (10) Will & Grace. The season finale. (Until 10 p.m.)

FRIDAY 30

1:00 a.m. (2) Independent Lens: The Weather Underground. Repeated from last week. In the late 1960s, a group of campus and off-campus radicals organized (to use the word loosely) themselves into a collective called the Weather Underground (a name often used interchangeably with the Weathermen; there was some subtle difference, now lost in the mists) and declared war on the US government. How that war was fought wasn’t exactly in keeping with the peace-and-love ethic that drove the anti–Vietnam War movement. So the jury’s still out on whether these people had a point or were just a little extreme. In any case, they wound up on the FBI’s most-wanted list, and many of them lived in hiding for decades. This film intercuts footage from back in the day, FBI data, and interviews with survivors Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, David Gilbert, and Brian Flanagan. To be repeated on Saturday at 1 p.m. and on Thursday at 1:30 a.m. (Until 2:30 a.m.)

SATURDAY 1

3:00 (6) Hockey. Stanley Cup conference-semifinal action not involving the Bruins.

5:00 (10) Horse Racing. The Kentucky Derby. Expect 20 (the maximum allowed) largely undistinguished three-year-olds to start. The winner will have to be lucky as well as fast. We like Wood Memorial winner Tapit, sort of.

6:00 (2) Masterpiece Theatre: Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness, part one. Repeated from last week. Helen Mirren returns to her compelling portrayal of DCI Jane Tennison in this new PS series, in which Jane tackles the disturbing torture murder of a Bosnian Muslim and winds up battling an Eastern European crime syndicate. The plot is slow unto ponderous in places, but Mirren’s a genius in her role. (Until 8:05 p.m.)

8:00 (6) Remember the Titans (movie). Denzel Washington heads the cast of this 2000 football movie about a high school’s first season with an African-American coach. (Until 11 p.m.)

8:00 (10) Twister (movie). Never all that funny when they run this romance about tornado chasers during tornado season, and it’s a long, loud, and not-too-realistic movie anyway. (Consider the number of stops the storm chasers make in the course of a single day; they must have had a time machine.) But it’s fun to see Helen Hunt count cows. Co-starring Bill Paxton. (Until 10 p.m.)

8:05 (2) Live from Lincoln Center: Vivaldi, Haydn, and Yo-Yo Ma. Beverly Sills hosts this concert with Ma plus Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra doing Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D and Vivaldi’s in B-flat. (Until 9:10 p.m.)

SUNDAY 2

6:30 (44) That’s Dancing! (movie). A 1985 compilation of well-loved dance numbers from Hollywood films — covering everything from Fred and Ginger to West Side Story to Jennifer Beals. (Until 8:20 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Masterpiece Theatre: Prime Suspect, part one. Almost before the verdict is announced for PS 6, WGBH clouds our minds with a rebroadcast of the original series, which was first shown in the States in 1993. Here you’ll find a younger Helen Mirren playing a younger DCI Jane Tennison with lots more ambition and many fewer regrets. And it’s a good mystery yarn. (Until 11 p.m.)

9:00 (10) 10.5 (movie), part one. That’s on the Richter scale, and the movie’s about earthquakes. Kim Delaney stars with Beau Bridges and West Wing’s Dulé Hill. To be concluded on Monday starting at 9 p.m. (Until 11 p.m.)

4:00 a.m. (2) Masterpiece Theatre: Prime Suspect 6, part two. Okay, so instead of repeating the first installment of PS 1 tonight, they’re running the second part of PS 6. Confusing? (Until 6 a.m.)

MONDAY 3

8:00 (6) Unbreakable (movie). A 2000 M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) film about Bruce Willis, self-revelation, some additional paranormal powers, and Samuel L. Jackson. Falls under "thriller." (Until 11 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Globe Trekker: Indonesia: Bali and Sulawesi. Trekker Shilpa goes to Kuta, then on to Ubud, and the volcano at Gunung Batur. And she’s not even near Middle Earth. Highlights of the trip include a massage, a geyser, a New Year’s party, boat-shaped homes, and a funeral. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (2) The American Experience: The Golden Gate Bridge. Many years ago, our college-dorm film series used to accompany real films with odd short documentaries like The Story of Diamond Walnuts. One night, we saw Mondo Cane double-billed with a history of the GG Bridge. All we remember is that it’s painted a proprietary color called International Orange. This AMX version focuses on drawbridge builder Joseph Strauss, who championed the project and (despite his never having built a suspension bridge) got it built. Prep work aside, the construction took from 1933 to 1937. And Marin has never been as private a place since. To be repeated tonight at 5 a.m., and on Channel 44 at 2 and 4 a.m. (until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (10) 10.5 (movie), part two. The conclusion. (Until 11 p.m.)

9:00 (44) Martin Luther: Driven to Defiance and The Reluctant Revolutionary. If you think you’re conflicted about being pissed off at the Catholic Church, consider how German monk Luther felt as he plotted the Reformation. (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (2) The American Experience: Hoover Dam. Peter Coyote narrates the story of how the 700-foot-high Hoover Dam was installed in a remote and hostile gulch near Vegas at the height of the Depression. (Cheap labor played a part.) Also a look at how controlling the water flow to the American Southwest allowed people to live in places that had previously been about as hospitable as the moon. (Until 11 p.m.)

TUESDAY 4

7:30 (2) La Plaza: Judge to Janitor. Further proof that not every street in America is paved with gold. The story of Luis Vélez, who was a judge in Colombia but had to give up the job to move to the US. (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show. Chevrolet sponsored it (famously), and between 1957 and 1963, all America watched it on NBC. A fond recollection of the incredibly personable and intelligent Shore and her guests. ("Mwah" is the noise she made when she blew America a kiss.) (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Innovation: Brain Fingerprinting. Another miracle of crime detection — presumably more real than some of the gimmicks they pull on CSI Miami. "Okay," says Horatio, "run that candy wrapper through the micro-spectrometer and see whether it’s ever been exposed to butter or loud noises." Or, "Every footstep leaves a footprint. If we look at the sidewalk in the right wavelength light, we can track our suspect even if he changes his shoes." Or, "The cloudy enzymes in the victim’s stomach puzzled me at first, H. So I ran them through my new software, and look — I was able to bring up a graph of the trajectory at which this poor young man fell from the window, his Social Security number, and a picture of the tablecloth where he was sitting for his last meal." "Good work. Enhance that, please." To be repeated tonight at 5 a.m., and on Channel 44 at 2 and 5 a.m. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (44) P.O.V.: American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i. A look at the explosive rediscovery of Island culture in California. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:30 (10) Scrubs. The season finale. (Until 10 p.m.)

10:00 (2) Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Future Car. Alda takes a spin into the coming years to see what we’ll be driving. Depending on a lot of factors (the 2004 presidential election being only one of them), either America will continue the current urban-assault-vehicle trend and everybody will be steering around in school buses or else we’ll be packing the kids and the groceries into the sidecars of soy-powered Vespas. (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (44) Independent Lens: One Night at the Grand Star and Double Exposure. The first short film profiles an unusual restaurant in LA’s Chinatown. The second is yet another movie about a Chinese-American woman pondering her identity. To be repeated tonight at 4 a.m. (Until 11:30 p.m.)

WEDNESDAY 5

8:00 (2) The American Experience": Daughter from Danang. An Oscar-nominated heartbreaker about an American woman brought to the US from Vietnam as an infant and her meet-up with her biological mom back in the old country. Biological mom loves her new-found daughter and sees the relationship as instant welfare. Daughter had something more personal in mind. (Until 9:30 p.m.)

9:00 (10) Dateline Special. Hype for the upcoming Friends ?nale — "exclusive" interviews with the cast. Just more investigative journalism. (Until 11 p.m.)

THURSDAY 6

7:30 (2) Basic Black: A Conversation with the New Power Majority. Or, how Boston got Felix Arroyo and not Patty White on the city council. Banking on the fact that people of color are now roughly half the city of Boston’s population, a grassroots cadre called New Majority worked hard to elect Arroyo. A chat with the group’s organizers. (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (2) Queen Victoria’s Empire: Passage to India. With or without Mrs. Moore. This series of Queen Vicky’s far-flung holdings considers the British colonization of India. (Until 10 p.m.)

8:00 (6) The Fast and the Furious (movie). Director Rob Cohen’s 2001 actioner about a cop undercover with LA street-rod fanatics. Starring Paul Walker and Vin Diesel. (Until 10 p.m.)

8:00 (10) The End of Friends. A one-hour clip show followed by the finale, in which Jennifer Aniston goes to Paris to live with Baryshnikov. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Frontline: Cyber War. The Internet, remember, isn’t just for oogling and Googling. Everything from banks to railroads to vending machines to the military relies on it. So if you want to go to war, get yourself a good hacker. To be repeated tonight at 2 a.m. on Channel 44. (Until 10 p.m.)

10:00 (2) First Steps: An International Response to the Landmine Crisis. The world is a dangerous place, but it’s almost impossible to get insurance if there’s been a war in your back yard. A survey of international agencies and efforts to respond the problem of abandoned explosives buried (with triggers) all over Albania, Angola, and Azerbaijan. To be repeated tonight at 5 a.m. on Channel 44. (Until 11 p.m.)