BY CLIF GARBODEN

THURSDAY 22

7:30 (2) Basic Black. A panel of experts takes up the question of creating a Massachusetts Innocence Commission, a civilian review board to figure out why people were wrongly convicted. Participants include Chuck Turner (Boston City Council), the New England Innocence Project’s Joseph Savage, and former prosecutor and victims’ advocate Wendy Murphy. (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (10) Four Scrubs. A mini-marathon. All repeats. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Wide Angle: Women Rebuild Rwanda. As genocides go, Rwanda’s 1994 slaughter of 800,000 people in 100 days must be some kind of record. After a decade, that nation’s survivors are rebuilding, and the Rwandan women are leading the way in politics and commerce. To be repeated tonight at 5 a.m., and on Channel 44 at 2 and 4 a.m. (Until 10 p.m.)

5:00 a.m. (44) Soundstage. Featuring music from Lisa Marie Presley and Peter Wolf. (Until 6a.m.)

FRIDAY 23

7:00 0(12) Baseball. The Sox versus the Yankees.

12:30 a.m. (2) Nova: Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude. Repeated from last week. If you want to sail the seas out of sight of land without a lot of zigzagging, you need to know where you are (east or west) of the Prime Meridian, which bisects Greenwich, England. The true story of a British clockmaker named John Harrison who solved the problem with new technology and spent his life squabbling with the scientific establishment that refused him credit. (Until 1:30 a.m.)

1:30 a.m. (2) Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Coming to America. Repeated from last week. Alda explores new theories on where this continent’s first human inhabitants came from and how. Across the now discontinued Bering Land Bridge? By some warmer route? In Captain Nemo’s submarine? Or by hot-air balloon? (Until 2:30 a.m.)

SATURDAY 24

3:00 (64) Baseball. The Sox versus the New York Yankees.

6:00 (2) Masterpiece Theatre’s American Collection: The Ponder Heart. Peter McNicol and JoBeth Williams star in this adaptation of Eudora Welty’s strange tale of a Mississippi millionaire who gives away money and then his heart with complex and violent results. (Until 8 p.m.)

7:00 (44) Evening at Pops. Repeated from last week. One-time Doobie Brother Michael McDonald joins Keith and the gang for "I Can’t Let Go" and some Motown. Then, just to keep everyone on his or her tapping toes, the Pops is visited by Cape Breton bluegrass/Celtic fiddle queen Natalie MacMaster. (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (6) Unbreakable (movie). This M. Night Shyamalan film from 2000 stars Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson in a not-too-intriguing tale of a train-wreck survivor’s quest for self-discovery. Yeah, it’s about that interesting. Coat-tailing with the 2004 release of Shyamalan’s The Village. (Until 11 p.m.)

8:00 (10) Chicken Run (movie). Master clay-animator Nick Park’s 2000 escape fantasy, with a barnyard of chickens presented as convicts awaiting salvation. Can’t go wrong with this. (Until 10 p.m.)

8:00 (56) Touching the Game (movie). A four-part locally produced documentary about the legendary (and century-plus-old) Cape Cod Baseball League — the biggest little 10-team, wood-bat, non-MLB baseball-talent incubator in the country. From this came, for example, Nomar Garciaparra, Frank Thomas, Tino Martinez, Jason Varitek, Mo Vaughn, John Valentin, and Jeff Bagwell. The film looks at the players on and off the field and is generally an inspiring advertisement for the sport. It’s been aired in nightly installments over the past week; the entire thing is being shown here and will be repeated on Sunday at 3 p.m. (Until 10 p.m.)

11:00 p.m. (2) Soundstage. Featuring music from Alanis Morissette. (Until midnight.)

SUNDAY 25

4:10 (44) The Summer of ’42 (movie). A 1971 take on coming of age in 1942 at a resort community with the help of a hot young bride whose husband is off defending democracy. Starring Jennifer O’Neill, Gary Grimes, and Jerry Houser. (Until 5:55 p.m.)

5:55 (44) The Manchurian Candidate (movie). Repeated from last week. John Frankenheimer’s controversial (and suppressed) 1962 conspiracy film about brainwashed sleeper agents plotting to take over the US from the inside. Absolutely brilliant despite some uneven editing and acting inconsistencies. Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, Frank Sinatra, and Janet Leigh star. (Until 8:02 p.m.)

8:02 (44) Ball of Fire (movie). A seldom aired (WGBX will no doubt take care of that) 1941 Howard Hawks comedy that’s sort of like Damon Runyon meets My Fair Lady. A team of linguists adopt a slang-talking babe and hide her from the mob. Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck star. (Until 10:05 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Mystery: Foyle’s War: Among the Few. In this WW2 homefront detective story, DCI Foyle (Michael Kitchen) sees his son fly off to bomb Germany and his driver, Sam (Honeysuckle Weeks), go undercover to expose a fuel-pilfering racket. Murder, sexual indiscretions, and scandal follow. To be repeated tonight at midnight and 4 a.m., and on Channel 44 at 1 and 4 a.m. (Until 10:30 p.m.)

9:00 (12) Murder on the Orient Express (movie). Alfred Molina stars as Hercule Poirot in this 2001 TV remake of the Agatha Christie classic. With Meredith Baxter and Leslie Caron. (Until 11 p.m.)

10:15 (44) The Man Who Came to Dinner (movie). Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Jimmy Durante, and Billie Burke are the all-star (in 1942) cast of this pretty tedious stage drama about a pompous radio celebrity who moves in on an Ohio family, fakes an injury to extend his stay, and tries to solve their problems. A classic; probably funnier in 1942. (Until midnight.)

MONDAY 26

7:00 (2) Greater Boston. Nightly through Thursday, Emily, her new haircut, and the GB team will devote extended editions of the show to Democratic National Convention–related topics and reports. (Shameless plug: when you tire of this, check out www.bostonphoenix.com for ongoing daily coverage of whatever glories or disasters befall our city.) (Until 9 p.m.)

7:00 (12, 6) Convention Stuff. Nightly through Thursday. (Until 7:30 p.m. on Channel 4; until 8 p.m. on Channel 5.)

8:00 (44) Globe Trekker: Hong Kong and Taiwan. Trekker Megan McCormick meets locals, songbirds, and a giant panda in Hong Kong, then moves over to Taipei for a temple tour. To be repeated on Tuesday at 12:30 a.m. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (2) History Detectives: Preston Brook’s Riding Crop, Home of Lincoln Assassination Plot, and Revolutionary War Cannon. Are these stories true? Did Jefferson Davis give a riding crop to Preston Brooks as a reward for beating up abolitionist Charles Sumner in the Senate? Did John Wilkes Booth plot the Lincoln murder in a woman’s Greenwich Village apartment? And did a cannon stolen from the Brits in 1774 and hidden on somebody’s land help start the Revolutionary War? We’re guessing sure, perhaps, and probably not. But the History Detectives’ conclusions are seldom conclusive. To be repeated tonight at 12:30 a.m., and on Channel 44 at 4 a.m. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (44) PBS Convention Coverage. How interesting is this? Perhaps we should call the History Detectives. Where’s Mayor Menino? Are the cops still pissed? Anybody bother to drive into the city today? What’s Mitt have to say? Anarchy in the streets, anyone? Of course, those are the interesting bits; the convention itself is just a political TV commercial, and its time is past. In fact, the wealth of negative publicity that comes out of having the thing mishandled so thoroughly could do more harm than the national Democratic face time does good. Let’s put it this way: if you’re an undecided voter, you’re clearly too stupid to vote. (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (2) The American Experience: Public Enemy. Back in 1933, when outlaws were all the rage because they messed up the banks whose failure made people’s lives miserable when Wall Street crashed, John Dillinger was quite the popular figure. He was also kind of a thug. And worst of all, his eventual capture catapulted that asshole J. Edgar Hoover to permanent fame. Here’s the whole ugly story. To be repeated tonight at 1:30 a.m., and on Thursday at 12:30 a.m. (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (10) Convention Stuff from NBC. (Until 11 p.m.)

TUESDAY 27

7:00 (2) Greater Boston. Convention coverage, Rooney style. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (44) PBS Convention Coverage. In an unexpected move, John Kerry names Bill Clinton his running mate. (Until 11 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Nova: Russia’s Nuclear Warriors. Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner reports on the Russian military personnel who service, maintain, and know how to launch that country’s leftover nukes. He tries to be reassuring. To be repeated tonight at 4 a.m., and on Channel 44 at 1 and 4 a.m. (Until 10 p.m.)

10:00 (2) Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Don’t Forget. Remember the last time this show was on? A look at the science of memories: how we create them; how we lose them; but not where they go (which is actually into the mind of the Oversoul, whose über-brain is now so cluttered with fleeting visions of utility poles and women in short skirts that it can barely function, never mind focus on anything important). To be repeated at 2:30 and 5 a.m., and on Channel 44 at 2 and 5 a.m. (Until 11 p.m.)

3:00 a.m. (44) P.O.V.: Refrigerator Mothers. "My mother made me autistic." "If I get her some yarn . . . ?" Old joke, but not to the women whose emotional frigidity was blamed for their children’s brain disorders. A film about the second-level victims. (Until 4 a.m.)

WEDNESDAY 28

7:00 (2) Greater Boston. Convention coverage. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Great Performances: Kiss Me, Kate. Michael Blakemore directed this recent Broadway revival (Tony for Best Revival) of Cole Porter’s musical about on- and off-stage romance during a touring-company run of The Taming of the Shrew. Brent Barrett, Rachel York, Nancy Anderson, and Michael Berresse star. To be repeated tonight at 1:30 a.m. (Until 11:30 p.m.)

9:00 (44) PBS Convention Coverage. In an even more unexpected move, the delegates nominate Hillary Clinton for president on the ticket with Bill as veep. (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (10) Convention Stuff from NBC. (Until 11 p.m.)

THURSDAY 29

7:00 (2) Greater Boston. Convention coverage. The Office of Homeland Security raises the alert color to something in the infrared spectrum, cordons off Boston, cancels the election, and quarantines the Electoral College at Guantánamo. (Until 9 p.m.)

10:00 (10) Convention Stuff from NBC. (Until 11 p.m.)

5:00 a.m. (44) Soundstage. Featuring music from Michael McDonald and Ashford and Simpson. (Until 6 a.m.)