BY CLIF GARBODEN

FRIDAY 29

8:00 (64) Spider-Man (movie). Last week’s Fox airings of old Star Wars films anticipated the May 19 arrival of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith in theaters, but we’re at a loss to explain the appearance of Sam Raimi’s 2002 superhero flick (there’s no Spider-Man 3 in prospect) or the first Harry Potter film tomorrow on ABC. With Tobey Maguire as web spinner Peter Parker, J.K. Simmons as tabloid publisher J. Jonah Jameson, Willem Dafoe as supervillain Green Goblin, Rosemary Harris as Aunt May, and Kristen Dunst as Mary Jane Watson. (Until 10:30 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Dr. Wayne Dyer: The Power of Intention. Repeated from time immemorial. To be repeated on Saturday at 4 p.m. on Channel 44 and at midnight on Channel 2. (Until 11 p.m.)

SATURDAY 30

Noon (2) Dr. Christiane Northrup’s Mother/Daughter Wisdom. Repeat, repeat, repeat. (Until 2 p.m.)

Noon (44) California Dreamin’: The Songs of the Mamas and the Papas. It’s back. (Until 2 p.m.)

2:00 (2) Lidia’s Family Table. "Meatballs by Any Other Meat," "Everybody’s Favorite by Grandma," "Lazy Summer Afternoons," "Summer Grill," and "The Triad: Vegetables and Meat." We’ll take Lidia Bastianich and her Italian-American cuisine over Dr. Wayne, Dr. Christiane, and the 4237th "encore presentation" of the Mamas and the Papas any day. (Until 6 p.m.)

4:00 (6) Best Man (movie). Counter-programming for a sports-filled Saturday afternoon? In this 1999 Malcolm D. Lee comedy, bridegroom-to-be Morris Chestnut learns that bride-to-be Nia Long has had a fling with best-man-to-be Taye Diggs. (Until 6 p.m.)

6:00 (2) Celtic Woman. Repeated from last week. There are five Celtic women here, four singers and a violinist. One selection is described as "a unique arrangement of ‘Danny Boy’ and ‘She Mov’d Through the Fair.’ " Don’t expect the Chieftains or Altan. From a 2004 concert at Dublin’s Helix Centre. (Until 8 p.m.)

7:30 (44) Live Aid: The Day the Music Changed the World. The program, alas, remains the same. (Until 9 p.m.)

8:00 (2) The Grand Ole Opry’s Vintage Classics. Repeated from last week. (Until 9:30 p.m.)

8:00 (6) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (movie). Did ABC slip in all six installments (or maybe it was six hours in fewer installments) of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie when we weren’t looking? Whatever, it’s not on this week and this is. Home Alone director Chris Columbus’s $127 million adaptation has author J.K. Rowling’s seal of approval, fine performances from Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, the late Richard Harris, and Maggie Smith, and some Hogwarts magic. Beats anything on PBS this evening. Just remember that the original British title — the one that actually means something — is Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. (Until 11 p.m.)

9:30 (2) My Music: The ’60s Experience. Repeated from . . . uh, we’ve lost track. (Until midnight.)

9:00 (44) The 10 Tenors: Larger Than Life. Repeated from last week. They’re Australian, and in this 2004 concert from Brisbane, they "blend music and comedy." (Until 10:50 p.m.)

10:50 (44) My Music: Funky Soul Superstars. Repeated from somewhere. (Until 1 a.m.)

SUNDAY 1

Noon (44) Viewer Favorites. The Vicar looked across the table. "And what are your Viewer Favourites, Miss Marple?" Miss Marple dropped her spoon. "Oh dear. Well, you know, when one is my age, there really isn’t anything you haven’t seen. And many times at that. Everything they show these days seems so," she paused, as if for emphasis, "old. And, of course, I have my knitting." She sighed, brightening only as Griselda passed the plate of cakes. (Until midnight.)

3:30 (6) Basketball. NBA playoff action.

3:30 (44) Islam: Empire of Faith: The Messenger, The Awakening, and The Ottoman. Repeated from last week, and probably from before that. (Until 6:30 p.m.)

6:30 (2) André Rieu: Live in Tuscany. Anyone who likes André — and we’re not saying you shouldn’t — has surely taped or bought this by now. (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (2) Nature: Deep Jungle: The Beast Within. A/k/a Monsters of the Forest. ’GBH can’t seem to decide which episode it’s showing. Maybe just two titles for the same one looking at primates in the rain forest and what happens when you upset the ecology To be repeated tonight at midnight on Channels 2 and 44, and at 3 a.m. on Channel 44, and on Monday at 1 and 4 p.m. on Channel 44. (Until 9:30 p.m.)

9:00 (12) Riding the Bus with My Big Sister (movie). Anjelica Huston directs: good. Andie MacDowell stars as a Manhattan fashion photographer: good. Rosie O’Donnell plays Andie’s "developmentally challenged" sister: uh, let’s wait and see. Based on the autobiographical book by Rachel Simon, this Hallmark Hall of Fame production has "feel good" written all over it. (Until 11 p.m.)

9:30 (2) Mystery!: Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced, part one. It wouldn’t do to have a murder in St. Mary Mead every week, so this one is set in the Cotswold village of Chipping Cleghorn, where the murderer has the novel idea of announcing the foul deed in the weekly newspaper and Jane just happens to be staying nearby. This ITC adaptation with Geraldine McEwan gets only two parts as opposed to the three of the 1985 BBC/Joan Hickson version; the lesbian relationship that Christie and the BBC made simple and touching is preachy here, and they’ve thrown in alcoholism. Overall, the new set is slicker in its sets, younger and grimmer in its characters, and less faithful to Christie, and McEwan, not bad at all, doesn’t touch Hickson. Worth watching all the same. To be repeated tonight at 1 and 4 a.m. on Channels 2 and 44, and on Monday at 2 p.m. on Channel 44. (Until 11 p.m.)

MONDAY 2

8:00 (44) Mystery!: Inspector Lynley Mysteries II: Well Schooled in Murder. Ritual slayings at an elite boarding school. Still waiting for Lynley to wise up and propose to Havers. To be repeated tonight at 1 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 9:30 p.m.)

9:00 (2) American Experience: Victory in the Pacific. In observance of the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, a look at the final year in the Pacific, including why we dropped the bomb. To be repeated tonight at 1 a.m. on Channel 44, and at 4 a.m. on Channels 2 and 44, and on Tuesday at 2 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 11 p.m.)

9:30 (44) Mystery!: Inspector Lynley Mysteries II: Payment in Blood. In this variation on the English (here Scottish) country-house murder, a play is being rehearsed and the playwright gets killed. To be repeated tonight at 2:30 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 11 p.m.)

TUESDAY 3

7:30 (2) Conversations with Ilan Stavans: Juan Enríquez. For this "bestselling author, businessman, and academic, the most important language today isn’t English or Spanish, it’s genetic code." (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (2) Nova: Hunt for the Supertwister. Two researchers at the University of Oklahoma take opposite tacks: one hunts down real tornadoes, the other creates virtual models within a supercomputer. To be repeated tonight at 1 and 3 a.m. on Channel 44, and at 4 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 9 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Globe Trekker: Western Canada. Trekker Zay Harding journeys from Saskatchewan to Yukon, along the way canoeing in Prince Albert National Park, bungee-jumping (or maybe just walking) with penguins, stopping off at the Calgary Stampede, hanging out with grizzly bears, and "ziptrekking" at a ski resort. To be repeated on Wednesday at 1 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Frontline. No word from WGBH. A mailing from PBS, however, suggests this might be Memory of the Camps. See Wednesday at 10:30 p.m. Either way, it’s a repeat. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (44) Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Surgical Slimmers. Weight-loss surgery, that is — the modern solution to overeating and underexercising. To be repeated on Wednesday at 2 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 10 p.m.)

10:00 (2) Terezín: Resistance and Revival. A look at the "model" concentration camp where the Nazis paraded "humanely treated" Jewish artists, composers, musicians, etc. — most of whom were then shipped off to death camps like Auschwitz and Treblinka. (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (44) Battlefield Britain: Battle for Wales, 1403. Repeated from last week. A re-creation of the Welsh independence movement led by Owain Glyndwr, whom you may remember from Shakespeare’s Henry IV part one. To be repeated on Wednesday at 3 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 11 p.m.)

5:00 (2, 44) Fiesta in the Sky. Clif will be back next week, and we suspect the adventures of Gilfaethwy the Intrepid But Basically Unpronounceable will continue. (Until 6 p.m.)

WEDNESDAY 4

8:00 (44) Battlefield Britain: Spanish Armada, 1588. It’s one thing to re-enact a land battle like Hastings, but will actual Spanish galleons sail up the English Channel? Maybe we’ll just see computer-generated images. (Until 9 p.m.)

8:30 (2) Cooking Under Fire. We’re not clear how long this "fast-paced" cookoff series whose winner gets a job at one of Todd English’s NYC restaurants is supposed to last. This is, we think, the third, and possibly final, episode. To be repeated tonight at 1:30 a.m. on Channel 44, and at 4:30 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Sometimes in April. Made by Haitian director Raoul Peck (Lumumba), this 2004 HBO movie covers the same genocidal territory as the Oscar-nominated Hotel Rwanda, but it was shot on location and forgoes that film’s Hollywood story line. To be repeated tonight at 3 a.m. on Channel 44. (Until midnight.)

9:30 (44) Berga: Soldiers of Another War. The late Charles Guggenheim’s final documentary looks at the fate of 350 Americans captured during the Battle of the Bulge whom the Germans decided were Jewish and shipped to a slave-labor camp near Buchenwald. To be repeated on Thursday at 1 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 10:30 p.m.)

10:30 (44) Frontline: Memory of the Camps. First broadcast in 1985, this is the Allied liberators’ record of what they found in Hitler’s death camps. In other words, a real horror film as opposed to what Hollywood turns out. To be repeated on Thursday at 2:30 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 11:30 p.m.)

THURSDAY 5

8:00 (2) Japan: Memories of a Secret Empire: The Way of the Samurai. The way of Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, when it was closed to the West. (Until 9 p.m.)

8:00 (6) My Big Fat Greek Wedding (movie). The sleeper hit of 2002, written by and starring Nia Vardalos as an ugly duckling who lands the non-Greek (and vegetarian) man of her dreams. What will he make of the lamb at the wedding dinner? And all her Greek relatives? Get out your stereotypes. Joel Zwick directed. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness. A documentary look at the Japanese consul to Lithuania who during the war risked his life and the lives of his family to write transit visas for Jewish refugees, saving tens of thousands. To be repeated tonight at 1 a.m. on Channel 44, and at 4 a.m. on Channels 2 and 44. (Until 10:30 p.m.)

9:00 (44) Cooking Under Fire. Our guess is that this is a repeat of the first (all?) three episodes. (Until 10:30 p.m.)

10:30 (2) Independent Lens: The Last Letter, Zylon Portrait, and The Walnut Tree. Three Holocaust documentaries, the first, and longest, of which is Frederick Wiseman’s film of Catherine Samie’s stage performance as a Jew in Ukraine who knowing she’s about to be killed by the Nazis writes a final letter to her son. (Until midnight.)