BY CLIF GARBODEN

FRIDAY 8

9:00 [2] FRONTLINE | RUMSFELD’S WAR | Gee, kids don’t want to join the Army any more. We wonder why. Even some adult military observers think the Army is on the verge of collapse, and they blame Donald Rumsfeld for "reshaping the US military" into a disorganized, ineffective, and demoralized Þghting force. | Until 10 pm

10:00 [2] FRONTLINE | AL QAEDA’S NEW FRONT | As long as we’re just recycling old Frontline editions, we might as well have this show about how Muslim terrorists are refocusing their murderous attentions on Europe. After a few noteworthy incidents, this turns out not to be an overwhelming trend, but it’s important nonetheless to understand the depth of Islam’s inßuence throughout Western Europe. | Until 11 pm

SATURDAY 9

1:00 [64] BASEBALL | The Sox versus the Baltimore Orioles.

5:30 [44] MRS. MINIVER | movie | A 1942 pro-Brit propaganda Þlm about a typical English family hunkering down for war — all upper lips stiff as boards. Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Teresa Wright star. | Until 8 pm

8:00 [6] THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE | movie | A 2000 animated Disney Þlm that the Internet Movie Database summarizes thus: "Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his ex-administrator Yzma and must now regain his throne with the help of Pacha, the gentle llama herder." What more excitement could anyone want? Davis Spade voices the Emp; John Goodman speaks for the gentle llama herder. | Until 10 pm

8:00 [44] THE APARTMENT | movie | Billy Wilder’s bittersweet 1960 comedy with Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, and Shirley MacLaine. Jack lends his apartment to his boss, Fred, who’s having an affair with Shirley until Jack ends up with Shirley and the whole hypocritical post-war morality crumbles. Excellent. | Until 10:06 pm

10:06 [44] THE FORTUNE COOKIE | movie | Another Billy Wilder comedy with Jack Lemmon, This time, Jack plays a sports photographer who’s tackled in the line of duty by a Cleveland Brown. Crooked brother-in-law lawyer Walter Matthau persuades Jack to exaggerate his injury and sue. | Until midnight

11:00 [2] LEGENDS OF JAZZ | THE JAZZ MASTERS | Jazz-piano great Ramsey Lewis hosts this tribute to Þve winners of the NEA Jazz Masters Award. Performance footage and interviews combine to proÞle singer Nancy Wilson, saxophonist James Moody, Latin-jazz legend Paquito D’Rivera, vocalist Jon Hendricks, and Newport Jazz Fest founder George Wein. Plus a performance by 15-year-old jazz vocalist Renee Olstead. | Until midnight

SUNDAY 10

9:00 [2] MYSTERY | THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES IV: A CRY FOR JUSTICE | In which the demoted Sergeant Havers (Sharon Small) wins back her stripes by going undercover to solve the "suicide" (yeah, right) of a man who was about to expose an illegal baby-adoption scam. Nathaniel Parker stars as mystery novelist Elizabeth George’s aristocratic police detective. Repeats tonight at midnight, and at 1 am on Channel 44, and at 4 am on Channels 2 and 44. | Until 10:30 pm

9:00 [12] OPEN HOUSE | movie | Christine Lahti and Daniel Baldwin star in a made-for-TV adaptation of Elizabeth Berg’s novel about a woman who rebuilds her life after a divorce with the help of boarders. | Until 11 pm

MONDAY 11

9:00 [2] THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | KINSEY | Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey (zoologist) shocked America in 1948 with the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and followed up, in 1953, with Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. These somewhat dry behavioral accounts were the result of thousands of interviews conducted over more than a decade, and despite their academic nature, they became controversial bestsellers, made Kinsey a household name, and challenged a lot of popular beliefs about what was normal. This biography was compiled with full access to the Kinsey research, so you might learn something new. Repeats tonight at 1 am. | Until 10:30 pm

9:00 [12] ROCK STAR: INXS | Sort of several reality shows rolled into one. Fifteen rock musicians are housed together as they audition for a job fronting INXS on a world tour. (There must be a catch, but that disappointment will come later; right now all these people want is the TV exposure.) This is the kickoff show. After which it’s three nights weekly — Monday and Wednesday at 9:30 pm, Tuesday at 10 pm | Until 10 pm

10:00 [44] P.O.V. | STREET FIGHT | Reform is a tough road when it’s man against political machine. This Þlm follows the passion and the struggle of 32-year-old Rhodes Scholar and Yale grad Cory Booker as he runs for mayor of Newark against a four-term incumbent. | Until 11:30 pm

TUESDAY 12

7:30 [2] LA PLAZA | CONVERSATIONS WITH ILAN STAVANS: RUBEN MARTINEZ | A discussion of literacy (and its importance) with Ruben Martinez, who turned his barbershop into the largest Spanish-language bookstore in the country. | Until 8 pm

8:00 [2] NOVA | MARS DEAD OR ALIVE | The tale of two space probes, Spirit and Opportunity. The former has already landed on Mars, Opportunity will touch down early next year on the opposite side of the planet. The probes are designed to carry out remote scientiÞc research including looking for the answer to that all-important question: is there water (and therefore potentially life, or at least the opportunity for a premium bottling business) on Mars? Repeats tonight at 1 am on Channel 44, and at 4 am on Channels 2 and 44, and on Wednesday at 3 am on Channel 2. | Until 9 pm

8:00 [44] GLOBE TREKKER | ROME CITY GUIDE | Trekker Estelle sees the Forum, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Villa Borghese galleries, Michelangelo’s Capitoline museum, and the Ponte Sant’Angelo with its Bernini statuary. From there, a day trip to Anzio and a duck race in Tuscany. | Until 9 pm

9:00 [2] WIDE ANGLE | BESLAN: SIEGE OF SCHOOL NO. 1 | What if you had a hostage crisis and everything went wrong? That would be the Beslan siege in Russia in which Chechen terrorists took more than 1000 hostages. The whole ordeal ended in a messy battle that killed hundreds — including hundreds of children. Apparently only one terrorist survived to go on trial. A look at the evidence and the aftermath. Bill Moyers hosts. Repeats tonight at 2 am on Channel 44, and at 5 am on Channels 2 and 44. | Until 10 pm

9:00 [44] HISTORY DETECTIVES | BLACK STAR LINE STOCK CERTIFICATES | MICKEY MOUSE’S ORIGIN | PRO-NAZI NEWSPAPER IN TEXAS | The Þrst alleged mystery tonight involves verifying Marcus Garvey’s signature on some shares of Black Star Line Stock. (Chances are pretty good, since the Black Star steamship company was part of black activist Garvey’s United Negro Improvement Association plan.) Next, we consider whether Walt Disney really invented Mickey Mouse or whether a San Francisco toy collector can prove there was prior authorship. (Not likely.) And Þnally, someone wants to know whether there was a German POW camp in Hearne, Texas, during World War II and what a shred of a pro-Nazi newspaper discovered by a Texas A&M arch¾ologist has to do with it. (Just guessing, but we bet the newspaper Nazis were really the Texans.) Repeats tonight at 2 am on Channel 2. | Until 10 pm

10:00 [44] GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL | A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PRESENTATION | THE CRUCIBLE OF CIVILIZATION | A three-part series based on the controversial social/historical theories of Jared Diamond, whose Pulitzer-winning book traces the rise and fall of things "through the lens of geography, technology, biology, and economics." This Þrst edition considers the luck of societies that developed where the grass was green and the animals could be domesticated — i.e. cultures that were kick-started by geographic good fortune. Repeats tonight at 3 am and on Thursday at 9 pm, both on Channel 2. | Until 11 pm

WEDNESDAY 13

9:00 [2] AMERICAN MASTERS | GEORGE STEVENS: A FILMMAKER’S JOURNEY | George Stevens Jr. made this career tribute to his father, the Hollywood director who gave us (to name a few) Swing Time, Gunga Din, A Place in the Sun, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and The Diary of Anne Frank. Repeats tonight at 1 and 4 am on Channels 2 and 44. | Until 11 pm

THURSDAY 14

7:30 [2] BASIC BLACK | FAITH-BASED-INITIATIVES | Guest host Howard Manly talks with Unitarian Universalist Association president Reverend William Sinkford and Black Ministerial Alliance director Harold Sparrow about the full impact of Bush administration programs that siphon money and resources away from social-service agencies and into the churches. | Until 8 pm

10:00 [2] AN ICE CREAM SHOW | Another Rick Sabek food travelogue — this time with the focus on ice cream. Crossing the country from San Francisco, where they sell tea ice creams, to Penn State, where they teach people how to make the stuff. | Until 11 pm

10:00 [44] SOUNDSTAGE | Michael McDonald with special guests. | Until 11 pm