BY CLIF GARBODEN

THURSDAY 20

9:00 [2] GREAT PERFORMANCES: THE NUTCRACKER FROM THE ROYAL BALLET | Repeated from last week. Julie Andrews hosts Peter Wright’s Royal Ballet edition of Tchaikovsky’s classic. | Until 11:30 pm

FRIDAY 21

9:00 [2] FRONTLINE: THE TORTURE QUESTION | The government’s cute term for it is "coercive interrogation," and, like all fascist regimes, the Bush government would love to be able to interrogate all of us coercively. Often (so far) cooler heads prevail. This show looks behind the scenes at the internal debate among our rulers over how much they can hurt people in the name of fighting terrorism. To be repeated tonight at 1 am. | Until 10:30 pm

9:00 [44] DESTINATION AMERICA: THE GOLDEN DOOR and THE ART OF DEPARTURE | A documentary series devoted to the mass immigrations to America. Part one surveys the 350-year history of immigration. Part two (at 10 pm) highlights talented artists who left their homes to perform here. | Until 11 pm

SATURDAY 22

2:30 [10] FOOTBALL | Notre Dame versus Brigham Young.

3:30 [12] FOOTBALL | Tennessee versus Alabama.

7:00 [44] PRIDE AND PREJUDICE | movie | This is a case of you know what we know and we know what they tell us. WGBX has been particularly evasive about which P&P adaptation this is. To quote the available info: "An outstanding adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel about five husband-hunting sisters in 19th-century England, this film boasts an excellent cast and fine period flavor in a classic comedy of manners." Hey, hire that intern, guys. So is it the 1940 edition with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier (screenplay by Aldous Huxley) or Andrew Davies’s 1995 mini-series with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle or the 2005 version with Keira Knightly or one of the many other attempts? Gotta tune in to find out. | Until 9 pm

7:30 [64] BASEBALL | World Series game #1.

8:00 [6] AIR FORCE ONE | movie | Director Wolfgang Petersen’s 1997 nonsense about a fearless president (Harrison, not Gerald, Ford), who rescues his family from terrorists when the presidential jet is hijacked. | Until 10 pm

8:00 [10] CHICAGO | movie | Rob Marshall’s 2002 movie version of Bob Fosse & Fred Ebb’s song-and-dance tale of killer vamps Velma and Roxie (Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renée Zellweger) trying to redeem themselves through music. | Until 11 pm

9:00 [44] MY FAVORITE WIFE | movie | Meanwhile, we’re considering adopting the Channel 44 program-schedule writer’s easy-way-out approach to describing movies. (See 7 pm above.) For example: this is, you know, one of those fine films with a wife (played by a talented female actor) in it. Actually it stars Irene Dunne as a declared-dead wife who returns to Cary Grant’s arms to find them filled with Gail Patrick. | Until 10:30 pm

11:00 [2] IN THE LIFE: 524,000 AND COUNTING | The number meaning we know not what. But the show is about the state of AIDS in America. Actress Sharon Gless (who was either Cagney or Lacey; we never understood which was which) hosts. Plus a look at the crystal-meth epidemic and HIV infection among gay homeless young people. | Until midnight

SUNDAY 23

1:00 [12] FOOTBALL | The Pittsburgh Steelers versus the Cincinnati Bengals. Subject to change.

1:00 [64] FOOTBALL | The Green Bay Packers versus the Minnesota Vikings.

4:00 [12] FOOTBALL | The Denver Broncos versus the New York Giants.

7:30 [64] BASEBALL | World Series game #2.

9:00 [2] MASTERPIECE THEATRE: SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE CASE OF THE SILK STOCKING | Now that we’re allowed to make up "original" mysteries based on the works of Conan Doyle, the franchise is turning into Sherlock Holmes: SVU. Rupert Everett stars as Holmes to Ian Hart’s Watson in this tale of murdered women, each of whose bodies is discovered wearing the clothes of the previous victim. The work of a serial killer/dresser, one assumes. To be repeated tonight at 1 am on Channel 44, and at 4 am on Channels 2 and 44, and on Monday at 8 pm on Channel 44 and 1 am on Channel 2. | Until 11 pm

9:00 [12] ENOUGH | Michael Apted’s halting 2002 revenge drama about an abused woman who fights back. Starring (bless her heart but she can’t act) Jennifer Lopez. | Until 11 pm

10:00 [44] INDEPENDENT LENS: SUNSET STORY | A film about two elderly women living in a senior-citizens home for political progressives in LA. | Until 11 pm

11:00 [44] AUSTIN CITY LIMITS | Featuring music from Sheryl Crow. | Until midnight.

MONDAY 24

9:00 [2] THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: ANSEL ADAMS | A Ric Burns film about the most overexposed photographer in America. Not that Ansel doesn’t deserve praise and credit, it’s just that there are so many other (less commercially successful) 20th-century photographers who deserve to share the billing. A look at his work in the context of the landscapes he shot and his environmentalist philosophy. | Until 11 pm

9:00 [6] FOOTBALL | The New York Jets versus the Atlanta Falcons.

TUESDAY 25

7:30 [2] LA PLAZA: A CONVERSATION WITH ILAN STAVANS: JOHN LEGUIZAMO | Comic Leguizamo discusses Latin humor, his Queens upbringing, and his stage and screen work. | Until 8 pm

8:00 [2] NOVA: ANCIENT REFUGE IN THE HOLY LAND | Scholars return to the Judean cave where, in 1960, 2000-year-old letters written by anti-Roman Jewish revolutionary Shimon Bar-Kokhba were discovered. They find new evidence suggesting further cave contents came from the long-gone temple in Jerusalem. | Until 9 pm

8:00 [64] BASEBALL | World Series game #3.

8:00 [44] GLOBE TREKKER: WEST INDIA | Trekker Megan McCormick, whose treks usually focus on shopping, heads to the western East, where she haggles with camel traders, shops for a traditional Punjabi suit, and rummages through the markets in Goa. She also tours some remote towns and checks out the Bollywood Studios in Mumbai. To be repeated tonight at 1 am on Channel 2. | Until 9 pm

9:00 [2] FRONTLINE/WORLD: THE CURSE OF INCA GOLD | No details available, but we can imagine this has something to do with the Spanish conquest of South America and the decimation of the Incas. Then again, this is meant to be a current-events show, so go figure. Whatever it is, it’s repeated tonight at 2 am on Channel 44 and at 5 am on Channel 2. | Until 10 pm

WEDNESDAY 26

8:00 [2] CEMETERY SPECIAL | A Rick Sebak travel documentary. This time he’s visiting graves from Key West to Alaska looking for the peculiar and touching and fixing our monuments to the dead in a social-historical context. Should be lots of fun. | To be repeated tonight at 3 am on Channel 44, and on Thursday at 9 pm on Channel 2 and 10 pm on Channel 44. | Until 9 pm

8:00 [64] BASEBALL | World Series game #4.

9:00 [2] DESTINATION AMERICA: THE EARTH IS THE LORD’S and BREAKING FREE: A WOMAN’S JOURNEY | This series about immigration to America picks up with a look at people who came to escape persecution — from Tibetans fleeing Communism to Jews fleeing Hitler to the Amish and Mennonites fleeing whoever was after them in Europe (probably the Church). Then at 10 pm, a second installment looks at women who came to the US to escape more abusive, less egalitarian societies. To be repeated tonight at 1 am on Channel 44, and at 4 am on Channels 2 and 44. | Until 11 pm

THURSDAY 27

8:00 [2] BATTLEFIELD BRITAIN: SPANISH ARMADA — 1588 | You knew that without England’s defeat of the Armada, all of North America would be speaking Spanish. But the details are fascinating — especially as presented by military archaeologists Peter and Dan Snow. | Until 9 pm

8:00 [64] BASEBALL? | World Series game #5, if needed.