BY CLIF GARBODEN

THURSDAY 28

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

9:00 [2] CEMETERY SPECIAL | Repeated from last week. A Rick Sebak travel documentary. This time he’s visiting Þnal resting places from Key West to Alaska looking for the peculiar and touching and Þxing our monuments to the dead in a social-historical context. Should be lots of morbid fun. We always thought a working merry-go-round would be a good grave marker. To be repeated on Sunday at 7 pm, and on Monday at 5 am on Channel 44. | Until 10 pm

FRIDAY 29

9:00 [44] 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 those who came to escape persecution — from Tibetans ßeeing Communism to Jews ßeeing Hitler to the Amish and Mennonites ßeeing 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. We recently saw the companion book to this series — Destination America, by Chuck Wills (Dorling Kindersley, 300 pages, $35). It’s as diverse in coverage as the series itself (Puritans to Hmong) and beautifully presented, a nice gift for the immigrant elders in the family, or for anyone who takes his roots seriously. | Until 11 pm

SATURDAY 30

3:30 [12] FOOTBALL | Georgia versus Florida.

7:30 [64] BASEBALL? | World Series game #6, if necessary.

9:00 [44] THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN | movie | The not great but always enjoyable Meredith Willson musical starring Debbie Reynolds as the Colorado self-made millionaire who survived Titanic. Corny tunes and lyrics that lack the expected Willson clever turns of phrase (and for good reason: MGM dropped most of the Broadway show’s songs) but, as we said, always enjoyable. Co-starring then screen newcomer Harve Presnell and his overpowering baritone. | Until 11:10 pm

11:00 [2] SOUNDSTAGE | Music from Chris Isaak. | Until midnight

2:00 am [all channels] Daylight Saving Time ends; time to get out the digital-clock instruction manuals and try to remember whether you fall back or fall forward. (Hint: fall back, spring forward.) | Until the Þrst Sunday of April 2006

SUNDAY 31

1:00 [64] FOOTBALL | The Green Bay Packers versus the Cincinnati Bengals.

4:00 [12] FOOTBALL | The Kansas City Chiefs versus the San Diego Chargers.

4:00 [64] FOOTBALL | The Philadelphia Eagles versus the Denver Broncos.

8:00 [64] BASEBALL? | World Series game #7, if necessary.

9:00 [2] MASTERPIECE THEATRE: KIDNAPPED | part one | Any novel with a Þrst chapter titled "I Set Off upon My Journey to the House of Shaws" can’t be expected to move along very fast, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 classic Scots swashbuckler is no exception. But a TV adaptation can wade through the poor lunger’s heather-Þlled prose in short order. Iain Glen and James Anthony Pearson star in this (eventually) action-packed saga set in the Highlands Þve years after the Battle of Culloden Moor (which context you fail to understand at your peril). To be repeated tonight at 2 am on Channel 44, and at 4 am on Channels 2 and 44, and on Monday at 8 pm on Channel 44, and at 2 am on Channel 2 | Until 10:30 pm

11:00 [44] AUSTIN CITY LIMITS | Featuring music from Jack Johnson and Rilo Kiley | Until midnight

MONDAY 1

9:00 [2] THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: RACE TO THE MOON | The dramatic tale of the Apollo 8 mission, which took place just as the country was falling apart in 1968. (Press materials suggest that it united the divided nation, but we don’t remember it that way at all.) Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders didn’t actually land on the moon, but they ßew around it and took a lot of those remarkable space photos we see to this day. To be repeated tonight at 2 and 4 am on Channel 44, and at 5 am back on Channel 2. | Until 10 pm

9:00 [6] FOOTBALL | The Baltimore Ravens versus the Pittsburgh Steelers.

10:00 [2] APOLLO ONE: TRAGEDY TO TRIUMPH | A look back at the failed launch that killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. | Until 11 pm

TUESDAY 2

7:30 [2] LA PLAZA: CONVERSATIONS WITH ILAN STAVANS: JORGE CASTAÑEDA | No details provided, but we assume this is the Jorge Casta–eda who is Mexico’s foreign secretary. | Until 8 pm

8:00 [44] GLOBE TREKKER: ARCTIC CANADA | Trekker Ian Wright, never one to get cold feet, tours the chilly side of Canada. He cavorts with seal pups, attends the Caribou Carnival, listens to Inuit throat singers, looks for polar bears, and takes a dogsled across something called Meta Incognita. | Until 9 pm

9:00 [2] RX FOR SURVIVAL, A GLOBAL HEALTH CHALLENGE: DISEASE WARRIORS and RIDE OF THE SUPERBUGS | Brad Pitt narrates this series on how public-health initiatives have extended life expectancy in developed countries while leaving the poor nations to suffer. The Þrst installment goes back to the 19th-century discovery that germs spread disease. The second half looks at the ongoing battle against clever, resistant bugs that change their chemistry before we can kill them. To be repeated tonight at 1 am on Channel 44, and at 4 am on Channels 2 and 44. | Until 11 pm

9:00 [44] THE WORLD’S GREATEST FAIR | That was in St. Louis (as in "Meet me in") in 1904. Thomas Edison did the wiring. George Ferris reassembled the giant observation wheel he’d built for the 1893 Chicago Fair. And exhibits featured the latest of all forms of technology. Proof that the 20th century started better than it ended. To be repeated immediately at 10 pm | Until 10 pm

WEDNESDAY 3

8:00 [2] GLOBAL WARMING: THE SIGNS AND THE SCIENCE | No details provided, but we can safely assume this is not going to be an exercise in Bush–administrationesque denial. Christ, it’s getting hot in here! To be repeated tonight at 3 am on Channel 44. | Until 9 pm

9:00 [2] RX FOR SURVIVAL, A GLOBAL HEALTH CHALLENGE: DELIVERING THE GOODS and DEADLY MESSENGERS | Tonight’s Þrst hour looks at the international medical community’s failure to provide health care to the very people who need it most. The second half follows the fortunes of health workers who battle mosquito-related illnesses. To be repeated tonight at 1 am on Channel 44, and at 4 am on Channels 2 and 44. | Until 11 pm

9:00 [64] TRADING SPOUSES | Silly reality TV, but in this case, a former colleague at the defunct Worcester Phoenix, Chris Flisher, got his family involved. Chris is a mellow guy — think folk music and astrology. The "wife" Fox TV found for him, by the looks of her on the network’s Web site, is a raving right-wing Christian wing nut. We’d guess that Chris tried to steer the conversation around to Bush bashing whenever possible; we’ll see how much of that gets on the air. | Until 10 pm

10:00 [44] SECRETS OF THE DEAD: BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI | Okay, now that we’ve planted the "Colonel Bogey March" in your head for the rest of the day . . . A documentary look at the Allied POWs who built WW2 Japan’s "death railway" from Thailand to Burma — a route that included crossing that fabled river. | Until 11 pm

THURSDAY 4

8:00 [2] BATTLEFIELD BRITAIN: NASEBY — 1645 | Hosts Peter and Dan Snow reconstruct the English Civil War battle in which Cromwell and his New Model Army stomped on Charles I. | Until 9 pm

8:00 [6] PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL | Plot, schmot. Johnny Depp is very cool in this spoofy 2003 sea saga. Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley co-star. | Until 11 pm

9:00 [2] RX FOR SURVIVAL, A GLOBAL HEALTH CHALLENGE: BACK TO THE BASICS and HOW SAFE ARE WE? | The series closes with a look at the seemingly obvious link between sanitation and public health, and then a discussion of the need for better public-health systems worldwide. To be repeated tonight at 1 am on Channel 44, and at 4 am on Channels 2 and 44. | Until 11 pm