BY CLIF GARBODEN

THURSDAY 3

8:00 (6) Hockey. The Calgary Flames versus the Tampa Bay Lightning in game #5 of the Stanley Cup final.

10:00 (2) Frontline: The Wall Street Fix. Yes, it’s true what you’ve suspected. Wall Street is a corrupt running-dog-capitalist institution designed to benefit only banks and insiders. You, the average investor, are just a pawn in their game. Want proof? This explanation of the WorldCom racket should persuade you to stuff that spare cash into your mattress. (Until 11 p.m.)

FRIDAY 4

8:00 (64) Bedazzled (movie). Harold Ramis’s 2000 remake of the 1967 classic about a lovelorn man who makes a deal with the devil and loses. Peter Cook gets screenwriting credit for this. Brendan Fraser has the lead. Also starring Elizabeth Hurley as Satan. (Until 10 p.m.)

SATURDAY 5

1:00 (64) Baseball. Game to be announced.

4:00 (6) Basketball. The LA Sparks versus the Houston Comets in WNBA play.

5:00 (10) Horse Racing. Smarty Jones goes for the Belmont, the Triple Crown, and another $5 million bonus. If he wins, will he get invited to the White House? And if he does, will he accept? (Until 6:30 p.m.)

7:00 (44) P.O.V.: Scout’s Honor. How a two-person campaign (called Scouting for All) launched by a 13-year-old Boy Scout and an adult Scoutmaster (both straight) threatens the BSA’s longstanding exclusion of gay Scouts — a prejudice that’s both laughable (even more so than the US Navy’s) and downright weird, since (unless things have changed since Scouts of our generation crawled out of their wiki-ups to play the Heaving Bear Game) Scouting isn’t supposed to involve having sex with anybody. (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (5) Hockey. The Calgary Flames versus the Tampa Bay Lightning in if-necessary game #6 of the Stanley Cup final.

8:00 (10) Star Trek: Insurrection (movie). Director/Riker Jonathan Frakes’s Trek movie (the ninth) finds Jean-Luc (Patrick Stewart) and his gang rebelling against the Federation on behalf of a small planet. Co-starring the usual crew of Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, and Marina Sirtis, plus F. Murray Abraham and Donna Murphy. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (2) American Masters: Robert Capa: In Love and War. Repeated from last week. A fine profile of legendary war photographer Bob Capa, who documented the madness of the Spanish Civil War, World War II (he was the only civilian still-photog on the D-Day scene), and the early Indochina conflict (during which he was killed). To be repeated on Sunday at 2 a.m., and on Channel 44 on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. (Until 10:30 p.m.)

11:00 (2) In the Life: Social Engineering. This monthly gay/lesbian magazine-format show celebrates Pride with pride and some hot-button segments. The feds’ famous "Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell" policy — which allows for expulsion from the armed services on gender-preference grounds — is damaging the War on Terror, according to a segment that interviews Retired Rear Admiral Alan Steinman, the highest-ranking military man to come out, and reports on two gay Army linguists (who spoke Arabic) who were recently relieved of their duties. Also featured: the 30th anniversary of PFLAG, which by some stretch stands for Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays; a look back at the 1973 decision by the American Psychological Association to take homosexuality off its mental-illness list; and a visit with documentary filmmakers Alexandra Shiva and Sean MacDonald to discuss their film Bombay Eunuch, which is about, you guessed it, eunuchs in India. (Until midnight.)

SUNDAY 6

1:00 (2) The WGBH Auction 2004. Yeah, yeah. Every year, it’s the same horrible ordeal. Every year we have to scramble to find something to say to fill the column inches usually occupied by PBS listings. How about some random commentary on current events? Like, has anybody else noticed that al-Qaeda terrorist suspect Aafia Siddiqui could easily be mistaken for Abu Ghraib Miss Congeniality Lynndie England? Same vacuous glaze and everything. Coincidence? And George Bush, lying-scum capitalist puppet that he is, may be right about one thing: the US is indeed conducting a war on Terra. Back to the Lynndie-Aafia separated-at-birth theory: wouldn’t it be cool if Lynndie got out of the brig and was then arrested as suspected terrorist Aafia and sent to Gitmo and tortured? Is there a TV-movie in this or what?! (Until midnight.)

7:00 (44) The Diary of Anne Frank (movie). Somewhere in Iraq, we bet, there’s a young Shi’ite girl cowering in a storeroom praying that US troops won’t arrest her family as suspected insurgent collaborators. Hope she’s writing things down. This 1959 George Stevens film is based on another young girl’s terror — except the predators in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam were German, not American. Millie Perkins is the title diarist; Joseph Shildkraut and Shelley Winters co-star. (Until 9:51 p.m.)

8:00 (12) The 58th Annual Tony Awards. Hugh "Boy from Oz" Jackman hosts from Radio City Music Hall. Mary J. Blige and an increasingly older Tony Bennett will sing a few, plus we’ll get songs from some of this year’s nominees: Assassins, Avenue Q, The Boy from Oz, Caroline, or Change, Fiddler on the Roof, Wicked, and Wonderful Town. (Until 11 p.m.)

8:30 (6) Basketball. The Los Angeles Lakers versus the Detroit Pistons or the Indiana Pacers in game #1 of the NBA final.

9:51 (44) The Summer of ’42 (movie). An ancient (1971) soaper about a young boy at some seaside-resortish summer location who has a crush on an older woman. Gary Grimes plays the lovesick Hermie, and Jennifer O’Neill co-stars as the war-bride object of his desires. Great atmosphere; plot and theme not terribly far-reaching. (Until 11:30 p.m.)

1:00 a.m. (44) Masterpiece Theatre: Foyle’s War: The German Woman. Old shows, but good ones. Michael Kitchen stars as a police inspector during WW2 in England. Aided by his trusty and ambitious driver Sam (played by Honeysuckle "Would We Lie About Something So Easily Checked" Weeks), Foyle confronts an odd mix of domestic and international intrigue. In this one, he investigates the murder of the German wife of a wealthy landowner. Patriotic overtones abound. To be repeated tonight at 4 a.m. on both Channels 2 and 44. (Until 2:30 a.m.)

MONDAY 7

1:00 (44) and 7:00 (2) The WGBH Auction 2004. A man walks into a bar and says to the bartender, "How do I get this chicken off my head?" "You don’t," the bartender answers and hands the man a dumpling. "That’s not funny," returns the man. "True," says the bartender, "but would you rather talk about the WGBH Auction?" (Until 7 p.m. and midnight respectively.)

8:00 (6) Hockey or South Pacific. If the Flames and the Lightning haven’t settled things for good, they get their seventh chance here. Otherwise, ABC will air what we can only assume is the Glenn Close/Harry Connick Jr. TV remake of the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic. (Until 11 p.m.)

8:00 (64) Seriously, Dude, You’re Sick. Whew. Perhaps there is a limit to bad taste. Prompted by GLAAD and other gay activist groups, Fox has decided not to air its reality special Seriously Dude, I’m Gay, which would have involved straight men learning to act gay and then being evaluated by (we’re not making this up) "a jury of their queers" for a $50,000 prize. Where to begin? Let’s hope we don’t have to. (Until 10 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Globe Trekker: Iran. Trekker Ian (who we presume visited before last year’s earthquake) does Tehran, checks out the Ayatollah Khomeini’s grave, tries Iranian nightlife (we’ll believe it when we see it), skis Iran, wrestles with a man who claims to be related to Genghis Khan, tours the blue mosque of Esfahan, and hangs with some nomads. (Until 9 p.m.)

TUESDAY 8

1:00 (44) and 7:00 (2) The WGBH Auction 2004. Baseball in Chicago — the Cubs, that is — is a lot more fun than what we have here in Boston because fans actually like the team and don’t walk around as if the Cubbies owed them a pennant. This observation, of course, has nothing to do with the WGBH Auction. (Until 7 p.m. and midnight respectively.)

8:30 (6) Basketball. The Los Angeles Lakers versus the Detroit Pistons or the Indiana Pacers in game #2 of the NBA final.

9:00 (44) American Masters: The Education of Gore Vidal. A profile of writer/critic/dramatist/novelist/whatever Vidal featuring interviews with George Plimpton about famous Gore-versus-celebrity feuds and lots of old public-appearance footage. Vidal is too easily dismissed as a whack job; truth is, the culture needs more like him. (Until 10:30 p.m.)

10:30 (44) P.O.V.: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin. Because he was unmistakably gay, Rustin always stepped aside when the cameras turned on the American civil-rights movement, but out of public view, he was the architect of numerous movement strategies and the prime advocate for non-violent dissent. A moving documentary of his life and prophecy. To be repeated on Wednesday at 2:30 a.m. on Channel 44. (Until midnight.)

3:30 a.m. (2) Fiesta in the Sky. The perennial WGBH/’GBX filler program returns after several weeks on the shelf. Only slightly better than a test pattern, this documentary about hot-air ballooning seems to show up by default to fill any half-hour hole in the public-television schedule. Are there no student films available? (Until 4 a.m.)

WEDNESDAY 9

1:00 (44) and 7:00 (2) The WGBH Auction 2004. So many bands, yet so many more band names. We made these up; is any of them real? Ethiopian Utopian. Growling Man. Just the Two of Gus. Flash Pants. Gruesome Grebe and the Gentle Gentry. Playing with Pliers. Frogmaster. Ginger Binger. The Kalikimaka Cards. Rumsfeld Stiltskin. Flailing at Mosquitoes. Ur Nest. Latent Camilla. Appleface. Dangling Party Whistles. Phlegm Wheel. Straight-Backed Chairs. Delinquent Renters. Polly-Wolly’s Poodle. Deceptive Epic. Steamin’ Demons. Walkabye Babies. Ratchet Job. Soul Beef. Planished Armada. The Baking Soda Project. Al Turbanarama and the Teetering Terrorists. (Until 7 p.m. and midnight respectively.)

1:00 a.m. (44) Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip. A Ken Burns film following the long-faded tire tracks of Vermont doctor Horatio Nelson Jackson, who for the sake of a $50 bet drove from the Green Mountain State to San Francisco in less than three months in a 1903 Winton touring car — accompanied by a bicycle mechanic and Bud the bulldog. (Until 3 a.m.)

THURSDAY 10

1:00 (44) and 7:00 (2) The WGBH Auction 2004. And album titles — the possibilities are endless. Blame It on Vito. Plastering the Rug. Winkle in the Water. Laura Has Issues. Direct from Sandusky. State Farmers. How High Is Yesterday? Mocking the Auction. We’re weary; you take it from here. (Until 7 p.m. and midnight respectively.)

8:30 (6) Basketball. The Los Angeles Lakers versus the Detroit Pistons or the Indiana Pacers in game #3 of the NBA final.