1:00 a.m. (44) Nova: Cracking the Code of Life. Repeated from last week. A recap of last year’s genome breakthroughs and what the new science may mean to the three-eyed fish of tomorrow. To be repeated on Monday at midnight on Channel 2. (Until 2 a.m.)

7:00 (25) Baseball. The Sox versus the New York Yankees. We can tell by the sudden influx of loudmouth morons into our office neighborhood (a block from Fenway Park) that baseball season has begun anew. To all you decent, well-behaved, normal, intelligent Sox fans: good luck. To the conspicuous element among you (the ones who seem to while away the hours trading quips like " Eh! You! Wahhhau! Blauuu-ah! " ): please sober up, shut up, and go home. We need the parking.

2:00 a.m. (2) A Conversation with Gregory Peck. A very enjoyable one-person show, with Peck (at age 80) engaged in mass dialogue with a theater audience. Plus some behind-the-scene stuff. Worth watching. To be repeated on Sunday at 11:30 p.m. (Until 3:30 a.m.)

Noon (7) Basketball. Three NBA games — to be determined and announced.

1:00 (25) Baseball. The Sox versus the New York Yankees.

7:40 (2) Funny Turns: John Inman. We never thought Are You Being Served? was particularly funny. The term " stupid " more easily comes to mind. But apparently there are those who love the show and one of its stars, John Inman (Mr. Humphries). A profile of the man who almost never makes us laugh, plus interviews with AYBS? co-stars Mollie Sudgen, Wendy Richard, and Trevor Bannister. (Until 8:20 p.m.)

8:00 (5) Lethal Weapon 3 (movie). Have you seen One or Two? You probably have the idea. (Until 11 p.m.)

8:00 (7) XFL Football. The season finale pits the team of Microsoft engineers who invented Windows against the members of Whitey Bulger’s hit squad.

11:00 (44) Paul McCartney Live at the Cavern. The fourth Beatle returns to the scene of the band’s long-long-ago emergence, Liverpool’s most famous dive, the Cavern, for some old-time tunes and some recent stuff from his Run Devil Run release. (Until midnight.)

11:35 (5) The New England Patriots Draft Show. If you don’t know a lot about football players, it would be meaningless to tune in. (Until 12:35 a.m.)

Midnight (2) Austin City Limits. Featuring music from Shawn Colvin. (Until 1 a.m.)

11:00 a.m. (2) The American Experience: Abraham and Mary Lincoln. A four-and-a-half-hour documentary on Abe Lincoln and his long-suffering wife. We actually sat through an earlier marathon airing of this. It’s not uninteresting, it’s just so dragged out. Everything you learn could have been covered in a better-written hour and a half. And you sure get sick of the same old photos after about the second hour. A valuable document despite its length, exploring how the daughter of a slave owner and the Great Emancipator sustained their mutual devotion despite a relentless stream of personal tragedies and a national crisis that would have sent lesser presidents off the deep end. (Until 6 p.m.)

11:30 a.m. (7) The Walk for Hunger Special. Repeated from last week. Get excited about Project Bread’s annual 20-mile pledge walk to benefit food pantries around the state, on Sunday May 6. (Until noon.)

Noon (7) Basketball. Three NBA games.

1:00 (25) Baseball. The Sox versus the New York Yankees.

7:00 (44) Schindler’s List (movie). Repeated from Thursday at 8 p.m.

8:00 (7) Godzilla (movie). No, not the 1956 Japanese import that people have loved for almost half a century, but the 1998 Hollywood remake with Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, and Hank Azaria that people hated on sight. It sucks. Especially the recurring in-joke that has Japanese characters calling the monster Gojira, which was the original film’s original-release name in Japan. Just another lizard movie, and a poor one at that. Hard to believe that someone could actually insult a Japanese monster film, but these non-comprehending clowns managed. (Until 11 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Masterpiece Theatre: Wives and Daughters, part four. The conclusion of this lengthy adaptation of an Elizabeth Gaskell novel, in which everybody gets married, or doesn’t — or at least learns not to write incriminating letters. To be repeated tonight at 1 and 4 a.m. and on Monday at 9:40 p.m. on Channel 44. (Until 10:30 p.m.)

9:00 (4) Murder on the Orient Express (movie). You’d think everyone would know who did it by now. Agatha Christie’s most famous yarn was published in 1934 but has been filmed only once (Sidney Lumet’s lush 1974 period piece with an all-star cast led by Albert Finney and Lauren Bacall). The big press kit the moviemakers at Kraft foods sent keeps referring to this TV version as a " contemporary adaptation, " which sounds dire. Alfred Molina (of Broadway’s Art fame and Dudley Do-Right notoriety) plays Hercule Poirot. Leslie Caron, Peter Strauss, and Meredith Baxter help out. (Until 11 p.m.)

10:30 (44) Indie Select: Viehjud Levi. The story of a Jewish cattle trader living in the Black Forest and his gradual victimization by Nazi propaganda. (Until midnight.)

11:30 (2) A Conversation with Gregory Peck. Repeated from Friday at 2 a.m.

1:00 a.m. (2) The American Experience: Fatal Flood. Repeated from last week. A look at the economic and racial undercurrents associated with a 1927 Mississippi River flood that killed 1000 people and washed a million out of their homes. (Until 2 a.m.)

1:00 and 4:00 a.m. (44) Masterpiece Theatre: Wives and Daughters, part four. Repeated from this evening at 9 p.m.

9:00 (2) The American Experience: Stephen Foster. The man who gave America its first pop-musical trademark died in poverty at age 37. A look at how that tragedy happened — sort of like Behind the Music without crack. To be repeated tonight at 1 and 4 a.m. on Channel 44, and on Wednesday at midnight at 5 a.m. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:40 (44) Masterpiece Theatre: Wives and Daughters, part four. Repeated from Sunday at 9 p.m.

Midnight (2) Nova: Cracking the Code of Life. Repeated from Thursday at 1 a.m.

Midnight (44) Sting: Brand New Day, Live at Universal Amphitheater. Repeated from last week. Old hits and Brand New Day support from Sting and special guest Stevie Wonder. (Until 12:55 a.m.)

1:00 and 4:00 a.m. (44) The American Experience: Stephen Foster. Repeated from this evening at 9 p.m.

9:00 (2) Harvest of Fear. A joint report produced by the guys and gals from Frontline and Nova that investigates the trend toward genetically altering food. Step one, of course, is to alter the reproductive structure of fruits and vegetables so that only agribusiness can grow anything. After that, it’s on to the 300-pound tasteless tomato and the 20-foot asparagus. (Until 11 p.m.)

8:00 (2) PBS Hollywood Presents: The Old Settler. This series seems to feature TV produced by actors. Tonight, we have a comedy/drama based on a play (by John Henry Redwood) produced by Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen. An " old settler, " we learn, is wartime Harlem slang for a single woman who’ll probably never marry. Here Rashad’s title character is attracted to a young boarder who came to New York to track down his childhood sweetheart. Allen co-stars as Rashad’s just-divorced referee/sister. To be repeated tonight at 1 and 3 a.m. on Channel 44. (Until 9:30 p.m.)

8:30 (4) Fallen (movie). Denzel Washington and John Goodman star in this 1998 thrill-less thriller about a Philadelphia cop who’s investigating supernatural serial murders. With Donald Sutherland and James Gandolfini (as a guy named Lou). (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (2) The Cracker Man. A short drama about a 33-year-old woman’s plans to celebrate her grandpa’s 100th birthday in 1947 small-town Alabama. (Until 11 p.m.)

Midnight and 5 a.m. (2) The American Experience: Stephen Foster. Repeated from Monday at 9 p.m.

1:00 and 3:00 a.m. (44) PBS Hollywood Presents: The Old Settler. Repeated from this evening at 8 p.m.

8:30 (2) Basic Black: Digital Divide. A look at Boston’s " digital community, " which, it is suspected, isn’t located in poor neighborhoods. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Mystery: Second Sight 2: Parasomnia, part one. Blind detective Tanner (Clive Owen) gets involved in a case involving a sleepwalker. To be repeated tonight at 1 and 4 a.m. on Channel 44. (Until 10 p.m.)

1:00 and 4:00 a.m. (44) Mystery: Second Sight 2: Parasomnia, part one. Repeated from this evening at 9 p.m.

The 525th line. Don’t ask us why we were watching Police Videos on Fox. Please don’t ask. But anyway, we were sitting there being not especially entertained by the spectacle but bemused that this sort of thing passes for entertainment and noting that Australians drive on the wrong side of the road, just like the Brits, when suddenly they stopped showing cops speeding after lunatic runaway/getaway drivers and showed footage of some repressive military regime’s jackbooted police force repressing — clubbing, actually — a bunch of rioting citizens in some mid-Pacific island nation. It was brutal and horrible — a police response totally out of proportion to the provocation. And besides, the rabble were probably rioting because they’d been denied food or fair trials or elections. The narration didn’t go into the politics. The focus here was on the brutal police performance. Well, here’s hoping everyone’s recovered and that there weren’t as many brain-damage victims as it appeared. But you’ve got to wonder about the clowns who edited the show and saw no meaningful distinction between state troopers chasing down a scofflaw motorist and a wanton display of draconian barbarism. Bottom line: if the film had been of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police pistol-whipping demonstrating college students, it never would have been included. But apparently there’s sufficient distance between our world and the benighted setting of this video that someone considered it okay to offer it for our amusement. We doubt it was shown in the spirit of parody — though Saturday Night Live at its best couldn’t have imagined something that outrageous. Fox should be ashamed of itself.

On the other hand, it’s another matter entirely when similar footage shows up on the evening news out of Cincinnati, where a white, racist establishment tries to keep the lid on the inner city it abandoned by routinely murdering young African-American males and then spraying pepper gas in the faces of middle-aged women who dare to protest. (We think craven little palefaced mayor Charlie Luken summed up the white man’s position best when he appealed to his citizens by saying something like: " Hey, you black guys, knock it off. Okay? " From the victim’s camp, a Cincinnati protester offered the best counter-argument with a sign that read, " Stop killing us, or else. " ) This wasn’t gratuitous fun cop footage; this was the real deal being reported in real time. And though the racial brutality that provoked the Cincinnati uprising is cause for alarm, the fact that Consolidated Corporate Media Conglomerate Incorporated or whichever fiscal overlord owns all the TV stations these days didn’t censor the riot footage is a positive sign. Meanwhile, we think it’s time for a new Buckeye State slogan: " Visit Ohio, Where It’s Always 1963. "