TV Picks 07.26.15

SUNDAY, July 26, 10am, live

Tour de France Final Stage

NBC SPORTS NETWORK Live on NBCSN, 10am-2pm, this year’s Tour concludes with a 68-mile Stage 21 from Sèvres to Paris, with the grand finale on the Champs-Élysées. The stage re-airs on NBC, 3pm-4:30pm, and on NBCSN, 8pm-11pm.
 

SUNDAY, July 26, 2pm

The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After

HISTORY This special probes the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, and the chaotic aftermath. A re-airing. Advisory: TV-PG.
 

TUESDAY, July 28, 3:30am

Zdenka

EWTN Blessed Zdenka Cecília Schelingová (1916-1955) was a Slovak nursing sister in the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Holy Cross. At a hospital in Bratislava in 1952, when Czechoslovakia was under Soviet communist rule, she saved a priest-patient from being sent to Siberia, but was soon caught trying to help others. The secret police tortured her for three years. In April 1955, they released her; and she died on July 31. Re-airs at 11pm Saturday. Advisory: TV-PG.
 

THURSDAY, July 30, 3:45am

The Mouse That Roared

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES In this 1959 comedy, the tiny Duchy of Grand Fenwick declares war on the U.S., planning to lose and then receive post-war aid; but things go hilariously awry. Advisory: A-I, TV-PG.
 

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, July 30-31, 3am, 6:30pm

Saints vs. Scoundrels

EWTN Theologian Benjamin Wiker pits some of history’s greatest saints and their opposites against each other in debates about God and faith. Tonight, St. Thomas More and King Henry VIII of England square off.
 

SUNDAY, Aug. 2, 8am, live

Our Lady of the Angels Mass With MFVA Vows and Investitures

EWTN In Our Lady of the Angels Monastery Chapel in Irondale, Ala., the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word celebrate Mass, and new members take vows and receive investiture. Re-airs at noon and midnight.
 

SUNDAY, Aug. 2, 3pm, live

Mass of Thanksgiving With the Knights of Peter Claver

EWTN The 100th Annual National Convention of the Knights of Peter Claver and the 85th Annual National Convention of the Knights of Peter Claver Ladies Auxiliary will take place in Kansas City, Mo. Re-airs at 11:30am Monday.
 

TUESDAY-THURSDAY, Aug. 4-6, live

Knights of Columbus 133rd Supreme Convention

EWTN The convention, in Philadelphia, begins Tuesday with the Opening Mass at 9am, the Opening Session at 1pm and the States Dinner at 6:30pm. The Divine Liturgy is at 8am Wednesday, and the Memorial Mass is at 9am Thursday. Also: At 10:30pm Tuesday, My Brother’s Keeper explains the Knights’ mission; and at 9:30am Wednesday, For Greater Glory: The True Story of the Cristeros gives the history of the Catholic rebellion in Mexico, 1926-1929, against atheistic persecution.
 

WEDNESDAY, Aug 5, 9pm

Nova: Secrets of the Viking Sword

PBS This special from 2012 studies the metallurgy, design and technology involved in the making of Viking swords inscribed “+Ulfberht+” between the years 800 and 1000.

Dan Engler writes from
Santa Barbara, California.