How It’s Made

Science Channel On Sunday, in a 10th Anniversary Marathon, hour-long episodes at 8, 9 and 10pm celebrate this series’ look at “how everyday products are put together.” Thursday has regular episodes at 9 and 9:30pm.
 

Respect Life Sunday

EWTN “Every Life Is Worth Living” is the theme of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ “Respect Life Sunday” this year. At 4pm, the film 40 chronicles the deadly results of 40 years of abortion on demand in America. Re-airs 6am Wednesday. Advisory: TV-PG. At 10pm, in a Franciscan University Presents episode, “Post-Abortion Trauma and Healing,” psychiatrist Martha Shuping shows why aborting a baby is no “solution” for anyone. Re-airs 5am Thursday. TV-G.
 

XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

EWTN “The Vocation and Mission of the Family in the Church and in the Contemporary World” is the synod’s theme. For coverage times, see EWTN.com.
 

When They Say, You Say

EWTN Well-meaning pro-lifers too often use pro-abortion language, such as “pro-choice” and “abortion rights.” This five-part series by Olivia Gans Turner and Mary Spaulding Balch suggests alternate terminology and shows how to counter anti-life clichés and propaganda. Episodes: “Words That Can Save Lives”; “Lies That Dehumanize the Baby”; “Every Child a Wanted Child”; “The Back Alley and Hard Cases”; and “When It Gets Personal.”
 

Nova: Cyberwar Threat

PBS This new special examines the physical and operational dangers that cyber-weapons pose to power plants, factories, pipelines and other facilities.
 

Our Lady of Fatima

EWTN Programming for the 98th anniversary of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s visit to Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco in October 1917 includes the International Rosary and Candlelight Procession at the Fatima shrine at 4:30pm Monday. Tuesday’s slate has Fatima and the Popes at 3:30am (re-airs 11pm Saturday); Holy Mass in Honor of Our Lady of Fatima, from the shrine, at 8am, live (re-airs 1am Wednesday); Fatima: An Experience of Faith, a visit to the Fatima children’s homes, at 8pm; and Visited by the Light, an analysis of Our Lady’s visits, at 8:40pm.
 

The Real Trojan Horse

PBS Historians, military engineers and archaeologists seek proof that the Greeks’ siege of Troy really happened and discuss how the Greeks might have entered the city.
 

National Velvet

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES In this 1944 family classic, based on Enid Bagnold’s 1935 novel of the same title, Elizabeth Taylor stars as a teen who dreams of riding her beloved horse Pie in England’s Grand National Steeplechase. A-1, TV-G.
 

Web of Faith: The Body and Blood of Christ

EWTN “God dwells in our midst, in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar,” wrote St. Maximilian Kolbe. Fathers John Trigilio and Kenneth Brighenti elaborate on this truth in answer to queries about holy Communion and the Real Presence of Christ. Re-airs 4pm Saturday.

Dan Engler writes from
Santa Barbara, California.