SUNDAY, 8 p.m.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

ABC Host Ty Pennington, his staff, a local builder and volunteers visit recently widowed Renee Sherrard-Luther of Port Deposit, Md., to completely renovate her Rolling Hills Ranch home and riding facility, where her family’s Freedom Hills Riding Program gives therapeutic horseback riding lessons.

SUNDAY, 5 p.m.

Love Is a Choice

EWTN St. Gianna Molla (1922-1962) was a pediatrician and Catholic Action activist who gave her life so her baby could be born. Before surgery for a uterine fibroma while expecting her fourth child in 1961 and later at the birth, she asked the doctor to save the baby, not herself, and she died in “conscious immolation.”

MONDAY, 8 p.m.

The Pirate Code

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL This new documentary follows expert salvager Barry Clifford as he continues his years-long excavation of pirate Black Sam Bellamy’s treasure ship Whydah Galley, which sank off Massachusetts in 1717.

MONDAY, 9 p.m.

The Lobotomist

PBS Frontal-lobotomy brain surgery for the mentally ill, hailed in the 1930s and 1940s as a medical beacon of hope — just as embryonic stem-cell experimentation is today — proved devastating to tens of thousands of patients and today is recognized as a barbaric, immoral error. Advisory: TV-14 (parents strongly cautioned).

TUESDAY, 11 a.m., live

34th Annual March for Life

EWTN Tune in and pray for the annual Rally for Life and the huge March for Life on the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings that legalized aborting babies on demand right up to birth. Re-airs 10 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Wednesday.

WEDNESDAY, 8 p.m.

The Fighting 69th

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES This fact-based 1940 film tells the story of World War I Army chaplain Father Francis P. Duffy (1871-1932), known as “Fighting Father Duffy” because he was always by his men, the largely Irish American 69th New York Infantry Regiment.

THURS., 11 p.m., 11:30 p.m.

World War I in the Air

HISTORY INTERNATIONAL At 11 p.m., Flying High for France: The Lafayette Escadrille tells the story of the American pilots who formed a famed French unit in 1916. At 11:30 p.m., War in the Third Dimension: Aerial Warfare in World War I follows.

SATURDAY, 8 p.m.

The Baby and the Battleship

FAMILYLAND TV Richard Attenborough and John Mills star in this 1956 comedy, in which a mix-up forces a seaman and his mates to keep a baby boy on board in secret.

Dan Engler writes from
Santa Barbara, California.