All Times Eastern

SUNDAY, 8 p.m.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

ABC Hardworking Grandma Natalie Wilson has been raising her four grandkids all by herself in an old trailer. Now the “Makeover” team and local builders and volunteers construct a bright new home for her in just seven days. Advisory: TV-PG.

SUNDAY, 10 p.m.

Penance: The Forgotten Sacrament

EWTN Father William Casey, superior general of the Fathers of Mercy, reminds us that, to have God forgive our sins, we must confess them in the grace-filled sacrament of penance, which Jesus instituted for us out of his infinite goodness and love.

TUESDAY, 9 p.m.

Digging for the Truth:Stonehenge of the Americas

HISTORY CHANNEL The large city of Tiwanaku, an architectural marvel of pyramids, temples and monoliths, flourished at 13,000 feet in the Andes on the south shore of Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, from A.D. 500 to 950, hundreds of years before the Incas came. Archaeologists are trying to figure out why it was abandoned. Advisory: TV-PG.

TUESDAYS, 11 a.m. & THURSDAYS, 9:30 p.m.

Life Is Worth Living

FAMILYLAND TV The first great televangelist was Catholic: holy and brilliant Archbishop Fulton Sheen (1895-1979), whom Billy Graham called the greatest communicator of the 20th century. This weekly show of his riveting talks aired from 1952 to 1957 and won several Emmys — not to mention many converts.

WEDNESDAY, 8 p.m.

The Race for Radar And Stealth

MILITARY CHANNEL Maintaining an effective national defense requires constant technological innovations. This program chronicles two vital fields of research.

THURSDAY, 9 p.m.

Antiques Roadshow

PBS In Mobile, Ala., experts evaluate a lap desk that the Marquis de Lafayette gave to a granddaughter of Martha Washington; a watch that belonged to Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige (ca. 1906-1982); and a vase, one of the “mud babies” of George Ohr (1857-1918), “the mad potter of Biloxi.”

FRIDAY, 8 p.m.

Let’s Sing Again

FAMILYLAND TV In this 1936 film, real-life boy soprano Bobby Breen, 8, stars as an orphan adopted by an opera singer who encourages his talent. Later, at an opera in New York City, the boy winds up meeting his real father.

SATURDAY, 8 p.m.

Passport to Pluto

DISCOVERY CHANNEL NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, launched Jan. 19, 2006, has just passed Jupiter. The probe is to reach Pluto and its satellite Charon in July 2015, and to travel through the Kuiper Belt of objects beyond Neptune from 2016 to 2020.

Dan Engler writes from
Santa Barbara, California.