The Winning Team

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES This 1952 drama tells the story of Hall of Fame right-handed pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander (1887-1950), who compiled a 373-208 win-loss record in the National League, 1911-1930, despite the aftereffects of wartime trauma. Ronald Reagan is the pitcher, and Doris Day is his indefatigable wife.  
 

At Home With Jim and Joy

EWTN The Pintos interview Chris Slattery, founder of Expectant Mother Care Frontline, about the 43,000 babies whose lives his pregnancy centers in New York and New Jersey have saved in the past 30 years. The centers offer free pregnancy tests, free ultrasounds and other help. Re-airs 10:30am Saturday.
 

Father Spitzer’s Universe

EWTN Doug Keck is the moderator as Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer, founder of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith, Healing the Culture and other groups, answers viewers’ questions. Frequent topics include God’s existence, the why of suffering and the harmony of faith and science. Re-airs 3am Sundays.
 

Forgotten Heritage: Europe and Her Saints

EWTN In this segment, “St. Columbanus: How the Irish Saved Civilization,” Irish diocesan Fathers Owen Gorman and John Hogan profile St. Columbanus (543-615) and show how he spread Catholicism and fostered intellectual achievement by founding monasteries on the Continent.
 

Welcome to Krakow: Home of World Youth Day 2016!

EWTN Grzegorz Misiwicz escorts viewers around Poland’s second-largest city, Krakow, which dates from the seventh century and will host World Youth Day July 25-31.
 

Brigadoon

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES Vincente Minnelli directed this 1954 musical, a film version of Alan Jay Lerner’s and Frederick Loewe’s 1947-1948 Broadway hit of the same name. Gene Kelly, Van Johnson and Cyd Charisse star in this tale of American hunters in Scotland who come upon a mystical village that materializes for one day every 100 years.
 

Holy Hour for Persecuted Christians

EWTN The Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word will host an hour of prayer in their chapel in Irondale, Ala., for Christians who suffer so dearly for Christ.
 

Republican National Convention

MAJOR NETWORKS Republicans will gather in Cleveland to select their standard-bearer, presumably Donald Trump, to oppose Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Nov. 8 election.
 

EWTN News Nightly Republican National Convention Special

EWTN The news team will assess and recap the highlights of the GOP event. Re-airs Saturday at 1:30pm.
 

Dan Engler writes from
Santa Barbara, California.