SUNDAY, JULY 10

Amazing Animal Inventions

Animal Planet, 8 p.m.

Animal inventions? All right, animals actually didn'd invent these gizmos; people did. But the goofiness of some of the 20 contraptions on this show might make us wonder if humans are really the ones responsible for them. Comedienne Debra Wilson hosts.

SUNDAY, JULY 10

Cloud's Legacy:

The Wild Stallion Returns

PBS, 8 p.m.

This “Nature” installment, a re-air from 2003, is Ginger Kathrens’ sequel to her “Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies,” a documentary of the youth of a white mustang in the Rockies in Montana. In this follow-up, Cloud, his son Boulder and their herd battle fires, bad weather and a government roundup.

MON.-FRI., JULY 11-15

History of the Catholic Church in the U.S.

EWTN, 4:30 a.m., 6:30 p.m.

The first five episodes of this 13-part series of half-hour shows air this week, and the rest will run July 18-22 and July 25-27. This week: the early Spanish Franciscans and French Jesuits; Maryland and the other English colonies; the Church and the Revolution; the early national period; and the Andy Jackson years.

TUESDAY, JULY 12

Major League Baseball

All-Star Game

Fox, 8 p.m., live

Comerica Park, home of the American League's Detroit Tigers, is the site of the 76th All-Star Game. The National League leads the series, 41-32 (two games ended in ties), but the American League has won seven of the last eight midsummer contests.

TUESDAY, JULY 12

NOVA: Mars Dead or Alive

PBS, 8 p.m.

This hour-long special chronicles the U.S. space program's airbag-cushioned landing of the Spirit rover on Mars in January 2004. A re-air from 2004.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 13

Megastructures:

USS Ronald Reagan

National Geographic

Channel, 10 p.m.

With a length of 1,092 feet, a flight deck of 4.5 acres and towering 20 stories above the water, the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan definitely qualifies as a “megastructure.”

THURSDAY, JULY 14

PX-15: The Story Continues

Science Channel, 10 p.m.

The giant deep-sea research vessel PX-15 hosted six NASA “aquanauts” in a 30-day underwater simulation of space flight in 1969. Marine archaeologist Jim Delgado rescued it from a shipyard in Vancouver decades later and is now restoring it.

SATURDAY, JULY 16

Cowboys on the Trail

Food Network, 9 p.m.

Chef Tim Love and his Fort Worth kitchen crew hit the trail, buying “vittles” at farmers’ markets in the morning and cooking hearty cowboy suppers later on.

Dan Engler writes from Santa Barbara, California.