All times Eastern

SUNDAY, JAN. 6

Out There: Angel Falls

National Geographic, 10 p.m.

Imagine a waterfall 15 times higher than Niagara Falls! Flying over remote jungle highlands in southeastern Venezuela in 1935, U.S. adventurer and bush pilot Jimmy Angel (1899-1956) discovered the 3,212-foot cataract that now bears his name. To be rebroadcast on Monday, Jan. 7, at 1 a.m. and on Saturday, Jan. 12, at 4 p.m.

MONDAY, JAN. 7

No Greater Joy: Sidewalk Counseling

EWTN, 1 p.m.

Come along with prayerful pro-life sidewalk counselors as they brave society's wrath by offering compassionate alternatives to pregnant moms outside abortion sites.

TUESDAY, JAN. 8

Sound and Fury

PBS, 9 p.m. Check local listings

This moving documentary follows two brothers (one deaf, one hearing) and their families for two years. Each family wrestles with whether their deaf children will have more opportunity and happiness in life by remaining members of the strongly supportive deaf community or by having hearing-restorative cochlear implant surgery.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9

A Twentieth-Century Testimony by Malcolm Muggeridge

EWTN, 1 p.m.

English journalist Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) often stood alone in pursuit of truth. He punctured the 20th century's worst ideologies, refusing to cover up Soviet mass murder, gradually abandoning leftism and rejecting contraception and abortion as anti-life. After meeting Mother Teresa, Muggeridge introduced her to the West. She helped him and his wife Kitty along the road to Catholicism, which they embraced in 1982. To be rebroadcast on Thursday, Jan. 10, at 3 a.m. and 10 p.m.

THURSDAY, JAN. 10

Mysteries of the Deep

National Geographic, 9 p.m.

On a secret mission in the Mediterranean in 1997, a U.S. Navy team was looking for an Israeli submarine that had vanished three decades earlier. But the search turned up an archaeological surprise – the second-oldest sunken ship ever found. Now, undersea explorer Robert Ballard investigates the ancient shipwreck site.

FRIDAY, JAN. 11

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly

PBS, 5 p.m. Check local listings

Reporter Fred de Sam Lazaro compares secularist and practicing Moslems in Uzbekistan, a country long occupied by the Soviets and still dominated by Soviet types. Note: Program content is subject to change in case of sudden news developments.

SATURDAY, JAN. 12

East-West Shrine Game

ESPN2, 1:30 p.m.

Many of college football's most talented seniors seek to impress professional scouts in this annual all-star contest in San Francisco.

SATURDAY, JAN. 12

Handyma'am with Beverly DiJulio

PBS, 3:30 p.m. Check local listings

This episode, “Making Waves: Water Projects,” shows us how to construct a decorative fountain and how to install a back yard pond complete with fish and plants.

— Dan Engler