SUNDAYS & THURSDAYS

Life Is Worth Living

Familyland TV, various

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen became TV's biggest star in the 1950s with this riveting series of sermons. Millions tuned in and many became Catholic, including at least one who has been a Poor Clare nun ever since. Airs Sundays at 5:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 9:30 p.m.

MONDAY, NOV. 8

Declassified: Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall

History Channel, 10 p.m.

In August 1961, Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev began building a wall between Berlin's communist and free sectors to test President John F. Kennedy's resolve. Over the next 28 years, the communists killed hundreds of Germans who tried to reach freedom over the wall. The wall fell unexpectedly in November 1989, thanks largely to President Ronald Reagan's policies of promoting liberty and rolling back the Soviet empire.

TUESDAY, NOV. 9

Offshore Oil Platforms

Discover y Channel, 9 p.m.

Find out what it's like to man one of these giant rigs that are a chief source of our domestic energy.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10

The Four Chaplains:

Sacrifice at Sea

Hallmark Channel, 10 p.m.

Those who demand an end to religion in public life will have a hard time explaining away this dramatic documentar y about the heroic chaplains who gave their life vests to GIs who had none, then linked arms, sang hymns and went down with the U.S.S. Dorchester, torpedoed off Greenland at 1 a.m. on Feb. 3, 1943. The chaplains were Father John Washington, Rabbi Alexander Goode and ministers George Fox and Clark Poling.

THURSDAY, NOV. 11

The Last Day of World War I

History Channel, 8 p.m.

In his book 11th Hour, 11th Day, 11th Month: Armistice Day 1918, Joseph Persico says that, on Nov. 11, despite knowing the war would end that day, Allied commanders ordered charge after charge just to gain a little ground and a last bit of “glory” for the officers. The result: more casualties that day than on D-Day in the next war.

FRIDAY, NOV. 12

Super Saints:

Mother Cabrini

EWTN, 5 p.m.

Italian-born St. Francis Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), the first U.S. citizen canonized, founded the Missionar y Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, came to the United States in 1889 and for the next three decades assisted untold thousands of immigrants, orphans, delinquents, prisoners, hospital patients and others. She founded 67 hospitals, schools and orphanages in Europe, the United States and South America.

SATURDAY, NOV. 13

Homes of Santa Fe Home & Garden TV, 2 p.m.

Spanish, Mexican, Southwest Indian and Catholic themes predominate in many homes in Santa Fe, N.M.

Dan Engler writes from Santa Barbara, California.