All times Eastern

SUNDAY, JUNE 23

Arts & Crafts Legacy

Home & Garden TV, 5 p.m.

“Hearth, home, family” was a byword in the Arts and Crafts movement, which flourished between 1895 and 1920 in architecture, furniture and décor. Its devotees sought simplicity, functionality and harmony in design, construction and handcrafting. Many bungalows they built still exist, and so does much of their furniture.

MONDAY, JUNE 24

Searching for the Afghan Girl

National Geographic Channel, 9 p.m.

No one even knew her name, but her cover photo in 1985 became National Geographic's most famous image ever: an Afghan refugee of 12 or so with green, penetrating eyes. Now, 17 years later, photographer Steve McCurry meets his subject, Sharbat Gula, a Pashtun whose parents the Soviets killed. Her husband Rahmat and three daughters — a fourth died in infancy — are the center of her life, which remains a hard one.

TUESDAY, JUNE 25

Antibiotics

History Channel, 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.

This special trains the microscope on new bacteria that resist all known antibiotics.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26

Mother Angelica Live

EWTN, 8 p.m.

Tonight's guest, Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer, heads Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., and is the founder of five institutes, including the Center for Life Principles. In 2000, he forth-rightly disinvited a Planned Parenthood speaker from appearing at Gonzaga.

THURSDAY, JUNE 27

The Great Bears of Alaska

Discovery, 7 p.m.

Alaska's brown bear - ursus arctos middendorffi — is fuzzy but not cuddly. He can be 8 feet tall, weigh 1,500 lbs., wield 4-inch claws and run with surprising speed.

FRIDAY, JUNE 28

The Good Life

Home & Garden TV, 1 p.m.

Meet a couple who moved to rural Oregon, took up cowboy-like living and started a bronze foundry.

SATURDAY, JUNE 29

The Rock of Truth

EWTN, 8 p.m.

This film by John Bird tells about the reported appearance of Mary near Tre Fontane in Rome on April 12, 1947, to Bruno Cornacchiola, an apostate who hated her and hoped to stab the Pope. Holding the Book of Revelation, she called herself the Virgin of the Apocalypse.

She told the renegade that because he and his wife had once made the nine First Fridays, Jesus would have mercy on him. She told him to stop persecuting her, accept the authority of the pope, pray much for sinners and become like a new St. Paul. Tre Fontane is the site of the martyrdom of St. Paul, and that April 12 was the eve of the day the Church now observes as Divine Mercy Sunday.

Dan Engler writes from Santa Barbara, California.