BILL MOYERS Journal

10 p.m., Friday, May 9th

Bill Moyers Journal profiles the fight the California Nurses Association (CNA) has been waging over universal healthcare. "There shouldn't be a double standard," says Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of CNA. "We, as the public, pay for Dick Cheney's care...why is the government not providing the same type of care to all Americans?"

MY GENERATION The 60's

8 p.m., Saturday, May 10th

This special appeals to the "sixties generation" of baby boomers focusing on the years 1965 - 1969 and includes essential 60s folk rock, R&B and pop in the latest production in the My Music series. This features the biggest hits by the original 1960's artists in this celebration and collection of "folks" that lived through the decade of change, peace, love and protest music.

AMERICAN MASTERS Carol Burnett

4:30 p.m., Sunday, May 11th

At 10 o'clock every Saturday night, in dorms and dens, in living rooms and bedrooms across the country, Americans watched "The Carol Burnett Show." For 11 years, the wacky performer yelled like Tarzan and won -- and sometimes broke -- our hearts with her edgy, always sympathetic, characters. Yet, as with so many brilliant comedians, hers was a difficult childhood. A glimpse of something deeper and darker began to emerge in the dramatic career that followed her TV variety show.

NATURE Prince Of The Alps

8 p.m., Sunday, May 11th

High in the Austrian Alps, a female red deer, a leader in her herd, gives birth to a calf. Her status makes him a prince among the other calves. The two are at the center of a wilderness story that features not only the wild alpine herds of majestic red deer, but also a variety of other wildlife that lives in the mountains, including roe deer, ibex, fox, chamois and marmots.

MASTERPIECE CLASSIC Cranford Part 2

9 p.m., Sunday, May 11th

In episode two, as winter approaches, Cranford is beset by sorrows and struggles to re-gain its confidence. When Dr. Harrison's housekeeper discovers a leg of mutton has been stolen on the very same night that store owner Mr. Johnson is mugged, the ladies decide that a crime wave has hit Cranford.

AMERICA AT A CROSSROADS Muslim American Cosmics

10 p.m., Sunday, May 11th

An exploration of the emergence of Muslim- and Arab-American comedians in the wake of 9/11 demonstrates how they use humor to take on stereotypes about Middle Easterners and terrorism. The film provides an inspiring chronicle of the impact 9/11 has had on their lives -- both professionally and personally.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE FDR: Center Of The World/Fear Itself

Monday, May 12th

9 p.m.
"The Center of the World," explores Roosevelt's family background and education looking for clues as to how the coddled child of rich parents managed to climb the ladder to political success. It follows him from his very first run for political office as New York state senator through his years in Washington as assistant secretary of the navy, as he pursues one goal -- the highest office in the land.

10 p.m.
"Fear Itself," begins with Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 39 and follows his relentless struggle to rehabilitate his body and his seemingly moribund political career and to teach himself to appear to walk. By the close of the program, a remarkable sequence of events leads FDR back from despair to win his party's nomination as president of the United States. Catapulted into the White House, a man who could not walk begins to lead a country crippled by the Great Depression.