you can fight city hall...from your wheelchair!

In the struggle to bring basic rights to the disabled, Fred Fay's life proves that one man can change the world...even though he has to lie flat on his back just to stay alive. LIVES WORTH LIVING looks at Fay's struggle to survive after a spinal cord injury and the small group of dedicated activists who formed the Disability Rights Movement to drive the nation towards equal rights. INDEPENDENT LENS...9pm

The Beatles on Great Performances? Duhhh...

This documentary chronicles the behind-the-scenes shenanigans of the lads whilst making the 1967 film "The Magical Mystery Tour". Think "The Monkees", only they're the BEATLES...GREAT PERFORMANCES, Friday at 8pm.

"Magical Mystery Tour" is the least known of the various films starring The Beatles and was never theatrically released or nationally broadcast on U.S. television, only receiving sporadic TV syndication in the 1980s. Receiving mixed reviews but arguably ahead of its time, the mostly improvised and loosely plotted script provides a charming comic showcase for The Fab Four, recounting a series of episodic misadventures of John, Paul, George and Ringo on a bus tour and  featuring classics such as "Magical Mystery Tour," "The Fool on the Hill," "I Am the Walrus" and "Hello, Goodbye." GREAT PERFORMANCES, Friday at 9pm. 

They are the beautiful killers that live in the shadows...

Leopards are the ultimate cat...the most feline, the most intelligent, the most dangerous, and, until recently, one of the least understood. Hunting from South Africa to Siberia and from Arabia to Sri Lanka, they're the most widespread predator of their size on land. This film puts together a psychological profile of this extraordinarily cunning cat, which rarely moves without a completely premeditated strategy. You'll not look the same at your kitty again. NATURE: REVEALING THE LEOPARD...7pm

"profound insight" into what some call the "dismal trade"...

In this film, FRONTLINE enters the world of Thomas Lynch, a poet and undertaker whose family has cared for the dead in a small Michigan town for three generations. Through the intimate stories of families coming to terms with grief, mortality, and a funeral's rituals, the film illuminates the heartbreak and beauty in the journey taken between the living and the dead when someone dies.
FRONTLINE: THE UNDERTAKING...9pm

The most troubling quote? "It's my fate"...

Filmed over four years, GARBAGE DREAMS follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village, a ghetto located on the outskirts of Cairo. It's a culture that pigeonholes it's people into life's station at birth...this film follows the boys on their journey to either escape their destinies - or accept their fate. INDEPENDENT LENS...9pm

That was one crowded table at the sidewalk cafe...

PARIS THE LUMINOUS YEARS tells the story of Paris from an unprecedented point of view, spotlighting now-famous key figures in the art world's first international avant-garde. Find out how Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Hemingway, Serge Diaghilev, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein, Aaron Copland and others found themselves in Paris, and how being in Paris transformed them and their work...Friday night at 8pm

And of course, DOWNTON ABBEY SERIES 2 continues with episodes 3 and 4...Sunday at 8pm

Steve Miller does Abacadabra, Jet Airliner, and the Joker

and many more on tonight's AUSTIN CITY LIMITS. The second act is the Preservation Hall Jazz Band presenting classic New Orleans jazz with special guests the Del McCoury Band and Jim James of My Morning Jacket...AUSTIN CITY LIMITS...7pm

Do you remember December 8, 1980?

In October he would have turned 72-years old, and on December 8 he will have been dead for 32 years. Yet, his art still haunts us. It still matters deeply and it is still deeply relevant. It still speaks to millions of people. With unprecedented and exclusive cooperation from Yoko Ono, access to never-before-seen material from the Lennon archives and conversations with those closest to him -- Ono, Elton John, the photographer Bob Gruen, Ringo Starr -- AMERICAN MASTERS tells John Lennon's story as it has never been told before -- and as it will never be told again...JOHN LENNON: AMERICAN MASTERS...7pm

The real difference between a violin and a fiddle...

Host Mark Walberg travels to Baltimore to check out comic strip art and a rare violin made in 1798 by renowned French violinmaker Nicolas Lupot, accompanied by a bow crafted in the style of Dominique Peccatte, one of the most influential bow makers in history. Together, violin and bow make beautiful music, especially the violin at $140,000...7pm