More Star-Spangled TV Extravaganzas on Saturday

“Welcome Home” is not the only TV celebration planned for Independence Day. Other stations will be joining in with music, movies and fireworks.

The biggest undertaking is ABC’s “A Star-Spangled Celebration,” a three-hour “entertainment magazine” honoring the continuation of Project Literacy U.S. (PLUS), a nationwide campaign launched by ABC and the Public Broadcasting Service to combat adult illiteracy. It airs 8-11 p.m. on Channels 7, 3, 10 and Channel 42.

Hosted by Oprah Winfrey from the V.P. Fair in St. Louis, “Celebration” will look in on a variety of Independence Day festivities around the country, with a particular emphasis on music, and additionally will report on the problems facing illiterate Americans.

Among those scheduled to appear on the broadcast are Robert Urich, Loretta Lynn, Tony Bennett, Bernadette Peters, Alabama, Ben Vereen, the Rockettes, Jennifer Holliday, Barbara Mandrell, Sen. Edward Kennedy and Barbara Bush, wife of Vice President George Bush.

Locally, KTLA Channel 5 will cover the fireworks at Anaheim Stadium in “Saturday in the Park . . . a 4th of July Celebration” at 9 p.m. Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards host the telecast, which also will showcase fireworks displays at nearby Disneyland and at the East River in New York.

The Public Broadcasting Service is featuring music. John Williams leads the Boston Pops orchestra and guest performer Johnny Cash in a special Fourth of July offering of “Evening at Pops” (7 p.m. on Channel 15, 8 p.m. on Channel 28). Marvin Hamlisch conducts the National Symphony in “A Capitol Fourth,” with guest flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal (7:30 p.m. on Channel 24, 8 p.m. on Channel 50, 8:30 p.m. on Channel 15 and 9:30 p.m. on Channel 28).

KCET Channel 28 has three other programs scheduled: “The Making of Liberty,” about the design and manufacture of the Statue of Liberty, at 4 p.m.; the film “1776,” starring William Daniels and Ken Howard at 5 p.m., and the film “This Is the Army,” an Irving Berlin musical starring Ronald Reagan and Kate Smith, at 11 p.m.