WEEKEND TV : POPS TODAY AND PUNKS ON SUNDAY

Television’s weekend highlights range from pops to punks.

The pops are the Boston Pops orchestra, which is featured in four consecutive “Evening at Pops” programs on KCET Channel 28 tonight, beginning at 8 p.m. All are repeat telecasts.

The first comes from July, 1985, and features John Denver in a concert at the Lincoln Memorial. The second, at 9 p.m., has Marilyn Horne, Benjamin Luxon and the Canadian Brass performing with the orchestra. George Shearing and Mel Torme are guests on the third program, at 10 p.m., and the last, at 11 p.m., spotlights Tony Bennett singing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” “As Time Goes By” and “It Had to Be You.”

The punks will be seen Sunday at 7 p.m. in “Crime, Punishment . . . and Kids,” an NBC documentary about the growing problem that juvenile criminals present to the country.

Anchored by Tom Brokaw and reported by Lucky Severson, the hourlong program reports on how the justice system is changing to handle habitual juvenile offenders--including imposing the death sentence on some of them--and on what is being done to try to rehabilitate some of them.