War Films Top a Memorial Day on the Tube

Television programmers don’t go all out for Memorial Day like they do for certain other holidays when most people are going to be home, but viewers looking for special programming will be able to find it in places today.

Cable subscribers in particular will get a heavy dose of war films, with TNT and American Movie Classics featuring such fare throughout the day. TNT’s offerings include “Fighter Squadron” at 10:30 a.m., “Battleground” at 12:30 p.m. and “The Dirty Dozen” at 5 p.m. The AMC lineup includes “Till the End of Time” at noon, “Wings” at 5:30 p.m. and “Thunder Birds” at 10:30 p.m.

Another cable channel, TBS, checks in with “Battle of the Bulge” at 7 a.m. and “Midway” at 10 a.m.

KTLA Channel 5 is going a different route. Instead of its usual 8-10 p.m. movie, it plans to repeat “Hollywood’s Welcome Home Desert Storm Parade.” Desert Storm veterans also will be featured as contestants on CBS’ “The Price Is Right” at 10 a.m.

KDOC Channel 56, meanwhile, has scheduled a “Perry Mason” marathon from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

For sports fans, NBC covers the NBA playoff game between Chicago and Detroit at 12:30 p.m., while ESPN checks in on the opening day of the French Open tennis tournament at 6 a.m. and then presents a baseball triple-header: Red Sox vs. Yankees at 10 a.m., Expos at Phillies at 4:30 p.m. and Reds at Giants, 7:30 p.m.