Weekend for World Series, Political Fever

The World Series enters the final stretch with the Atlanta Braves taking on the comeback kids, the New York Yankees, in Game 6 today at 4:30 p.m. on KTTV-Channel 11. Game 7, if necessary, will take place Sunday at 4:30 p.m., also on Fox.

If the Yankees wrap it up in six games, Fox will present on Sunday a mini-marathon of “Treehouse of Horror” Halloween installments from “The Simpsons,” with three vintage episodes beginning at 7 p.m., and a new episode at 8:30 p.m. If the World Series is over, “The X-Files” would air in its new time slot, Sunday at 9 p.m.

And . . . they’re back! Those wildly popular “Three Tenors”--a.k.a. Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras--make beautiful music together in the PBS special “Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti With Levine: The Three Tenors in Concert 1996,” airing tonight at 8 on Channel 28 and Channel 50.

The concert, featuring conductor James Levine and the members of the Metropolitan Opera, was taped last July in front of a sold-out crowd at 56,000 people at Giants Stadium in New Jersey. The concert originally aired live on pay per view.

At 10:30 tonight on Channel 28 is the celebration of Irish music and dance, “Riverdance.” (The “Riverdance” stage show arrives at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater next month.)

It’s a good bet former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Dana Carvey will impersonate George Bush or Ross Perot when he hosts “SNL” tonight at 11:30 on Channel 4. Dr. Dre is the musical guest.

On the movie front, Jane Seymour plays an aggressive news producer in the CBS drama “Absolute Truth,” airing Sunday at 9 p.m. on Channel 2.

NBC’s Sunday movie is the thriller with the mysterious title of “The Secret She Carried,” starring Peri Gilpin and Jere Burns, airing at 9 p.m. on Channel 4.

Jemma Redgrave returns as Eleanor Bramwell, a young doctor serving London’s poor in the 1890s, in the four-part “Masterpiece Theatre” presentation “Bramwell II,” airing Sunday at 9 p.m. on Channel 28.

Public Affairs: TODAY: Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) and Republican Senate candidate Rudy Boschwitz on “Evans & Novak,” 2:30 p.m., repeats Sunday 7 a.m. CNN. . . .

African American voting patterns; Robert Woodson of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise; Rep. Albert Wynn (D-Md.) on “John McLaughlin’s One on One,” 2:30 p.m. (28). . . .

“Tony Brown’s Journal” reports on AIDS research, 3:30 p.m. (28). . .

Vin Weber, Empower America, on “Capital Gang,” 4 p.m., 10:30 p.m. CNN. . . .

The senate races and campaign ads are discussed on “McLaughlin Group,” 6:30 p.m. (4)

SUNDAY: “Sunday Journal,” 5 a.m. C-SPAN. . . .

“Sunday Today” features author Michael Blake; the O.J. Simpson trial and U.S. race relations; a TWA Flight 800 victim’s mother, 6 a.m. (4)(39)(36). . . .

“CBS News Sunday Morning” talks to jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut and visits Degas exhibition in Chicago, 7:30 a.m. (2); 8 a.m. (8). . . .

“Fox News Sunday” looks at the makeup of the U.S. Congress with guest House Speaker Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), 8 a.m. (11). . . .

Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp guests on “Face the Nation,” 9 a.m. (2); 7:30 a.m. (8). . . .

“Late Edition” guests are White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, Charles Cook, Stuart Rothenburg, 9 a.m. CNN. . . .

“Bob Navarro’s Journal” discusses affirmative action with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, columnist Debra Saunders, writer Edward Tivnan, 9:30 a.m. (2). . . .

“Life & Times” concludes series on Proposition 209, 10:30 a.m. (28). . . .

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. David Dreier (R-Calif.), Errol Smith, co-author of Prop. 209, are guests on “Both Sides With Jesse Jackson,” 2:30 p.m. CNN. . . .

“60 Minutes” talks with Gary Kasparov, “the Michael Jordan of Chess”; confronts American tour operator who arranges sex tours in Southeast Asia, 7 p.m. (2)(8).

Specials and Movies: TBS’ documentary “TOPX: Haunted” chronicles stories of haunted people telling of their encounters with the walking dead, Sunday at 6 and 10 p.m. And A&E;’s “Haunted Houses,” Sunday at 5 and 9 p.m. visits spirited homes in Louisiana, New York, San Diego and Salem, Mass.