Airwaves Turn Patriotic for Fourth of July : TELEVISION

SPECIALS: “My Friend Liberty” is an animated special, 9-9:30 a.m. on the Disney Channel . . . “Tom and Jerry’s Salute to America” features the popular cartoon characters, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. TBS . . . The Disney Channel’s “All About the Statue of Liberty” has live action, animation and Claymation segments, 12:30-1 p.m. . . . “Walt Disney World’s Fourth of July Spectacular,” a music-and-dance celebration broadcast from Florida, includes performances by Jermaine Jackson and Gladys Knight, 5-7 p.m. WGN; 6-8 p.m. KCAL Channel 9; 8-10 p.m. XETV Channel 6 and KADY Channel 63 . . . Cathy Rigby hosts “Your Hometown America Parade,” taped earlier in Pittsfield, Mass., 5-7 p.m. KVCR Channel 24 . . . TBS broadcasts “A Festival at Ford’s Theatre: The Stars Salute the President,” 5:05-6:35 p.m., a country-music benefit including performers Tanya Tucker, Roy Clark, and Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers . . . More country music is provided by the Nashville Network’s “Texas and Tennessee . . . A Musical Affair,” a cable salute to the two states with host Jerry Reed, 6-7:30 p.m. and 9-10:30 p.m. . . . Beverly Sills hosts “A Capitol Fourth,” a National Symphony Orchestra concert from the West Lawn of the White House, 7-8:30 p.m. KVCR Channel 24 (simulcast with KVCR-FM 91.9); 7:35-9 p.m. KCET Channel 28 (simulcast with KUSC-FM 91.5 and KCPB-FM 91.1); 8-9:30 p.m. KPBS Channel 15; 10-11:30 p.m. KOCE Channel 50 . . . The tape-delayed “July 4th Gala” includes a concert by the U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus, from Michigan, 8:30-10 p.m. KVCR Channel 24 . . . “On the 4th of July With Charles Kuralt” includes interviews with American artists Eudora Welty, Andrew Wyeth and Arlo Guthrie, 10-11 p.m. on KCBS Channel 2 and KFMB Channel 8.

MARATHONS: KTLA Channel 5’s eighth annual Twilight Zone Marathon is a holiday perennial, 9 a.m.-10 p.m. . . . KCOP Channel 13’s Independence Day Movie Marathon, which began midnight Wednesday, continues with no commercials until 10 p.m. . . . CNBC’s 21-hour American Talkfest rotates episodes of “Showdown With Morton Downey Jr.,” “The Dick Cavett Show,” and “McLaughlin,” 3 a.m.-midnight . . . KDOC Channel 56’s First Annual Bob Newhart Marathon includes 11 hours of “The Bob Newhart Show,” 9 a.m.-8 p.m. . . . KCET Channel 28’s “American Experience” marathon rebroadcasts episodes of the American history series, 7 a.m.-noon, 3-5 p.m., 9-11 p.m.

MOVIES: “Johnny Tremain” tells the story of the American Revolution-era historical figure, 6-7:30 p.m. on the Disney Channel . . . Clifton Webb and Robert Wagner headline “Stars and Stripes Forever,” based on the life of composer John Philip Sousa, 8-10 p.m. on KTTV Channel 11 . . . “Goodbye, Miss Fourth of July” stars Roxana Zal as a young woman who befriends an aging ex-boxer (Lou Gossett Jr.) in a small American town beset by racial prejudice, 8-9:30 p.m. Disney Channel . . . “A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation” dramatizes the events leading up to the signing of the Constitution, 8-10 p.m. KOCE Channel 50, 9:30-11:30 p.m. KPBS Channel 15 and 10 p.m.-midnight KVCR Channel 24.