TV Guide PBS America Thursday

George HW Bush's advancement to US President. His fourth child, Neil Bush, became involved in the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s. The businessman was hauled before Congress and sued by the FDIC for his involvement in Silverado Savings and Loan (Denver, CO), which failed in December 1989

Colourised footage of films from the 1930s, including the abdication of King Edward VIII at a time when the nation needed stability the most and a top-secret conference between the prime minister and the Fuhrer. Plus, a fitness craze that saw women take to the great outdoors in their big knickers and blouses, and new prosperity in the south of Britain thanks to the Hoover factory

Part two of two. From the Liberation of Paris to the Évian Accords signing Algeria's independence, via major social crisis of 1947, Abbé Pierre's appeal against poverty, the rise of modern comfort or the OAS attacks, this documentary paints a vast picture of a country torn between unity and division in the wake of the Second World War

Exploring the early experiments with ether and chloroform and what changed dramatically as a result of their use. Plus, how surgeons looked for ways to prevent wound infections and what technique finally brought them success. Part two of two

A look at how the conflict became an intelligence war, as the police and the army made efforts to infiltrate paramilitary organisations and recruit informers. Teenager Annmarie reveals how a loyalist gun attack at a funeral in Milltown Cemetery in West Belfast in 1988 prompted her to plant firebombs in city centre shops, primed to explode at night. She then became caught up in an intelligence web of informers and interrogation.