television

Baseball. It's here already, the major eague All-Star Game, from Atlanta Stadium. CHANNEL 4. Tuesday, 8 p.m. Red Sox vs. New York. CHANNEL 4. Thursday. 7:30 p.m.

Film Odyssey: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. This 1919 German silent directed by Robert Wiene is one of the few textbook classics that holds up as more than a curiosity piece. A lunatiesire-controlling-the-asylum tale with nordant echoes of disheaval in Weimar Germany. CHANNEL 2. Wednesday. 8:30 p.m.

And, of course, there's Dick Cavett, who may be kind of cutesy, but still has the best guests on the late-night talk show sounds, CHANNEL 5, 11:30.