TV Technical Issues
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Occasional sound issues, Comcast Cable
Some Comcast Cable customers have reported audio issues with KQED and KQED Plus, on channels 9 and 10. The problem is not related to KQED’s transmission but may be caused by the language setting on your Comcast remote control. Please check for a button labeled “Language” or “Lang” on your remote control. Instead of this [...]
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Fri 6/21: KQET planned maintenance outage
(DT 25.1 through 25.3) On Friday, June 21st, we will be doing maintenance on the KQET transmitter servicing the Watsonville, Monterey, Salinas, Gilroy areas. Starting around 11:30am our Over the Air (OTA) signal will be down for 10-20 minutes. This should not affect Comcast Cable viewers. Other paid signal providers which use the Over the [...]
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Mon 5/06: very brief KQED DT9 OTA outage
(DT9.1, 9.2, 9.3) This morning we had a very brief outage of our over the air (OTA) coverage for KQED 9.1/9.2/9.3, which lasted apx 4 minutes. Most tuners will have found the channel again as soon as service was restored, but some may need to be rescanned for channel 9. This outage did not affect [...]
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Martha Speaks
This animated series is designed to enrich the vocabulary of 4- to 7-year-olds. It is based on the classic books by Susan Meddaugh that have charmed and captivated millions of children. Each episode uses Martha's unique linguistic abilities and the hilarious consequences to engage kids and help build their vocabulary skills.
Martha Speaks Previous Broadcasts
Monkeyshines Martha/Dog Daze (Episode #406H)
KQED Plus: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 -- 5:00 PM
Monkeyshines Martha - Helen's hefty schoolwork load leaves her with little time left to spend with Martha. At loose ends, Martha finds a friend in Professor Monkey, whose wacky inventions propel Martha into a world of new adventures. Vocabulary: (E) relie(f)(ve), genius, unwind, cherish, pressure. Dog Daze - When Carolina chastises Martha for her doggish mannerisms, Martha wishes Carolina could just see things from her point of view. That night, Carolina goes to sleep only to awake as...a dog! What will happen when she's forced to take on a furry, four-legged perspective? Vocabulary: (E) empathy, sympathy, characteristics, mannerisms, point of view.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
Here's Martha!/Dog Fight (Episode #137H)
KQED Kids: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 -- 9:30 AM
* Here's Martha! - Martha hosts a TV show where she helps people understand their animals better by explaining what they're saying. Unfortunately, the only viewers are Martha and her friends, so the producers try a new format, Crime Scene Doggie.
* Dog Fight - Martha and Skits don't want to share their newest, coolest dog toy. Their bickering is driving Helen nuts, and now TD and Alice have taken sides. Can't they all just get along?
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
Truman's Secret/Skits Monkeys Around (Episode #139H)
KQED Plus: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 -- 5:00 PM
* Truman's Secret - Where has Truman been and why is he acting so weird? He's hiding in the garage, lurking in the shadows. He finally agrees to tell the whole gruesome story, but will it be too horrible for them to bear?
* Skits Monkeys Around - Skits loves to watch Malcolm, the blue monkey on TV. In fact, he loves Malcolm so much he wants to be Malcolm, and he starts wearing a polka dot bowtie. Martha is mortified to be seen with him in public. How long is this phase going to last or could it be permanent?
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
- KQED Kids: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
Verb Dog, When Action Calls!/Martha's Adverb Adventures (Episode #402H)
KQED Kids: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 -- 9:30 AM
Verb Dog, When Action Calls! - Struck by a falling book of five-hundred-and-one English Verbs, Martha instantly becomes - Verb Dog! Using her unique superpower to control people with verbs, Martha sniffs out trouble and defends the town from evil. Vocabulary: (E) verb, amublate, elevate, descend, (un)petrify. Martha's Adverb Adventure - Weaselgraft and Pablum have a new invention that is sure to make them rich again. The Adverbalizer activates adverbs - giving the user the ability to make things happen completely, sloppily, instantly... Of course T.D. orders one... immediately! Vocabulary: (E) sloppily, instantly, immediately, completely, adverb.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
Return Of The Bookbots: The Case Of The Missing Words, Part One & Two (Episode #405H)
KQED Plus: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 -- 5:00 PM
Return of the Bookbots: The Case of the Missing Words, Part One - The Bookbots are back and faced with a new nemesis: The Announcer. Armed with the power to bring nouns from books to life, the Announcer is wreaking havoc on Wagstaff City. Can our heroes utilize their semantic savvy to stifle this rampaging rapscallion? Vocabulary: (E) noun, remove, term, insert, announce(r). Return of the Bookbots: The Case of the Missing Words, Part Two - The Announcer is still at large and has put the city into grammatical peril. Fortunately, the Bookbots have discovered a secret weapon: adjectives. Equipped with this new linguistic leverage, our heroes may just be able to save their beloved city from their phonological foe. Vocabulary: (E) oath, adjective, define, modify, weightless.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
- KQED Kids: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
Martha Goes to School/Td and the Light Bulb of Doom (Episode #133H)
KQED Kids: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 -- 9:30 AM
* Martha Goes to School - TD thinks it would be funny to put Martha's name on the list for substitute teachers. What started out as a joke, turns into a nightmare for Helen, Alice, and TD, when Martha gets the job and takes it very seriously.
* TD and the Light Bulb of Doom - TD swears he'll start working on his report just as soon as he watches the "Harry Blotter, Boy Wizard" movie marathon, all nine parts! As Helen predicted, TD winds up in a panic until he has a moment of inspiration. Can he pull off his project in time?
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
Therapy Dog/Martha's Duck Trouble (Episode #138H)
KQED Plus: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 -- 5:00 PM
* Therapy Dog - Martha becomes a hospital therapy dog, spreading cheer among the patients. But trouble brews when Mrs. Demson, who claims a horrible allergy to dogs, is admitted for an invisible rash. Can Martha sneak in to help the other patients without Mrs. Demson knowing?
* Martha's Duck Trouble - Ralph, the wounded duck from the lake, has settled in at Martha's house to convalesce. Pretty soon, it feels like the duck is taking over. How long does it take for a duck's wing to heal anyway? Is it possible that Ralph has gotten a little too comfortable?
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
- KQED Kids: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
Martha Speaks Martha Treads The Boards/Martha's Pack (Episode #134H)
KQED Kids: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 -- 9:30 AM
* Martha Treads the Boards - Helen's mom and dad are starring in the community theater production, and Helen's the stage manager. Even Martha gets a part... as a bull. When the big night finally comes, Mom and Dad get trapped in their dressing room. The play must go on, but now the bull is the bullfighter and the bullfighter is... her sister? What will they do for an encore?
* Martha's Pack - When Helen leaves Martha off her family tree, Martha decides to make her own pack. However, the call of the wild becomes the call of the can opener for her pack mates, and soon Martha is left alone at Doghead Lake, hunting for dinner. But can she really eat that poor wounded duck?
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
Martha Speaks Martha The Witness/Martha Takes A Stand (Episode #132H)
KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 -- 9:30 AM
* Martha the Witness - Mrs. Demson hates dogs and blames them for everything, which is a problem since she lives right down the street from Martha. But she changes her tune after Martha witnesses an accident that destroys Mrs. Demson's lawn furniture. Now Mrs. Demson will do anything to get Martha to appear as her witness in court.
* Martha Takes a Stand - Something smells bad and it's Martha. Faced with yet another bath, Martha makes a stand for her right to, well, stink. But if Martha is going to stand up for her rights, Dad says she can do it outside. Will Martha be an outside dog forever?
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
- KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
- KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
Here's Martha!/Dog Fight (Episode #137H)
KQED Kids: Sat, Feb 23, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
* Here's Martha! - Martha hosts a TV show where she helps people understand their animals better by explaining what they're saying. Unfortunately, the only viewers are Martha and her friends, so the producers try a new format, Crime Scene Doggie.
* Dog Fight - Martha and Skits don't want to share their newest, coolest dog toy. Their bickering is driving Helen nuts, and now TD and Alice have taken sides. Can't they all just get along?
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
- KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
Martha Speaks Martha's Worst Best Day/Truman's Brother (Episode #136H)
KQED Kids: Sat, Feb 23, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
* Martha's Worst Best Day - Why is Martha so grumpy? She's offended just about everybody with her insults. Truman figures out that she's saying the exact reverse of what she means to say. But can they figure out the cure before she ruins Grandpa Bernie's birthday party?
* Truman's Brother - Truman and TD both wish they had a brother. If Skits and Martha can be sort of siblings, why can't the two of them? Helen and Alice bet the boys that they can't keep the brother thing up for a week, because they don't exactly have a lot in common.
Here's Martha!/Dog Fight (Episode #137H)
KQED Kids: Sat, Feb 23, 2013 -- 9:30 AM
* Here's Martha! - Martha hosts a TV show where she helps people understand their animals better by explaining what they're saying. Unfortunately, the only viewers are Martha and her friends, so the producers try a new format, Crime Scene Doggie.
* Dog Fight - Martha and Skits don't want to share their newest, coolest dog toy. Their bickering is driving Helen nuts, and now TD and Alice have taken sides. Can't they all just get along?
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
- KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
Verb Dog, When Action Calls!/Martha's Adverb Adventures (Episode #402H)
KQED Plus: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 -- 5:00 PM
Verb Dog, When Action Calls! - Struck by a falling book of five-hundred-and-one English Verbs, Martha instantly becomes - Verb Dog! Using her unique superpower to control people with verbs, Martha sniffs out trouble and defends the town from evil. Vocabulary: (E) verb, amublate, elevate, descend, (un)petrify. Martha's Adverb Adventure - Weaselgraft and Pablum have a new invention that is sure to make them rich again. The Adverbalizer activates adverbs - giving the user the ability to make things happen completely, sloppily, instantly... Of course T.D. orders one... immediately! Vocabulary: (E) sloppily, instantly, immediately, completely, adverb.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
- KQED Kids: Sat, Feb 23, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Sat, Feb 23, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
- KQED Kids: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
Martha Smells/Martha Hears (Episode #135H)
KQED Kids: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 -- 9:30 AM
* Martha Smells - Martha is secretly trapped inside Pablum and Weaselgraft's hideout. She manages to call Helen and tell her how to get there by smell. Can Helen and TD follow her scent map and uncover Weaselgraft and Pablum's lair?
* Martha Hears - For the same story from a different sensory perspective, Martha once again finds herself trapped in Weaselgraft and Pablum's lair, but this time she leads Helen and TD to their hideout by describing what she hears. It sounded like a good idea. . ..
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
Martha Goes to School/Td and the Light Bulb of Doom (Episode #133H)
KQED Plus: Thu, Feb 21, 2013 -- 5:00 PM
* Martha Goes to School - TD thinks it would be funny to put Martha's name on the list for substitute teachers. What started out as a joke, turns into a nightmare for Helen, Alice, and TD, when Martha gets the job and takes it very seriously.
* TD and the Light Bulb of Doom - TD swears he'll start working on his report just as soon as he watches the "Harry Blotter, Boy Wizard" movie marathon, all nine parts! As Helen predicted, TD winds up in a panic until he has a moment of inspiration. Can he pull off his project in time?
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
- KQED Kids: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
- KQED Kids: Thu, Feb 21, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
Verb Dog, When Action Calls!/Martha's Adverb Adventures (Episode #402H)
KQED Kids: Thu, Feb 21, 2013 -- 9:30 AM
Verb Dog, When Action Calls! - Struck by a falling book of five-hundred-and-one English Verbs, Martha instantly becomes - Verb Dog! Using her unique superpower to control people with verbs, Martha sniffs out trouble and defends the town from evil. Vocabulary: (E) verb, amublate, elevate, descend, (un)petrify. Martha's Adverb Adventure - Weaselgraft and Pablum have a new invention that is sure to make them rich again. The Adverbalizer activates adverbs - giving the user the ability to make things happen completely, sloppily, instantly... Of course T.D. orders one... immediately! Vocabulary: (E) sloppily, instantly, immediately, completely, adverb.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
- KQED Kids: Sat, Feb 23, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Sat, Feb 23, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
- KQED Kids: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
- KQED Kids: Thu, Feb 21, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
Martha Speaks Martha Treads The Boards/Martha's Pack (Episode #134H)
KQED Plus: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 -- 5:00 PM
* Martha Treads the Boards - Helen's mom and dad are starring in the community theater production, and Helen's the stage manager. Even Martha gets a part... as a bull. When the big night finally comes, Mom and Dad get trapped in their dressing room. The play must go on, but now the bull is the bullfighter and the bullfighter is... her sister? What will they do for an encore?
* Martha's Pack - When Helen leaves Martha off her family tree, Martha decides to make her own pack. However, the call of the wild becomes the call of the can opener for her pack mates, and soon Martha is left alone at Doghead Lake, hunting for dinner. But can she really eat that poor wounded duck?
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
- KQED Kids: Thu, Feb 21, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Thu, Feb 21, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
- KQED Kids: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
Bulldozer Versus Dinosaur!/Carolina Tackles Football (Episode #403H)
KQED Kids: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 -- 9:30 AM
Bulldozer Versus Dinosaur! - T.D. ponders the age-old question: what's more powerful, a bulldozer or a dinosaur? The kids can't come to an agreement, so T.D. does what any boy faced with this question would do. He uses a time machine to bring a dinosaur back from the late Cretaceous period. Let the competition begin. Vocabulary: (E) match, force, equal, contend(er), clash. Carolina Tackles Football - The Wagstaff Dogs are tired of losing every game. In their search for new leadership, the gang is shocked to discover a fanatical football coach in...Carolina? Can the girly-girl protect her image and still bring the team to victory? Vocabulary: (E) pass, tackle, fumble, huddle, intercept(ion).
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
Martha Speaks Martha The Witness/Martha Takes A Stand (Episode #132H)
KQED Plus: Tue, Feb 19, 2013 -- 5:00 PM
* Martha the Witness - Mrs. Demson hates dogs and blames them for everything, which is a problem since she lives right down the street from Martha. But she changes her tune after Martha witnesses an accident that destroys Mrs. Demson's lawn furniture. Now Mrs. Demson will do anything to get Martha to appear as her witness in court.
* Martha Takes a Stand - Something smells bad and it's Martha. Faced with yet another bath, Martha makes a stand for her right to, well, stink. But if Martha is going to stand up for her rights, Dad says she can do it outside. Will Martha be an outside dog forever?
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
- KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
- KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
- KQED Kids: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
- KQED Kids: Tue, Feb 19, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
Itchy Martha/Martha and the Thief of Hearts (Episode #121H)
KQED Kids: Tue, Feb 19, 2013 -- 9:30 AM
* Itchy Martha - Martha can't keep her paws away from her itchy ear mites. Until they're gone, she has to wear a cone on her head to keep her from scratching. Martha hates the cone; it gets in the way and makes everything sound weird. Worse than that, it terrifies Jake. Will Martha have to live in the cellar until she gets better?
* Martha and the Thief of Hearts - The gang decides to make homemade valentines for each other. But when everybody's art supplies begin disappearing, their affectionate mood begins to fade. Can Martha solve the mystery of the stolen supplies?
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Tue, Feb 19, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
Here's Martha!/Dog Fight (Episode #137H)
KQED Plus: Mon, Feb 18, 2013 -- 5:00 PM
* Here's Martha! - Martha hosts a TV show where she helps people understand their animals better by explaining what they're saying. Unfortunately, the only viewers are Martha and her friends, so the producers try a new format, Crime Scene Doggie.
* Dog Fight - Martha and Skits don't want to share their newest, coolest dog toy. Their bickering is driving Helen nuts, and now TD and Alice have taken sides. Can't they all just get along?
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
- KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
- KQED Kids: Tue, Feb 19, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Tue, Feb 19, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
- KQED Kids: Mon, Feb 18, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
Martha Speaks Martha's Worst Best Day/Truman's Brother (Episode #136H)
KQED Kids: Mon, Feb 18, 2013 -- 9:30 AM
* Martha's Worst Best Day - Why is Martha so grumpy? She's offended just about everybody with her insults. Truman figures out that she's saying the exact reverse of what she means to say. But can they figure out the cure before she ruins Grandpa Bernie's birthday party?
* Truman's Brother - Truman and TD both wish they had a brother. If Skits and Martha can be sort of siblings, why can't the two of them? Helen and Alice bet the boys that they can't keep the brother thing up for a week, because they don't exactly have a lot in common.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Mon, Feb 18, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
Martha Smells/Martha Hears (Episode #135H)
KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 17, 2013 -- 9:30 AM
* Martha Smells - Martha is secretly trapped inside Pablum and Weaselgraft's hideout. She manages to call Helen and tell her how to get there by smell. Can Helen and TD follow her scent map and uncover Weaselgraft and Pablum's lair?
* Martha Hears - For the same story from a different sensory perspective, Martha once again finds herself trapped in Weaselgraft and Pablum's lair, but this time she leads Helen and TD to their hideout by describing what she hears. It sounded like a good idea. . ..
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
- KQED Kids: Mon, Feb 18, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Mon, Feb 18, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
- KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 17, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
- KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 17, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
Verb Dog, When Action Calls!/Martha's Adverb Adventures (Episode #402H)
KQED Kids: Sat, Feb 16, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
Verb Dog, When Action Calls! - Struck by a falling book of five-hundred-and-one English Verbs, Martha instantly becomes - Verb Dog! Using her unique superpower to control people with verbs, Martha sniffs out trouble and defends the town from evil. Vocabulary: (E) verb, amublate, elevate, descend, (un)petrify. Martha's Adverb Adventure - Weaselgraft and Pablum have a new invention that is sure to make them rich again. The Adverbalizer activates adverbs - giving the user the ability to make things happen completely, sloppily, instantly... Of course T.D. orders one... immediately! Vocabulary: (E) sloppily, instantly, immediately, completely, adverb.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
- KQED Kids: Sat, Feb 23, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Sat, Feb 23, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
- KQED Kids: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
- KQED Kids: Thu, Feb 21, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
- KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 17, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 17, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
Martha's Life In Crime, Part 1 & 2 (Episode #211H)
KQED Kids: Sat, Feb 16, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
* Martha's Life in Crime, Part 1 - Martha tells the story of her puppy days in the animal shelter and her excitement of finding a family. But it turns out that Helen wasn't the first person who adopted Martha. Vocabulary: (E) autobiography, possib(le)(ilities), yearn(ed), promis(e)(ing), narrate(d), flashback (I) tell(ing), back then, now, recall, before.
* Martha's Life in Crime, Part 2 -Puppy Martha's new owner turns out to have unsavory plans for her. Can Martha turn the tables on the bumbling crooks and still find a family? Vocabulary: (E) reminiscing, background, aspire(d)(ations), sequence (I) time, past, wish(ed), happened, when.
Verb Dog, When Action Calls!/Martha's Adverb Adventures (Episode #402H)
KQED Kids: Sat, Feb 16, 2013 -- 9:30 AM
Verb Dog, When Action Calls! - Struck by a falling book of five-hundred-and-one English Verbs, Martha instantly becomes - Verb Dog! Using her unique superpower to control people with verbs, Martha sniffs out trouble and defends the town from evil. Vocabulary: (E) verb, amublate, elevate, descend, (un)petrify. Martha's Adverb Adventure - Weaselgraft and Pablum have a new invention that is sure to make them rich again. The Adverbalizer activates adverbs - giving the user the ability to make things happen completely, sloppily, instantly... Of course T.D. orders one... immediately! Vocabulary: (E) sloppily, instantly, immediately, completely, adverb.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
- KQED Kids: Sat, Feb 23, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Sat, Feb 23, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
- KQED Kids: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
- KQED Kids: Thu, Feb 21, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
- KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 17, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Sun, Feb 17, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
Bulldozer Versus Dinosaur!/Carolina Tackles Football (Episode #403H)
KQED Plus: Fri, Feb 15, 2013 -- 5:00 PM
Bulldozer Versus Dinosaur! - T.D. ponders the age-old question: what's more powerful, a bulldozer or a dinosaur? The kids can't come to an agreement, so T.D. does what any boy faced with this question would do. He uses a time machine to bring a dinosaur back from the late Cretaceous period. Let the competition begin. Vocabulary: (E) match, force, equal, contend(er), clash. Carolina Tackles Football - The Wagstaff Dogs are tired of losing every game. In their search for new leadership, the gang is shocked to discover a fanatical football coach in...Carolina? Can the girly-girl protect her image and still bring the team to victory? Vocabulary: (E) pass, tackle, fumble, huddle, intercept(ion).
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Kids: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 -- 2:00 PM
- KQED Kids: Sat, Feb 16, 2013 -- 7:00 AM
- KQED Kids: Sat, Feb 16, 2013 -- 1:30 AM
- KQED Kids: Fri, Feb 15, 2013 -- 7:30 PM
Martha Ain't Nothin' But A Pound Dog, Part 1 & Part 2 (Episode #115H)
KQED Kids: Fri, Feb 15, 2013 -- 9:30 AM
* Martha Ain't Nothin' but a Pound Dog, Part 1 - Martha loses her collar and winds up in the animal shelter. She leads an escape attempt, only to find that freedom isn't much without a family. (1st of two parts). Vocabulary - (E) abandon, deserted, neglected, overlooked, (un) fortunate (I) alone, forgot, harsh, lonely, tough, rough.
* Martha Ain't Nothin' but a Pound Dog, Part 2 - When Martha's family comes to take her home, she decides she can't leave her shelter friends behind. Adopting that many dogs is out of the question, so Martha, Helen, and TD cook up a plan to find families for the pound pooches. (2nd of two parts). Vocabulary - (E) adopt, affection, devoted, embrace, loyal. (I) adore, belong, care, dream, hope.