Schedules

• KQED 9HD
• Life
• World
• V-me
• Kids
• KTEH

• 12:00 am
  History Detectives [#705]
  * Tokyo Rose Recording - A viewer has a recording he thinks holds evidence used in the World War II treason trial of Iva Tugori, aka Tokyo Rose. Toguri was an American citizen who hosted a Japanese propaganda radio show broadcast to U.S. troops serving in the Pacific. These broadcasts were at the center of what was then the costliest trial in U.S. history. The viewer has never been able to play his oversized record, but family lore says it reveals the role his uncle played in this infamous show trial. Gwendolyn Wright consults with experts from Long Island to Los Angeles. Her answer flips assumptions of guilt and innocence, and gives viewers a fresh angle on what actually happened in and around that trial.
  * Crazy Horse Photo - 25 years ago, someone gave a leather purse to a Lakota businessman. Inside the purse he found a photograph and a note, dated 1904, written in the Lakota language. An elderly man from the Lakota community translated the note. In brief, it says, "This is a photograph of Crazy Horse." Does the contributor have the Holy Grail of the Wild West: a photo of the Lakota warrior who defeated General Custer? Historians are suspicious of most photos purported to be of Crazy Horse. The Lakota leader avoided cameras, believing they would rob his soul. To verify the photo, Elyse Luray tracks down a Crazy Horse descendant and visits the Crazy Horse Memorial. Finally, she puts the photo in context with other works by the same photographer at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
  * WWII DIARY (Encore presentation) - A man in Lexington, North Carolina,has a poignant diary written by a World War II pilot. He inherited the diary 20 years ago from his father, who said it once belonged to a close friend whom he fought alongside in WWII, until the war took his friend's life in 1944. Keeping the last thoughts of this fallen solider is now too great a burden for the contributor. Can HD return it to a living relative? The stakes are raised as the diary pages reveal the story of a young American pilot stationed in England, racing against time and all odds to return home before the birth of his first child. Wes Cowan heads to Florida on a quest to reunite the diary with the pilot's surviving family. duration 56:16   CC STEREO TVG
• 1:00 am
  This Old House [#2906H]
  Newton Centre Project, Part 6 of 16
  Work on the Dutch Colonial Revival continues as master carpenter Norm Abram recaps the progress on the addition, then turns his attention to the kitchen where general contractor Tom Silva and host Kevin O'Connor are working to reframe the existing walls to accommodate new door and window openings. Upstairs, Tom installs a large new window in the library that is really six individual window units grouped together, while downstairs, kitchen designer Tamara Raymond helps homeowner Gillian Pierce envision her new kitchen with the help of paper mock-ups. Kevin pays a visit to former This Old House architect Treff LaFleche to see how he renovated his 1906 Gambrel-style Victorian to achieve superior energy efficiency and a LEED green building certification. duration 26:30   STEREO TVG
• 1:30 am
  Ask This Old House [#806H]
  Container Gardening/Installing Rooftop Antennas
  Landscape contractor Roger Cook joins plant expert Carrie Kelly at a nursery to learn about container gardening. Then, up in the loft, general contractor Tom Silva and host Kevin O'Connor discuss different types of flooring, including solid wood, engineered wood, ceramic tile, vinyl, and linoleum. Next, Roger, Kevin and Tom, along with plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey ask, "What is it?" Afterward, Kevin and a television antenna expert help a homeowner install a new rooftop antenna for his digital TV. duration 26:46   STEREO TVG
• 2:00 am
  Savage Planet [#103]
  Deadly Skies
  Man has always looked to the sky with unease, for out of the blue comes hail that can destroy homes and cars in a moment, and lightning - hotter than the surface of the sun and powerful enough to light a city for a day. At Cape Canaveral, lightning can stop the U.S. space program in its tracks. Survivors in Australia and Britain tell of lightning's extraordinary power - how it can shred a glider to confetti and knock more than 20 golfers to the ground with a single strike. Spectacular footage from America's lightning capital, where Dr. Martin Uman triggers lightning intentionally, and fascinating research by Dr. Chris Andrew on how a bolt affects the human body shows how little we understand. But there are other deadlier threats from the skies. Out in the blackness of space are meteorites - pieces of planets and stars. Things of beauty and fascination to passionate collectors like Tucson's Bob Haag and astronomer David Kring, hundreds of fragments fall harmlessly to Earth every day. But out there, silently circling, are a least 1,500 big enough to wipe out a city. Some - as comet-hunters David Levy and Carolyn Shoemaker show - big enough to end life on Earth. duration 56:24   CC STEREO TVG
• 3:00 am
  Savage Planet [#104]
  Extremes
  This is a story of two contrasting worlds: the highest mountains in the depths of winter and Death Valley, the hottest, driest, lowest place in North America where July temperatures stay over 100 degrees - day and night. In these harsh environments, a wrong move can mean death. In the mountains of America and Europe people enter territory that is truly nature's own. In winter, avalanches come screaming down slopes at up to 125 miles an hour. Dramatic stories from Utah demonstrate what happens to their victims. In France in 1999, 12 villagers died despite living in a place avalanche scientists and planners had thought was safe. In the baking heat of America's Death Valley, park rangers constantly patrol in military vehicles and light planes, on the lookout for stranded visitors. Yet the very extremes of this place draw people here - enthusiasts who see the heat as a challenge and engineers for whom it is a natural laboratory, a place where man and machine can be pushed to their limits. duration 56:12   CC STEREO TVG
• 4:00 am
  Frontline [#2805]
  A Death In Tehran
  At the height of the protests following Iran's controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Soltani was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death - filmed on a cameraphone, then uploaded to the web - quickly became an international outrage, and Soltani became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the hardline government's hold on power. With the help of a unique network of correspondents in and out of the country, Frontline investigates the life and death of the woman whose image remains a potent symbol for those who want to keep the reform movement alive. The film also explores a number of unanswered questions in the aftermath of the greatest upheaval in Iran since the 1979 revolution: How many were arrested and killed as the security forces attempted to contain the growing protest movement? To what extent was the presidential vote manipulated? What is the nature of the reported divisions among Iran's ruling elites? duration 56:46   STEREO DVI TVRE
• 5:00 am
  Globe Trekker [#809]
  Greece
  Christina Chang begins her Greek idylls in Athens, where she explores the picturesque streets near the Acropolis, spends her evening in the student district of Exaria and listens to "rembetik," the Greek blues. She takes a detour to the Nea Momi monastery on the island of Chios, hikes through the Mani region, treks to Dragon Lake from the village of Mikro Papingo, witnesses a fire-walking festival in Seres, and visits the mountain-top monasteries of Meteora. duration 57:17   CC STEREO DVI TVG
MORNING
• 6:00 am
  Zoboomafoo [#225]
  Messy & Clean
  It's time to clean out the closet but the more Zoboo tries to help, the bigger the mess he makes! No sooner is everything back in its place, than some European wild boars and a capuchin monkey mess everything up again. Zoboo has lots of fun learning how messy and clean means different things to different animals. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 6:30 am
  Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman [#413]
  Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? It's.... Ruffmanman!
  Ruff's nephew Glen has learned that a mysterious villain, Gamma Ray Person, is trying to harness the electromagnetic spectrum for evil. He forces Ruff into a mask and tights to become television's newest superhero... Ruffman Man! Will Ruff and his SuperFETCHers be able to stop Gamma Ray Person from destroying the world? And will Ruff be able to keep his tights from falling down? duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 7:00 am
  Arthur [#610]
  Arthur Loses His Marbles/Friday The 13th
  When Arthur discovers that Grandma Thora is a marbles champion, he trains with her so he can beat all his friends. And though Thora teaches Arthur everything he knows, she doesn't teach him everything she knows... and it's Read versus Read in the first-ever Elwood City Marbles Tournament. Brain doesn't believe in superstitions, even though his friends step over sidewalk cracks... and even Mr. Ratburn walks around ladders. So when Brain's defiance leads to a string of bad luck, he's stunned. Can he reverse the trend before the unluckiest day of them all-Friday the 13th? duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 7:30 am
  Curious George [#403]
  Girl Meets Monkey/Curious George Ramps It Up
  * Girl Meets Monkey - George opens the chicken coop at the Renkins' farm and finds - wait -- a little girl?! Mrs. Renkins introduces George to Allie, her 5-year-old granddaughter who's spending her summer in the country. Allie is thrilled to meet George and practically runs out of breath asking him a million questions. She wants to know what it's like to be a monkey, and George spends an entire day showing her, which includes climbing high in a tree to see where Jumpy squirrel lives. When George climbs down the tree though, he finds that Allie is afraid to follow him. Not that Allie minds being stuck in the tree...she speaks squirrel, you know. Still, George knows girls can't live in trees. He needs to bring out Allie's inner monkey and get her down from the tree!
  * Curious George Ramps It Up - Hundley takes it upon himself to return the toy a baby dropped in his lobby. But when George sees Hundley racing down the street with the toy in his mouth, George thinks he wants to play, and this delays Hundley. Hundley is not happy to see the baby drive off in a bus sans toy and is even more upset when Gnocchi, who wants in on the fun, grabs the toy and disappears through Pisghetti's basement window. George and Hundley follow Gnocchi into the basement, only to have the door lock behind them. Uh-oh. George and Gnocchi can climb up and out the window, but Hundley can't. George comes to the rescue by constructing a ramp leading to the window that even the littlest Daschund legs can climb. Now they just need to figure out where that baby went. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 8:00 am
  Martha Speaks [#117]
  Martha Doesn't Speak Monkey!/Martha and Truman Get Lost
  * Martha Doesn't Speak Monkey! - Professor Monkey is coming to town to promote his craft books with co-author Beppo. But his directions to the bookstore end up under Bob the dog's fiercely guarded porch. Can Martha help Professor Monkey find the bookstore before Beppo turns in her banana suit?
  * Martha and Truman Get Lost - Truman needs Martha to help him find something he lost at Dog Head Lake. The only problem is he won't tell Martha what they're looking for because he's too embarrassed. After getting lost deep in the forest and coming face-to-face with his fears, Truman learns a valuable lesson about himself and his . . . whatsit. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 8:30 am
  Sesame Street [#4190H]
  Wild Nature Survivor Guy
  Wild Nature Survivor Guy is accustomed to surviving in the wilds of nature and thinks he needs to "survive" out on Sesame Street. Elmo and Rosita are confused. He is not alone and he's not in the middle of nature, but he is convinced nature is all around them! First, Wild Nature Survivor Guy finds a tomato plant and bites into a ripe tomato. Not only do tomatoes come from nature, but so do all the fruits and vegetables on display outside Hooper's store. Next, Wild Nature Survival Guy looks for water to quench his thirst. He finds leaves with drops of water and puts the water together to drink. Wild Nature Survival Guy becomes concerned about nighttime approaching, and looks for ways to keep warm. He picks up feathers and puts them inside his shirt. Oh my! They tickle! Elmo offers him a coat, but Wild Nature Survivor Guy explains that feathers are what make most coats warm. The sun begins to set, and Wild Nature Survivor Guy finds perfect shelter, Big Bird's nest! It has lots of branches, and lots of animals use trees and braches as shelter. Even houses are made of wood. Wild Nature Survivor Guy sings a song about nature as Elmo and Rosita realize that nature is all around them! duration 58:46   STEREO DVI TVY
• 9:30 am
  WordWorld [#212]
  Dog's Having A Party/Dog Wants to Play Ball
  Dog's Having a Party - Dog and Duck want to throw a house party at Dog's house. But all they have is the letter H, and they don't know what to do with it! With the help of Sheep they soon realize that H is a fabulous letter; with it they can make hotdogs, hats, hula-hoops and a great party indeed. Hurray!Dog Wants to Play Ball - Dog wants to play ball, but he's having trouble communicating with his friends because they won't stop and listen to him. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 10:00 am
  Clifford's Puppy Days [#112]
  Sing-A-Song Norville/ Tell Me A Tale
  * Sing-A-Song Norville - After encouraging Norville to practice his singing, it's up to Clifford to find a way to tell his friend his constant singing is inconsiderate.
  * Tell Me A Tale - A snowstorm keeps Shun, Emily Elizabeth and Nina from going outside to play. Shun thinks of a fun way to relieve their boredom. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 10:30 am
  Clifford The Big Red Dog [#220]
  A Big Help/The Trouble with Kittens
  * A Big Help: Cleo and T-Bone notice how often Clifford is able to use his large size to help out. But when the kittens, Billy and Betty, get stuck in a tree, the little dogs learn that you don't have to be big to be helpful.
  * The Trouble With Kittens: When kittens Betty and Billy insist on playing in Mr. Bleakman's yard, Clifford does his best to keep them out. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 11:00 am
  Dragon Tales [#316]
  A Crown for Princess Kidoodle/Play It and Say It
  A Crown for Princess Kidoodle - It's coronation day in Dragon Land andthe gang meticulously prepares for the parade following the crowning of their friend, Princess Kidoodle. It's unbelievably windy, however, and just as they start for the day's festivities, Sir Doodle blows helplessly past with the essential prop for the great event-the crown! No matter how hard he tries, he just can't fly in this blustery weather. He'll never make it in time! It's up to the gang to get the crown to the princess. Along the way, Zak, Wheezie, Ord and Cassie all face personal challenges that they must overcome in order to reach their goal. Zak & Wheezie compromise on an alternate route around the Purple Goo Bog, Ord successfully faces his fear of thunder, and Cassie speaks up-announcing to all how to get through the giant gates in order to join the coronation parade. The gang arrives with the crown just in time, much to the appreciation of Princess Kidoodle! Play It and Say It - Ord is having trouble learning numbers in Spanish. The gang decides to help him learn by making it fun! They're about to play a Spanish version of hopscotch called Rayuela, when Norm the Number Gnome steals the numbers right off the ground. They search for the numbers playing a game of "hot and cold," or "Caliente y Frio," as Enrique calls it in Spanish, following Norm's clues. Ord' s friends share different tricks to remember the Spanish numbers such as rhyming, songs, imagining pictures, and repetition as they search for each number. In spite of himself, Ord starts to learn the numbers. Once they have retrieved all 8 missing numbers, Ord realizes that he can now count from uno to ocho all by himself! His dragon badge glows proudly as he plays a triumphant game of Rayuela. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 11:30 am
  Dinosaur Train [#116]
  Night Train/Fossil Fred
  Night Train - Dad, Buddy and Tiny take a special ride on the Dinosaur Train at night, learning about animals that are active after dark, culminating at the Big Pond for a nature walk under the full moon.Fossil Fred - Buddy, Tiny and Don play "detective" and search around the Big Pond for fossils. The kids end up finding an entire skeleton of a Jurassic dinosaur. duration 28:46   SRND51 DVI TVY
AFTERNOON
• 12:00 pm
  Sesame Street [#4195H]
  Sesame Street Elmo Finds A Baby Bird
  Elmo and Rosita are thinking of rhymes when they hear, "Peep, peep." Suddenly, a little baby bird appears. Elmo and Rosita want to help the bird but do not know why he is peeping. They assume Baby Bird is calling his mommy. Chris hears the chirping and places the bird in a tree, but the bird hops out next to Chris! Elmo, Rosita, and Chris think the bird is hungry. Big Bird comes along and suggests feeding Baby Bird some birdseed, after all that's what Big Bird likes to eat. Baby Bird spots Leela eating a sandwich and decides he would like to eat that instead. Cookie Monster strolls by and is about to eat his granola cookie, when Baby Bird pounces on it and eats it all! Baby Bird begins flapping his wings. Elmo and Rosita decide they will teach Baby Bird how to fly! But how? Elmo and Rosita try different things to show Baby Bird but nothing works. Abby comes along and places a flying spell on Baby Bird. Uh-oh! The spell works on Chris instead. Chris reminds Abby she doesn't need magic to teach the bird how to fly. Instead, she should use her wings. Abby demonstrates how to flap her wings as she sings, "The Flapping Song." Baby Bird begins to fly over Sesame Street! Just then a grown up bird perches on Chris's shoulder. That must be Baby Bird's mommy! Baby Bird and her mother fly off together as Elmo, Chris and Rosita wave goodbye. duration 58:46   STEREO DVI TVY
• 1:00 pm
  Barney & Friends [#1110]
  For The Fun of It and Starlight, Star Bright
  For the Fun of It: After BJ sees Terry play basketball, he wants to learn the teenager's fancy moves. He's trying so hard, but just can't seem to do it! More importantly, he's not even having fun anymore. After some advice from Barney and Terry, BJ decides to do his best and have fun!
  Starlight, Star Bright: On a campout at the park, Barney and the others have fun imagining cloud and star pictures in the sky. Suddenly, Baby Bop sees a falling star. She wants to find it and return it to the sky, but instead finds only a lightning bug. With the help of Barney, his friends and a little imagination, they all send a paper star soaring into the sky to replace the star that fell. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 1:30 pm
  Caillou [#411]
  Nature
  Today Caillou discovers the wonders of the natural world. Grandma introduces Caillou to the many birds that live in the park, and then gives him a bird house for his own backyard. That's why Caillou's prepared when he and Sarah find a baby bird that's fallen from its nest, and they nurse it back to health. Later, Caillou and his daycare buddies have a treasure hunt in the forest. With Sarah and a magnifying glass, Caillou pretends to be a jungle explorer, hunting "big game" in the garden. On another day, Caillou and his family go away for a weekend of camping in the woods. He climbs a mountain with Daddy and really, really hopes he will get to see a moose before it is time to go home. duration 28:46   CC STEREO TVY
• 2:00 pm
  Raggs [#126]
  Clothes
  Everybody's off to the beach, but Raggs keeps putting on the wrong clothes. Plus, the dogs have been invited to a dress- up party, but Razzles can't decide what to wear. duration 28:46   CC STEREO TVY
• 2:30 pm
  Curious George [#104]
  Buoy Wonder/Roller Monkey
  Buoy Wonder - Today is a big day for Bill. He's entering his boat in the Model Boat Show! But George discovers that the boat sinks and to keep Bills hopes for a prize afloat, he decides to build a new boat. After some trial and error, George finds out which building materials sink and which float.Roller Monkey - A monkey on roller skates seems unlikely until Mr. And Mrs. Dulson ask George to wear a pair in front of their toy store to attract customers. George's skating rolls out of control, so Hundley steps in to help. Soon George, Hundley, and even Gnocchi find themselves learning about momentum and inertia at a rapid downhill pace. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 3:00 pm
  Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman [#417]
  Ruff's Yard Sale Makes A Racket
  Ruff realizes that he's a horrible shopper. (He just bought a sock at a yard sale for sixteen dollars, after talking the price UP from a quarter!) He also bought a broken tennis racquet at the same sale, which he plans on using in an upcoming match against his nemesis Spot Spotnick! Ruff sends Liza and Talia to the headquarters of Wilson Sporting Goods to design a new tennis racquet for him; and he gets some shopping tips from Bethany and Brian, as they head out to Brimfield Fair, the biggest flea market in the world! duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 3:30 pm
  Cyberchase [#113]
  Eureeka!
  (topic: 2- & 3-D Geometry) - Pursued by Hacker, Digit lands on cybersite Eureeka, where his mission is to find Professor Archimedes - the maker of the encryptor chip, a unique computer chip that can fix Motherboard. But Archimedes is nowhere to be found - only a pile of two-dimensional rods where his chip factory should be. The kids arrive to help, and discover that by linking the two-dimensional rods together into certain geometrical patterns they actually create a surprising three-dimensional shape that leads directly to unraveling the mystery of Archimedes' strange disappearance. The Big Idea: When you follow simple rules to make flat geometrical shapes (two-dimensional), and join them together, you can discover new shapes that, instead of staying flat, rise up to make three-dimensional objects. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 4:00 pm
  Electric Company [#119]
  Out to Launch
  When Francine calls Hector a liar on a neighborhood billboard, The Electric Company has to work together to help clear Hector's name. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 4:30 pm
  WordGirl [#202]
  The Two-Brains Boogie/Field Day Fun with Robo-Tobey
  Field Day Fund with Robo-Tobey -Becky's really excited about the big field day competition at school. But when Tobey wins the potato sack race and the flexed arm hang she suspects something is awry. Becky has to figure out Tobey's tricks or else lose her chance at winning the coveted super deluxe teachers-only magic markers.
  The Two Brains Boogie - Dr. Two Brains is at it again-this time he's threatening to turn all the town's buildings into cheese. When he traps WordGirl outside the city limits she has to figure out how to stop his cheesy plan and get to the Boogie Oogie Oogie dance contest on time! duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY7
• 5:00 pm
  Arthur [#1301]
  The Great Macgrady (Part 1 & 2)
  When Mrs. McGrady is diagnosed with cancer, Arthur and his friends all act differently to the news - Arthur and D.W. rush to her side with heaps of chicken soup and stuffed animals, Muffy tries to pretend that nothing in her life has changed, and Francine is so upset she can't even bring herself to visit Mrs. MacGrady. In this two-part episode, parents and kids learn how they can come together to support Mrs. MacGrady and each other - and Lance Armstrong makes a special appearance to show Francine and the Elwood City residents how they can take a stand, or ride a bike, for cancer survivors. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 5:30 pm
  Nightly Business Report [#29180]
  duration 26:46   CC STEREO TVRE
EVENING
• 6:00 pm
  BBC World News [#18324]
  duration 28:46   CC STEREO TVRE
• 6:30 pm
  McLaughlin Group [#2747]
  duration 27:30   CC TVRE
• 7:00 pm
  Agatha Christie's Poirot [#108]
  The Incredible Theft
  Pre-war Britain is striving to produce a new fighter aircraft. Minister for Armaments Lord Mayfield invites Air Marshall Carrington to his country home to discuss the secret plans. Due to the high security risk, Chief Inspector Japp (Philip Jackson) has the estate patrolled by police but a vital design sheet is somehow spirited out of the house. Poirot, who is also a guest of Lord Mayfield, is on hand to track down the thief. duration 49:59   CC STEREO TVPG
• 8:00 pm
  Sherlock Holmes [#311]
  The Mazarin Stone
  Sherlock Holmes is in the Highlands and Mycroft is called in to recover the Mazarin stone. duration 51:17   CC STEREO TVG
• 9:00 pm
  Midsomer Murders [#107]
  Faithful Unto Death - Part One
  An investigation into the finances of a village community crafts center takes a sinister turn when Simone Hollingsworth, the wife of the center's owner, disappears and a neighbor is murdered. A number of aggrieved investors in the center become persons of interest to DCI Barnaby. duration 47:53   CC STEREO TVPG
• 10:00 pm
  Murder House
  At Nebraska Wesleyan University, a new generation of crime-scene investigators pursues their Masters of Forensic Science degree while a real, headline-grabbing murder case unfolds. This program alternates between the students processing realistic, but fictional, crime scenes, and the role actual CSIs played in solving the 2006 murder of Jessica O'Grady. Cameras observe real CSI officers as they prepare for one of their most difficult cases, knowing their work often determines the accused killer's conviction or acquittal. duration 56:46   CC STEREO TVPG
• 11:00 pm
  Video I [#1404]
  Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey
  A portrait of the African-American jurist whose career began in the Civil Rights Division of the Kennedy Justice Department, and continues to reflect the courage of his convictions as he serves on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Directed by Abby Ginzberg. duration 58:58   CC STEREO TVG