Schedules

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

• 12:00 am
  Globe Trekker [#824]
  Queensland & The Great Barrier Reef
  Megan McCormick hangs ten at Surfers' Paradise on the Gold Coast and Noosa in Queensland. She catches the ferry to Fraser Island, the world's largest sandbar and home to a wide assortment of wildlife. Megan then heads to Airlie Beach and boards a yacht for a two-day tour of the Whitsunday Islands, known as the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. Next she goes diving in Blue Pearl Bay, where she also gets tips for surviving a run-in with crocodiles from the Barefooted Bushman. Megan explores the wreckage of a cargo ship in the Magnetic Islands, learns all about coral in Cairns, meets a pearl diver on Thursday Island, hunts for wild boar on Cape York Peninsula and finally experiences the beauty of Lizard Island and Cod Hole at the very tip of the Australian continent. duration 57:28   CC STEREO DVI TVG
• 1:00 am
  Antiques Roadshow [#1211]
  Spokane, Wa - Hour Two
  In Spokane, Washington, host Mark L. Walberg joins appraiser Kathleen Bailey at the historic E.J. Roberts mansion to look at examples of a charming Victorian lighting fixture: the fairy lamp. At the Spokane Convention Center, appraisers brighten at the sight of such enchanting finds as a collection of pottery by 20th-century master ceramicists Otto and Gertrude Natzler; a moving landscape painting by early 20th-century artist - and sometime Alaskan gold prospector -Sydney Laurence; and an heirloom Waltham railroad pocket watch with a rare winding mechanism and diamond end stone, valued at $4000 to $ 6000. duration 55:15   CC STEREO TVG
• 2:00 am
  National Parks: America's Best Idea [#105]
  Great Nature (1933-1945)
  In the midst of an economic catastrophe and then a world war, the national parks provide a source of much-needed jobs and then much-needed peace; the park idea changes to include new places and new ways of thinking; and in Wyoming, battle lines are drawn along the front of the Teton Range. duration 1:56:46   CC STEREO DVI TVPG
• 4:00 am
  Bill Cosby: The Mark Twain Prize
  Whether it be through concert appearances or recordings, television or films, commercials or education, Bill Cosby has the ability to touch people's lives. His humor often centers on the basic cornerstones of our existence, seeking to provide an insight into our roles as parents, children, family members and men and women. Without resorting to gimmickry or lowbrow humor, Cosby's comedy has a point of reference and respect for the trappings and traditions of the great American humorists such as Mark Twain. Stay tuned for an announcement about talent set to appear on stage - it will once again be a star-studded event. duration 1:26:46   STEREO TVPG
• 5:30 am
  Erma Bombeck: Legacy of Laughter
  This program examines the extraordinary life and career of the beloved American humorist (1927-1996), whose honest tales of domestic life gave voice to millions of homemakers. Archival photographs, video clips and personal memorabilia trace Bombeck's life, from her childhood during the Great Depression to her work as a women's rights activist. The program is interspersed with uplifting and humorous interviews with Erma's family, friends and colleagues, including a touching on-camera introduction and narration by her neighbor and friend, former talk-show host Phil Donahue. It also features readings from some of Bombeck's best columns, and documents her continuing impact on readers, parents and writers today. duration 26:46   CC STEREO TVG
MORNING
• 6:00 am
  Zoboomafoo [#214]
  Fearfest
  A big thunderstorm hits Animal Junction and Zoboo sees something frightening in the dark. But the scary creatures are just grizzly bear cubs! Martin and Chris tell their lemur friend all about grizzlies and other animals that seem scary - but really aren't. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 6:30 am
  Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman [#408]
  Doggie Duties
  Ruff has to go... bad! He tries to get through the show without an accident, and learns from Liza and Sterling all about "dog duties." He also finds out how astronauts deal with waste in space when he sends Bethany and Isaac to NASA to learn about recycling liquids on the International Space Station. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 7:00 am
  Arthur [#312]
  What Scared Sue Ellen?/Clarissa Is Cracked
  Sue Ellen isn't afraid of anything until she takes the short cut through the woods. From that point everything appears to scare her. Arthur and the other boys accompany Sue Ellen through the woods to locate her monsters. Grandma Thora gives her favorite doll, Clarissa, to D.W. for a week. D.W. treats the antique doll like her other toys, but loving Clarissa more. Unfortunately, D.W.'s attention proves fatal to Clarissa when the doll breaks. D.W. and her family find a doll doctor to repair Grandma Thora's treasured toy before she's returned. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 7:30 am
  Curious George [#303]
  For The Birds/Curious George-Asaurus
  * For the Birds: George loves feeding the birds, but they must be starving, because all the seeds keep disappearing! Perplexed, George returns with more food, only to find a big, bushy tail sticking out of the feeder. It's Jumpy Squirrel, caught in the act of eating all the seeds! George tries to squirrel-proof the birdhouse, moving it further from the tree trunk, clearing away freestanding objects, and even developing a pulley laundry line system to hang it from. But to no avail - that squirrel can climb - and apparently eat - anything! Why does Jumpy keep taking the seeds? Has his appetite suddenly grown - or maybe they're not all for him? Educational Objective: To illustrate that all products and systems are subject to failure; and that many can be fixed through troubleshooting.
  * George-asaurus: Professor Wiseman needs the Man with the Yellow Hat's help to assemble some rare dinosaur bones into a skeleton in time for an important archaeologist, Dr. Raj Desai, to see them. Wiseman and the Man finish the task and meet Dr. Desai for lunch. Meanwhile, George and Gnocchi play outside with a toy plane, which floats though a window--landing on the newly assembled dinosaur. When George climbs the fragile bones to retrieve it, the entire skeleton collapses! Using another dinosaur as a model, George is able to organize, sort, and piece together the bones back into its proper form. But how will Dr. Desai feel about a monkey working on his precious dinosaur bones, especially when the wrong head ends up on the dinosaur's skeleton? Educational Objective: To sort and classify bones based on their shape and size. To develop an understanding of symmetry by reassembling the dinosaur bones so that each bone on one side of the body matches the equivalent bone on the other side (e.g., size, shape, location). duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 8:00 am
  Martha Speaks [#111]
  Martha Walks The Dog/Martha's Got Talent
  * Martha Walks the Dog* (*book based) - There's a new dog in town and, boy, is he mean! He barks so much that nobody can sleep. Helen and Martha decide they have to do something. They try steak, squeaky toys, soothing music, but nothing calms the beast within. Then unexpectedly Ronald's parrot reveals the power of a few well-chosen words. Vocabulary - (E) annoy, beware, insult, pleasant, unpleasant (I) bully, mean, loud, tough, naughty.
  * Martha's Got Talent -Weaselgraft just can't get Martha off his mind. He must have her. Maybe he can tempt her into his clutches with some well-placed praise and a lifetime supply of bones. He invites her to a talent show, and Martha tells the gang. TD, Truman, and Carolina are game, but they aren't the kind of game Weaselgraft was hoping to catch. Vocabulary -(E) coax, compliment, flatter, tempt, praise (I) tongue twister, care, friendly, practice, treat. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 8:30 am
  Sesame Street [#4160]
  Grouch News Network
  Oscar the Grouch is the host of the Grouch News Network- all grouchy, all disgustin', all yucky news, all the time. The stories are starting off grouchy enough, but they're ending up really nice. First, Cookie Monster is upset when his cookie breaks in half, but thanks to Oscar, he realizes that he now has 2 half cookies. Then, there's a celebrity sighting outside Hooper's store. Prince Charming and Sleeping Beauty are playing checkers when Sleeping Beauty falls asleep right in the middle of their game. Prince Charming is feeling frustrated, but Oscar unknowingly gives him a great idea- a kiss could wake her up. Sleeping Beauty thanks Oscar with a big kiss of his own. Now Oscar's really losing his grouchy viewers. Although, there has been an elephant stuck in Maria's bathtub all day, which could just be the kind of grouchy news him and his viewers need. Bob just happened to be watching the Grouch News Network and comes to the rescue with a bag of peanuts to get the elephant out! Oscar's show is ruined. Lucky for him, it's so nice, happy and sweet that it's aggravating! The grouches love it and Oscar wins the Phlemmy Award. duration 58:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 9:30 am
  WordWorld [#208]
  Duck at Bat/You Can Never Have Too Many Oo's
  Duck loses the letter B to his baseball bat and tries to build other words to hit the ball. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 10:00 am
  Clifford's Puppy Days [#101]
  Keeping Cool/Socks and Snooze
  "Keeping Cool" - It's always fun when Evan is baby-sitting Emily Elizabeth and Clifford. This time Evan tries to impress Vanessa, the new girl in the building, but finds that she is most impressed when he is just being himself.
  
  "Socks and Snooze" - When Emily Elizabeth can't find one of her "lucky" socks for the first day of school Clifford is determined to hunt it down for her, and ends up finding it in a very surprising place. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 10:30 am
  Clifford The Big Red Dog [#209]
  Princess Cleo/Basketball Stories
  * Princess Cleo - Clifford's Big Idea: Be a Good Friend.
  Cleo discovers her grandmother was a Queen - and that makes her a Princess! She begins to enjoy all the privileges she believes come with being a Princess - but soon learns that her friends are more important to her than any crown or title could ever be. In the end, she discovers that it's more fun to read about being a princess than to be one in real life.
  * Basketball Stories - Clifford's Big Idea: Be a Good Friend.
  Skyscraper Jackson has come to Birdwell Island for a big exhibition game, which Charley wouldn't miss for anything -except a bad cold. But Emily, Vaz and Jetta each write a story about the game for Charley from their different points of view. Charley gets to relive the game through his friend's stories and they have a lot of fun writing and reading them to him. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 11:00 am
  Dragon Tales [#304]
  Sky Soccer/Making It Fun
  Sky Soccer - Today is the day for the Sky Soccer team tryouts in Dragon Land! Ord really wants to be on the team, but he's never played before. As Ord attempts the drills, he repeatedly misses the ball and uses the wrong parts of his body to touch the ball. Ord decides that sky soccer is just too hard. His friends convince him not to give up by sharing advice on taking things slowly, remembering which parts of his body to use, and saying the phrase, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!" When Ord returns for the second half of the tryouts, he shows tremendous improvement. Even though he does not make the team, the coach congratulates Ord on his progress and encourages him to keep practicing for next time. Making It Fun - The children are summoned to Dragon Land when Cassie, Ord, and Eunice the unicorn need their help. The Junior Unicorn Race is today, and Eunice needs the gang to paint the winding path so that the little unicorns do not get lost on their way. Zak and Wheezie join the group, who enthusiastically starts painting the path. Once they have painted for a while, they realize just how long the path is and become discouraged. Knowing that the tiny unicorns will get lost without a path, the gang comes up with clever ways to make their work go faster such as taking "fun breaks," painting with more colors, singing songs, and racing. They finish just in time to watch the unicorns take off for their race! duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 11:30 am
  Dinosaur Train [#109]
  Armored Like An Ankylosaurus/Campout!
  * Armored Like an Ankylosaurus - The kids travel on the Dinosaur Train with Mr. Pteranodon to see his hero, Hank Ankylosaurus, play a game of Dinoball. Afterwards, they even get to play with Hank and learn what it's like to be a dinosaur that's covered with armored plates and a mighty club for a tail.
  * Campout! - Our Pteranodon family goes to the Big Pond for their first overnight camp out and meets a small frog with a big voice. duration 27:45   SRND51 DVI TVY
AFTERNOON
• 12:00 pm
  Sesame Street [#4165]
  Firefly Show
  It's dusk and Telly and Baby Bear come running in carrying a net and a jar. They explain to Chris that they are catching fireflies! Chris hasn't seen any, but wishes them luck in finding one. Suddenly, Baby Bear and Telly spot a firefly. They try to catch it but It flies all the way up high by the Sesame Street sign. They have no luck and begin chasing chase it all over Sesame Street. Telly has an idea to use their flashlight to attract the firefly. The firefly will think the blinking light is another firefly and come to them. It works! They catch the firefly but soon notice that his light is getting dimmer. He looks sad, too. Leela comes along and suggests that maybe they could find out what's wrong by pretending to be fireflies that have been trapped in a small jar. They do this and discover that he is sad because there's no room to fly free. So, they decide it's best to let him go and the firefly is happy again. In the end, Telly and Baby Bear realize that it's more fun pretending to be fireflies then actually catching them! duration 58:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 1:00 pm
  Barney & Friends [#1107]
  Barney's Big Garden and Listen!
  Barney's Big Garden: Baby Bop wants Barney, BJ and the kids to play with her instead of working in their garden. They promise to play with her as soon as they finish. Baby Bop can't wait, and tries many ways to get them to come play with her now, none of which work. When her friends do come to play, they have a tea party and enjoy some of the fresh vegetables from the garden. Baby Bop discovers that some things are worth the wait!
  Listen: When Riff hears a mysterious sound in the park, he plays detective, trying to solve the mystery. Barney and the children join in the fun. Along the way, they explore the sense of sound while identifying sounds of nature and the neighborhood. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 1:30 pm
  Caillou [#316]
  Caillou's Surprise
  Caillou's Surprise - When Caillou accidentally breaks Mommy's favourite cup, Grandma suggests they make her a new one. Caillou goes to Grandma's pottery class where he learns how to make a cup, paint it with glaze and fire it. He's a little impatient about waiting overnight for it to be ready, but the final result is worth the wait. And Mommy loves her new cup!A Surprise for Miss Martin - When Caillou finds out that Miss Martin's birthday is coming up, he wants to do something very special for her. He, Leo and Clementine decide to throw her a surprise birthday party. Mommy helps them make cupcakes, then shows them how to make flowers out of coloured paper. The party is a huge success -Miss Martin is very surprised, she loves her flowers, and the cupcakes are delicious!A Surprise Sleepover - Sarah is playing at Caillou's house when a sudden rainstorm causes a power outage. It's a little scary at first, but when the candles are lit the situation turns into a fun adventure. Sarah's mom says she can sleep over so they make a little tent and pretend they're camping. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 2:00 pm
  Raggs [#115]
  Pack Away
  Packaway Officer Razzles declares an "All Work, No Play Day" until all their mess is put away. Then, the dogs rush to clean up, but now Trilby can't find her tiara! duration 28:46   CC STEREO TVY
• 2:30 pm
  Curious George [#308]
  Wheels on the Bus/Seed Trouble
  Wheels on the Bus - Running late for an important meeting at the Glass Palace, George and the Man with the Yellow Hat decide to take the bus rather than walk. But when George and the Man get off at the wrong stop, the bus leaves with the Man's portfolio still inside! Determined to retrieve the important drawings AND make it to the meeting on time, George jumps in a basket on a bicycle. The Man orders a baffled taxi driver to follow that monkey on the bicycle to catch the bus to get his portfolio! With the clock ticking, will either of them catch up to the bus and arrive at the meeting in time?Seed Trouble - George loves eating at Chef Pisghetti's restaurant! When Chef explains that he can't grow enough vegetables to keep his customers fed, George and the Man with the Yellow Hat offer to start their own garden to help the Chef out. The garden is ready to be planted, when Compass and his pigeon friends eat some of the seeds! George dumps the seeds into one jar to keep them safe... and learns too late that different seeds can't be planted together. Can George figure out how to separate and identify the seeds, and keep Chef Pisghetti in business? duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 3:00 pm
  Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman [#412]
  Ruff Bounces Back
  Ruff is under a lot of pressure. To his dismay, he's recently heard that schnauzers are the most intelligent breed of dogs. Meanwhile Chet has shredded his final term paper for obedience school. So Ruff decides to send Talia and Isaac to determine which dog breed is the most intelligent. He sends Sterling and Brian to learn about pressure, specifically air pressure, as they play wheelchair basketball. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 3:30 pm
  Cyberchase [#303]
  A World Without Zero
  Why does glamorous Gollywood go ga-ga when a nobody like Mister Z skips town? It's a fiendish Hacker scheme, of course. Because of a poison pen campaign devised by Hacker, Mister Z feels worthless and unwanted. He decides to leave Gollywood, taking his zeroes with him. The sudden disappearance of the number zero causes confusion and chaos, exactly as Hacker planned. As Hacker becomes the biggest star in Gollywood, the kids and Digit must show Mister Z he does indeed have a value by demonstrating the importance of the number zero. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 4:00 pm
  Electric Company [#108H]
  Dirty Laundry
  Manny steals a Skeleckian meteorite in order to power his letter-stealing gizmo. It's up to the Electric Company to get the meteorite back before Manny steals every letter in the neighborhood. duration 28:46   STEREO DVI TVY
• 4:30 pm
  WordGirl [#120]
  The Masked Meat Marauder/Sandwich World
  The Masked Meat Marauder - While the Botsfords and the Mings go head to head in a charity car wash, the Butcher battles his new rival--the Masked Meat Marauder. Can this town handle two meat-flinging villains or will WordGirl have to send one of them packing?Sandwich World - Chuck is fed up with living at home in his mom's basement. So he builds an evil lair, Sandwich World! Will WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face escape Chuck's crazy sandwich theme park? And will Chuck be strong enough to avoid getting homesick? duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY7
• 5:00 pm
  Arthur [#604]
  Muffy's Soccer Shocker/Brother, Can You Spare A Clarinet?
  Muffy's proud that her dad is the new soccer coach until he exhausts the team with demanding drills like the piston, the muffler, and the-gulp!-shock absorber. Even if Muffy survives playing goalie in the big game against Mighty Mountain, will the team survive her dad? The try-outs for the Young Person's Orchestra are coming to Lakewood Elementary and everyone agrees that Binky is a shoe-in, since he's the best musician in school. So why is Binky suddenly refusing to play in band practice? Has Binky turned against the clarinet or against music itself? duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 5:30 pm
  Nightly Business Report [#29169]
  * One on One with Cisco CEO John Chambers * The Feds Announce More Insider Trading Arrests * The House & Senate are Divided Over Financial Reform * Droid Phone Debut Preview * Street Critique-Todd Harrison, CEO of Minyanville.com * Cache and Carey-Smart Phones duration 26:46   CC STEREO TVRE
EVENING
• 6:00 pm
  BBC World News [#18309]
  duration 28:46   CC STEREO TVRE
• 6:30 pm
  $100 a Day
  On December 9, 1991 Rick Walker was convicted and sentenced to 26 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Linked to the crime by false testimony and questionable legal tactics, Walker would spend the next 12 years in some of California's most dangerous prisons. This documentary is a compelling story of gross injustice, political partisanship and the heroic struggle to prove Walker's innocence. Once exonerated, he would face yet another barrier to justice - the California State Legislature. Entitled to $100 for each day spent falsely imprisoned, Walker would become a pawn in the annual partisan battle over the California budget. Ultimately, this program is about hope - hope that in one man's quest for justice lays the inspiration for our elected officials to govern with the true strength of their convictions. duration 26:46   CC STEREO TVG
• 7:00 pm
  This Old House [#2904H]
  Newton Centre Project, Part 4 of 16
  Host Kevin O'Connor meets general contractor Tom Silva in the kitchen to see some bizarre and inadequate framing that he recently discovered in the old kitchen ceiling. As a result, they have to reinforce and level the entire ceiling using an angle iron, a laser level and multiple new LVLs. Then, Kevin visits Long Island, New York, with architect Russell Versaci to learn about the origins of the house style, the Dutch Colonial Revival. Back in Newton Centre, master carpenter Norm Abram leads the effort to frame up the first floor platform for the new addition. duration 26:46   STEREO TVG
• 7:30 pm
  Ask This Old House [#804H]
  Installing Aluminum Gutters & Downspouts/Energy-Efficient
  General contractor Tom Silva helps a homeowner install new aluminum gutters and downspouts. Then Tom, along with host Kevin O'Connor, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey and landscape contractor Roger Cook ask, "What is it?" Afterward, Richard helps a homeowner install a new energy-efficient clothes washer and dryer. duration 26:46   STEREO TVG
• 8:00 pm
  Savage Planet [#101]
  Volcanic Killers
  Volcanoes and water make dangerous bedfellows. Earth's 100 crater lakes - steaming, brightly colored, corrosive, bubbling with gas - are among the most exotic places on our planet. Mysterious and beautiful, they are also deadly, as the dazed survivors of the "exploding" volcanic Lake Nuyos in Cameroon, West Africa, testify. When volcanic debris and water mix together, they create destructive mudflows called lahars. It was lahars that caused New Zealand's worst railway disaster and destroyed 200 homes and swept away bridges in 1980 when Washington state's Mount St. Helens erupted. Unforgettable images and heart- rending stories from the Philippines demonstrate what typhoon rain and volcanic rock can do together. More people have died from lahars that flow each typhoon season than when the Philippines' Mount Pinatubo erupted. It is an ominous warning to those who live near volcanoes - as experts Professor Kelvin Rodolfo in the Philippines and Kevin Scott and David Zimbelman in Washington try to explain - and a threat hanging over one of America's most prosperous cities, Seattle. duration 55:53   CC STEREO TVG
• 9:00 pm
  Saving The Bay [#103(]
  Miracle Workers (1906 - 1959)
  This episode begins with The Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906, which accelerated the dispersion of people and industry to the East Bay region. Advances in engineering gave rise to the first of California's massive water re-distribution projects, paralleling the era of great bridge building. World War II saw the Bay transformed into the greatest shipbuilding center the world had ever known. duration 1:29:41   CC STEREO TVG
• 10:00 pm
  Frontline [#2605]
  The Medicated Child
  Ten years ago, stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall were the drugs of choice to treat behavioral issues in children. Today children as young as four years old are being prescribed more powerful anti-psychotic medications that are much less understood. The drugs can cause serious side effects, and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. The increase in the use of anti-psychotics is directly tied to the rising incidence of one particular diagnosis -bipolar disorder. Experts estimate that the number of kids with the diagnosis is now more than a million and rising. As the debate over medicating children continues to grow, Frontline producer Marcela Gaviria confronts psychiatrists, researchers and big pharma about the risks and benefits of prescription drugs for troubled children. duration 56:26   CC STEREO DVI
• 11:00 pm
  Globe Trekker [#807]
  Globe Trekker Food Hour: Mexico
  Tyler Florence kicks off his culinary adventure in Mexico City, where he explores the vibrant markets and discovers the potent chilies of the region. He travels next to Oaxaca, the heartland of cactus and mescal, the sister drink of tequila. Later Tyler samples chocolate in Puebla and whips up mole, the national dish. He celebrates at a festival devoted to vanilla and ends his journey on the east coast, where Mexican and Caribbean flavors combine to influence the local cuisine. duration 57:05   CC STEREO DVI TVG