Schedules

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

• 12:00 am
  History Detectives [#703]
  * St. Valentine's Day Massacre - HD stares down the barrel of a shotgun for clues that one of Al Capone's men fired it in a Chicago gang massacre that shocked the nation. The gun came to the contributor's family after it was handed down through two generations of prominent Chicago families. It's a Western Field single-barreled repeating action 12-guage shotgun. The barrel and the stock were once shortened just the way the Capone gang liked its guns: easy to conceal and with greater destructive force. Elyse Luray tests the gun's firepower, consults with ballistics experts and combs through physical evidence to see if she can place this gun at the scene of the crime.
  * Booth Letter - A contributor gave HD a letter indicating that, 30 years before John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, Booth's father threatened to kill another sitting president, Andrew Jackson. Signed "Junius Brutus Booth," the letter to Jackson reads, "You damn'd old scoundrel ... I will cut your throat whilst you are sleeping." The writer insists that Jackson pardon two men who were sentenced to death. Why did the fate of these two men incite such fury? Tukufu Zuberi travels to Nashville to consult historians at The Hermitage, the ancestral home of President Andrew Jackson, and to Washington, DC, to talk with a Booth biographer. Was the letter a hoax? Or did assassination run in the Booth blood?
  * Cemetery Alarm - A Midland, Michigan, man who collects war munitions snapped up an item at an estate auction that looked like a Civil War-era weapon. On closer inspection, after consulting with other collectors, he decided he had a grave alarm: an explosive device meant to guard against grave robbers. Is this truly a grave alarm? Wes Cowan's investigation winds through tales of body snatching and cadaver dissecting, unusual crimes and the most unlikely suspects. duration 56:15   CC STEREO TVPG
• 1:00 am
  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
• 1:30 am
  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
• 2:00 am
  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
• 3:00 am
  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
• 4:00 am
  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
• 5:00 am
  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
MORNING
• 6:00 am
  Zoboomafoo [#215]
  Superclaw
  Zoboo wants to climb like some visiting kinkajous so the Kratt Brothers create special "Superclaws" for Zoboo to wear. After falling off vines, Zoboo realizes that his own claws - nails really -are just right for a lemur and other creatures have claws just perfect for them. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 6:30 am
  Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman [#405]
  Ruff's Just Fueling Around
  Blossom has organized her own FETCH challenge: Two teams of FETCHers will compete in a 50-mile race, and the team that emits the least amount of CO2 wins. Unfortunately, neither Ruff nor Blossom can enjoy the race because they're handcuffed to each other for the entire episode! But will they be bound (just like Carbon and Oxygen) forever? duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 7:00 am
  Arthur [#1107]
  Hic Or Treat/Mr. Alwaysright
  * Hic or Treat - D.W. gets a case of the hiccups that just won't go away. No matter how much advice she gets from Arthur and his friends, she just can't find the right cure. (Well, at least her Halloween costume as "Hiccup Girl" is all set...) Will D.W. ever get relief -or will she have the hiccups for the rest of her life and set the world record?
  * Mr. Alwaysright - It seems that Brain is always right about everything and it's really starting to get on Buster's nerves. But Buster is convinced that someday Brain will make a mistake - and when he does, Buster will be waiting. But is friendship really about being right or wrong? duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 7:30 am
  Curious George [#211]
  The Fully Automatic Fun Hat/Creatures of the Night
  * The Fully Automatic Fun Hat: George wants to have a hat as fun as the Man with the Yellow Hat's yellow hat. But picking the right headgear is hard, and no one seems to recognize him in a fedora or Bavarian fishing hat. After a day of unsuccessful hat shopping George takes matters into his own hands and makes a super hat from craft supplies and toys right at home. Using levers, pop-up techniques and some trial and error, George engineers the Ultimate Yellow Monkey Fun Hat - fully equipped with food dispenser, prop launcher, and animal inflator. But what will happen when the Man accidentally wears the monkey hat at his big presentation?
  * Creatures of the Night: George thought it was odd that all the food was gone from the bird feeder in a single night. Who or what is eating it all? Could the small animal tracks be a clue? Determined to solve the mystery George stays up all night and finds a baby possum who has lost his family. The two set off on a night journey to find the possum's home and meet some other nocturnal animals (and some very tired "day animals"!) on the way. And because their night shadows strike a scary resemblance to the legendary Lake Creature of Lake Wannasink Lake - whose tale Mr. Quint is broadcasting to the entire town on this same night - the furry twosome cause quite a stir. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 8:00 am
  Martha Speaks [#112]
  Martha The Hero Maker/Starstruck Martha
  * Martha the Hero Maker - Martha has an idea for a thrilling adventure story, so Truman, T.D., and Helen decide to draw it for her. Much to Martha's dismay, they all add their own special touches, including peanut butter, a ground squirrel, and the Incredible Exo-Skeleton-of-Wow. But when life imitates art, things get a little too exciting! Vocabulary - (E) thrill(ing), hero, villain, astonish, humongous (I) boring, exciting, adventure, incredible, amazing, dull.
  * Starstruck Martha - Martha is thrilled when she hears Courageous Collie Carlo is coming to town. But when Martha unexpectedly reveals how uncourageous Carlo really is, she has to help him save his reputation or Carlo's TV career could be history. Vocabulary - (E) ecstatic, embarrass, enthusiastic, eager, reputation (I) fear, excited, glad, upset, fan. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 8:30 am
  Sesame Street [#4164]
  Leela's Sesame Street Video
  Leela is making a videotape of Sesame Street to send to her parents in India! First she videotapes the Laundromat where she works and then Hooper's Store. There Prairie Dawn suggests that Leela tape a talking letter "O", along with some oatmeal cookies. Just as Leela is about to tape, Cookie Monster comes in and eats all of the oatmeal cookies! Leela sets off to find something else to show her parents and spots Jack B. Nimble getting ready to jump over the candlestick! Someone needs to read the nursery rhyme, though, and Leela is the only one there who can read. As soon as Jack is about the jump, Leela quickly grabs the camera, but Jack crashes into her. Leela then heads over to Big Bird and the Birdketeers who are singing the alphabet! Leela starts to tape again, but the cuckoo clock goes off and the meeting is over. Just as Leela is thinking that videotaping wasn't such a great idea after all, her friends show up. Leela is able to tape them and show her parents the most amazing part of Sesame Street - her friends. They are the real reason she loves living on Sesame Street. duration 58:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 9:30 am
  WordWorld [#126]
  A Kooky Spooky Halloween/Sheep's Halloween Costume
  * A Kooky Spooky Halloween - The WordFriends get their share of scares the night before Halloween, when Pig sleepwalks and everyone thinks he's a ghost!
  * Sheep's Halloween Costume - It's Halloween - Sheep's favorite day of the year. Sheep likes nothing more than to dress up, so she always goes out of her way to make herself a special costume. But what will she do when her WordFriends need pieces of her costume for their own costumes? duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 10:00 am
  Clifford's Puppy Days [#102]
  The Monster In 3-B/Cat-Tastrophe
  "The Monster in 3-B" - At the beginning of the new school year the Howards get new neighbors that Clifford and the other animals are, at first, nervous to meet.
  
  "Cat-tastrophe" - Clifford tries to be a good host when Flo and Zo stay with the Howards, but the kittens are not the most considerate guests. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 10:30 am
  Clifford The Big Red Dog [#210]
  Doggie Detectives/Camping It Up
  * Doggy Detectives - Clifford's Big Idea: Work Together. Equipment is disappearing from the local playground and it's up to K. C., inspired by the Detective Mike books he likes so much, to figure out what happened. He enlists the help of Clifford and the gang to form the "Doggy Detectives" to solve the mystery and the whole gang soon discovers the joy of discovery available in reading a good book!* Camping It Up - Clifford's Big Idea: Work Together. Because she thinks camping is going to be boring, Jetta tries to bring all the comforts of home into the woods. But she soon realizes that there's more than one way to have a good time - and sometimes the simple way is just perfect. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 11:00 am
  Dragon Tales [#305]
  Itching for a Cure/The Big Race
  Itching for a Cure - Emmy, Max, Enrique and their dragon friends are building a giant card house. While they're balancing cards, the ground begins to tremble and the cards come crashing down! They set out to investigate the source of the rumbling tremors and find their giant friend Mungus rolling around on the ground. He has a terrible itch that just won't go away! The gang brings Mungus to Dr. Booboogone for help, and she sends them on a quest for special ingredients to make "Itch Be Gone" cream. They face some challenges in collecting the ingredients, but knowing how much Mungus needs their help encourages them to not give up. Mungus is extremely grateful for his friends' help, and he shows his appreciation by helping the gang build another, even bigger, card house. The Big Race - It is the day of the Big Dragon Land Road Race. Teammates Lorca and Enrique get off to a great start on Lorca's modified wheelchair, but soon find themselves at a standstill when they can't work together. After getting advice from Quetzal, they realize that being a team means working together. They begin to pass their friends who are also having trouble cooperating and offer helpful teamwork suggestions for them. Enrique teaches a Spanish rhyme to Cassie and Emmy to help them pedal together, which comes in handy again when the entire gang ends up in a pile-up that entangles their go-carts. Stuck together, they head comically toward the finish line in a long train reciting the rhyme to keep in sync. Even though the team doesn't win the race, they learn a valuable lesson about cooperation and teamwork! 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   CC STEREO DVI TVY
AFTERNOON
• 12:00 pm
  Sesame Street [#4183]
  Maria The Cowgirl
  Big Bird, Elmo and Abby are very excited because Gordon is going to read "Maria the Cowgirl - The Lonesome Trail". The story is about Maria the Cowgirl and her hobbyhorse Amigo. They meet Bad Duck, who's the toughest duck in the west. Bad Duck says that the trail isn't big enough for the two of them and won't let Maria pass. Suddenly Maria the Cowgirl has an idea! She tells Bad Duck "You go this-a-way and I'll go that-a-way!" It works and they are able to pass each other. The trail is big enough for the two of them, after all. Everyone wants to hear the story again but Gordon has to leave. Big Bird has a great idea: they should all pretend and act out the story. Abby is going to pretend to be Maria but there's a problem when both Big Bird and Elmo want to be Bad Duck. Abby says that they can both be Bad Duck. Then they need to decide who will be Amigo. Again both Big Bird and Elmo want to do it. Abby solves this problem by picking Big Bird to be Bad Duck and Elmo to be Amigo. Finally, a tumbleweed comes along and asks to play, too, but he wants to be Maria the Cowgirl. Abby says they can both do it. They all sing the "Maria the Cowgirl" song and have fun pretending together. Theme: Literacy, T, 1 duration 58:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 1:00 pm
  Barney & Friends [#1109]
  Trail Boss Barney and Get Happy!
  Trail Boss Barney: Three children try to build a pretend farm, but have a hard time working together. Barney takes them to a ranch to show them how all the people there have to work together to keep things running smoothly. The children learn about cooperation and fun on a ranch, and even get to meet a celebrity cowboy cook!
  Get Happy: Barney, Baby Bop, BJ and Riff discover a sad little girl in the park one day and try to cheer her up. Nothing seems to work, so Riff invents a Happiness Machine. In the end, it is her friends who made her happy, not the machine at all! duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 1:30 pm
  Caillou [#317]
  Caillou The Helper
  Caillou the Patient - While pretending to be a jet pilot Caillou falls down and scrapes his knees. Even though it hurts, he likes the extra attention from Mommy and Rosie. He's not sure he can run anymore, until he looks out the window and sees Leo and Clementine heading to the park!Caillou the Police Officer - When the traffic lights near school stop working a policeman comes to direct traffic. Caillou loves watching him and learns from Miss Martin about lots of different ways that police officers help people. Caillou decides he wants to help people too, and finds a whistle for directing traffic. Unfortunately his friends aren't very willing to be directed, but he does get to put Leo the bank robber in jail under the slide. He even finds a way to help the police officer... by bringing him a cool drink when he's done his work.Grandpa's Friend - Grandpa takes Caillou to the park one find day to meet his friend George. George has lots of funny stories about Grandpa when he was young. Caillou learns to play croquet, and even convinces the elderly pair to play one of his games - hide and seek! duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 2:00 pm
  Raggs [#116]
  Change
  Pido and B.Max invent an identity-changing game. Also, Raggs finds a caterpillar and soon discovers it turns into a butterfly. duration 28:46   CC STEREO TVY
• 2:30 pm
  Curious George [#309]
  Fun Ball Talley/Red Sky at Night, Monkey's Delight
  Dulson's Toy Store is having a contest! The person who comes closest to guessing how many Super Mega Fun-Balls are in the rocket shaped dispenser wins the entire container of balls -- and the rocket, too! Steve, Betsy, and George come up with their own unique estimating methods. When soccer balls, grapes, and marbles fail George's Fun-Ball Size Relation Test, George realizes that the perfect size specimens are in the Man with the Yellow Hat's golf ball bucket! Will George and Betsy find the right answer, or will super confident Steve's formula triumph?Red Sky At Night, Monkey's Delight - George is tired of his fun always being ruined by the weather! Inspired by the Man with the Yellow Hat's painting of a beautiful sunset, George starts a weather journal by drawing pictures of the sky. But predicting the weather isn't as easy as it seems. When George's picnic is ruined by rain, and he stays indoors on a beautiful sunny day, he decides to study wind patterns, too. When the city's weather st duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 3:00 pm
  Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman [#409]
  How Not to Impress The Press
  In order to prep for his big spread in Canine Weekly Magazine, Ruff tries out a new beauty cream... and it turns him into a turkey vulture! So he sends all six FETCHers out to learn whatever they can about turkey vultures. Later they head to an ad agency to figure out how to improve the turkey vulture's image. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 3:30 pm
  Cyberchase [#705]
  Father's Day
  It's the annual Father's Day Parade in Tikiville, and Creech's father, Max (Matthew Broderick), is this year's Cyberdad of the Year. Max was once a schoolmate of Hacker's - and continually bested Hacker in all of their endeavors. Hacker has decided it's time to get even and this time he's got a really clever plan... Using secret codes and a band of bad guys, he rolls into action, cleverly changing the code each step of the way to keep those "earthbrats" from catching on. Will Hacker succeed in spoiling Father's Day and embarrassing Max? Or will our heroes figure out the pattern to his codes in time to stop him? duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 4:00 pm
  Electric Company [#110]
  Scrambled Brains
  With the help of her hypnotist uncle, Annie switches brains with Lisa. The Electric Company needs to find a way to switch them back before Annie ruins Lisa's good name with her neighborhood pranks. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 4:30 pm
  WordGirl [#121]
  Violet Superhero/Big Business
  Violet Superhero - There's a new superhero in town when Violet becomes "The Framer." It seems like her "superpowers" aren't much help while WordGirl is doing all the crime-fighting. But when the Butcher attacks "The Framer" comes to the rescue.Big Business - Mr. Big rigs Businesspaloozafest, putting on a spectacle at his booth, in order to win ownership of the biggest building in town. It's up to Huggy to disarm the mind control ray so that WordGirl can stop Mr. Big from cheating-and speaking gibberish. duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY7
• 5:00 pm
  Arthur [#605]
  The Boy Who Cried Comet/Arthur and Los Vecinos
  Buster is convinced that he's seen real UFO's, and he uses Muffy's fancy new telescope to get the proof. What he discovers is much more terrifying-a comet hurtling directly toward earth! Can Buster convince his friends that this sighting is real in time for them to save the planet? Mr. Sipple from next door is moving away and Arthur wonders-who will be the new neighbors? When Alberto Molina and his family settle in, Arthur makes a new friend and learns about a different culture...and about a comic book character named Conejitos Mechanicos! (That's Spanish for Bionic Bunny) duration 28:46   CC STEREO DVI TVY
• 5:30 pm
  Nightly Business Report [#29170]
  * Unemployment Rate Returns to Triple Digits * Unemployment Takes a Toll on Teens * Elizabeth Warren on TARP Distribution * Market Monitor -David Darst, Chief Investment Strategist at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney duration 26:46   CC STEREO TVRE
EVENING
• 6:00 pm
  BBC World News [#18310]
  duration 28:46   CC STEREO TVRE
• 6:30 pm
  McLaughlin Group [#2745]
  duration 27:30   CC TVRE
• 7:00 pm
  Agatha Christie's Poirot [#106]
  Triangle at Rhodes
  Hercule Poirot is holidaying at the Palace Hotel in Rhodes. He and his fellow guests are interested in the arrival of famous and beautiful divorcee Valentine, accompanied by her fifth husband. They can't help but notice how Valentine immediately starts flirting with a good looking man who arrives the same day much to the public displeasure of his wife. Poirot's holiday is over but just as he prepares to leave he is called back to the hotel. After drinking a pink gin with the other guests, Valentine is dead. duration 51:24   CC STEREO TVPG
• 8:00 pm
  Sherlock Holmes [#309]
  The Golden Pince-Nez
  Holmes investigates when Willoughby Smith, secretary to Professor Coram is found dead clutching a pince-nez. duration 51:20   CC STEREO TVG
• 9:00 pm
  Midsomer Murders [#105]
  Death of a Hollow Man - Part One
  In the village of Ferne Basset, an elderly resident is found drowned after a violent attack. Meanwhile, at the Corn Exchange in Causton, a local amateur dramatic production of Amadeus reveals a backstage world of intrigue, passion and gossip - and a whole new meaning to the term "corpsing" when there is a second murder. duration 47:56   CC STEREO TVPG
• 10:00 pm
  Nova [#3317]
  Family That Walks On All Fours
  An intense scientific debate has ignited around a quiet but extraordinary family living in rural Turkey - a family with 5 adults who walk on all fours. Since bipedality has long been considered one of the defining characteristics of modern humans, such a discovery raises fascinating questions about genetics, society, and the evolutionary history of our species. Is this the anthropological find of the millennium, or simply a unique medical case? Nova sets out to unravel the controversy and meet the individuals who have captured the imagination of scientists around the world. duration 56:32   CC STEREO DVI TVPG
• 11:00 pm
  Video I [#1402]
  Our Father's War: A Vietnam Journey
  Marine veteran David Lopez survived some of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam war. But for the next 40 years, he and his family suffered from the effects of PTSD. Then they made a fateful decision: to return to Vietnam and confront David's demons. Directed by Randall Wilson. duration 59:35   CC STEREO TVG