Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman
Part game show, part reality TV, and part spoof, this series features real kids, real challenges, real science, and an unreal animated host - a dog named Ruff Ruffman. It mixes live-action with animation, and breaks the mold with its educational and comical take on America's newest television genre. Targeting six- to ten-year-olds, the series is spontaneous, unscripted, and full of surprises.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
Birds Are Handy! (#515) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
Ruff's rockstar cousin Ruf Rufman wants to record songbirds on his next album. So Ruff sends Emmie and Rubye to meet with field biologists from the Teton Science Schools in Wyoming to work with songbirds in the field. He also sends Marc and Shreya to meet with a hand model due to a misunderstanding between the word "Hands" and the name "Hans."
Wolfing Down Some Barbeque (#516) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
Ruff has a family reunion barbeque, and invites some distant relatives-wolves! He sends Emmie and Rubye to Yellowstone National Park to learn all about wolves, and sends Jay and Marc to South Carolina to make some authentic southern barbeque.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- PBS Kids: Fri, May 25, 2018 -- 6:00am
- PBS Kids: Wed, May 30, 2018 -- 6:00am Remind me
Ruff Follows His Dream (#514) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
After Ruff has a dream where he's flying with an elephant, he decides to see if he can make his dream come true! He sends Marco off to Tennessee to the Elephant Sanctuary to learn what it takes to own and care for an elephant. He then sends Marc and Rubye to learn how to indoor skydive.
Go Belugas Go! (#517) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
FETCH! competes with Go Get It!, the rival cat game show, in a synchronized swimming match, so he sends Marco, Shreya, and Rubye to learn about synchronized swimming, and he sends Marc to Mystic Aquarium to learn how beluga whales are adapted for the water.
Snoop Dog (#518) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
FETCH!'s rival game show Go Get It! is produced by a mysterious organization called PURRS. Ruff sends all six kids to meet with a team of private investigators and learn how to become gumshoes. Ruff and the FETCHers then try to use their sleuthing skills to get to the bottom of who is behind PURRS.
Long Glen Silver And The Pursuit Of The Golden Fetchie! (#519) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
Ruff's nephew Glen has been playing a pirate-themed video game on the Go Get It! Web site. Through this game he's somehow gotten into the Go Get It! mainframe computer, and discovers that they're hunting for something called The Golden Fetchie... Ruff wants to find the FETCHie first, so he sends the kids off to the island. And at Glen's request, he makes them dress up as pirates...
3-2-1 Blast-Off! (#101) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
Ruff is frazzled. He needs more time to get his first show ready, but unfortunately, he's live on the air right now! What to do? The show must go on! Ruff sends three FETCHers to meet a big star. They arrive at the Museum of Science to discover that the star is the sun, and that they're about to blast off on an amazing space race. Can they rush through a city-sized scale model of the solar system--using trains, boats, cabs, and a three-wheeled bike--before time runs out?!
Good Dancing and Bad Teeth (#102) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
Ruff wants to try out some new dance moves on the poodle next door, but is horrified when she tells him he's got halitosis. He decides to send one team of FETCHers to learn how to ballroom dance, and a second team out to prove that dog mouths are cleaner than human mouths.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- PBS Kids: Mon, Jun 11, 2018 -- 6:00am Remind me
How to Get Out Your Inner Hip Hop (#103) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
Ruff incinerates his daily ration of kibble in the Fetch 3000 but then discovers he's out of Chinese food. Resorting to desperate measures, Ruff must try to extract a treat from a dog toy. A starving Ruff challenges Anna to "cook" on the dance floor as she learns how to dance hip-hop, and Noah, Khalil, and Julia must cook for a crowd of picky eaters-animals at the zoo!
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- PBS Kids: Tue, Jun 12, 2018 -- 6:00am Remind me
Cats? I Thought You Said Kites! (#104) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
Ruff is excited because he thinks today's episode is all about kites, until he gets a phone call from his boss Henry who wants the show be about cats. Cats!!!??? Ruff has no choice but to give airtime to cats as he challenges Taylor and Anna to train a cat to fetch. Meanwhile Noah and Brian must design, build and fly a kite that will lift a dog biscuit in the air and land it on the front porch of Charlene, the poodle next door.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- PBS Kids: Wed, Jun 13, 2018 -- 6:00am Remind me
Ye Olde Colonial Episode (#105) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
Losing power in the doghouse gives Ruff the most Brilliant Idea in the History of Television! All he needs is a $250,000,000 advance from his boss, Henry, to buy a time machine to send the whole cast back in time...way back...to 1627! Dressed as Colonists, the cast members abandon their videogames and cell phones for log sawing, oven starting, jaw harping, goat tending, and lessons in Colonial life.
Saturday Night with a Slight Fever (#106) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
Ruff has lined up an "easily recognizable" major pop star for today's challenge-producing and directing a music video. When his talent cancels and his "handy electronic device filled with hard-to-get phone numbers" falls into his soup, Ruff must come up with a replacement, and quick. Good thing Ruff has found stars for the video he's sure the kids will recognize-their grandparents!
To Bee Or Not to Bee (#107) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
Ruff has just finished shooting his first ever FETCH promo, "Busy As a Bee," but he can't get out of his bee costume because the zipper is broken! Bees on the brain, Ruff challenges Brian and Khalil to learn how to be beekeepers. Anna and Julia's challenge has nothing to do with bees-they must learn how to windsurf with the help of windsurfing champion, Nevin Sayer.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- PBS Kids: Tue, Jun 19, 2018 -- 6:00am Remind me
B.L.T. for Breakfast? (#108) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
Ever the entrepreneur, Ruff has invested his entire show budget in his latest culinary creation: the Liver and Pineapple Biscuit Shake. Looking for ways to improve his recipe, Ruff sends one team of FETCHers out to invent a new flavor of ice cream (the three main ingredients have to start with the letters B, L, and T and two of them have to be vegetables), and Brian must fill in as a short order cook at a local diner.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- PBS Kids: Wed, Jun 20, 2018 -- 6:00am Remind me
The Mystery of the Missing Thing in the Haunted Castle (#109) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
Ruff tells the kids about the legend of his great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather Ruffael Ruffmanowitz who lived in spooky Hammond Castle with the famed inventor John Hayes Hammond. Ruff sends the whole team out to Hammond Castle to retrieve Ruffmanowitz's lost invention. Oh, and by the way, did anyone mention the castle is haunted by ghost cats?
This Old....Lemonade Stand (#110) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
In a slight lapse of fiscal judgment, Ruff decides to buy the Apple-Peeler 2.0, reducing the show's budget to 13#. He decides to recruit the FETCHers to earn some quick cash by building their own lemonade stand with the help of master carpenter Norm Abram.
It's Raining Cats and Dogs (#111) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
Ruff, in an artistic mood, is working on putting the finishing touches on his latest masterpiece when he hears the loud crashing of thunder outside his doghouse. Having just heard the weather announcer on W-O-O-F predict clear skies, a confused Ruff is determined to figure out what's going on. He sends Taylor out to learn how to forecast the weather. And Noah, Khalil and Brian must brave the elements to make some art of their own as they join the city's mural crew in planning and painting a mural for a local pizzeria.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- PBS Kids: Mon, Jun 25, 2018 -- 6:00am Remind me
That Doesn't Float My Boat (#112) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
Trying to relieve a bad case of "Game Show Host Block," Ruff has fallen asleep and left the water in the bathtub running! The flooded doghouse is filled with floating junk, giving him the perfect idea for today's challenge: Khalil, Anna, and Julia, must design a boat out of materials they find at the dump. Their boat has to float; it has to be stable and steer-able; and it has to be propelled by something other than oars.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- PBS Kids: Tue, Jun 26, 2018 -- 6:00am Remind me
Send in the Clowns (#113) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
Ruff plans on getting back at the Great Spotinsky, the now famous circus dog responsible for cheating Ruff out of his dream job. Ruff sends Brian out to the big top to get some circus pointers, and another team sets out to design a water balloon launcher: the Ultimate Weapon of Revenge!
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- PBS Kids: Wed, Jun 27, 2018 -- 6:00am Remind me
Grandma Ruffman's Recipe for Success (#114) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
Grandma Ruffman wants Ruff to sell a few hundred thousand copies of her cookbook on his show, but she thinks her grandson needs to be much funnier to garner the ratings he'll need to move product. So Ruff sends Taylor, Noah, and Brian out to cook Grandma's recipes...on a farm, and Grandma sends Khalil out to learn how to tell jokes from a professional comedian.
Tryin' Chef (#115) Duration: 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
When Ruff's owner brings home a "doggy bag" consisting of one measly dinner roll, Ruff decides that his evening meal needs to get "kicked up a notch." He challenges his cast to use creativity, cunning, and capability in this Iron Chef spoof!
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- PBS Kids: Fri, Jun 29, 2018 -- 6:00am Remind me
TV Technical Issues
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Audio Issue KQED DT 9.1 /25.1
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KQED will no longer broadcast the KQEH signal from Monument Peak Tower effective 1/17/2018
KQED will be removing its over-the-air television signal from the Monument Peak Tower in the San Jose area on January 17, 2018 (Note: this maintenance was previously scheduled for December 15, 2017). KQED will now broadcast our full suite of channels (KQED 9, KQED Plus, KQED World and PBS Kids) on Channel 9 and 54 … Continue reading KQED will no longer broadcast the KQEH signal from Monument Peak Tower effective 1/17/2018
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KQED LIFE OFF AIR Friday, December 15
KQED will no longer offer the KQED Life channel beginning Friday, December 15. Several of the most popular exercise, cooking and lifestyle programs exclusive to KQED Life will now be scheduled on KQED Plus and KQED 9, where they can be experienced by more viewers. View/Download Schedule
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