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NOVEMBER 2012 

MAGAZINE FOR MEMBERS 

The WETA Co-Production with Florentine Films 

Premieres November 18–19 

on WETA TV 26 and WETA HD

CABLE RISDON 

PBS NewsHour Election Night 2012: 

A Special Report 

airs Tuesday, November 6 at 8 p.m. 

On Tuesday, November 6, tune in to the PBS NewsHour at 7 p.m. 

for a report primarily devoted to the election and to PBS NewsHour 

Election Night 2012: A Special Report at 8 p.m. for complete coverage 

of the returns into the night. From WETA’s television studios where PBS 

NewsHour is produced each night, senior correspondents Gwen Ifi ll and 

Judy Woodruff co-anchor the live report on election results as polls close 

around the nation. Ifi ll and Woodruff are joined by NewsHour analysts 

Mark Shields and David Brooks. Jeffrey Brown will sort through the 

voting trends, and Ray Suarez and Margaret Warner will be reporting 

throughout the evening from the presidential candidates’ headquarters 

in Chicago and Boston. Hari Sreenivasan will be using the multi-layered 

NewsHour Map Center to drill deeper into the specifi cs of the outcomes 

in key battleground states. For online coverage throughout the day and 

into the night, visit pbs.org/newshour. 

Major funding for PBS NewsHour is provided by the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation; BNSF; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Intel; John D. and 

Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; United Healthcare; Viking River Cruises; the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers. 

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Few among us can survey the headlines in recent years without pondering our impact on the planet we 

inhabit. Climate change and powerful storms; energy debates and environmental concerns; agricultural 

crises and, of course, the drought in America’s Midwestern states spark refl ection on our relationship with the land. 

This month, WETA and public television stations nationwide premiere a timely new Ken Burns fi lm, The Dust Bowl, 

co-produced by Florentine Films and WETA, that looks back on the worst manmade ecological disaster in American 

history, exploring the tragedy that unfolded when we as a people ignored the limits of what nature could provide. Over 

the course of two nights, the four-hour fi lm chronicles the destruction during the 1930s of Great Plains farmlands — 

and the effects of the massive, deadly dust storms that followed. 

The Dust Bowl is the latest in a remarkable series of acclaimed American history documentaries created by Ken in 

partnership with WETA. We are very proud to have collaborated with Ken for decades to produce and broadcast some 

of the most-watched programming in television history: a host of award-winning fi lms that have included The Civil War, 

Baseball, Jazz, The War, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea and Prohibition. We are delighted also to have collaborated 

on The Dust Bowl with co-producers Dayton Duncan and Julie Dunfey of Florentine Films. Dayton — with 

whom we last partnered on The National Parks — wrote this fascinating new fi lm. 

There is much more to come from our partnership with Ken. Next spring, The Central Park Five, created by Ken with 

his daughter, Sarah Burns, and son-in-law, David McMahon, comes to air. On the horizon as well are The Roosevelts 

(fall 2014), Jackie Robinson (2015) and Vietnam (2016). Thank you for your support, which helps WETA bring these 

superb programs to viewers in our community and around the nation. 

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Election 2012: What’s at Stake 

airs Friday, November 2 at 10 p.m. 

on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD 

A PBS election special explores the consequences for all Americans of the presidential 

and congressional elections. Anchored by Hari Sreenivasan of PBS NewsHour and combining 

fi eld reports and interview segments, Election 2012: What’s at Stake explores 

how President Obama and Governor Romney plan to address the nation’s most pressing 

concerns: stimulating the economy, paying for Social Security and Medicare, providing 

affordable healthcare, reforming immigration and protecting America’s interests abroad. 

The broadcast, which will include original contributions from PBS NewsHour, Frontline, 

Washington Week with Gwen Ifi ll and National Journal and Need To Know, will be 

reported by anchors and correspondents from those programs, including Gwen Ifi ll, 

Judy Woodruff, Christina Bellantoni, Ray Suarez, Jeff Greenfi eld and Maria Hinojosa. 

Thursday-Night Mysteries 

airing November 1–22 at 8 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD 

Each Thursday heralds a night of intrigue on WETA TV 26 and WETA HD, featuring 

hours of classic mystery dramas. At 8 p.m., Sherlock Holmes stars Jeremy Brett in his 

signature role as the Baker Street sleuth, pitting his keen powers of deduction against 

criminal minds in adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tales. At 9 p.m., WETA 

presents Agatha 

Blue Gradient 

Christie’s Poirot, starring David Suchet in his longtime role as the great 

Belgian detective who employs his “little grey cells” to solve cases that baffl e the police. 

After Poirot, on November 8, 15 and 22, WETA presents Masterpiece Mystery!: Miss 

Marple, with Light Julia Blue: McKenzie C90 M30 in the Y5 title K0role 

as the spinster sleuth with the gentle smile 

and razor-sharp, probing mind. Enjoy these classic mysteries, and for even more crime drama, 

tune in to the WETA UK channel on Saturday nights, November 17–December 1 at 8 p.m. for 

contemporary “2012” Sherlock Blue: cases C100 starring M70 Benedict Y10 K0 Cumberbatch in the title role. See page 14 for details. 

Dark Blue: C100 M90 Y30 K0 

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Science Wednesdays 

Nov. 7, 14 & 21, 8–11 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD 

“Election” Gray: C0 M0 Wednesday Y0 K70 nights on WETA TV 26 and WETA HD feature science programs Nature 

at 8 p.m., NOVA at 9 p.m. and science magazine NOVA scienceNOW, with host and New 

York Times technology reporter David Pogue, at 10 p.m. Nature this month spotlights 

“PBS & Bar” Red: C0 

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(November 7), the remarkable skills of ducks (November 14), and the 

imprinting of Turkey hatchlings (November 21). NOVA explores the mystery of Easter 

Island statues (November 7), follows the recent landing of the rover Curiosity on Mars 

(November 14), and chronicles the discovery of an ancient “computer” (November 21). 

Also this month, the miniseries The Human Spark, airing Fridays, November 2–16 at 

9 p.m., features Alan Alda exploring the evolution of uniquely human skills. 

For program or membership inquiries, call 703-998-2724 or visit weta.org. 

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The co-production of Florentine Films 

and WETA airs November 18–19 

at 8 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 

repeating at 10 p.m. 

The latest historical documentary fi lm emanating 

from a decades-long partnership between WETA and 

Ken Burns, The Dust Bowl explores the story of the 

worst manmade ecological disaster in American history. 

The two-part, four-hour fi lm, a co-production of 

Florentine Films and WETA, chronicles the environmental 

catastrophe that unfolded throughout the 1930s, 

destroying the farmlands of the Great Plains, turning 

prairies into deserts and unleashing a pattern of massive, 

deadly dust storms. The Dust Bowl was directed by 

Burns and co-produced with his Florentine Films colleagues 

Dayton Duncan and Julie Dunfey. Duncan, who 

wrote The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, also wrote 

the new fi lm. Peter Coyote narrates The Dust Bowl. 

“Let me tell ya how it was. I don’t care 

who describes that to you, nobody can tell 

it any worse than what it was. And no one 

exaggerates that; there is no way for it to 

be exaggerated. It was that bad.” 

— Don Wells, Boise City, Oklahoma 

Documenting a Calamity 

The Dust Bowl follows the story behind a 10-year-long 

natural calamity of biblical proportions — encompassing 

100 million acres in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado 

and New Mexico — when the skies withheld their rains 

and fi elds parched, and bewildered families huddled in 

dark rooms while angry winds shook their homes and 

pillars of dust choked out the mid-day sun. Each year, the 

storms grew more ferocious and more frequent, sweeping 

up millions of tons of earth, killing crops and livestock, 

covering farms and homes across the plains, and even 

spreading the dust clear across the country. 

The fi lm outlines an epic of suffering — a crucible of 

dust, drought and Depression, when normally self-reliant 

fathers found themselves unable to provide for their 

families; when children were killed by “dust pneumonia”; 

when thousands of desperate Americans were torn from 

their homes and forced on the road in an exodus unlike 

anything the United States has ever seen. 

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COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, BY DOROTHEA LANGE 

COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; BY ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN 

Farm near Boise City, Oklahoma, 1936 

Abandoned farm, Dalhart, Texas, 1938 

First-Hand Testimonies 

The Dust Bowl is also a story of heroic perseverance against 

enormous odds: families fi nding ways to survive and hold 

on to their land; national and local government programs 

that kept hungry families afl oat; and a partnership between 

government agencies and farmers to develop new farming 

and conservation methods. The fi lm chronicles this critical 

moment in American history in all its complexities and 

profound human drama. It is, in part, oral history, using 

fi rst-hand testimonies from 26 survivors of those hard times 

— what will probably be the last recorded testimony of the 

generation that lived through the Dust Bowl. Filled with 

seldom-seen movie footage, previously unpublished photographs, 

the songs of Woody Guthrie and the observations 

of two remarkable women — Sanora Babb and Caroline 

Henderson — who left behind eloquent written accounts, 

The Dust Bowl is a historical accounting of what happened 

and why during the 1930s on the southern plains. 

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Shielding from dust, Boise City, Oklahoma, 1936 

Black Sunday Storm, Ulysses, Kansas, April 14, 1935 

A Cautionary Tale 

“The Dust Bowl was a heartbreaking tragedy 

in the enormous scale of human suffering 

it caused. But perhaps the biggest tragedy is 

that it was preventable,” said Ken Burns. “This was an 

ecosystem — a grassland — that had evolved over millions 

of years to adjust to the droughts, high winds and 

violent weather extremes so common to that part of the 

country. In the space of a few decades at the start of the 

20th century, that grassland was uprooted in the middle 

of a frenzied wheat boom. When a drought returned, 

all that exposed soil took to the skies, and people worried 

that the breadbasket of the nation would become 

the next Sahara desert. If we show the same neglect to 

the limits of nature now as we did then, it is entirely 

possible that this could happen again.” 

About the Dust Bowl experience, writer Dayton 

Duncan said, “While the rest of the country was suffering 

through the fi nancial disaster of the Great Depression, 

COURTESY HISTORIC ADOBE MUSEUM 

Viewers’ Guide 

The Dust Bowl premieres this month 

on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD. 

Part 1 of 2: The Great Plow-Up (1890–1935) 

Sunday, November 18 at 8 p.m. 

Repeats Sun 11/18, 10 p.m., Mon 11/19, 2:30 p.m.; 

Thur 11/22, 2pm 

Part 2 of 2: Reaping the Whirlwind (1935–1940) 

Monday, November 19 at 8 p.m. 

Repeats Mon 11/19, 10 p.m., Tues 11/20, 2:30 p.m.; 

Thur 11/22, 4pm 

Funding for The Dust Bowl is provided by Bank of 

America, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 

The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, PBS, National 

Endowment for the Humanities, The Rockefeller 

Foundation, Wallace Genetic Foundation and members 

of The Better Angels Society, including the Dana 

A. Hamel Family Charitable Trust and Robert & Beverly 

Grappone. Local funding is provided by GEICO. 

“Okies,” pea-pickers camp, California, 1936 

the farmers of the southern plains were not only dealing 

with that, but also with something much more ominous 

and overpowering. Dust storms were taking their land 

and food, killing their children and turning the day into 

night. Plagues of grasshoppers and rabbits ravaged what 

little vegetation remained. It was as if nature itself had 

turned against them. But in fact it was the other way 

around: We had tried to impose our will on nature and 

the results were catastrophic.” 

To learn more about The Dust Bowl, visit the fi lm’s 

WETA-created companion website at pbs.org/dustbowl, 

which includes archival footage and photographs and 

music, as well as educational outreach materials. 

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November Specials 

on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD 

COURTESY TJL PRODUCTIONS 

Downton Abbey Revisited 

airs Sunday, November 25 at 8 p.m. 

A new special, Downton Abbey Revisited, spotlights great moments 

MASTERPIECE 

from the blockbuster Masterpiece series’ fi rst two seasons, along with 

FOR 

cast interviews, rare behind-the-scenes footage and a sneak peek at 

2012 

what’s in store for the noble Crawley family and their household staff as 

LIMITED 

they enter the Roaring Twenties in Series III, coming in January. What 

will become of the imprisoned Bates? What new mischief will villain- TELEVISION & 

ous footman Thomas and scheming lady’s maid O’Brien instigate? Will 

FILM 

wedding bells fi nally ring for (at right) Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens) 

and Lady Mary Crawley (Michelle Dockery)? And how will the formi- 

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dable Dowager Countess (Emmy winner Dame Maggie Smith) handle 

the arrival of Lady Grantham’s American mother (Shirley MacLaine)? COURTESY 

Ageless Health 

airs Tuesday, November 27 at 8 p.m. 

Doo Wop Discoveries 

airs Saturday, November 24 at 7 p.m. 

The latest of TJ Lubinksy’s My Music performance specials, Doo Wop Discoveries 

brings back a host of top R&B and pop vocal groups of the late ’50s and ’60s, presenting 

live and archival performances of their most loved hits. Pop music icons Smokey 

Robinson, Mike Stoller (of the writing team Lieber & Stoller), producers Mitch & Phil 

Margo of The Tokens, and Aaron Neville, Neil Sedaka and others share their favorite 

doo wop styles and songs of the genre. Among artists participating are The Clovers, 

Kenny Vance & The Planotones (left), the Original Drifters and The Solitaires. Also 

in November, watch for performances by British pop groups in My Music: The British 

Beat and a new concert by the Canadian Tenors in The Tenors: Lead With Your Heart. 

Blenko Glass: Behind the Scenes 

airs Sunday, November 25 at 7 p.m. 

This special program explores how Blenko glass is truly made by hand in 

the little town of Milton, West Virginia, going behind the scenes into the heat 

and heart of the Blenko Glass Company’s glassworks to see how the beautiful 

glassware is created — from mixing the raw materials, to blowing, fi nishing 

and shipping. Blenko Glass: Behind the Scenes also introduces many of the 

talented craftspeople who make each piece of fi nished glassware unique. 

The special also spotlights members of the Blenko family who continue the 

proud traditions of the company, family owned and operated since 1893 and 

renowned for its artistic hand-blown glass. 

The program Ageless Health follows the journey of six people who experienced 

impressive outcomes through a holistic approach that integrates chiropractic procedures, 

acupuncture and nutritional counseling after they were unable to achieve 

positive results through traditional medical treatment. In the program, Dr. R. Thomas 

Roselle, D.C., a Chiropractic Applied Kinesiologist, introduces the concept of 

taking care of one’s health as a “Do-It-To-Yourself” program. Roselle demonstrates 

how to take charge of your own health with the goal of achieving “ageless health.” 

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WETA TV 26 & WETA HD 

November primetime simulcast listings. 

Weeknight primetime simulcast programming repeats the following weekday on WETA TV 26 starting at noon. 

8:00 8:30 

9:00 9:30 

10:00 

Sherlock Holmes: The Boscombe Valley 

Mystery 

Washington Week with Gwen 

Ifi ll and National Journal 

Inside Washington 

Doc Martin, Series IV (Pts 6 & 7 of 8) (to 9:33pm) 

10:30 

Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Dumb Witness & Agatha Christie’s Poirot: 

The Incredible Theft (to 11:30pm) 

The Human Spark (Pt 1 of 3. Becoming Us) Election 2012: What’s at Stake (to 11pm) & 

Need to Know (to 11:30pm) 

The WETA Movie: Rocky (to 11:32pm) 

Call the Midwife (Pt 6 of 6) 

Masterpiece Classic: Upstairs Downstairs, 

Series II (Pt 5 of 6) 

Antiques Roadshow: Junk in the Trunk 2 Market Warriors: Antiquing in Canton, 

TX (Pt 2) 

PBS NewsHour Election Night 2012: A Special Report 

Nature: Animal Odd Couples 

Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the 

Illustrious Client 



Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Hercule Poirot’s 

Christmas (to 11:45pm) 

Frontline: The Choice 2012 (to 12m) 

NOVA: Mystery of Easter Island NOVA scienceNOW: What Are Animals 

Thinking? 

Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The King of Clubs & 

Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Dream (to 10:40pm) 

Inside Washington The Human Spark (Pt 2 of 3. So Human, 

So Chimp) 

Doc Martin (Series IV, Pt 8 of 8; Series V, Pt 1 of 8) (to 9:33pm) 

National Salute to Veterans 2012 

Antiques Roadshow: Cats & Dogs 

By Royal Appointment 

Nature: An Original Duckumentary 

Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the 

Creeping Man 



Masterpiece Classic: Upstairs Downstairs, 

Series II (Pt 6 of 6) 

Market Warriors: Antiquing in New York, 

NY 

Miss Marple V: The 

Mirror Crack’d (to 12m) 

Ellen DeGeneres: The Kennedy Center 

Mark Twain Prize [2012] (to 11:30pm) 

The WETA Movie: A Walk in the Clouds (to 11:15pm) 

Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Murder on the 

Links (to 11:45pm) 

Ellen DeGeneres: The Kennedy Center 

Mark Twain Prize [2012] (to 11:30pm) 

American Masters: Woody Guthrie: Ain’t Got No Home Frontline: The Suicide 

Plan (to 12m) 

NOVA: Ultimate Mars Challenge NOVA scienceNOW: What Will the Future 

Be Like? 

Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb & 

Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Underdog (to 10:40pm) 

Miss Marple V: Secret 

of Chimneys (to 12m) 

Inside Washington The Human Spark (Pt 3 of 3. Brain Matters) Will Ferrell: The Kennedy Center Mark 

Twain Prize [2011] (to 11:30pm) 

The WETA Movie: Dark Passage (to 11:19pm) & 

The WETA Movie: Dark Victory (to 1:05am) 

The Dust Bowl (Pt 1 of 2) (to 12m) 

Doc Martin, Series V (Pts 2 & 3 of 8) (to 9:33pm) 

The Dust Bowl (Pt 1 of 2. The Great Plow-Up. 1890–1935) 

The Dust Bowl (Pt 2 of 2. Reaping the Whirlwind. 1935–1940) 

David Geffen: American Masters 

Nature: My Life as a Turkey 

Sherlock Holmes: The Three Gables 



(from 7pm:) My Music: Doo Wop 

Discoveries 


My Music: Doo Wop Discoveries 

Ageless Health 

Oscar Hammerstein II—Out of My Dreams 


The Dust Bowl (Pt 2 of 2) (to 12m) 

Frontline: Poor Kids 

NOVA: Ancient Computer Secrets of the Dead: The Silver Pharaoh 

Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Yellow Iris & Agatha Christie’s Poirot: 

The Case of the Missing Will (to 10:40pm) 

Inside Washington Happy Holidays: The Best of the Andy Williams Christmas 

Specials 

Miss Marple V: The 

Blue Geranium (to 12m) 

Dr. Fuhrman’s Immunity 

Solution (to 12m) 

My Music: Doo Wop Discoveries (to 11pm) & Great Performances: Rod Stewart: Merry 

Christmas, Baby (to 12:30am) 

Downton Abbey Revisited (to 11pm) & 

Dr. Wayne Dyer: Wishes Fulfi lled (to 2am) 

Dr. Fuhrman’s Immunity Solution (to 12m) 

My Music: The British Beat (to 11:30pm) 

Happy Holidays: The Best of the Andy Williams Christmas 

Specials 

Use Your Brain to Change Your Age, with Dr. Daniel Amen 

(to 11:30pm) 

Washington Week with Gwen Inside Washington The Tenors: Lead With Your Heart Rod Stewart: Merry 


Christmas, Baby (to 12m) 

8:00 8:30 

9:00 9:30 

10:00 

10:30 

PBS NewsHour airs weeknights at 7 p.m. Charlie Rose airs late weeknights (check listings) 

For full schedules and program information, visit weta.org 5


W TA TV 26 & W TA HD 

November simulcast primetime listings, plus weekends for WETA TV 26 

• Programming on WETA TV 26 and WETA HD is exactly the same — simulcast — Monday through Friday nights 

from 7 p.m. through Charlie Rose, and each weekend evening, beginning at 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. 

• Please note that Saturday and Sunday daytime listings that follow are for WETA TV 26 only unless otherwise 

indicated. For complete 24-hour schedules of programs on WETA TV 26 and WETA HD, visit weta.org/tv. 

• Weeknight primetime on WETA TV 26 often repeats the next weekday on WETA TV 26 — see repeat listings. 

• WETA TV 26 is devoted to children’s programming 5 a.m.–noon weekdays and 6 a.m.–9 a.m. Sundays. For 24 hours 

of children’s programming each day, tune in to the WETA Kids channel. See page 16 for schedule information. 

Program Key 

■ — WETA productions, co-productions or presentations. {DVI} — Descriptive Video Service. R — Aired within the month. 

Listings are accurate as of press time. For late-breaking program updates, call 703-998-2724 or visit weta.org/tv. 

1 Thursday 

7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 

8:00 SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY 

— A man is found dying beside a lake by his son; the 

trail leads to blackmail and Australian gold mines, and 

then Holmes (Jeremy Brett) makes a breakthrough. 

Repeats Fri 11/2, 1pm 

9:00 AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT: DUMB WITNESS — 

The Tripp sister’s supernatural warnings and Poirot’s 

advice to Emily Arundel to change her will fail to prevent 

a murder. Poirot (David Suchet) must investigate, 

and Bob, the terrier dog, is the only one who knows 

who the murderer really is. Repeats Fri 11/2, 2pm 

10:43 AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT: THE INCREDIBLE THEFT 

— Pre-war Britain is striving to produce a new fi ghter 

aircraft, and government offi cials meet at a country 

home to discuss the secret plans. Chief Inspector Japp 

(Philip Jackson) has the estate patrolled by police but a 

vital design sheet is stolen, and Poirot must track down 

the thief. Repeats Fri 11/2, 4pm 

11:30 CHARLIE ROSE — Repeats next weekday, noon 

2 Friday 


8:00 WASHINGTON WEEK WITH GWEN IFILL AND NATIONAL 

JOURNAL — Moderator and managing editor Gwen Ifi ll 

leads a discussion by a panel of journalists on the news 

events of the week in the countdown to Election 2012. 

Repeats Sat 11/3, 6:30pm 

8:30 INSIDE WASHINGTON — Host Gordon Peterson moderates 

a discussion of the news of the week. Repeats Sat 

11/3, 6pm 

9:00 THE HUMAN SPARK — Uniquely human abilities — to 

think in symbols; recombine those symbols into infi nite 

meanings; invent a technology to disseminate the 

message; ponder the past; speculate about the future; 

Fridays, November 2, 9 & 16 at 9 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD 

In the three-part series The Human Spark, Alan Alda explores the 

nature of human skills and their evolution since the dawn of man. 

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COURTESY WNET 

Saturday, November 3 at 9:33 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD 

The WETA Movie presents Rocky, the 1976 Best Picture-winner written 

by, and starring, Sylvester Stallone. Burgess Meredith co-stars. 

imagine the unknown; build cities; compose music — 

constitute the “human spark.” In this series, host Alan 

Alda searches for the origin and nature of this spark. 

Part 1 of 3. Becoming Us. Where and when did the “human 

spark” fi rst ignite? {DVI} Repeats Sun 11/4, 4pm 

10:00 ELECTION 2012: WHAT’S AT STAKE — A special anchored 

by Hari Sreenivasan of PBS NewsHour explores 

the consequences for all Americans of the presidential 

and congressional elections. See page 1 for details. 

11:00 NEED TO KNOW — A rotation of respected and experienced 

media professionals — Scott Simon, Maria 

Hinojosa, Ray Suarez and Jeff Greenfi eld — anchor the 

weekly current affairs series and report from the fi eld, 

exploring issues important to candidates and voters in 

Election 2012. 


3 Saturday 

ON WETA TV 26, 6AM–6PM. See weta.org/hd for WETA HD listings. 

6AM NEW SCANDINAVIAN COOKING 

6:30 NICK STELLINO COOKING WITH FRIENDS 

7:00 SIMPLY MING 

7:30 CIAO ITALIA 

8:00 HUBERT KELLER: SECRETS OF A CHEF 

8:30 JOANNE WEIR’S COOKING CONFIDENCE 

9:00 EASTENDERS — (two episodes, simulcast on WETA TV 26 

and WETA HD) Repeats Fridays, 5pm 

10:00 THE THIS OLD HOUSE HOUR 

11:00 ESSENTIAL PÉPIN 

11:30 PATI’S MEXICAN TABLE 

12N CUISINE CULTURE 

12:30 MEXICO—ONE PLATE AT A TIME WITH RICK BAYLESS 

1:00 CHEF JOHN BESH’S NEW ORLEANS 

1:30 SARA’S WEEKNIGHT MEALS 

2:00 BAKING WITH JULIA 

2:30 LIDIA’S ITALY 

3:00 IN JULIA’S KITCHEN WITH MASTER CHEFS 

3:30 JACQUES PÉPIN: MORE FAST FOOD MY WAY! 

UNITED ARTISTS/PHOTOFEST

4:00 COOK’S COUNTRY FROM AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN 

4:30 AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN FROM COOK’S ILLUSTRATED 

5:00 MARTHA STEWART’S COOKING SCHOOL — In a series 

presented by WETA to public television stations nationwide 

and inspired by her eponymous, best-selling 

cookbook, Martha Stewart demonstrates classic cooking 

techniques and basics. Using her signature, stepby-step 

how-to teaching process, Stewart illustrates 

the building blocks of recipes everyone should know. 

5:30 RICK STEVES’ EUROPE 

SIMULCAST ON WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 6PM–12:30AM: 

6:00 INSIDE WASHINGTON — R 


JOURNAL — R 

7:00 AS TIME GOES BY 

7:30 KEEPING UP APPEARANCES 

8:00 DOC MARTIN, SERIES IV — Parts 6 & 7 of 8. Midwife 

Crisis/Do Not Disturb. 

9:33 THE WETA MOVIE: ROCKY — In John Avildsen’s 1976 

Best Picture-winning drama, a small time boxer 

(Sylvester Stallone, who wrote the screenplay) gets 

a once-in-a-lifetime chance to fight the heavyweight 

champ in a bout in which he strives to go the distance 

for his self-respect. Talia Shire and Burgess Meredith 

co-star. (1:59) Repeats Sun 11/4, 11:30am 

11:32 INDEPENDENT LENS: POWER PATHS — A film spotlights 

Native-American traditional values regarding 

conservation and the earth, exploring tribes’ use of 

wind and solar sources to provide clean sustainable 

energy for cities across the American West. (60 min.) 

4 Sunday 


6AM–9AM WETA KIDS PROGRAMMING 

9:00 WHITE HOUSE CHRONICLES 

9:30 TO THE CONTRARY WITH BONNIE ERBE 

10:00 THIS IS AMERICA WITH DENNIS WHOLEY 

10:30 RELIGION AND ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY 

11:00 GREAT ROMANCES 

11:30 THE WETA MOVIE: ROCKY — (1:59) R 


2:00 MARK RUSSELL’S AMERICA — For three decades, 

humorist Mark Russell — a master of pointed oneliners 

and sharp-witted piano parodies — has shared 

his insights on politics and society, lampooning events 

and newsmakers from all political persuasions. A retrospective 

pays tribute to Russell, featuring clips from 

some of his more than 100 public television specials. 

3:00 AN EVENING WITH SMOKEY ROBINSON, WITH GWEN 

IFILL — WETA’s Gwen Ifill talks with Smokey Robinson, 

giving viewers an insider’s look at the life and career of 

the Motown legend. The program, taped in 2009 before 

an audience at Northwestern University Thorne Auditorium, 

features musical tributes from Teena Marie, 

Howard Hewett and Musiq Soulchild. 

4:00 THE HUMAN SPARK — Part 1 of 3. Becoming Us. {DVI} R 

5:00 GLOBE TREKKER: ’ROUND THE WORLD: ISTANBUL TO 

BEIJING — Repeats Mon 11/5, 1:30pm; Wed 11/7, 3pm 


6:00 MOYERS & COMPANY — Bill Moyers presents a weekly 

hour of conversation about life and the state of American 

democracy, featuring a range of scholars, artists, 

Wednesday, November 7 at 8 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD 

The series Nature explores why animals form unlikely cross-species 

relationships — and what these special bonds might suggest about 

animal emotions. Above, Kasi the cheetah and Mtani the dog. 

COURTESY ©BUSCH GARDENS 

Sundays, November 4 & 11 at 9 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD 

Romantic intrigues come to a boil and a dark discovery has 

explosive consequences for 165 Eaton Place in Upstairs Downstairs, 

Series II on Masterpiece. Above, Ed Stoppard stars as Sir Hallam. 

activists, scientists, philosophers and newsmakers who 

bring context, insight and meaning to important topics. 

Repeats Mon 11/5, 5pm 

7:00 MARKET WARRIORS — Antiquing in Burlington, KY. R 

8:00 CALL THE MIDWIFE — Part 6 of 6. Sister Monica Joan 

is found wandering near the docks and returned to 

Nonnatus House by the police. Her adventure takes a 

toll on her health. When she eventually recovers and 

returns to the community, she finds herself in trouble 

with the law. Meanwhile, Chummy (Miranda Hart) 

suffers a romantic crisis. Repeats Mon 11/5, 4pm 

9:00 MASTERPIECE CLASSIC: UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, 

SERIES II — Part 5 of 6. The Last Waltz. The relationships 

of three couples, upstairs and down, evolve. 

Mr. Pritchard enjoys a romance, and Harry has a 

proposition for Beryl. Meanwhile, as Lady Persie and 

Sir Hallam continue their affair, Sir Hallam is about to 

discover just how destructive his actions have been. 

Repeats Tue 11/6, 3pm 

10:00 AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT: HERCULE POIROT’S 

CHRISTMAS — The great Belgian detective Poirot 

(David Suchet) is asked to spend Christmas with 

Simeon Lee at his Gorston Hall home after Lee 

receives six diamonds from his museum in South Africa 

and believes that his life is in danger. As an unexpected 

guest, Poirot is on hand when a killer strikes. (105 min.) 

12M NEED TO KNOW 

5 Monday 


8:00 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: JUNK IN THE TRUNK 2 — 

Antiques Roadshow features never-before-seen 

appraisals from El Paso, Atlanta, Minneapolis and 

more. Repeats Tue 11/6, 2pm; Wed 11/7, 1pm, 4pm 

9:00 MARKET WARRIORS — Antiquing in Canton, TX (Part 2). 

On the series — from the producers of Antiques Roadshow 

— treasure hunters travel to different markets 

across the country to purchase items with a set amount 

of money and see who can make the most profit at 

auction. Repeats Wed 11/7, 2pm; Thur 11/8, 1pm 

10:00 FRONTLINE: THE CHOICE 2012 — The public affairs 

documentary series presents its quadrennial examination 

of the presidential candidates. Intensive research 

and original interviews reveal new details and fresh 

insights about Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, illuminating 

the places, people and decisive moments that 

made the men who are competing for the presidency. 


12M CHARLIE ROSE — Repeats next weekday, noon 

6 Tuesday 


8:00 PBS NEWSHOUR ELECTION NIGHT 2012: A SPECIAL 

REPORT — NewsHour senior correspondents Gwen Ifill 

and Judy Woodruff co-anchor live coverage of election 

results. The special report, created by MacNeil/Lehrer 

Productions and WETA, will run into the night as 

needed. See the inside front cover for details. 

TBD CHARLIE ROSE — Repeats next weekday, noon 

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A WETA C0-PRODUCTION 

Sunday, November 11 at 8 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD 

The inaugural broadcast of National Salute to Veterans, hosted by 

Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinese, features best moments from past 

National Memorial Day Concerts on the National Mall. 

7 Wednesday 


8:00 NATURE: ANIMAL ODD COUPLES — Informed by the 

observations of caregivers and noted scientists Temple 

Grandin and Marc Bekoff, Nature investigates why 

animals form special bonds in unlikely cross-species 

relationships — a goat guiding a blind horse, a doe who 

regularly visits her Great Dane surrogate mother, and 

so on — and explores what these bonds suggest about 

animal emotions. {DVI} Repeats Thur 11/8, 2pm; Mon 

11/12, 2:30pm; Tue 11/13, 1pm 

9:00 NOVA: MYSTERY OF EASTER ISLAND — A remote, 

bleak speck of rock in the middle of the Pacific, Easter 

Island, or Rapa Nui, has mystified the world ever since 

the first Europeans arrived in 1722. How and why did 

the ancient islanders build and move nearly 900 giant 

statues, or moai, weighing up to 86 tons? With the help 

of an accurate 15-ton replica statue, a NOVA team sets 

out to test a high-risk, seemingly unlikely theory. {DVI} 

Repeats Thur 11/8, 3pm 

10:00 NOVA scienceNOW — What Are Animals Thinking? 

What’s going on inside an animal’s head? How do they 

see the world — and us? New York Times technology 

reporter David Pogue hosts the science magazine, in 

this program meeting animals that challenge notions of 

what makes “us” different from “them.” Repeats Thur 

11/8, 4pm 


8 Thursday 


8:00 SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE ADVENTURE OF THE IL- 

LUSTRIOUS CLIENT — Intrigue and deception are the 

order of the day — but is it all too much for the great 

detective? Jeremy Brett stars as Holmes. Repeats Fri 

11/9, 1pm 

9:00 AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT: THE KING OF CLUBS — 

Poirot (David Suchet) and Hastings visit some studios 

where a friend is directing a film; they are shocked by 

the behavior of the studio owner, who treats the cast 

and crew appallingly. That evening, one of the actors is 

implicated in murder. Repeats Fri 11/9, 2pm 

9:43 AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT: THE DREAM — Poirot 

(David Suchet) receives a note from tycoon Benedict 

Farley urgently requesting a meeting. Farley recounts 

a recurring dream of suicide and asks Poirot if a victim 

could be hypnotized into committing such an act. 


10:40 MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: MISS MARPLE, SERIES V: 

THE MIRROR CRACK’D FROM SIDE TO SIDE — British 

actress Julia McKenzie (of the Masterpiece production 

Cranford) stars as the beloved spinster sleuth Miss 

Marple in adaptations of Agatha Christie mystery 

novels. In this episode, several people are found 

poisoned soon after a celebrated Hollywood actress 

and her film director husband settle in St. Mary Mead. 

Miss Marple must track down the killer and discover 

the reason behind the murders. Joanna Lumley and 

Lindsay Duncan guest star. 


9 Friday 


COURTESY CAPITAL CONCERTS 



JOURNAL — Moderator and managing editor Gwen Ifill 


events of the week. Repeats Sat 11/10, 6:30pm 

8:30 INSIDE WASHINGTON — See the Friday, November 2, 

8:30 p.m. listing. Repeats Sat 11/10, 6pm 

9:00 THE HUMAN SPARK — Part 2 of 3. So Human, So Chimp. 

Alan Alda joins researchers studying our fellow simians 

to discover both what we share with them and what new 

skills humans evolved since we went our separate ways. 

Alda learns that human uniqueness lies in our ability 

to reason about things we can’t observe. {DVI} Repeats 

Sun 11/18, 3pm 

10:00 ELLEN DeGENERES: THE KENNEDY CENTER MARK 

TWAIN PRIZE 2012 — A WETA co-production celebrates 

beloved television icon and entertainment pioneer Ellen 

DeGeneres, the latest recipient of The Kennedy Center 

Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. From the stage 

of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 

celebrities including Steve Harvey, Jimmy Kimmel, 

Sean Hayes, John Krasinski, Jane Lynch, Loudon Wainwright 

III, Jason Mraz and Lily Tomlin salute the 15th 

recipient of the humor prize. Repeats Mon 11/12, 10pm 

11:30 NEED TO KNOW 


10 Saturday 


6AM NEW SCANDINAVIAN COOKING 

6:30 NICK STELLINO COOKING WITH FRIENDS 

7:00 CIAO ITALIA — NEW TIME! 

7:30 HUBERT KELLER: SECRETS OF A CHEF — NEW TIME! 

8:00 JOANNE WEIR’S COOKING CONFIDENCE — NEW TIME! 

8:30 RICK STEVES’ EUROPE — NEW TIME! 

9AM–5PM See the Saturday, November 3 listings. 

5:00 MARTHA STEWART’S COOKING SCHOOL — See the 

Saturday, November 3, 5 p.m. listing. 

5:30 THE MIND OF A CHEF — A series narrated by Anthony 

Bourdain combines travel and cooking, making connections 

between food and nature, science, music, 

art, sports, history and just about anything else that 

Korean-American chef David Chang can stir up. 

SIMULCAST ON WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 6PM–2AM: 



JOURNAL — R 



8:00 DOC MARTIN — Series IV, Part 8 of 8. The Wrong Goodbye 

& Series V, Part 1 of 8. Preserve the Romance. 

9:33 THE WETA MOVIE: A WALK IN THE CLOUDS — In Alfonso 

Arau’s 1995 romance, a married salesman (Keanu 

Reeves) agrees to pose for a day as the new husband of 

a pregnant vineyard heiress (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón) in 

postwar California. Anthony Quinn co-stars. (1:42) 

Tuesday, November 13 at 8 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD 

By Royal Appointment spotlights the British craftsmen who hold 

royal "warrants" as official suppliers to England’s Royal Family. 

COURTESY AMERICAN PUBLIC TELEVISION


Nature: An Original Duckumentary explores the surprising skills of 

ducks, following a migration and a pair raising a brood of chicks. 

11:30 INDEPENDENT LENS: SOLAR MAMAS — A film 

spotlights India’s Barefoot College, which provides 

impoverished rural women with an education that 

empowers them to make their communities self-reliant 

and sustainable. 

12:30AM P.O.V.: WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM — A documentary 

follows the journey of childhood friends who 

join the National Guard after high school, going from 

a small town in northern Michigan to the mountains of 

Afghanistan, chronicling the young men’s transformation 

from restless teenagers to soldiers looking for 

roadside bombs to 23-year-old combat veterans trying 

to start their lives again. (90 min.) 

11 Sunday 

ON WETA TV 26, 6AM–8:30AM. See weta.org/hd for HD listings. 

6AM–8:30AM WETA KIDS PROGRAMMING 

SIMULCAST ON WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 8:30AM–12:30AM: 

8:30AM–8PM VICTORY AT SEA — Marking Veteran’s Day, 

WETA TV 26 presents a 26-part groundbreaking 1953 

documentary series — in its entirety — that spotlights 

major naval campaigns of World War II, including the 

attack on Pearl Harbor, battles in the North Atlantic, 

the Midway and Leyte Gulf campaigns and more. 

8:00 NATIONAL SALUTE TO VETERANS 2012 — Joe Mantegna 

and Gary Sinise host the inaugural broadcast of a 

Capital Concerts (A Capitol Fourth and National Memorial 

Day Concert) celebration of American veterans that 

features new footage shot at the U.S. Capitol as well as 

the “best of the best” moments from past National Memorial 

Day Concerts. The all-star line-up includes Colin 

L. Powell USA (Ret.), Forest Whitaker, Pia Toscano, 

Kris Allen, A.J. Cook, Jason Ritter and Yolanda Adams, 

accompanied by the National Symphony Orchestra. 

9:00 MASTERPIECE CLASSIC: UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, 

SERIES II — Part 6 of 6. Somewhere Over the Rainbow. 

On the eve of war, Beryl and Harry face a race against 

time to get married. Meanwhile, Mr. Pritchard makes 

a decision that throws the running of 165 Eaton Place 

into chaos, until an old friend lends a helping hand. 

As Lady Agnes returns to London, a dark discovery 

has explosive consequences for all in the household. 


10:00 AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT: MURDER ON THE LINKS 

— While holidaying in the French seaside resort of 

Deauville, Poirot (David Suchet) and Hastings (Hugh 

Fraser) are called upon by local resident Paul Renauld, 

who claims he’s being defrauded. The situation escalates 

and Poirot must act fast. (105 min.) 


12 Monday 


8:00 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: CATS & DOGS — Appraisals 

feature felines and canines — in sculpture, on canvas 

and in many other forms. Repeats Tue 11/13, 2pm; 

Wed 11/14, 1pm 

9:00 MARKET WARRIORS — Antiquing in New York, NY. 

Repeats Tue 11/13, 3pm; Wed 11/14, 2pm; Thur 11/15, 

1pm; Sun 11/18, 7pm 

10:00 ELLEN DeGENERES: THE KENNEDY CENTER MARK 

TWAIN PRIZE 2012 — See the Friday, November 9, 

10 p.m. listing. R 


COURTESY ©THIRTEEN 

13 Tuesday 


8:00 BY ROYAL APPOINTMENT — A documentary narrated 

by Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) spotlights the talented 

craftsmen and women — from tailors to cheese 

makers, medal crafters to wine suppliers, and cobblers 

to carriage makers — who hold “warrants” designating 

them official suppliers to the English Royal Family. 

Repeats Wed 11/14, 4:30pm 

9:00 AMERICAN MASTERS: WOODY GUTHRIE: AIN’T GOT 

NO HOME — The music of the nation’s signature folk 

singer/songwriter emerged from his experiences in 

Depression-era America, blending vernacular, rural 

music and populism and giving a voice to millions of 

downtrodden citizens. Repeats Wed 11/14, 3pm 

10:30 FRONTLINE: THE SUICIDE PLAN — You have an incurable 

illness, you want to die, and you need help. What 

can you do? Physician-assisted suicide is illegal most 

places, so people are turning to “assisters.” Frontline 

explores the world of assisted suicide, where the lines 

between legality and criminality are blurred. 


14 Wednesday 


8:00 NATURE: AN ORIGINAL DUCKUMENTARY — Ducks fly 

on stubby wings in large, energy-efficient formations 

over thousands of miles. There are some 150 species 

of them, and they are familiar animals, but most of us 

don’t really know these sophisticated creatures at all. 

This program follows a wood duck family in the wild. 

{DVI} Repeats Thur 11/15, 2pm; Sun 11/18, 2pm; 

Tue 11/20, 1pm; Wed 11/21, 5pm 

9:00 NOVA: ULTIMATE MARS CHALLENGE — In August, 

a rover named Curiosity touched down inside Mars’ 

Gale Crater, carrying 10 new instruments that will 

advance the quest for signs that Mars might once have 

been suitable for life. With inside access to the team 

of scientists and engineers responsible for Curiosity’s 

on-the-ground experiments, NOVA was there for the 

exhilarating moments after Curiosity’s landing. {DVI} 


10:00 NOVA scienceNOW — What Will the Future Be Like? 

Mobile phones that read your mind? Video games that 

can cure cancer? Wearable robots that give you the 

strength of Ironman? Host David Pogue predicts which 

technologies will transform daily life in the future. 



15 Thursday 


8:00 SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE ADVENTURE OF THE 

CREEPING MAN — Professor Presbury refuses to 

believe his daughter’s story about an intruder who 

appears at her window, but Holmes (Jeremy Brett) 

investigates. Repeats Fri 11/16, 1pm 


NOVA: Ultimate Mars Challenge follows the rover Curiosity as it 

journeys to the surface of Mars and begins its explorations. 


COURTESY NASA/SCOTT ANDREWS/CANON 



9:00 AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT: THE ADVENTURE OF 

THE EGYPTIAN TOMB — Against the advice of his 

companions, when archaeologist Sir John Willard 

discovers King Men-her-Ra’s tomb in the Valley of 

the Kings, he smashes it open to reveal the treasures 

within. Seconds later he suffers a fatal heart attack. 

Lady Willard appoints Poirot (David Suchet) to investigate 

as everyone connected with the discovery begins 

to drop dead. Repeats Fri 11/16, 2pm 

9:43 AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT: THE UNDERDOG — 

After a mysterious fire at his factory, businessman Sir 

Rueben Astwell decides to file the details of a newly 

discovered chemical compound at home. Astwell’s 

ambitions to cash in on the possible war with Germany 

are thwarted, however, and Poirot must investigate. 



THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS — British actress Julia 

McKenzie portrays spinster sleuth Miss Marple in 

adaptations of Agatha Christie mystery novels. Miss 

Marple accompanies Lady Virginia Revel to a weekend 

party at her family home of Chimneys. When an 

important dignitary goes missing, the search reveals 

a decades-old murder that might be connected to a 

mysterious diamond theft. Stephen Dillane and Edward 

Fox guest star. 


16 Friday 





events of the week. Repeats Sat 11/17, 6:30pm 

8:30 INSIDE WASHINGTON — Repeats Sat 11/17, 6pm 

9:00 THE HUMAN SPARK — Part 3 of 3. Brain Matters. The 

unique brain circuitry that provides us with our most 

prized ability, language, is closely tied to another 

unique human skill, our ability to make and use complex 

tools. Host Alan Alda discovers that the essential 

human spark, our ability to imagine, lies in a brain 

region closely related to that used when thinking about 

others’ minds — and that fires most fiercely when we 

are doing nothing at all. {DVI} Repeats Sun 11/18, 4pm 

10:00 WILL FERRELL: THE KENNEDY CENTER MARK TWAIN 

PRIZE [2011] — The WETA co-production features a 

star-studded lineup of entertainment luminaries — 

including Conan O’Brien, Zach Galifianakis, John C. 

Reilly, Jack Black, Molly Shannon, Christina Applegate, 

Adam McKay, Maya Rudolph, Mark Wahlberg, Will 

Smith, Brian Williams, Vince Vaughn, Dustin Hoffman 

and rock band Green Day — honoring actor and 

comedian Will Ferrell in the Concert Hall of the John 

F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as Ferrell is 

awarded the arts institution’s 14th annual Mark Twain 

Prize for American Humor. 

11:30 NEED TO KNOW 


17 Saturday 


6AM–6PM See the Saturday, November 10 listings. 




JOURNAL — R 



8:00 DOC MARTIN, SERIES V — Parts 2 & 3 of 8. Dry Your 

Tears/Born with a Shotgun. 

9:33 THE WETA MOVIE: DARK PASSAGE — In Delmer 

Davies’ 1947 noir mystery, a San Francisco art student 

(Lauren Bacall) hides a fugitive (Humphrey Bogart) 

who is recovering from underworld plastic surgery and 

trying to prove his innocence in a crime. (1:46) Repeats 

Sun 11/18, 11:30am 

11:19 THE WETA MOVIE: DARK VICTORY — In the 1939 

drama, an heiress (Bette Davis) with only months to 

live embarks on a social whirl, then marries her doctor 

(George Brent). The cast includes Humphrey Bogart 

and Ronald Reagan. (1:46) 

1:05AM INDEPENDENT LENS: PARK AVENUE: MONEY, 

POWER & THE AMERICAN DREAM — The address 740 

Park Avenue in Manhattan boasts the highest number 


of billionaires in the nation, many of whom lobby and 

finance political campaigns to lower taxes on the 

wealthy. Less than four miles away, Park Avenue runs 

through New York’s 16th Congressional District in the 

South Bronx, which has the highest poverty rate in the 

U.S. (60 min.) 

18 Sunday 


6AM–11:30AM See the Sunday, November 4 listings. 

11:30 THE WETA MOVIE: DARK PASSAGE — (1:46) R 


2:00 NATURE: AN ORIGINAL DUCKUMENTARY — R 

3:00 THE HUMAN SPARK — Part 2 of 3. So Human, So Chimp. 

{DVI} R 

4:00 THE HUMAN SPARK — Part 3 of 3. Brain Matters. {DVI} 

R 

5:00 GLOBE TREKKER: EAST TEXAS — Repeats Mon 11/19, 

1:30pm; Tue 11/20, 5pm; Wed 11/21, 1pm, 4pm 


6:00 MOYERS & COMPANY — See the Sunday, November 4, 

6 p.m. listing. Repeats Mon 11/19, 5pm 

7:00 MARKET WARRIORS — Antiquing in New York, NY. R 

8:00 THE DUST BOWL — Part 1 of 2. The Great Plow-Up 

(1890–1935). A Ken Burns film — co-produced by 

Florentine Films and WETA — surveys the causes of 

the worst manmade ecological disaster in American 

history, when the wheat boom of the “Great Plow-Up,” 

followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, 

nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Interviews 

with survivors of those hard times, combined 

with dramatic photographs and seldom-seen movie 

footage, chronicle the Dust Bowl. Part 1 explores Plains 

history, homesteading, the plowing of the land, the 

Great Depression, the onset of drought, and the storms 

that followed. See pages 2–3 for more about the film. 

Repeats tonight; Mon 11/19, 2:30pm; Thur 11/22, 2pm 

10:00 THE DUST BOWL — Part 1 of 2. R 


19 Monday 


8:00 THE DUST BOWL — Part 2 of 2. Reaping the Whirlwind 

(1935–1940). Part Two of the Ken Burns film explores 

the U.S. government’s efforts to rescue the desperate 

inhabitants of the Dust Bowl, and spotlights the exodus 

of many families westward and the discrimination 

against them as “Okies.” Government experts work 

with farmers to develop conservation techniques; and 

government aid proves vital to the region. Finally a wet 

cycle finally returns and wheat booms again, setting 

the stage for a new Dust Bowl until the region taps the 

land for a new source of water for irrigating farmlands. 

See pages 2-3 for more about the film. Repeats 

tonight; Tue 11/20, 2:30pm: Thur 11/22, 4pm 

10:00 THE DUST BOWL — Part 2 of 2. R 


Tuesday, November 20 at 8 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD 

David Geffen: American Masters profiles the recording industry 

mogul, agent and manager, and film and stage producer — above 

with musical artist Joni Mitchell — and documents how his 

influence has shaped American culture for the past four decades. 

COURTESY HENRY DILTZ

THE DUST BOWL, A WETA C0-PRODUCTION 

Sunday–Monday, Nov. 18 & 19 at 8 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD 

A new, two-part, four-hour Ken Burns film, The Dust Bowl, created 

in partnership with WETA, explores the story of the worst manmade 

ecological disaster in American history, when the “Great Plow-Up” 

of the southern plains during a 1920s wheat boom was followed by 

a historic drought during the 1930s, unleashing a pattern of massive, 

deadly dust storms that ravaged the land and its people during 

the Great Depression. The film documents the Dust Bowl’s causes, 

impact and lessons as well as stories of survival and human endurance. 

Visit pbs.org/dustbowl to learn more. Above: Ulysses, Kansas. 

20 Tuesday 


8:00 DAVID GEFFEN: AMERICAN MASTERS — Notoriously 

press- and camera-shy, record music mogul David Geffen 

reveals himself for the first time in this unflinching 

portrait of a complex and compelling man. His farreaching 

influence — as agent and manager, industry 

leader, Hollywood and Broadway producer, and billionaire 

philanthropist — has helped shape American 

popular culture for decades. Repeats Wed 11/21, 2pm 

10:00 FRONTLINE: POOR KIDS — In an area along the border 

of Iowa and Illinois deeply scarred by the Recession, 

Frontline follows three young girls who are growing 

up against the backdrop of their families’ struggles 

against financial ruin. The result is a portrait of the 

economic crisis through the eyes of children. 


21 Wednesday 


8:00 NATURE: MY LIFE AS A TURKEY — Based on the true 

story of writer and naturalist Joe Hutto, portrayed by 

wildlife photographer Jeff Palmer, this film chronicles 

Hutto’s remarkable experience of imprinting wild turkey 

eggs and raising the hatchlings to adulthood in the 

wilds of Florida. {DVI} Repeats Thur 11/22, 1pm 

9:00 NOVA: ANCIENT COMPUTER — An unpromising lump 

of metal found in a 2,000-year-old shipwreck turns out 

to be an extraordinary treasure: the world’s first computer. 

NOVA follows the ingenious detective work that 

painstakingly discovered the truth about the ancient 

Greek device: it was an astonishingly sophisticated 

astronomical calculator and eclipse predictor, believed 

to be from the workshop of Archimedes. {DVI} 

10:00 SECRETS OF THE DEAD: THE SILVER PHARAOH — 

The royal tomb of Pharaoh Psusennes I is one of the 

most spectacular of all the ancient Egyptian finds. The 

tomb, filled with lavish jewels and treasure, contained 

an exquisite silver sarcophagus in which the Pharaoh’s 

body was held. 


22 Thursday 


8:00 SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE THREE GABLES — A woman 

rejects her diplomat lover, Douglas Maberly, in favor 

of the young Duke of Lomond. With his life shattered, 

Maberly completes a manuscript of his life story and 

then perishes. Holmes (Jeremy Brett) investigates. 

9:00 AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT: YELLOW IRIS — A yellow 

iris arrives with the mail, which reminds Poirot (David 

Suchet) of his trip to Buenos Aires two years before. 

Iris, one of his dinner companions in Buenos Aires, was 

murdered and Poirot was deported before he could 

investigate. Could the mysterious arrival of the flower 

be a request for Poirot to pick up the case again? 

COURTESY HISTORIC ADOBE MUSEUM 

9:43 AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT: THE CASE OF THE 

MISSING WILL — When academic Andrew Marsh dies 

shortly after changing his will, Poirot (David Suchet) 

decides that there are several motives for his possible 

murder. Marsh had asked Poirot to be executor of a 

new will that left many expectant beneficiaries out in 

the cold — and Poirot suspects foul play. 


THE BLUE GERANIUM —British actress Julia McKenzie 

stars as Agatha Christie’s spinster sleuth. While visiting 

an old friend, Miss Marple discovers that there may be 

new evidence concerning the notorious Blue Geranium 

murder case. Can Marple unlock the clues before the 

wrong person is found guilty of murder? Sharon Small 

(The Inspector Lynley Mysteries) and Toby Stephens 

(Jane Eyre) guest star. 


23 Friday 

WETA’s Fall membership drive airs Nov. 23–Dec. 9 

on WETA TV 26 and WETA HD. Please note that television 

listings during that period are subject to change. 

1PM LES MISÉRABLES 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT AT 

THE O2 — In October 2010, Les Misérables, the world’s 

longest running musical, celebrated its 25th birthday. 

To mark the occasion, the show’s producer, Cameron 

Mackintosh, staged a 25th Anniversary concert at the 

O2 Arena in London. Repeats Sun 11/25, 12:30pm 

5:00 EASTENDERS — (two episodes) R 

6:00 BBC WORLD NEWS AMERICA 

6:30 NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT 





events of the week. 

8:30 INSIDE WASHINGTON 

9:00 HAPPY HOLIDAYS: THE BEST OF THE ANDY WILLIAMS 

CHRISTMAS SPECIALS — Memorable segments from 

the late singer’s holiday-themed television programs 

include performances of favorite seasonal songs — and 

dance and skating routines. Repeats Sat 11/24, 2pm; 

Sun 11/25, 4:30pm; Wed 11/28, 2:30pm, 9:30pm 

10:30 DR. FUHRMAN’S IMMUNITY SOLUTION — See the 

Monday, November 26, 10 p.m. listing. Repeats Sun 

11/25, 9am; Mon 11/26, 10pm 

12M BLENKO GLASS: BEHIND THE SCENES — See the 

Sunday, November 25, 7 p.m. listing. 

1AM CHARLIE ROSE — Repeats next weekday, noon 

Friday, November 23 at 9 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD 

Happy Holidays: The Best of the Andy Williams Christmas Specials 

features the beloved late singer performing holiday classics. 


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24 Saturday 

SIMULCAST ON WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 6AM–2:30AM: 

6AM A.D.D. & MASTERING IT — See the Tuesday, 

November 27, 11:30 p.m. listing. 

7:30 ED SLOTT’S RETIREMENT RESCUE — The certified 

public accountant and IRA expert, author of five 

bestselling books, defines the fiscal problems facing 

Americans and provides a step-by-step solution to 

creating a plan of action to take control of one’s 

finances and achieve a comfortable retirement. 

9:00 EASTENDERS — (two episodes) Repeats Fridays, 5pm 

10:00 USE YOUR BRAIN TO CHANGE YOUR AGE, WITH DR. 

DANIEL AMEN — Dr. Daniel Amen explores how having 

a healthy brain is the key to staying vibrant. His 

anti-aging program explores how to improve memory 

and energy; how to reduce the outward signs of aging; 

how to promote brain healing after injury, stroke or 

substance abuse; and how to make healthier decisions. 

Repeats tonight, 12:30am; Thur 11/29, 9:30pm 

12N FLOWER EMPOWERED WITH SARAH VON POLLARO 

— In WETA’s production, Washingtonian Sarah von 

Pollaro demonstrates how anyone on any budget can 

create gorgeous, long-lasting floral designs. Combining 

simple techniques with out-of-the-box thinking, von 

Pollaro offers tips for making beautiful arrangements 

for the home or for special occasions. 


CHRISTMAS SPECIALS — R 

3:30 SUZE ORMAN’S MONEY CLASS — Based on her 

book, the personal finance expert’s program explores 

what actions people need to take in light of the new 

economy. Repeats Wed 11/28, 11:30 

5:30 BLENKO GLASS: BEHIND THE SCENES — See the 

Sunday, November 25, 7 p.m. listing — R 

7:00 MY MUSIC: DOO WOP DISCOVERIES — A performance 

special brings back pivotal R&B and pop vocal groups 

of the late ’50s and ’60s through never-before-broadcast 

archival film and new live performances of their 

most loved hits. Pop music icons Smokey Robinson, 

Mike Stoller (of the writing team Lieber & Stoller), 

producers Mitch and Phil Margo of the Tokens, Aaron 

Neville, Neil Sedaka and others share their favorite doo 

wop styles and songs of the genre. Repeats tonight; 

Mon 11/26, 8pm 

9:00 MY MUSIC: DOO WOP DISCOVERIES — R 

11:00 GREAT PERFORMANCES: ROD STEWART: MERRY 

CHRISTMAS, BABY — Rocker Rod Stewart’s first solo 

holiday special, with songs produced by “Hitman” David 

Foster, features 13 classic holiday favorites. Repeats 

Thur 11/29, 11:30pm; Fri 11/30, 10:30pm 

12:30AM USE YOUR BRAIN TO CHANGE YOUR AGE, WITH DR. 

DANIEL AMEN — R 

25 Sunday 

SIMULCAST ON WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 6AM–2AM: 

6AM DR. WAYNE DYER: WISHES FULFILLED — See tonight’s 

11 p.m. listing. 

9:00 DR. FUHRMAN’S IMMUNITY SOLUTION! — R 

Tuesday, November 27 at 9:30 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD 

Petula Clark hosts The British Beat, a My Music performance special 

spotlighting top British pop and rock music acts of the 1960s. 


COURTESY TJL PRODUCTIONS/CHRISTOPHER MOURTHE 

Friday, November 30 at 9 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD 

The Tenors: Lead With Your Heart features the quartet The Canadian 

Tenors performing songs in Las Vegas from their upcoming record. 

11:00 THE HAPPINESS ADVANTAGE WITH SHAWN ACHOR 

— Most people believe that success creates happiness, 

but positive psychology expert Shawn Achor says 

we’ve got it backwards. Using recent discoveries in 

the fields of positive psychology and neuroscience, he 

demonstrates how happiness actually fuels success. 

By becoming more positive, the brain becomes more 

engaged, creative, energetic, resilient and productive. 

12:30 LES MISÉRABLES 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT AT 

THE O2 — See the Friday, November 23, 1 p.m. listing. 


CHRISTMAS SPECIALS — R 

6:00 MOYERS & COMPANY — See the Sunday, November 4, 

6 p.m. listing. 

7:00 BLENKO GLASS: BEHIND THE SCENES — A new 

program visits the Blenko glassworks to see how the 

company’s all-handmade glassware is created. Each 

piece is unique and so are the artisans and members 

of the Blenko family who continue this proud, 100-year 

glassworking tradition. Repeats Fri 11/30, midnight 

8:00 DOWNTON ABBEY REVISITED — A special revisits fondly 

remembered moments from the first two seasons of 

the blockbuster British drama — and presents tantalizing 

previews of Season III, premiering in January. 

Repeats tonight; Thur 11/29, 8pm 

9:30 DOWNTON ABBEY REVISITED — R 

11:00 DR. WAYNE DYER: WISHES FULFILLED — Best-selling 

author and teacher Dr. Wayne Dyer presents his Five 

Wishes Fulfilled Foundations: five steps to living from 

one’s “highest self” and thereby attracting one’s deepest 

desires. Dyer outlines a program for mastering the 

tools necessary for living a profoundly extraordinary life 

and offers counsel on how to defeat unproductive and 

recurring habits. 

26 Monday 


8:00 MY MUSIC: DOO WOP DISCOVERIES — See the Saturday, 

November 24, 7 p.m. listing. 

10:00 DR. FUHRMAN’S IMMUNITY SOLUTION — Nutritional 

science has made phenomenal discoveries in recent 

years. In this program, best-selling author and 

researcher Dr. Joel Fuhrman shows how we can 

supercharge our immune system to protect our bodies 

against disease. 

12M T’AI CHI—HEALTH & HARMONY WITH DAVID DORIAN- 

ROSS — Author, lecturer and eight-time T’ai Chi U.S. 

national champion David-Dorian Ross demonstrates 

why this ancient Chinese martial art is the ultimate 

exercise for body, mind and spirit. Ross offers an engaging, 

detailed description of the practical benefits of 

T’ai Chi and the special health and wellness advantages 

of each part of the forms. 


27 Tuesday 


8:00 AGELESS HEALTH — A special follows the journey 

of six people who experienced impressive outcomes 

through a holistic approach that integrates chiropractic 

procedures, acupuncture and nutritional counseling after 

they were unable to achieve positive results through 

traditional medical treatment. Dr. R. Thomas Roselle, 

D.C., a Chiropractic Applied Kinesiologist, hosts, 

offering advice on taking charge of one’s own health 

to achieve “Ageless Health.” 

COURTESY VICTOR BERNARD PHOTOGRAPHY

9:30 MY MUSIC: THE BRITISH BEAT — This music special 

travels to London and around the U.K. to the places 

where distinctly British rock and pop music were born. 

The program features a mix of rare archival full-length 

performance films mixed with live performances 

from 1960s musical acts such as the Zombies, Wayne 

Fontana, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Gerry and the 

Pacemakers and many more — including never-beforebroadcast 

sets from Chad and Jeremy, and Peter 

Noone. Petula Clark hosts. 

11:30 A.D.D. & MASTERING IT — This special program 

presents a host of practical tips for managing ADD or 

ADHD, and experts explain the neurology and psychology 

of this condition. Hosts Patrick McKenna and Rick 

Green explore how there is much that can be done 

to not just manage this disorder, but turn it to one’s 

advantage. 


28 Wednesday 


8:00 OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II—OUT OF MY DREAMS — 

Hosted by Matthew Morrison of the television series 

Glee, a program special celebrates the most acclaimed 

lyricist and librettist of the 20th century. His legendary 

works include Show Boat (1927), Oklahoma! (1943), Carousel 

(1945), South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951) 

and The Sound of Music (1959). Brimming with movie 

clips from his greatest musicals, this special features 

interviews with Stephen Sondheim, Harold Prince, 

Shirley Jones, Mitzi Gaynor, Hammerstein 

family members and others. 


CHRISTMAS SPECIALS — Memorable segments from 

the late singer’s holiday-themed television programs 

include performances of favorite seasonal songs — and 

skating and dance routines. 

11:00 SUZE ORMAN’S MONEY CLASS — R 


29 Thursday 


8:00 DOWNTON ABBEY REVISITED — A special revisits fondly 

remembered moments from the first two seasons of 

the blockbuster British drama — and presents tantalizing 

previews of Season III, premiering in January. 

9:30 USE YOUR BRAIN TO CHANGE YOUR AGE, WITH DR. 

DANIEL AMEN — See the Sat., Nov. 24, 10 a.m. listing. 


CHRISTMAS, BABY — R 


30 Friday 





events of the week. 

8:30 INSIDE WASHINGTON 

9:00 THE TENORS: LEAD WITH YOUR HEART — The Canadian 

tenors — Victor Micallef, Clifton Murray, Remigio 

Pereira and Fraser Walters — offer rich harmonies and 

powerful songs with their operatic pop stylings. This 

new concert takes place in the Reynolds Hall at the 

Smith Center in Las Vegas, where The Tenors perform 

music from their newly released sophomore album 

Lead With Your Heart. 


CHRISTMAS, BABY — R 

12M BLENKO GLASS: BEHIND THE SCENES — R 


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British Television at Its Best 

The WETA UK channel is devoted to presenting the best in British television programming, broadcasting 

beloved classics and contemporary series around the clock, seven days a week. WETA UK offers a full schedule 

of great entertainment programming — featuring drama, action, mystery and comedy series — all delivered 

with an accent from the Isles. Visit wetauk.org for a complete schedule and program descriptions. 

The WETA UK Event: 

The Complete Sherlock Holmes 

Series I & II air Saturdays, Nov. 17–Dec. 1, 8–11 p.m. 

After The Complete Downton Abbey wraps up in mid-November, WETA UK 

presents The Complete Sherlock Holmes, featuring the fi rst two seasons of Masterpiece’s 

contemporary adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective novels. Set 

in 2010 London, the six 90-minute cases star Benedict Cumberbatch (War Horse, 

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) as the great Baker Street sleuth and feature Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Offi ce UK) as 

Dr. Watson and Rupert Graves as Scotland Yard’s Inspector Lestrade. In an age of forensic detection, it is still Sherlock’s 

brilliant brain and powers of deduction that crack the updated cases: A Study in Pink and The Blind Banker air 

November 17; The Great Game and A Scandal in Belgravia air November 24; and The Hounds of Baskerville and 

The Reichenbach Fall (a death struggle with Holmes’s arch-rival, criminal mastermind Moriarty) air December 1. 

EVENING PROGRAMMING ON WETA UK 

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 

Eastenders Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who Robin Hood My Hero 

Yes Minister 

Born and Bred 

Monarch of the 

Glen 

Ballykissangel 

Last of the Summer 

Wine 

Chef! 

Yes Minister I, Claudius 

(Pts 10,11,12,13) 

• Fawlty Towers (to 11/11) 

• Miranda (begins 11/18) 

• Primeval (11/4) Foyle’s War 

• Blackadder at 9:00 

(begins 11/11) 

• Mr. Bean at 9:30 


Doctor 

Ashes to Ashes 

Who 

Red Dwarf 

Red Dwarf 

Are You Being 

Served? 

Allo, Allo 


Wine 

To the Manor 

Born 

Call the Midwife 

(Pts 1,2,3,4) 

Are You Being 

Served? 

Allo, Allo 


Wine 

Yes Minister 

Inspector Morse 

Are You Being 

Served? 

Allo, Allo 


Wine 

Keeping Up 

Appearances 

• 11/1–11/8 The Life of 

Mammals (Pts 9,10) 

• Rosemary & Thyme 


Are You Being 

Served? 

Allo, Allo 

My Hero 

To the Manor Born 

Good Neighbors 

Waiting for God 

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Born and Bred 

Sherlock 

Holmes 


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Ballykissangel 


and Small 

Monarch of the 

Glen 

Prime Suspect Waking the Dead 

MI-5 Hustle New Tricks 


Cox 800 

Comcast 265 

FiOS 474 

RCN 39 

Chef! 

Doc Martin 

Doc Martin 

As Time Goes By 

Outnumbered 

Coupling 

Black Books 

Are You Being 

Served? 

Allo, Allo 

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As Time Goes By 

Are You Being 

Served? 

Foyle’s War 

Prime Suspect 

The WETA UK Event 

The Complete 

Downton Abbey 

• 11/3-11/10, Series II, 

Pts 6–7 

The Complete 

Sherlock Holmes 

• 11/17, Series I: 

A Study in Pink & 

The Blind Banker 

• 11/24, Series I: 

The Great Game & 

Series II: A Scandal 

in Belgravia 

• 11/3–11/10 Hustle 

• 11/17–11/24 

William & Mary

Rosemary and Thyme 

Thursdays at 8 p.m., beginning November 15 

The charming contemporary drama series Rosemary and Thyme features a unique twist, 

mixing two favorite public television genres: gardening and mystery. In the programs, two 

gardening enthusiasts fi nd themselves caught up in a series of murder cases. Combining 

beautiful British countryside and estate locations, gripping stories and engaging performances, 

the storyline features two women looking for a new direction after major changes 

in their lives. Brought together by the sudden death of a mutual friend, lecturer Rosemary 

Boxer and newly divorced former policewoman Laura Thyme discover a shared passion for 

horticulture — and a talent for investigation. Pam Ferris and Felicity Kendal star. 

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November Premieres 

Classic, Quirky and Contemporary 

Blackadder 

Sundays at 9 p.m., beginning November 11 

Many great men have played a part in shaping Britain’s noble heritage. Others, men like 

Edmund Blackadder — an anti-hero portrayed by actor and comedian Rowan Atkinson, 

not so much. In the popular sitcom Blackadder, Edmund and his descendants surface 

throughout Britain’s history, in respective series set in medieval, Elizabethan (left), Georgian 

and World War I eras, where as coward or cad they lower the level of nobility with an 

assortment of cunning plans and misfortunes — and smelly servant Baldrick, played by 

Tony Robinson. In Series I (“The Black Adder”), starting this month, Edmund, Duke of 

Edinburgh, is the much-despised younger son of fi ctitious King Richard IV (Brian Blessed). 

Haunted by his uncle Richard III (Peter Cook) whom he killed by mistake, Edmund lurks 

in the castle corridors of power, scheming to get the better of his elder brother, Harry. 

Miranda 

Sundays at 8:30 p.m., beginning November 18 

Based on the semi-autobiographical writing of actress, writer and stand-up comedian Miranda 

Hart and her work in the BBC radio program Miranda Hart’s Joke Shop, the popular television series 

Miranda — now in a third season of production in Britain — is an acclaimed BBC sitcom about a 

social misfi t. Miranda stands more than six feet tall, gets called “Sir” a bit too often, and fi nds social 

situations awkward, especially with men. She is a constant disappointment to her mother, who is 

desperate for her to get a proper job and a husband. Miranda owns (and lives above) her own joke 

shop but lacks any real capacity for business. A next-door restaurant employs a chef who is the object 

of Miranda’s romantic fancies. Around this background play out Miranda’s comedic misfortunes. 

Hart also recently appeared in the BBC series Call the Midwife as character Chummy Browne. 

Mr. Bean 

Sundays at 9:30 p.m., beginning November 11 

Standing the test of time, British actor and comedian Rowan Atkinson’s lovable, bumbling 

buffoon, Mr. Bean, is one of the most treasured characters in television history, a true comedy 

TELEVISION 

legend with a massive worldwide fan base. Mr. Bean has kept audiences in stitches for more 

PUBLIC 

than two decades — whether comedically stuffi ng a turkey, fumbling through a meeting with 

royalty, or simply fi nding himself in deep water at the swimming pool. Infl uenced by the 

AMERICAN 

physical comedy of performers such as Jacques Tati, Atkinson’s character rarely speaks; the 

series’ humor is derived from Mr. Bean’s encounters with people and unusual situations. COURTESY 

COURTESY AMERICAN PUBLIC TELEVISION 



W TA 

WETA Kids offers safe programming for our young viewers, presenting educational television broadcasts 

24 hours each day, seven days a week. Below you can fi nd weekday daytime listings for WETA Kids. 

Note that children’s programming also airs six days a week on WETA TV 26. Please visit weta.org/kids 

to fi nd complete schedules of children’s programs on the WETA Kids channel and WETA TV 26. 

MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY 

ON THE WETA KIDS CHANNEL 

Maya & Miguel, 5:30am 

Raggs, 6am 

Clifford The Big Red Dog, 6:30am 

Super WHY!, 7am 

Arthur, 7:30am 

Martha Speaks, 8am 

Curious George, 8:30am 

The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About 

That!, 9am 

WordGirl, 9:30am 

WordWorld, 10am 

Dinosaur Train, 10:30am 

Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, 11am 

The Electric Company, 11:30am 

Sid the Science Kid, noon 

Raggs, 12:30pm 

Sesame Street, 1pm 

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, 2pm 

Angelina Ballerina, 2:30pm 

Peep and the Big Wide World, 3pm 

Maya & Miguel, 3:30pm 

The Cat in the Hat Knows Alot About That! 

Arthur, 4pm 

WordGirl, 4:30pm 

Wild Kratts, 5pm 

Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, 5:30pm 

Super WHY!, 6pm 

Martha Speaks, 6:30pm 

Curious George, 7pm 

Zula Patrol, 7:30pm 

The Electric Company, 8pm 

Sid the Science Kid, 8:30pm 

Biz Kid$, 9pm 

Barney & Friends, 9:30pm 

Sesame Street, 10pm 

Bob the Builder, 11pm 

Thomas & Friends, 11:30pm 

Caillou, midnight 

Visit weta.org/kids for 

full listings of children’s 

programs on WETA Kids 

and WETA TV 26. 


Providing a Safe Haven for Children 

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SciGirls 

airs Saturdays at 8:30 a.m. on 

the WETA Kids channel 

Popular science series SciGirls rolls out 10 new episodes on the WETA 

Kids channel in November, engaging girls ages 9–13 in science, technology, 

engineering and math. Each half-hour episode follows a different group of 

enthusiastic, real SciGirls, who collaborate, communicate, engineer and discover 

— accompanied by two animated characters, a plucky SciGirl named 

Izzie and her best friend Jake, who tie the series together with their ongoing 

adventures. Filmed in reality TV’s verité-style, SciGirls makes science and 

engineering into the kind of social experience girls enjoy. Program participants 

work with women scientist- and engineer-mentors on projects such as 

engineering an ice-cream-making bike, designing an earthquake app, learning 

urban beekeeping, using real forensic methods to solve a “crime,” and 

more. The series also features remarkable interactivity, garnering a “New 

Approaches” Daytime Emmy Award for linking its shows and website — 

pbskids.org/scigirls — in inventive ways to ignite girls’ curiosity. 

Sid the Science Kid 


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SciGirls is funded by the National Science Foundation. 

Additional funding is provided by L’Oreal USA. 

COURTESY © 2012 THE JIM HENSON COMPANY 

Note: You’ll also fi nd children’s 

programming on WETA TV 26: 

WEEKDAYS ON WETA TV 26 

Sesame Street, 5am 

Clifford The Big Red Dog, 6am 

Super WHY!, 6:30am 

Arthur, 7am 

Martha Speaks, 7:30am 

Curious George, 8am 

The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot 

About That!, 8:30am 

WordGirl, 9am 

WordWorld, 9:30am 

Dinosaur Train, 10am 

Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, 

10:30am 

The Electric Company, 11am 

Sid the Science Kid, 11:30am 

COURTESY JURIN CURTIS PUBLIC TELEVISION

Classical W TA 90.9 FM 

Classical for Washington 

Piano Virtuoso Hamelin on Front Row Washington 

In 1831, Frédéric Chopin arrived in Paris to fi nd the city overrun with pianists. 

As he wrote in a letter home to Warsaw, “I don’t know where there are more 

jackasses and more virtuosos than here.” That he struck up a friendship with 

Charles-Valentin Alkan, an Orthodox Jew, is no surprise. They shared incredible 

pianistic skills, yet they both eschewed the concert stage and the overblown world 

of Parisian hauteur. Instead, they composed some of the most stunning Romantic 

piano music ever written, embracing small musical forms such as dances and folk 

tunes, and melding them with lyricism, balance, and exquisite melodic phrasing. 

On Monday night, November 5 at 9 p.m., Classical WETA 90.9 FM’s local 

concert broadcast Front Row Washington presents Canadian piano virtuoso Marc- 

André Hamelin in a recital showcasing these two great 19th-century composers. 

Recorded last April in the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, the concert was 

presented by Pro Musica Hebraica, a non-profi t organization dedicated to presenting 

lost and neglected masterpieces of Jewish classical music. The program 

features Alkan’s Souvenirs: Trois Morceaux dans le genre pathétique and Symphony 

for Solo Piano, as well as Chopin’s Nocturne in D-fl at major, Op. 27/2 and 

Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op. 60. Of particular note is an encore composed 

by Mr. Hamelin himself in 2011. Titled Variations on a Theme of Paganini, the 

piece is a staggeringly diffi cult send-up of Paganini’s familiar work, complete with 

boogie-woogie asides, jazz riffs, and stylistic quotes from Bach, Beethoven, Liszt 

and Rachmaninoff that you won’t want to miss! 

Front Row Washington is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Marc-André Hamelin 

Classical Countdown 

on Classical WETA 90.9 FM 

Visit classicalweta.org to participate in Classical 

WETA 90.9 FM’s Classical Countdown this 

month and choose music selections to be featured 

on the air. Classical WETA will post an online list 

of more than 200 classical works and invites listeners 

to vote for their favorite three pieces of music. 

The “polls” are open November 5–11 for one 

week and once votes are tallied, the top 90 pieces 

will be played November 19–22, counting down 

to the top piece, which airs at 8 p.m. 

on Thanksgiving Day. For Classical 

Countdown schedule information, 

visit classicalweta.org. 

Classical WETA Opera House 

Saturdays at 1 p.m. 

November 3: Thomas’s Mignon 

November 10: Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande 

November 17: Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love 

November 24: Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro 

Visit classicalweta.org for opera details. 

FRAN KAUFMAN 

Choral Showcase 

in November 

Classical WETA 90.9 FM’s broadcast Choral Showcase 

wraps up Hooked on Classical weekend — November 2-4 — 

on Sunday night at 9 p.m. with music from long before and 

long after the Classical Period. Among featured works is one 

from the 500-year-old Eton College Choirbook, a magnifi cent 

setting of the Magnifi cat by William, Monk of Stratford. The 

performance by Tonus Peregrinus of this music will spellbind 

you from fi rst note to last. Also on the broadcast is Lori 

Laitman’s Vedem, a powerful tribute to the human spirit. It 

is a setting of poetry by teenage boys who were prisoners in 

the Terezín concentration camp during World War II. Like 

so many, the boys did not survive, but their memory lives on 

thanks to the miraculous preservation of their magazine — 

Vedem — and Lori Laitman’s compelling 2010 piece. 

On Sunday, November 11, Choral Showcase puts a new spin 

on a Twin Spin weekend. Anticipating what Johannes Brahms 

would do 200 years later in his German Requiem (which aired 

in late-October), Heinrich Schütz’s setting of “How Lovely Are 

Thy Tabernacles” (which Brahms would use as the middle 

movement of his great work) is featured, in addition to Schütz’s 

German Burial Mass, which, like the Brahms, uses text other 

than the Latin Requiem Mass to honor our dead. 

Classical WETA: 90.9 FM Greater Washington; 88.9 FM Frederick; WGMS 89.1 FM Hagerstown; classicalweta.org 

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