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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.
Repeats Fri 11/16, 3pm
10:40 MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: MISS MARPLE, SERIES V:
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.
12M CHARLIE ROSE — Repeats next weekday, noon
16 Friday
7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR
8:00 WASHINGTON WEEK WITH GWEN IFILL AND NATIONAL
JOURNAL — Moderator and managing editor Gwen Ifill
leads a discussion by a panel of journalists on the news
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
12M CHARLIE ROSE — Repeats next weekday, noon
17 Saturday
ON WETA TV 26, 6AM–6PM. See weta.org/hd for WETA HD listings.
6AM–6PM See the Saturday, November 10 listings.
SIMULCAST ON WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 6PM–2:05AM:
6:00 INSIDE WASHINGTON — R
6:30 WASHINGTON WEEK WITH GWEN IFILL AND NATIONAL
JOURNAL — R
7:00 AS TIME GOES BY
7:30 KEEPING UP APPEARANCES
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
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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
ON WETA TV 26, 6AM–6PM. See weta.org/hd for WETA HD listings.
6AM–11:30AM See the Sunday, November 4 listings.
11:30 THE WETA MOVIE: DARK PASSAGE — (1:46) R
1:30 GREAT ROMANCES
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
SIMULCAST ON WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 6PM–12:30AM:
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
12M NEED TO KNOW
19 Monday
7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR
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
12M CHARLIE ROSE — Repeats next weekday, noon
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