Dr. Martin Ellingham is still as clumsy as ever when it comes to
forming relationships with the opposite sex. Just when things were
beginning to look rosily romantic between him and pretty school
teacher Louisa Glasson, he made a terrible faux pas. She can't
forgive him for accusing her of failing in her dental hygiene
regime. Meanwhile, Muriel's condition deteriorates in the home.
Then Martin realizes that her problems are being caused because she
is dehydrated, and that has caused her to become confused. At the
surgery, Martin is taken aback to find a strange girl working in
reception. September 4th at 9pm
website:
http://www.itv.com/Drama/contemporary/DocMartin/default.html
The discovery of a body on an Oxford bus leads Lewis and
Hathaway to a sprawling Oxford estate where Hathaway spent much of
his childhood. Guest stars include Nathaniel Parker (The Inspector
Lynley Mysteries") as a house guest with suspiciously close ties to
the estate owner's wife. September 5th at 9pm
website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/schedule/index.html
Show Me the Honey Sally and Nick have run out of honey! Luckily
the Cat knows just where to go to get more. They visit Queen
Priscilla Buzzoo who invites them to join in the bee dance to learn
how to make honey. Educational Objective: Honey - how bees collect
nectar to make honey and have a special dance to tell each other
locations of the best flowers to collect nectar from. Migration
Vacation The purple martin swallow that lives in Sally's backyard
has gone missing! The Cat, with the help of a variety of forest
creatures, help Nick and Sally track down the bird, and learn how
and why birds migrate. Educational Objective: Migration - when cold
winter temperatures cause a shortage of food, some birds fly great
distances to warmer climates where food is more plentiful.
September 6th at 8:30am and 2:30pm
website: http://pbskids.org/catinthehat/
How could one clock regulate time for an entire region, and is
this it? A document seems connected to an early controversial
religion, the first founded by an American-born woman. So where is
her name? What went wrong during a WWII dog-training program on Cat
Island? September 6th at 9pm
website: http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/
Few dreamers have had more impact on the American city than
Daniel Hudson Burnham. He built some of the first skyscrapers in
the world; directed construction of the World's Columbian
Exposition that helped inspire the City Beautiful Movement in towns
across America; and created urban plans for San Francisco,
Washington, DC, Chicago, Cleveland and Manila and Baguio City in
the Philippines all before the modern profession of urban planning
existed. September 6th at 10pm
website: http://www.pbs.org/make-no-little-plans/
This is the story of Brooklyn teenager Avery, a track star with
a bright future. Her older brother is black and Puerto Rican, and
her younger brother is Korean. Though it may look atypical, Avery's
household is like most American homes - until Avery writes to her
birth mother. The response throws her into crisis. She struggles
over her "true" identity, the circumstances of her adoption and her
estrangement from black culture. When it seems as if her life is
unraveling, Avery decides to pick up the pieces and make sense of
her identity. September 7th at 10pm
website: http://www.pbs.org/pov/
Each year, hundreds of people find hope through a handful of
organizations across the country that train service dogs for people
with disabilities. Follow the journey of recipients as they go
through the heartwarming and sometimes difficult process of
receiving and becoming acclimated to a service dog. The program
offers inspiring, hopeful stories that show how dogs can affect
everyone's life and how with a little patience and a lot of love,
an "ordinary" dog can show how extraordinary he or she can become.
September 8th at 8pm
website: http://www.pbs.org/dogs-eyes/#2
Mazowsze is internationally recognized as Poland's cultural
ambassadors. In the last 50 years they have performed more than
6,000 shows in cities around the world. The troupe's founders, Mira
Ziminska and Tadeusz Sygietynski, dedicated themselves to preserve
the rich music and dance traditions of Poland after the devastation
of World War II. Polish-American entertainer Bobby Vinton narrate.
September 8th at 9:30pm
website:
http://www.wliw.org/productions/performance/the-music-dance-of-poland-mazowsze/74/s.
"The Great Dane" of comedy, as the beloved international
humorist and musician was known, was celebrated across the world
for his unique blend of comedy and music. Don't miss his
one-liners, falls, double takes, his mastery of piano variations
and his outrageous stage antics. Victor Borge has been recognized
as one of the funniest performers the world has ever known. The
program contains such classic comedy bits as the timeless "Phonetic
Punctuation," "Inflationary Language," "Autumn Leaves" with Robert
Merrill, "The Opera Singer" with Marylyn Mulvey and many more.
September 9th at 8pm
website: http://www.victorborge.com/
Marvin Hamlisch hosts a television special featuring performers
re-creating their big hits from the 1970s: BJ Thomas, Three Dog
Night, Debby Boone, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr., Ray
Stevens, Freda Payne, Guy and Ralna, Bobby Goldsboro, Billy Joe
Royal, Peaches and Herb, Jonathan Edwards, Gloria Gaynor and
Hamlisch himself. September 9th at 9:30pm
website: http://www.marvinhamlisch.com/
Certified Public Accountant Ed Slott covers all new material
including pressing viewer retirement questions: how not to run out
of money in retirement, ROTH IRA conversion traps, 10 steps to pay
less taxes, a rundown of key retirement terms, how to pick
retirement professionals and much more. The program was taped
before a live audience in his humorous yet informative style filled
with poignant anecdotes. Ed manages to make the difficult subjects
such as estate planning, family conversations about money, and
retirement planning understandable and fun. September 10th
at 8pm
website: http://www.irahelp.com/press_room.php
Video Games Live and PBS are joining forces to create a PBS
special based around the highly successful Video Games Live concert
series. The breakthrough performance was taped February 5, 2010, at
the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans with the Louisiana Philharmonic
Orchestra. September 10th at 10pm
website: http://www.videogameslive.com/index.php?s=home
Peggy Cappy demonstrates yoga exercises for the one out of three
adults suffering from the pain of arthritis. Yoga instructor Cappy,
with 30 years of experience dealing with young and old alike, shows
how the key to dealing with arthritis is exercise, specifically
yoga, because it is both safe and effective. September 11th
at 10am
website: http://www.peggycappy.com/aboutvideo5.html
Celtic Thunder, a group of five Celtic male vocalists,
undertakes a musical review that spans six decades and will delight
and enthrall audiences, whether through the nostalgia of classics
such as "Standing on the Corner" or the band's unique take on
contemporary numbers such as Michael Bublé's "Home" or U2's "Still
Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." September 11th at
8pm
website: http://celticthunder.ie/
This comprehensive collection of rare performances by legendary
R&B performers of the classic 1960s-70s soul era offers an
abundance of long-lost archival material that has been recovered
from film vaults in the U.S. and Europe. The Queen of Soul herself,
Aretha Franklin, presents this treasure trove of precious and vital
footage. September 12th at 9:30pm
website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aretha_Franklin
Knowledge gained from scientists currently making great
breakthroughs in hummingbird biology makes this a perfect time to
focus on these shimmering, flashing jewels of the natural world.
Beautiful high-definition, high-speed footage of hummingbirds in
the wild, combined with high-tech presentations of their remarkable
abilities, help viewers to understand the world of hummingbirds as
never before. September 12th at 8pm
website:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/hummingbirds-magic-in-the-air/video-full-episode/5475/
Hosted by pop music legends Frankie Valli, Jerry (The Iceman)
Butler and Lloyd Price, the program also boasts a surprise
appearance by Little Richard. Among the many performers is Fred
Parris, who comes out of retirement after a decade to join the Five
Satins in a performance of "In the Still of the Night," the
number-one oldies single of all time. Hal Miller joins the Rays
after 40 years of retirement to sing "Silhouettes"; and Kathy Young
is reunited with the Innocents to sing "A Thousand Stars" for the
first time since they recorded the hit when Young was just 14 years
old. September 13th at 8pm
website: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395738/
It includes his popular 1970s television specials plus rare
footage from his Sing Australia! (1984 and 1994) and Red Rocks
concerts (1973 and 1982), and interviews with the people closest to
him, including ex-wife Annie, Milt Okun, manager Hal Thau, Lee
Holdridge, and band members Pete Huttlinger and John Somers. Songs
performed include "Sunshine on My Shoulders," "Country Roads,"
"Annie's Song," "Leaving on a Jet Plane," and "Rocky Mountain
High." September 14th at 8pm
website: http://www.johndenver.com/
Recorded July 2, 1977 and locked away in the archives of
legendary promoter Bill Graham ever since, Wolfgang's Vault
Presents Day on the Green 1977 features performances by Grammy
Award-winner Peter Frampton and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Produced by Bill
Graham and directed by Eric Christensen, the historic concert was
one of several Day on the Green summer festivals presented by
Graham at Oakland Coliseum Stadium in Oakland, California from 1973
to 1991. September 14th at 9:30pm
website:
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/aug/02/wolfgangs-vault-presents-day-green-1977/
This comprehensive collection of rare performances by legendary
R&B performers of the classic 1960s-70s soul era offers an
abundance of long-lost archival material that has been recovered
from film vaults in the U.S. and Europe. The Queen of Soul herself,
Aretha Franklin, presents this treasure trove of precious and vital
footage. September 15th at 8pm
website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aretha_Franklin
Memorable sketches include a restaurant pie-fight between Soupy,
Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Trini Lopez, Soupy pitching
Alice Cooper a singing bug for his opening act, the legendary naked
lady gag, Soupy's Words of Wisdom, "Do the Mouse," and plenty of
laughs from Soupy's puppet gang - White Fang, Black Tooth and
Pookie the Lion - and the outrageous characters that showed up at
his door. Guest appearances include Dick Clark, Frankie Valli, Fess
Parker, Dick Van Patten, plus a rare 1966 TV pilot called The
Hoofer starring Soupy and Donald O'Connor. September 15th
at 10pm
website:
http://www.wliw.org/productions//comedy/soupy-sales-the-whole-gang-is-here/665/
