JANUARY | FEBRUARY 2013

This is not just a nice sounding taglinefor a short term campaign – this is amindset for YOUR public media and ed-ucation resource – PBS39.

Our local community-owned, non-com-mercial station, WLVT, works every daywith national PBS to bring the absolutebest educational programming andaward-winning primetimecontent to our viewers and members – a true example of how Together We CanBe More.

The power of partnering with ourschools allows us to bring streamingvideo to more than 140,000 students and 11,000 teachers – that isanother example of how Together WeCan Be More.

The ability to share the stories of ourlocal history, (such as our newest docu-mentary – Bringing New Life to OldSteel, the story of the redeveloping ofthe former Bethlehem Steel Plant), bothwith our viewers locally and to anational audience – shows yet againhow Together We Can Be More.

In this season of thanks and celebra-tion, it is vitally important that we con-tinue to strengthen our collaborationwith you, our viewers andmembers.

Please take a moment to invest inYOUR public media and education sothat Together We Can Be More.

Happy New Year!

Timothy S. FallonCEO, PBS39

JAN.9:00 British Antiques Roadshow10:00 The Abolitionists: American

Experience — 1820s-1838 (Part One)Witness the struggles of Frederick Dou-glass, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina

Grimké, Harriet Beecher Stowe andJohn Brown to end slavery. Fighting body and soul, they led the most important civil rights crusade in American history.

11:00 Whispers of Angels: A Story of the Underground Railroad — Take a trip back in time to examine firsthand the efforts of abolitionists Thomas Garrett, William Still, and Harriet Tub-

man in helping to free America’s slaves as in-depth interviews with prominent historians merge with dramatic re-enactments.

19 SATURDAY7:00 Lawrence Welk: 200 Years of

American Music8:00 Keeping Up Appearances9:00 As Time Goes By10:00 Are You Being Served?11:00 Waiting for God12:00 Austin City Limits: Norah Jones /

Kat Edmonson

20 SUNDAY8:00 Pioneers of Television: Funny Ladies9:00 America In Primetime: Independent

Women — America in Primetime is a collaboration with the com munity thatcreates primetime television. At the heart of the series are more than a hundred in-depth interviews with the top talent in primetime – the creators, writers and actors who give life to characters we have come to know, love and live with.

10:00 Fly Boys: Western Pennsylvania’s Tuskegee Airmen

11:00 EastEnders12:00 NOVA: Doomsday Volcanoes

(See Jan. 15, 7pm)

PBS39 Special ProgrammingJanuary 1 - 13

6 SUNDAY7:00 Bethlehem Steel: The People Who

Built America — A chronicle of more than one hundred forty years of this once colossal company’s rich history as seen through the eyes of those who made steel.

8:30 Bringing New Life To Old Steel (NEW)Ride along the transformationhighway as the Bethlehem Steel site becomes a national model for other brownfields across the country. We’ll learn how, by coming together and tak-ing a risk, a company and a city may have just hit the jackpot.

14 MONDAY7:00 Nature: Survivors of the Firestorm8:00 Globe Trekker: Caribbean Island:

St. Lucia, Martinique9:00 DCI Banks: Aftermath (NEW)

The series is based on Peter Robinson's Inspector Alan Banks novels and stars Stephen Tompkinson as Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. In the series pilot,

officers respond to a domestic distur-bance call and find a grisly crime scene. Banks has found the home of a serial rapist and murderer, but the suspect is in a coma. A fifth victim is missing and may still be alive, and Banks is deter-mined to find her.

10:30 Masterpiece MYSTERY! SherlockSeries II: A Scandal in BelgraviaThe central enigma concerns Irene Adler (Lara Pulver, True Blood), a beautiful entrepreneur that has amassed coveted information power-ful enough to topple the government.

15 TUESDAY7:00 NOVA: Doomsday Volcanoes

Find out what we can do to prepare for the inevitable disaster following a volcanic eruption in Iceland.(Repeats Jan. 20, 12am)

FOCUS ON HEALTH8:00 Tempo InDepth: Obesity9:00 Ten Things You Should Know

About Losing Weight10:00 The Parents Survival Guide:

Childhood Obesity11:00 The Mayo Clinic Diet

16 WEDNESDAY7:00 Secrets of the Manor House:

Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey)From its role in tending the wounded in WWI to its surprising connection toKing Tut, explore Highclere’s fascinat-ing backstory. (Repeats Jan. 17, 11pm)

8:00 Sherlock Holmes: The Dying Detective — Holmes gets a visit from Adelaide Savage who is worried about her husband Victor's increas-ing habit of smoking opium to heighten his powers for writing po-etry. Jeremy Brett and Edward Hard-wicke return as Holmes and Watson.

9:00 Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey, Series 3, SEASON PREMIEREWedding guests descend on Down-ton Abbey, where disasters — large and small — threaten. One is Cora’s freewheeling American mother, who tries to loosen up her in-laws.

17 THURSDAY7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Corpus

Christi Hour 1 — A Diego Rivera oil painting valued at a million dollars; a 1967 painting by Alexander Calder; a giant Fisk “Tire Boy” sign.

8:00 Doc Martin: Ever After9:00 Death In Paradise (NEW)

British policeman Richard Poole (Ben Miller), a detective from London's Metropolitan Police is sent to the Caribbean island of Saint-Marie to solve the case of the death of a fellow

British detective, in the locked panic room of a resident English aristo-crat's house. In the face of the prob-lems of sun, sand and lost luggage, the case must be solved whatever it takes. (Repeats Wednesdays, 7pm)

10:00 EastEnders

18 FRIDAY7:00 Tempo InDepth8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Corpus Christi

Hour 1 (See Jan. 17, 7pm)

JANUARY | FEBRUARY 2013 Weeknights on PBS39 6:00pm BBC W PBS39 High Definition (HD) is available on Service Electric 512 and RCN 1008. For complete TV listings, visit our website wlvt.org and select “TV Schedules.” Programming is subject to change.

21 MONDAY7:00 Nature: Loneliest Animals

For some endangered species, this may be the end of the line.

8:00 Globe Trekker: WWII in the Pacific9:00 DCI Banks: Playing With Fire

Two bodies are found after a fatal fire on some narrow boats. Banks sus-pects the father of one of the victims is withholding vital information.

10:30 Masterpiece MYSTERY! SherlockSeries II: The Hounds of Baskerville —The hunt is on as Sherlock and John penetrate the high-security labs of Baskerville in search of a demonic hound that may be no more than a delusion.

22 TUESDAY7:00 NOVA: Decoding Neanderthals

Find out what happened when the first modern humans encountered Neanderthals 60,000 years ago.

8:00 Tempo InDepth: Failing Forward toSuccess

8:30 Tempo InDepth9:00 Henry VIII: Mind Of A Tyrant

Dr. David Starkey travels across Europe to understand the inner-life of this feared English king.

10:00 Edward VII: King of PleasureKing Edward VII has always been an enigma; twentieth-century dynasty builder, sex addict, boorish philistine and civilized cosmopolitan.

11:00 Queen and Country: London-Royal City — A Look at the customs sur-rounding the monarchy.

23 WEDNESDAY8:00 Sherlock Holmes: The Golden

Pince-Nez — Holmes investigates when Willoughby Smith, secretary to Professor Coram is found dead clutching a pince-nez. (Repeats Thursdays, 11pm)

9:00 Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Series 3 — (Part 2) Witness fate-ful events, above and below stairs.

10:00 Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Series 3 — (Part 3) Two social revolutions arrive at Downton Abbey: the Irish Civil War and the fight for women’s suffrage.

24 THURSDAY7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Corpus

Christi Hour 2 — A guest who met the Beatles and walked away with John Lennon’s signature and another who encountered Salvador Dali and left with a book inscribed by the artist.

8:00 Doc Martin: Going Bodmin9:00 Death In Paradise — Now stuck in

the Caribbean, Poole must deal with the murder of a bride who was shot through the heart with a spear on her wedding day.

10:00 EastEnders

25 FRIDAY7:00 Tempo InDepth8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Corpus Christi

(See Jan. 24, 7pm)9:00 British Antiques Roadshow10:00 The Abolitionists: American

Experience — 1838-1854 (Part Two)See how the activities of the five princi-pals intersect and affect the anti-slav-ery movement.

11:00 Roads To Memphis: AmericanExperience

26 SATURDAY7:00 Lawrence Welk: Memories of Nat

“King” Cole8:00 See January 19th Lineup12:00 Austin City Limits: Bob Mould/

Delta Spirit

27 SUNDAY8:00 Pioneers of Television: The Soaps9:00 Space Age: The Story of NASA

Blending stunningly restored footage with revealing, insightful and engaging interviews with the people who were there; the astronauts, family members and journalists. This is an epic story of the heroes, the triumphs and the trag-edies of space exploration. (Parts 1 and 2)

11:00 EastEnders

28 MONDAY7:00 Nature: Attenborough’s Life Stories

(New) — In honor of Sir David Attenbor-ough’s 60th anniversary on television, this Nature special will focus on three fields that Attenborough feels have been transformed most profoundly: filmmaking, science and the environ-ment. Richly illustrated with sequences

he has spent six decades capturing (re-mastered in HD). (3-part miniseries)

8:00 Globe Trekker: Turkey9:00 DCI Banks: Friend of the Devil

Cabbot investigates the mutilatedbody of a woman found on the York-shire Moors, while Banks investigates the murder of a teenage girl whose body has been found in a storage room.

10:30 Masterpiece MYSTERY! SherlockSeries II: The Reichenbach Fall In what may be the climatic case of his career, Sherlock faces Moriarty’s dia-bolical plot to “get Sherlock.”

29 TUESDAY7:00 NOVA: Rise Of The Drones

Discover the technologies that make drones so powerful, propelling ustoward a new chapter in aviation history.

8:00 Tempo InDepth: The Finest & Bravest:Crime Prevention

8:30 Tempo InDepth9:00 Britains Royal Weddings (Parts 1 & 2)11:00 Queen and Country: Royal Visit

30 WEDNESDAY8:00 Sherlock Holmes: Red Circle —

Signor Zamba is murdered by a member of The Red Circle.(Repeats Jan. 31, 11pm)

9:00 Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Series 3 — (Part 3)See the effects on Downton Abbey of the Irish Civil War and the fight for women’s suffrage.

10:00 Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Series 3 — (Part 4)The Crawley family faces adversity and newcomers try to fit in downstairs.

31 THURSDAY7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Corpus Christi

Hour 3 — A 1912 portrait by Charles Courtney Curran, a Porfirio Salinas Bluebonnet oil painting and a 1983 Helen Frankenthaler lithograph.

8:00 Doc Martin: Gentlemen Prefer9:00 Death In Paradise — Poole comes

across a strange case where a woman not only predicts her own murder but also gives a description of the murderer.

10:00 EastEnders

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1 FRIDAY8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Corpus Christi

Hour 3 (See Jan. 31, 7pm)9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Boston, MA

A Norman Rockwell collection from a guest who modeled for the artist as a child; an Aldro Hibbard oil painting brought in by the mayor of Boston; a Red Sox World Series team-signed ball.

10:00 The Abolitionists: American Experi-ence — 1854-Emancipation andVictory (Part Three) Examine the forces leading to war and to the ratifi-cation of the Thirteenth Amendment.

11:00 Custer’s Last Stand: American Experience — Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable,wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, untimely death on the windswept Plains of the West.

2 SATURDAY7:00 Lawrence Welk: The Italian Show8:00 Keeping Up Appearances9:00 As Time Goes By10:00 Are You Being Served?11:00 Waiting for God12:00 Austin City Limits: Tim McGraw

3 SUNDAY8:00 Pioneers of Television: Superheroes

(Repeats Wednesdays at 11:00pm)9:00 Space Age: The Story of NASA

(Parts 3 and 4)11:00 EastEnders

4 MONDAY7:00 Nature: Attenborough’s Life Stories:

Understanding The Natural World 8:00 Globe Trekker: Planet of the Apes9:00 DCI Banks: Cold Is The Grave

Ongoing investigations point to a con-nection between each of three murders, and Banks and Cabbot come to suspect one of their team.

10:30 Masterpiece Mystery! ZEN: VendettaA judge is assassinated by a terminally ill parolee, Tito Spadola. Spadola is executing a long-nurtured vendetta, killing those who put him behind bars many years ago.

5 TUESDAY7:00 NOVA: Who Killed Lindbergh’s Baby?

Follow investigators’ efforts to deter-mine what really happened to Lind-bergh’s baby — and why.

FOCUS ON HEALTH8:00 Tempo InDepth: Teens and Drugs8:30 Tempo InDepth9:00 The Cure

10:00 Heartbeat to Heartbeat: Women &Heart Disease

10:30 Second Opinion: Cardiac Spouses11:00 Queen and Country: The Queen’s

Possessions

6 WEDNESDAY8:00 Sherlock Holmes: The Disappearance

of Lady Carfax — Lady Frances Carfaxis caught between an old family quar-rel with her brother and a sinister horseman who seems to haunt her life. (Repeats 2/7 at 11:00pm)

9:00 Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Series 3 — (Part 4)The Crawley family faces its severest test yet. Meanwhile, new faces try to fit into the tight-knit circle of servants.

10:00 Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Series 3 — (Part 5)Things go badly amiss at Downton Abbey. Robert and Cora are not speak-ing. The servants are shunning Matthew’s mother, Isobel. And Matthew and Robert have fallen out. Bates takes a gamble.

7 THURSDAY7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Boston, MA

Hour 2 — A 1950 Selmer alto saxo-phone, an impressive George Gersh-win collection and 1970s Beatlesmemorabilia.

8:00 Doc Martin: Sh*t Happens9:00 Death In Paradise — A woman con-

fesses to a murder but there is no body. Poole and the team must solvethe mystery and see if the woman istelling the truth.

10:00 Eastenders

8 FRIDAY8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Boston, MA

Hour Two (See 2/7 at 7:00pm)9:00 British Antiques Roadshow10:00 Henry Ford: American Experience

HENRY FORD paints a fascinating por-trait of a farm boy who rose from

obscurity to become the most influen-tial American innovator of the 20thcentury.

9 SATURDAY7:00 Lawrence Welk: Love Songs8:00 See Feb. 2 Lineup12:00 Austin City Limits: Edward Sharpe &

The Magnetic Zeroes / Tuneyards

10 SUNDAY8:00 Pioneers of Television: Miniseries

(Repeats Wednesdays at 11:00pm)9:00 Inside The Mind Of Adolf Hitler10:00 Hitler On Trial11:00 EastEnders

11 MONDAY7:00 Nature: Attenborough’s Life Stories:

Our Fragile Planet 8:00 Globe Trekker: Papua New Guinea9:00 DCI Banks: Strange Affair

Banks receives a disturbing phone message from estranged brother Roy, and heads to Harrogate to find him.

10:30 Masterpiece Mystery! ZEN: CabalAn important aristocratic family's dis-reputable son falls to his death from a bridge over the Tiber River.

12 TUESDAY7:00 NOVA: Building Pharoah’s Chariot8:00 Tempo InDepth: Heart Disease9:00 Diamond Queen — The life and reign

of Queen Elizabeth II. (Part 1)10:00 Diamond Queen (Part 2)11:00 Queen and Country: Traveller

13 WEDNESDAY8:00 Sherlock Holmes: The Problem of

Thor Bridge — Maria Gibson, a de-jected wife, arranges to meet her chil-dren's governess Grace Dunbar at Thor Bridge but is gunned down in cold blood.

9:00 Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Series 3 — (Part 6)Change arrives in a big way for severalkey characters at Downton Abbey. A yearly cricket match with the village sees old scores settled and new plots hatched. (2 hours)

14 THURSDAY7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Boston, MA

Hour Two (See 2/7 at 7:00pm)8:00 Doc Martin: The Portwenn Effect9:00 Death In Paradise — A man is stabbed

to death while handcuffed to Poole,much to his embarrassment.

10:00 Eastenders

FEB.

20 WEDNESDAY8:00 Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of

Shoscombe Old Place — Sir Robert Norebertson has gambled all on the success of a horse in the Champion Stakes - if it loses, he'll be ruined! (Repeats Thursdays at 11pm)

9:00 Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Series 3 — (Part 7)The Crawleys head to a Scottish hunt-ing lodge, while the downstairs staff stays behind at Downton Abbey. New romances flare up, and a crisis unfolds.

11:00 Secrets of Highclere Castle

21 THURSDAY7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Boston, MA

Hour 3 — Folk art carvings at the his-toric Sleeper-McCann House in Gloucester and a selection of arms and militaria.

8:00 Doc Martin: Of All The Harbors In Allthe Towns

9:00 Death In Paradise — Poole is bedrid-den with a tropical fever; Camille is in Paris, leaving Dwayne and Fidel to solve the murder of a local diver.

10:00 Eastenders

22 FRIDAY8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Boston, MA

Hour Two (See 2/14, 7pm)9:00 British Antiques Roadshow10:00 Silicon Valley: American Experience

Learn about the pioneering scientists who transformed rural Santa Clara County into the hub of technological ingenuity now known as Silicon Valley.

11:30 Steve Jobs: One Last Thing

23 SATURDAY7:00 Lawrence Welk: Salute To NYC8:00 See Feb. 2 Lineup12:00 Austin City Limits: Esperenza Spalding

24 SUNDAY8:00 The Dust Bowl (Part 2)

10:00 An Evening With Berry GordyThis one-on-one interview, hosted by PBS-TV journalist Gwen Ifill, follows Gordy's journey through Motown and beyond.

11:00 EastEnders

25 MONDAY7:00 Niagara Falls8:00 Globe Trekker: Panama & Colombia9:00 DCI Banks: Innocent Graves

Banks and his team are called to investi-gate the murder of teenager Ellie Clayton.

10:30 Masterpiece Mystery! Endeavour (NEW)It's 1965, and a 15-year-old Oxford schoolgirl has disappeared and is pre-sumed dead. The hunt for Mary Trem-lett draws rookie Detective Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) to the case.

26 TUESDAY7:00 NOVA: Ancient Computer8:00 Tempo InDepth: Focus On Finances9:00 King George & Queen Mary: The Royals

Who Saved The Monarchy (Part 1)10:00 King George & Queen Mary: The Royals

Who Saved The Monarchy (Part 2)11:00 Secrets of the Manor House

27 WEDNESDAY8:00 Sherlock Holmes: The Boscombe Val-

ley Mystery — A man is found dyingbeside a lake by his son.

9:00 Masterpiece Mystery! Poirot X:Murder On The Orient Express

10:30 Masterpiece Mystery! Poirot X:Appointment With Death — Afterreturning from an expedition, Lady Boyn-ton is stabbed to death.

28 THURSDAY7:00 Priceless Antiques Roadshow7:30 British Antiques Roadshow8:00 Doc Martin: Haemophobia9:00 Death In Paradise — A band's lead singer

is murdered in a stage coffin on their comeback night.

10:00 Eastenders

15 FRIDAY8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Boston, MA

Hour Two (See 2/7 at 7:00pm)9:00 British Antiques Roadshow10:00 John D. Rockefeller: American

Experience (NEW)

16 SATURDAY7:00 Lawrence Welk: Mardi Gras8:00 See Feb. 2 Lineup12:00 Austin City Limits: Gary Clark, Jr. /

Alabama Shakes

17 SUNDAY8:00 The Dust Bowl — Survey the causes of

the worst man-made ecological disas-ter in U.S. history: the catastrophic dust storms of the 1930s. (Part 1)

10:00 The Black Kungfu ExperienceMeet kungfu’s black pioneers and he-roes who flourished at the junction of African-American and Asian cultures.

11:00 EastEnders

18 MONDAY7:00 Nature: Cold Warriors: Wolves and

Buffalo8:00 Globe Trekker: Food Hour : Brazil9:00 DCI Banks: Dry Bones That Dream

A professional hitman bursts into the luxurious family home of accountant Keith Rothwell and shoots him in cold blood.

10:30 Masterpiece Mystery! ZEN: RatKingThere's a new boss on the murder squad, Ernesto Hueber, and he's brought an ironclad Code of Conduct.

19 TUESDAY7:00 NOVA: Earth From Space

Witness a groundbreaking special thatreveals a spectacular new space-based vision of Earth.

9:00 Tempo InDepth: Teen Pregnancy9:30 Tempo InDepth10:00 Diamond Queen (Part 3)11:00 Royal Memories: Prince Charles

Tribute To The Queen

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