IDAHO (PT)

5:00 pm 

The Electric Company  "Wiki Wiki Walter"  Hector challenges Manny to find a beatboxer better than Shock. Shock panics! After his last beatboxing competition with his best friend WikiWiki Walter, their friendship was ruined! When Manny finds a competitor who turns out to be Shock's old beatboxing pal, Wiki, and with Doug E. Fresh as the beatboxing judge, the competition gets a little more interesting. D

5:30 pm 

Nightly Business Report   NULL

5:54 pm 

Newshour Promo   NULL

6:00 pm 

PBS NewsHour   NULL

7:00 pm 

Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World   Historian Bettany Hughes seeks to understand the different beliefs and practices that form the core of the Buddhist philosophy, beginning at the Mahabodhi Temple in India where Buddhism was born. At Nepal's Boudhanath Stupa, she looks into the teaching of Buddha or dharma, and she explores karma at the Temple of the Tooth in Sri Lanka. At Wat Pho Temple in Thailand, Hughes considers Samsara, the cycle of birth and death Buddhists seek to end through enlightenment, and at Angkor Wat in Cambodia she learns about meditation. She also looks at Zen in Hong Kong and the concept of nirvana in Los Angeles.G

8:00 pm 

Eisenhower's Secret War  "From Warrior to President"  A military man - five-star general and World War II hero - Dwight D. Eisenhower does not aspire to be a politician. His career goal in the nuclear age is to keep America secure from the threats of communism. Becoming president allows him to continue to provide that leadership. Part 1 of 2G

9:00 pm 

Eisenhower's Secret War  "Building Weapons, Talking Peace"  Eisenhower uses his military experience, knowledge of science and technology, and diplomatic sensitivity to position the U.S. economically and militarily as the strongest country in the world. Part 2 of 2G

10:00 pm 

Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War   In October 1962, the world teetered on the brink of nuclear holocaust. The film brings to life the three central characters - Kennedy, Castro and Krushchev - and explores how these powerful men fell into an abyss of their own making and outlines the courage and luck it took to climb out again.G

11:00 pm 

Charlie Rose   NULL