ALL (MT)

5:00 pm 

Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman  "Ruff's Yard Sale Makes A Racket"  Ruff realizes that he's a horrible shopper. (He just bought a sock at a yard sale for sixteen dollars, after talking the price UP from a quarter!) He also bought a broken tennis racquet at the same sale, which he plans on using in an upcoming match against his nemesis Spot Spotnick! Ruff sends Liza and Talia to the headquarters of Wilson Sporting Goods to design a new tennis racquet for him; and he gets some shopping tips from Bethany and Brian, as they head out to Brimfield Fair, the biggest flea market in the world!. D

5:30 pm 

Nightly Business Report   What's worrying Corporate America this earnings season? NBR's Suzanne Pratt checks the numbers and the stories behind them. Wolfgang Koester, CEO, FiREapps shares his earnings season outlook and how the strong dollar and Euro fare. The Nation's Grain Belt may have to do some financial belt tightening as drought conditions worsen and food prices rise. D

5:56 pm 

Newshour Promo   NULL

6:00 pm 

PBS NewsHour   NULL

7:00 pm 

Land Girls   After a farm accident, Connie challenges Vernon to a farmers-versus-land-girls competition. At the military hospital, Joyce worries about her husband's recovery.G

8:00 pm 

Michael Wood's Story of England  "The Seeds of Reform"  The story of Kibworth moves to battles of conscience during the Hundred Years' War. Archives help trace peasant education back to the 14th century, when townspeople set up the first school for their children. Some villagers join in a rebellion against King Henry V; others rise to become middle-class merchants in the textile town of Coventry. Part 3 of 4G

9:00 pm 

Frontline  "Endgame: AIDS In Black America"  Thirty years after the discovery of the AIDS virus among gay white men, nearly half the 1 million people in the United States infected with HIV are black men, women and children. FRONTLINE explores this urgent, preventable health crisis, tracing the history of the epidemic through experiences of individuals who tell their own stories.G

11:00 pm 

Charlie Rose   NULL

5:00 pm 

PBS NewsHour   NULL

6:00 pm 

Nova  "Hubble's Amazing Rescue"  A shuttle crew heads to the Hubble Space Telescope in spring 2009 to perform the first-ever-in-space repairs of Hubble's defective instruments. The task requires ingenious engineering fixes and the most intensive spacewalk in NASA history. From training to launch, NOVA presents the inside story of the mission and the extraordinary challenges faced by the crew members.G

7:00 pm 

POV  "The City Dark"  Filmmaker Ian Cheney moves from rural Maine to New York City and discovers the bright lights wash out the stars in the night sky. He embarks on an odyssey to America's brightest and darkest corners. He talks with astronomers, cancer researchers and ecologists about what is lost in the glare of city lights, blending a humorous searching narrative with poetic footage of the night sky.G

8:00 pm 

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers  "Mysteries of the Deep"  Pioneering submarine crews explore the ill-fated Confederate secret weapon, Hunley, which carried out the first successful submarine attack. Alda peeks into the deep-diving watercraft, Alvin, which found the Titanic and discovered life in the deep ocean.G

9:00 pm 

Global Spirit  "Forgiveness and Healing"  Most world religions and wisdom traditions include teachings on the nature of forgiveness. This episode of Global Spirit explores forgiveness and healing on a personal and societal level. The program features author and psychotherapist Dr. Ed Tick and his wife Kate Dahlstedt taking a group of PTSD traumatized Vietnam War vets back to the land where they fought and killed, to help them learn the art of "forgiveness of the self". D

10:00 pm 

Nova  "Hubble's Amazing Rescue"  A shuttle crew heads to the Hubble Space Telescope in spring 2009 to perform the first-ever-in-space repairs of Hubble's defective instruments. The task requires ingenious engineering fixes and the most intensive spacewalk in NASA history. From training to launch, NOVA presents the inside story of the mission and the extraordinary challenges faced by the crew members.G

11:00 pm 

POV  "The City Dark"  Filmmaker Ian Cheney moves from rural Maine to New York City and discovers the bright lights wash out the stars in the night sky. He embarks on an odyssey to America's brightest and darkest corners. He talks with astronomers, cancer researchers and ecologists about what is lost in the glare of city lights, blending a humorous searching narrative with poetic footage of the night sky.G

5:00 pm 

The Electric Company  "The Limerick Slam"  Jessica and Manny compete in the annual Limerick Slam. D

5:30 pm 

Cyberchase  "And They Counted Happily Ever After"  (topic: Number Sense) - Hacker kidnaps the King of this fractured fairytale world, and demands a ransom of golden eggs. The Wicked Witch then casts a spell, taking away everyone's ability to count and making it impossible for the fairy tale folk to gather the required large number of eggs. With the safety of the King at stake, the kids must help the fairy tale folk understand the role of place value in our number system before time runs out! The Big Idea: With numbers and a system, you have the power to keep track of anything and everything on earth. D

6:00 pm 

Essential Pepin  "Rollin' In Dough"  NULL

6:30 pm 

America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated  "Steak Frites"  NULL

7:00 pm 

Primal Grill with Steven Raichlen  "By The Sea"  Seafood may come from the water, but nothing brings out its briny succulence like the high, dry, smoky heat of the grill. This truth is readily apparent on the beaches of Brazil, at the waterfront grill stalls in Asia, and the seaside communities of the Yucatan. Here are three great grilled seafood dishes that solve the age-old problems of fish sticking to the grill grate or breaking apart when you go to turn it: Brazilian coconut grilled shrimp, Asian garlic grilled halibut, and snapper grilled in banana leaves, Yucatan-style. D

7:30 pm 

Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence  "Rustic Yet Refined"  NULL

8:00 pm 

The Woodwright's Shop  "Hurray for Hickory!"  This essential American wood has what it takes as we make wooden rakes and rounded reels from steam-bent stock. D

8:30 pm 

Rick Steves' Europe  "The Best of Sicily"  Rick fishes for anchovies off Cefalu, lands in Palermo, marvels at skeletons in a appuccin crypt and airy mosaics of Monreale.G

9:00 pm 

Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions  "The Great Rivers of Europe: Cologne to Zell"  NULL

9:30 pm 

Essential Pepin  "Rollin' In Dough"  NULL

10:00 pm 

America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated  "Steak Frites"  NULL

10:30 pm 

Kimchi Chronicles  "The Pork Chronicles"  As opposed to the lean-is-better preference in the United States, Koreans love their pork full of fat - and flavor. In this episode, Marja, her dear friend, the actress Heather Graham, and an expert food blogger named Daniel eat classic pork barbeque at Heukdonga restaurant in Seoul. They also stop by Songgane Gamjatang, where Seoul's taxi drivers convene for pork bone soup and the grand pork dish known as bo ssam. D

11:00 pm 

Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless  "Tacos Hola!"  We find Rick and his daughter, Lanie, at the Mexico City's colorful Sonora Market, an emporium of medicinal herbs and the best place in town to buy cazuelas, the beautifully rustic earthenware cooking and serving casseroles that define a whole class of stews and taco fillings. We tend to think of taquerias for their familiar grilled and griddled fillings, like carne asada. But, Rick explains, there's a whole world of stands and shops that have no grill at all and specialize in satisfyingly homey, slow-cooked fillings made in cazuelas with everything from stewed meat to richly flavorful vegetables. D

11:30 pm 

Rick Steves' Europe  "The Best of Sicily"  Rick fishes for anchovies off Cefalu, lands in Palermo, marvels at skeletons in a appuccin crypt and airy mosaics of Monreale.G

5:00 pm 

Independent Lens  "Journals of a Wily School"  In an attempt to crack down on more serious crime, the police offer a young pickpocket, Azad, a full pardon if he helps track down more notorious criminals. Azad must choose whether he will collaborate with the police or risk it all for life on the streets.G

6:00 pm 

Story of India  "Freedom"  The final episode relates how a foreign multinational (the East India Company) thousands of miles away gradually and almost by chance took power over great swaths of the Indian subcontinent; how, after the horrendous shock of the 1857 "Mutiny," the British state took over and turned this supremacy into the Raj, the jewel in the crown of the greatest empire the world had ever seen; and how the Freedom Movement delivered independence to India in 1947, albeit a divided India. The series ends by acknowledging the extraordinary achievements of Indian democracy over 60 years, and flags India's predicted rise to be the largest country and the second-largest (or even the largest) economy in the world in the next three decades. This epic journey "over 10, 000 years and 10,000 miles," as Wood puts it, ends overlooking the seven ancient cities of Delhi. D

7:00 pm 

Outdoor Idaho  "Idaho: The Whitewater State"  Cameras catch the excitement of Idaho's rivers, world famous for prime whitewater adventures. The program travels rivers throughout the state, meets river outfitters, and features archival footage of 70 years of whitewater challenge.G

7:30 pm 

Dialogue  "Dictionary of American Regional English"  Did you know that there are at least 174 different words to describe the dust that collect under your bed? Many call them dust bunnies but others label them house moss, cussywop, woofinpoofs even ghost manure. Host Joan Cartan-Hansen talks with Joan Houston Hall, the Chief Editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, about the unique twists and turns of the American language.G

8:00 pm 

PBS NewsHour   NULL

9:00 pm 

Nightly Business Report   NULL

9:30 pm 

Journal   NULL

10:00 pm 

Charlie Rose   NULL

11:00 pm 

Story of India  "Freedom"  The final episode relates how a foreign multinational (the East India Company) thousands of miles away gradually and almost by chance took power over great swaths of the Indian subcontinent; how, after the horrendous shock of the 1857 "Mutiny," the British state took over and turned this supremacy into the Raj, the jewel in the crown of the greatest empire the world had ever seen; and how the Freedom Movement delivered independence to India in 1947, albeit a divided India. The series ends by acknowledging the extraordinary achievements of Indian democracy over 60 years, and flags India's predicted rise to be the largest country and the second-largest (or even the largest) economy in the world in the next three decades. This epic journey "over 10, 000 years and 10,000 miles," as Wood puts it, ends overlooking the seven ancient cities of Delhi. D