IDAHO (MT)

2:30 pm 

Martha Speaks  "Alice Covers Up/Carolina Picks A Lily"  Alice Covers Up - It's a pool party! Everyone is going, including Alice. until she becomes involved in a strange cover-up. Vocabulary: (E) (self)confiden(t)(ce), complexion, timid, outgoing, bashful (I) color, sort, brand, fair/fair-skinned, dye. D

3:00 pm 

Peg + Cat  "The Tree Problem/Another Tree Problem"  The Tree Problem - Peg's Neighborhood. When Cat is stuck in a tree, Peg needs to figure out how to get him down using three giant gifts. Primary Content: Spatial sense, solving a puzzle; Secondary Content: Direction, position. D

3:30 pm 

WordGirl  "Two Brains Quartet/Big's Big Bounce"  Two Brains Quartet - For the city's centennial celebration the Mayor promises to unveil its 100 year old cheese wheel to the winner of the Barbershop Quartet Competition. Both the Botsford family and Dr. Two Brains are assembling talented groups. Will Dr. Two Brains be able to sing his way to victory and run away with the city's oldest and most valuable cheese? Vocabulary Words: Melodious, Quartet. D

4:00 pm 

Wild Kratts  "Seasquatch"  The Kratt brothers' sub loses power while they are exploring the strange landscape of the ocean depths and they are trapped on the ocean floor of the deep sea. Aviva must figure out how to harness the energy from the deep sea's hydrothermal vents in order to save the brothers and return them to the surface. The Wild Kratts team learns all about the amazing process of chemosynthesis and how deep sea creatures transform toxic chemicals into energy. D

4:30 pm 

Cyberchase  "Trash Creep"  Perfectamundo isn't so perfect anymore - the trash is out of control! A giant garbage heap threatens to break through the cybersite's dome, and the CyberSquad must become garbologists in order to reduce the rubbish. Hacker, meanwhile, is digging through the very same heap for some mistakenly discarded seeds that will allow him to grow an army of monster plants to take over Cyberspace. Will he find the seeds before the Perfectamundians solve their trash problem? Or is the dome doomed?. D

5:00 pm 

Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman  "Fetch Finale IV: The Prophecy Fulfilled!"  The lost legendary Helmet of Victory is so close Ruff can almost TASTE it! He's just learned that the Helmet is somewhere in Old Sturbridge Village, a town that time forgot. The FETCHers head off to the village, and then undergo a series of elimination trials to retrieve the Helmet. The FETCHer who finds the Helmet will be the Season IV FETCH Grand Champion! But will the Helmet of Victory really make Ruff victorious?. D

5:30 pm 

Nightly Business Report   NULL

5:57 pm 

Newshour Promo   NULL

6:00 pm 

PBS NewsHour   NULL

7:00 pm 

Washington Week with Gwen Ifill   NULL

7:30 pm 

Dialogue  "Living Simply"  Marcia Franklin discusses the 'voluntary simplicity' movement with Idaho native and writer Duane Elgin, who helped foster the movement 30 years ago when he authored a book about it. Franklin's other guest is Karen Lanphear, the co-founder of the Sandpoint Transition Initiative, which aims to create a more sustainable economy in that north Idaho community.G

8:00 pm 

Scott & Bailey   Janet gets called into Gill's office to explain a cheeky email sent to Rob that she is adamant was not from her. Janet and Rachel are sent to investigate the suspicious death of care home resident Gerald French, whose daughter Catherine raises concerns about the level of care given her father.G

9:00 pm 

Purdue Christmas Show 2012   An Indiana tradition comes to public television from Purdue University with vocal and instrumental arrangements of holiday favorites, traditional and modern, sacred and secular. A cast of more than 250 campus and community performers fill the campus auditorium with sounds of the season while elaborate sets and costumes provide rich holiday visuals.G

10:00 pm 

Kevin Kirk & Onomatopoeia In Concert   This one-hour concert documentary features performances from a January 2009 concert in Boise and interviews with the Idaho musicians who create jazz that is eclectic, high-energy, "practically unboxable." Members and alumni of the Treasure Valley Youth Symphony add a symphonic sound to the Idaho Public Television production.G

11:00 pm 

Charlie Rose   NULL