IDAHO (MT)

3:00 pm 

The Electric Company  "Scent of a Human"  On the day he is supposed to star in his own rap video, Hector is hypnotized into thinking he's a dog. Can The Electric Company train Hector to use his human instincts, or will he have to rap with a doggie brain?. D

3:30 pm 

WordGirl  "Earth Day Girl/A Hero, A Thief, A Store and Its Owner"  Earth Day Girl - When the Birthday Girl learns that the Earth is having a special celebration (on her birthday!) she decides to teach the Earth a lesson. Will WordGirl find a way to stop the Birthday Girl and save Earth Day? Vocabulary Words: Recycle, Excess. A Hero, A Thief, A Store and Its Owner - A police officer arrives at the Jewelry Store only to find Reginald, Chuck, Captain Huggy Face, and WordGirl encased in condiment cocoons. D

4:00 pm 

Wild Kratts  "Build It Beaver"  The Wild Kratts team must lend a hand to help a beaver rebuild its damaged lodge and restore the ecosystem for all the creatures who live there. Science Concepts: Beavers make dams that block the flow of water down a stream. Through building dams, the beaver single-handedly transforms the landscape, creating homes for a variety of wildlife. D

4:30 pm 

Cyberchase  "Eureeka!"  (topic: 2- & 3-D Geometry) - Pursued by Hacker, Digit lands on cybersite Eureeka, where his mission is to find Professor Archimedes - the maker of the encryptor chip, a unique computer chip that can fix Motherboard. But Archimedes is nowhere to be found - only a pile of two-dimensional rods where his chip factory should be. The kids arrive to help, and discover that by linking the two-dimensional rods together into certain geometrical patterns they actually create a surprising three-dimensional shape that leads directly to unraveling the mystery of Archimedes' strange disappearance. D

5:00 pm 

Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman  "Long Glen Silver And The Pursuit Of The Golden Fetchie!"  Ruff's nephew Glen has been playing a pirate-themed video game on the Go Get It! Web site. Through this game he's somehow gotten into the Go Get It! mainframe computer, and discovers that they're hunting for something called The Golden Fetchie. Ruff wants to find the FETCHie first, so he sends the kids off to the island. D

5:30 pm 

Nightly Business Report   The head of the European Central Bank makes good on his promise to save the euro. NBR's Susie Gharib speaks with ConvergEx's Chief Market Strategist Nicholas Colas on the implications of the ECB's comments today. The S&P 500 stock index jumps to pre-crisis levels but how are investors feeling today compared to 4 years ago? New York Correspondent Erika Miller takes a look. D

6:00 pm 

PBS Convention Coverage -- A Newshour Special Report  "Democratic Convention"  Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff anchor live gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.G

9:00 pm 

Midsomer Murders  "Dead Man's Eleven (Part 1)"  DCI Barnaby plans to move to the village of Fletcher's Cross as season three of the series begins. But his plans are disrupted when the wife of a landowner is bludgeoned to death in the village of Midsomer Worthy with a cricket bat while out walking her dog. Part 1 of 2G

10:00 pm 

POV  "Where Soldiers Come From"  This Veterans' Day story follows a group of high school friends from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, who join the National Guard for college money and are sent to Afghanistan. Director Heather Courtney traces their change from students to combat veterans, and records their experiences as they return to civilian life.G

11:30 pm 

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