ALL (MT)

5:00 pm 

Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman  "You Can't Teach An Orange Dog New Tricks"  Ruff's cousin Bluff Ruffman is about to send a gaggle of mysterious animals to the doghouse. In a panic, Ruff sends Marco and Shreya to Disney's Animal Kingdom to learn how to take care for animals. As a backup plan, Ruff wants to know how to make the animals disappear, and sends Rubye to Las Vegas to learn some magic from Penn and Teller. D

5:30 pm 

Nightly Business Report   NULL

5:56 pm 

Newshour Promo   NULL

6:00 pm 

PBS NewsHour   NULL

7:00 pm 

Nature  "Invasion of the Giant Pythons"  There are tens of thousands of Burmese pythons thriving in Florida's Everglades National Park - some released by pet owners and others set free by storms or other disasters. NATURE follows scientists and snake hunters as they study the growing crisis and work on strategies to protect the park, its native residents and surrounding habitats from the snakes.G

8:00 pm 

Nova  "Extreme Cave Diving"  Cave diver and environmental anthropologist Kenny Broad heads an interdisciplinary team of climatologists, paleontologists and anthropologists into underwater caves, or blue holes, formed during the last ice age. Broad is investigating the hidden history of Earth's climate as revealed by finds in this "alternate universe."G

9:00 pm 

Cave People of the Himalaya   Everest climber Pete Athans belays archaeologist Mark Aldenerfer down an 800-foot-cliff to a cave 700 feet down from the top. The two of them are on a mission in the world's highest mountains to find ancient mummies and uncover secrets hidden thousands of years in these cliff-top graves.G

10:00 pm 

Wild Africa  "Savannah"  The newest of all the environments, savannah snakes its way across Africa hemmed in between forests and deserts. A mixture of open woodlands and vast grassy plains, savannah is home to a variety of big cats as well as the greatest herds of wild grazing mammals on Earth today. Part 2 of 6G

11:00 pm 

Charlie Rose   NULL

5:00 pm 

PBS NewsHour   NULL

6:00 pm 

Lark Rise to Candleford   Rehearsals are under way for the annual production of "St. George and the Dragon." Rumor circulates that Sir Timothy is at home and they may be performing for the squire himself. When there is no sign of Sir Timothy as curtain time approaches, Dorcas decides to pay him a visit.G

7:00 pm 

Midsomer Murders  "A Talent for Life, Part 1"  In the village of Malham Bridge, Barnaby and Troy are faced with a double murder when feisty former socialite Isobel Hewitt and local Casanova Dr. Duncan Goff are found bludgeoned to death together by a nearby fishing river. Part 1 of 2G

8:00 pm 

Masterpiece Mystery!  "Inspector Lewis, Series VI: Down Among The Fearful"  Kevin Whately returns for a sixth season as Inspector Lewis. He and his young partner DS Hathaway (Laurence Fox) tackle murder in the seemingly perfect academic haven of Oxford. When a psychic is found murdered, the detectives soon discover that the victim is really an Oxford psychology research fellow.G

9:30 pm 

Death In Paradise   Camille is upset when her best friend Aimee, a singer on a Caribbean party boat, collapses while on stage after a night of music and cocktails. When Aimee dies in Camille's arms, it looks like the singer may have been poisoned.G

10:30 pm 

Call The Midwife   Jenny makes calls on the nursing roster and seeks to learn why a new patient seems upset by her latest pregnancy. Part 3 of 6G

11:30 pm 

Lark Rise to Candleford   Rehearsals are under way for the annual production of "St. George and the Dragon." Rumor circulates that Sir Timothy is at home and they may be performing for the squire himself. When there is no sign of Sir Timothy as curtain time approaches, Dorcas decides to pay him a visit.G

5:00 pm 

The Electric Company  "War of the Words"  When Hector is chosen to give a presentation on stamina to Jessica and Keith's health class, the pranksters work overtime to keep Hector from getting some much needed rest. Will Hector have enough stamina to make the presentation?. D

5:30 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

6:00 pm 

It's Sew Easy  "Mom and Grandma Are Busy - Kids and Baby"  NULL

6:30 pm 

Color World with Gary Spetz  "Color Navplion-Katakolon-Argostoli"  NULL

7:00 pm 

Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless  "Presenting: World-Class Wines of Baja"  Baja California Norte produces many world-class, gold medal-winning wines. That fact may surprise most people in the United States. Rick takes us on a tour of the region along with renowned winemaker and visionary Hugo d'Acosta, founder of La Escuelita, a nonprofit winemaking school that opened in 2004. D

7:30 pm 

Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence  "Summer In Italy"  NULL

8:00 pm 

Ask This Old House  "Using Hand Planes/Repairing A Cracked Stone Walkway"  In the workshop, general contractor Tom Silva demonstrates the proper way to use hand planes. Then, Tom, along with host Kevin O'Connor, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey and landscape contractor Roger Cook, asks, "What is it?" Afterward, Roger helps a homeowner repair a cracked stone walkway. D

8:30 pm 

Rick Steves' Europe  "Galicia and the Camino De Santiago"  NULL

9:00 pm 

Rudy Maxa's World  "The Islands of Polynesia"  NULL

9:30 pm 

Lidia's Italy In America  "Italian Style Steak"  NULL

10:00 pm 

Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen  "Dinner at the Diner"  NULL

10:30 pm 

Joanne Weir's Cooking Class  "Stuffed Chicken Breasts & Fava Fennel Salad"  Joanne teaches her student Geoff a new way to prepare chicken using some of his favorite ingredients, and shows him how with a little work he can create a vibrant, fragrant salad. Recipes: (1) CHICKEN BREASTS STUFFED WITH GOAT CHEESE AND OLIVES (2) FAVA BEAN, FENNEL, AND PARSLEY SALAD. Student: Geoff Rubendall - Civil Engineer. D

11:00 pm 

Taste This!  "Heirloom Tomatoes"  NULL

11:30 pm 

Rick Steves' Europe  "Galicia and the Camino De Santiago"  NULL

5:00 pm 

Independent Lens  "Deaf Jam"  Teenager Aneta Brodski, who is a deaf Israeli immigrant in New York City, discovers American Sign Language and dives into ASL poetry. In this three-dimensional art form, body movements convey meaning and meter, and rhymes are measured in hand shapes. When Brodski meets Tahani Salah, a hearing Palestinian slam poet, they collaborate on poetry performance.G

6:00 pm 

Independent Lens  "The Revolutionary Optimists"  Children in the slums of Calcutta are starting a revolution. Called to action by visionary former attorney Amlan Ganguly, the 'Daredevils' have already made radical health and sanitation improvements in one of the city's poorest slums -- awakening a neglected populace to the real possibility of change. D

7:00 pm 

Frontline  "The Retirement Gamble"  Ten trillion dollars in Americans' retirement savings are invested in large and small accounts managed by banks, brokerages, mutual funds, and insurance companies. But whether your IRA or 401K will assure a safe retirement is largely a gamble. Building off reporting from the special "Money, Power and Wall Street," FRONTLINE raises troubling questions about how America's financial institutions protect our savings. D

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 

Independent Lens  "The Revolutionary Optimists"  Children in the slums of Calcutta are starting a revolution. Called to action by visionary former attorney Amlan Ganguly, the 'Daredevils' have already made radical health and sanitation improvements in one of the city's poorest slums -- awakening a neglected populace to the real possibility of change. D