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1KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – September 2020

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ASK THIS OLD HOUSE

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COOK’S COUNTRY

PATI’S MEXICAN TABLE

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RICK STEVES EUROPE KEN KRAMER’SABOUT SAN DIEGOHISTORIC PLACES

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Tuesday, September 17:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 The Forsyte Saga Episode 12: Irene, who has told her

son, Jon, about her relationship with Soames, wants to thwart Jon and Fleur’s love affair. When Soames and Irene meet again, he recounts their history in a threatening manner. Jon tells Fleur it’s over.

8:00 KPBS Animal Babies: First Year On Earth

First Steps: Discover how the babies learn to understand their surroundings in environments around the globe.

KPBS 2 Grantchester Season 2 On MASTERPIECE

Episode Five: Will Gary go to the gallows? Sidney and Geordie’s crime-fighting days may be over.


Testing Limits: The new challenges baby animals face once they can get around on their own are highlighted.

KPBS 2 Spies of Warsaw A French military attache to

Warsaw is secretly part of a vast network spying on the Nazi regime.


New Frontiers: Baby animals branch off from the comfort of their mothers and learn to explore on their own.

KPBS 2 Spies of Warsaw Mercier has escaped a deadly fate

inside the German border, but now faces an uncertain future.

11:00 KPBS Relieving Stress with Yoga with Peggy Cappy

Peggy Cappy shows how to relieve stress and ease anxiety with yoga and special breathing techniques.

KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition

Wednesday, September 27:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Shakespeare & Hathaway-

Private Investigators Thy Fury Spent: A simple missing

persons case takes a dramatic turn as Frank and Lu find themselves in the middle of a dispute over the opening of a new Shakespeare centre where it’s clear that no-one is who they seem.

8:00 KPBS The Plastic Problem: PBS NewsHour Presents

Explore what’s being done about our extensive appetite for damaging single-use plastic.

KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow Omaha, Hour Three: Travel to

Omaha to see fantastic pieces of history, like a Humphreys’ homeopathic medicine cabinet.

9:00 KPBS 2 Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise

Out of the Shadows/Move On Up: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a journey through the last 50 years of African American history.

9:30 KPBS NOVA Cat Tales: Did humans ever

domesticate felines? Science sheds light on a relationship that predates history

11:00 KPBS Aging Backwards 3 with Miranda Esmonde-White

Learn how to keep your mind sharp and your body active as you age using gentle daily movement.


Thursday, September 37:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Great White Shark: New

Perspectives on an Ancient Predator

Witness, along with top divers, biologists and shark scientists, a pivotal moment in our understanding of the great white.


Feared, finned, driven to the brink of endangerment, Carcharodon carcharias reveal long-held secrets.

8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s About San Diego

We discover “slogans” that have been adopted by cities in our county, and uncover the origins of the slogan “America’s Finest City”.

KPBS 2 Expedition with Steve Backshall

Greenland - Frozen Frontier: Steve Backshall travels to Greenland, where he aims to kayak across the world’s largest fjord.

8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion Beans, Beans - The Magical

Legume: See - and sample - more than a dozen heirloom beans. Host Nan Sterman sees how these unique beans are grown, harvested, cleaned, and packaged for market.

9:00 KPBS San Diego’s Historic Places Best of San Diego’s Historic

Places: Take a look back at some of our favorite segments on San Diego’s Historical Places.

KPBS 2 Ted Williams: American Masters

Discover the many sides of baseball great Ted Williams. Bob Costas, Wade Boggs and more appear.

9:30 KPBS Crossing South Food Garden and Tequila Festival:

Jorge visits Tijuana’s elegant food court and then samples some delicious drinks at the Tequila Expo.

10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders Blood on the Saddle: A killer

eliminates villagers in a wild west fashion when a Wild West show comes to Ford Florey.

KPBS 2 Babe Ruth at Sing Sing We go back to 1929, when the

New York Yankees played a game against the inmate baseball team at Sing Sing prison.

11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition11:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe Rome: Ancient Glory: Marvel at the

Colosseum, the Pantheon, and the empire’s exquisite art and bike on the Appian Way.

KPBS2 BBC World News

Friday, September 47:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Ride Along The Lincoln

Highway Travel with Rick Sebak on

America’s first transcontinental highway and check out the changing landscape from Times Square to San Francisco. This road show incorporates culture, history, food, family, traditions and the changing way of the automobile.

8:00 KPBS Washington Week KPBS 2 Theatre Corner Wendy Raquel Robinson and Ro

Boddie: In this episode we sit down with two incredible actors, Wendy Raquel Robinson (The Steve Harvey Show, The Game) and Ro Boddie. Robinson, an NAACP Image award winner.

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8:30 KPBS Coronavirus: KPBS News Special Report

KPBS 2 Story of Us: A PBS American Portrait Story

See a moving and meaningful picture of families in America today and the way these relationships shape us. Families of all shapes and sizes give us a look into their lives, revealing how we value our families now more than ever.

9:00 KPBS Doc Martin Old Dogs: Dr. Martin Ellingham

is still as clumsy as ever when it comes to forming relationships with women.

KPBS 2 Raul Julia: American Masters

The World’s A Stage: Discover the life and career of Raul Julia, the charismatic, award-winning actor and humanitarian.

10:00 KPBS Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private Investigators

Reputation, Reputation, Reputation!: Frank and Lu enter the competitive world of hairdressing and find themselves combing through a tangled web of backstabbing and deceit.

10:30 KPBS 2 POV Shorts There’s No Place Like Home:

Portraits and stories from people who live life on the margins.

11:00 KPBS San Diego: Above and Beyond

Tour the spectacular San Diego region from the air and learn about the history of the region. Then dive below the waves for a view of the underwater world near San Diego’s famous beaches.

KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News

Saturday, September 56:00PM KPBS San Diego: Above and

Beyond Tour the spectacular San Diego

region from the air and learn about the history of the region. Then dive below the waves for a view of the underwater world near San Diego’s famous beaches.

KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend6:30 KPBS 2 Coronavirus: KPBS News

Special Report7:00 KPBS KPBS Presents: A

Conversation with Jason Mraz Grammy award-winning artist

Jason Mraz joins KPBS host Maya Trabulsi in support of KPBS.

KPBS 2 Iconic Women of Country Kathy Mattea, Trisha Yearwood,

Wynonna Judd and more pay tribute to the legends who inspired them.

8:00 KPBS Father Brown The Time Machine: Father Brown

visits Jacob, who is determined to prove that a time machine was involved in a murder.

8:30 KPBS2 Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Hamburg and the

Luther Trail: Rick visits Hamburg, Germany’s mighty port city, and the great historic sights of Martin Luther.

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9:00 KPBS Iconic Women of Country Kathy Mattea, Trisha Yearwood,

Wynonna Judd and more pay tribute to the legends who inspired them.

KPBS 2 KPBS Saturday Movie Muppets from Space (1999):

Gonzo is contacted by his alien family through his breakfast cereal. But when the men in black kidnap him, it’s up to Kermit and the gang to rescue Gonzo and help him reunite with his long-lost family. Stars Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, and Bill Barretta.

10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe Rome: Baroque Brilliance: Ramble

through the venerable heart of Rome and explore St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican.

KPBS 2 Family of Us: A PBS American Portrait Story

A meaningful picture of families in America today reveals the way these relationships shape us.

11:00 KPBS KPBS Presents: A Conversation with Jason Mraz

Grammy award-winning artist Jason Mraz joins KPBS host Maya Trabulsi in support of KPBS.Encore.

KPBS2 America ReFramed Jaddoland: Nadia Shihab’s

JADDOLAND is an intimate portrait of the work and process of the director’s visual artist mother Lahib Jaddo. The film offers viewers a fresh look at the immigrant story in America.

12:00AM KPBS San Diego: Above and Beyond


KPBS 2 POV Nowhere to Hide: Follow male

nurse Nori Sharif through five years of dramatic change in dangerous central Iraq.

Sunday, September 66:00PM KPBS Change Your Brain, Heal

Your Mind with Daniel Amen, MD Discover practical steps to help

you feel happier, sharper and more in control of your own destinies.

6:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Dresden and Leipzig:

Opulent palaces and art treasures in Dresden and the Bach heritage of Leipzig are explored.

7:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Presents: A Conversation with Jason Mraz

Grammy award-winning artist Jason Mraz joins KPBS host Maya Trabulsi in support of KPBS.

8:00 KPBS Secrets of Scotland Yard A look at London’s police force

sheds light on what it takes to become a modern-day Sherlock Holmes.

KPBS 2 Animal Babies: First Year On Earth

First Steps: Discover how the babies learn to understand their surroundings in environments around the globe.

9:00 KPBS Spies of Warsaw Betrayals and double-crossings on

all sides have left Mercier in the hands of the Germans.


Testing Limits: The new challenges baby animals face once they can get around on their own are highlighted.


10:00 KPBS Spies of Warsaw Mercier decides to get back in the

fold and help France and Poland before the inevitable war begins.


New Frontiers: Baby animals branch off from the comfort of their mothers and learn to explore on their own.

11:00 KPBS KPBS Presents: A Conversation with Jason Mraz


12:00AM KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe Florence: Heart of the Renaissance:

Michelangelo’s David, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise are explored.

KPBS 2 John Lewis - Get in the Way

The journey of civil rights hero, congressman and human rights champion John Lewis is chronicled.

12:30 KPBS Brain Wash with David Perlmutter, MD

Neurologist David Perlmutte focuses on the role of lifestyle changes in wellness and longevity.

Monday, September 77:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 NOVA Meteor Strike: Join impact

scientists as they hunt for space rock debris and clues to the origin and makeup of the massive meteor that crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere in 2013, exploding and showering fragments over a wide area.

8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Episode To Be Announced KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s

About San Diego We discover “slogans” that have

been adopted by cities in our

county, and uncover the origins of the slogan “America’s Finest City”.

8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion Beans, Beans - The Magical

Legume: See - and sample - more than a dozen heirloom beans. Host Nan Sterman sees how these unique beans are grown, harvested, cleaned, and packaged for market.

9:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Episode To Be Announced KPBS 2 San Diego’s

Historic Places Best of San Diego’s Historic

Places: Take a look back at some of our favorite segments on San Diego’s Historical Places.

9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South Food Garden and Tequila Festival:

Jorge visits Tijuana’s elegant food court and then samples some delicious drinks at the Tequila Expo.

10:00 KPBS POV Portraits and Dreams: Photographs

by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s and the place they were created are revisited.

KPBS 2 KPBS Presents: A Conversation with Jason Mraz


11:00 KPBS San Diego: Above and Beyond




Tuesday, September 87:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 The Forsyte Saga Episode 13: Finale. Though Fleur

and Jon are in love, Fleur decides to marry Michael Mont. She shuns her father, who tells her about the fateful night when he was violent with Irene. Soames returns to Robin Hill for the last time to say afinal goodbye to Irene.

8:00 KPBS The Vote: American Experience

Hour One: The first generation of leaders in the decades-long battle to win the vote for women are profiled.

KPBS 2 Grantchester Season 2 OnMASTERPIECE

Episode Six: Sidney seeks oblivion and his friend Sam seeks forgiveness. A dead girl’s parents seek revenge.

9:00 KPBS FRONTLINE Growing Up Poor: Children and

their families navigate issues of poverty, race and new challenges due to COVID-19.

KPBS 2 Spies of Warsaw Betrayals and double-crossings on

all sides have left Mercier in the hands of the Germans.

10:00 KPBS Harbor from the Holocaust In a Holocaust story of hope,

20,000 Jews find refuge in Shanghai in China during World War II.

KPBS2 Spies of Warsaw Mercier decides to get back in the

fold and help France and Poland before the inevitable war begins.

11:00 KPBS Survival Guide for Pain-FreLiving with Peggy Cappy

Easy-to-do stretches and other yoga moves that can help relieve pain are demonstrated.


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Wednesday, September 9

7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Shakespeare & Hathaway-

Private Investigators Reputation, Reputation,

Reputation!: Frank and Lu enter the competitive world of hairdressing and find themselves combing through a tangled web of backstabbing and deceit.

8:00 KPBS NOVA Human Nature: An extraordinary

technology called CRISPR allows us to edit human DNA. How far should we go?

KPBS 2 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Episode To Be Announced 9:00 KPBS 2 Black America Since MLK:

and Still I Rise Keep Your Head Up/Touch

The Sky: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores America’s changing racial landscape. Eric Holder appears.

10:00 KPBS Hacking Your Mind Living On Auto-Pilot: Discover how

you go through life on auto-pilot and learn how to get an auto-pilot owner’s manual.

11:00 KPBS Aging Backwards 3 with Miranda Esmonde-White

Learn how to keep your mind sharp and your body active as you age using gentle daily movement.



Thursday, September 10

7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS2 Nature’s Greatest Dancers The Dance for Love: Documentary

series exploring the ways animals move. Steve Backshall looks at the moves animals make in pursuit of romance.


A collection of stories about the history and people of the area we call home. Ranging over all of San Diego County, the stories often deal with little known things about our past, and how they relate to places we see everyday.

KPBS2 Boss: The Black Experience In Business

African American entrepreneurship,the backbone of the nation’s economic growth, is showcased.

8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion Intoxicating Plumeria: Learn about

Plumeria, a big, tropical looking plant that captivated Southern Californians in the 1950s and 60s and is now making a comeback in our home gardens and nurseries.

9:00 KPBS San Diego’s Historic Places Old Town - American Period: Learn

about the contributions of the first American settlers in the San Diego region.

9:30 KPBS Crossing South The Birthplace of Tequila: Jorge

visits the birthplace of Tequila in the town of Tequila Jalisco!

10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders The Silent Land: An unpopular

village librarian turns up dead during a spooky ghost tours in Midsomer Magna.

KPBS 2 FRONTLINE Growing Up Poor: Children and

their families navigate issues of

poverty, race and new challenges due to COVID-19.

11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition11:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe London: Historic and Dynamic:

Visit Westminster Abbey, explore the British Library and enjoy the vibrant evening scene in Soho.


Friday, September 117:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Billy Connolly’s Great

American Trail Billy Connolly follows the

trail of the early settlers from Massachusetts to Nashville.

8:00 KPBS Washington Week KPBS 2 Theatre Corner Sheldon Epps and Phylicia

Rashad: Today, we sit down with two legendary figures in the entertainment industry, director Sheldon Epps (Frasier, Girlfriends) and Phylicia Rashad (The Cosby Show).


KPBS 2 Family of Us: A PBS American Portrait Story

A meaningful picture of families in America today reveals the way these relationships shape us.

9:00 KPBS Doc Martin In Loco: Louisa seeks a promotion

at the Portwenn School. Bert Large is testing out his culinary skills.

KPBS 2 Great Performances Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare’s

classic is performed by dancers from The Royal Ballet with a score by Sergei Prokofiev.


Best Beware My Sting: An energy tycoon hires Frank and Lu to keep an eye on his wayward eldest daughter and ensure that the


wedding of his youngest daughter goes off without a hitch. But things are about to get a whole lot worse.

11:00 KPBS Feel Better with Pressure Point Therapy

Dr. Michael Pinkus applies techniques involving ancient acupressure points to provide pain relief.Encore.

KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News

Saturday, September 12

6:00PM KPBS Sesame Street: 50 Years & Still Sunny!

Join host Gloria Estefan for a 50th anniversary celebration of the iconic children’s series.


Special Report7:00 KPBS 2 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band:

50 Years and Circlin’ Back Vince Gill, Jackson Browne

and more celebrate the groundbreaking band’s musical milestones and hits.

7:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe Venice and Its Lagoon: Sample the

splendid art treasures of Venice, explore its backstreet wonders and cruise its lagoon.

8:00 KPBS Father Brown The Standing Stones: A death at

a stone circle of a polio-stricken village leads Father Brown to investigate the scene.

8:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Frankfurt and

Nurnberg: Skyscraper-studded Frankfurt and the maze of underground bomb shelters in Nurnberg are explored.

9:00 KPBS Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: 50 Years and Circlin’ Back

Vince Gill, Jackson Browne and more celebrate the

groundbreaking band’s musical milestones and hits.

KPBS 2 KPBS Saturday Movie The Mirror Has Two Face (1996): A

shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague. Stars Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, and Lauren Bacall.

10:30 KPBS Reconstruction: America After The Civil War

Following the Civil War, support for social and economic gains for African Americans did not last.

11:00 KPBS2 America ReFramed Farewell Ferris Wheel: Filmed

over the span of six years, the film follows a carnival owner, a labor-recruiter, and workers from a small town in Mexico who join the carnival legally on seasonal visas.

Sunday, September 136:00PM KPBS Nitty Gritty Dirt Band:

50 Years and Circlin’ Back Vince Gill, Jackson Browne

and more celebrate the groundbreaking band’s musical milestones and hits.

6:30 KPBS 2 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: 50 Years and Circlin’ Back

Vince Gill, Jackson Browne and more celebrate the groundbreaking band’s musical milestones and hits.

7:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe The Heart of England: Rick

Steves visits Winston Churchill’s birthplace at Blenheim Palace and polishes his pub etiquette.


8:00 KPBS Lucy Worsley’s Royal Palace Secrets

A tour of London’s most extraordinary palaces includes the Tower of London and Hampton Court.

KPBS 2 NOVA Human Nature: An extraordinary

technology called CRISPR allows us to edit human DNA. How far should we go?

9:00 KPBS Van Der Valk On MASTERPIECE

Love In Amsterdam: Detective Van der Valk and a new assistant investigate a case that mixes art, politics and passion.

10:00 KPBS 2 Hacking Your Mind Living On Auto-Pilot: Discover how

you go through life on auto-pilot and learn how to get an auto-pilot owner’s manual.

11:00 KPBS My Music 20th Anniversary Show

Glen Campbell, Aretha Franklin and more performers celebrate hit songs from the 50s to the 70s.

KPBS 2 More or Less Perfect Union, A Personal Exploration by Judge

A Constitution for All: Delve into the Bill of Rights, which protects free speech, religious freedom and more.

Monday, September 147:00 KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Hacking Your Mind Living On Auto-Pilot: Take a trip

around the world to discover how you go through life on auto-pilot, and get an auto-pilot owner’s manual.

8:00P KPBS Antiques Roadshow Episode To Be Announced KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s

About San Diego A collection of stories about the

history and people of the area we call home. Ranging over all of San Diego County, the stories often deal with little known things about our past, and how they relate to places we see everyday.

KPBS 2 A Growing Passion Intoxicating Plumeria: Learn about

Plumeria, a big, tropical looking plant that captivated Southern Californians in the 1950s and 60s and is now making a comeback in our home gardens and nurseries.

9:00 KPBS KPBS Antiques Roadshow Episode To Be Announced KPBS 2 San Diego’s

Historic Places Old Town - American Period: Learn

about the contributions of the first American settlers in the San Diego region.

KPBS 2 Crossing South The Birthplace of Tequila: Jorge

visits the birthplace of Tequila in the town of Tequila Jalisco!

10:00 KPBS Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes

The life and career of America’s first female landscape architect-Beatrix Farrand is explored.

KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up Ziggy Marley: The music and

legacy of Ziggy Marley on Live At The Belly Up.

11:00 KPBS POV Love Child: With adultery

punishable by death in Iran, a young couple decide to flee the country with their son.



Tuesday, September 157:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Bletchley Circle - San

Francisco Presidio: In 1942, code-breaker

Claire Hopkins is the victim of an unsolved murder. Fourteen years later, her former colleagues read of two murders in San Francisco identical to Claire’s and the pair travel to the city to meet war-time counterparts Iris Bearden and Hailey Yarner.


Hour Two: Explore the strategies used by a new generation of leaders determined to win the vote for women.


Season Three - Episode One: Geordie is horrified when a would-be groom is found dead with wedding rings lodged in his mouth.

9:00 KPBS FRONTLINE Policing The Police 2020: In the

wake of George Floyd’s killing, writer Jelani Cobb examines prospects for police reform.

9:30 KPBS 2 Endeavour Season 4 On MASTERPIECE

Game: Endeavour Morse races against time as he becomes consumed by a nightmarish hunt for a serial killer.

10:00 KPBS Building The American Dream

Immigrant construction workers seek justice and equality in an industry rife with exploitation.

11:00 KPBS Willie Velasquez: Your Vote Is Your Voice

Meet the charismatic pioneering activist who helped transform the nation’s political landscape




Private Investigators Best Beware My Sting: An energy

tycoon hires Frank and Lu to keep an eye on his wayward eldest daughter and ensure that the wedding of his youngest daughter goes off without a hitch. But things are about to get a whole lot worse.

8:00 KPBS Madagascar: Islands of Wonder

A journey across ancient Madagascar, the strangest and oldest island on Earth, is showcased.

KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow Episode To Be Announced 8:30 KPBS 2 The War FUBAR: Examines the fight in

Europe and Japan, as soldiers continued to die on both sides of the world.

9:00 KPBS NOVA Secret Mind of Slime: Scientists

investigate the “intelligence” of slime molds, which appear to learn without a brain.

10:00 KPBS Hacking Your Mind Weapons of Influence: Politicians,

social media and marketers use big data to hack your auto-pilot decision making system.

11:00 KPBS Amazing Human Body Grow: Learn how humans begin

life as a single cell and grow into beings of more than 37 trillion cells.

KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News



7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Nature’s Greatest Dancers The Dance for Life: Steve Backshall

takes a look at some of the extraordinary dance-like moves that animals perform to survive all aspects of life. The fantastic cast features ballet-dancing lemurs, shrews doing the conga, humpback whales and daredevil toads.



KPBS 2 Born to Explore with Richard Wiese

Hawaii: from Sea to Seal: Explorer Richard Wiese seeks to unravel the mysteries of the island paradise of Hawaii.

8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion The Beautiful Bromeliad:

Discover the amazing diversity of bromeliads. Host Nan sterman talks with experts, breeders, and collectors who share their best tips and secrets for growing bromeliads in our home gardens.

KPBS 2 POV Whose Streets?: Take an

unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising, where citizens assert their right to live.

9:00 KPBS Theatre Corner Dule Hill and Daniel J. Watts: We

sit down with actors Dule Hill (Psych, The West Wing) and Daniel J. Watts (Hamilton) at the Geffen Playhouse to discuss their roles in the hit new musical, “Lights Out: Nat ‘King’ Cole”.

9:30 KPBS Crossing South La Ventanita & Princess Tea Party:

A small, signature bakery earning a big name in Tijuana, and a great restaurant to take your daughter.

10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders Master Class: A young pianist with

emotional issues competes to win a scholarship to a prestigious music academy.

KPBS 2 FRONTLINE Policing The Police 2020: In the

wake of George Floyd’s killing, writer Jelani Cobb examines prospects for police reform.

11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition11:30 KPBS Born to Explore with

Richard Wiese Labrador: Remote Canada: Host

Richard Wiese examines glaciers and explores the health of local waters in Labrador, Canada.


Friday, September 187:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Billy Connolly’s

Great American Trail Billy Connolly follows the


8:00 KPBS Washington Week KPBS 2 Theatre Corner Dule Hill and Daniel J. Watts: We




KPBS 2 KPBS Arts A MassArt exhibit that steps back

in time to the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a small town quilt company hits it big with quilters nationwide, strange photography prints, and free performances in Downtown L.A.

9:00 KPBS Doc Martin Blood Is Thicker: Bert Large has

been hiding a secret from his son Al that threatens to jeopardize their relationship.

KPBS 2 Great Performances Now Hear This: Haydn: King of

Strings: Host Scott Yoo and guest artists explore the work of famed composer Joseph Haydn’s career.


All That Glisters: Frank and Lu find themselves puzzling through the world of Enigmatology as they become podcasters investigating a mysterious twenty year old car accident which killed a young mother.

KPBS 2 Art in the Twenty-First Century

London: Discover how British history and modern upheaval collide in the works of today’s London artists.

11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up Ziggy Marley: The music and

legacy of Ziggy Marley on Live At The Belly Up.



6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show Fashions and Hits Through The

Years: Mary Lou Metzger is the host. “Alice Blue Gown, “In The Mood” and “True Love” are performed.


Special Report7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow Cardiff Castle 2: At Cardiff Castle,

Fiona Bruce is on the hunt for a rare 1933 penny worth a small fortune while one expert finds a piece he has been waiting 40 years to see.

KPBS 2 Ken Burns: The National Parks

Explore the beauty and grandeur of our nation’s magnificent parks, from Acadia to Yosemite,.

7:31 KPBS Upstart Crow Lord, What Fools These Mortals

Be: Will is finishing writing A Midsummer Night’s Dream and is told by the actors that it lacks comedy.

8:01 KPBS Father Brown The Paradise of Theives: When a

dead man is found inside a locked bank vault, Father Brown must solve the mystery.

9:00 KPBS Soul Legends (My Music) Join host Pam Grier in a tribute

to the greatest soul hits and performers from the 1970s and 80s.

KPBS 2 KPBS Saturday Movie Picnic (1955): Emotions are ignited

amongst the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labour Day picnic. Stars William Holden, Kim Novak, and Betty Field.


11:00 KPBS Professor T The Go-Between: Chief Inspector

Rabet is confronted with the driver who killed his daughter in a car crash.

KPBS 2 America ReFramed The Unafraid: A humanizing

portrait of undocumented studentsand their families, we enter their homes and learn of their struggles, as working families like theirs support their sons and daughters in pursuit of their dreams for life, liberty, and happiness.

Sunday, September 206:00PM KPBS Endeavour Season 5 On

MASTERPIECE Episode One: Muse: Past and

present collide as the auction of a priceless Faberge Egg occurs at Lonsdale College.

KPBS 2 Ken Burns: The National Parks

Explore the beauty and grandeur of our nation’s magnificent parks, from Acadia to Yosemite.

7:30 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow Cardiff Castle 2: At Cardiff Castle,

Fiona Bruce is on the hunt for a rare 1933 penny worth a small fortune while one expert finds a piece he has been waiting 40 yearsto see.

8:00 KPBS 2 Madagascar: Islands of Wonder

A journey across ancient Madagascar, the strangest and oldest island on Earth, is showcased.


Only In Amsterdam: Detective Van der Valk investigates the mysterious death of a Muslim worker at an addiction clinic.

KPBS 2 NOVA Secret Mind of Slime: Scientists

investigate the “intelligence” of

slime molds, which appear to learn without a brain.

10:00 KPBS 2 Hacking Your Mind Weapons of Influence: Politicians,

social media and marketers use big data to hack your auto-pilot decision making system.

11:00 KPBS Shakespeare Uncovered Much Ado About Nothing

with Helen Hunt: Helen Hunt explores this exquisite comedy of comparison and contrast that Shakespeare set in Italy,

KPBS 2 Doc World Siqueiros: Walls of Passion:

A documentary film about revolutionary Mexican visual artist David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974) and the resurrection of his Los Angeles mural “América Tropical,” located at the birthplace of Los Angeles.

Monday, September 217:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Hacking Your Mind Weapons of Influence: See how

politicians, social media companies and corporate marketers use big data to hack your auto-pilot decision making system, and learn how to defend yourself.

8:00 KPBS To Be Announced - A KPBS Special Presentation

KPBS2 Ken Kramer’s About San Diego


8:30 KPBS2 A Growing Passion The Beautiful Bromeliad:

Discover the amazing diversity of bromeliads. Host Nan sterman talks with experts, breeders, and


collectors who share their best tips and secrets for growing bromeliads in our home gardens.

9:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Episode To Be Announced KPBS 2 Theatre Corner Dule Hill and Daniel J. Watts: We


9:30 KPBS Family of Us: A PBS American Portrait Story

A meaningful picture of families in America today reveals the way these relationships shape us. F

KPBS 2 Crossing South La Ventanita & Princess Tea Party:

A small, signature bakery earning a big name in Tijuana, and a great restaurant to take your daughter.

10:00 KPBS Lucy Worsley’s Royal Palace Secrets

A tour of London’s most extraordinary palaces includes the Tower of London and Hampton Court.

KPBS 2 KPBS Presents: A Conversation with Jason Mraz


11:00 KPBS POV In My Blood It Runs: A 10-year-old

Aboriginal boy and child-healer faces challenges with school and the authorities.


Tuesday, September 227:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Bletchley Circle - San

Francisco Wake: Subsequent deaths make it

clear: San Francisco is in the grip of a killer with a dark and complex agenda now menacing Iris’ own neighborhood.


Hour Three: Discover how pervasive racism, particularly in the South, impacted women’s fight for the vote.

KPBS2 Grantchester Season 3 On MASTERPIECE

Season Three - Episode Two: Sidney and Geordie investigate a mysterious death and the appearance of a dead bird at the vicarage.

9:00 KPBS FRONTLINE The Choice 2020: Trump Vs. Biden:

The lives and characters of Joe Biden and Donald Trump are explored as they compete to be president.

rontline - The Choice, Sept. 22 at 9:00 p.m.


KPBS2 Endeavour Season 4 On MASTERPIECE

Canticle: When morality advocate receives a death threat, Endeavour Morse must protect her at all costs.

10:30 KPBS 2 Theatre Corner Dule Hill and Daniel J. Watts: We


11:00 KPBS Building The American Dream





Private Investigators All That Glisters: Frank and Lu

find themselves puzzling through the world of enigmatology as they become podcasters investigating a mysterious twenty-year-old car accident that killed a young mother.

8:00 KPBS Borneo: Islands of Wonder The wealth of wildlife in

Hawaii, from humpback whales to waterfall-climbing fish, is highlighted.

KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow Vintage Philadelphia: Phenomenal

Philadelphia finds from 2006 include an asscher-cut yellow diamond ring from around 1930.

9:00 KPBS NOVA How Writing Changed The World:

Hour 1: Follow the evolution of the written word, from carvings in an Egyptian mine to modern-day alphabets.

KPBS 2 The War The Ghost Front: By December

1944, Americans are weary of the war they have been fighting for three long years.

10:00 KPBS Hacking Your Mind Us Vs. Them: Discover how the

auto-pilot biases we all experience fuel our nation’s divisions.

11:00 KPBS Amazing Human Body Survive: Discover the miracles the

human body goes through every day to stay alive and healthy.



7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Madagascar: Islands of

Wonder The strangest and oldest island on

Earth, Madagascar, has seen more unique wildlife than any other island.



KPBS 2 Building The American Dream


8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion For The Love of Olives: Meet

an award winning olive oil homegrower, visit the region’s largest olive oil producer, learn how to grow an olive tree and see tips for curing black olives.


9:00 KPBS Theatre Corner Alimi Ballard and Michelle Bradley:

Actor Alimi Ballard (Queen of the South, Numb3rs) and opera singer Michelle Bradley. Ballard talk abouttheir careers.

KPBS 2 FRONTLINE The Choice 2020: Trump Vs. Biden

The lives and characters of Joe Biden and Donald Trump are explored as they compete to be president.

9:30 KPBS Crossing South Chapultepec, Zocalo, & Coyoacan:

Welcome to Mexico City, 1,700 miles from Tijuana. Our first stop is Chapultepec Park, which is like Central Park in New York City, a vast green area with all sorts of sights to see, as well as a famous Castle which has been made into an important museum. Next is the equally famous Zocalo plaza, the center of the capital city, and much more!

10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders The Noble Art, Part 1: A famous

1860 bare-knuckle boxing bout is restaged and dead bodies begin topile up for Barnaby.

11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition11:30 KPBS Born to Explore with

Richard Wiese Hawaii: from Sea to Seal: Explorer

Richard Wiese seeks to unravel themysteries of the island paradise of Hawaii.

KPBS 2 BBC World News

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Friday, September 257:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Billy Connolly’s Great

American Trail Billy Connolly follows the


8:00 KPBS Washington Week KPBS 2 Theatre Corner Alimi Ballard and Michelle Bradley:

Actor Alimi Ballard (Queen of the South, Numb3rs) and opera singer Michelle Bradley. Ballard talk about their careers.


KPBS 2 KPBS Arts Meet an L.A. painter who idolizes

Rembrandt, then follow a traveling dance troupe on their journey, hear the vision behind New York City’s MTA Arts for Transit program, and see some of the most stunning works by a world renowned fashion designer.

9:00 KPBS Doc Martin Aromatherapy: Local radio host

Caroline Bosman may have a drinking problem. Martin tends to stinky Vernon Cooke.

KPBS 2 Great Performances Now Hear This: The Schubert

Generation: Host Scott Yoo and young musicians celebrate the work of composer Franz Schubert.



O Thou Invisible Spirit of Wine: When paranormal activity is reported in a Tudor pub, old family feuds are brought to a head and it looks like Frank and Lu have another mystery on their hands.

KPBS 2 Art in the Twenty-First Century

Beijing: Witness the maturing of this unique contemporary-art hub and meet artists who call Beijing home.

11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up Blind Boys of Alabama and

Friends: The legendary vocal group the Blind Boys of Alabama and friends perform.



6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show The French Show: This black and

white classic features Aladdin giving guest Janet Lennon a “French Lesson.”


Special Report7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow Stormont Parliament Buildings

and Estate 1: Items featured include the walking stick of Lord Haw-Haw, the traitor executed for helping the Nazis during the Second World War, and diving gear associated with the Titanic.

KPBS2 John Tesh: Songs and Stories from the Grand Piano

John Tesh looks back on his life and career through music, pictures and humorous reminiscences.

7:31 KPBS Upstart Crow Wild Laughter in the Throat of

Death: While Will Shakespeare works on his masterpiece, Greene

finds a new way to destroy Will’s reputation.

8:00 KPBS Father Brown The Deadly Seal: Father Brown

finds himself in a bad situation when he is told Bishop Talbot will be assassinated.

8:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe Bulgaria: Bulgaria, so mysterious

to most Americans, has a vivid identity as a crossroads of the Balkans.

9:00 KPBS John Tesh: Songs and Stories from the Grand Piano


KPBS 2 Miles Davis: American Masters

Never-before-seen footage, rare photos and interviews explore the life of jazz legend Miles Davis.

10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe France’s Loire: Chateau Country:

Rick Steves explores the French countryside along the Loire River Valley and visits unique castles.

11:00 KPBS Professor T Motherly Love: When a six year-

old boy is kidnapped, Professor T questions the innocence of the child’s parents.

KPBS2 America ReFramed The Hand That Feeds: The

documentary offers a candid and urgent behind the scenes look at the plight of undocumented immigrant workers who face sub-legal wages, dangerous machinery and abusive managers.


Sunday, September 276:00 KPBS Endeavour Season 5 On

MASTERPIECE Episode Two: Cartouche: Morse

and Thursday investigate two poisonings, as a horror movie begins filming in Oxford.

6:30 KPBS 2 John Tesh: Songs and Stories from the Grand Piano


7:29 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow Stormont Parliament Buildings

and Estate 1: Items featured include the walking stick of Lord Haw-Haw, the traitor executed for helping the Nazis during the Second World War, and diving gearassociated with the Titanic.Encore. See 9/26, 7:00 pm

8:00 KPBS Last Tango In Halifax Alan’s brother Ted arrives with

two young New Zealanders and a giraffe turns up at Far Slack farm.

KPBS2 Borneo: Islands of Wonder The wealth of wildlife in

Hawaii, from humpback whales to waterfall-climbing fish, is highlighted.


Death In Amsterdam: The case of an eco-fashion vlogger who turns up dead during his video feed is investigated.

KPBS 2 NOVA How Writing Changed The World:

Hour 1: Follow the evolution of the written word, from carvings in an Egyptian mine to modern-day alphabets.

10:00 KPBS 2 Hacking Your Mind Us Vs. Them: Discover how the

auto-pilot biases we all experience fuel our nation’s divisions.

11:00 KPBS Shakespeare Uncovered The Merchant of Venice with

F. Murray Abraham: F. Murray Abraham addresses the anti-Semitism that characterized Europe in Shakespeare’s time.

KPBS 2 Doc World Sands of Silence: A 15-year quest

to expose the underworld of sexual exploitation and trafficking from Asia to the Americas leads world-reporter Chelo Alvarez-Stehle to the windswept beach where her childhood ended, and family secrets began.

Monday, September 28

7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Hacking Your Mind Us Vs. Them: Discover how the

auto-pilot biases we all experience fuel our nation’s divisions, see how authoritarians can hack them and find out how to overcome them.

8:00 KPBS KPBS Antiques Roadshow Episode To Be Announced KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s

About San Diego A collection of stories about the

history and people of the area we call home. Ranging over all of San Diego County, the stories often deal with little known things about our past, and how they relate to places we see everyday.

8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion For The Love of Olives: In the

early 1900s, olives were big business in San Diego County. Today, fruiting olive trees are popular once again in the region’s home and commercial orchards. Meet an award winning olive oil homegrower, visit the region’s largest olive oil producer, learn how to grow an olive tree and see tips for curing black olives.


9:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Episode To Be Announced KPBS 2 Theatre Corner Alimi Ballard and Michelle Bradley:


9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South Chapultepec, Zocalo, & Coyoacan:

Welcome to Mexico City, 1,700 miles from Tijuana. Our first stop is Chapultepec Park, which is like Central Park in New York City, a vast green area with all sorts of sights to see, as well as a famous Castle which has been made into an important museum. Next is the equally famous Zocalo plaza, the center of the capital city, and much more!

10:00 KPBS Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & Secrets

Explore how Eizabeth I’s image as a warrior queen.shaped British national identity for centuries.

KPBS2 Live at the Belly Up Blind Boys of Alabama and

Friends: The legendary vocal group the Blind Boys of Alabama and friends perform.

11:00 KPBS POV Our Time Machine: An artist

makes a stage performance with mechanical puppets for his father with Alzheimer’s disease.

KPBS2 KPBS Evening Edition

Tuesday, September 29

7:00PM KPBS 2 Bletchley Circle - San Francisco

Charlotte’s Web: Our four women delve into the mysterious death of Iris’ suburban friend, uncovering a complex cluster of marriages built on lies and deception.


Hour Four: Meet the women whose tireless work would ban discrimination at U.S. polls on the basis of sex.


Season Three - Episode Three: Villagers become ill at the local cricket match. Was it an accident or something more sinister?

9:00 KPBS 1964: The Fight for a Right The struggles of African-Americans

in 1960s Mississippi fighting for the right to vote are examined.

KPBS 2 Endeavour Season 4 On MASTERPIECE

Lazaretto: A chain of events lead to Endeavour’s investigation of a supposedly cursed hospital and its staff.

10:00 KPBS FRONTLINE United States of Conspiracy:

Trafficking in conspiracy theories went from the fringes of U.S. politics into the White House.

10:30 KPBS 2 Theatre Corner Alimi Ballard and Michelle Bradley:



11:00 KPBS Fake: Searching for Truth in the Age of Misinformation

Learn how to discern fact from fiction in news reports and identify fake news and partisan content.




Private Investigators O Thou Invisible Spirit of Wine:

When paranormal activity is reported in a Tudor pub, old family feuds are brought to a head and it looks like Frank and Lu have another mystery on their hands.

8:00 KPBS Hawaii: Islands of Wonder A journey across ancient

Madagascar, the strangest and oldest island on Earth, is showcased.

KPBS 2 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Episode To Be Announced 8:30 KPBS 2 The War A World Without War: By 1945,

people understand all too well that there will be more bad news before the war can end.

9:00 KPBS NOVA A to Z: How Writing Changed The

World: A look at how technologies, from pen to paper to printing press, impacted the spread of information.

10:00 KPBS Hacking Your Mind The Wings of Angels: Find out why

hacking for good may be the most important scientific discovery of this century.

11:00 KPBS Amazing Human Body Learn: Discover how experience

shapes the brain and body together, allowing them to adapt to the outside


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