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Nature: Snow Bears  Airs 8:30pm Tuesday, December 4

Witness the incredible journey of newborn polar bear cubs as they leave the safety of their den for the first time. Bravely led by their mother, the cubs must make the perilous 400-mile Arctic voyage to the sea to feed.

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Missoula, MT 59812 63 Bridger, Fromberg and Belfry OFFICE (406) 243-4101 FAX (406) 243-3299 Nature: Snow Bears E-MAIL [email protected] Table of Contents MISSOULA STAFF  Airs 8:30pm Tuesday, December 4 3 FEATURED THIS MONTH GENERAL MANAGER Ray Ekness Also 12/6 1am PROGRAM ASSISTANT Sue Ginn Holiday Programming WORLD 4 MADE IN MONTANA 12/2 6pm, 10pm; 12/3 6am, noon; 12/4 5 My Grandpa’s Fiddle 4:30pm, 11:30pm; 12/5 7:30am, 1:30pm Friends of MontanaPBS Board 6 EVENING & OVERNIGHT MontanaPBS & World Set against the harsh backdrop of the Arctic, OFFICERS 7 The Beatles: Eight Days a Week: Nature: Snow Bears is a dramatized story CHAIR Dax Schieffer, Bozeman; VICE CHAIR Sally The Touring Days based on the extraordinary adventures and Maison, Bozeman; PAST CHAIR Nancy Cornwell, 9 Sacred life-changing journey of newborn polar bear Bozeman; SECRETARY Peggy Kuhr, Missoula; 11 Letters from Baghdad cubs as they leave the safety of their den for TREASURER Bill Beecher, Great Falls 13 Music Specials: k.d. lang, Graham Nash, the first time. Bravely led by their mother, the MEMBERS Leonard Bernstein cubs must make the perilous 400-mile trek to BOZEMAN Aaron Pruitt BILLINGS Margaret 15 We’ll Meet Again: Great Alaskan Earthquake the sea to feed. Encountering many dangers MacDonald; GREAT FALLS Katie Kotynski; HELENA 17 Craft in America and adventures along the way—marauding Kirk J. Miller, Bruce Whittenberg; KALISPELL 19 NOVA: Apollo’s Daring Mission male bears ready to kill, extreme weather, Tony Brockman; MISSOULA Ray Ekness, Sue Malek; 21 New Year’s Eve Specials Arctic foxes, walruses, narwhal, snowdrifts and POPLAR Rich Peterson; RED LODGE Diane Young; 22 WEEKDAY PROGRAMMING MontanaPBS ice cracks—they undertake an epic survival Kent Young WHITEFISH Louisa S. Nye; UM MISSOULA 23 WEEKEND PROGRAMMING MontanaPBS challenge. These cubs are rarely seen in their Bobbie Evans; MSU BOZEMAN Terry Leist 24 CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING MontanaPBS natural habitat, and this is a unique glimpse into Holiday Specials, Let’s Go Luna! their world. Kate Winslet narrates. 25 A-Z PROGRAM LISTING MontanaPBS & World A SERVICE OF 28 A-Z PROGRAM LISTING Create Cover images top & bottom: Courtesy of Roie Galitz / © 29 MONTANAPBS KIDS CHANNEL PROGRAMMING John Downer Productions; middle: Courtesy of Matthew 30 BUSINESS PARTNERS Goodman / © John Downer Productions. 32 Neil Diamond: Hot August Night III MONTANAPBS PROGRAM GUIDE 3 Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, On the Cover Featured this month See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area COURTESY OF NEAL STREET PRODUCTIONS 2018

Key Cast from Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2018: L–R Back row: Helen George (Trixie Franklin), Jennifer Kirby (Valerie Dyer), Annabelle Apsion (Violet Buckle) Fourth row: (grey coat) Georgie Glen (Miss Higgins) Third row: Fenella Woolgar (Sister Hilda), Daniel Laurie (Reggie) Second row: Laura Main (Shelagh Turner), Stephen McGann (Dr. Turner), Max Macmillan (Timothy Turner) Front row: Miriam Margolyes (Sister Mildred), Jenny Agutter (Sister Julienne)

HOLIDAY PROGRAMMING Lidia Celebrates Christmas with the Call the Midwife America: A Heartland Mormon Tabernacle Choir Holiday Special 2018 Holiday Feast featuring Sutton Foster  Airs 8pm Tuesday, December 25 Also 12/27 1am, 3:30am  Airs 8pm Tuesday, December 18  Airs 8pm Monday, December 17; Also 12/20 1am, 4am; 12/25 11am 7pm Tuesday, December 25 The Christmas special will star Miriam Margoyles as Sister Mildred, who arrives un- Also 12/19 1am, 4am; 12/24 9pm; 12/25 noon, 11pm; Join Emmy and James Beard Award-winning expectedly at Nonnatus House, her hands full 12/26 2am, 5am; 12/27 2:30am, 5am chef Lidia Bastianich as she travels to the with four Chinese orphans. Having fled China, heartland of America, immersing herself in Join Tony Award-winning actress Sutton the child refugees were found abandoned diverse cultures that provide inspiration for Foster and “Downton Abbey” star Hugh in Hong Kong and are being adopted in the the holidays. Bonneville, guest musical artist and narrator U.K. as part of the World Refugee Project. for this year’s Christmas with the Mormon With Christmas preparations in full flow and Tabernacle Choir. the midwives busy caring for the expectant mothers of Poplar, these unexpected visitors cause joy and chaos in equal measure. The Order’s Mother Superior has taken ill, and a new spiritual leader needs to be elected.

Rescan Your TV Many broadcast TV stations across Montana are moving to new frequencies this fall. If you watch televi- Time to sion using an over-the-air antenna, it is a good idea to perform the channel rescan function on your TV. This is especially important if you have noticed a channel that has gone away from your normal lineup. To Rescan learn more about television stations moving to new frequencies, visit www.tvanswers.org 4 MONTANAPBS PROGRAM GUIDE

Produced by MontanaPBS Pledge programming Made in Montana MontanaPBS continues to tell the story of our state—past and present—with award winning television productions. Programs like Backroads of Montana, Indian Relay and C.M. Russell and the American West help our citizens thoughtfully reflect on the colorful history of our state, the majesty of our shared landscape and our unique people and cultures. Programs such as Montana Ag Live, History of Yellowstone and many others foster important discussion about current issues.

Glacier On My Mind Celebrate the rugged beauty and spirit of Glacier National Park in Montana. This park is a stunning region of spectacular mountains, beautiful forests,

MICHAEL SAMPLE MICHAEL cascading streams, and magnificent wildlife, all shown here in breathtaking color images by Montana photographer Michael Sample. Airs Tuesday, 12/4 at 12:15am, Wednesday, 12/5 at 3:15am

Jailed for Their Words: When Free Speech Died in Wartime America Mon- tanans were imprisoned during WWI as part of the Montana Sedition Act of 1918 for criticizing America’s war effort. Through powerful memoir, national expert commentary, archival footage, descendent interviews and re-enactments, the film highlights the importance of free speech in wartime America and ultimately of our first amendment rights. Airs Sunday, 12/16 at 10am The Hard Way The Hard Way Follow Bob Hayes, 89, as he trains for the Bighorn 50k ultramarathon. Bob  Airs 7pm Thursday, December 20 Also 12/23 10am, 12/24 2am teaches us about living a life with purpose and At 89, Bob Hayes still ran nearly every day. “I don’t need to do things the easy way, I need to do momentum. Filmmakers Jeremy Lurgio and things the hard way because I have the time and it keeps me in shape,” Hayes said. When he’s not Erik Petersen spent more than a year following running, he’s cutting firewood by hand, hauling hay to his cattle or tapping his maple tree for syrup. Hayes through the trials and triumphs of his The Hard Way follows Bob as he trains for the Bighorn 50k ultramarathon. As Bob pushes 90, life. He is a complex and wonderful character longer races take a larger toll. How will Bob navigate the challenges of aging? whose approach to running and life is an inspiration to everyone he meets. Airs Thursday, 12/20 at 7pm, Sunday, 12/23 at 10am, Monday, 12/24 at 2am

Montana On My Mind Celebrate the My Grandpa’s Fiddle This symphonic The World of K.D. Swan: Early 20th Cen- unique beauty and spirit of the last best state. memoir chronicles the musical journey of tury Photographer and Conservationist Inspired by the best-selling book, Montana on country singer/songwriter Tim Ryan Rouillier This documentary describes the establishment My Mind, this program combines stunning film and his Salish Indian grandfather, Vic. Tim and early years of the national forests, which with inspiring quotes, music and commentary recounts the journey that led the two trouba- today comprise almost 200 million acres and by Michael S. Sample. Airs Saturday, 12/1 at dours from the Flathead Indian Reservation in contain the last remaining wildlands in the lower 12am, Friday, 12/7 at 10:30am Montana all the way to Nashville. Airs Tuesday, 48 states. The story is told through the life and 12/4 at 6:59pm, Thursday, 12/6 at 12:30pm, Friday, remarkable photographs of K.D. Swan. For 37 Glacier Park Remembered It is hard to 12/7 at 1:05am, Saturday, 12/8 at 10:30am years, this forester-artist recorded the beauty imagine what was more memorable in Glacier  See story, opposite and value of natural landscapes in Montana and Park a century ago: the breath taking scenery, surrounding states. Airs Thursday, 12/20 at 7:30pm, or the adventure. Travel in time with us as we Great Falls Story: A Tribute to 125 Sunday, 12/23 at 10:30am, Monday, 12/24 at 2:30am follow the adventures of our counterparts 100 Years The Great Falls Story tells the history years ago through rare, restored old film, mu- of everyday life in what was Montana’s largest Yes to Running: Bill Harley Live This seum pictures, and historical memorabilia. Airs city. Great Falls began as an ambitious dream program includes stories and songs that paint Sunday, 12/2 at 2:30pm, Wednesday, 12/5 at 4am to make north-central Montana an industrial a vibrant and hilarious picture of growing up, empire. The dream included parks, buildings, school and family life. Grammy-winner Bill Har- C. M. Russell and the American stores and an opera house to rival anywhere. ley is a nationally recognized (National Public West: My Medicine is Strong Now The story is told through hundreds of photos, Radio) family entertainer, known for delighting Charles M. Russell’s art expands in technique, rare film from nearly a century ago, and children and adults alike with his growing-up color, storytelling and, thanks to Nancy, value. firsthand stories. It includes accounts from the stories and songs, as well as his observations The American Indian point of view often dom- world’s oldest man, Great Falls resident Walter about being a parent and about elements of inates his canvases while he helps Hollywood Breuning and “Captain Dynamite,” a crowd today’s world. Airs Sunday, 12/30 at 10am build the myth of the West on film.Airs Monday, favorite for blowing himself up at Great Falls 12/3 at 7pm, Wednesday, 12/5 at 12am ball games. Airs Saturday, 12/8 at 1:30pm 5 Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area

Labor and Our Economy Labor issues have certainly changed on Montana’s farms and ranches in the recent past and MSU ag economist Wendy Stock discusses how labor issues are affecting agriculture and, in turn, how that is affecting Montana’s economy as a whole. Airs Sunday, 12/16 at 11am

How Invasive Species Affect Montana’s Economy Today’s boat and watercraft checkpoints throughout Montana have certainly opened our eyes to the problems that invasive species, like the quagga or zebra mussels, can cause. Tom Woolf, Bureau Chief of Mon- tana’s Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks joins Ag Live to talk about the potential effect of COURTESY OF KATIE LASALLE LOWERY KATIE OF COURTESY these species on agriculture and the Montana economy as a whole. Airs Sunday, 12/23 at 11am

Public Research, Public Value Montana’s university system is known for its top-notch research, but what is the economic value of that research? Director of MSU Ag Experiment Stations Anton Bekkerman joins Ag Live to help us understand how the research done at the universities has a direct economic value to the state and agriculture in particular. Airs Sunday, 12/30 at 11am

Jack Gladstone Oral tradition is the resonant core within both Native American and cowboy cultures. Known as Montana’s Troubadour, Jack Gladstone’s stories and lyric poetry bring to life the experience of the northwestern mountains and plains. Airs Thursday, 12/13 at 7pm, Saturday, 12/15 at 9:55pm, Monday, 12/17 at 1:30am

Jeff Troxel & Trevor Krieger Billings, Montana-based fiddle player Trevor Krieger joins Cody, Wyoming-based singer-songwriter Jeff Troxel to showcase their distinctive blend of Americana folk and fiddle tunes and innovative original work. The duo has been exploring diverse musical roles together for more than 20 years. Troxel is a jazz and flatpicking guitarist, songwriter, singer, composer, educator, and recording engineer who easily crosses musical boundaries. Krieger, an accomplished classical violinist and traditional fiddle player, shares his musical talents with his Country singer-songwriter Tim Ryan pays duties as a Billings firefighter.Airs Thursday, 12/27 at 7pm, Saturday, 12/29 at 9:30pm tribute to his Salish Indian grandfather and the journey that led them from the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana to Nashville. Special Presentation: The Collections Is collecting a hobby, a passion or just a conversation starter? We’ll let you decide. Columbia Falls’ Sonia Tetley started the trend when we profiled her door knob collection. After that we visited doll collections, antler collections and handkerchief collections. My Grandpa’s Fiddle We met people who collect sewing machines, beer memorabilia and natural fibers. A Kalispell man collects antique telephones. Lou Adler, of Billings, is considered “The King of the One  Airs 7pm Tuesday, December 4 Armed Bandits.” We followed a young Winifred boy through what may be the world’s largest Also 12/6 12:30pm; 12/7 1:05am; 12/8 10:30am collection of Tonka toys. And a Three Forks man collects Montana stories for his weekly mag- My Grandpa’s Fiddle is a symphonic memoir azine column. Airs Saturday, 12/1 at 6pm, Sunday, 12/2 at 2:30am, Sunday, 12/9 at 4:30pm chronicling the musical journey of country singer-songwriter Tim Ryan Rouillier and his Collecting Memories Meet an icon of 1950s’ television as we profile the high flying Salish Indian grandfather, Vic. Tim recounts exploits of Montana-native Kirby Grant, aka “Sky King.” Next, visit the Schafer Air Field in the journey that led the two troubadours from the Bob Marshall Wilderness, the last private airfield in a wilderness area tended to each the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana all summer by the Montana Pilots Association. Then, meet a Fairfield woman with an unusually the way to Nashville, where Tim gained fame large hankie collection, and a young woman from Missoula whose entrepreneurial dream is under his stage name, Tim Ryan. inspirational. Airs Saturday, 12/15 at 5pm

Capitol Rock & Community Folk From Capitol Rock near Ekalaka to the Hot Club of This magical performance is set against Troy, this program covers Montana from border to border. Stops include Easter services at a backdrop of imagery from a variety of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Butte, a profile of the mayor of Alberton, a visit to Troy’s award-winning photographers as well as Tim’s music venue, the Hot Club Coffee House and a stop at the nation’s least-visited national personal home movies. The music is co-writ- landmark, Capitol Rock. Airs Saturday, 12/22 at 5pm ten by Tim, Country Music Hall of Fame writer Charlie Black, and Hall of Fame nominees Rockets, Peaks and Poets We will visit the Big Sky Rocketry Association and watch their Sharon Vaughn and Alex Harvey. launch event near Twin Bridges and then explore a geologic curiosity near Sunburst called “Jerusalem Peaks.” We will also profile Dixon poet Victor Charlo. William Marcus hosts the program from the Range Rider’s Museum in Miles City. Airs Saturday, 12/29 at 5pm 6 MONTANAPBS PROGRAM GUIDE

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SATURDAY DECEMBER 1 2:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Great 11:00 BrainFit: 50 Ways to Grow German Cities Rick Steves Your Brain with Daniel Amen, AM EARLY MORNING explores the German cities of Ham- MD and Tana Amen, RN Dr. Dan- mdnt Montana On My Mind burg, Dresden, Leipzig, Frankfurt iel Amen and Tana Amen share their MDNT WORLD Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War and Nürnberg. TV-G best secrets to ignite your energy 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 4:00 Welk Stars: Through the and focus at any age. TV-G 11:30 WORLD Oregon’s Animation Magic 1:30 Leonard Cohen: Tower of Song Years TV-G TV-G 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 6:00 Backroads of Montana 3:00 Washington Week SUNDAY DECEMBER 2 3:00 WORLD Moscone: A Legacy of Change Special Presentation “The 3:30 Market to Market Collections” Collectors and their AM EARLY MORNING 4:00 Nature: Snow Bears unique collections are profiled in this MDNT WORLD America ReFramed: 4:00 WORLD Second Opinion: Backroads of Montana Special. We Breathe Again Biologics in Orthopedics  See photo below 12:30 Great Performances: 4:30 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 6:00 WORLD Tyrus Wong: The Chris Botti Band in Concert 5:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 1:00 WORLD Growing Native Oklahoma: American Masters TV-PG 5:30 Super Why! 7:30 Rock, Rhythm & Doo Wop Red People 5:30 WORLD Washington Week 2:00 WORLD First Language: Frankie Valli hosts performances by 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23 The Race to Save Cherokee Little Richard, The Five Satins and 2:30 Backroads of Montana Special AM MORNING PLEDGE more rock and roll legends. Presentation: The Collections 10:00 Meditation for All of Us 7:30 WORLD Oregon’s Animation Magic TV-G 3:00 WORLD Keep Talking 8:00 WORLD America ReFramed: 4:00 Hanukkah: A Festival of deLights Expert Stephan Bodian shows We Breathe Again 4:00 WORLD On Story: A Conversation with how to use meditation for greater TV-PG 9:00 WORLD Growing Native Oklahoma: Marta Kauffman happiness. TV-G Red People TV-PG 4:30 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 11:00 Peter, Paul and Mary at New- 9:30 Neil Diamond: Hot August 5:00 WORLD Washington Week port 1963–65 Performances by Night III Neil Diamond’s return to 5:30 Curious George 5:30 WORLD Open Mind Peter, Paul and Mary at the Newport the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles in 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23 Folk Festival are showcased. TV-G August 2012 is chronicled. TV-G  See story, back cover AM MORNING PLEDGE PM AFTERNOON PLEDGE/EVENING 10:00 WORLD Tyrus Wong: American Masters 8:00 Migraine Solution Experts and 12:30 Migraine Solution Experts and TV-PG patients debunk myths and discuss patients debunk myths and discuss the best practices for managing the best practices for managing migraines. TV-G migraines. TV-G 9:30 Alone in the Wilderness Rich- ard Proenneke set out alone to build a log cabin and explore a pristine

land unchanged by man. TV-G 11:00 Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like

MONTANAPBS Celebrate Mister Rogers’ Neigh- borhood, the children’s series that

premiered nationally in 1968. TV-G

PM AFTERNOON PLEDGE/EVENING 12:30 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You Suze Orman provides advice to help individual

viewers. TV-G 2:30 Glacier Park Remem- bered Historical memorabilia and old film showcase what Montana’s Glacier Park was like 100 years ago.  See p. 4 3:00 WORLD America ReFramed: We Breathe Again TV-PG 4:00 Ken Burns: America’s Sto- ryteller “The War” Tom Hanks celebrates filmmaker Ken Burns while Backroads of Montana: The Collections exploring the depth and breadth of

 Airs 6pm Saturday, December 1 Also 12/2 2:30am; 12/9 4:30pm Burns’s work. TV-G Join the Backroads crew as we look back at some of the most notable collections we’ve 4:00 WORLD Growing Native Oklahoma: featured in our series. Pictured: A Kalispell man collects antique telephones. Red People TV-PG 7 Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area

5:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules: 6:00 WORLD Forever Painless with Miranda Ethics at Work: Engine Trouble TV-G Esmonde-White TV-G 5:30 History of Glacier 7:00 C. M. Russell and the National Park “Crown of the Conti- American West “My Medicine is nent” The history of Glacier National Strong Now” American Indian view-

Park from creation to today. TV-G points often mark Russell’s work. He  See p. 4 helps build the myth of the West. TV-G 5:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at  See p. 4 Work: The Bank Job TV-G 7:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage:

6:00 WORLD Nature Snow Bears TV-PG Kitchen Confessions TV-PG COURTESY OF © APPLE CORPS LTD. 7:30 WORLD Hanukkah: A Festival 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour of deLights TV-G 8:45 Chet Atkins: Certified Gui- 8:00 Celtic Woman: Ancient tar Player Mark Knopfler, the Everly Land Stunning new music is per- Brothers, Emmylou Harris and Willie formed in a concert at the beau- Nelson celebrate the guitar virtuoso

tiful Johnstown Castle in Wexford, Chet Atkins. TV-G Ireland. TV-G See photo, p. 8 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:00 WORLD Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks TV-G 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 Rhythm of the Dance An 10:00 WORLD Forever Painless with Miranda The Beatles in Washington DC, February 1964. exhilarating trip through the ages Esmonde-White TV-G features champion dancers, tradi- 10:15 BBC World News tional musicians and singers. TV-G 10:45 Donny Osmond: One Night 10:00 WORLD Nature: Snow Bears TV-PG Only! TV-G 11:30 Leonard Cohen: Tower of 11:30 WORLD Conversation with Bill Moyers The Beatles: Eight Days a Song A year after the songwriter’s TV-G death, a star-studded lineup perform Week—The Touring Years Cohen’s most celebrated songs. TV-PG TUESDAY DECEMBER 4  11:30 WORLD Hanukkah: A Festival of Airs 6:30pm Saturday, December 8 AM EARLY MORNING deLights TV-G 12:15 Glacier On My Mind This program is based on the first part of The 1:00 Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller Beatles’ career (1962-1966)—the period in MONDAY DECEMBER 3 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour which they toured and captured the world’s AM EARLY MORNING 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company acclaim. The film explores how John Lennon, 2:30 History of Glacier National Park: 1:00 Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Rock, Rhythm & Doo Wop Crown of the Continent 1:00 WORLD Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks Ringo Starr came together to become this 3:00 WORLD Blackfeet Encounter 2:00 WORLD extraordinary phenomenon, “The Beatles.” It Tending the Wild 4:00 Rhythm of the Dance 3:00 Neil Diamond: Hot August Night III 4:00 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack reveals their inner workings—how they made 3:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules: 4:30 WORLD Asia Insight decisions, created their music and built their Ethics at Work: Engine Trouble 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo collective career together—all the while, ex- 3:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: 5:30 Easy Yoga for Diabetes with ploring The Beatles’ extraordinary and unique Ethics at Work: The Bank Job Peggy Cappy musical gifts and their remarkable, comple- 4:00 WORLD Overheard with Evan Smith: 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk mentary personalities. The film focuses on the Sandra Cisneros, Author 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 time period from the early Beatles’ journey in 4:30 Rick Steves’ Festive Europe the days of The Cavern Club in Liverpool to 4:30 WORLD Open Mind AM MORNING PLEDGE 5:00 Migraine Solution their last concert at Candlestick Park in San 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 11:00 Migraine Solution Experts and Francisco in 1966. patients debunk myths and discuss 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk The Beatles began touring Europe in late the best practices for managing 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 1963 after an extraordinary arrival on the migraines. TV-G British scene in 1961 and ’62. However, it AM MORNING PLEDGE PM AFTERNOON PLEDGE/EVENING was their much-heralded “Ed Sullivan Show” 10:30 Doo Wop Generations: My appearance on February 9, 1964 that caused Music Kenny Vance & the Pla- 12:30 Neil Diamond: Hot August The Beatles’ popularity to explode. By June, notones, The Duprees and other Night III Neil Diamond’s return to the band had commenced their first world performers pass the torch to the the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles in tour and continued on a relentless schedule

new generation. TV-G August 2012 is chronicled. TV-G for two subsequent years. By the time the 5:30 Nightly Business Report band stopped touring in August of 1966, they PM AFTERNOON PLEDGE/EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour had performed 166 concerts in 15 countries and 90 cities around the world. The cultural 1:00 Christmas with Daniel 6:00 WORLD America ReFramed: phenomenon their touring helped create, O’Donnell Daniel O’Donnell and There Are Jews Here known as “Beatlemania,” was something guests perform yuletide carols and 6:59 My Grandpa’s Fiddle Join the world had never seen before and laid the seasonal favorites in Dublin. TV-G country singer-songwriter Tim Ryan foundation for the globalization of culture. 5:30 Nightly Business Report to celebrate the musical legacy of his 6:00 PBS NewsHour grandfather. TV-G  See story, p. 5 8 MONTANAPBS PROGRAM GUIDE

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7:30 WORLD Our American Family: Barry Kibrick A Festival of deLights TV-G The Mays TV-G 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 11:30 WORLD Conversation with 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 5:30 Meditation for All of Us Bill Moyers TV-G 8:30 Nature “Snow Bears” Travel to 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk the Arctic to follow the life-changing 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 THURSDAY DECEMBER 6 journey of two newborn polar bear AM MORNING PLEDGE AM EARLY MORNING cubs. TV-PG  See inside front cover mdnt Rick Steves’ Europe: 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 11:00 Tenors-Fan Favorites The Remote, Sacred, Wild 9:30 WORLD Day popular and prolific trio perform TV-G 12:30 NHK Newsline memorable songs that showcase 10:00 BBC World News 1:00 Nature: Snow Bears 10:00 WORLD America ReFramed: their soaring harmonies. TV-G  See 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour There Are Jews Here photo, p. 10 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30 Celtic Woman: Ancient Land 10:30 Nathan Carter: Celtic Coun- PM AFTERNOON PLEDGE/EVENING try Music sensation Nathan Carter 3:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work: Engine Trouble performs a variety of country and 12:30 Rhythm of the Dance An exhilarating trip through the ages features 3:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Irish classics. TV-G champion dancers, traditional Ethics at Work: The Bank Job 11:30 WORLD Nature: Snow Bears TV-PG 4:00 WORLD Story in the Public Square musicians and singers. TV-G 4:30 America’s Home Cooking: WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 5 5:30 Nightly Business Report Holiday Side Dishes 6:00 PBS NewsHour 4:30 WORLD Second Opinion: AM EARLY MORNING Cardiac Comeback 6:30 WORLD Conversation with mdnt C. M. Russell & the 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo Bill Moyers American West TV-G 5:30 Survival Guide for Pain-Free Living 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 7:00 Viewer’s Choice for Pledge with Peggy Cappy 1:45 Chet Atkins: Certified Guitar Player TBA MontanaPBS will broadcast a 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company “Member’s Choice” pledge program. 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 3:00 WORLD Tending the Wild 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour AM MORNING PLEDGE 3:15 Glacier On My Mind 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 4:00 Glacier Park Remembered 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:30 Rock, Rhythm & Doo Wop 4:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 10:00 WORLD Hanukkah: Frankie Valli hosts performances by 4:30 WORLD Between the Lines with Little Richard, The Five Satins and more rock and roll legends.

PM AFTERNOON PLEDGE/EVENING 12:30 My Grandpa’s Fiddle Join country singer-songwriter Tim Ryan to celebrate the musical legacy of

his grandfather. TV-G  See story, p. 5 5:30 Nightly Business Report

COURTESY OF KIP CARROLL KIP OF COURTESY 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You Suze Orman provides advice to help individual

viewers. TV-G 7:00 WORLD Aging Backwards 2 with Miranda Esmonde-White TV-G 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 9:00 Jamestown In 1619, a new governor arrives in Virginia along with women destined to marry the

beleaguered men. TV-14-V 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 WORLD Brain Secrets with Dr. Michael Merzenich TV-G 10:05 BBC World News 10:35 Buddy Holly: Rave On Buddy Celtic Woman: Ancient Land Holly’s tragically short life and career  Also 12/6 2:30am Airs 8pm Sunday, December 2 are chronicled. TV-PG Delight in the shimmering voices and enchanting music of this new concert filmed at the beautiful Johnstown Castle in Wexford, Ireland. Features stunning new music from their latest album, Ancient Land, along with a selection of timeless classics. Pictured L to R: Tara McNeill, Mairead Carlin, Éabha McMahon, Megan Walsh. 9 Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area

FRIDAY DECEMBER 7 SATURDAY DECEMBER 8 AM EARLY MORNING AM EARLY MORNING MDNT WORLD Aging Backwards 2 with Miranda 12:30 Jamestown Esmonde-White 12:34 WORLD Stories from the Stage: 12:05 Rick Steves’ Festive Europe Kitchen Confessions 12:35 NHK Newsline 1:01 WORLD PBS NewsHour 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 1:34 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions 1:05 My Grandpa’s Fiddle for You 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:33 Survival Guide for Pain-Free Living with 3:00 WORLD Forever Painless with Miranda Peggy Cappy Esmonde-White 3:00 WORLD Ohero:kon: Under The Husk 3:32 Market to Market 3:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Kitchen 4:00 Rick Steves’ Delicious Europe Confessions 4:00 WORLD Second Opinion 3:31 Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like 4:30 Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength and COURTESY OF SAUMYANANDA SAHI / © WLIW LLC 4:00 WORLD Gzero World with Ian Bremmer Balance with Peggy Cappy 4:30 WORLD Closer to Truth: Can Metaphysics 4:30 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack Discern God? pt 1 5:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:00 Rick Steves’ Travel as a Political Act 5:30 Super Why! 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:30 WORLD Washington Week 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 AM MORNING PLEDGE AM MORNING PLEDGE 10:00 Rick Steves’ Delicious Europe India Holi 10:30 Montana On My Mind Rick Steves savors classic European Celebrate the unique beauty and cuisine in Galicia, Rome and Greece

spirit of the last best state. Inspired and sips wine in Burgundy. TV-G by the best-selling book, “Montana 10:30 My Grandpa’s Fiddle Join Sacred on My Mind,” this program combines country singer-songwriter Tim Ryan stunning film with inspiring quotes, to celebrate the musical legacy of his  Airs 9pm Monday, December 10 music and commentary by Michael Also 12/12 1am, 4:30am grandfather. TV-G  See story, p. 5 S. Sample.  See p. 4 Become immersed in the daily use of faith PM AFTERNOON PLEDGE/EVENING PM AFTERNOON PLEDGE/EVENING and spiritual practice in more than 25 Noon Chet Atkins: Certified Gui- countries. At a time when religious hatreds Noon Rolling Stones: Sticky tar Player Mark Knopfler, the Everly dominate headlines, explore faith as primary Fingers at the Fonda Theatre Brothers, Emmylou Harris and Willie human experience and how people turn to Celebrate the legendary band with Nelson celebrate the guitar virtuoso. ritual and prayer to navigate life. the only live performance of their TV-G entire Sticky Fingers album. TV-G 1:30 Great Falls Story 5:30 Nightly Business Report “A Tribute to 125 Years” Learn the 6:00 PBS NewsHour history of everyday life in what was 7:00 Washington Week Montana’s largest city. Great Falls 7:30 Firing Line with Margaret began as an ambitious dream to Hoover make north-central Montana an industrial empire.  See p. 4 7:34 WORLD Stories from the Stage: TV-G Kitchen Confessions TV-PG 3:00 Rick Steves Special 8:00 Tenors-Fan Favorites The “European Christmas” Customs and popular and prolific trio perform practices of the holiday season are memorable songs that showcase explored in England, France, Swit- zerland and more. their soaring harmonies. TV-G  See TV-G photo, p. 10 5:00 The Highwaymen Live at 8:01 WORLD PBS NewsHour Nassau Coliseum Willie Nelson, COURTESY OF GUETTY FELIN / © WLIW LLC 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and 9:30 The British Beat: My Music Kris Kristofferson shine in this 1990

Rare archival performance films are performance. TV-G mixed with new live performances of PM EVENING 1960s British Invasion hits. TV-G

9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 6:30 The Beatles: Eight Days A 10:00 WORLD Black America Since MLK TV-PG-VL Week: The Touring Years Explore 11:30 Stories from the Vietnam War the history of the Fab Four from their Veterans, activists and refugees early days in Liverpool to their last

share powerful stories of their experi- concert. TV-G  See story, p. 7

ences related to the war. TV-PG 8:00 WORLD America ReFramed: 10 MONTANAPBS PROGRAM GUIDE

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There Are Jews Here 4:30 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 1:00 Andre Rieu: Waltzing Forev- 9:00 Roy Orbison: Black & White 5:00 WORLD Washington Week er Andre Rieu performs enchanting 5:30 Curious George Night 30 Celebrate the 30th music in a stunning medieval town anniversary of an iconic concert with 5:30 WORLD Open Mind square in the Netherlands. TV-G an all-star cast including Jackson 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23 2:30 Big Band Years Nick Clooney Browne. TV-G AM MORNING PLEDGE and Peter Marshall host a nostalgic 9:30 WORLD Our American Family: 8:00 Stories from the Vietnam look at hit makers and songs of the The Mays TV-G War Veterans, activists and refugees 1930s and ’40s. TV-G 10:00 WORLD Black America Since MLK TV-PG-VL share powerful stories of their experi- 10:30 Great Performances “Tony 4:30 Backroads of Montana ences related to the war. Bennett & Diana Krall: Love Is Here TV-PG Special Presentation “The Col- to Stay” Tony Bennett and Diana 9:00 Conversation with Bill Moy- lections” Collectors and their unique Krall celebrate the Great American ers Journalist, political commentator collections are profiled in this Back- Songbook duo George and Ira Ger- and author Bill Moyers reflects on his roads of Montana Special.  See p. 5 life and storied career. 5:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at shwin. TV-G TV-G 10:30 Perry Como Classics: Till Work: Taking Advantage? TV-G 5:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at The End of Time: My Music A SUNDAY DECEMBER 9 Work: The Whistleblower collection of Perry Como’s biggest TV-G 6:00 Viewer’s Choice for Pledge AM EARLY MORNING hits from long-lost and restored mdnt Tenors-Fan Favorites TBA MontanaPBS will broadcast a episodes of his TV program. TV-G 1:00 WORLD America ReFramed: “Member’s Choice” pledge program. There Are Jews Here PM AFTERNOON PLEDGE/EVENING 6:00 WORLD Nature: H is for Hawk TV-PG 1:30 The British Beat: My Music 7:30 WORLD Brain Secrets with Noon Christmas with Daniel 2:30 WORLD Our American Family: The Mays Dr. Michael Merzenich TV-G 3:00 WORLD Aging Backwards 2 with Miranda O’Donnell Daniel O’Donnell and 9:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Esmonde-White special guests perform yuletide car- Kitchen Confessions TV-PG 3:30 Rick Steves Special: ols and seasonal favorites in Dublin. 10:00 WORLD Nature: H is for Hawk TV-PG European Christmas TV-G 11:30 WORLD Brain Secrets with Dr. Michael 4:00 WORLD On Story: Freaks & Muppets: Merzenich TV-G A Conversation with Jason Segel MONDAY DECEMBER 10 AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Secrets of the Manor House 1:00 Austin City Limits: Band of Horses/ Parker Millsap 1:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Kitchen Confessions 2:00 Christmas at Concordia: Gather Us In, O Child of Peace COURTESY OF DAN LIM 2:00 WORLD Aging Backwards 2 with Miranda Esmonde-White 3:00 Christmas at Belmont 3:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work: Taking Advantage? 3:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work: The Whistleblower 4:00 Brad Paisley: Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special 4:00 WORLD Overheard with Evan Smith 4:30 WORLD Open Mind 5:00 Infinity Hall Live: Dave Mason 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

PM EVENING 5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Junk in the Tenors: Fan Favorites Trunk 4, pt 1” Appraisals include a  Airs 11am Wednesday, December 5 Also 12/7 8pm; 12/9 mdnt 1950 Pablo Picasso linocut and a pair of Italian carved door panels Experience the soaring harmonies and timeless songs of the popular and prolific trio. This from 1550. TV-G intimate performance features songs from Motown, Broadway classics from West Side Story, 7:00 WORLD Everyone Has a Place TV-G selections from The Great American Songbook and more. Pictured: Fraser Walters, Victor Micallef, Clifton Murray. 11 Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area

7:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage Holidays: 9:30 Frontline “Trafficked in America” The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, pt 1 The inside story of Guatemalan teens 8:00 Antiques Roadshow “Junk in forced to work against their will in the Trunk 4, pt 2” Great appraisals Ohio is presented. include a collection of 1898 Mardi 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G Gras invitations and Julia Child’s 10:00 WORLD America ReFramed: copper pans. TV-G Winter at Westbeth 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 10:30 BBC World News 9:00 Sacred Become immersed in the 11:00 Amanpour and Company daily use of faith and spiritual prac- 11:30 WORLD Beth Ames Swartz / tice around the world. TV-14 Reminders of Invisible Light TV-G  See story, p 9 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 12 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 WORLD Martin Luther: The Idea That AM EARLY MORNING Changed the World TV-PG mdnt Between the Lines with Barry Kibrick: 10:30 BBC World News Elgin Baylor: Hang Time MDNT WORLD Independent Lens:

11:00 Amanpour and Company UNIVERSITY NEWCASTLE ARCHIVE, BELL GERTRUDE OF COURTESY Wilhemina’s War 12:30 NHK Newsline TUESDAY DECEMBER 11 1:00 Sacred 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour AM EARLY MORNING 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company mdnt Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 2:30 Antiques Roadshow: MDNT WORLD Everyone Has a Place Junk in the Trunk 4, pt 1 12:30 NHK Newsline 3:00 WORLD Secrets of Highclere Castle 12:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Holidays: 3:30 Antiques Roadshow: Gertrude Bell The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, pt 1 Junk in the Trunk 4, pt 2 1:00 Murder on the Home Front 4:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 4:30 Sacred 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 4:30 WORLD Between the Lines with Letters from Baghdad 2:30 Secrets of Scotland Yard Barry Kibrick 3:00 WORLD Independent Lens: 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo  Airs 8pm Tuesday, December 11 Wilhemina’s War 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk Also 12/13 2am, 4:30am 3:30 Murder on the Home Front 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 Academy Award winning actress Tilda 4:00 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack Swinton narrates the story of a true original, 4:30 WORLD Asia Insight PM EVENING Gertrude Bell, sometimes called the female 5:00 Secrets of Underground London 5:30 Nightly Business Report 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo “Lawrence of Arabia.” Bell was an explorer, spy, 5:30 WORLD POV: 93queen 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk TV-PG archaeologist and diplomat who helped shape 6:00 PBS NewsHour 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 the Middle East after World War I, then served 7:00 Nature “Nature’s Miracle Orphans: as advisor to Winston Churchill. PM EVENING Wild Lessons” Two-toed baby sloths 5:30 Nightly Business Report learn to be independent and a young 6:00 PBS NewsHour kangaroo is taught to socialize. TV-G 6:00 WORLD America ReFramed: Winter at 7:00 WORLD Frontline Westbeth 8:00 NOVA “Ultimate Cruise Ship” 7:00 Inventor of the Submarine: Pioneering shipbuilders endeavor John Philip Holland John Philip to build the ultimate cruise ship, the Holland was the Irish-born inventor Seven Seas Explorer. TV-G of the submarine. Unfortunately for 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour Holland, his remarkable invention 9:00 Dangerous Borders: A Journey was exploited by U.S. corporate Across India & Pakistan The interests, and his personal legacy town of Adipur, the cultural life of the was undermined and forgotten. TV-G metropolis of Karachi and the Thar

7:30 WORLD Beth Ames Swartz / Reminders Desert are explored. TV-PG of Invisible Light TV-G  See photo, p. 12 8:00 Letters from Baghdad Gertrude 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report Bell was an archaeologist and dip- 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G lomat who helped shape the Middle 10:00 BBC World News

East after World War I. TV-PG  See 10:00 WORLD POV: 93queen TV-PG story, p. 11 10:30 Amanpour and Company UNIVERSITY NEWCASTLE ARCHIVE, BELL GERTRUDE OF COURTESY 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 11:30 MotorWeek The Mercedes-Benz 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report CLS and the Subaru WRX STI Type

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11:30 WORLD Trezoros: The Lost Jews of Known as Montana’s Troubadour, 2:00 Dangerous Borders: A Journey Across Kastoria TV-PG Jack Gladstone’s stories and lyric India & Pakistan poetry bring to life the experience 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 THURSDAY DECEMBER 13 of the northwestern mountains and Nature: Nature’s Miracle Orphans: Wild Lessons AM EARLY MORNING plains. TV-G  See p. 5 3:00 WORLD Everyone Has a Place 7:00 WORLD Quietest Place on Earth mdnt Story in the Public Square: Caroline Orr TV-G 3:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Holidays: 12:30 NHK Newsline 8:00 Doc Martin “It’s Good to Talk” Mar- The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, pt 1 1:00 Inventor of the Submarine: tin’s therapist, Dr. Timoney, suggests 4:00 NOVA: Ultimate Cruise Ship John Philip Holland that Martin and Louisa should have 4:00 WORLD Gzero World with Ian Bremmer 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 4:30 WORLD Closer to Truth: therapy as a couple. TV-PG 2:00 Letters from Baghdad Can Metaphysics Discern God? pt 2 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 5:00 Dangerous Borders: 3:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules: 9:00 Unforgotten Season 1 On A Journey Across India & Pakistan Ethics at Work: Taking Advantage? Masterpiece “Episode 3” The 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 3:30 Frontline: Trafficked in America past catches up with the suspects 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 3:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: in Jimmy’s murder. A second cold 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 Ethics at Work: The Whistleblower case solves the mystery. TV-14 PM EVENING 4:00 WORLD Story in the Public Square: 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report Padma Venkatraman 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 5:30 Nightly Business Report 4:30 Letters from Baghdad 10:00 WORLD NOVA: Ultimate Cruise Ship TV-G 6:00 PBS NewsHour 4:30 WORLD Second Opinion: HIV 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 10:30 BBC World News 6:00 WORLD We’ll Meet Again Children 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 11:00 Amanpour and Company of WWII TV-PG 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 11:00 WORLD Impossible Builds: 7:00 Washington Week The Scorpion Tower TV-G 7:00 WORLD Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Imagina- PM EVENING tion & The Quest For Meaning TV-G 5:30 Nightly Business Report FRIDAY DECEMBER 14 7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 6:00 PBS NewsHour AM EARLY MORNING 6:00 WORLD Impossible Builds: 8:00 k.d. lang: Landmarks Live in mdnt Closer to Truth: New Visions of the Mind? The Scorpion Tower Concert: A Great Performances TV-G MDNT WORLD Quietest Place On Earth 7:00 11th & Grant with Eric Funk 12:30 NHK Newsline Special Singer-songwriter k.d. lang “Jack Gladstone” Oral tradition is the 1:00 NOVA: Ultimate Cruise Ship celebrates the 25th anniversary of resonant core within both Native 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour the album Ingenue in San Antonio. American and cowboy cultures. TV-PG  See story, p. 13 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 Graham Nash Live The legendary Graham Nash performs “Our House” and more hits spanning his stellar APT ONLINE APT career. TV-PG  See story, p. 13

9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 WORLD American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story TV-G 10:30 BBC World News 11:00 Amanpour and Company 11:00 WORLD We’ll Meet Again Children of WWII TV-PG

SATURDAY DECEMBER 15 AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Finding Your Roots: Unfamiliar Kin MDNT WORLD Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Imagination & the Quest for Meaning 1:00 On Story: Awkward Black Girl: A Conversation with Issa Rae 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 1:30 To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 2:00 Open Mind: Truth Decay in America Dangerous Borders 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30 This Is America & The World  Airs 9pm Wednesday, December 12, 19, 26 Also 12/14 2am, 5am; 12/21 2am, 5am; 12/28 2am, 5am 3:00 Washington Week British journalists Babita Sharma and Adnan Sarwar are on an epic trek along the still-con- 3:00 WORLD Quietest Place On Earth 3:30 tentious border that divides India and Pakistan. Seventy years after the partition of the two Market to Market 4:00 The This Old House Hour: Ramp Up the countries, the pair travels either side of the 2,000-mile border to discover the realities of the lives R Value | Crown Molding of those living there. 13 Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area

4:00 WORLD Second Opinion: HIV MDNT WORLD America ReFramed: 4:30 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack Winter at Westbeth 5:00 Yoga in Practice: Stand in Your Light 1:00 Nature: Nature’s Miracle Orphans: 5:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe Wild Lessons 5:30 Super Why! 1:30 WORLD Beth Ames Swartz / 5:30 WORLD Washington Week Reminders of Invisible Light 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23 2:00 Impossible Builds: The Scorpion Tower 2:00 WORLD Chaplains, pt 1 COURTESY OF CHRIS LEE CHRIS OF COURTESY PM EVENING 3:00 Sinking Cities: New York 3:00 WORLD Chaplains, pt 2 6:00 The Lawrence Welk Show 4:00 No Passport Required: Detroit “Salute to Nat King Cole (1973)” This 4:00 WORLD On Story: Psychological Thrillers program is a tribute to the songs of 4:30 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe Nat “King” Cole. “L-O-V-E” opens 5:00 Two for the Road: Texas: the show with a bang. TV-G Adventure in Big Bend 6:00 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales: 5:00 WORLD Washington Week 5:30 Curious George: Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G 6:30 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales: A Very Monkey Christmas 5:30 WORLD Open Mind Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G 7:00 Last of the Summer Wine 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23 Yoyo Ma, Jessica Zhou, and John Williams bow “Beware the Vanilla Slice” TV-PG PM AFTERNOON/EVENING following Williams’s Highwood’s Ghost, 8.25.18 7:00 WORLD Free: The Power of 3:00 Frank Capra Story: A Wonder- Performance in Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration TV-PG ful Life This documentary film by 7:31 Good Neighbors “The Pagan Rite” at Tanglewood Gene Koprowski examines the life of Bills are piling up and the Goods the filmmaker Frank Capra. TV-G LANDMARKS LIVE IN CONCERT: need a holiday. The Leadbetters 3:00 WORLD America ReFramed: A GREAT PERFORMANCES try to bring Tom and Barbara back Winter at Westbeth SPECIAL to their senses and invite them to a 3:30 Downton Abbey Season 5 On dinner with Tom’s ex-boss. k.d. lang Masterpiece “Episode 9” The 8:00 WORLD America ReFramed: Crawleys go to a shooting party  Airs 8pm Friday, December 14 Winter at Westbeth in Northumberland and return to Also 12/17 2:30am 8:02 MontanaPBS Film Classics Downton for Christmas. Celebrate the 25th anniversary of “Places in the Heart” A widowed TV-PG 4:30 WORLD Beth Ames Swartz / Ingenue, the critically acclaimed and mother fights for her cotton farm Reminders of Invisible Light TV-G Grammy Award-winning album by su- with a laborer and a blind boarder in 5:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules: perstar singer-songwriter k.d. lang, with  1930s Texas. TV-PG See photo, p. 14 Ethics at Work: Ask Why TV-G a one-night-only performance from the 9:30 WORLD Beth Ames Swartz / 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend magnificent Majestic Theater in down- Reminders of Invisible Light TV-G 5:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at town San Antonio, Texas. 9:55 11th & Grant with Eric Funk Work: The Run Coal Memos TV-G “Jack Gladstone” Oral tradition is the 6:00 Great American Railroad Jour- Graham Nash Live resonant core within both Native neys “Minneapolis to St. Paul” Mi- American and cowboy cultures. chael embarks on a new American  Airs 9:30pm Friday, December 14 Known as Montana’s Troubadour, rail journey that begins and finishes Also 12/17 4am Jack Gladstone’s stories and lyric on the Mississippi River. TV-PG The legendary Graham Nash performs poetry bring to life the experience 6:00 WORLD Nature: Nature’s Miracle Orphans: “Our House” and more hits spanning his of the northwestern mountains and Second Chances TV-G stellar career. plains. TV-G  See p. 5 7:00 Little Women On Masterpiece 10:00 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales: “Pt 1” With their father away at war GREAT PERFORMANCES Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy 10:30 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales: March come to terms with their Backstage with Rising Artists Leonard Bernstein TV-G new life. 10:53 Austin City Limits “Khalid/Mac TV-PG 7:00 WORLD Everest: A Climb for Peace Centennial Celebration Demarco” TV-G TV-PG 8:00 Victoria Season 2 On Master- 11:00 WORLD Free: The Power of at Tanglewood piece “A Soldier’s Daughter / The Performance TV-PG Green-Eyed Monster” New mother  Airs 8pm Friday, December 28 11:52 11th and Grant Classics “Jeff Victoria is impatient to return to Also 12/31 2:30am Troxel & Trevor Krieger: Chinauqpin ruling. Albert’s friendship with Ada Celebrate Leonard Bernstein’s 100th Hunting” Jeff Troxel and Tevor Krieg- Lovelace grows. birthday with this tribute concert at er showcase their distinctive blend of TV-PG 8:00 WORLD Doc World: Among the Tanglewood. Featuring the Boston Sym- Americana folk and fiddle tunes.TV-G Believers TV-PG phony Orchestra, the concert is hosted 9:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage Holidays: by Audra McDonald and includes guest SUNDAY DECEMBER 16 The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, pt 1 artists Midori, Yo-Yo Ma, Thomas Hamp- son and more. AM EARLY MORNING mdnt NOVA: Ultimate Cruise Ship 14 MONTANAPBS PROGRAM GUIDE

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10:00 Indian Summers On Masterpiece 2:30 k.d. lang: Landmarks Live in Concert: 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour “Pt 6” A mountaineer makes trouble. A Great Performances Special 9:00 Independent Lens “Man on Fire” 3:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Aafrin and Alice try to check their An elderly white Texas minister set Ethics at Work: Ask Why himself on fire to protest the virulent growing attraction. TV-14 3:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: racism of his community. 10:00 WORLD Nature: Nature’s Miracle Orphans: Ethics at Work: The Run Coal Memos TV-14-L  Second Chances TV-G 4:00 Graham Nash Live See photo, p. 16 11:00 Hollywood Idols “Marilyn Monroe: 4:00 WORLD Overheard with Evan Smith 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report Beyond the Legend” Many of Marilyn 4:30 WORLD Open Mind 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G Monroe’s great moments on film, 5:00 Live from the Artists Den: John Legend 10:00 BBC World News 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo archival footage and interviews are 10:00 WORLD Your Health: A Sacred Matter TV-G 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk showcased. TV-PG 10:30 Amanpour and Company 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 11:00 WORLD Everest: A Climb for Peace TV-G 11:30 Moveable Feast with Fine Cook- 11:30 Born to Explore with Richard PM EVENING ing “Polesine Parmense, Italy” Reci- Wiese “England: The Queen’s Swan” 5:30 Nightly Business Report pes include stuffed squash blossoms, Richard Wiese visits the Abbotsbury millefoglie of quinoa and roasted 6:00 PBS NewsHour Swannery in England and meets the Guinea hen. TV-G 7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Junk in the Queen’s Swan Warden. TV-G Trunk 8” Experience all-new and pre- TUESDAY DECEMBER 18 MONDAY DECEMBER 17 viously unaired Season 22 appraisals, including a purple sapphire ring. TV-G AM EARLY MORNING

AM EARLY MORNING 7:00 WORLD Bright Lights Little City TV-G mdnt Consuelo Mack WealthTrack mdnt Shakespeare Lost, Shakespeare Found 7:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage Holidays: MDNT WORLD Bright Lights Little City MDNT WORLD Doc World: Among the Believers The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, pt 2 12:30 NHK Newsline 12:30 Austin City Limits: Khalid/Mac Demarco 8:00 Christmas with the Mormon 12:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Holidays: 1:30 11th & Grant with Eric Funk: Tabernacle Choir Featuring Sut- The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, pt 2 Jack Gladstone 1:00 Victoria Season 2 On Masterpiece: A Sol- ton Foster The Mormon Tabernacle 1:30 WORLD Everyone Has a Place dier’s Daughter / The Green-Eyed Monster 2:00 WORLD American Conscience: Choir and more showcase seasonal 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour The Reinhold Niebuhr Story music, dance, storytelling and pag- 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company eantry. TV-G  See story, p. 3 3:00 Little Women On Masterpiece, pt 1 3:00 WORLD American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story 4:00 Victoria Season 2 On Masterpiece: A Sol- dier’s Daughter/The Green-Eyed Monster 4:00 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 4:30 WORLD Asia Insight 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

PM EVENING

COURTESY OF BAXTER MILLER 5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour

6:00 WORLD America ReFramed: Deej TV-PG 7:00 We’ll Meet Again “Great Alaskan Earthquake” Two Alaskans try to track down childhood friends who survived the state’s massive 1964

earthquake. TV-PG  See story, p. 15 7:00 WORLD Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago TV-G 8:00 Lidia Celebrates America “A Heartland Holiday Feast” Join Emmy and James Beard Award-winning chef Lidia Bastianich as she travels to the heartland of America, immersing herself in diverse cultures that pro-

vide inspiration for the holidays. TV-G  See story, p. 3 Places in the Heart 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour  Airs 8pm Saturday, December 15 Also 12/16 1pm 9:00 Frontline “The Gang Crackdown” Killings linked to the MS-13 gang A widowed mother (Sally Field) fights for her cotton and the crackdown that swept up farm with a laborer and a blind boarder (John Malkovich) in 1930s Texas. immigrant teens are investigated. 15 Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area

9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 11:30 MotorWeek The Nissan Altima and 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G the Honda Insight are showcased. 10:00 BBC World News TV-G 10:00 WORLD America ReFramed: Deej TV-PG 10:30 Amanpour and Company THURSDAY DECEMBER 20 11:00 WORLD Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago TV-G AM EARLY MORNING 11:30 Travelscope “Ireland: The West Is mdnt Story in the Public Square:

Best” Joseph visits the town of Daphne Matziaraki COURTESY OF DANNY KENDALL Shannon, the Dingle Peninsula and MDNT WORLD Frontline 12:30 NHK Newsline the Puck Festival in Killorglin. TV-G 1:00 Lidia Celebrates America: A Heartland Holiday Feast WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 We’ll Meet Again: AM EARLY MORNING Great Alaskan Earthquake mdnt Between the Lines with Barry Kibrick: 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company Marion Ross 3:00 Frontline: The Gang Crackdown MDNT WORLD American Conscience: 3:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story Ethics at Work: Ask Why 12:30 NHK Newsline 3:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: 1:00 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Ethics at Work: The Run Coal Memos Choir Featuring Sutton Foster 4:00 Lidia Celebrates America: 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour A Heartland Holiday Feast 2:00 Independent Lens: Man on Fire 4:00 WORLD Story in the Public Square: 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company Mark Blyth 3:00 Antiques Roadshow: Junk in the Trunk 8 4:30 WORLD Second Opinion: Caregiving Danny Kendall and Rudolph (Bucky) Svein in 3:00 WORLD Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Through Alzheimer’s Disease Great Alaskan Earthquake Imagination & The Quest For Meaning 5:00 We’ll Meet Again: 4:00 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Great Alaskan Earthquake Choir Featuring Sutton Foster 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 4:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 4:30 WORLD Between the Lines with Barry 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 Kibrick WE’LL MEET AGAIN 5:00 Independent Lens: Man On Fire PM EVENING Great Alaskan Earthquake 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:30 Nightly Business Report 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 PBS NewsHour  Airs 7pm Tuesday, December 18 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 Also 12/20 2am, 5am 6:00 WORLD Impossible Builds: PM EVENING Europe in the Desert TV-G Join Ann Curry as two Alaskans try to 5:30 Nightly Business Report 7:00 The Hard Way Inspirational track down childhood friends who also survived the state’s massive 1964 earth- 6:00 PBS NewsHour story of 89-year old trail runner Bob Hayes, who did things the hard way. quake. A woman wants to thank a friend 6:00 WORLD Independent Lens: and her mom for shielding her from harm, Man on Fire TV-G  See photo, p. 4 TV-14-L and a man searches for a former Little 7:00 WORLD Dinosaur Echo TV-G 7:00 Nature “Mystery Monkeys of Shan- League teammate. gri-La” A family of Yunnan snub-nosed 7:30 The World of K.D. Swan “Early monkeys living in the highest forests in 20th Century Photographer and Conservationist” This documentary the world are examined. TV-PG Other episodes of We’ll Meet Again 7:00 WORLD Frontline describes the establishment and early years of the national forests, 8:00 NOVA “Ghosts of Stonehenge” The  Children of WWII which today comprise almost 200 last decade of groundbreaking ar- 12/13 noon million acres and contain the last chaeological digs has revealed major remaining wildlands in the lower 48 new clues to Stonehenge.  Rescued from Mount St. Helens TV-PG states. The story is told through the 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 12/20 noon life and remarkable photographs of 9:00 Dangerous Borders: A Journey K.D. Swan.  Lost Children of Vietnam Across India & Pakistan The TV-G 7:30 WORLD POV Shorts: Earthrise 12/27 noon province of Punjab, along the volatile TV-PG-L 7:54 Montana Sessions “In the border that divides India and Pakistan, Sun” Halladay Quist sings “In the is explored.  See photo, p. 12 TV-PG Sun” along the shore of Flathead 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report Lake. TV-G 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 BBC World News 8:00 Doc Martin “Education, Education, Education” Louisa and Martin have 10:00 WORLD Faith in the Big House TV-G 10:30 Amanpour and Company their first therapy session and are surprised when they are given home- 11:00 WORLD Independent Lens: work. Man on Fire TV-14-L TV-PG 16 MONTANAPBS PROGRAM GUIDE

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8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 4:00 WORLD Gzero World with Ian Bremmer 10:00 WORLD Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer TV-G 9:00 Unforgotten Season 2 On Mas- 4:30 WORLD Closer to Truth: 10:30 Amanpour and Company What Is God’s Own Being? terpiece “Episode 1” A waterlogged 11:00 WORLD We’ll Meet Again: 5:00 Dangerous Borders: A Journey Across suitcase holds the remains of David Great Alaskan Earthquake TV-PG India & Pakistan Walker, 25 years after he disap- 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 11:30 Finding Your Roots “Puritans and peared. TV-PG 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk Pioneers” Actors Ted Danson, Mary 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 Steenburgen and William H. Macy 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G learn about their nonconformist 10:00 WORLD NOVA: Ghosts of PM EVENING ancestors. TV-PG Stonehenge TV-PG 5:30 Nightly Business Report 10:30 BBC World News 6:00 PBS NewsHour SATURDAY DECEMBER 22 11:00 Amanpour and Company 6:00 WORLD We’ll Meet Again: 11:00 WORLD Impossible Builds: AM EARLY MORNING Great Alaskan Earthquake TV-PG MDNT WORLD Sultan and the Saint Europe in the Desert TV-G 7:00 Washington Week 12:30 Overheard with Evan Smith: 7:00 WORLD Sultan and the Saint TV-PG-V Michael Avenatti, Attorney FRIDAY DECEMBER 21 7:30 Firing Line with Margaret 1:00 On Story: Saving Mr. Banks: Script to Screen AM EARLY MORNING Hoover 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour mdnt Closer to Truth: God’s Sovereignty: 8:00 Craft in America “California” 1:30 To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe A Tribute to Hugh McCann Explore craft practices definitively 2:00 Open Mind: Immigration, Dignity, and U.S. MDNT WORLD Dinosaur Echo Californian, including Native Ameri- Mexico Relations 12:30 NHK Newsline cans continuing traditions. 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 12:30 WORLD Pov Shorts: Earthrise TV-PG  See story, p. 17 2:30 This Is America & The World 1:00 NOVA: Ghosts of Stonehenge 3:00 Washington Week 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 3:00 WORLD Faith in the Big House 2:00 Dangerous Borders: A Journey Across 9:00 Craft in America “Visionaries” 3:30 Market to Market India & Pakistan Meet artists, curators and collectors 4:00 The This Old House Hour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company who envision limitless possibilities of 4:00 WORLD Second Opinion: Caregiving 3:00 Nature: Mystery Monkeys of Shangri-La craft.  See story, p. 17 Through Alzheimer’s Disease 3:00 WORLD Bright Lights Little City TV-PG 4:30 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 3:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Holidays: 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 5:00 Yoga in Practice: Cultivating Confidence The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, pt 2 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 5:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 4:00 NOVA: Ghosts of Stonehenge 10:00 BBC World News 5:30 Super Why! 5:30 WORLD Washington Week 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23

PM EVENING 6:00 The Lawrence Welk Show “Christmas (1966)” Celebrate Christ- mas as Lawrence sings”Jingle Bells” and the Lennon Sisters perform”Star

Carol.” TV-G 6:00 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales:

COURTESY OF THE MOORE FAMILY Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G 6:30 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales: Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G 7:00 Last of the Summer Wine

“Howard Throws a Wobbler” TV-PG

7:00 WORLD Getting to the Nutcracker TV-G 7:31 Good Neighbors “Backs to the Wall” On the day before harvest, Tom hurts his back and the weather goes bad, leaving Barbara three days to bring in the harvest before it rots.

8:00 WORLD America ReFramed: Deej TV-PG 8:02 The Great Escape The audacious escape of Allied airmen from a Nazi P.O.W. camp during World War II is Independent Lens: Man on Fire explored. TV-PG  Airs 9pm Monday, December 17 Also 12/19 2am, 5am 8:57 Real Sherlock Holmes Interviews, Learn the story of an elderly white Texas minister who set himself on fire to protest the virulent reconstructions and memorable racism of his community and the country at large. Friends, family members, neighbors and col- clips reveal the hidden side of Sher- leagues search for an explanation of his action. Pictured: Rev. Charles Moore lock Holmes’ legacy. TV-PG 17 Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area

9:00 WORLD Walking the Camino: 6:00 Great American Railroad Six Ways to Santiago TV-G Journeys “Red Wing, Minnesota to 9:51 Austin City Limits “Tom Waits” Portage, Wisconsin” Michael Portillo Iconic singer-songwriter Tom Waits continues his rail journey along the performs in this classic episode from Upper Mississippi to Red Wing, 1979. TV-PG Minnesota. TV-PG 10:00 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales: 6:00 WORLD Nature: Nature’s Miracle Orphans: Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G Wild Lessons TV-G 10:30 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales: 7:00 Little Women On Masterpiece Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G “Pt 2” Circumstances change for COURTESY OF MARK MARKLEY PHOTO 10:50 The Kate “Black Violin” The gifted Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy as the family duo skillfully combines classical with faces their most difficult challenge. hip-hop and tantalizes fans of both TV-PG genres. TV-PG 7:00 WORLD Craft in America: Holiday TV-G 11:00 WORLD Getting to the Nutcracker TV-G 8:00 Victoria Season 2 On Master- 11:50 11th and Grant Classics “Jeff piece “Warp and Weft/The Sins of Troxel & Trevor Krieger: Clash of the the Father” Discontent is growing in Tartans” Jeff Troxel and Tevor Krieger the country. Unexpected grief forces showcase their distinctive blend of Victoria to put childish things away. Americana folk, fiddle tunes and TV-PG innovative original work. TV-G 8:00 WORLD Doc World: Visitor’s Day 9:30 WORLD Bright Lights Little City TV-G SUNDAY DECEMBER 23 10:00 Indian Summers On Master- AM EARLY MORNING piece “Pt 7” A murder victim is found and a suspect confesses. Ian mdnt NOVA: Ghosts of Stonehenge Pomo basket weaver Corine Pearce. MDNT WORLD America ReFramed: Deej finds a cause and Aafrin is black- 1:00 Nature: Mystery Monkeys of Shangri-La mailed. TV-PG 1:00 WORLD Walking The Camino: 10:00 WORLD Nature: Nature’s Miracle Six Ways to Santiago Orphans: Wild Lessons TV-G 2:00 Impossible Builds: Europe in the Desert 11:00 Hollywood Idols “Steve McQueen: Craft in America 2:00 WORLD Into the Night: Portraits of Life Man on the Edge” The rise to icon and Death The tenth season of this series explores and the descent of Steve McQueen, 3:00 Sinking Cities: Tokyo the vitality, history and significance of the 4:00 No Passport Required: New Orleans one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, is craft movement in the United States and its 4:00 WORLD On Story: Script to Screen: Arrival showcased. TV-PG impact on our nation’s rich cultural heritage. 4:30 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 11:00 WORLD Craft in America: Holiday TV-G 5:00 Two for the Road: Peru: 11:30 Born to Explore with Richard  California Journey to Machu Picchu, pt 1 Wiese “Cyprus: Cleopatra’s Secret 12/21 8pm; 12/24 3am 5:00 WORLD Washington Week This episode explores craft practices 5:30 Curious George Island” Travel to the Mediterranean 5:30 WORLD Open Mind island nation of Cyprus, steeped in definitively Californian, from Native Americans continuing ancient traditions, 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23 ancient tales of love and intrigue. TV-G to contemporary artists expressing new PM AFTERNOON/EVENING MONDAY DECEMBER 24 iterations of the art of the handmade. 3:00 Downton Abbey Season 6 On Featuring Pomo basket weaver Corine Pearce, metalsmith Randy Stromsoe, the Masterpiece “Episode 1” Extortion AM EARLY MORNING Arts and Crafts architecture of Greene and downsizing threaten Downton mdnt Secrets of Althorp: The Spencers MDNT WORLD Doc World: Visitor’s Day and Greene, stained glass artists at Jud- Abbey and change is afoot at the 1:00 Austin City Limits: Tom Waits son Studios, and textile artist Deborah Cross. hospital. TV-PG 1:30 WORLD Bright Lights Little City 3:00 WORLD America ReFramed: Deej TV-PG 2:00 The Hard Way  Visionaries 4:00 WORLD Walking the Camino: 2:00 WORLD Craft in America: Community 12/21 9pm; 12/24 4am Six Ways to Santiago TV-G 2:30 The World of K.D. Swan: Early 20th Meet artists, curators and collectors who Century Photographer and Conservationist 4:25 Downton Abbey Season 6 On envision limitless possibilities of craft and 3:00 Craft in America: California Masterpiece “Episode 2” Wedding imagine new methods of achieving that plans hit a snag, pigs lead to trouble 3:00 WORLD Everyone Has A Place 3:30 WORLD Crisis of Faith vision. Featuring textile designer and for Edith and Marigold and Thomas 4:00 Craft in America: Visionaries founder of LongHouse Reserve Jack gets a hint. TV-PG 4:00 WORLD Overheard with Evan Smith Lenor Larsen, curator Helen Molesworth 5:00 WORLD Everyone Has a Place TV-G 4:30 WORLD Open Mind and Black Mountain College, fiber artist 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:00 Live from the Artists Den: OneRepublic Kay Sekimachi, collector Forrest L. Merrill, 5:00 WORLD Global 3000 5:30 WORLD Crisis of Faith TV-G and book artist Felicia Rice. 5:30 WORLD Focus On Europe 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 18 MONTANAPBS PROGRAM GUIDE

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PM EVENING 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 4:00 Victoria Season 2 On Masterpiece: Warp and Weft/The Sins of the Father 5:30 Nightly Business Report 10:00 BBC World News 10:00 WORLD Three Faiths, One God: Judaism, 4:00 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 6:00 PBS NewsHour 4:30 WORLD Asia Insight Christianity, Islam TV-PG 6:00 WORLD Three Faiths, One God: Judaism, 10:30 Amanpour and Company 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo Christianity, Islam TV-PG 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 11:00 WORLD Three Faiths, One God: Judaism, 7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Greatest 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 Christianity, Islam TV-PG Gifts” Items that guests received 11:30 Christmas at Susquehanna: PM AFTERNOON/EVENING as presents include a Louis The 50th Anniversary Can- Comfort Tiffany necklace and 3:00 Jim Brickman: A Joyful delight Service This wondrous Christmas Jim Brickman showcas- a Fender bass. TV-G spectacle features candle lighting, 7:00 WORLD POV Shorts: es spirit of the season with carols, carols and songs in celebration of Christmas classics and original Hindsight Is 20/20 TV-PG the season. TV-G 7:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: songs. TV-G Holiday Horror TV-PG 6:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Dreaming of a Jewish TUESDAY DECEMBER 25 6:00 WORLD America ReFramed: Christmas This documentary tells AM EARLY MORNING Through the Repellent Fence the story of the unlikely Jewish immi- MDNT WORLD POV Shorts: Hindsight is 20/20 7:00 Christmas with the Mormon grants who wrote popular Christmas 12:30 NHK Newsline Tabernacle Choir Featuring music. TV-PG 12:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Sutton Foster The Mormon Taber- 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour Holiday Horror nacle Choir and more showcase 9:00 Christmas with the Mormon 1:00 Victoria Season 2 On Masterpiece: seasonal music, dance, storytelling Warp and Weft/The Sins of the Father Tabernacle Choir Featuring and pageantry.  See story, p. 3 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour TV-G Sutton Foster The Mormon Taber- 7:00 WORLD Let There Be Light 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company TV-G nacle Choir and more showcase 3:00 Little Women On Masterpiece, pt 2 8:00 Call the Midwife Holiday seasonal music, dance, storytelling 3:00 WORLD Dinosaur Echo Special A new nun and four Chi- and pageantry. TV-G 3:30 WORLD POV Shorts: Earthrise nese orphans arrive unexpectedly at 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report Nonnatus House causing both joy

and chaos. TV-14  See story, p. 3 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 Christmas at Concordia: Gather Us In, O Child of APT ONLINE APT Peace Concordia College re-imag- ines the Christmas message with music embracing peace and recon-

ciliation. TV-G

9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 WORLD America ReFramed: Through the Repellent Fence 10:30 BBC World News 11:00 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring Sutton Foster The Mormon Taber- nacle Choir and more showcase seasonal music, dance, storytelling

and pageantry. TV-G  See story, p. 3 11:00 WORLD Gandhi’s Awakening & Gandhi’s Gift Gandhi’s Awakening TV-PG

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 26 AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Hope College Christmas Vespers MDNT WORLD Gandhi’s Awakening & Gandhi’s Gift: Gandhi’s Gift 1:00 Independent Lens: A Ballerina’s Tale The Wrecking Crew 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle  Airs 8pm Saturday, December 29 Also 12/30 1pm Choir Featuring Sutton Foster Known as the performers behind Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound,” the Wrecking Crew was a 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company group of Los Angeles-based studio musicians from the 1960s who played on hits for the Beach 3:00 Antiques Roadshow: Greatest Gifts 3:00 WORLD Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer Boys, Frank Sinatra, Sonny and Cher, The Mamas and the Papas, and more. 4:00 Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas 19 Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area

4:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 6:00 WORLD Impossible Builds: 4:30 WORLD Between the Lines with The Floating House TV-G Barry Kibrick 7:00 11th & Grant with Eric Funk 5:00 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle “Jeff Troxel & Trevor Krieger” Jeff Choir Featuring Sutton Foster Troxel and Tevor Krieger showcase 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo

5:40 WORLD Direct Talk their distinctive blend of Americana NASA OF COURTESY 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 folk and fiddle tunes paired with innovative original work. Experience PM EVENING Troxel’s homegrown guitar sounds 5:30 Nightly Business Report with Krieger’s energetic fiddling. TV-G 6:00 PBS NewsHour  See p. 5 7:00 WORLD Tesla: American Experience 6:30 WORLD Independent Lens: TV-G 8:00 Doc Martin “Control-Alt-Delete” Af- The Armor of Light TV-PG 7:00 Nature “H is for Hawk: A New ter being followed around by Buddy, Chapter” Author Helen Macdonald Martin manages to offload the dog follows a family of goshawks in the to a local vet. TV-PG 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour wild and raises one of her own. TV-PG 9:00 Unforgotten Season 2 On Mas- 8:00 NOVA “Apollo’s Daring Mission” TV- terpiece “Episode 2” The victim’s PG life comes into focus and it was a 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour mess. Meanwhile, Sara’s scandalous 9:00 Dangerous Borders: A Journey past is revealed. Across India & Pakistan The TV-14 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report state of Jammu and Kashmir, a trip 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G on the Jammu Express and Sri Mata 10:00 WORLD NOVA: Apollo’s Daring Mission Vaishno Devi are featured. TV-PG TV-PG  See story, p. 12 10:30 BBC World News 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour and Company Commander Frank Borman leads the way for 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 BBC World News 11:00 WORLD Impossible Builds: fellow astronauts Jim Lovell and Bill Anders The Floating House TV-G 10:00 WORLD Independent Lens: as they leave the suit up room for the launch The Armor of Light TV-PG pad for the Apollo 8 mission. 10:30 Amanpour and Company FRIDAY DECEMBER 28 11:30 MotorWeek The BMW X4 and the AM EARLY MORNING Chevrolet Silverado are highlighted. mdnt Closer to Truth: Analytic Theology N OVA MDNT WORLD Tesla: American Experience TV-G 12:30 NHK Newsline 11:30 WORLD Jewish Film Showcase: Apollo’s Daring Mission 1:00 NOVA: Apollo’s Daring Mission Raise the Roof TV-G 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour  Airs 8pm Wednesday, December 26 2:00 Dangerous Borders: India & Pakistan Also 12/28 1am, 4am; 12/30 mdnt; 12/31 noon THURSDAY DECEMBER 27 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company WORLD 12/27 5pm, 10pm; 12/28 6am, noon 3:00 Nature: H is for Hawk: A New Chapter AM EARLY MORNING 3:00 WORLD POV Shorts: Hindsight Is 20/20 Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the mdnt Story in the Public Square: 3:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: inside story of Apollo 8, the first manned Julian Chambliss Holiday Horror mission to the moon. The U.S. space pro- 12:30 NHK Newsline 4:00 NOVA: Apollo’s Daring Mission gram suffered a bitter setback when Apollo 1:00 Call the Midwife Holiday Special 4:00 WORLD Gzero World with Ian Bremmer 1 ended in a deadly fire during a pre-launch 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 4:30 WORLD Closer to Truth: Huston Smith: run-through. In disarray, and threatened by 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company Tribute to a Religious Visionary 2:30 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle the prospect of a Soviet Union victory in the 5:00 Dangerous Borders: A Journey Across space race, NASA decided upon a radical Choir featuring Sutton Foster India & Pakistan 3:00 WORLD Everyone Has A Place and risky change of plan: turn Apollo 8 from 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 3:30 Call the Midwife Holiday Special 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk an earth-orbit mission into a daring sprint 3:30 WORLD Crisis of Faith to the moon while relying on untried new 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 4:00 WORLD Story in the Public Square: technologies. Suddenly everything hinged Alan Lightman PM EVENING on Apollo 8. Fifty years after the historic mis- 4:30 WORLD Second Opinion: Alcoholism 5:30 Nightly Business Report sion, the Apollo 8 astronauts and engineers 5:00 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle recount the feats of engineering that paved Choir featuring Sutton Foster 6:00 PBS NewsHour the way to the moon. 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 6:00 WORLD We’ll Meet Again: Korean War 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk Brothers In Arms TV-PG 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 7:00 Washington Week PM EVENING 7:00 WORLD Mark Twain’s Journey to Jerusalem: Dreamland 5:30 Nightly Business Report TV-G 7:30 Firing Line with Margaret 6:00 PBS NewsHour Hoover 20 MONTANAPBS PROGRAM GUIDE

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8:00 Great Performances “Leonard 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company proving Tom and Barbara’s mettle. 2:30 Bernstein Centennial Celebration This Is America & The World But they must now face the really 3:00 Washington Week tough problem—selling the surplus at Tangle” The Boston Symphony 3:00 WORLD Monks of Vina at market. Orchestra and guests celebrate 3:30 Market to Market Leonard Bernstein in this concert at 4:00 The This Old House Hour 8:00 WORLD America ReFramed: Through the Repellent Fence Tanglewood. TV-G  See story, p. 13 4:00 WORLD Second Opinion: Alcoholism 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 4:30 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 8:02 The Wrecking Crew This collec- 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 5:00 Yoga in Practice tive of session musicians played on 5:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G many hit rock and pop records in 10:00 WORLD 5:30 Super Why! Pacific Heartbeat: the 1960s and 1970s. TV-PG  See 5:30 WORLD Washington Week Waiting for John TV-G photo, 18 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23 10:30 BBC World News 9:00 WORLD Let There Be Light TV-G 11:00 Amanpour and Company PM EVENING 9:30 11th & Grant with Eric Funk 11:00 WORLD We’ll Meet Again: 6:00 The Lawrence Welk Show “Jeff Troxel & Trevor Krieger” Jeff Korean War Brothers in Arms TV-PG “New Year’s (1970)” “Auld Lang Troxel and Tevor Krieger showcase Syne,” “Moonlight and Roses” and their distinctive blend of Americana SATURDAY DECEMBER 29 “Let’s Start the New Year Right” are folk and fiddle tunes paired with innovative original work. Experience AM EARLY MORNING performed. TV-G Troxel’s homegrown guitar sounds mdnt Finding Your Roots: The Vanguard 6:00 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales: with Krieger’s energetic fiddling. TV-G MDNT WORLD Mark Twain’s Journey to Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G  Jerusalem: Dreamland 6:30 WORLD Some Kind of Spark TV-G See p. 5 1:00 On Story: Script to Screen: The Revenant 7:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:00 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales: 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G “The Phantom No. 14 Bus” TV-PG 1:30 To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 10:30 Austin City Limits “Iggy Pop” A 7:31 Good Neighbors “Just My Bill” The 2:00 Open Mind: Truth and Lies of Education thrilling hour with rock legend Iggy harvest has been safely gathered in, Pop features classic songs and

newer tunes. TV-PG

10:30 WORLD Some Kind of Spark TV-G 11:30 The Lowertown Line “Communist Daughter” Communist Daugh- ter performs indie folk pop rock. Singers Johnny and Molly Solomon reminisce about how they met and

their struggles. TV-PG

SUNDAY DECEMBER 30 AM EARLY MORNING mdnt NOVA: Apollo’s Daring Mission MDNT WORLD America ReFramed: Through the Repellent Fence 1:00 Nature: H is for Hawk: A New Chapter 1:00 WORLD Let There Be Light 2:00 Impossible Builds: The Floating House 2:00 WORLD Gandhi’s Awakening & Gandhi’s COURTESY OF MASTERPIECE ON PBS, BBC AND PLAYGROUND Gift: Gandhi’s Awakening 3:00 Sinking Cities: London 3:00 WORLD Gandhi’s Awakening & Gandhi’s Gift: Gandhi’s Gift 4:00 No Passport Required: Chicago 4:00 WORLD On Story: A Conversation with Robert Townsend 4:30 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:00 Two for the Road: Peru: Journey to Machu Picchu, pt 2 5:00 WORLD Washington Week 5:30 Curious George 5:30 WORLD Open Mind Little Women on Masterpiece 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23  Airs 7pm Sundays, December 16, 23, 30 As engaging today as in 1868, Louisa May Alcott’s story follows sisters Jo (Maya Hawke), Meg (Willa Fitzgerald), Beth (Annes Elwy) and Amy (Kathryn Newton) who, together with Laurie (Jo- nah Hauer-King), journey to adulthood. The cast also includes Emily Watson, Angela Lansbury, Dylan Baker and Michael Gambon. 21 Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area

PM AFTERNOON/EVENING MONDAY DECEMBER 31 3:00 WORLD America ReFramed: AM EARLY MORNING Through the Repellent Fence 3:30 Downton Abbey Season 6 On mdnt Secrets of Highclere Castle 12:30 WORLD POV: The War to Be Her Masterpiece “Episode 3” A wed- 1:00 Austin City Limits: Iggy Pop ding dress drama takes a disastrous 2:00 When the World Answered turn and the hospital debate gets 2:00 WORLD Mark Twain’s Journey to Jerusa-

nasty. TV-PG lem: Dreamland 2:30 4:00 WORLD Let There Be Light TV-G Great Performances: Leonard Bernstein 4:23 Downton Abbey Season 6 On Centennial Celebration at Tangle 3:00 WORLD Fire in the Forest: The Life and Masterpiece “Episode 4” Miss Bax- Legacy of the Ba’al Shem Tov ter faces a dilemma, Anna and Mary 4:00 WORLD Overheard with Evan Smith rush to London and Daisy continues 4:30 WORLD Open Mind to press her case. TV-PG 5:00 Live from the Artists Den: 5:00 WORLD Fire in the Forest: The Life and Lady Antebellum 5:00 WORLD Global 3000 Legacy of the Ba’al Shem Tov TV-G 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:30 WORLD Focus On Europe 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

6:00 Great American Railroad COURTESY OF KLRU-TV/AUSTIN CITY LIMITS. PHOTO SCOTT BY NEWTON Journeys “Milwaukee to Chicago” PM EVENING Michael Portillo visits interesting 5:30 Nightly Business Report sites in Milwaukee and learns about 6:00 PBS NewsHour modern Chicago’s skyline. TV-PG 6:00 WORLD Nature: Mystery Monkeys of 7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Junk in the Trunk 5, pt 1” NASA signed photos Shangri-La TV-PG 7:00 Little Women On Masterpiece and a Chinese jadeite peach-form bowl from around 1900 are ap- “Pt 3” TV-PG 7:00 WORLD Great Performances Harold praised. TV-G 7:00 WORLD POV Shorts: Positive Prince: The Director’s Life TV-PG 8:00 Victoria Season 2 On Master- Images TV-PG 7:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage Road Trip piece “Entente Cordiale” Victoria decides to try her hand at foreign 8:00 Live from Lincoln Center “New Elvis Costello performs in the special, as Roy relations and takes the royal court to York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve Orbison, Rosanne Cash and the Neville Broth- France. with Renee Fleming” The New York ers are inducted into the ACL Hall of Fame. TV-PG Philharmonic and Renee Fleming 8:30 WORLD POV: The War to Be Her TV-PG celebrate the intersection of classical 9:00 Victoria Season 2 On Master- music and dance. TV-PG NEW YEAR’S PROGRAMMING piece “Faith, Hope & Charity” News 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour of the famine in Ireland reaches the 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER queen. Victoria meets opposition 9:30 ACL Hall of Fame New Year’s from her prime minister. TV-PG Eve Boz Scaggs, Gary Clark Jr., New York Philharmonic 10:00 Indian Summers On Master- Norah Jones and more celebrate New Year’s Eve with piece “Pt 8” While Simla citizens Ray Charles, Los Lobos and Marcia look on, Ramu is tried for Jaya’s Ball. TV-PG Renee Flemming murder. Leena and Ian come to his 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G  Airs 8:00pm Monday, December 31 defense. TV-PG 10:00 WORLD Buddha TV-G Also 1/2 1:00am, 4:30am 10:00 WORLD Nature: Mystery Monkeys of 10:30 BBC World News Shangri-La TV-PG 10:59 Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague 11:00 Hollywood Idols “Anthony Quinn: Film composer Hans Zimmer ACL Hall of Fame An Original” Anthony Quinn tells his performs with the Czech National own fascinating story, with help from Symphonic Orchestra and a choir. New Year’s Eve other actors and family. TV-PG TV-G  11:00 WORLD Great Performances Harold Airs 9:30pm Monday, December 31 Also 1/1 mdnt, 1/2 2:30am Prince: The Director’s Life TV-PG 11:30 Born to Explore with Richard Celebrate New Year’s Eve as Bonnie Raitt, Wiese “Namibia: Painted People of B.B. King and Kris Kristofferson are inducted the Desert” Wiese travels to the Na- into the Hall of Fame. Performers include mib Desert to meet members of the Willie Nelson, Rodney Crowell, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons and more. Hosted by Nick Offerman African Himba tribe in Namibia. TV-G and Megan Mullally. 22 MONTANAPBS PROGRAM GUIDE MontanaPBS Programming Grids Weekday Programs

TIME MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY MORNING

6:00 am Classical Stretch: Priscilla’s Yoga Classical Stretch: Priscilla’s Yoga Classical Stretch: By Essentrics Stretches By Essentrics Stretches By Essentrics 6am exercise shows pre-empted by pledge programming on December 3–7

6:30am–10am · Ready to Learn Children’s Programs See page 24.

10:30 am Sit and Be Fit Classical Stretch: Sit and Be Fit Classical Stretch: Sit and Be Fit 12/3 Doo Wop Genera- Esmonde Technique Esmonde Technique 12/7 Montana on tions: My Music 12/25 Christmastime in 12/6 Rock, Rhythm & My Mind New Orleans Doo Wop

11:00 am Great British Baking Martha Bakes Food Over 50 Simply Ming Ciao Italia Show 12/4 The Migraine 12/5 The Tenors’ Fan Solution Favorites 12/25 Lidia Celebrates America: A Heartland Holiday Feast

11:30 am Close to Home Expeditions with Articulate with Desert Speaks 12/18 Empowered Patient Patrick McMillan Jim Cotter 12/28 Changing Seas begins NOON AND AFTERNOON NOON 12/10 NOVA: Bombing Healing Quest 12/12 Inventor of the Sub- 12/13 We’ll Meet Again 12/7 Rolling Stones: Hitler’s Supergun 12/25 Christmas with marine: John Philip Holland begins Sticky Fingers at the Fonda 12/17 NOVA: Ultimate the Mormon Tabernacle 12/19 Amazing Human Theatre Cruise Ship Choir featuring Sutton Foster Body: Grow 12/14 Nature: Nature’s Mira- 12/24 NOVA: Ghosts of and Hugh Bonneville 12/26 Amazing Human cle Orphans: Wild Lessons Stonehenge Body: Survive 12/21 Nature: Mystery 12/31 NOVA: Apollo’s Monkeys of Shangri-La 12:30 pm 12/4 Neil Diamond: Hot 12/5 Rhythm of the 12/6 My Grandpa’s Daring Mission August Night III Dance Fiddle 12/28 Nature: H is fo rHawk: A New Chapter 12/11 Losing Lambert: A Journey Through Survival & Hope 12/18 Power Over Parkinson’s

1:00 pm Painting and Travel The Best of the Paint This with Painting with Wilson Make: Joy of Painting with Jerry Yarnell Bickford with Roger & Sarah 12/28 Color World Bansemer Bob Ross with Gary Spetz 12/3 Christmas with 12/25 St. Thomas Christ- Daniel O’Donnell mas: So Bright the Star begins

1:30 pm Quilt in a Day It's Sew Easy Fons & Porter’s Love 12/13 Knit and Cro- Quilting Arts of Quilting chet Now begins

2pm–5pm · Ready to Learn Children’s Programs See page 24.

For the MPAN channel number in your community, see p. 2, or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area Montana Public Affairs Network

Montana Public Affairs Network (MPAN) is a state government broadcasting service that provides gavel-to-gavel, unedited coverage of legislative proceedings, both during and between sessions of the Legislature. Viewers are invited to watch floor sessions and committee meetings live and on delayed telecasts. In addition to legislative proceedings, MPAN provides live and pre-recorded coverage of a variety of other State Agency activities, as well as other public-interest programming. Visit: www.leg.mt.gov 23 Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area Weekend Programs SATURDAY SUNDAY AM AM 5:30 Super Why! 5:30 Curious George 6:00 Dinosaur Train 6:00 Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! 6:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 6:30 Sesame Street 7:00 Splash and Bubbles 7:00 Peg + Cat 7:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 7:30 Arthur 8:00 Cyberchase 8:00 Market to Market 8:30 Ready Jet Go! 12/2 The Migraine Solution 9:00 Let’s Go Luna! 12/9 Stories from the Vietnam War 9:30 Wild Kratts 8:30 America’s Heartland 9:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Increase Your Impact 10:00 P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home 12/9 A Conversation with Bill Moyers 12/8 Rick Steves’ Delicious Europe 9:30 Consuelo Mack WealthTrack with Tax-Wise Giving 10:30 Garden SMART 12/2 Alone in the Wilderness 12/8 My Grandpa’s Fiddle 10:00 12/16 Jailed for Their Words 11:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Montana Endowment 12/23 The Hard Way Cook’s Illustrated 12/30 Yes to Running: Bill Harley Live Tax Credit 12/1 Peter, Paul and Mary at Newport 10:30 12/9 Perry Como Classics: Till the End of 1963–1965 Time What if there was a way to get up 12/29 Christopher Kimball’s Milk 12/23 The World of K.D. Swan to a $10,000 credit on your taxes? Street Television begins 11:00 Montana Ag Live See p. 5 What if by getting this credit, you’d 11:30 This Old House 12/2 Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like not only benefit, but so would your PM PM community? noon Ask This Old House noon Clunes: Islands of Australia 12/8 Chet Atkins: Certified Guitar Player 12/9 Christmas with Daniel O’Donnell The Montana Endowment Tax 12:30 Rough Cut with Fine Woodworking 12:30 12/2 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for Credit (METC) is a special benefit 12/1 The Migraine Solution You for Montana taxpayers who make 1:00 Woodsmith Shop 1:00 12/9 Andre Rieu: Waltzing Forever a planned gift to a charitable 1:30 Best of Sewing with Nancy MontanaPBS Film Classics endowment in Montana. 12/8 The Great Fals Story 12/16 Places in the Heart 12/23 The Great Escape 2:00 Destination Craft with Jim West With the METC, you can receive a tax 12/30 The Wrecking Crew 12/1 Rick Steves’ Europe: Great German credit of 40 percent of a qualifying Cities 1:57 12/23 Real Sherlock Holmes planned gift, up to $10,000, that will 2:30 Make it Artsy 2:30 12/2 Glacier Park Remembered be deducted from your income tax 12/9 The Big Band Years: My Music 3:00 Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope liability. 12/30 William Shatner Presents: Chaos on 12/8 Rick Steves Special: European the Bridge Christmas Planned gifts that qualify for the 3:00 12/16 Frank Capra Story: A Wonderful Life METC include: 3:30 Rudy Maxa’s World 12/23 Masterpiece: Downton Abbey 4:00 Stephen Raichlen’s Project Smoke 3:30 12/16, 12/30 Masterpiece: Downton Abbey • Charitable Gift Annuity 12/1 Welk Stars: Through the Years 4:00 12/2 Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller: • Charitable Remainder Trust 4:30 12/15 Legends of Airpower begins The War • Paid-up life insurance policy 5:00 12/8 The Highwaymen Live at Nassau 4:30 12/9 Backroads of Montana Special • Retained life estate Coliseum Presentation: The Collections Backroads of Montana 12/23, 12/30 Masterpiece: Downton Abbey For more information on how 12/15 Collecting Memories 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 12/22 Capitol Rock & Community Folk you can increase your impact 12/2 History of Glacier National 12/29 Rockets, Peaks and Poets Park: Crown of the Continent with the METC, please contact: 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:00 Check daily listings, pp. 6–21 6:00 Check daily listings, pp. 6–21 Elise Peterson 406-994-6221 [email protected] *See descriptions, pp. 4–5 24 MONTANAPBS PROGRAM GUIDE MontanaPBS Children’s Programming

MontanaPBS Kids Find more children's programming on the PBSKids Channel. Primary HD Channel  Check listings on page 29.

AM Weekdays 6:30 Wild Kratts 12/25 Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas 7:00 Ready Jet Go! 7:30 Curious George 12/25 Let’s Go Luna! Luna’s Christmas Around the World 8:00 Let’s Go Luna! 8:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 9:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood COURTESY OF © LATW PRODUCTIONS INC. 9:30 Sesame Street Celebrate the Season 10:00 Splash and Bubbles with your PBS KIDS friends

PM Weekdays Holiday Specials All Month Long

Also on 2:00 The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot VIDEO

About That! PBS KIDS and the PBS KIDS Logo are registered trademarks of Public Broadcasting Service. Used with permission. DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD © 2012 The Fred Rogers Company. All rights reserved. Wild Kratts® © 2018 Kratt Brothers Co. Ltd./ 9 Story Media Group Inc. Wild Kratts®, Creature Power® are owned by Kratt Brothers Company Ltd. All rights reserved. PEG + CAT © 2018 Feline Features LLC. All rights reserved. THE CAT IN THE HAT KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THAT! © 2018, CITH Productions, Inc. and Red Hat Animation Ltd. Underlying characters © 1957, 1985 Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. LUNA ©LATW Productions Inc. All rights reserved. 2:30 Let’s Go Luna! MontanaPBS-HD Kids specials: 3:00 Nature Cat PBS Kids Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas 6:30am on 12/10, 12/14, 12/18, 12/24 & 12/25 3:30 Peg + Cat Holiday Marathon Curious George: A Very Monkey Christ- 4:00 Arthur December 21–23 mas 7:30am on 12/10, 12/12, 12/19 & 12/24 4:30 Odd Squad Watch PBS Kids Family Night as the Cat in Let’s Go Luna!: Luna’s Christmas Around 5:00 Odd Squad the Hat, Sally and Nick journey to Freeze- the World 12/10 at 8:30am & 2pm; 12/12 at Your-Knees Snowland in a winter adventure. 2:30pm; 12/14 at 8am & 3pm; 12/20 at 8am; You can play around in the snow (and wind Weekend children’s programs are rated 12/22 at 9am; 12/24 at 8:30am & 3pm 12/25 and rain) when you check out Thing One and at 7:30am tv-y unless otherwise indicated, and air Thing Two’s WEATHER TRANSFORMER at Saturdays from 5:30am to 10am and pbskids.org. Peg + Cat + Holidays 12/10 at 3pm; 12/13 Sundays from 5:30am to 8am. at 3:30pm 12/16 at 6:30am 12/24 at 9:30am Even if it doesn’t look like there will be snow Arthur’s Perfect Christmas 12/10 at 4pm; for Christmas where you live, you can make 12/11 at 3:30 pm; 12/23 at 7am; 12/24 at 4pm your own snowflakes at home using a DIY ac- The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About tivity from PBS Parents (with the help of some Christmas! 12/14 at 2pm; 12/23 at 6am; construction paper and cotton swabs). 12/24 at 2pm

Parental Guidelines Let’s Go Luna! Christmas Around the World TV-Y All children December 14–16 TV–Y7 Children age 7 and over Luna’s busy travelling around the world with TV–G General audience her friends Andy, Carmen and Leo in the global Christmas adventure, Let’s Go Luna! Christmas TV–PG Parental guidance suggested: Around the World on this weekend’s PBS Kids –V violence Family Night. You can catch a sneak peek, play games, and learn more about the characters at –S some sexual situations COURTESY OF © LATW PRODUCTIONS INC. pbskids.org/luna. –L infrequent coarse language If you’re inspired by this weekend’s PBS Kids –D suggestive sexual dialogue Family Night special, Let’s Go Luna! Christmas TV–14 Parents strongly cautioned Around the World, you can find out more about how Christmas is celebrated in countries around TV-MA Mature audience only the world with suggestions at pbskids.org/luna. 25 Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area Made in Montana, see pp. 4-5 MontanaPBS & MontanaPBS

11th and Grant Classics Jeff Backroads of Montana Collecting 9:30pm Doc World WORLD Among the Believers Troxel & Trevor Krieger: Chinauqpin Memories 12/15 5pm • Capitol Rock & Christmas at Susquehanna: The 12/16 8pm; 12/17 mdnt, 8am • Visitor’s Hunting 12/15 11:52pm • Jeff Troxel & Community Folk 12/22 5pm • Rockets, 50th Anniversary Candelight Ser- Day 12/23 8pm; 12/24 mdnt, 8am Trevor Krieger: Clash of the Tartans 12/22 Peaks and Poets 12/29 5pm vice 12/24 11:30pm Donny Osmond: One Night Only! 11:50pm Backroads of Montana Special Christmas in Christ Chapel at 12/3 10:45pm 11th & Grant with Eric Funk Jack Presentation The Collections 12/1 6pm; Gustavus 12/25 4pm Doo Wop Generations: My Music Gladstone 12/13 7pm; 12/15 9:55pm; 12/2 2:30am; 12/9 4:30pm Christmastime in New Orleans 12/3 10:30am 12/17 1:30am • Jeff Troxel & Trevor BBC World News Wed 10pm; Mon, Tue, 12/25 10:30am Downton Abbey Season 5 On Krieger 12/27 7pm; 12/29 9:30pm Thu, Fri 10:30pm Christmas with Daniel O’Donnell Masterpiece Episode 9 12/16 3:30pm The Beatles: Eight Days A Week: The 12/3 1pm; 12/9 noon Downton Abbey Season 6 On A B Touring Years 12/8 6:30pm Christmas with the Mormon Masterpiece Episode 1 12/23 3pm • Best of Sewing with Nancy Sat 1:30pm Tabernacle Choir Featuring Sutton Episode 2 12/23 4:25pm • Episode 3 ACL Hall of Fame New Year’s Eve Best of the Joy of Painting Crimson Foster 12/17 8pm; 12/19 1am, 4am; 12/30 3:30pm • Episode 4 12/30 4:23pm 12/31 9:30pm Tide 12/11 1pm • Triple View 12/18 1pm 12/24 9pm; 12/25 noon, 7pm, 11pm; Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas Aging Backwards 2 with Miranda Beth Ames Swartz / Reminders of 12/26 2am, 5am; 12/27 2:30am, 5am 12/24 8pm; 12/26 4am Esmonde-White WORLD 12/6 4pm, Invisible Light WORLD 12/11 7:30pm, Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street DW News WORLD Mon-Fri 3:30pm 7pm; 12/7 mdnt, 8am, 2pm; 12/9 3am; 11:30pm; 12/12 7:30am, 1:30pm; 12/15 Television Homecooking, Chinese Style 12/10 2am 9:30pm; 12/16 1:30am, 8:30am, 4:30pm 12/29 11am E F G Alone in the Wilderness 12/2 9:30am Between the Lines with Barry Kibrick Ciao Italia Fri 11am Amanpour and Company Wed 10:30pm; Elgin Baylor 12/12 mdnt • Marion Ross Classical Stretch: By Essentrics Easy Yoga for Diabetes with Peggy Cappy 12/4 5:30am Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 11pm WORLD Tue-Sat 12/19 mdnt WORLD Sun 9am, 9:30am; Mon, Wed, Fri 6am 2am; Mon-Fri 10am Wed 4:30am, 11:30am Classical Stretch: The Esmonde Easy Yoga: Secret to Strength and Amazing Human Body Grow 12/19 noon Big Band Years 12/9 2:30pm Technique Tue & Thu 10:30am Balance w/Peggy Cappy 12/8 4:30am • Survive 12/26 noon Black America Since MLK: And Still I Closer to Truth Fri mdnt WORLD Fri Empowered Patient 12/18 11:30am Everest: A Climb for Peace WORLD American Conscience: The Reinhold Rise WORLD Out of the Shadows/Move 4:30am, 11:30am Niebuhr Story WORLD 12/14 5pm, On Up 12/7 5pm, 10pm; 12/8 6am, 2pm Close to Home 12/11 11:30am 12/16 7pm, 11pm; 12/17 7am, 1pm 10pm; 12/15 6am, noon; 12/17 2am; • Keep Your Head Up/Touch The Sky 12/8 C. M. Russell and the American Everyone Has a Place WORLD Tue mdnt, 12/18 3am, 9am; 12/19 mdnt, 8am, 2pm 5:01pm, 10pm; 12/9 6am, 2pm West My Medicine is Strong Now 12/3 8am, 2pm; Fri 3am, 9am; Mon 4pm, 7pm Expeditions with Patrick McMillan America ReFramed WORLD We Breathe Blackfeet Encounter WORLD 12/1 6am, 7pm; 12/5 mdnt Again 12/1 8pm; 12/2 mdnt, 7am, 3pm noon; 12/4 3am, 9am Color World with Gary Spetz Wed 11:30am • There Are Jews Here 12/4 6pm, 10pm; Born to Explore with Richard Wiese Color Venice, pt 1 12/28 1pm Faith in the Big House WORLD 12/19 12/5 6am, noon; 12/8 8pm; 12/9 1am • Sun 11:30pm Consuelo Mack WealthTrack Tue 5pm, 10pm; 12/20 6am, noon; 12/22 Winter at Westbeth 12/11 6pm, 10pm; Brad Paisley: Landmarks Live in mdnt; Sun 9:30am 12/16, 12/23, 12/30 3am, 11am 12/12 6am, noon; 12/15 8pm; 12/16 mdnt, Concert: A Great Performances WORLD Tue 4am, 11am; Sat 4:30am, 9am Festival of Carols with Sylvia 7am, 3pm • Deej 12/18 6pm, 10pm; 12/19 Special 12/10 4am Conversation with Bill Moyers 12/9 McNair 12/25 9:30am 6am, noon; 12/22 8pm; 12/23 mdnt, 7am, BrainFit: 50 Ways to Grow Your Brain 9am WORLD 12/3 4:30pm, 11:30pm; Film-Maker WORLD Sat 5:30pm 3pm • Through The Repellent Fence 12/25 with Daniel Amen, MD and Tana 12/4 7:30am, 1:30pm; 12/5 6:30pm, Finding Refuge WORLD 12/1 11:30am 6pm, 10pm; 12/26 6am, noon; 12/29 8pm; Amen, RN 12/1 11pm 11:30pm; 12/6 7:30am, 1:30pm Finding Your Roots Unfamiliar Kin 12/15 12/30 mdnt, 7am, 3pm Brain Secrets with Dr. Michael Mer- Craft in America California 12/21 8pm; mdnt • Puritans and Pioneers 12/21 11:30pm • The Vanguard 12/29 mdnt America’s Heartland 12/16 8:30am • zenich WORLD 12/6 5pm, 10pm; 12/7 12/24 3am • Visionaries 12/21 9pm; 12/23 8:30am • 12/30 8:30am WORLD 6am, noon; 12/8 noon; 12/9 7:30pm, 12/24 4am WORLD Community 12/19 Fire in the Forest: The Life and Legacy Sun 11am 11:30pm; 12/10 7:30am, 1:30pm 4pm; 12/20 8am, 2pm; 12/24 2am • Holi- of the Ba’al Shem Tov WORLD 12/30 5pm; 12/31 3am America’s Home Cooking: Holiday Bright Lights Little City WORLD 12/17 day 12/23 7pm, 11pm; 12/24 7am, 1pm Side Dishes 12/6 4:30am 4pm, 7pm; 12/18 mdnt, 8am, 2pm; 12/21 Crane Candlelight Concert Firing Line with Margaret Hoover America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s 3am, 9am; 12/23 9:30pm; 12/24 1:30am, Let Us All Be Merry 12/25 8:30am Fri 7:30pm WORLD Sun 12:30pm; Illustrated Elegant Desserts 12/15 11am 9:30am Crisis of Faith WORLD 12/23 5:30pm; Sat 4:30pm • Pub-Style Favorites, Revisited 12/22 The British Beat: My Music 12/24 3:30am; 12/27 3:30am, 9:30am First Language: The Race to Save 11am 12/7 9:30pm; 12/9 1:30am Curious George Sun 5:30am; Tue, Thu, Cherokee WORLD 12/2 2am Focus On Europe WORLD Sun 1:30pm; Andre Rieu: Waltzing Forever 12/9 1pm Buddha WORLD 12/31 5pm, 10pm Fri 7:30am Antiques Roadshow Junk in the Trunk 4 Buddy Holly: Rave On 12/6 10:35pm Curious George: A Very Monkey Sat 4pm pt 1, 12/10 7pm; 12/12 2:30am • Junk Christmas 12/10 7:30am; 12/12 Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting in the Trunk 4 pt 2, 12/10 8pm; 12/12 C D 7:30am; 12/16 5:30am; 12/19 7:30am; Wed 1:30pm 3:30am • Junk in the Trunk 8, 12/17 7pm; 12/24 7:30am Food Over 50 Wed 11am 12/19 3am • Greatest Gifts 12/24 7pm; Call the Midwife Holiday Special Cyberchase Sat 8am Forever Painless with Miranda 12/26 3am • Junk in the Trunk 5 pt 1, 12/25 8pm; 12/27 1am, 3:30am Dangerous Borders A Journey Across Esmonde-White WORLD 12/3 6pm, 12/31 7pm The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot India & Pakistan 12/12, 12/19, 12/26 10pm; 12/4 6am, noon; 12/7 4pm; 12/8 Around the Corner with John About Christmas! 12/14 2pm; 12/23 9pm; 12/14, 12/21, 12/28 2am, 5am 3am, 10am McGivern WORLD Sun 10:30am 6am; 12/24 2pm Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Frank Capra Story: A Wonderful Life Arthur Sun 7:30am; Wed & Fri 4pm Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Sat 6:30am; Tue-Fri 9am 12/16 3pm Arthur’s Perfect Christmas That! Sun 6am; Tue-Thu 2pm Day WORLD Mon-Fri 9:30pm Free: The Power of Performance 12/10 4pm; 12/11 3:30pm; 12/23 7am; Celtic Woman: Ancient Land The Desert Speaks Dying Traditions in a WORLD 12/15 7pm, 11pm 12/24 4pm 12/2 8pm; 12/6 2:30am Mexican Pueblo 12/14 11:30am • Navajo Frontline Trafficked in America Articulate with Jim Cotter Thu 11:30am Changing Seas 12/28 11:30am Canyon Lands 12/21 11:30am 12/11 9:30pm; 12/13 3:30am • The Asia Insight WORLD Tue 4:30am, 11:30am Chaplains WORLD Pt 1 12/11 4pm; 12/15 Destination Craft with Jim West Gang Crackdown 12/18 9pm; 12/20 Ask This Old House Sat noon 10am; 12/16 2am • Pt 2 12/11 5pm; Sat 2pm 3am WORLD 12/12 7pm; 12/19 7pm; Austin City Limits Band of Horses/Parker 12/15 11am; 12/16 3am Dinosaur Echo WORLD 12/20 4pm, 7pm; 12/20 mdnt Milsap 12/10 1am • Khalid/Mac Demarco Chet Atkins: Certified Guitar Player 12/21 mdnt, 8am, 2pm; 12/24 2pm; Gandhi’s Awakening & Gandhi’s 12/15 10:53pm • Tom Waits 12/22 12/3 8:45pm; 12/5 1:45am; 12/8 noon 12/25 3am, 9am Gift WORL Gandhi’s Awakening 12/25 9:51pm; 12/24 1am • Iggy Pop 12/29 Christmas at Belmont 12/10 3am Dinosaur Train Sat 6am 4pm, 11pm; 12/26 7am, 1pm; 12/30 2am 10:30pm; 12/31 1am Christmas at Concordia: Gather Us Direct Talk WORLD Mon-Fri 5:40am • Gandhi’s Gift 12/25 5pm; 12/26 mdnt, In, O Child of Peace 12/10 2am; 12/25 Doc Martin Thu 8pm 8am, 2pm; 12/30 3am 26 MONTANAPBS PROGRAM GUIDE

Evening & Overnight Made in Montana, see pp. 4-5

Garden SMART Sat 10:30am Independent Lens Man on Fire 12/17 Live from the Artists Den John Legend 12/23 6pm, 10pm; 12/24 6am, noon Getting to the Nutcracker WORLD 9pm; 12/19 2am, 5am • A Ballerina’s 12/17 5am • OneRepublic 12/24 5am • • Monkeys of Shangri-La 12/30 6pm, 12/22 7pm, 11pm Tale 12/26 1am WORLD Welcome to Leith Lady Antebellum 12/31 5am 10pm; 12/31 6am, noon Glacier On My Mind 12/4 12:15am; 12/1 10am • Wilhemina’s War 12/5 4pm; Losing Lambert: A Journey Through Nature Cat Tue & Thu 3pm 12/5 3:15am 12/11 3am, 9am; 12/12 mdnt, 8am, 2pm Survival & Hope 12/11 12:30pm Neil Diamond: Hot August Night III Glacier Park Remembered • Man On Fire 12/19 6pm, 11pm; 12/20 Lost LA WORLD Sun 10am 12/1 9:30pm; 12/3 3am; 12/4 12:30pm 12/2 2:30pm; 12/5 4am 7am, 1pm; 12/22 10am • The Armor of The Lowertown Line Communist Newsroom Tokyo Global 3000 WORLD 12/2 6:30am, 2pm Light 12/26 6:30pm, 10pm; 12/27 6am, Daughter 12/29 11:30pm WORLD Mon-Fri 5am • 12/16 6:30am, 2pm • 12/23 6:30am, noon; 12/29 10am Make: Computer Music Making 12/14 1pm New Tanglewood Tales: Backstage 2pm; 12/24 5am • 12/30 6:30am, 2pm; Indian Summers On Masterpiece Pt 6 • Wearable Technology 12/21 1pm with Rising Artists WORLD Sat 6pm, 12/31 5am 12/16 10pm • Pt 7 12/23 10pm • Pt 8 Make It Artsy Sat 2:30pm 6:30pm, 10pm, 10:30pm Good Neighbors Sat 7:31pm 12/30 10pm Market to Market Sat 3:30am; 12/16, NHK Newsline Tue-Fri 12:30am WORLD Graham Nash Live 12/14 9:30pm; Infinity Hall Live Dave Mason 12/10 5am 12/23, 12/30 8am Mon-Fri 3pm 12/17 4am Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Mark Twain’s Journey to Jerusalem: The Night Before Christmas Car- Great American Railroad Journeys Death WORLD 12/18 4pm; 12/23 2am Dreamland WORLD 12/28 4pm, 7pm; ol 12/25 5pm Minneapolis to St. Paul 12/16 6pm • Red Inventor of the Submarine: John 12/29 mdnt, 8am, 2pm; 12/31 2am Nightly Business Report Mon-Fri Wing, Minnesota to Portage, Wisconsin Philip Holland 12/11 7pm; 12/12 noon; Martha Bakes For the Cookie Jar 12/11 5:30pm WORLD Mon-Fri 9pm 12/23 6pm • Milwaukee to Chicago 12/13 1am 11am • Alternative Crusts 12/18 11am No Passport Required Detroit 12/16 12/30 6pm It’s Sew Easy Distinctive Style 12/11 Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia 4am • New Orleans 12/23 4am • Chica- The Great British Baking Show 1:30pm • Costume Fun 12/18 1:30pm 12/16 noon • 12/23 noon • 12/30 noon go 12/30 4am Mon 11am Jailed for Their Words When Free Martin Luther: The Idea That Changed NOVA Bombing Hitler’s Supergun 12/10 The Great Escape 12/22 8:02pm; 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