PBS39 MATTERS PROGRAM GUIDE MARCH 2017 SAVE THE DATE July 10th -14th. Join Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocal group High school students can learn the exciting world LITTLE ANTHONY and THE IMPERIALS, The of television at the annual PBS39 Production U Impressions and The Crests featuring Tommy Summer Camp! This week-long camp, taught Mara, April 2nd at 2:00pm for an afternoon by our Emmy Award-winning production team, of timeless classics from the 50’s and 60’s. gives students in grades 9-12 a chance to create Tickets at wlvt.org/boxoffice. their own broadcast. For more information, con- Little Anthony tact Laura McHugh [email protected] or has still got it! His visit wlvt.org/events. powerful and amazing vocal range coupled with some of the most ageless songs ever written transport the audience to a place where timeless music lives on forever. Backed up by the original Imperials, this is a 7th Annual PBS39 BrewFest show that does not quit. Now in its seventh year, PBS39’s BrewFest has The quintessential become the Lehigh Valley’s premier craft beer Chicago soul group, event. This year, we once again expect to feature The Impressions’ place craft beers from 40 brewers and distributors, in R&B history would local and beyond, such as Evil Genius Beer be secure if they’d done Company, Funk Brewing, HiJinx Brewing nothing but launch the Company, Neshaminy Creek Brewing, Saucony Creek Craft Brewing and many others. careers of soul legends Jerry Butler and Curtis And of course, the 7th Annual PBS39 BrewFest Mayfield. But far more includes the great live music and local than that, The vendors that you’ve come to expect on this Impressions recorded some of the most afternoon of great fun! Join us Saturday, June 3rd distinctive vocal-group R&B of the ‘60s under from 2:00 - 5:00pm at Coca-Cola Park, Allen- Mayfield’s guidance. Major hits include For town. Tickets available now at wlvt.org/events. Your Precious Love, He Will Break Your Heart, Gypsy Woman, and It’s All Right. The Crests featuring DIGITAL AUCTION Tommy Mara are an American doo wop SAVE THE DATE: Monday, May 10th PBS39 group, formed in Chicago will begin its first ever digital auction. For three weeks, the update to PBS39’s previous on-air in 1957 where they auction will present the best that the Lehigh achieved their first minor Valley business community has to offer. Learn pop hit with Sweetest One before releasing one more about this event and others throughout of doo-wop’s enduring classics, the heartfelt our 50th Anniversary year at wlvt.org/about/ ballad 16 Candles, in 1959. 50years. Weeknight News 6:00pm BBC World News America 6:30pm Nightly Business Report MARCH 12:00am Charlie Rose 1 WEDNESDAY critically-acclaimed albums as well as a 7:00 Arthur and George on Masterpiece selection of his iconic hits. After personal tragedy, iconic author Sir 10:30 Burt Bacharach’s Best — Special includes Arthur Conan Doyle finds himself in a all the original artists performing personal and professional slump. But that Bacharach’s hits from the 1960s -1980s. all changes when he is approached by George Edalji, an Anglo-Indian solicitor 5 SUNDAY convicted of mystifying and brutally violent 8:00 Friar Alessandro: The Voice of Assisi crimes. Travel to the magnificent hilltop Basilica 8:00 Arthur and George on Masterpiece (part 2) of St. Francis of Assisi in Italy for heavenly 9:00 Arthur and George on Masterpiece (part 3) music from the friar with the big tenor 10:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Death By voice. Miss Adventure — Phryne investigates 9:30 Catholicism: The Pivotal Players - St. the death of a young female worker in a Francis of Assisi — Journey from the lovely factory accident and soon learns that the streets and basilicas of Assisi and Gubbio woman’s death might not be the to the gorgeous, remote monasteries of La misadventure the police think it is. Verna and Eremo delle Carceri with Bishop 11:00 Secrets of the Dead: Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb Barron as he explores the extraordinary life of St. Francis of Assisi. 2 THURSDAY 7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Indianapolis(Hour 3) 6 MONDAY A Mucha JOB poster, a Nakashima floor 7:00 National Park Symphony: The Mighty Five lamp and a Ty Cobb-signed baseball. A symphonic view of Utah’s Mighty Five 8:00 Dr. Blake Mysteries: The Silence National Parks set to a score of music The school headmaster is found dead in his selected and recorded by director Thierry office and Blake’s investigations stir up Fischer and the Utah Symphony. intrigue and demons from the past. 8:00 Fernando Varela: Coming Home — A 9:00 Death In Paradise multi-talented singer of opera and pop 10:00 Globe Trekker: Wild West USA music and winner of David Foster’s “Born 11:00 Southwestern Gems: Our Desert to Sing” competition in 2011. National Parks 7 TUESDAY 3 FRIDAY 8:00 Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller — Join 7:00 FOCUS host Tom Hanks for a celebration of film 7:30 Articulate maker Ken Burns, whose nearly four- 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Indianapolis (Hour 3) decade career has resulted in some of (See 3/2, 7pm) the most acclaimed historical 9:00 British Antiques Roadshow documentaries ever made. 10:00 The Lady Vanishes: Masterpiece Mystery! 10:00 Civil War — Highlights of the award- While traveling by train, a young socialite winning KEN BURN: THE CIVIL WAR series. is befriended by a charming yet enigmatic older woman. However, when the woman 8 WEDNESDAY Sponsored by Country Meadows disappears, the other passengers deny she 8:00 Victoria on Masterpiece: Young England ever existed. On the verge of delivering her first child, Victoria spurns advice and ventures among 4 SATURDAY her subjects, attracting the devoted and 6:00 Daniel O’Donnell: Stand Beside Me demented alike. Miss Skerrett and A concert celebration of Irish, country, Francatelli reach their decisive moment. gospel, rock, and O’Donnell favorites. 8:50 Victoria After-Party — Give the first 7:30 Daniel O’Donnell: Back Home Again season of this regal new series a royal A collection of Irish melodies, timeless sendoff with cast members and creators. favorites, signature Daniel O’Donnell hits, Relive favorite scenes and special moments and never-before performed new songs! of Victoria’s dramatic story from 9:00 Tom Jones: A Soundstage Special ascending to the throne through courtship Features songs from Jones’ recent, and marriage. 9:30 Mercy Street: House of Bondage — After first-ever live performance at the Royal Antietam, the Greens suffer a setback and Albert Hall. Pinkerton’s inquiry heats up. Foster and Samuel visit Foster’s family plantation, 12 SUNDAY where they intervene in a difficult labor. 5:30 Fernando Varela: Coming Home The hospital staff unites to oust their hated (See 3/6, 8pm) chief. In Boston, Mary’s condition worsens. 7:00 Friar Alessandro: The Voice of Assisi 10:30 Civil War (See 3/7, 10pm) (See 3/5, 8pm) 8:30 Gregory Porter: Live in Berlin — A compel- 9 THURSDAY ling blend of jazz and soul showcases 8:00 Age-Proof with Jean Chatzky and Mark Porter’s mellifluous baritone voice. Roizen, MD Live! — Two of the world’s 10:00 Rocktopia with Rob Evan Live leading experts explain the vital link Rocktopia co-creator and vocalist Rob Evan between health and wealth that could add is a founding member of the Trans-Siberian years to your life and dollars to your Orchestra among other projects. retirement savings. (Re-airs 9:30pm) 11:00 Rolling Stones From the Vault: 13 MONDAY The Marquee Live — Album captures one 8:00 Giada Valenti: From Venice with Love of rock’s most important bands performing Italian songstress Giada Valenti takes some of their very best songs. viewers on a romantic and magical journey as she performs her own interpretations of 10 FRIDAY American and Italian hits from the 60s - 80s. 7:00 FOCUS 9:30 Giada Valenti: From Venice with Love 7:30 Articulate 11:00 Night of Legends (See 3/10, 10:30pm) 8:00 Rhythm and Blues 40: A Soul Spectacular Celebrate legendary artists of the 1960s 14 TUESDAY and 70s brought together in a once-in-a- 7:00 Scholastic Scrimmage: Emmaus HS vs lifetime concert. Stroudsburg HS 10:00 Harvey Holiday: Little Anthony & The 7:30 FOCUS: On Film Imperials — Broadcast pioneer and oldies 8:00 Ed Slott’s Retirement Road Map 2017 aficiando Harvey Holiday talks about Little Ed Slott, America’s IRA Expert, shows you Anthony and the Imperials. how to steer clear of the bumps, potholes 10:30 Night of Legends — Features Little Anthony and roadblocks in your retirement. and The Imperials plus The Duprees. 10:00 Ed Slott’s Retirement Road Map 2017 11:30 Harvey Holiday: Little Anthony & The 15 WEDNESDAY Imperials (See 10pm) 7:00 Rock Rewind: 1967-1969 (My Music) 11 SATURDAY Take a time-tripping visit to the 1:30 Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise psychedelic era with host Tommy James. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. looks at the last 50 Features rare vintage TV appearances by years of African-American history — from artists including Sonny & Cher, The 5th Stokely Carmichael to Barack Obama, Dimension, Dusty Springfield, and more. James Brown to Beyoncé — charting 8:30 70s Soul Superstars — A once-in-a-lifetime the remarkable progress made and raising gathering of the legends of 1970s Motown, hard questions about the obstacles that R&B, Soul and Disco artists.