October 2020 October 2020 PRIMETIME PRIMETIME Oregon Field Guide The Timber Wars October 1, 8:30pm Photo courtesy of Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian primetime 1 THURSDAY 3 SATURDAY 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | 5:00 OPB This Old House Designing Kitchens OPB+ This Old House Westerly/A Ranch (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Lucky Out Westerly Chow, continued (until 7pm) 7:30 OPB+ Ask This Old House Sliding Barn 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend Door/Drywell 6:00 OPB Autumnwatch New England 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Woven Together. 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Egypt: Yesterday & The Bautista family brings four generations of Today Experience the historic and cultural weaving tradition to Oregon. (Also Sun wonders of Egypt. (Also Mon 8pm OPB+) | 6pm) | OPB+ Secrets of the Dead King Timber Wars: OPB+ Samurai Wall A stonemason revives Arthur’s Lost Kingdom. Evidence may support ancient techniques. 30 Years of Confl ict the King Arthur legend. (Also Sat 12am) 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Out of Thirty years ago, the northern 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide The Timber Focus. The team visits a silent movie set. spotted owl was declared Wars. It’s been 30 years since the spotted (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Neanderthal (Also threatened under the Endangered owl was listed as a threatened species Sun 2am OPB+) and logging was curtailed throughout the Species Act, galvanizing a fi ght Northwest. What’s happened since? 9:00 OPB London: 2000 Years of History over the Pacifi c Northwest’s old (Also Sun 6:30pm) Learn how an uninhabitable swamp became growth forests. a world-famous city. | OPB+ Secrets of 9:00 OPB Doctor Blake Mysteries Hear the Uncover the history of this epic the Dead Graveyard of the Giant Beasts. Angels Sing. A policeman’s death sparks battle in OPB’s new ‘Timber Wars’ Scientists compare prehistoric predators. chaos. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Secrets of (Also Sun 3am) podcast, and explore the ways it’s the Dead Viking Warrior Queen. Female still playing out today with stories, remains rewrite our understanding of Viking 10:00 OPB Masterpiece Home Fires: Season 2, videos and more, including a society. (Also Sat 1am) Ep 5. Sarah fi nds herself in a dangerous landmark investigation by OPB, situation. | OPB+ POV About Love. Three 10:00 OPB Shetland Season 5, Ep 2. Perez generations live together in a Mumbai home. ProPublica and The Oregonian/ establishes the probable cause for Daniel’s (Also Sun 12am) OregonLive. murder. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am) 11: 00 OPB Vienna Blood Ep 3. Oskar asks Learn more at Max for help. opb.org/timberpodcast 11: 00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: Season 1, Ep 4. Leslie ends up in court. (Also 11:30 OPB+ POV Shorts Cherish (Also Sun Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also 1:30am) Sat 2am) 10:00 OPB COBRA Ep 1. Britain’s Prime 11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter 4 SUNDAY Minister assembles an emergency committee Living Legacies (Also Sat 2:30am) 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover to combat a major crisis. (Also Tue 3am) | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions 11: 00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 1, 2 FRIDAY A History of Chocolate, Pt 2 Pt 5. Ross and Demelza start a family. (Also 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Tue 4am) | OPB+ The Draft The draft lit up | OPB+ Africa’s Great Civilizations Rick Steves’ Europe Istanbul every schism in American society. Commerce and the Clash of Civilizations 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Woven Together (R) (R-Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ Crossing South Ensenada: Baja 500 5 MONDAY 8:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: & Ziplines/Wine Country: Valle de Guadalupe 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ A Wider Private Investigators Thy Fury Spent. 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide The Timber World A Shakespearean dispute unfolds. (Also Wars (R) Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Indianapolis, Sun 4:30pm OPB) 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Hr 2 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Biscuits (Also Sun 10/11 12am) | OPB+ Egypt: Yesterday & Today (R-Also Sun 6pm) 8:30 OPB+ American Masters Raul Julia: The Expedition With Steve Backshall Bhutan: World’s a Stage. Get to know the charismatic 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Vanport. Former White Water actor and humanitarian. (Also Sun 1pm) residents share stories about Vanport and the 8:00 OPB Last Tango in Halifax Season 4, Ep 3. fl ood that destroyed it. (Also Wed 2am) | 9:00 OPB Doc Martin Education, Education, Alan faces an unexpected challenge. (Also OPB+ Expedition With Steve Backshall Education. Louisa and Martin receive Tue 1am) | OPB+ We’ll Meet Again Rescued Greenland: Ice Mountain (Also Sun 7pm) homework. (Also Mon 2am) From Mount St. Helens (Also Tue 12am) 10:00 OPB Tell Me More With Kelly Corrigan 10:00 OPB Masterpiece Mrs. Wilson, Ep 3. 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Bryan Stevenson (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Alec’s handler drops a bombshell. (Also Mon Flesh and Blood, Ep 1. Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am) 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Enjoy an unconventional Mon 5am) 11: 00 OPB POV The Infi ltrators. Two immigrants thriller about the perils of get purposefully arrested by Border Patrol. 11: 00 OPB Professor T Swansong, Pt 2. John late-life romance. (Also (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ AfroPop: The discovers who Rabet and Serge are working Tue 2am) | OPB+ The War Ultimate Cultural Exchange Mama Africa: for. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline When Things Get Tough. Miriam Makeba! (Also Wed 2am) Growing Up Poor (R-Also Mon 2am) Americans mobilize for war. (Also Tue 1am) 2 OCTOBER 2020 OPB = Comcast 10 or 710; antenna XX.1 R = Repeat within a week = Program premiere OPB+ = Comcast 310; antenna XX.2 Repeats are on original channel unless noted = Watch online at watch.opb.org KIDS = Comcast 311; antenna XX.3 Full channel list at opb.org/schedules Full schedule and VOD at opb.org/schedules Programs are subject to change weekdays 6 TUESDAY 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Mount St. MONDAY – FRIDAY Helens Special. Three stories explore life on 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | Mount St. Helens after the 1980 eruption. OPB+ Nature Super Hummingbirds 6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon) (Also Sun 6:30pm) 8:00 OPB The Hispanic Heritage Awards 9:00 OPB Classic Albums John Lennon: 7am OPB+ NHK Newsline Celebrate recipients of the Hispanic Heritage Plastic Ono Band (Also Sun 2am) Awards with appearances by artists and visionaries. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also 7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); Wonders of Mexico Mountain Worlds (Also Fri 5am) Classical Stretch (Tu/Th) Sun 3pm) 10:30 OPB In This Together: A PBS 9:00 OPB Latino Vote: Dispatches From American Portrait Story Americans share 8am OPB+ Sewing & Knitting the Battleground Go inside the high-stakes how the pandemic has affected their lives. effort to get out the Latino vote in this year’s (Also Sun 3:30am) 8:30 OPB+ Quilting election. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Nature 11: 00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: Cuba’s Wild Revolution (Also Sun 4pm) Season 1, Ep 5. Bad luck threatens to end 9am OPB+ Painting 10:00 OPB Frontline America’s Medical the Durrells’ Greek idyll. (Also Sun 4am) | Supply Crisis. A fragmented global medical OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) 10am OPB+ Woodworking supply chain leads to deadly consequences. 11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter No (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour Frontiers (Also Sat 2:30am) 10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until & Company (Also Wed 5am) noon) 11: 00 OPB Quakers: The Quiet 9 FRIDAY Revolutionaries Explore Quakerism, from 12pm OPB Painting | OPB+ Second its beginnings to present day. (Also Thu 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | Opinion (M); Gardening (Tu); 4am) | OPB+ Egypt’s Treasure Guardians OPB+ Civilizations The Second Moment of Make 48 (W); In the Americas (Also Thu 2am) Creation (Also Sun 10am) (Th); Ask This Old House (F) 8:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: 7 WEDNESDAY Private Investigators Reputation, 12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ Reputation, Reputation! The competitive Growing Bolder (M); GZero 7:00 OPB+ Latino Americans War and world of hairdressing involves backstabbing World (Tu); Start Up (W); Chavis Peace. Uncover the rich and varied history of and deceit. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Chronicles (Th); This is America Latinos. (Also Thu 5am) Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB) and the World (F) 8:00 OPB Nature The Story of Cats: Asia to 8:30 OPB+ Beyond the Canvas All About the Africa. Discover how the fi rst cats spread Music (Also Mon 12:30am) 1pm OPB+ DW News across Asia. (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ PBS NewsHour Debates: A Special Report 9:00 OPB Doc Martin Control-Alt-Delete. 2020 Vice Presidential Debate (R-Also Fri 12am) Martin offl oads Buddy at a local vet. (Also 1:30 OPB Travel | OPB+ DW: The Day Mon 2am) | OPB+ American Masters 9:00 OPB NOVA The Violence Paradox. Learn Ted Williams. Discover the baseball legend’s 2pm OPB Kids Programs (until 6pm) | why violence has diminished over time. (Also many sides. (Also Sun 1pm) OPB+ BBC Outside Source Fri 2am) (M–Th); BBC Today (F) 10:00 OPB Spies of Warsaw Ep 1. A French 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also military attaché to Warsaw spies on the Nazi Thu 5am) regime. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour 2:30 OPB+ BBC World News 11: 00 OPB Ancient Invisible Cities Athens.