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Printing generously provided by: River City Printers, LLC. | rcprint.net KVIE PUBLIC TELEVISION 3 Primetime Features Remember Me Nature's Great Race Remember Me Drama & MASTERPIECE Pensioner Tom Parfitt (Michael Palin) enters Doc Martin assisted living and a social worker falls to The Admirer follows the drama as Martin her death, kicking off a chilling mystery (7/16 has eyes for a new woman (7/6 9PM). The 10PM). Nurse Hannah’s nightmares about Holly Bears a Prickle sees Martin ruin a first water and drowning foreshadow events (7/23 date (7/13 9PM). Nowt So Queer shares the 10PM). The police question Tom, who faces a excitement at an engagement (7/20 9PM). decision as the truth emerges (7/30 10PM). Happily Ever After traces Martin’s efforts to replace a vicar hours before a wedding (7/27 9PM). Science & Nature Big Pacific Downton Abbey on MASTERPIECE Classic Voracious explores the challenges of finding The hospital war between Violet and Isobel food in the Pacific (7/5 8PM). Passionate reaches a climax (7/1 8PM). Mrs. Patmore discovers the myriad ways aquatic animals opens her business (7/8 8PM). Molesley and multiply (7/12 8PM). Behind the Scenes Spratt try out new jobs (7/15 8PM). Some find reveals the highlights and challenges of love in the series finale (7/22 8PM). wildlife filmmaking (7/19 8PM). Grantchester on MASTERPIECE Great Yellowstone Thaw Geordie investigates a sickness at a cricket Spend a searing summer in Yellowstone as match and Sidney is exposed (7/2 9PM). animals cope with heat, drought, and wildfires Sidney and Geordie connect a murder and (7/5 9PM). several robberies and Leonard becomes a hero (7/9 9PM). A woman’s death is covered up Nature's Great Race and Mrs. Maguire’s past reappears (7/16 9PM). Elephants explores an annual gathering of Sidney and Geordie try to right a wrong and 1,000 elephants in Northern Kenya (7/12 Amanda gives an ultimatum (7/23 9PM). A 9PM). Caribou joins 100,000 caribou on the boy goes missing and the entire village goes world’s longest land migration (7/19 9PM). searching for him (7/30 9PM). Zebra discovers the harsh challenges zebras face while migrating to the rich grasslands of Nxai Pan National Park (7/26 9PM). My Mother and Other Strangers on MASTERPIECE NOVA Stolen paint provokes a theological crisis and Making North America – Human examines the Capt. Dreyfuss gives Rose a heads-up (7/2 challenges humans faced taking over North 8PM). Emma gets romantic advice and Capt. America (7/5 10PM). Mystery of Easter Island Dreyfuss tries to thwart Rose’s sister Vera explores new theories on how and why ancient (7/9 8PM). In the season finale, Tillie attempts islanders built and moved nearly 900 giant to prevent a terrible mistake (7/16 8PM). statues (7/12 10PM). Prime Suspect: Tennison on MASTERPIECE Rare - Creatures of the Photo Ark Young officer Jane Tennison continues Join wildlife photographer Joel Sartore as he investigating a murder, but a breach of travels to Madagascar and the Florida Keys protocol causes complications (7/2 10PM). on his mission to photograph beautiful and In the season finale Jane is faced with harsh endangered animals (7/19 10PM). Journey to realities in her professional and personal life Spain to photograph the Iberian lynx, to China (7/9 10PM). to film the Yangtze giant softshell turtle, and 4 JULY 2017 Primetime Features POV: The Last Men in Aleppo to Cameroon to glimpse the Cross River gorilla POV (7/26 10PM). The War Show examines Syria’s conflict through the lens of a circle of friends (7/7 Wild Alaska Live 11PM). The Last Men in Aleppo goes inside Join hosts Chris and Martin Kratt live as the White Helmets, a volunteer group of thousands of the world's wildest animals responders helping citizens in Syria’s civil war gather to take part in Alaska's amazing (7/14 11PM). Presenting Princess Shaw follows (7/23, 7/26 & 7/30 8PM) summer feast. an aspiring singer whose life was changed by YouTube (7/21 11PM). Joe’s Violin explores how History & Public Affairs a donated violin forges a friendship between a Holocaust survivor and a Bronx schoolgirl; A Capitol Fourth Shalom Italia follows three Italian Jewish Celebrate our country’s 241st birthday with an brothers seeking the cave where they hid as all-star musical extravaganza and fireworks live children to escape the Nazis (7/28 11PM). from the West Lawn of the U.S.