Highlights & Specials

Airs Saturday, July 31 at 6:00 PM - Legendary New Orleans songwriter Allen Toussaint hits the ACL stage with songs from his latest LP, The Bright Mississippi , and classic hits like Southern Nights.

Airs Saturday, July 31 at 7:00 PM - Lawrence and the gang celebrate the genius of Johnny Mercer by featuring some of the well-loved songs written by this prolific lyricist and composer

Airs Saturday, July 31 at 8:00 PM - AS TIME GOES BY, one of the most popular and enduring British series on public television, starred Dame Judi Dench as Jean Pargetter and Geoffrey Palmer as Lionel Hardcastle, former lovers who reunited after 40 years.

Airs Saturday, July 31 at 9:00 PM - Three unlucky Americans (Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, and Tim Holt) seek gold in Mexico, agreeing beforehand to split it equally

Airs Sunday, August 1 at 7:00 PM - Globe Trekker Zoe Palmer travels to the spectacularly beautiful islands of St Lucia, Martinique and Montserrat.

Airs Sunday, August 1 at 8:00 PM - Emperors and kings, chinstraps and adelies — the penguins of Antarctica all make their home in one of the most unforgiving environments on Earth.

Airs Sunday, August 1 at 9:00 PM - Poirot tackles an intriguing and dangerous murder case involving international espionage, a Middle-Eastern revolution and a missing princess.

Airs Sunday, August 1 at 10:30 PM - Three unlucky Americans (Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, and Tim Holt) seek gold in Mexico, agreeing beforehand to split it equally

Airs Monday, August 2 at 7:00 PM - A charming circa 1865 pottery pig canteen; two pieces of Elvis Presley memorabilia — an autographed record album cover and a macramé belt worn by the King; and a scrapbook containing signatures of many of the Civil War era’s greatest public figures.

Airs Monday, August 2 at 8:00 PM - A fragment that may been a piece of Amelia Earhart’s plane; a letter from President Millard Fillmore commuting the death sentence of a Native American; a Colorado home whose supports may have been constructed from a railroad boxcar.

Airs Monday, August 2 at 9:00 PM - This time Richard Bangs journeys through a city that blazes like a great pageant of light…a land of giants in both steel and dreams

Airs Tuesday, August 3 at 7:00 PM - San Francisco veterinarian Dr. Frances Gulland is committed to saving sick marine mammals, but she’s also desperately trying to figure out what’s killing them.

Airs Tuesday, August 3 at 8:00 PM - The Nimitz arrives in the Gulf and conditions are extreme: flight deck temperatures hover around 120 degrees, while the pilots undertake grueling six-hour missions over Iraq.

Airs Tuesday, August 3 at 9:00 PM - On call 24 hours a day for the past five years, a group of senior citizens has made history by greeting nearly 800,000 American troops at a tiny airport in Bangor, Maine. This intimate look at three of the greeters airs on Veterans Day.

Airs Wednesday, August 4 at 7:00 PM - Elīna Garanča sings the title role opposite Roberto Alagna as Don José in director Richard Eyre’s production of Bizet’s masterpiece. Renee Fleming hosts.

Airs Thursday, August 5 at 7:00 PM - Five of the world’s greatest treasures are found in southern Utah. These five jewels of the American West are the National Parks of Utah

Airs Thursday, August 5 at 8:00 PM - Laura is deeply shocked to hear on the news that Rosemary Boxer has been shot dead while looking into a problem with dying plants at Engleton Park.

Airs Thursday, August 5 at 9:00 PM - Shenanigans of department-store workers are chronicled in this popular British sitcom about the constant carping between employees in Ladies Separates and Gentlemen's Ready to Wear.

Airs Thursday, August 5 at 9:30 PM - A tractor-trailer flips over and the lodge members get an unlimited supply of apricots. Red makes a really high car jack. Bill goes rock climbing.

Airs Friday, August 6 at 7:00 PM - PBS' longest-running public affairs series features Washington's top journalists analyzing the week's top news stories and their effect on the lives of all Americans. Gwen Ifill hosts.

Airs Friday, August 6 at 7:30 PM - On Travis Vendela’s third tour in Iraq, a bomb exploded under his military vehicle. Host Laurie Farkas talks with Vendela about his experiences in the war and at home in Cheyenne.

Airs Friday, August 6 at 8:00 PM - PBS's new TV and Web newsmagazine gives you what you need to know -- along with a healthy dose of insight, perspective and wit. Need to Know cuts through the noise of nonstop news to bring you the most compelling stories of the week and of our times.

Airs Friday, August 6 at 9:00 PM - CONSEULO MACK WEALTHTRACK provides trustworthy, understandable advice about building and protecting wealth over the long-term.

Airs Saturday, August 7 at 6:00 PM - rad Paisley returns to AUSTIN CITY LIMITS to highlight songs from his new album, 5th gear.

Airs Saturday, August 7 at 7:00 PM - This black & white classic opens as Lawrence and the Band perform “Cheek To Cheek”, the Lennon Sisters sing “Til The End Of Time”, and Dick Dale wants “One Dozen Roses”

Airs Saturday, August 7 at 8:00 PM - A Britcom about a middle-class homemaker who aspires to high society.

Airs Saturday, August 7 at 8:30 PM - A British series about former lovers reunited by chance after a 38-year separation chronicles their awkward courtship and eventual marriage.

Airs Saturday, August 7 at 9:00 PM - Emma Woodhouse (Romola Garai) thinks herself the perfect matchmaker for others. Her friend Mr. Knightley (Jonny Lee Miller) has his doubts.

Airs Saturday, August 7 at 11:00 PM - Jennifer Nettles’ voice can hold its own in any setting, but exceeds expectations alongside partner Kristian Bush’s mandolin strumming at SOUNDSTAGE’s Grainger Studio

Airs Sunday, August 8 at 7:00 PM - Explore the cities of Chicago and Detroit and the lakes and mountains of Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Airs Sunday, August 8 at 8:00 PM - Telling the story of this most elusive creature is one of the last great challenges in wildlife filmmaking.

Airs Sunday, August 8 at 9:00 PM - Literary whimsy becomes murderous reality with the death of a Czech barmaid.