On Tonight
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Allen Toussaint
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.
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LAWRENCE WELK
Songs by Johnny Mercer
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
8:00 PM
AS TIME GOES BY
Reunion Special (Part 2 of 2)
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.
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Highlights & Specials
This Week's Highlights & Specials
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AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Allen Toussaint
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.
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LAWRENCE WELK Songs by Johnny Mercer
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
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AS TIME GOES BY Reunion Special (Part 2 of 2)
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.
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HOLLYWOOD THEATRE The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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
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GLOBE TREKKER Caribbean Islands
Airs Sunday, August 1 at 7:00 PM - Globe Trekker Zoe Palmer travels to the spectacularly beautiful islands of St Lucia, Martinique and Montserrat.
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NATURE Penguins of the Antarctic
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.
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MASTERPIECE Poirot Series X - Cat Among the Pigeons
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.
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HOLLYWOOD THEATRE The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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
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ANTIQUES ROADSHOW Las Vegas (Hour Two)
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.
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HISTORY DETECTIVES Episode #706
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.
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RICHARD BANGS' ADVENTURES WITH PURPOSE Hong Kong: Quest for the Dragon
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
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NOVA Ocean Animal Emergency
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.
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CARRIER Show of Force
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.
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P.O.V. The Way We Get By
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.
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GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET Carmen
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.
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UTAH The National Parks
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
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ROSEMARY AND THYME Swords Into Ploughshares
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.
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ARE YOU BEING SERVED?
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.
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THE RED GREEN SHOW Free Apricots
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.
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WASHINGTON WEEK WITH GWEN IFILL AND NATIONAL JOURNAL
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.
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WYOMING CHRONICLE Iraq War Vet Travis Vendela
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.
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NEED TO KNOW Episode 114
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.
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CONSUELO MACK WEALTHTRACK
Airs Friday, August 6 at 9:00 PM - CONSEULO MACK WEALTHTRACK provides trustworthy, understandable advice about building and protecting wealth over the long-term.
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AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Brad Paisley/Dierks Bentley
Airs Saturday, August 7 at 6:00 PM - rad Paisley returns to AUSTIN CITY LIMITS to highlight songs from his new album, 5th gear.
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LAWRENCE WELK Pleasant Dreams
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”
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KEEPING UP APPEARANCES
Airs Saturday, August 7 at 8:00 PM - A Britcom about a middle-class homemaker who aspires to high society.
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AS TIME GOES BY
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.
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MASTERPIECE Emma (Part 1 of 3)
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.
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SOUNDSTAGE Sugarland
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
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GLOBE TREKKER Midwest USA
Airs Sunday, August 8 at 7:00 PM - Explore the cities of Chicago and Detroit and the lakes and mountains of Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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NATURE Silent Roar: Searching for the Snow Leopard
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.
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MASTERPIECE Inspector Lewis: 'Allegory of Love'
Airs Sunday, August 8 at 9:00 PM - Literary whimsy becomes murderous reality with the death of a Czech barmaid.
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