TV shows that may be of interest

May 22 at 5PM on channel 9.3 - What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Homemade Hovercraft Hijinks May 22 at 6PM on channel 9.3 - What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Lawnmower Jousting Royale May 25 at 1AM on channel 9.3 - Modern Marvels - The Computer Thursdays at 6AM on channel 22.2 - Make: See wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/TV_shows_that_may_be_of_interest_-_weekly for shows that normally air at the same time each week - some are also (i.e., if of particular interest or to give the episode subject or title) included in the list below. Caution: Schedules (along with all other databases) contain errors and are subject to change. Note that this listing only includes broadcast channels, not cable or internet channels. Most of the shows listed are fact rather than fiction; % indicates fiction (i.e., a series episode with a science-related plot). + after the time means the program is rerun later (possibly on a sister station, i.e., a show on channel 26.4 may be rerun on 26.5); check that station's program listing for details. Channel 62 in Frederick & 67 in Baltimore are identical to 22 in Annapolis (including sister stations (i.e., 22.2=62.2=67.2) too). Note that channel 7.3 airs numerous SF movies - check their schedule (select COMET WJLADT3 at wjla.com/station/schedule) for times & titles. May 18 midnight+ 26.4 NOVA - Dinosaur Apocalypse: The New Evidence 1AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Shipyards + 26.4 NOVA - Dinosaur Apocalypse: The Last Day 1:15+ 22.4 Direct Talk - Reality of Refugees Through Video Games: Lual Mayen / Video Game Developer, Founder of Junub Games 2 9.3 Modern Marvels - Metal + 26.4 Prehistoric Road Trip - Welcome to Fossil Country 2:30+ 22.4 15 Minutes - Ground Detective Simon Wallis: Case 2 Soy Sauce 2:55+ 22.4 Core Kyoto mini - Kata-yuzen (stencil dyeing) 4 22.2 Craftsman's Legacy - The Tool Chest Makers 4:30 22.2 Woodsmith Shop - Clever Craft Center 5:15+ 22.4 Direct Talk - Sasibai Kimis, Earth Heir (craftsmanship) 5:30 22.4 Science View - Japanese Indigo - More than a Pretty Dye! 6 9.3 Modern Marvels - Terror Tech: Defending the Highrise 6:30 22.2 Urban Conversion - Let It Rot! 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - Military Movers 10+ 26.5 Life on the Line - Unseen Blessings 10:30+ 26.5 Life on the Line - A Mother's Strength 32 Story in the Public Square - Danny Strong (opioid epidemic) 11 32 When Disaster Strikes - A Perfect Storm: Mozambique noon 32 When Disaster Strikes - The Silent Killer: Somalia 1PM 32 When Disaster Strikes - Paradise Lost: Bahamas 3 26.5 History Detectives - prohibition-era business card, St. Valentine's Day Massacre shotgun, Society Circus program 4 26.5 The Open Mind - The Future of Privacy in America 5 9.3 American Restoration - Prank Wars (1950s arcade game) 8+ 22 & 26 Nature - Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas 9+ 22 & 26 NOVA - Why Ships Crash + 32 Frontline - The Power of Big Oil, Part 3 10+ 22 & 26 - Colombia -- Wild and Free May 19 2AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Terror Tech: Civilian 32 The West Is Burning 3 9.3 Modern Marvels - Breaking the Sound Barrier 5:15+ 22.4 Direct Talk - $1 eyeglasses 6 9.3 Modern Marvels - Logging Tech 22.2 Make: - Urban Projections 32 The Good Road - Charleston, South Carolina: Rising Tides 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - The Exterminator 10:30 9.3 Auction Kings - John Wayne Guns/ Omnibot 2000 1:30PM 26.4 Second Opinion - Crohn's Disease 2:30 26.5 Articulate with Jim Cotter - What Might Be (Samuel R. Delany etc.) 3 22.4 Japan's Top Inventions - Film Farming 26.4 American Masters - Oliver Sacks: His Own Life 26.5 History Detectives - Civil War photo, Indians in Hollywood, Harlem stock certificate 3:15 22.4 Japan's Top Inventions - Robotic Exoskeletons 5 9.3 American Restoration - Hammered (handmade nail gun) 8+ 22 Escape to the Chateau Diy 8:30+ 22.2 Ask This Old House - Replacing a Toilet Seat, Full Mortise Lockset Repair 9 22.2 Search for the Ocean's Super Predator 26 %COBRA 9:30 9.3 Hardcore Pawn - Acid Test (high-tech metal analyzer) 9:45 22.4 Zero Waste Life - Waste Wood Sonata 10 9.3 Shipping Wars - We Come in Pieces! (TARDIS & Enterprise bridge) 22.2 Secrets of the Dead - Hindenburg's Fatal Flaws + 26.5 American Experience - Mr. Tornado 11+ 22 Maryland Farm & Harvest - Planting Special: Corn, Seedless Watermelon; Aquaponic Lettuce, History of Seed Business May 20 2AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Army Corps of Engineers 26 %COBRA 3 9.3 Modern Marvels - Bullet Trains 6 9.3 Modern Marvels - Booby Traps 22.2 My World Too - Missouri Organic Recycling, New Roots for Refugees, Community Rebuild 6:30+ 26.4 Global 3000 - online trading in Brazil slums (etc.) 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - The Trans-Siberian Railroad 9 9.3 Auction Kings - Rick Fairless Chopper/Gas-Powered Blender 9:30 9.3 Auction Kings - Edison Phonograph/Ali-Frasier Boxing Gloves 2PM+ 26.5 Articulate with Jim Cotter - Worlds of Words 3 22.4 Medical Frontiers - Telemedicine for Remote Areas 26.5 History Detectives - Frank Zappa Collage; Beatles Autographs; Bob Dylan Guitar 7:30+ 32 Civil Discourse - David L. Katz (health & COVID-19) 9 22.2 Expedition with Steve Backshall: Unpacked - Teamwork May 21 2AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - High Tech Sex 3 9.3 Modern Marvels - Strategic Air Command 4 32 Charlie Bee Company - Honey, Honey 5 26.4 Prehistoric Road Trip - Welcome to Fossil Country 5:30+ 22 Outdoors Maryland - Covered Bridges: Spanning Time 6+ 26.4 Second Opinion - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 7:30 9.3 Brojects - The Ultimate Covert Man Cave 22 EcoSense for Living - Okefenokee Destiny/Everglades 8 9.3 Brojects - The ATV-Powered Barge 22 Crossing South - Baja Technology & Art 8:30 26 Rick Steves' Europe - Ethiopia: A Development Story 10 7 Wildlife Nation With Jeff Corwin - The Power of Pinnipeds 10:30 9 The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation - Lick Dog Trainer 11 9 Mission Unstoppable - Battles, Biology, and Braille 1PM 32 History Detectives - 1960s poster, Andrew Jackson carving, Modoc basket 3 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - The Plane that Wouldn't Talk 32 Supernature - Wild Flyers - Defying Gravity 4 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Fatal Distraction 32 Supernature - Wild Flyers - Masters of the Sky 5 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Phantom Strike 32 Supernature - Wild Flyers - Crowded Skies 5:30+ 22 Made in Maryland 7 9.3 Seconds from Disaster - Sinking the Coventry 8 9.3 Seconds from Disaster - Chinook Helicopter Crash + 32 American Masters - Oliver Sacks: His Own Words 9 9.3 Storm Chasers - What Goes Around 10 9.3 Storm Chasers - Why We Chase May 22 4AM 32 Forces of Nature - Motion 7 9.3 Brojects - The Soapbox Racers 22 Home Diagnosis 7:30+ 26.4 The Open Mind - Detecting Malarkey 32 Curious Crew - Electrical Circuits 8 9.3 How the Earth Was Made - Krakatoa 32 Europe's New Wild - Europe's Amazon 8:30 22 Second Opinion with Joan Lunden - Vaccine Hesitancy 9 9.3 How the Earth Was Made - Tsunami 9:30 22 Doctor Q & A - Dealing with Mental Health Issues in Children 32 Ask This Old House - Replacing a Toilet Seat, Full Mortise Lockset Repair 11+ 22.2 J Schwanke's Life in Bloom - Terrariuns: Life Under Glass noon 9.3 Lost Worlds - Secret A-bomb Factories 1PM 26.4 America's Heartland - mushroom farm (etc.) 1:30 26.4 Start Up - The Monarch -- Ogden, UT (arts space) 3 9.3 Doomsday Preppers - Friends Can Become Enemies 4 9.3 Doomsday Preppers - Nine Meals Away from Anarchy 26.5 History Detectives - 1960s Chicago poster, Andrew Jackson carving, Modoc basket 5 9.3 What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Homemade Hovercraft Hijinks 26 The Chavis Chronicles - COVID-19 26.5 History Detectives - camera, Civil War doll, Fla. map 6 9.3 What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Lawnmower Jousting Royale 26.5 History Detectives - 1775 almanac, 1920s exercise guru, Andy Warhol art on moon 6:30 22 Forging Art: Nol Putnam, Artist Blacksmith 8+ 22 Lucy Worsley Investigates - Madness of King George May 23 midnight 32 Life from Above - Changing Planet 2AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Drag Racing + 26 Lucy Worsley Investigates - Madness of King George 3 9.3 Modern Marvels - World's Biggest Machines 1 32 Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed The World - The Car 4 9.3 Modern Marvels - Fire and Ice (HVAC) 5 9.3 Modern Marvels - Engines 6 9.3 Modern Marvels - Junkyards 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - Siege Machines 10 9.3 Auction Kings - Plank Cannon/Calliope 10:30 9.3 Auction Kings - Motorized Bar Stool / Confederate Sword 3PM 26.5 History Detectives - Fiery Cross; Civil War Deringers; Motown Amp 9 22.2 Moving San Francisco May 24 1AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Bunkers 2 9.3 Modern Marvels - Diamond Mines 4 32 Home Diagnosis - Rochester, Ny to Flip Or Flee 6 9.3 Modern Marvels - Nuclear Subs 6:30 22.2 Make48 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - Cannons 8:30+ 22.2 Woodsmith Shop - Best Ever Tool Cart 11:30+ 26.5 Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope - Easter Island -- Mysteries & Myths 3PM 26.4 American Experience - The Poison Squad (food safety) 26.5 History Detectives - wanted poster book, metal from B-25 that hit Empire State Building 5:30 9.3 American Restoration - Bombshell (electric wheelchair made from B-17) 7+ 22 Maryland Farm & Harvest - Harvest Special; Corn Harvesting; Perfecting Watermelon Growth; Al Spoler Picks Lettuce 7:30+ 22 Outdoors Maryland - Degrees of Action; A Tern in the Tide; The Invasive Chase 9+ 22 & 26 American Experience - Plague at the Golden Gate + 26.4 Prehistoric Road Trip - We Dig Dinosaurs 10 22.2 Welcome to My Farm - Lavender In Bloom May 25 1AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - The Computer 3 9.3 Modern Marvels - Monster Trucks 6 9.3 Modern Marvels - Apollo 13 6:30 22.2 Urban Conversion - Whose Water Is It, Anyway? 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - Inventions of War 10 26.5 Life on the Line - The Surge 10:30 26.5 Life on the Line - The Hidden Pandemic 3PM 26.5 History Detectives - bird dropping bomb symbol, fabric tied to Civil War 4 26.4 American Experience - The Polio Crusade 5:30 9.3 American Restoration - Clueless (1920s x-ray) 8+ 22 & 26 Nature - Equus: Story of the Horse: Origins 9+ 22 & 26 NOVA - Ice Age Footprints 10 9.3 Shipping Wars - To the Moon and Back (moon rocks) + 22 & 26 Colombia - Wild and Free - From the Pacific to the Andes May 26 1AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Power Plants 2 9.3 Modern Marvels - Combat Training 3 9.3 Modern Marvels - Video Games: Behind the Fun 6 22.2 Make: - Watershed Sculptures 11+ 22.2 Rick Steves' Europe - Egypt's Nile, Alexandria, and Luxor 3PM 26.5 History Detectives - Lusitania picture frame, Woolworth sign, toy soldiers, liquor recipe journal 7:30+ 22 Made in Maryland 8+ 22 Escape to the Chateau Diy 9 26 %COBRA 10 22.2 Secrets of the Dead - The Caravaggio Heist May 27 2AM 26.2 %COBRA 6 22.2 My World Too - Rebecca's Apothecary, K-State Research Farm, The Battery Tour 6:30+ 26.4 Global 3000 - protection from deforestation, saving Galapagos Islands, green business in Ghana 8:30+ 22.2 Ask This Old House - Replacing a Toilet Seat, Full Mortise Lockset Repair 11+ 22.2 Rick Steves' Europe - Ethiopia: A Development Story 3PM 26.5 History Detectives - North Vietnamese soldier's diary, liquor recipe notebook, Indians in Hollywqood 9 22.2 Expedition with Steve Backshall: Unpacked - Behind The Scenes May 28 6AM+ 26.4 Second Opinion - Hospital Delirium 7:30 22 EcoSense for Living - Bats & Blooms 9 26.2 %As Time Goes By - Going Online 10 26.5 Life on the Line - Footsteps of the Unknown 10:30 26.5 Life on the Line 11PM+ 22 Memphis Belle: Her Final Mission May 29 7AM 22 Home Diagnosis 8:30 22 Second Opinion with Joan Lunden - Alopecia Areata 9:30 22 Doctor Q & A - The Battle Against Breast Cancer 11 22.2 J Schwanke's Life in Bloom - Demystifying Orchids 4PM 26.5 History Detectives 5 26.5 History Detectives 6 26.5 History Detectives May 31 6:30AM 22.2 Make48 7:30PM Outdoors Maryland - Where the Waters Meet; Sifting for History; Relief for Pitchers