TV shows that may be of interest

Dec. 6 at 9:30AM, 3:30PM, 10:30PM, Dec. 7 at 4:30AM, & Dec. 10 at 2PM on channel 22.4 - Medical Frontiers - Medical Smart Revolution (VR etc.) Dec. 6 at 9:30PM & Dec. 7 at 2:30AM, 8:30AM, & 2:30PM on channel 22.4 - Document 72 Hours - Akihabara: Infatuation with Electronics Dec. 8 at 2PM on channel 22.4 - Today's Close-Up - Peter 2.0: Living as a Cyborg Dec. 8 at 9PM on channel 22.2 - Building the Channel Tunnel 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 Fredrick & 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 Dec. 5 5PM+ 4.2 Meet the Press - Francis Collins NIH) 5:10+ 22.4 Japan's Top Inventions - Neurosurgical Instruments / Weather Meters 5:40+ 22.4 BOSAI: Science that Can Save Your Life - #11 Earthquake Fires 5:55 22.4 PythagoraSwitch mini - Do your best! Equipment Number 153 March (Rube Goldberg bloopers) 6 20 Weather Gone Viral - The Wrath of Nature 7:30 (may be delayed or partially preempted by football) 9 60 Minutes - Reality Winner; Chinas Next Revolution?; Gucci (Russian hacking) 8+ 26.4 Nature - Pandas: Born to Be Wild + 26.5 Craft in America - Holiday 8:15+ 22.4 Direct Talk - Touchable Technologies of Tomorrow: Otsubo Makoto / Aerial Imaging Display Developer 10 26.2 Big Ben: Saving the World's Most Famous Clock 10:30 (may be delayed) 9 %NCIS: Los Angeles - deepfake 11 9.3 Lost World - The Age of Airships 11:30+ 26.2 %Yes, Minister - Big Brother Dec. 6 12:15AM+ 22.4 Direct Talk - Miura Hiroshi, renewable energy for Fukushima agriculture 1 9.3 Modern Marvels - The Search for the Polio Vaccine 4 9.3 Modern Marvels - Radar 22 How the Victorians Built Britain 5 9.3 Modern Marvels - Radio: Out of Thin Air 6 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Ocean Landing 32 White House Chronicle - cryptocurrency 9:30+ 22.4 Medical Frontiers - Medical Smart Revolution (VR etc.) 1PM+ 22.2 Best of Sewing with Nancy - How to Sew Art, Part 1 2 22.4 NHK Documentary - 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Hunger Pandemic - The Catastrophic Cost of Excess 26.5 Articulate With Jim Cotter - Earth Day (endangered species) 9 9 %NCIS - interviewing a hologram 9:30+ 22.4 Document 72 Hours - Akihabara: Infatuated with Electronics 10 22.2 Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan - Dr. Gawande 10:30+ 22.2 Made in Maryland 11:45+ 22.4 Doctor's Insight - Esophageal Cancer #2: Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Dec. 7 12:30AM 9.3 Shipping Wars - Munsters the Final Frontier (lunar lander) 4 22 How the Victorians Built Britain 6 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Miracle Escape 32 White House Chronicle - cryptocurrency 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - Rescue Equipment 8:30+ 22.2 Woodsmith Shop - Roll-Around Tool Cabinet 9:30+ 22.4 Science View - Hydrogen Promises Cleaner Energy 11 26.4 Great Conversations - Dani Shapiro and Robert Siegal (genetic detective story) 2PM 22.4 BIZ STREAM - Capturing and Reusing CO2 7:30 22 Outdoors Maryland - Underwater Marauders; The Nature Cure; Water from the Air Dec. 8 1:30AM+ 22.4 15 Minutes - Ground Detective Simon Wallis: File No. 3 "The Case of the Udon Noodles" 4 22 How the Victorians Built Britain 6 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Falling from the Sky 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - Satellites 10+ 26.5 Urban Conversion - Across the Desert Sand 10:30+ 26.5 Urban Conversion - Rocky Mountain Air 11 32 Big Pacific - Mysterious noon 32 Big Pacific - Violent 1:30PM 26.4 Earth Focus - The Youth Climate Movement 2 22.4 Today's Close-Up - Peter 2.0: Living as a Cyborg 2:30 26.5 Articulate With Jim Cotter - The Neverending Story (science of story) 8 22 Nature - My Garden of a Thousand Bees + 26.5 Nature - Wild Way of the Vikings 9 22.2 Building the Channel Tunnel + 26.5 NOVA - Rise of the Mammals 9:30 22 NOVA - NOVA Universe Revealed - Milky Way + 26 Nature - My Garden of a Thousand Bees 10+ 26.5 Impossible Builds - Ice World Dec. 9 4AM 22 How the Victorians Built Britain 6 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Fire Fight 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - Space Shuttle 11 32 Big Pacific - Voracious noon 32 Big Pacific - Passionate 1:30PM 26.4 Second Opinion - Head & Neck Cancer 6:55 22.4 Japanology Plus mini - urban workshops 8+ 26.4 NOVA - Secrets of Noah's Ark 8:45+ 22.4 Zero Waste Life - Glass for Life 9:30+ 22.4 Planting Trees for the Future - Toward a Sustainable World 11 22.2 In The Americas with David Yetman - The Depths of the Canyon and Its Offspring (Colorado River) Dec. 10 12:15AM+ 22.4 Direct Talk - VR of endangered animals 4 22 How the Victorians Built Britain 6 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Missed Approach 22.2 For Your Home - Glad You Asked! (bloopers) 6:30+ 26.4 Closer to Truth - What Exists II? (classification) 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - Star City 1PM+ 22.2 Best of Sewing with Nancy - How to Sew Art, Part 2 4 9.3 Auction Kings - Space Oddities 26.5 White House Chronicle - cryptocurrency 6 9.3 Storage Wars: NY - Hi-text Hi-jinx (high tech) 7:10+ 22.4 Zeroing In: Carbon Neutral 2050 - Episode 7 Catching the Wind 7:35+ 22.4 Zeroing In: Carbon Neutral 2050 - Episode 8 Troubled Waters 8:10+ 22.4 NHK WORLD PRIME - War and Disease: Falling to Malaria 10:40+ 22.4 The Signs - Handheld Revolution (smartphones) 10:55+ 22.4 Danka & Danta, Cardboard Craft Creations Dec. 11 12:10AM+ 22.4 Japan's Top Inventions - Radio Controlled Watches / Encrusting Machines 12:40+ 22.4 BOSAI: Science that Can Save Your Life - #7 Mt. Fuji's Threat to Japan 12:55+ 22.4 PythagoraSwitch mini - Today's Robot 3 9.3 America's Book of Secrets - Big Brother 4 22 How the Victorians Built Britain 32 Rick Steves Hunger and Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala 6 9 Ocean Mysteries With Jeff Corwin - The Island of Tasmania 26.4 Second Opinion - Atrial Fibrillation 10 7 Wildlife Nation With Jeff Corwin - Belugas, Bison, and Bees - oh my! 10:10+ 22.4 NHK Documentary - Miracle Body: Breaking Limits with Hyper-Adaptability 10:30 9 The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation - GPS Turtle Eggs 11 9 Mission Unstoppable - Robots, Rocks, and Rivers 11:30 9.3 American Restoration - Atomic Restoration (U detector) 6PM 9.3 Storm Chasers - Twister Twilight Zone 20 %MacGyver - Packing Peanuts + Fire 7 9.3 Storm Chasers - Judgement Day 8 9.3 Storm Chasers - Opening Pursuits + 26.5 Independent Lens - Rodents of Unusual Size (nutria) Dec. 12 6:30AM 9.3 Brojects - The Ultimate Covert Man Cave 7 9.3 Brojects - The ATV-Powered Barge 32 Into the Outdoors - Refining Crude Oil 8:30+ 26.4 Global 3000 - Namibia's hyenas, El Salvador climate change (etc.) 9 9.3 Lost World - Henry VIII's Megastructures 10+ 32 The Brain Revolution (neuroplasticity) 3:30PM 26.4 Earth Focus - Dying Oceans: Abalone Restoration in California Dec. 13 2AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - The Manhattan Project 4 22 How the Victorians Built Britain 6 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Hidden Danger 10:30+ 22.2 Weekend with Yankee - Only in New England (woodworking shop) (etc.) 8PM 9.3 Hardcore Pawn - Computer Crash Dec. 14 6AM 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Panic Over the Pacific 7PM 22 Maryland Farm & Harvest - Wool Turned Into Yarn (etc.) Dec. 15 6AM 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Out of Sight 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - Wiring America 10 26.5 Urban Conversion - Seeing the Forest Through the Trees 10:30 26.5 Urban Conversion - It Takes a Village 1:30PM 26.4 Earth Focus - Coal Mining in South Africa 2 26.5 Articulate With Jim Cotter - The Standouts (Ani Liu mixes art & science) 8+ 22 & 26 Nature - Santa's Wild Home 8:30 9.3 Hardcore Pawn - The Outsider (Star Trek items) 9+ 22 & 26 NOVA - Decoding da Vinci 10 22 Impossible Builds - Skinny Skyscraper Dec. 16 3AM 9.3 America's Book of Secrets - Secret Underground 6 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Fog of War 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - The Tool Bench: Power Tools 3:30PM 9.3 Auction Kings - Cy Young Baseball/1950s TV Dec. 17 6AM 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Vertigo 4PM+ 22 rtworks - Photos From Space (etc.) 11:30 22 Articulate with Jim Cotter - Worlds of Words (SF writer Tochi Onyebuchi) (etc.) Dec. 18 10AM 22 Woodsmith Shop - Take Care of Your Tools 10:30 22 Changing Seas - Alvin: Pioneer of the Deep 11 22 Science Matters: Backyard Bay Savers in the City 8PM+ 22 Bone Detectives - Stoke Quay, Ipswitch Dec. 19 10:30AM 22 Articulate with Jim Cotter - The Neverending Story (science of story)