TV shows that may be of interest
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Hot tips: March 27 10:30AM channel 9 The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation - Personal Satellites March 28 7PM channel 9 60 Minutes - Dynamic Robots 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. Mar. 27 2:10AM+ 22.4 Anime Supernova - Creating Graceful Motion with CGI 2:25+ 22.4 Darwin's Amazing Animals - Tokyo's Spring Wildlife Kingdom -- Okutama, Japan 4 32 American Experience - The Codebreaker 4:30+ 22.2 Ask This Old House - landscape automation 5+ 26.5 Nature - Hippos: Africa's River Giants 5:40+ 22.4 The Signs - Avatars 6 5 Xploration DIY Science 9 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin - Best Of: Pinnepeds + 26.4 Second Opinion With Joan Lunden - Heart Disease In Women 6:30 5 Xploration Nature Knows Best 8 9.3 Modern Marvels - Radar 9 9.3 Modern Marvels - Radio: Out of Thin Air 10 22 American Woodshop - Custom Kitchen Cutlery and Block Keep (UV cure resin) 10:30 9 The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation - Personal Satellites 26.5 IQ: Smartparent - Raising Citizen Scientists 11 9 Mission Unstoppable - Construction, Clouds and Climate noon+ 26.4 Independent Lens - Coded Bias (facial recognition flaws) 3:30PM 9.3 Brojects - The Chair Ski (deck chair waterski) 8:30 22.2 Chesapeake Collectables - John Glenn items 9:10+ 22.4 Face to Face - Elichi Saitoh: Resilience and Recovery Come in Pairs (robots for rehab medicine) Mar. 28 7:10AM 22.4 15 Minutes - Ground Detective Simon Wallis: File #1 "The Case of the Kakigori" 8:30 22 Second Opinion with Joan Lunden - Millenial Health I + 26.4 Global 3000 - turning CO2 into rock 9 32 Rise of the Superheroes (superhero movies) 10 9.3 American Restoration - Un-Predicta-ble (1950s TV) noon 32 Riding the Ocean Dragon (diving to Indian Ocean bottom) 1PM 32 Wild Philippines with Nigel Marven 1:46 32 Wild Philippines with Nigel Marven (don't know if same show) 2:32 32 Wild Philippines with Nigel Marven (don't know if same show) 3 26.5 The Restorers - Aircraft Restoration 3:30 26.4 Earth Focus - Avocado Wars: The Battle Over Water Rights In Chile 5 22 American Experience - The Codebreaker 6 20 Weather Gone Viral - Shock and Awe 7 9 60 Minutes - Dynamic Robots 26 Fauci: The Virus Hunter 9+ 32 Fauci: The Virus Hunter 10:30+ 26.4 American Masters - Hedy Lamarr Mar. 29 3AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Satellites 3:15+ 22.4 Direct Talk - Exploring the Origins of Life: Tsuda Yuichi / Hayabusa2 Project Manager 4 9.3 Modern Marvels - Space Shuttle 5 9.3 Modern Marvels - Star City 10:30+ 22.4 Medical Frontiers - Unmasking the Virus noon 26.4 Animals With Cameras, A Nature Miniseries 1PM 26.4 NOVA - Touching the Asteroid 2 26.4 NOVA - Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Awakening 2:30 26.5 Articulate With Jim Cotter - The Standouts (Ani Liu combines art & science) Mar. 30 12:45AM+ 22.4 Doctor's Insight - COVID-19: Reducing Your Risk of Serious Illness #1: Heart Disease 12:55+ 22.4 We, in the Time of Corona - Hiroshi Ishiguro, Roboticist 7 9.3 Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy - Larry Is an Astronaut 8:30+ 22.2 Woodsmith Shop - A New Old Workbench 10:30+ 22.4 Science View - From Dinosaur Research to Evolutionary Biology Studies: Paleobiologist Tetsuto Miyashita 11 9.3 Modern Marvels - The Manhattan Project 2PM 9.3 American Restoration - The Reject and Eject (F106 ejection seat) 26.4 NOVA - Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Life Explodes 3:30 9.3 American Restoration - Astro-nuts and Bolts (NASA MMU jet pack) 7+ 22 Maryland Farm & Harvest - Farms & The Environment 9 9.3 Cajun Pawn Stars - Apollo 13 splashdown photos 10:30 22.4 Our Blue Planet - Biodiversity Fosters the Global Future Mar. 31 3:15AM+ 22.4 Direct Talk - United for Change: Paolo Giordano / Writer (post-pandemic world) 6:30 22.2 Make48 10:30 26.5 IQ: Smartparent - The Messy Show noon 26.4 NOVA - Human Nature (CRISPR impacts) 2PM 26.4 NOVA - Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Monsters 8+ 22 & 26 Extinction: The Facts 9+ 22 & 26 Climate Change -- The Facts 9:30+ 22.4 DESIGN TALKS plus - The Future II 10+ 22 & 26 NOVA - Mystery Beneath the Ice Apr. 1 8AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Wiring America 8:30+ 22.2 Woodsmith Shop - Playing Games in the Shop 9 9.3 Modern Marvels - The Tool Bench: Power Tools 6PM 9.3 Shipping Wars - We Come in Pieces! (shipping TARDIS & Enterprise bridge) 8:30 22.4 Asia Insight - Homegrown Sustainable Forestry: Indonesia 9:30 22.4 BOSAI: Be Prepared - Hazard Maps 10 22.2 Secrets of the Dead - Abandoning the Titanic Apr. 2 7AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - The Search for the Polio Vaccine 10 9.3 Modern Marvels - Breaking Point Apr. 3 6AM 22.2 Make Your Mark - Stamp Away 11 9.3 Huge Moves - Massive Machines (lifting a lost plane from lake bottom) noon 9.3 Huge Moves - Total Towns (building a house factory) Apr. 4 12:30AM 9.3 Shipping Wars - Munsters the Final Frontier (lunar lander) 7 9.3 Shipping Wars - Giant Pains in the Ass (giant video game) 8 9.3 Shipping Wars - Highway to the Stranger Zone (MiG fighter) 8:30 22 Second Opinion with Joan Lunden - Millennial Health II 10:30 9.3 American Restoration - Space Cowboy (Gemini fueling helmet) 10PM+ 22 How the Victorians Built Britain 11 22.2 EcoSense for Living - Wild Crossings 11:30 9.3 American Restoration - Clueless (1920s x-ray (no, not that foot x-ray again)) Apr. 5 3AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Gadgets 3 10 9.3 Modern Marvels - Super Human Apr. 6 2PM 9.3 American Restoration - Apples and X-rays (yes, the foot x-ray again) 8+ 22.2 Craftsman's Legacy - The Murrini Glass Maker 8:30 9.3 Storage Wars: Texas - Remember the Alamo? (SF memorabilia) Apr. 8 8AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Secret Underground 10 9.3 Modern Marvels - Top Ten (tech) 5PM 9.3 Shipping Wars - To the Moon and Back (moon sample 7:30 9.3 Storage Wars - High Tea Tighty (radioactive item) Apr. 9 7AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Dangerous Cargo 9 9.3 Modern Marvels - Failed Inventions 2PM 9.3 American Restoration - Tractors & Trucks (1954 tractor, RR air brake tester) 3 9.3 American Restoration - Surfing the Strip (chemical cart, motorized surfboard)