TV shows that may be of interest
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Hot tips: Oct. 17 at 6:10PM on channel 22.4 - Japan's Top Inventions - Robotic Exoskeletons Oct. 18 at 5AM on channel 9.3 - Modern Marvels - Weird Machines Oct. 20 at 4PM & Oct. 21 at 5AM on channel 26 - Reconnecting Roots - Travel: Migration to Mobility (HyperloopTT) Oct. 21 at 9:15PM & Oct. 22 at 3:15AM, 7:40AM, & 12:15PM on channel 22.4 - Direct Talk - 3D Printers Evolve With an Open-Source Approach: Josef Prusa / Founder and CEO of Prusa Research Oct. 22 at 9AM on channel 9.3 - Modern Marvels - Mad Electricity (Nikola Tesla) Oct. 22 at 9:55PM & Oct. 23 at 3:55AM, 9:55AM, & 3:55PM on channel 22.4 - DOMO!WORLD and the Mysterious Path (stop-motion animation) Oct. 23 at 11:10AM & 6:10PM (& probably more) on channel 22.4 - NHK Documentary - Decommissioning Fukushima 2021: Ten Years on from the Nuclear Accident Oct. 23 at 2PM, Oct. 25 at 9AM, & Nov. 6 at 4AM on channel 32 and Oct. 26 at 7PM on channel 26.4 - Big Dreams in Umatilla (robotics team) Oct. 25 at 6AM on channel 9.3 - Mayday: Air Disaster - Hidden Danger 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 Oct. 17 3:30+ 26.4 Earth Focus - Future of Food 4 9.3 Scrap Kings - ?Pete's Pub 22 Impossible Builds - Skinny Skyscraper 5 9.3 Scrap Kings - ?Ockford Ridge 22 Wild Travels: America's Oddest Museums 5:10 22.4 The Professionals - Creation Is Life: Tsujimura Shiro, Ceramic Artist 6 9.3 Scrap Kings 20 Weather Gone Viral - Split Second Survival + 22 Fatal Shot - Brainwashed Assassins 6:10 22.4 Japan's Top Inventions - Robotic Exoskeletons 6:25 22.4 Japan's Top Inventions - Surgical Microscope Stands 6:40 22.4 BOSAI: Science that Can Save Your Life - #6 Debris Flows 6:55 22.4 PythagoraSwitch mini - Pythagora Folding Handkerchief Theater 7 9.3 Scrap Kings - ?Cable Car 7:30+ 26 Antiques Roadshow Recut - Out of This World, Part 2 + 26.5 Antiques Roadshow Recut - Out of This World, Part 1 8 9.3 Scrap Kings - ?Botley Shops + 26.4 Nature - Animal Odd Couples + 32 Vaccination from the Misinformation Virus 11+ 26.4 Ghost Forests (imperiled whitebark pines) Oct. 18 5AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Weird Machines 6 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Ocean Landing 10 9.3 Modern Marvels - Built by Hand 10:30+ 22.4 Medical Frontiers - COVID-19: The Potential of Antibody Drugs 3PM+ 26 Start Up - Ruff Rescue Gear 4 9.3 Auction Kings - Gangster Terraplane (your guess is as good as mine) (etc.) 4:30 26 Reconnecting Roots - The Recording Industry: Off the Record, In the Cloud 8+ 32 Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline - Scandinavia Oct. 19 12:45AM+ 22.4 Doctor's Insight - Breast Cancer #1: Know Your Risk 12:55+ 22.4 We, in the Time of Corona - Paula Ingabire, Minister of ICT & Innovation, Rwanda (tech vs. pandemic) 1:15+ 22.4 Direct Talk - Sasaki Rui, glass art 2:23+ 22.4 Ukiyoe EDO-LIFE: Riverside Sawmill 6 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Miracle Escape 6:30 22.2 My World Too - Sustainable Architecture For Our Future, A Tiny House Community 10:30+ 22.4 Science View - Fossil Findings - Clues to Japan in the Cretaceous Period 4PM 9.3 Auction Kings - Motorized Bar Stool (etc.) 7+ 22 Maryland Farm & Harvest - Solar Powered Poultry Farm; Making a Corn Maze 9:30+ 22.4 15 Minutes - NINJA TRUTH Episode 12: Physical Abilities of the Ninja 10:30+ 22.4 RISING - Food Flow and the Future of Farming: Agricultural Logistics Innovator - Kato Yuriko Oct. 20 1AM 32 In Their Own Words - Elon Musk 1:15+ 22.4 Direct Talk - Mary Robinson, The Elders (climate change) 2 9.3 America's Book of Secrets - Black Ops 5+ 26.4 A Journey Through Breast Cancer 6 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Falling from the Sky 6:30 22.2 Make48 - Innovate, Build, Invent!, Pt. 3 10+ 26.5 Urban Conversion - Rocky Mountain Air 10:30+ 26.5 Urban Conversion - Seeing the Forest Through the Trees noon 26.5 Roadtrip Nation - Deciding What's Next (exhibition design, inventor Ben Kaufman) 3PM+ 26 Start Up - Plum Health 4+ 26 Reconnecting Roots - Travel: Migration to Mobility (HyperloopTT) 8+ 22 & 26 - Nature - My Garden of a Thousand Bees 9+ 22 & 26 NOVA - Edible Insects 9:30+ 22.4 DESIGN TALKS plus - Well-being 10+ 22 & 26 Secrets of the Dead - Magellan's Crossing 22.2 Fatal Shot - Brainwashed Assassins Oct. 21 2AM 9.3 America's Book of Secrets - The Ancient Astronaut Cover-Up 6 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Fire Fight 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - Big & Small 8:30 22.2 Woodsmith Shop - Solving Problems, Woodworking Solutions 10 9.3 Modern Marvels - Retro Tech 1:30PM 26.4 Second Opinion - HIV 3 22.4 Japan's Top Inventions - Home Bread Makers 3:15 22.4 DEEPER LOOK from New York - How Can We Adapt to Climate Change?: Alice Hill / Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations 4:30+ 26 Reconnecting Roots - Trains: Tracking Progress 9+ 26.4 Secrets of the Dead - Galileo's Moon 9:15+ 22.4 Direct Talk - 3D Printers Evolve With an Open-Source Approach: Josef Prusa / Founder and CEO of Prusa Research Oct. 22 6AM 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Missed Approach 6:30+ 26.4 Closer to Truth - Can Art Probe Creativity? 8 9.3 Modern Marvels - Super Hot 9 9.3 Modern Marvels - Mad Electricity (Nikola Tesla) noon 26.5 Roadtrip Nation - Pumped and Ready (JPL & hacker) 12:30PM 26.5 Samantha Brown's Places to Love - Huntsville, Alabama (space) 1 32 Climate Change: Ade on the frontline - Scandinavia 3+ 26 Start Up - LuminAID (rechargeable light) 5 9.3 Storage Wars: Texas - Excuse Me, I Think You're Stupid (rockets) 8:10+ 22.4 Water, Not Weapons - The Greening of Afghanistan 9:55+ 22.4 DOMO!WORLD and the Mysterious Path (stop-motion animation) 10:25+ 22.4 Darwin's Amazing Animals - Kabuki in the Primate World -- Mandrill, Gabonese Republic, Africa 11:40+ 22.4 The Signs - Kuma Kengo: Architecting a New Way of Life 11:55+ 22.4 Danko&Danta, Cardboard Craft Creations! - Microwave Oct. 23 1:55AM+ 22.4 PythagoraSwitch mini - You Don't Believe It! #3 4 32 Food - Delicious Science - A Matter of Taste 6 9 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin - Journey Across the Pacific + 26.4 Second Opinion With Joan Lunden - Heart Disease in Women 9 9.3 Modern Marvels - Extreme Aircraft II 9:30 22.2 Growing A Greener World - Making More Plants By Propagating Your Garden 10:10 22.4 RISING - Green Recovery in Rural Japan: NPO Founder - Yoshida Hiroko 10:30 9 The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation - Robot Kitchen 11 9 Mission Unstoppable - Handwings, History, and Henna 11:10+ 22.4 NHK Documentary - Decommissioning Fukushima 2021: Ten Years on from the Nuclear Accident 1PM 32 History Detectives - Andrew Jackson's Mouth/Barton Letter/Spybook 2 9.3 American Restoration - Surfing the Strip (motorized surfboard) + 32 Big Dreams in Umatilla (robotics team) 3 9.3 Brojects - Ultimate Outdoor Theatre 6 9.3 Storm Chasers - When Parts Fly + 26.4 Focus on Europe - Shetland Islands clean energy, Cyprus plastic waste (etc.) 7 9.3 Storm Chasers - Mutiny on the Plains 8 9.3 Storm Chasers - Nightmare on DOW Street 10:30+ 32 On Story - A Conversation with Akiva Goldsman (Star Trek writer) Oct. 24 7AM 32 Into the Outdoors - Ripples in the Forest 9:30 9.3 Brojects - The Workshop 1:30PM 26.4 Start Up - Amphibian Air -- Savannah, GA 3 26.5 The Restorers - The Aviatrix 3:30 26.4 Earth Focus - Urban Habitat 5 26 The Chavis Chronicles - Link Greene, future of digital currency & blockchain technology 5:30 (6?) 20 Weather Gone Viral - Weird Weather 9 9.3 Lost World - The Age of Airships Oct. 25 1AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - World's Strongest II 2 9.3 Modern Marvels - It Came from Outerspace 3 9.3 Modern Marvels - Welding 4 9.3 Modern Marvels - Weapons of Mass Destruction 5 9.3 Modern Marvels - Environmental Tech 6 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Hidden Danger 22.2 The Legacy List with Matt Paxton - Don't Go in the Basement (fossils) 10 9.3 Modern Marvels - World's Strongest 11 9.3 Shipping Wars - To the Moon and Back (moon rock) 3PM 26 Start Up - The Office Oasis 7:30 22 Chesapeake Collectables - Gene Roddenberry Autographed Script (etc.) Oct. 26 6AM 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Panic Over the Pacific 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - Assembly Line 8 9.3 Modern Marvels - Renewable Energy noon 26.5 Roadtrip Nation - Get the Ball Rolling (DEFCON, 3D printing) 4PM 26.4 Things That Go Bump in the Night 7 22 Maryland Farm & Harvest - Giant Tree Transplanters; Corn from Grain to Elevator; UMd Breeding a Better Apple 26.4 Big Dreams in Umatilla (robotics team) Oct. 27 1AM 9.3 Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy - Extreme American Critters 2 9.3 America's Book of Secrets - Mystery of Bigfoot 6 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Out of Sight 8 9.3 Modern Marvels - World's Biggest Machines 5 Oct. 28 6AM 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Fog of War 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - 80's Tech 8 9.3 Modern Marvels - Strongest Countdown 10 9.3 Modern Marvels - Super Strong Countdown 4PM 9.3 Auction Kings - Vampire Hunting Kit/Meteorite Oct. 29 3AM 9.3 America's Book of Secrets - Big Brother 6 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Vertigo 10 9.3 Modern Marvels - Mega Machine Countdown Oct. 30 6AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Mega Speed Countdown 1:30PM 9.3 American Restoration - Slick Pick (Edison film projector) 6 9.3 Storm Chasers - Road Hazard 7 9.3 Storm Chasers - No Place Like Kansa 8 9.3 Storm Chasers - Hail to the Beast