TV shows that may be of interest

Hot tips: May 21 at 1:40AM & 4:10AM & May 22 at 10:40AM & 6:40PM - BOSAI: Science that Can Save Your Life - #18 Human Stampede 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 May 29 at 5PM on channel 9.3 - What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - In-human Slingshot May 29 at 6PM on channel 9.3 - What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Raiders of the Lost Keg May 30 at 3PM on channel 26.5 - History Detectives - WWI poster, Valley Forge map, early transistor radio, Prohibition-era business card May 31 at 4PM on channel 26.4 - Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World - The Robot Thursdays at 6AM on channel 22.2 - Make: Channel 4.4, Oxygen, is now broadcasting. Channel 5.3 has changed from MeTV to StartTV; MeTV airs on channel 48.1 but it appears to have very limited coverage since I failed to receive it with a roof antenna inside the Beltway. 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 4:30AM 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 7:40+ 22.4 Direct Talk - Reality of Refugees Through Video Games: Lual Mayen / Video Game Developer, Founder of Junub Games 8 26.4 NOVA - Dinosaur Apocalypse: The New Evidence 8:30+ 22.4 15 Minutes - Ground Detective Simon Wallis: Case 2 Soy Sauce 8:55+ 22.4 Core Kyoto mini - Kata-yuzen (stencil dyeing) 9 26.4 NOVA - Dinosaur Apocalypse: The Last Day 10 26.4 Prehistoric Road Trip - Welcome to Fossil Country + 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 - Two Rivers 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 10:25+ 22.4 Darwin's Amazing Animals - Adorable Resilience - Ladybug, Japan 11:55+ 22.4 Danko&Danta, Cardboard Craft Creations! - Camera May 21 12:25AM+ 22.4 Ukiyoe EDO-LIFE(4) - analyzing painting 1:10+ 22.4 Japan's Top Inventions - Surgical Microscope Stand 1:25+ 22.4 Japan's Top Inventions - Automatic Thread Trimmer Sewing Machines 1:40+ 22.4 BOSAI: Science that Can Save Your Life - #18 Human Stampede 1:55+ 22.4 PythagoraSwitch mini - The Twist Twist Song 2 9.3 Modern Marvels - High Tech Sex 2:06 7 Hot Bench - Watering the Bill; Drugs, Bed Bugs, & Covid 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 4 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin - Eye of the Tiger Shark + 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 10:10+ 22.4 BIZ STREAM - Sewing Surge Creates New Demand 10:30 4 Earth Odyssey With Dylan Dreyer - Asian Adventures 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 6 20 %MacGyver - Save + The + Dam + World 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 3:20AM 22.4 The Great Summits - Blessings of the Mountain, Guiana Highlands, South America 4 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 - Terrariums: 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 20 Weather Gone Viral - Stormy Across the Globe 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 9:15+ 22.4 Direct Talk - Building Relief Shelters from Paper: Ban Shigeru / Architect 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 + 22.4 Medical Frontiers - Exploring the Mystery of Good Sleep 3PM 26.5 History Detectives - Fiery Cross; Civil War Deringers; Motown Amp 9 22.2 Moving San Francisco May 24 12:45AM+ 22.4 Doctor's Insight - Colorectal Cancer #3: Drug Treatment 1 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 11:30 32 Story in the Public Square - Suzanne Simard (forest communication) 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 noon 32 Rowan Lecompte: A Life in Light (stained glass) 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 1AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Gold Mines 2 26.2 %COBRA 3 9.3 Modern Marvels - Space Station 6 9.3 Modern Marvels - The Tool Bench: Hand Tools 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 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - Motorcycles 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 12:30PM 9.3 Hardcore Pawn - Acid Test (high-tech metal tester) 3 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 1AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Dynamite 2 9.3 Modern Marvels - Scuba & Deep Sea Diving 3 9.3 Modern Marvels - Jet Engines 6 4 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin - Best of Sharks + 26.4 Second Opinion - Hospital Delirium 7:30 9.3 Brojects - The Chair Ski 22 EcoSense for Living - Bats & Blooms 8:30 9.3 Brojects - Ultimate Outdoor Theatre 9 26.2 %As Time Goes By - Going Online 10 7 Wildlife Nation With Jeff Corwin - Back From the Brink 26.5 Life on the Line - Footsteps of the Unknown 10:30 9 The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation - Single Serve Ice Cream Maker 26.5 Life on the Line 11 9 Mission Unstoppable - Space, Sewers, and Sharks 3PM 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Scratching the Surface 4 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Lockerbie 5 9.3 Mayday: Air Disaster - Blown Apart 6 9.3 Seconds from Disaster - Bismark 20 %MacGyver Seeds + Permafrost + Feather 7 9.3 Seconds from Disaster - Mountain Tsunami 9 9.3 Storm Chasers - Back Seat Driver 10 9.3 Storm Chasers - Dedication 11+ 22 Memphis Belle: Her Final Mission May 29 7AM 22 Home Diagnosis 8 9.3 How the Earth Was Made - Hawaii 8:30 22 Second Opinion with Joan Lunden - Alopecia Areata 9 9.3 How the Earth Was Made - Driest Place on Earth 9:30 22 Doctor Q & A - The Battle Against Breast Cancer 11 9.3 Lost Worlds - Lost City of Aphrodite 22.2 J Schwanke's Life in Bloom - Demystifying Orchids 3PM 9.3 Doomsday Preppers - Into the Spider Hole 4 9.3 Doomsday Preppers - It's Gonna Get Worse 26.5 History Detectives 5 9.3 What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - In-human Slingshot 26.5 History Detectives 6 9.3 What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Raiders of the Lost Keg 26.5 History Detectives May 30 1AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Spy Technology 3 9.3 Modern Marvels - The Big Dig 4 9.3 Modern Marvels - Airships 5 9.3 Modern Marvels - The Alaska Oil Pipeline 3PM 26.5 History Detectives - WWI poster, Valley Forge map, transistor radio, Prohibition-era business card 5:30 9.3 American Restoration - Atomic Restoration (U detector) May 31 2AM 9.3 Modern Marvels - Under Pressure 3 9.3 Modern Marvels - Tiny Weapons 4 32 Home Diagnosis - Brooklyn, Ny 1600's Verses #Tinylab 6:30 22.2 Make48 7 9.3 Modern Marvels - Wood noon 32 Roadtrip Nation: at Your Fingertips (computer science) 2PM 26.4 Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World - The Telescope 3 26.4 Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World - The Airplane 26.5 History Detectives - stuntman saddle, Tumbling Tumbleweeds lyrics, etc. 4 26.4 Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World - The Robot 6:30 9.3 Shipping Wars - Munsters the Final Frontier (lunar lander) 7:30 Outdoors Maryland - Where the Waters Meet; Sifting for History; Relief for Pitchers 9 26.4 Prehistoric Road Trip - Tiny Teeth, Fearsome Beasts