Capitol Fourth Capitol
2009
Sat Jul 4 at 8 pm
The star-spangled party features special performances by some of the country's best-known musical artists in performance with the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction conductor Erich Kunzel. Jimmy Smits returns to host the biggest and brightest birthday party in the country, featuring (for the first time ever) Barry Manilow, who will both open and close the concert broadcast with a stirring medley of hits and patriotic classics.
DocDoc Martin
Going Bodmin
Sat Jul 4 at 10 pm
As Martin moves in and meets the locals, he realizes that adjusting to village life is not going to be smooth sailing. In his sharp suits and flashy car, he's a fish out of water. It's Lifeboat Day in Portwenn, and the harbor is alive with stalls, fairground rides and a jazz band, but Martin has become the butt of jokes among the bevy of teenage girls from the village. Just when he thinks the day couldn't get any worse, he's forced off the road and into a ditch. His rescuer is constable, Mark Mylow.
NatureNature:
The Vanishing Lions
Sun Jul 5 at 8 pm
As the largest predator in Africa, the lion should have nothing to fear, but the king of the savannah is facing an uncertain future. While concentrating on the dwindling number of elephants and rhinos, nobody suspected the big cats were in trouble. When the number of lions turned out to be fewer than 30,000 and not 100,000 as previously estimated, it was clear the lion had become vulnerable. We hear from experts, farmers, and Masai herdsmen as they explore solutions to the problems of saving lions and living with them.
MasterpieceMasterpiece Mystery!
A Pocket Full of Rye
Sun Jul 5 at 9 pm
When Miss Marple learns of the deaths of businessman Rex Fortescue, his young wife, Adele, and their housemaid, Gladys, the circumstances vividly recall the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence." Since Miss Marple had trained Gladys herself, she has a personal reason to investigate. Will her reasoning and deduction make sense of the rhyme and at last reveal the culprit?
History DetectivesHistory
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Mon Jul 6 at 9 pm
St. Valentine's Day Massacre - did one of Al Capone's men fire this shotgun in a Chicago gang massacre? Booth Letter - A contributor has a letter indicating that, 30 years before John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, Booth's father threatened to kill another sitting president, Andrew Jackson. Cemetery Alarm - A Midland, Michigan, man who collects war munitions snapped up an item at an estate auction thinking it was a Civil War-era weapon. On closer inspection he decided he actually had a grave alarm: an explosive device meant to guard against grave robbers. 
NOVA:NOVA
Secrets of the Samurai Sword
Tue Jul 7 at 8 pm
For more than a thousand years, the samurai sword dominated the battlefields of Japan, instilled fear and terror into every enemy it faced, and evoked a spiritual way of life that continues even today. With unparalleled access, NOVA travels deep into Japan's ancient foundries, follows the craft of the traditional swordsmiths and attends samurai fighting school to reveal the art and science behind making what many call the perfect sword.
NOVA scienceNOWNOVA
Series 4, Episode 2
Tue Jul 7 at 9 pm
Astronomers on the brink of finding "another Earth" in our galaxy, using a new planet-hunting machine: the Kepler telescope; Rudy Tanzi, a pioneer in discovering genes for Alzheimer's disease, and others who are on the hunt for the genetic key to autism; the use of computers to authenticate paintings; and a profile of spider scientist Maydianne Andrade.
TimeTime Team America
Premiere
Wed Jul 8 at 8 pm
In the series premiere, Time Team America goes in search of the nation's mysterious roots at Roanoke Island. In 1586, the English sent the first group of hardy, hopeful colonists to the New World. When English ships returned with supplies just three years later, they found the settlement empty and the colonists gone. The colonists had left behind only one clue: the word Croatan carved in the gatepost of their fort. It took 20 years for the stunned English to establish another settlement in America. The fate of the Roanoke colonists remains one of the most chilling and maddening questions of American history.
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