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PRIMETIME

September 2021

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Muhammad AliSeptember 19 – 22, 8pmOn OPB TV and the PBS Video App

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Frontline America After 9/11Drawing on new interviews and one of the richest archives in television, Frontline investigates how the choices made after the attacks reshaped our world and our democracy.

Tuesday, September 7, 9pm OPB

9:30 OPB & OPB+ Ken Burns: The National Parks Explore the beauty and grandeur of our nation’s magnificent parks, from Acadia to Yosemite. (Also Tue 2:30am OPB)

11:30 OPB & OPB+ Yellowstone Symphony Travel on a spectacular visual journey through the wonders of America’s first national park. (Also Tue 4:30am OPB)

6 MONDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) |

OPB+ A Wider World

7:30 OPB+ Globe Scholars: South Korea Pt 1. International students learn about Korea’s history and culture while studying abroad. (Also Fri 5am OPB)

8:00 OPB Build a Better Memory Through Science Discover weekly strategies and lifestyle suggestions that make improving memory fun and rewarding. (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Keepers of the Light In 2015, a Massachusetts community rallied to save their lighthouse from destruction. (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB+ Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change the World Ep 1. The teen activist works to mobilize all of us to slow down climate change. (Also Sun 7pm)

10:00 OPB Mindfulness Goes Mainstream Experience the transformative power of mindfulness meditation. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB Relieving Stress With Yoga With Peggy Cappy Learn how to relieve stress and anxiety with yoga and special breathing techniques. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ Skindigenous Samoa: Peter Sulua’pe/Newfoundland: Jordan Bennet (Also Wed 2am)

3 FRIDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) |

OPB+ London: 2000 Years of History Ep 4. World wars and the Spanish flu shape London as we know it today.

8:00 OPB Great Performances Andrea Bocelli: Believe. Enjoy the songs of the internationally beloved tenor’s 2020 album recorded in Malta. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week

8:30 OPB+ Breaking Big Jason Aldean (Also Mon 12:30am)

9:00 OPB+ In Their Own Words Pope Francis. Learn what led Jorge Bergoglio to the highest office in the Catholic Church. (Also Mon 1am)

9:30 OPB Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide The personal finance expert provides essential advice on planning for retirement. (Also Mon 2:30am)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am)

11:00 OPB+ Frontline President Biden. The story of how crisis and tragedy prepared Joe Biden to become president.

11:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Tasty Europe The travel expert shows the importance of cuisine in European culture. (Also Mon 4:30am)

4 SATURDAY5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+

Rick Steves’ Europe Rome: Ancient Glory

6:00 OPB & OPB+ Ken Burns: Hemingway Join Jeff Daniels for a behind-the-scenes look at the acclaimed documentary series.

8:00 OPB & OPB+ All Creatures Great and Small: Between the Pages Get to know the cast and creators of the hit series based on James Herriot’s beloved books.

9:30 OPB & OPB+ What the Durrells Did Next: A Masterpiece Special Discover the true story behind one of the best-loved families in TV drama.

11:00 OPB & OPB+ Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie Interviews and archive material help create a portrait of the complex author.

5 SUNDAY5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+

Rick Steves’ Europe Granada, Cordoba, and Spain’s Costa del Sol

6:00 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves Europe Awaits Travel lovers have spent the last year or so dreaming of where they’ll travel post-pandemic.

8:00 OPB & OPB+ Carpenters: Close to You Trace the career of the brother-sister musical duo. (Also Tue 1am OPB)

1 WEDNESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ Art in the

Twenty-First Century Johannesburg

8:00 OPB Nature Pandas: Born To Be Wild. Unlock the mysteries of wild pandas. (Also Sun 9am OPB & OPB+) |

OPB+ Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten A community comes to terms with its past, present and future. (Also Fri 12am)

9:30 OPB Oregon Revealed Willamette Valley Splendor. Take a breathtaking aerial journey through the valley’s vineyards, campuses and more. (Also Sun 10:30am OPB & OPB+) | OPB+ Legacy of Love The mostly unknown story of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott’s formative years together.

(Also Fri 1:30am)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Tina Turner: One Last Time Tina Turner performs hit after hit from her four-decade career. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ The Dictator’s Playbook Manuel Noriega (Also Fri 2am)

2 THURSDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) |

OPB+ Food: Delicious Science We Are What We Eat (Also Fri 4am)

8:00 OPB Sam Cooke: Legend Follow the rise of the soul music legend, from his beginnings as a gospel singer to his crossover to the pop and R&B charts. (Also Sat 4pm OPB & OPB+) | OPB+ The Mysteries of Mental Illness The New Frontiers. Look at today’s most cutting-edge treatments, based on the latest understanding of mental illness. (Also Sat 12am)

9:00 OPB+ Oregon Experience In the Shadow of Fairview. Fairview Training Center was once Oregon’s primary institution for people with developmental disabilities. For some, it was home. For others, it was a prison. (Also Sat 1am)

9:30 OPB Agatha and the Truth of Murder Crime writer Agatha Christie investigates the disappearance of Florence Nightingale’s goddaughter. (Also Sun 2:30am)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)

11:00 OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

11:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Festive Europe Experience pageantry and celebration in Paris and London. (Also Mon 12:30am) | OPB+ Seat at the Table Career Code Switching (Also Sat 2:30am)

weekdaysMONDAY – FRIDAY

6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon)

7am OPB+ NHK Newsline

7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); Classical Stretch (Tu/Th)

8am OPB+ Sewing & Knitting

8:30 OPB+ Quilting

9am OPB+ Painting

10am OPB+ Woodworking (M/W/Th); This Old House (Tu/F)

10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking

11am OPB+ Big Pacific (M); Genius (Tu); Civilizations (W); Eyes on the Prize (Th); Oregon Field Guide (F)

11:30 OPB+ Oregon Art Beat (F)

12pm OPB Painting | OPB+ Portrayal and Perception (M); Between the Covers (Tu); Canada Files (W); In the Americas (Th); My World Too (F)

12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ Growing Bolder (M); GZero World (Tu); Latinas (W); Chavis Chronicles (Th); Asian American Life (F)

1pm OPB+ DW News

1:30 OPB Travel | OPB+ DW: The Day

2pm OPB Kids Programs (until 6pm) | OPB+ BBC Outside Source (M–Th); BBC Today (F)

2:30 OPB+ BBC World News America

3pm OPB+ News & Public Affairs

3:30 OPB+ NHK Newsline

4pm OPB+ PBS NewsHour

5pm OPB+ Travel

5:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until 7pm)

6pm OPB This Old House (M/Tu); Travel (W/Th/F)

6:30 OPB BBC Outside Source (M–Th); BBC Today (F)

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OPB = Comcast 10 or 710; antenna XX.1OPB+ = Comcast 310; antenna XX.2KIDS = Comcast 311; antenna XX.3Full channel list at opb.org/schedules

R = Repeat within a weekRepeats are on original channel unless notedFull schedule and VOD at opb.org/schedules

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Programs are subject to change

7 TUESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) |

OPB+ Nature The Leopard Legacy

8:00 OPB Native America Cities of the Sky. Scientists explore pyramids and a lost city on the Mississippi River. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Hawaii: Islands of Wonder Hawaii is home to an extraordinary wealth of wildlife. (Also Sun 3pm)

9:00 OPB Frontline America After 9/11. See callout on page 2. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Sex in the Wild Orangutans (Also Sun 4pm)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB Lives Well Lived Celebrate the wisdom of people over 75 years old and their insights for living. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Secrets of Westminster Enter a world of intrigue and tradition. (Also Thu 2am)

8 WEDNESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) |

OPB+ Art in the Twenty-First Century Berlin

8:00 OPB Future of Work The New Industrial Revolution. Explore disruptions to the world of work, from artificial intelligence to globalization, labor practices and more. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ Korea: The Never-Ending War A chronicle of the Korean War’s global consequences. (Also Sun 11am)

9:00 OPB NOVA High-Risk High-Rise. Uncover the risks of sky-high buildings. (Also Sun 11am)

10:00 OPB Future of Work Futureproof. Examine the challenges of the pandemic and racial and economic disparities at work. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Earth’s Natural Wonders Living Wonders. See true wonders created by life itself in the Amazon and in Bangladesh. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ The Dictator’s Playbook Francisco Franco (Also Fri 2am)


OPB+ Ancient Skies Gods and Monsters. Learn what our ancestors understood about the mysteries of space. (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Place Where You Persist. Artist and arts educator Lisa Jarrett shares her creative studio process. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time Scientists follow clues from the fossil record to make exciting new discoveries.

8:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Pend Oreille Country. From an ice age flood of biblical proportions to a complicated fishery that produces world

record trout, explore northern Idaho’s Pend Oreille country. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators See Thyself, Devil! A washed-up rock star thinks Satan is trying to kill him. (Also Sun 2am)

10:00 OPB Inspector Morse Masonic Mysteries. Morse finds himself a suspect. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)


11:30 OPB+ Seat at the Table The N-Word (Also Sat 2:30am)


OPB+ The Art Detectives (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries The Pilot Episode. A day off is short lived for Frankie and Trudy when the son of an aviator is kidnapped. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

8:30 OPB+ Breaking Big Ruth Zukerman (Also Sun 2pm)

9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 9, Ep 6. Fred attempts to reinstate a horticultural show. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ In Their Own Words Chuck Berry. Explore the life of the man behind the music. (Also Sun 1pm)

10:00 OPB Professor T Other People’s Happiness. Professor T’s trial begins with a big surprise. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am)

11:00 OPB A Place To Call Home Look Not in My Eyes. Matt searches for Georgie’s biological mother. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline America After 9/11 (R-Also Mon 2am)

11 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House: Generation Next

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend

6:00 OPB The Legacy List With Matt Paxton Day Family/Llewellyn Park, NJ | OPB+ We’ll Meet Again Heroes of 9/11

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe The Best of Israel/Palestine (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ Objects and Memory Examine the meaning of items recovered after 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing and the Vietnam War. (Also Mon 12am OPB)

8:00 OPB Generation 9/11 Seven young people whose fathers died on 9/11 enter adulthood with a sense of responsibility. | OPB+ American Masters Joseph Pulitzer. Discover the man behind the award.

9:30 OPB+ The Happiness Machine

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Masterpiece GuiltA drunken drive home from a wedding lands two brothers in increasingly hot water, as they commit more and more serious crimes to hide their culpability in a hit-and-run.

Sunday, September 12, 8pm OPB

10:00 OPB 9/11 Inside the Pentagon Survivors and first responders reveal what happened inside the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. | OPB+ Independent Lens Wildland

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Beecham House, Ep 5. Things grow heated between John and Daniel. | OPB+ Independent Lens Dawnland

12 SUNDAY5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover

| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions China Ancient and Modern

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Andalucia, Gibraltar and Tangier

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Place Where You Persist (R) | OPB+ Keepers of the Light (R)

6:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Pend Oreille Country (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Masterclass 1 (Also Sun 9/19 12am) | OPB+ Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change the World Ep 1 (R)

8:00 OPB Masterpiece Guilt, Eps 1–4. See callout on this page. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ American Pharaoh The Egyptian national soccer team tries to qualify for the World Cup. (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB+ Tenth Inning Top of the Tenth. In 1994, baseball faced its worst crisis in 70 years. (Also Tue 9/14 1am)

11:00 OPB+ Meet Mary Pleasant The inspiring saga of Mary Ellen Pleasant, called the ‘Mother of Civil Rights’ in California.


OPB+ A Wider World

7:30 OPB+ Globe Scholars: South Korea Pt 2 (Also Fri 5am OPB)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Hr 2 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Hidden Turkey Journey through this ancient country where Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great traveled. (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Pendleton Round-Up. Considered one of the country’s best rodeos, the Pendleton Round-Up has become inextricably intertwined with the Umatilla and Pendleton communities. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change the World Ep 2. Thunberg visits the World Economic Forum. (Also Sun 7pm)

10:00 OPB American Experience Sandra Day O’Connor: The First. Follow the story of the Supreme Court’s first female justice. (Also

Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB+ Skindigenous Hawaii: Keone Nunes/Seattle: Nahaan (Also Wed 2am)

14 TUESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ Nature The

Bat Man of Mexico

8:00 OPB Native America New World Rising/Nature to Nations. Examine secret messages encoded in Aztec, lost cities in Mexico and more. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ The Outback The Kimberley Comes Alive. Discover Australia’s diverse Kimberley region. (Also Sun 3pm)

9:00 OPB+ Sex in the Wild Kangaroos (Also Sun 4pm)

10:00 OPB Frontline Boeing’s Fatal Flaw. Go inside the investigation of Boeing’s flawed 737 Max jet and the crashes that killed 346 people. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB Independent Lens The Trials of Muhammad Ali. Ali once faced a prison sentence for refusing U.S. military service. (Also Sat 10pm OPB+) | OPB+ Secrets of the Manor House Enter the bygone world of Britain’s manor houses. (Also Sun 2pm)


OPB+ Art in the Twenty-First Century San Francisco Bay Area

8:00 OPB Nature Remarkable Rabbits. Despite their remarkable ability to reproduce, many wild rabbits are in danger. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ Dreams of Daraa Hanadi dreams of a safe home for her family, but that means fleeing Syria. (Also Sun 11am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Bat Superpowers. Understand bats, their long lifespans and why they are resistant to the very diseases they carry. (Also Sun 11am) | OPB+ Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story A woman’s extraordinary courage is tested in the crucible of Nazi-occupied Paris. (Also Sun 12pm)

10:00 OPB Future of Work Changing Work, Changing Workers. Does America face a ‘post-work’ era, or increased inequities in how we make our livings? (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB POV The Song of the Butterflies. Indigenous painter Rember Yahuarcan discovers why his ancestors’ stories cannot be forgotten. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ The Dictator’s Playbook Idi Amin (Also Fri 2am)


OPB+ Ancient Skies Finding the Center. Locate our planet’s place in the cosmos. (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Finding the Flow. Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe wants his colorful, life-sized portraits to make you stop whatever you’re doing. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Blackbird: Legacy of Innovation Track the development of the SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Idaho’s 12ers. Meet Idahoans with a passion for their state’s 12,000-foot peaks. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators The Sticking Place. Frank and Lu come to the aid of a community threatened with eviction. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ H20: The Molecule That Made Us Pulse. Learn how water became the essential force behind all life. (Also Sat 1am)

10:00 OPB Inspector Morse Second Time Around. Morse investigates the murder of an ex-Deputy Police Commissioner. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)


11:30 OPB+ Seat at the Table Stay Woke (Also Sat 2:30am)

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SATURDAYS 6-10am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ News,

Politics & Business

10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ Marathons Member Drive Programs (9/4 until 12am); Beyond Your Backyard (9/11); Craft in America (9/18); Ireland with Michael (9/25)

11am OPB Sewing & Quilting

1pm OPB Cooking | OPB+ Vermeer: Beyond Time (9/18)

2pm OPB+ Marathon Very British Romance (9/25)

2:30 OPB+ Marathon Beyond the Canvas (9/18)

3pm OPB Motorweek

3:30 OPB Woodworking & Home Repair

4pm OPB+ Marathon Secrets of the Six Wives (9/25)

SUNDAYS 6-9am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+

Lifestyles

8am OPB+ The Great British Baking Show

9am OPB Member Drive Programs (9/5 until 12am); Rick Steves’ Europe (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) | OPB+ Member Drive Programs (9/5); Ancient Skies (9/12, 9/19, 9/26)

10am OPB Nature | OPB+ Art Detectives (9/12, 9/19, 9/26)

11am OPB NOVA | OPB+ Korea: Never Ending War (9/12); Big Dreams in Umatilla (9/19); Truly Texas Mexican (9/26)

Noon OPB Great Performance (9/12); Open a Book, Open the World (9/19); This Light of Mine (9/26) | OPB+ Enemy of the Reich (9/19)

12:30 OPB+ Sculpted Life (9/26)

1pm OPB Great Performances (9/19); Amen! Music of the Black Church (9/26) | OPB+ In Their Own Words (9/12, 9/19); Fidel Castro Tapes (9/26)

2pm OPB Great Performances (9/12); United We Dance (9/26) | OPB+ Breaking Big (9/12); Secrets of the Manor House (9/19); Secrets of the Tower of London (9/26)

2:30 OPB+ Seat at the Table (9/12)

3pm OPB News & Public Affairs (until 6pm) | OPB+ Nature & Wildlife (9/12, 9/19, 9/26); Outback (9/19, 9/26)



8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Ghosts. The horrors of war haunt Frankie as she attempts to solve the murders of several ex-officers. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

8:30 OPB+ Dr. Ibram X. Kendi: An Igi Special Presentation Kendi is one of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist voices.

9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 9, Ep 7. Kevin’s newest patient has a troubled home life. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ In Their Own Words Princess Diana (Also Sun 1pm)

10:00 OPB Professor T Murder on Prescription. Professor T returns to his old life but finds it hard to adjust. (Also Mon 9/20 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am)

11:00 OPB A Place To Call Home Staring Down the Barrel. Stan becomes more and more aggressive. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline Boeing’s Fatal Flaw (R-Also Mon 2am)

18 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House: Rebirth of Detroit

(Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Beyond the Canvas, continued (until 7pm)


6:00 OPB The Legacy List With Matt Paxton Seidel Family/Norristown, PA

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Italy’s Riviera: Cinque Terre/Italy’s Veneto: Verona, Padua, and Ravenna (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ Arts of the Monsoon Long before Picasso, artistic endeavors along the Indian Ocean became a way of life for many.

8:00 OPB Father Brown The Honourable Thief. Lady Felicia’s home comes under threat. | OPB+ Jackie Robinson Pt 1. Robinson was the first Black Major League Baseball player. (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Red in Tooth & Claw, Pts 1&2. The team discovers a dead body covered in live rabbits.

10:00 OPB+ Independent Lens The Trials of Muhammad Ali (R-Also Sun 12am)

10:30 OPB Masterpiece Beecham House, Ep 6. Daniel, Margaret and Chandrika desperately try to help John.

11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With Liz Hannah | OPB+ On Story A Conversation With Mara Brock Akil


| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Mapping Business In China

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Oslo

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Finding the Flow (R) | OPB+ Hidden Turkey

6:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Idaho’s 12ers (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Masterclass 2 (Also Sun 9/26 12am) | OPB+ Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change the World Ep 2 (R)

8:00 OPB Muhammad Ali Round One: The Greatest (1942–1964). Boxer Cassius Clay rises up the amateur ranks, wins gold at the 1960 Olympics and turns

professional. (Also Sun 10:30pm) | OPB+ American Experience Jesse Owens. His stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympics infuriated the Nazis. (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB+ Tenth Inning Bottom of the Tenth. As America reels from the horror of the 9/11 attacks, baseball provides some solace. (Also Tue 9/21 1am)

10:30 OPB Muhammad Ali Round One: The Greatest (1942–1964) (R-Also Tue 1am)

11:05 OPB+ Exhumed: A History of Zombies Unearth some of the most significant moments of zombie pop culture.


OPB+ A Wider World

7:30 OPB+ Globe Scholars: South Korea Pt 3 (Also Fri 5am OPB)

8:00 OPB Muhammad Ali Round Two: What’s My Name? (1964–1970). Cassius Clay publicly joins the Nation of Islam and takes the name Muhammad Ali. (Also Mon 10pm) | OPB+ Journeys Through the Finger Lakes An exploration of the past and present of America’s Finger Lakes region. (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB+ Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change the World Ep 3. Thunberg investigates potential solutions to limit climate change. (Also Sun 7pm)

10:00 OPB Muhammad Ali Round Two: What’s My Name? (1964–1970) (R-Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB+ Skindigenous New Zealand: Gordon Toi/Alaska: Marjorie Tahbone (Also Wed 2am)

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Watch the OPB KIDS ChannelYour family can enjoy trusted, high-quality children’s programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the OPB Kids Channel. Find the latest TV schedules for kids programming, where to find the OPB Kids Channel in your area and more at opb.org/schedules.


OPB+ Nature Hippos: Africa’s River Giants

8:00 OPB Muhammad Ali Round Three: The Rivalry (1970–1974). Muhammad Ali battles Joe Frazier and the U.S. government as he tries to regain the heavyweight title. (Also Tue 10pm) | OPB+ The Outback The Dry Season. The Outback springs to life during the dry season. (Also Sun 3pm)

9:00 OPB+ Sex in the Wild Dolphins (Also Sun 4pm)

10:00 OPB Muhammad Ali Round Three: The Rivalry (1970–1974) (R-Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB+ Secrets of the Tower of London Explore London’s formidable fortress. (Also Sun 2pm)


OPB+ Art in the Twenty-First Century London

8:00 OPB Muhammad Ali Round Four: The Spell Remains (1974–2016). Muhammad Ali shocks the world by defeating George Foreman, winning back the heavyweight title. (Also Wed 10pm) | OPB+ Truly Texas Mexican The Native American roots of Texas Mexican food serve up tacos, feminism, and cultural resistance. (Also Sun 11am)

9:30 OPB+ Sculpted Life Follow the work of American sculptor Littleton Alston. (Also Sun 12:30pm)

10:00 OPB Muhammad Ali Round Four: The Spell Remains (1974–2016) (R-Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB+ Downing of a Flag Pt 1. In this two-party documentary, learn how the Confederate flag impacts the people, politics and perceptions of South Carolina.


OPB+ Ancient Skies Our Place in the Universe. Scientific pioneers reshape our understanding of the solar system. (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Earth Archive. Washington photographer Jim Fitzgerald builds his own cameras and creates large, carbon transfer photographs of nature. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Secrets From the Ice Scientists race to collect artifacts from melting Yukon ice. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Into the Pioneers. The Pioneer Mountains are Idaho’s second-highest mountain range. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators A Serpent’s Tooth. The daughter of a carpet king hires Frank and Lu to investigate a fatal accident. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ H20: The Molecule That Made Us Civilizations. Travel into the past to see how water created the earliest civilizations. (Also Sat 1am)

10:00 OPB Inspector Morse Fat Chance. Morse forms an attraction to a cleric. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)


11:30 OPB+ Seat at the Table The Skin I’m In (Also Sat 2:30am)



8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Anastasia. Frankie is hired to protect a girl who claims to be a Russian princess. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

8:30 OPB+ Family of Us: A PBS American Portrait Story Families of all shapes and sizes share their stories.

9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 9, Ep 8. Nurse Crane cares for an unmarried expectant mother. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ The Fidel Castro Tapes Go inside the life and times of the controversial political figure. (Also Sun 1pm)

10:00 OPB Professor T The Hit and Run. Professor T hunts for the culprit when his colleague Professor Van der Weyden is struck. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 9/27 5am)

11:00 OPB A Place To Call Home New Adventures. Sarah tries to embrace her happiness with George. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline Targeting El Paso. Learn how El Paso, Texas, became an immigration testing ground and then a target.

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25 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House: Return to Paradise

(Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Secrets of the Six Wives, continued (until 7pm)


6:00 OPB The Legacy List With Matt Paxton Shirley Macon/Aberdeen, NJ

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Amsterdam/ The Netherlands Beyond Amsterdam (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ Called to Walls Community based murals, featuring muralist Dave Loewenstein.

8:00 OPB Father Brown The Celestial Choir. A mysterious saboteur infiltrates a choir competition. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Jackie Robinson Pt 2. Robinson used his fame to speak out against injustice. (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Death By Persuasion, Pts 1&2. When a young girl slips away from a Jane Austen weekend, she is later found stabbed in the woods.

10:00 OPB+ Independent Lens Accept the Call. An immigrant father questions why his son would attempt to join ISIS. (Also Sun 12am)

10:30 OPB Halifax: Retribution Ep 1. Jane Halifax comes to the rescue to find a sniper before it’s too late.

11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With Scott Alexander & Larry Karasewzski | OPB+ On Story A Conversation With John Logan


| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Decisions

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Norway’s West: Fjords, Mountains and Bergen

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Earth Archive (R) | OPB+ Journeys Through the Finger Lakes (R)

6:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Into the Pioneers (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Masterclass 3 | OPB+ Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change the World Ep 3 (R)

8:00 OPB Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & Secrets Henry VIII’s Reformation. British historian and author Lucy Worsley provides the inside story of the English Reformation.

(Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ Big Dreams in Umatilla (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & Secrets Kings George III and IV & The Napoleonic War. Mental health problems forced King George III to relinquish power to his extravagant son. (Also Tue 2am) | OPB+ American Masters Buddy Guy (Also Tue 1am)


OPB+ Tale of Granny Mochi: Kuwata Misao For more than 30 years, 93-year-old Kuwata Misao has made more than 50,000 Sasa-mochi rice cakes annually.

8:00 OPB In Their Own Words Elon Musk. Discover how the innovator became a self-taught rocket scientist. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ The Latino Experience Ep 1. A collection of short films explores Latino/a/x identity in the U.S.

9:00 OPB NOVA The Cannabis Question. As cannabis becomes socially accepted, scientists are racing to understand its impact on long-term health. (Also Fri 2am) | OPB+ Prideland (R-Also Thu 4am OPB)

10:00 OPB Life From Above Moving Planet. Cameras in space capture the greatest movements on our planet. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Tide Understanding the Tide. See the world’s dramatic tides and their mysteries. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Downing of a Flag Pt 2. Follow efforts to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina State House grounds.

30 THURSDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ Hacking Your

Mind Living on Auto-Pilot. Journey from the farthest corners of the globe to the inside of your mind to discover how others try to hack your decision-making processes.

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Time Based Art Festival. Go behind the scenes of the world-class Time Based Art Festival to see visual and performing artists from around the globe. (Also Sun 1am) | OPB+ Shakespeare’s Tomb Explore the mysteries surrounding Shakespeare’s burial place.

8:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Sawtooths on My Mind. Discover the attraction of this truly inspiring mountain range. (Also Sun 1:30am)

9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators Thy Fury Spent. A Shakespearean dispute unfolds. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ H20: The Molecule That Made Us Crisis. Earth’s changing water cycle, and water for profit, are forcing changes across the globe.

10:00 OPB Inspector Morse Who Killed Harry Field. Morse is plunged into the art world when an art forger is killed. | OPB+ Amanpour & Company

11:00 OPB+ DW Global 3000

11:30 OPB+ Seat at the Table Is Race a Social Construct?

10:00 OPB Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & Secrets The Romanovs & The Russian Revolution. Lucy Worsley explores the spontaneous February 1917 popular uprising that swept the Czar from power. (Also Tue 3am)

10:30 OPB+ American Masters Terrence McNally. Follow the playwright’s six-decade career.

11:00 OPB The Tunnel: Sabotage Ep 6. An anonymous package helps the investigation. (Also Tue 4am)


OPB+ Autumnwatch New England Pts 1–3. Enjoy wildlife and leaf-changing science in New England. (Also Wed 12am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Hr 3 (Also Wed 1am)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Reed. Reed College has cultivated extraordinary thinkers and leaders since its founding. (Also Wed 2am)

10:00 OPB American Experience Citizen Hearst, Pt 1. Trace the rise of William Randolph Hearst, who built the nation’s largest media empire by the 1930s. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour

& Company (Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB+ Skindigenous Prince Ruppert: Nakkita Trimble/Mexico: Samuel Olman (Also Wed 2am)


OPB+ Nature Sex, Lies and Butterflies

8:00 OPB In Their Own Words Jimmy Carter. Hear the inspiring story of a long-shot outsider who fought his way to the top office in the world. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ The Outback Return of the Wet. Australian skies explode with thunder and rain. (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB American Experience Citizen Hearst, Pt 2. Follow William Randolph Hearst’s expansion into Hollywood and romance with actress Marion Davies. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ The Great Polar Bear Feast Watch as polar bears gather on frozen shores to feast.

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB Prideland Actor Dyllon Burnside journeys across the South to meet diverse members of the LGBTQ community. (Also Wed 9pm OPB+) | OPB+ Inside the Court of Henry VIII England’s most famous king was surrounded by danger and intrigue.

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