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Repeats



Program: Date of broadcast; Date of repeat broadcast

American Playhouse: Breakfast With Les and Bess: Monday, January 25, at 8 p.m.; St/nday, January 31. at 4 a.m.

A Day in the Life of America:

Saturday, January 16, at 2 p.m.; Thursday, January 21, at midnight

Discover: The World of Science:

Sunday, January 3, at 8 p.m.; Thursday, January 7 at midnight

Drive-in Blues: Monday, January 25, at 9:30 p.m.; Sunday, January 31, at 5:30 a.m.

An Evening of Championship Skating: Wednesday. January 13, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, January 16, at 8 a.m.

Eyes on the Prize: Sunday through Friday, January 17-22, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, January 23, beginning at midnight

Juvenile Injustice: Monday, January 11, at 7 p.m.; Thursday, January 14, at 8 p.m.

Louis Rukeyser’s 1988 Money Guide: Friday, January 6, at 8 p.m.; Sunday, January 10, at noon

Mystery!: Sleeping Murder:

Thursday, January 7 and 14, at 9 p.m.; Tuesday, January 12 and 19, at midnight

News Addition: Fridays at 6:30 p.m.; Sundays at 6 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.

Nova: Tuesdays at 7 p.m.; Fridays at midnight

A Passion for Excellence: An Evening With Tom Peters: Monday, January 4, at 8:10 p.m.; Saturday, January 9, at 12:10 p.m.

Television: Monday, January 25, at 7 p.m.; Thursday, January 28, at midnight

Tom Peters: The Power of Excellence: Monday, January 4, at 7 p.m.; Saturday. January 9, at 11 a.m.

Wall Street Week: Fridays at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m.

Wild America: The Man Who Loved Beans: Saturday, January 9, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, January 16, at 7a.m.

Washington Week in Review:

Fridays at 7 p.m.; Saturdays at 6 a.m.

Wild, Wild World of Animals:

Weekdays at 6 p.m.; Weekdaysat 6:30 a.m.

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6PM Wild World of Animals: Dangerous Animals ★

6:30 News Addition Bob Ray Sanders hosts this weekly KERA production. ★

7:00 Washington Week in Review Paul Duke hosts (CC) ★

7:30 Wall Street Week Louis Rukeyser hosts. ★

B:00 From Vienna: New Year’s Celebration, 1988 The annual New Year’s celebration and concert from Vienna. (S)

9:30 The Beijing Acrobatic Company China’s renowned Beijing Acrobatic Company presents a breathtaking performance of traditional Chinese acrobatics. ★

10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

11:00 Monty Python 11:30 Monty Python

12:00 Nova: The Desert Doesn’t Bloom Here Any More (CC)

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6PM Great Chefs of the West G. Scott Philip of San Antonio prepares a Texas fruit sorbet, and Dallas Anne Lindsay Greer makes cookie tacos.

6:30 This Old House Bob Wahosts(CC)

7:00 Wild America: Fishers in the Family Marty Stouffer raises a pair of rare and energetic fishers. (CC) ★

8:00 The Compleat Gilbert and Sullivan: Princess Ida Though the head of a decidedly feminist university. Princess Ida (Nan Christie), finally agrees to subordinate herself to Prince Hilarion and to love. Frank Gorchir co-stars as her father King Gama. (S) (CC)

10:00 Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks Afler escaping from the Master and his Ogrora, the Doctor sets off in pursuit of the Daleks.

12:00 DeGrassi Junior High (CC)

12:30 Alive From Oft Center (S)

1:0OHeimat 4:00 From 7 to 28 Up (CC)

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6PM Austin City Limits The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band performs. (S)

7:00 Nature: Land of the Kiwi A journey to the great islands of the Pacific that make up New Zealand, rich with beauty and some of the strangest creatures on earth.(S) (CC)

8:00 Discover: The World of Science A report on NASA’s quest for a cure for space sickness, a look at sea turtles, and a visit to a unique MIT engineering design class (CC) ★

9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: Sorrell and Son Stephen Sorrell sees all his ambitions for his son realized as Kit becomes a surgeon (CC)

10:00 Executive Stress In this new British comedy, Penelope Keith and Geoffrey Palmer find themselves in a variety ofstressful situations when they become business partners in the same publishing company.

10:30 Good Neighbors

11:00 Mother and Son

11:30 Mother and Son

12:00 Open All Hours

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6PM Wild World of Animals: Garden Jungle ★

6:30 World of Survival: African Antelope

7:00 Tom Peters: The Power of Excellence Management guru Tom Peters discusses how companies can successfully meet the demands of customer service. The program focuses on five companies: The Limited, Federal Express, Worthington industries, University National Bank, and the Louisville Red-birds. ★

B:10 A Passion for Excellence: An Evening With Tom Peters In this special, Peters conveys the simple business maxims of pride, zest, caring, and listening. Peters also outlines his ideas on excellence in business. ★

9:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

10:00 The Singing Detective This three-part mimseries stars Michael Gordon as an ailing mystery writer who, while lying immobile in the hospital, rewrites one of his early books. (Part 2 airs tomorrow at 10 p.m.) Viewer discretion is advised.

12:15 Adam Smith’s Money World

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6PM Wild World of Animals: The Social Cat ★

6:30 World of Survival: The Fence

7:00 Nova: A Mathematical Mystery Tour An examination of the absfract world of pure mathematics, where mathematicians study complex problems of their own intrinsic interest. (CC) ★

8:00 Gold Lust The true story of the modern-day gold rush currently drawing thousands of men and women prospectors to a small mountain in the rain forests of Brazil.

9:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

10:00 The Singing Detective The drama based on Dennis Potter’s first original serial for television continues. (Part 3 airs tomorrow at 10 p m.) Viewer discretion is advised.

12:15 Tony Brown’s Journal

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6PM Wild World of Animals: Man’s Closest Kin ★

6:30 World of Survival: Jackals

7:00 The Infinite Voyage: Unexplored Earth This program examines research in such little-known regions of the earth as the great rain forests, remote lava caves in the Galapagos Islands, and Ellesmere Island at the “Top of the World.” (CC)

8:00 Discover: The World of Science This new special travels with a troop of baboons in Kenya to find out how their health correlates with their social position. It also follows a dramatic new procedure called valvuloplasty that could replace open heart surgery for some children born with heart defects (CC) ★

9:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour 10:00 The Singing Detective The final episode of this minisenes. Viewer discretion is advised.

12:15 Growing a Business

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6PM Wild World of Animals: Too Many Elephants ★

6:30 World of Survival: Nothing Going On

7:00 The Story of English; An English-speaking World Robert MacNeil hosts this examination of the 1.5 billion people who speak some form of English and the story behind its amazing language dominance

8:00 Cities at War: Berlin

900 Mystery!: Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder Giles and Gwenda Reed buy a Victorian villa in Devon, but Gwenda finds the house eerily familiar and is convinced she witnessed a murder there. Joan Hickson and Frederick Treves star. (CC) ★

10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

11:00 Crime Inc.: All in the Family A look at life in Mafia families today including their allegiances, lifestyles, and codes revealed by FBI informers. Series Premiere

1200 Discover: The World of Science (CC)

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6PM Wild World of Animals: All Kinds of Parents

6:30 News Addition Bob Ray Sanders hosts this KERA production. ★

7:00 Washington Week in Review Paul Duke hosts. (CC) ★

7:30 Wall Street Week Louis Rukeyser hosts. ★

8:00 Louis Rukeyser’s 1988 Money Guide Rukeyser hosts this look at what’s ahead for the country economically andpolitically in 1988. ★

9:00 Who Lives, Who Dies? Actor James Earl Jones narrates this provocative documentary about the current state ofhealth care in America. ★

10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

11:00 Blake’s 7

12:00 Nova: A Mathematical Mystery Tour (CC)

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6PM Great Chefs of the West Chefs from the YO. Ranch in Mountain Home and Jeffrey’s in Austin prepare fried chicken and lamb loin with turnip sauce.

6:30 This Old House Bob Vila hosts (CC)

7:00 Wild America: The Man Who Loved Bears Marty Stouffer raises an adopted grizzly cub named Griz to grow up as a mate for Colorado’s last male bear. (CC)

8:00 Movie 13: Oliver Twist (1948) Robert Newton and John Howard Davies star in Dickens’ immortal story about a workhouse orphan who is forced into criminal company.

10:00 Doctor Who: The Green Death Doctor Who. Jo, and the Brigadier must combat two-foot maggots.

12:30 DeGrassi Junior High (CC)

1:00 Heimat

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6PM Austin City Limits Glen Campbell and Eddie Raven perform (S)

7:00 Nature: Cost Rica: Paradise Regained The secrets of a tropical dry forest in Costa Rica are revealed by American scientist Dan Janzen. (S) (CC)

8:00 Discover: The World of Science This program travels with a troop of baboons in Kenya to find out how their health correlates with their social position. It also follows a dramatic new procedure catted valvuloplasty that could replace open heart surgery for some children born with heart detects. (CC)

9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: Sorrell and Son As Sorrell grows older and becomes unwell. he tries to hides it from Kit. (CC)

10:00 Executive Stress

10:30 Good Neighbors

11:00 Mother and Son

11:30 Mother and Son

12:00 Open All Hours

12:30 Monty Python

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6PM Wild World of Animals- Between the Tides ★

6:30 World of Survival: Alaska’s Glacier Bay

7:00 Juvenile Injustice This new KERA production profiles a seventeen-year-old boy who has been arrested twenty times since he was nine years old The program looks at the problem of |uvenile crime and the shortcomings of Texas’ juvenile justice system. ★

7:30 Juvenile Injustice Follow-up KERA’s Bob Ray Sanders hosts a live studio discussion on the problem of juvenile crime in the North Texas area. ★

8:00 Conserving America: The Wetlands An examination of some of the richest parts of America’s landscape and the people who are working hard to protect prairie potholes and freshwater swamps. ★ (CC)

9:00 Great Performances: Toscanini: The Maestro James Levine hosts a profile of the life of the celebrated conductor Toscanini. (S) (CC)

10:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

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6PM Wild World of Animals: Links to Man’s Past ★

6:30 World of Survival: Brown Bears

7:00 Nova: The Shape of Things This visually spectacular program examines nature’s inventive patterns and explains their inevitability and efficiency. (CC) ★

8:00 Sword of Islam A fascinating account of the growth of two of the major Islamic fundamentalist groups, the Jihad in Egypt and the Hizbollah in Lebanon. ★

9:30 World at War: Tough Old Gut TheAnglo-American forces advance from Sicily

10:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

11:30 Tony Brown’s Journal

12:00 Mystery!: Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (CC)

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6PM Wild World of Animals: Elephant Seals ★

6:30 World of Survival: Wilderness at Bay

7:00 An Evening of Championship Skating John Powers returns to provide expert commentary on top-notch performers. ★

8:00 Live From Lincoln Center: Andre Walts’ 25th Anniversary Pianist Watts commemorates the 25th anniversary of his debut in an evening of concerts with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta. (S)

10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

11:00 Special Presentation

12:00 Growing a Business

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6PM Wild World of Animals: Hunters of the Reel ★

6:30 World of Survival: Elk

7:00 The Story of English: The Mother Tongue The story of 1,000 years of history that climaxes with the birth of recognizable English in the first English plays, the printing of William Caxton. and the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer.

8:00 Juvenile Injustice This KERA production profiles a seventeen-year-old boy who has been arrested twenty-two times since he was nine years old The program looks at of juvenile crime and the shortcomings of Texas’ juvenile justice system.

8:30 Juvenile Injustice Follow-up KERA’s Bob Ray Sanders hosts a studio discussion on the problem of juvenile crime in the North Texas area.

9:00 Mystery!: Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple; Sleeping Murder Dr Kennedy claims to have letters from the mysterious Helen, which prove she fled to France after the breakup of her marriage (CC) ★

10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

11:00 Crime Inc.: Making of the Mob.

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6PM Wild World of Animals: Monkeys of Koshima ★

6:30 News Addition Bob Ray Sanders hosts this weekly KERA production. ★

7:00 Washington Week in Review Paul Duke hosts (CC) ★

7:30 Wall Street Week Louis Rukeyser hosts. ★

8:00 In Remembrance of Martin This special is a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther Kingg Jr., the late civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner on the occasion of his birthday

9:00 Great Performances: Paul Taylor: Roses and Last Look The Paul Taylor Dance Company performs Roses and Last Look. (S)

10.00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

11:00 Blake’s 7

12:00 Nova: The Shape of Things (CC)

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6PM Great Chefs of the West Austin chef prepares a variety of wild game and a mushroom terraine

6:30 This Old House Bob Vila hosts (CC)

7:00 Conserving America: The Wetlands An examination of some of the richest parts of Americas landscape and a look at the people who are working hard to protect prairie potholes and freshwater swamps. (CC)

8:00 Movie 13: Great Expectations (1947) Anthony Wagner, Jean Simmons. John Mills, and Alec Guinness star in Charles Dickens’ classic about the strange meeting that changes a poorboy’s life after he shows kindness to an accused convict

10:00 Doctor Who: The Time Monsters Doctor Who and Jo pursue the Master through time and space

11:30 DeGrassi Junior High (CC)

1:00 Heimat

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6PM Austin City Limits The O’Kanes and Highway 101 perform. Season Premiere (S)

7:00 Nature: Masked Monkeys A look at an extraordinary group of African forest monkeys called quenons. (S)(CC)

8:00 Eyes on the Prize: Awakening, 1954-1956 The first episode of this six-part series looks at the patterns of racial discrimination in post War War II America. (Part 2 airs tomorrow at 8 p.m.) (CC) ★

9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: Fortunes of War In the first episode of this seven-part series, war breaks out as newly married Guy(Kenneth Branagh) and Harriet Pringle (Emma Thompson) set out on a journey across Europe and into the heart of the Balkans-Romania where an uneasy neutrality reigns Season Premiere (CC)

10:00 Executive Stress

10.30 Good Neighbors

11:00 Mother and Son

11:30 Mother and Son

12:00 Open All Hours

12:30 Monty Python

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6PM Wild World of Animals: Riddle of the Rook ★

6:30 World of Survival: Robe of White

7:00 Wilderness Alive: High Alaska A trip to the big country of Alaska’s mountain tundra. ★

8:00 Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back, 1957-1962 An examination of the rocky course of school desegregation in the South-at Central High School in Arkansas and in the 1962 challenge to the white-only enrollment policy at the University of Mississippi. (Pan 3 airs tomorrow at 8 p.m.) (CC) ★

9:00 American Playhouse: Strange Interlude This three-part miniseries stars Glenda Jackson in Eugene O’Neill’s play about Nina Leeds, who, distraught when her fiance does not return from the war, marries a man she doesn’t love Edward Petherbridge. Rosemary Harris. Ken Howard. David Dukes, and Jose Ferrer also star (Part 2 airs tomorrow at 9 p.m.) Season Premiere (CC)

10:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

11:30 Adam Smith’s Money World

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6PM Wild World of Animals: Tracks and Traces ★

6:30 World of Survival: Flamingo Lake

7:00 Nova: Top Gun and Beyond A look at how planes and pilots are adapting to high technology. Season Premiere (CC) ★

8:00 Eyes on the Prize: Ain’t Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961 College students take an increasingly active role in the civil rights movement and bring new tactics to the fight. (Part 4 airs tomorrow at 8 p.m. ) (CC) ★

9:00 American Playhouse: Strange Interlude The miniseries starring Glenda Jackson continues (Part 3 airs tomorrow at 9 p.m. ) (CC)

10:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

11:30 Tony Brown’s Journal 12:00 Mystery!: Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (CC)

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6PM Wild World of Animals: Scenes lor Survival ★

6:30 World of Survival: Ghost Town

7:00 National Geographic Special: African Odyssey This special follows Mark and Delia Owens, an American couple conducting conservation research on lions and hyenas. Through their work they alerted the world to the dangers lacing the wildebeest in Botswana. Season Premiere (S) (CC) ★

8:00 Eyes on the Prize: No Easy Walk 1961-1963 Mass demonstrations develop into a powerful tactic in marches in Georgia, Alabama, and Washington. DC. (Part 5 airs tomorrow at 8 p.m.) (CC) ★

9:00 American Playhouse: Strange Interlude The final episode of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize winning drama starring Glenda Jackson (CC)

10:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour 11:30 Growing a Business

12:00 Wilderness Alive

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6PM Wild World of Animals’. Konrad Lorenz and Geese★

6:30 World of Survival: Squid and Grunion

7:00 The Story of English: A Muse of Fire A look at the influence o1 Shakespeare, the Bible, and. above all. the spread of English to the world by the first Elizabethans in Virginia and by the first Puritans in the New World.

8:00 Eyes on the Prize: Mississippi: Is This America? 1963-1964 Mississippi becomes a testing ground of constitutional principles and of the human spirit as the civil rights movement concentrates its energies on the right to vote.(Part 6 airs tomorrow at 8 p.m.) (CC) ★

9:00 Mystery!: Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: At Bertram’s Hotel Miss Marple (Joan Hickson) checks into Bertram’s Hotel, where things seem almost too perfect. (CC)

10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

11:00 The Governor’s Report Monthly press conference with Governor Bill Clements.

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6PM Wild World of Animals: The Graceful Impala

3:30 News Addition Bob Ray Sanders hosts this weekly KERA production. ★

7:00 Washington Week in Review Paul Duke hosts. (CC) ★

7:30 Wall Street Week Louis Rukeyser hosts. ★

800 Eyes on the Prize: Bridge to Freedom, 1965 In the final episode, the civil rights leadership becomes more sophisticated in its use of protest strategy. (CC) ★

9:00 Frontline; A Class Divided An exploration of the experiment an lowa school teacher conducted on her third grade class to teach them the meaning of discrimination. The teacher divided her students into blue-eyed and brown-eyed children, and for two days one group discriminated against the other. (CC)

10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

11:00 Blake’s 7

12:00 Nova: Top Gun and Beyond (CC)

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6PM Great Chefs of the West San Antonio and Santa Fe chefs prepare chicken Gonzalez and gyspy stew.

6:30 This Old House Bob Vila hosts (CC)

7:00 Survival Special: King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands A film chronicling the breeding season and courtship behavior of king penguins. (CC)

6:00 Great Performances; Turn of the Screw Benjamin Britten’s operatic adaptation of the provocative Henry James story is beautifully recounted in this film by Petr Weigl. Helen Donath, Robert Tear, and Heather Harper star. (S)

10:00 Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs Doctor Who must stop a conspiracy to roll back the course of time.

12:00 Eyes on the Prize, parts 1-6 (CC)

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6PM Austin City Limits Thorn Bresh and Lane Brody and The Forester Sisters perform. (S)

7:00 Nature: In-Flight Movie/Birds of the Sun Gods These two half-hour films shown back-to-back show startling footage of birds in flight and the second looks at how hummingbirds compensate for their small size. (S) (CC)

8:00 National Geographic Special: African Odyssey This special follows Mark and Delia Owens, an American couple conducting conservation research on lions and hyenas, who alerted the world to the dangers facing the wildebeest in Botswana. (S) (CC)

9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: Fortunes of War (CC)

10:00 Executive Stress

10:30 Good Neighbors

11:00 No Place Like Home New British comedy

11:30 ’Allo, ’Allo This new British comedy is set in a small cafe in occupied France during World War II.

12:00 Open All Hours

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6PM Wild World of Animals: The Amazing Kangaroo

6:30 World of Survival: Sea Eagle

7:00 Television: Live Pictures Edwin Newman hosts this compelling new series that looks at television’s live presentation of sports and events-from royal weddings and presidential inaugufations to space shots and political conventions. Series Premiere (CC) ★

8:00 American Playhouse: Breakfast With Les and Bess Dick Van Dyke and Cloris Leachman co-star as a husband and wife who host a daily radio talk show in Lee Kalcheim’s 1982 off-Broadway comedy. (CC) ★

9:30 Drive-in Blues

10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

11:00 Adam Smith’s Money World

11:30 Special Presentation

12:00 Here’s to Your Health: Why We Are Killing Ourselves

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6PM Wild World of Animals: Villaoe of Storks

6:30 World of Survival: Badger

7:00 Nova: How to Create a Junk Food A behind-the-scenes look at how snack foods come about – an inexact science that nonetheless requires considerable technical ingenuity. (CC)

8:00 The Making of the Continent: Corridors of Time Extraordinary film footage shows the evolution of the magnificent peaks and valleys of Arizona’s Grand Canyon and Utah’s Zion Canyon, Bryce Canyon and Monument Valley. (CC)

9:00 The World at War: It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow The Japanese are stopped on the borders of India, and there is a war inBurma

10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

11:00 Tony Brown’s Journal

11:30 Growing a Business

12:00 Sociology: The Promise of Sociology

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6PM Wild World of Animals: Red Spot for Survival

6:30 World of Survival: Golden Eagle

7:00 Live From The Met: Turandot Franco Zetfirellis production of Puccinis opera is conducted by James Levine and stars Eve Marton as Turandot, Leona Mitchell as Liu, Placido Domigo as Calaf. and Paul Plishka as Timur (S)

9:30 Memories of Monet

10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

11:00 Special Presentation

12:00 Accounting: Basic Concepts

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6PM Wild World of Animals: Language of Animals

6:30 World of Survival: Trumpeter

7:00 The Story of English: The Guid Scots Tongue This program traces the Scottish influence on the English language from embattled Northern Ireland to the mountain country of American Appalachia.

8:00 The West of the Imagination: The Romantic Horizon In the first episode of this six-part KERA production, host/nar-rator James Whitmore contrasts pictures of the lands and people as they exist today with early paintings by George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, and Alfred Jacob Miller.

9:00 Mystery!: Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: At Bertram’s Hotel Canon Pen-nytathefs disappearance appears to be connected to the murder of Gorman. (CC)

10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

11:00 Crime Inc.: Rackett Busters

12:00 Television: Live Pictures (CC)

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6PM Wild World of Aniamls: The Specialist

6:30 News Addition Bob Ray Sanders hosts this weekly KERA production. ★

7:00 Washington Week in Review Paul Duke hosts (CC) ★

7:30 Wall Street Week Louis Rukeyser hosts. ★

8:00 Frontline: Praise the Lord An examination of the rise and fall of television evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker and a look at why government agencies failed to vigorously investigate charges of corruption in the Bakker empire. Season Premiere (CC)

9:00 Great Performances: The Cotton Club Remembered Cab Calloway, the Nicholas Brothers, and Adelaide Hall are among the legendary Cotton Club performers who are reunited in this gala performance in honor of the legendary Harlem nightclub (CC)

10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

11:00 Blake’s 7

12:00 Nova: How to Create a Junk Food (CC)

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6PM Great Chefs of the West A Texas State Fair winner prepares southern fried chicken with cream gravy.

6:30 This Old House Bob Vila hosts (CC)

7:00 Striped Bass: Mysterious Disappearances A documentary on the life cycle and strange disappearance of one of North America’s great game fish, the striped bass.

8:00 Movie 13: Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) Paul Newman and Geraldine Page star in this drama about a young man who uses a has-been actress to get a movie contact.

10:00 Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks The Doctor makes a strange alliance with his greatest enemies-the Daleks.

11:30 DeGrassi Junior High (CC)

1:00 Heimat

3:00 Special Presentation

4:00 American Playhouse: Breakfast with Les and Bess (CC)

5:30 Drive-in Blues

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6PM Austin City Limits: The Desert Rose Band and Rosanne Cash perform. (S)

7:00 Nature: Pantanal: Prairie of Great Waters An examination of how native animals of Southwestern Brazil adapt to the dry savannah five months of the year and the wet rains seven months of the year (CC) (S)

8:00 Cities at War: London

9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: Fortunes of War To Harriet’s intense annoyance. Prince Yakimov has taken up permanent residence in the Pringle flat while they secretly shelter Sasha Drucker, who is in hiding from the Iron Guard. (CC)

10:00 Executive Stress

10:30 Good Neighbors

11:00 No Place Like Home

11:30 ’AHo.’Allo

12:00 Open All Hours

12:30 Monty Python

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