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What British TV drama does "I shall be in Inverness" come from?
When I was a kid I saw a strange British drama on PBS. There was an old man character who appeared to be a powerful, tyrannical businessman, but we gradually learned he was totally senile and the people around him were just indulging him. He would say "I shall be in Inverness" repeatedly. Any idea what this show could have been? [more inside]
Where to find "Brat Farrar" BBC Mini-Series?
The "Brat Farrar" BBC mini-series was broadcast within Masterpiece Mystery! on PBS in the 1980s. As far as we can tell, it has never been put on DVD professionally or on streaming. There are bootleg copies available but not good quality. We have a copy recorded on VHS but it would be nice to get a higher quality version. Does this exist? If so, where can we find it? [more inside]
Why is Season 1 Episode 5 missing from The Oregon Experience?
Just started watching The Oregon Experience and I noticed that episode 5 is missing from the OPB app and the OPB website. Anyone know what's up?
Where Can I Find This Old(ish) PBS Show?
I teach middle school orchestra. My go-to sub plans when I couldn’t get someone who knew anything about music used to involve episodes of From the Top. I used to just stream them, but they’re old and require JavaScript so I can’t any more. [more inside]
Where to watch an old kids show called Square One?
When I was much younger, I watched a show called Square One on PBS. I've managed to find an episode or two on Youtube, but I'm wondering if there's anywhere to access the complete series?
Why Stream via Platform vs Direct Account?
Is there an advantage to getting Netflix, Apple, etc through platforms instead of directly? I created my accounts years back on the web and pay directly to each service. I watch Apple TV, HULU, Netflix & PBS via their channel apps on my Roku Streaming Stick 4K+ (plugged into Samsung UN40KU6300F 4K TV). I also use Apple tablets, phones, and laptops. [more inside]
Red-Shift Doppler Effect (on near lightspeed motorcycles)?
As a child I watched a PBS show that explained the Doppler effect by having the viewer imagine what they would see if they were riding a super fast bike, and what they would see if they looked behind them (red shift).
Please help me... What show was this? [more inside]
What was this post apocalyptic educational program in the 1980s?
In elementary school, I was shown an educational series teaching library skills. It is set in a post apocalyptic world and the protagonists of the series are trapped in a library, and use the card catalog to look up information about defeating a robot centaur monster who has laid waste to the earth. [more inside]
Please help me find this obscure show
My partner wildly adores New Scandinavian Cooking with Andreas Viestad. We can find an odd season or two on various services, but nowhere that's reliable and saveable and available on demand. I'd love to buy him a DVD set of all the seasons for his birthday (fine if we need a multi-region DVD player), but all we can find is this extremely odd Amazon listing. Please help?
Help me track down this episode of an obscure 1982 PBS show
Surely this cannot be too obscure for the website that helped me track down the 90s teens-in-space show Earthstar Voyager: I have this memory of a specific episode of the short-lived children's program "Powerhouse." [more inside]
Killed and Reincarnated CPB Programming?
Adam Beckman was a cameraman for the TV version of This American Life. He came up with an idea for a program called "Second Hand Stories." They (PBS) put up half of the money and told him he had to come up with the other half. After two years, he couldn't raise it and the idea died. He said PBS is a place where good story ideas go to die, and what do to about that. [more inside]
Funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
I have looked through the 2020 budget from President Trump trying to find information on funding for CPB. Neither the Departments of HHS, Labor, and Education; the agencies on the sub committee from which CPB funding comes, make mention of support for the agency that supports NPR and PBS. [more inside]
"Big board" midterm election display options?
Looking for an airport arrivals/departures-style display to follow tonight's election returns as they come in. [more inside]
Horses show on PBS?
This summer a documentary on PBS aired that featured horses. I remember that it contained a discussion of how horses learn to stand head to rump, such that their tails flick flies off of each other. What show was this? I am having the darndest time figuring that out.
Video entertainment for my grandfather
My 95-year old grandfather needs some entertainment. Help me make a playlist of free online videos I can share with his caretakers! I've started collecting them here, to give you an idea: great full-length classical concerts, documentaries with clear visuals and narration (I added one on Ansel Adams; nature/engineering ones are also good), classic visually-arresting films low on dialogue (e.g. The Red Balloon, Buster Keaton), and calm shows like Great British Bake-Off he can zone in and out of. [more inside]
Are Public Radio salaries tied to U.S. Civil Service pay tables?
I asked a spokesperson for NPR about a discovery I made regarding CPB oversight of public broadcasting. CPB was required to issue, by November 1979, accounting principles for use by telecommunication entities to account fully for all funds received and expended by such entities. In addition, CPB is required to: [more inside]
What was this sitcom on PBS?
Trying to remember the name of what I believe was the first original sitcom on PBS. It would have been mid-90s in the post Seinfeld boom. It is not the anthology Trying Times. I remember very little about this short lived show, just that it was a big deal PBS was doing an original (not British) sitcom. Does anyone remember??
Trying to locate a mid to late 1980s PBS science miniseries on the brain
I am looking for a science program broadcast between 1985 and 1990 on PBS on the brain. It had a very distinctive opening sequence with mysterious-sounding 80s synthesizer music. [more inside]
What show about young artists/loft squatters did I watch on PBS in 84/85
When I was in high school I saw a few episodes of a show on PBS (in the U.S.) that was taped in, I think, the UK. This was based on my interpretation of the character's accents so I could be off on exact location. [more inside]
Old Children's TV Show with Robot and Imagination
I'm trying to remember a tv show I watched growing up as a kid.
The characters I remember are:
- Robot - a person dressed as a robot (but more like the ASIMO space suit) who acts logically in all the situations presented.
- Imagination - a flying purple blob thing that causes mischief and asks questions.
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Can you identify this building?
When I watch PBS Newshour, I often see people in New York being interviewed from a particular studio location. I would like to know where the studio is and what the building visible beyond the speaker's left shoulder is. [more inside]
CPB Funding for Public Broadcasting
A 2016 Congressional Research Service report says CPB received $445 million from Congress to fund public broadcasting in most recent two year appropriation. Later in the report, it says "While federal funding for CPB primarily comes from the Departments of Labor, Health & Human Service and Education, it may receive other sources of funding from the federal government." [more inside]
Who were the scary people who taught me to speak French?
Long ago back when the world was young, Mater Octorok tried to get me to learn French by making me watch videotapes of French language kids' TV. There are three series I particularly remember. One was Téléfrancais, one was French In Action, and the third was...freaking weird. This is what I can recall about it... [more inside]
Name That TV Show: British/PBS 1980s edition!
Someone emailed my office trying to remember the names of two TV shows, possibly British, that aired on U.S. public TV in the 1980s. Can you and your wayback goggles help? [more inside]
World history telecourse from the 1970s? Later on PBS...
I took a telecourse on world history at a community college in the 1980s and I think I'd like to take it again but I forgot the instructor/lecturer's name. [more inside]
What do you mean I already watched every NOVA show on Netflix?
I want to watch more nature and documentary shows, and the well at Netflix is running dry. Trying to figure out what combination of hardware/subscriptions to get that will give me the biggest number of good shows. [more inside]
1980s TV show.. ERASED from existence
There was a TV show, early 80s, probably on PBS. Short subject, less than 20 minutes, squeezed in between shows. It was all about Emerging Future Tech! Like microcomputers, art in tech, digital stuff. The host was Laurie Anderson. It has FALLEN off the FACE of the EARTH. [more inside]
Why does PBS show the same old music shows during fundraisers?
This is a cranky old lady question from a cranky old lady; whenever PBS has a fund drive, they take off the regular shows that I like and instead show old music specials or documentaries by Ken Burns they have already shown hundreds of times. I really do not want to see great hits of the 50s, Andrea Boccelli, or Simon and Garfunkle , and these substitutions make me less likely to contribute to the station, not more. Does showing these things again and again really get people to give money?
Premiere date for Downton Abbey Season Six on ITV in UK?
In the U.S., PBS has announced it will show the new (and last) season of Downton Abbey starting January 3, 2016. I've tried searching, but I can't find the date when Downton Abbey season six will debut on ITV in the UK. I know that it will end on December 25, 2015 with a Christmas episode, but when this fall is it starting?
I love you/you love me/Early 90s memory
Are young adults nostalgic for Barney and Friends? [more inside]
Help identifying music-themed public TV show from the mid 90s
The show aired in the mid 1990's on PBS (Arizona's Public Broadcast Channel 8) It was an improvisational/rhythm TV show, largely a one-man show of rhythm and musical improvisation with objects at hand. [more inside]
Do Public Broadcasting Stations Keep ALL Public Comments
During fund drives, I'm always told the positive comments of listeners who support the mission of public broadcasting and the drives that pays for the public radio and TV stations to operate. But I recently heard a public radio volunteer say he thinks public TV gets up to 40% negative comments and public radio gets about 10% negative comments. [more inside]
Help me misremember a stage production on TV.
Can you help me recall the name of a play on TV? I have a very distant memory of watching a stage production on TV, the premise of which was that it was behind the scenes of an actual stage production. (how meta, huh?) [more inside]
What was this show about pink eye from my childhood?
Sometime between 1980 and 1987 (or so), I saw a show that convinced me that pink eye was fatal. What was this show? [more inside]
How do I find my episode of Reading Rainbow?
Many, many years ago, when I was a wee pup, I was on an episode of Reading Rainbow. You know the short segments when they had kids present a sort of short, spoken book review of their favorite book? Well I presented Oliver Twist. [more inside]
whenever there's trouble
Calling all junior detectives! Mr. Bloodhound isn't available, and I need your help. In the eighties, PBS ran a science show for kids called 3-2-1 Contact which often featured a terrific serialized mystery, The Bloodhound Gang. One of the capers guest-starred Six Feet Under's Frances Conroy. Can you help me figure out which one? [more inside]
What was this old PBS show that's haunting me?
I think it's from the late 70s-early 80s. A woman, her fish/butterfly net, her little house/hut thing, and nature. I don't think I made it up... [more inside]
Where can I gain access to Wayne Dyer's PBS specials?
I live in the UK and I am a fan of Wayne Dyer's work. I've read that he's done 10 PBS specials over the past 15 years. [more inside]
Japanese document in "Sherlock"
At 3:35 in the "Unlocking Sherlock" video on PBS.org, a scroll with Japanese characters is shown on the wall. [more inside]
Trying to find name of independent film about solo boat trip in Canada
Somewhere between 1997 and 2001 in Seattle, I saw a 1 or 2 hour independent film on TV at a friend's place. The subject was a man who wanted to row a small boat across a series of lakes and rivers somewhere in northern Canada. He traveled alone and filmed himself. I don't remember enough nor know enough about Canadian geography to say much more about the location. [more inside]
The women's movement and labor
I was watching the PBS series Makers: Women Who Make America and I was struck by the section discussing some of the failures (or missed potential) of the women's movement from the labor perspective. What is the relationship between the women's movement and labor today, and what was the historical cause of the disconnect? [more inside]
It's one of those things that you're always vaguely aware of, but never quite grok...
Explain broadcast television in Canada and the US to me like I'm five. [more inside]
PBS Cooking Show - Can't Remember Title
Trying to find an old cooking show but cannot remember the title. I believe it was on PBS. It was a very straightforward program. We would see a different chef/kitchen for each recipe, usually different restaurants around the USA. It was "hosted" only in voice by a woman with a strong Southern Accent. [more inside]
What is this music from PBS Masterpiece?
How do I record a digital (HD?) OTA broadcast with a MBP?
The last time I watched a TV broadcast, it had rabbit ears and I was 12. How do I record (ideally in HD) this week's PBS broadcasting of the Ring Cycle? [more inside]
Learning geometry from television
Help me remember this old video series that used early computer/video animation to illustrate geometry/calculus concepts. [more inside]
What was that awesome show about the history of physics in the late 80s?
There was a great series about the history of physics on PBS in the late 80s. It featured a combination of very clear explanations of each of the fundamental equations in physics throughout history presented by a very calm, level voiced (almost reverent) narrator and accompanied by fantastic very BBS Hitchhiker's Guide style animation. What was this show? And where can I find it now? [more inside]
Sometimes I want to be a PBS kid again
Hivemind, please help me find a PBS commercial that stuck in my impressionable kid brain! This would have been mid-1990s, probably on WGBH Boston and likely right before or after Bill Nye. My Google/Youtube-fu is failing me. [more inside]
Edutainment about computers
What educational children's shows have an episode about the internet and or computers in general? Episode name or number a bonus! [more inside]
So little to go on
I have the vaguest of memories of a TV movie I may have seen around the mid-80s, possibly on public television. Could have been British, or at least set in the UK. It was somewhat creepy, at least it was to young me at the time. It was about a family wherein one of the boys had magic powers. My only real memory is a shot of this boy putting his hands into a kitchen counter as if the kitchen counter were soft clay or a portal to another dimension, drawing some material out of it, and making a little sculpture of an animal (lion?) Young me found that special effect surprisingly unnerving. I thought it might be a WonderWorks production but none of the titles seem to match. Ring any bells for anyone?
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