Friday 2/15/2013

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KET: Doc Martin; #106 "Haemophobia" [TV-PG]; The tourist season has arrived in Portwenn. Disgruntled by the invasion of holidaymakers, Martin grimaces as he makes his way through the crowds. Then he notices an attractive woman, and stops to stare at her chest! Martin actually tries to warn the woman about the dangers of sunbathing for fear of skin cancer. [High-Definition]

KET2: Nature; #3008 "Cold Warriors: Wolves and Buffalo" [TV-PG]; Buffalo and wolves still engage in epic life and death dramas across Wood Buffalo National Park. By getting to know a specific pack of wolves and the individuals that make up the pack, we get a sense of how these two animal species live together in what seems like a forgotten corner of the world. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Tobacco Blues; Can a good person grow tobacco? As the cigarette war rages, small-scale American tobacco farmers have been the overlooked casualties. Dynamic filmmaking duo Eren McGinnis and Christine Fugate travel across Kentucky to meet families who have been growing this crop for generations and examine how they are facing the consequences of this fuming controversy. Produced with support from the KET Fund for Independent Production.

KET: Masterpiece Classic; #4306 "Downton Abbey, Season 3 - Part 6" [TV-PG]; Change arrives in a big way for several key characters at Downton Abbey. A yearly cricket match with the village sees old scores settled and new plots hatched. [High-Definition]

KET2: Nova; #4006 "Earth from Space" [TV-G]; Data is taken from earth-observing satellites and transformed into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate web of forces that sustains life on earth. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Kentucky Life; #1427 "Lincoln: "I, Too, Am A Kentuckian"" [TV-G]; In a special expanded edition of Kentucky Life, host Dave Shuffett travels from Hodgenville to Springfield, IL to Washington, DC to explore the life and career of Kentucky's most famous native son. The program examines the many Kentucky people and places that profoundly influenced Abraham Lincoln with stops at his birthplace and boyhood home near Hodgenville, the Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington, the Louisville home of close friend Joshua Speed, and many other Lincoln-related sites. A 2008 KET production.

KET2: Antiques Roadshow; #1706 "Boston, Hour Three" [TV-G]; Discoveries include Civil War photographs, World War II German POW signs, and a circa 1810 South Carolina musket. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Distinguished Kentuckian; #103 "O.L. Press" [TV-G]; A profile of KET's founding executive director, O. Leonard Press. His reminiscences about the early days of public broadcasting in Kentucky provide a fascinating glimpse of people, places, and events spanning a 40-year period from 1952 to 1992. A 1992 production of Video Editing Services, Lexington. Watch Online

KET: Telling Tales; #110 "Anansi's Rescue from the River"; A story about Anansi, the trickster hero of Ashanti Land on the west coast of Africa, told by Mama Yaa (Louisville storyteller Gloria Bivens).

KET: Roundabout U; #525; Carter and Clark highlight the Youth and Nonprofit Leadership (YNL) Department at Murray State University. They find out how you can travel across the world and help people along the way, as the YNL teams up with Murray State's study abroad office. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KET2: Clifford the Big Red Dog; #209 "Princess Cleo/Basketball Stories" [TV-Y]; Cleo learns that she is a princess and starts enjoying all her new privileges, but soon learns that her friends are more important to her than her crown. Charley misses the big exhibition basketball game with Skyscraper Jackson, so Emily, Vaz, and Jetta each write a story about the game so he can relive it through their eyes. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Kentucky Muse; #301 "88 Keys, 300 Years"; This celebration of the 300th anniversary of the piano features Dr. Diane Earle of Kentucky Wesleyan and the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra. Earle tells about the history of the instrument and performs piano works by a variety of composers. A 2009 KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KET2: Wild Kratts; #203 "Creature Power Challenge" [TV-Y]; Martin and Chris decide to have a contest to decide what's stronger - elephant or rhino powers. [High-Definition]

KETKY: The Filson Presents; #102 "Evan Thomas - Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World"; Author and journalist Evan Thomas discusses his book Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World. [High-Definition]

KET: Arthur; #503 "It's a No-Brainer/The Shore Thing" [TV-Y]; When Brain loses his cool and loses to Buster in the Math-a-thon, he decides it's time to give up his books and his nickname. Arthur and D.W. beg their dad to take them to the fancy new water park, but he suggests the plain old-fashioned seaside instead. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Our Kids; #906; News and features about classroom projects and activities in Louisville-area schools.

KET: Martha Speaks; #403 "Bulldozer Versus Dinosaur!/Carolina Tackles Football" [TV-Y]; T.D. uses a time machine to bring a dinosaur back from the late Cretaceous period. Carolina coaches the Wagstaff Dogs football team. [High-Definition]

KET2: Kentucky Health; #812 "Radiation Therapy"; A discussion about radiation therapy with Dr. Shiao Woo, chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center at the University of Louisville. Watch Online

KETKY: Bluegrass and Backroads; #908; Robbie Mueller, a retired school teacher, is turning his hobby of furniture building into creative art; visit the National Corvette Museum and Corvette Manufacturing Plant in Bowling Green; and McCain Farm is this year's winner of Kentucky Farm Bureau's Outstanding Young Farm Family contest. [High-Definition]

KET: Curious George; #602 "George Buys A Kite/Train of Light" [TV-Y]; After a gust of wind destroys their kite, George and Bill are determined to buy the Ultimate Kite on display at Ada & Luke's country store. During a trip to Mabel's Department Store, George helps wrap presents, watches himself on TV, rides the escalator, and becomes fascinated by a lamp that casts a shadow of a moving train onto the wall. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Louisville Life; #708 "Aebersold Jazz/Waterfront Development Corp./Donald Lassere/Leonard and Adele Leight"; For 45 years, saxophonist and educator Jamey Aebersold has traveled the globe teaching people how to play jazz; a look at the efforts of Louisville's Waterfront Development Corporation; an interview with Donald Lassere, executive director of the Muhammad Ali Center; and take a tour of Leonard and Adele Leights' Louisville home and learn more about their lives. A 2013 KET production hosted by Candyce Clifft. [High-Definition] Watch Online