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Sundays in July, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD WETA Sunday-night mystery dramas include two episodes of crime drama Midsomer Murders, starring John Nettles as DCI Barnaby (above), and new episodes of Endeavour on Masterpiece. Midsomer Murders also airs Thursday nights at 8 p.m. (after July 4).
9:00 WHITE HOUSE CHRONICLES 9:30 TO THE CONTRARY WITH BONNIE ERBE 10:00 THIS IS AMERICA WITH DENNIS WHOLEY 10:30 RELIGION AND ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY SIMULCAST ON WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 11AM–12M: 11:00 GREAT ROMANCES 11:30 THE WETA MOVIE: GET SHORTY — (1:45) R 1:30 BBC ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 2:00 THE STATUE OF LIBERTY — on WETA TV 26 SECRETS OF HENRY VIII’S PALACE — on WETA HD 3:00 AMERICAN MASTERS: JOHNNY CARSON: KING OF LATE NIGHT — R 5:00 GLOBE TREKKER: MID-ATLANTIC STATES — on WETA TV 26 only 6:00 MOYERS & COMPANY — Bill Moyers presents a weekly hour of conversation about life and the state of American democracy. Repeats Mon 7/8, 5pm 7:00 BBC ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 7:30 MIDSOMER MURDERS: DEATH AND DREAMS — The British mystery series stars John Nettles as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby, who solves crimes in a fictional rural county in England. Death and Dreams. Barnaby is called in to investigate a suicide but he suspects murder. The dead man turns out to be a divorced gambler who was being treated for depression. 9:00 MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: ENDEAVOUR, SERIES I: GIRL — Before Inspector Morse, there was the rookie Constable Morse. Shaun Evans stars as young Endeavour Morse, before his signature red Jaguar but with his deductive powers already running in high gear. Girl. DC Morse and DI Thursday (Roger Allam) investigate burgled gas meters, the death of a young secretarial student and a string of Post Office robberies, confounding the solution to a pair of violent murders. Could Morse’s future on the force be in jeopardy? Repeats Mon 7/8, 2:30pm; Thur 7/11, 9:30pm; Fri 7/12, 3pm 10:30 MIDSOMER MURDERS: DESTROYING ANGEL — With the death of owner Karl Wainwright, the Easterly Grange Hotel falls into the hands of four beneficiaries. When Gregory Chamber — one of the new hotel owners — does not attend Karl’s funeral, a worried search party forms. The party scours the woods for a trace of him, ultimately making a grave discovery. DCI Barnaby launches a murder investigation, and solving the case takes on new urgency when fatal accidents begin to occur. (90 min.)
(1979), and Glengarry Glenn Ross (1992). Lemmon made more than 60 movies and received eight Academy Award Nominations and two Oscars. Narrated oncamera by Lemmon himself, this profile includes appearances by Hollywood colleagues. Repeats Tue 7/9, 4pm; Wed 7/10, 1pm 10:50 CHARLTON HESTON: FOR ALL SEASONS — Heston was renowned throughout the movie-going world for the heroic figures he played during his early years in Hollywood: Moses, Ben-Hur, El Cid and Michelangelo. In a wide range of roles, from classical to futuristic, he showed himself a consummate actor. Here, in his own words, is Heston’s life as well as highlights of a career that resulted in more than 60 motion pictures, including The Greatest Show on Earth, The Ten Commandments, The Big Country, Ben-Hur, Will Penny, Soylent Green, and Planet of the Apes. Repeats Tue 7/9, 5pm; Wed 7/10, 2pm 11:40 CHARLIE ROSE — Repeats next weekday, noon
9 Tuesday 7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 LEWIS & CLARK: THE JOURNEY OF THE CORPS OF DISCOVERY — Part 1 of 2. A WETA co-production with Ken Burns and Florentine Films presents the story of the most important expedition in American history: the early nineteenth-century journey led by Virginians Meriwether Lewis and William Clark that explored the newly purchased Louisiana territory and mapped a Northwest route to the Pacific across America. It was the United States’ first exploration of the West and one of the nation’s most enduring adventures. This program tells the remarkable story of the entire corps — not just the two famous captains, but the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark’s African-American slave and the Shoshone woman, Sacagawea, who brought along her infant son. Hal Holbrook narrates. Repeats Wed 7/10, 3pm 10:00 FRONTLINE: TWO AMERICAN FAMILIES — Since 1992, Bill Moyers and Frontline have been following the story of two ordinary, hard-working families in Milwaukee — one black, one white — as they spent two decades in an extraordinary battle to keep from sliding into poverty. The report chronicles the struggles of the Neumanns and the Stanleys as they try to hold onto their homes, their jobs, their health insurance, and a future for their children, raising unsettling questions about the fate of America’s middle class. 11:30 CHARLIE ROSE — Repeats next weekday, noon
10 Wednesday 7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 NOVA: BUILDING PHARAOH’S CHARIOT — Did the Egyptian chariot mark a crucial turning point in ancient military history, aiding Egypt’s greatest era of conquest known as the New Kingdom? A team of archaeologists, engineers, woodworkers and horse trainers builds and tests two accurate replicas of Egyptian royal chariots, driving them in the desert outside Cairo. {DVI} Repeats Thur 7/11, 2pm; Mon 7/15, 1:30pm; Tue 7/16, 1pm 9:00 SECRETS OF THE DEAD: ULTIMATE TUT — Ninety years ago in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, the greatest
7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: VINTAGE ROCHESTER — Repeats Tue 7/9, 2pm; Wed 7/10, 5pm; Thur 7/11, 1pm 9:00 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: CHATTANOOGA, TN — Repeats Tue 7/9, 3pm 10:00 JACK LEMMON: AMERICA’S EVERYMAN — A program profiles the Harvard-educated star, whose perfect timing, precise emotional balance and total believability contributed to the success of films such as Mister Roberts (1955), Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), and The Odd Couple (1968), Save the Tiger (1973), The China Syndrome
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Monday, July 8 at 10 p.m. and 10:50 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD The biographical films Jack Lemmon: America’s Everyman and Charlton Heston: For All Seasons explore the actors’ movie careers.
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