Thank goodness, Pledge Week is over. I should put week in quotes, but I’m not going to. Even so, I’m very happy PBS is back to regularly scheduled programs, because the plethora of complaints I received about their changing the schedule around and stuff not airing at all in certain markets was deafening. Completely deafening. I now completely understand the concept of deafening silence, and am thrilled to be going back to regular old silence.
Sunday, March 18:
8:00 - 9:00PM
Nature - “War Wrecks of the Coral Seas”. Ships sink. After they sink things grow on them. This happens in the Coral Seas, where many ships sank during World War II. Ships sank there at that time mostly because there was a war on, and many battles took place in the Pacific that dealt with the Navy.
9:00 - 10:20PM
Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein. A “soundie” is type of movie, first appearing in 1941, that is three minutes long, black and white, and featured big band, jazz, and swing-era artists. And that, is your musical history for today.
Monday, March 19:
8:00 - 9:00PM
Antiques Roadshow - “St. Paul (Hour Three)”. I’m standing by this summary from last two weeks: how great would it be if this was at the Cathedral? The experts could go around looking at ancient artifacts and declare them good, bad, or ugly. It’d be really, really funny.
9:00 - 10:000PM
American Experience - “Hijacked”. In September of 1970 the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked five commercial planes. Three of these were blown up. This show examines the incident, antecedents, and aftermath.
10:00 - 11:00PM
Secrets of the Dead - “The Sinking of the Andrea Doria”. See, to me this is just funny, because I know well that dead man tell no tales. At least that’s true until you use science to pry tales from the cold, frozen grip of the dead. And that’s exactly what the scientists do here with the Andrea Doria.
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