Saturday, January 17th TV listings for PBS (KQED) San Francisco, CA
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Meet Neighborhood Musical Director John Costa
King Friday commands that all Neighbors celebrate a Bass Violin Festival.
Arthur D.W. on Ice; Spoiled Rotten!
D.W. tells her friends she is a fantastic skater, but she really is not; Muffy tries to prove to her friends that she is not spoiled.
Wild Kratts Polar Bears Don't Dance
While snowboarding across the Arctic tundra, the Kratt brothers discover a mother polar bear and her young cub who are enemies, but when Zach kidnaps their calf and cub they all come to the rescue.
Weather Hunters Finding Cumulus
The Hunters find a stowaway in their picnic basket, a little furry dog.
Joy of Painting With Nicholas Hankins: Bob Ross' Unfinished Season Winter Among the Pines
Capturing a frigid wintertime landscape on canvas using just a few oil colors.
New Scandinavian Cooking A Coastal Feast
A culinary journey through Afjord municipality on the Fosen Peninsula in Mid-Norway features fresh seafood, including blue mussels, sea urchins, scallops and fish; Hall of Mirrors in the Britannia Hotel in Trondheim.
Check, Please! Bay Area Lita, Simurgh Bakery & Cafe, Porterhouse
LITA (Walnut Creek), Simurgh Bakery & Cafe (Emeryville), Porterhouse (San Mateo).
Yan Can Cook: Spice Kingdom Rising Stars
Talented young stars from Chengdu, China, may be future opera divas, poets, pop singers, sculptors and chefs.
In Julia's Kitchen With Master Chefs Rick Bayless
Rick Bayless; black-bean/tortilla casserole; refried beans.
Essential Pépin Shell-ebration
Crab cakes with avocado sauce; oysters; mussels poulette; mussels gratinee; clam fritters.
America's Test Kitchen Mediterranean Eggplant Dishes New
Silky roasted eggplant with tomato and feta; a tasting of hummus; Moroccan eggplant meze.
Cook's Country Inspiring Shrimp Suppers New
Shrimp with garlic and jalapeno butter; Swedish dishcloths; Zephyr Wright-inspired shrimp curry.
Check, Please! Bay Area Lita, Simurgh Bakery & Cafe, Porterhouse
LITA (Walnut Creek), Simurgh Bakery & Cafe (Emeryville), Porterhouse (San Mateo).
Lidia's Kitchen Easy Going Recipes
Winter minestrone that can be made with any hearty green; matalotta-style mixed fish stew.
Sara's Weeknight Meals The Turkish Table
Lamb shanks and ouzo; fritters made with fresh picked pumpkin and traditional Turkish grilled ground meat simit kebabs; limoncello with Italian lemons.
Pati's Mexican Table Rhythms of the City
Visiting Gris in Tlatelolco to meet Gabriela Rojas and reflect on the neighborhood's tragic past; the rhythms and stories of danzon.
Relish Sourdough Bread and Banana Tart
Old-school techniques of stone-grinding and making the perfect sourdough; using Baker's Field Flour in a delicate tart.
Samantha Brown's Places to Love Route 66 in Arizona New
Exploring Arizona's Route 66; the Petrified Forest; Jack Rabbit Trading Post; Winslow's historic La Posada; Kingman's Route 66 Museum.
Climate California Reclamation New
Following trailblazers as they reimagine the future -- from science fiction with Kim Stanley Robinson to the Yurok tribe's dam removal project.
Wild Nevada Pioche
Hiking through Echo Canyon State Park and Spring Valley State Park; Thompson's Opera House; the Million Dollar Courthouse.
Rick Steves' Europe Poland's Warsaw and Gdansk
Warsaw, Poland; gingerbread bakeries in red-brick Torun; the Teutonic knight fortress of Malbork; Hanseatic townhouses in Gdansk.
This Old House Asheville: Coming Home
Five families return to their homes after rebuilding from Hurricane Helene; the location of the next project is revealed.
Ask This Old House Speakeasy Hidden Door
Using a toilet flange repair kit; essential upkeep to ensure a gas mower runs like new; installing a hidden door.
Science, health, technology and environment experts and professionals address issues such as artificial intelligence, race, medicine and climate science.
Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Great Migrations
Rapper Wiz Khalifa and actor Sanaa Lathan learn about ancestors who left the American South in search of better lives in the North.
Check, Please! Bay Area Lita, Simurgh Bakery & Cafe, Porterhouse
LITA (Walnut Creek), Simurgh Bakery & Cafe (Emeryville), Porterhouse (San Mateo).
Rick Steves' Europe Italy's Highlights
Travels through Italy include Venice and Florence; the Italian Riviera and the hill towns of Tuscany and Umbria; the historical epicenter of Rome; Naples; the Amalfi Coast; Sicily.
The Great Escape (1963)
A group of Allied soldiers are intent on breaking out, not only to escape, but also to draw Nazi forces away from battle to search for fugitives. Among the prisoners are American Captain Virgil Hilts and British Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
An inventor (Dick Van Dyke) takes his kids and a candy tycoon's daughter (Sally Ann Howes) for a musical ride in a flying car.
Austin City Limits Renee Rapp; Thee Sacred Souls New
Pop singer Reneé Rapp performs songs from "Bite Me"; San Diego modern soul trio Thee Sacred Souls share tunes from "Got a Story to Tell."
Check, Please! Bay Area Lita, Simurgh Bakery & Cafe, Porterhouse
LITA (Walnut Creek), Simurgh Bakery & Cafe (Emeryville), Porterhouse (San Mateo).
Secrets of the Dead Jamestown's Dark Winter
Forensic anthropologists excavate the early American colony of Jamestown, Va., and find bones of a 14-year-old English girl.
The First Lady Please Allow Me
Young Eleanor makes her societal debut in New York and meets her ambitious cousin, Franklin; young Betty, trapped in an abusive marriage, finds herself pursued by hotshot lawyer Jerry; young Michelle trains an idealistic summer intern named Barack.
The First Lady Cracked Pot
Franklin's marital indiscretions push Eleanor to socialize with more politically active women; a stubborn shoulder injury begins Betty's troubled history with pain medication; Michelle vows to put Chicago's inadequate health care system to task.