Great Old Amusement Parks

THURSDAY, JUNE 13 @ 10:00PM Long before giant theme parks and computer-controlled thrill rides, this country had lots of charming and beautiful amusement parks where families gathered for a cool escape on hot summer days. GREAT OLD AMUSEMENT PARKS celebrates some of the pre-Disney parks that are still thriving as well as a few of the classic parks that are gone. The one-hour special, produced by...

FRONTLINE/WORLD

TROUBLED WATER TUESDAY, JUNE 29 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM FRONTLINE/World investigates one of its own stories, “The Play Pump,” which promised to use a merry-go-round and the power of children to help meet the dire need for fresh water in southern Africa. After the story aired in 2005, major donors, including the U.S. government, launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to install the...

THE WALL

A WORLD DIVIDED MONDAY, AUGUST 8 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM While it’s hot and steamy this summer, why not explore the Cold War with PBS? THE WALL – A WORLD DIVIDED, premiering Monday, June 28 at 10 p.m., chronicles the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall and the Wall’s effects on the lives of ordinary Germans. From the secret plans to erect the wall in the middle of the night to...

SCHEDULE JUNE 24 – JUNE 30

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Masterpiece Mystery!

Miss Marple – The Blue Geranium SUNDAY, JUNE 27 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM Mary Pritchard, disliked even by the village reverend, is panicked that she is about to die, and a visit by a veiled fortune teller only fuels more paranoia about her fate. But when the wealthy Pritchard is actually found dead, reportedly from the shock of seeing the pink geranium in her wallpaper turn blue, the...