I won't lie. This Rocky Mountain PBS lover is also a Colorado Rockies fan and has been for more than two weeks. Therefore, like many of you, I'll be tuned in to little else but baseball for the next four to eight days.
However, there's no need for any of us to miss out on the Rocky Mountain PBS schedule. Set your TiVos, DVRs and quaint old VCRs. Here are some gameday programs you'll want to record for post-world-championship viewing:
Wednesday, October 24 (Game One, in Boston)"Wired Science" (7 p.m.) Special Correspondent Adam Rogers combs Kansas wheat fields for rocks from outer space, and Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson explores the world of unmanned aerial vehicles. The team visits with Dr. Anthony Atala and learns about building organs in his lab. Eek! That sounds like Halloween viewing for sure.
Thursday, October 25 (Game Two, in Boston)"Lady Bird" (8 p.m.) This is a one-hour biography of Lady Bird Johnson, whose first lady experience included the civil rights movement, riots and Vietnam.
"Disaster Detectives: Water" (9 p.m.) follows an avalanche photographer who risks his life to better understand snow pack.
Friday, October 26 Free day! Watch the Friday night public affairs lineup.
Saturday, October 27 (Game Three, in Denver)Saturday is movie night – record
"Fiddler on the Roof" (8 p.m.) for a later date and get your fright on with the film adaptation of Stephen King's
"Carrie" after the game at 11.
Sunday, October 28 (Game Four, in Denver)"Nature" (7 p.m.) investigates the baffling ecological disaster of massive bee die-offs with "Silence of the Bees." If you've been following this natural mystery in the news, you'll definitely want to record this program. "Masterpiece Theatre" continues with
"The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard" at 9 p.m.
Monday, October 29 (Game Five, in Denver, provided we don't sweep!)Maybe it's just me, but I have a hunch that baseball enthusiasts are also regular readers of Peanuts comics. Augh! You'll have to record this!
"American Masters: Good Ol' Charles Schulz" profiles the unassuming creator of "Peanuts," whose comics were full of heartache, philosophical/political musings and intelligent discourse. This one is not to be missed.
Tuesday, October 30 Baseball break! "Nova" presents its much-anticipated
"Marathon," which investigates how our bodies respond to intense exercise like marathon running. "Frontline: The Undertaking" is a profile of Thomas Lynch, a writer, poet and undertaker whose family has cared for the living and the dead in a small Michigan town for three generations.
Wednesday, October 31 (Game Six, in Boston)*If the series goes to six games, I imagine streets full of parents listening to the game on transistor radios while their costumed kids go door to door. Rocky Mountain PBS is hosting a free ITVS Community Cinema
documentary screening of "Miss Navajo" at Starz FilmCenter in Denver on Halloween night, so I personally hope we can wrap this series up in five games! Record-worthy programming? A new episode of
"Wired Science" (7 p.m.) and an encore showing of
"The War: FUBAR" at 9.
Thursday, November 1 (Game Seven, in Boston)*Our first program honoring Native American Heritage Month is
"The Way of the Warrior," a fascinating portrait of Native Americans who have fought in the U.S. military.
Go Rockies. Go Rocky Mountain PBS.
With a little planning, you can have it all.
Allison, Rocky Mountain PBS
* Heaven forbid
