WETA TV 26 Schedule – Feb 7, 2012

Hustle

A BBC caper following a crafty outfit of grifters who target avaricious, morally bankrupt marks. Led by smooth Mickey Stone, an ex-con who went to jail for a crime of passion, the group includes veteran Albert Stroller.

Sesame Street

Elmo Wants to Have a Ball

Elmo works to earn money to buy a ball; L.A. Philharmonic conductor Gustavo Dudamel explains "stupendous"; a macaroni dinosaur comes to life at Abby's Flying Fairy School; Murray experiments with balls; Elmo's World focuses on mail.

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Jetta's Tall Tale; The Big Fetch

Jetta's envious of Emily Elizabeth because everybody loves her pet, Clifford. So she makes up a pet of her own. Then Cleo helps Vaz with his paper route. She likes helping him and she likes the treats she gets as a reward.

Super WHY!

The Little Mermaid

Pig becomes sad because he's different from his friends, so the Super Readers swim into "The Little Mermaid" to learn why "different" isn't a bad thing to be.

Arthur

Silent Treatment; Kung Food

A down-in-the-dumps George decides not to speak to his friends until they notice him; Fern helps an elderly neighbor, who was once a kung-fu star, with his household chores.

Martha Speaks

The Penguin Always Rings Twice; The Martha Code

When Jeffy the elephant becomes the prime suspect in a rash of peanut-butter thefts at the zoo, Martha and Skits work to prove his innocence; Martha accidentally eats a secret code, which garbles her every utterance.

Curious George

George and Marco Sound It Out; A Monkey's Duckling

In the Season 5 opener, George helps his favorite band, Lobos de Plata, find a new place to play after the bandstand in Endless Park is taken down. Later, a duckling mistakes George, who was egg-sitting for his friend Dumpling Duck, for its mother.

The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!

A Sweet Deal; King of Swing

Sally and Nick's café isn't attracting customers; a chimpanzee teaches the kids how to swing from a rope.

WordGirl

Mr. Big's Dolls and Dollars; Great Granny May

A new "Walk and Talk" WordGirl doll misuses and misspells words; Granny May is sentenced to house arrest with her mother, Great Granny, after a salon robbery.

WordWorld

Bugs to the Rescue; Sheep's First Bike Ride

Dog accidentally floats away in the hot-air balloon that Ant built Bear for her birthday; Sheep learns to ride a bike.

Dinosaur Train

The Earthquake; Nursery Car

The kids meet a relative of Tank Triceratops, an early ceratopsian named Penelope Protoceratops. Later, they discover that a nursery car has been added to the train.

Wild Kratts

Aardvark Town

Chris and Martin help an aardvark return to its burrow.

The Electric Company

The Great Compromise

The Electric Company and the Pranksters work together toward a common goal: retaining their ability to use their special powers in the neighborhood.

Sid the Science Kid

Let There Be Light

Sid learns about the science of light and how it comes from various energy sources. He also discovers some light sources, like the sun, can't be turned off.

Charlie Rose

Nature

A Murder of Crows

One of the world's most intelligent creatures is highlighted: the crow. The "feathered apes," as one researcher calls them, possess a sophisticated language of 250 calls and at least two dialects. They also can recognize (and remember) human faces.

Antiques Roadshow

Eugene, Oregon

The Eugene, Ore., visit concludes with tin toys, including a circa 1938 Marx car and a battery-powered dump truck; a circa 1861 Civil War cavalry guidon that may have been used in the Battle of Shiloh; and a 1960 jeweled gold moretto.

Antiques Roadshow

Houston, Texas

Conclusion in Houston. Included: NASA collectibles; a set of Wedgewood Fairyland lusterware; an English Regency rosewood settee; a watch that once belonged to Mickey Mantle.

William and Mary

Julia disappears while William and Mary are spending the night together. Later, Mary is suspended for endangering a baby and William adds a bang to a memorial service.

An Evening With Eartha Kitt

A September 2008 interview with singer-actress Eartha Kitt, who died in December 2008 at 81. The self-styled sex kitten also displays her purrfect talents with renditions of "Ain't Misbehavin'," "La Vie en Rose" and "Here's to Life." Gwen Ifill hosts.

BBC World News America

News from around the world are presented.

Nightly Business Report

A long-running weeknight business-news magazine that includes market reports, company information, CEO interviews and economic commentary. `NBR' began as a local broadcast in Miami in 1979.

PBS NewsHour

Covering national and international issues, originating from Washington, D.C.

Freedom Riders: American Experience

The story of the 1961 Freedom Riders, civil-rights activists who confronted the Jim Crow laws that remained the status quo at interstate travel facilities in the South despite two Supreme Court rulings that declared them unconstitutional.

Frontline

Rules of Engagement

An examination of Nov. 19, 2005 incident in Haditha, Iraq, that has been labeled by some as "Iraq's My Lai" because of the deaths of 24 civilians. The report includes footage of the events from an unmanned aerial drone.

Charlie Rose

Tavis Smiley

Egyptian Internet activist Wael Ghonim.

Antiques Roadshow

Eugene, Oregon

The Eugene, Ore., visit concludes with tin toys, including a circa 1938 Marx car and a battery-powered dump truck; a circa 1861 Civil War cavalry guidon that may have been used in the Battle of Shiloh; and a 1960 jeweled gold moretto.

Antiques Roadshow

Houston, Texas

Conclusion in Houston. Included: NASA collectibles; a set of Wedgewood Fairyland lusterware; an English Regency rosewood settee; a watch that once belonged to Mickey Mantle.

An Evening With Valerie Simpson in Memory of Nick Ashford

Valerie Simpson recalls the life of Nick Ashford, her husband, cowriter and singing partner. Together, they penned such classic songs as "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "You're All I Need To Get By" and "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing."