WETA HD 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.

Himalaya With Michael Palin

The Roof of the World

Palin travels north from Lhasa to the Tibetan plateau, where nomads gather for an annual horse festival; then on to the Yangtze River and the easternmost edge of the Himalayas.

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.

Underground Railroad: The William Still Story

A profile of 19th-century abolitionist William Still (1821-1902), who helped hundreds of runaway slaves escape across the U.S. border to Canada. The documentary features excerpts from diaries kept by Still about the Underground Railroad.

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.

Underground Railroad: The William Still Story

A profile of 19th-century abolitionist William Still (1821-1902), who helped hundreds of runaway slaves escape across the U.S. border to Canada. The documentary features excerpts from diaries kept by Still about the Underground Railroad.

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.

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.

Tavis Smiley

Former senator Chuck Hagel.

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

Defense attorney Benjamin Brafman.

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 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.

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.