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Pioneers Of Television: Superheroes

“Superheroes” crosses many eras: “Superman” in the 1950s, “Batman” in the ’60s, “Wonder Woman” and “The Incredible Hulk” in the ’70s and “The Greatest American Hero” in the ’80s. The episode features in-depth interviews with Adam West, Burt Ward, Julie Newmar, Lynda Carter, Lou Ferrigno, William Katt and others. It also includes comments from Robert Culp, about his show “The Greatest American Hero.”

Henry Ford: American Experience

An absorbing life story of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century, Henry Ford offers an incisive look at the birth of the American auto industry with its long history of struggles between labor and management, and a thought-provoking reminder of how Ford’s automobile forever changed the way we work, where we live, and our ideas about individuality, freedom, and possibility.

Inauguration Coverage on WCVE Public Radio

On Monday, January 21, NPR will have reporters deployed at the Inaugural ceremony, in the crowd on the National Mall, along the parade route, and at the inaugural balls. During Morning Edition, the show will provide frequent updates until 9:00 a.m. An abbreviated Performance Today will air from 9:00-10:00 a.m. on Monday.

PBS NewsHour Coverage of Inauguration

PBS NewsHour will provide comprehensive live coverage of President Barack Obama’s second inauguration. This special daytime edition of the PBS NewsHour broadcast will be anchored by Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff beginning at 11:00 a.m. Monday, January 21, 2013. Online, the PBS NewsHour team will offer extensive reporting on the people, the process and the history of past celebrations.

Pioneers Of Television: Primetime Soaps

Daytime dramas were a staple of the first days of television. They got the nickname “soap operas” because the early adopters of television advertising were soap companies. Over time, the term soap opera became associated with improbable, but exciting, story lines involving long- lost relatives, secret affairs and amnesia. The genre came to primetime in 1964 with “Peyton Place,” starring Ryan O’Neal and Mia Farrow. The genre revived in primetime in the late ’70s to great success.

Shakespeare Uncovered & Bard Bits

William Shakespeare gets the full PBS treatment in a six-part series, Shakespeare Uncovered. Divided into 3 programs featuring two hour-long segments focusing on one or two plays by the Bard, each with a celebrity host. The series is built on interviews with actors, directors and scholars, clips from screen versions of the plays under consideration, and live performance segments filmed at today’s Globe, and staged specifically for Shakespeare Uncovered.

Pioneers Of Television: Funny Ladies

This episode of Pioneers Of Television features the first standup comediennes to appear on television — legends such as Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers. It also looks at Lucille Ball’s breakthrough on “I Love Lucy” and the sitcom stars who followed, including Mary Tyler Moore, Betty White and Marla Gibbs.

The Wait is Over: Downton Abbey Season 3 Starts January 6

The Great War is over and the long-awaited engagement of Lady Mary and Matthew is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate.

The Abolitionists: American Experience

Vividly bringing to life the epic struggles of the men and women who fought to end slavery, The Abolitionists tells the intertwined stories of Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimké, Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown. Fighting body and soul, they led the most important civil rights crusade in American history.

Start the New Year with WCVE Public Radio

On air, online or on-the-go--ring in the New Year with a musical feast for your ears from WCVE Public Radio.

December 31 at 9:00 p.m. – Toast of the Nation An NPR tradition every New Year’s Eve since the 1970s and on WCVE Public Radio for the past 25 years, Toast of the Nation is perfect for the occasion. It’s jazz that you can party to, all night from coast to coast, with countdowns to midnight in all four continental time zones.