Six-episode series of filmed adaptations of fiction by nine American authors, from Ambrose Bierce to John Updike. The stories deal with recurring themes in life. Produced by Learning in Focus.

Although traditions at Christmas have changed over the years we still strive to retain the season’s warmth by spending time with family and friends. John Doan reminds us here in these programs of what our history was by bringing it back to life with stories and songs of the season. You just might find yourself laughing, singing, and cherishing those you love as you enjoy these holiday specials. This DVD contains both Oregon Public Broadcasting programs “A Christmas to Remember with John Doan” and “A Victorian Christmas with John Doan.”

Aspects of medicine are addressed, including diagnosis, wellness, treatment and illness prevention. Topics are explored in profiles of physicians and patients.

Soccer Made in Germany was a PBS show that ran from 1976 until 1988. The program, distributed to 256 PBS member stations by the German Educational Television Network was initially sponsored by KQED Channel 9, San Francisco. The - Emmy Nominated - weekly series featured hour long edited highlights of games involving West German association football teams and select international and European cup games from UEFA. The show was hosted by Toby Charles from 1976-1983. Soccer Made In Germany showed a Woman Soccer German CUP match from Frankfurt in 1981, pioneering the sport to U.S. audiences, and promoted girls/women soccer in schools and universities a trend that has been very successful to date. View #Soccer Made In Germany CLIP

German Educational TV also produced a daily SPECIAL program life from its New York studios presenting highlights of the day from the 1982 World Cup from Spain. This was the first time that World Cup was presented on Public Television in the United States bringing the sport to millions of homes each day, and leading up to the FINAL MATCH which was also live-broadcast on ABC-Network as a FIRST LIVE showing of a FIFA WORLD CUP event on U.S. network TV.

The Fitness Show is an educational television program, hosted by Colin Hoobler. The series, filmed in Portland, Oregon. is the first medically based fitness program to apply science to exercise. This is in the likeness of the series’ producers’ Emmy Award-winning program Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Like Bill Nye, Hoobler hosts the program as part motivator and part science teacher. Sensors and 3-D image-capturing technology show viewers in real time what goes on underneath the skin during exercise.

As a licensed physical therapist with two master’s degrees, Hoobler’s methods have been taught through the American Physical Therapy Association. Both medical doctors and physical therapists make guest appearances on The Fitness Show. Techniques demonstrated in episodes combine elements of anatomy, neuroscience, physics and sports medicine. The educational content is intended to help viewers save time, avoid invasive medical treatments and reduce chronic pain.

MoneyTrack is a concept and television-show about personal finance and investing, first introduced by Pam Krueger.

A show on this concept, also called MoneyTrack, runs as a weekly half-hour public television series airing on PBS stations. It was created, produced and co-hosted by Pam Krueger and Jack Gallagher, and launched in 2005 with 13 episodes. MoneyTrack claims that the fourth season will be screened in the fall of 2012.

In 2005, a guest on the MoneyTrack show, Rob Black, wrote Getting On The MoneyTrack; and in October this book was published. Pam Krueger wrote the forward. In October 2008, Krueger wrote the companion book to the show, The MoneyTrack Method: A Step-by-Step Guide to Investing Like the Pros. Wiley published both.

MoneyTrack is produced at Beyond Pix Studios in San Francisco. MoneyTrack is underwritten by the Investor Protection Trust with support from state securities regulators.

Topics discussed on the program include: investing, economics, and personal finance topics such as credit, debt, real estate, and taxes. They advertise, "Every week, co-hosts Pam Krueger and Jack Gallagher talk with real people who are living examples of what works and what doesn’t when it comes to managing your wealth. Combined with sage advice from top financial experts, such as Warren Buffett, John Bogle and well-known commentator Ben Stein".

Barbecue America is a cooking show on public television. In this show, host and series creator Rick Browne, makes everything on a grill. He wears a "table cloth" shirt, actually made from a red and white checked table cloth.

Browne travels to a variety of barbecue cook-offs, and exotic locales to bring the best of barbecue to the viewer.

He has published several cookbooks on the subject of grilling.

Earth Trek was a travel and adventure program produced by Palm Springs production company Raven Productions. The show was hosted by Joni Ravenna, who had previously hosted Great Sports Vacations and now hosts Hello Paradise, and John Stevens. It also featured celebrity guests, including Sean Astin, Tate Donovan, Nancy Kwan, Michael Weiss. It was distributed on PBS stations from coast to coast beginning September 2001.

Universe: The Infinite Frontier was a 26 episode television series explaining all the stars and planets and having a look at the entire universe. It was first broadcast in 1994 in the United States by PBS.

Cookin' Cheap was a nationally syndicated cooking show, originally hosted by Larry Bly and Earl "Laban" Johnson, Jr.. Cookin' Cheap was taped in the studios of Blue Ridge Public Television in Roanoke, Virginia. It began its national distribution through the PBS system in 1981, and more recently did a syndication run on the GoodLife TV Network.

Cookin' Cheap contrasted itself with contemporary cooking shows of its time by not attempting to hide the tedious preparation work that goes into cooking a recipe, and by using common ingredients purchased at local supermarkets in Roanoke, Virginia, where the show was produced. Johnson stated that the idea for the show was born from the frustration he suffered when trying to recreate the recipes of Julia Child, lacking ingredients that are unavailable in a small southern town.

Planet Forward, a project of the Center for Innovative Media at The George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs, is a online public forum where experts and engaged citizens weigh in on energy, climate and sustainability. Then, it takes the best ideas and features them online and on TV.

The Clay Cole Show was a rock music television show based in New York City, hosted by Clay Cole.

First broadcast on WNTA-TV in September 1959 as Rate the Records, within two months the format was changed, and an hour-long Saturday-night show was added. In the summer months, the show was expanded to an hour, six nights a week, live from Palisades Amusement Park, where Chubby Checker first performed and danced "The Twist". When WNTA-TV was sold in 1963, the show moved to WPIX-TV, where for five years it was successful, thanks to first-time guest appearances of the Rolling Stones, Neil Diamond, Dionne Warwick, Simon & Garfunkel, Richie Havens, Tony Orlando, Blood, Sweat & Tears and The Rascals. In 1965, the show was renamed Clay Cole's Discotek. Clay produced a full hour with just one guest, Tony Bennett. Clay's all-star, ten-day Christmas Show at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater holds the all-time box-office record for that theater.

Cole was the first to introduce stand-up comics such as Richard Pryor, George Carlin, and Fannie Flagg to a teen audience. He was the first to produce a full hour of all-black performers, his historic Salute to Motown Unlike other teen music show hosts, Cole danced to the music he played on his shows; he was also unafraid to book lesser-known performers.