Click & Clack’s As the Wrench Turns
sundays, beginning july 13 12:30 p.m.
Well-known NPR personalities Tom and Ray Magliozzi, better known as Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers, bring their automotive insights and comedic adventures to television. Click & Clack’s As the Wrench Turns follows the “on- and off-air” escapades of the Tappet brothers as they try to fix cars, fend off disgruntled customers and seek out increasingly creative ways to goof off. The ten 30-minute, animated episodes take place at Car Talk Plaza, a fictional building that houses their radio studio and their famed garage in Harvard Square in the fair city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Some of the misadventures involve competition with a nearby garage staffed by sexy hunks, a looming run-in with the feds and their two-man campaign for president. For more about Click & Clack, visit pbs.org/wrenchturns or learn more here.
Masterpiece Mystery! Foyle's War, Series V
Plan of Attack
sun, july 13 8 p.m.
Foyle has resigned as detective but when his replacement is mysteriously killed, will Foyle come out of retirement and once again track down the guilty perpetrators?
For more about Foyle's War, please visit pbs.org/masterpiece.
P.O.V.
The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez
sun, july 13 10:30 p.m.
In 1997, U.S. Marines patrolling the Texas-Mexico border as part of the “War on Drugs” shot and killed Esequiel Hernandez Jr. Mistaken for a drug runner, the 18-year-old was, in fact, a U.S. citizen tending his family’s goats with a .22 rifle. He became the first American killed by U.S. military forces on native soil since the 1970 Kent State shootings. Narrated by Tommy Lee Jones, the film explores Hernandez’s death and its torturous aftermath. His parents and friends, the Marines on patrol and investigators discuss the death of one young man and the dangers of militarizing the border. Learn more >>
