ADVANCE October 2025

OCTOBER SCHEDULE

Calling all amateur sleuths! You can now watch nearly 100 episodes of classic Agatha Christie programs, including Miss Marple and Poirot, with Iowa PBS Passport!

9:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Road Trip Iowa:

1:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

5:30 p.m. WORLD Firing Line With Margaret Hoover (R-10/26, 11 a.m., Iowa PBS) 6:00 p.m. Iowa PBS The Lawrence Welk Show: Halloween WORLD Outrage of Danny Sotomayor: American Stories Discover the life of Danny Sotomayor and his fight for the LGBTQ+ community against Chicago. TV-14 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS As Time Goes By

America’s Test Kitchen:

Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway East-Central

Ice Cream Cake WORLD Journey Through Breast Cancer (See 10/24 at 6 p.m. on WORLD) 1:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Woodsmith Shop: Two Garden Projects 2:00 p.m. Iowa PBS This Old House: Asheville DVS WORLD Unknown Destination: A Love Story (See 10/24 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) 2:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Ask This Old House: Planting Arborvitaes, Storage Rack DVS 3:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting: Tied to You WORLD Jack Has a Plan (See 10/24 at 8 p.m. on WORLD) 3:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Fit 2 Stitch: Guest Matt Porter, Fashion Educator at UNT 4:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Garden Smart: Gardening in New Orleans WORLD To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbe 4:30 p.m. Iowa PBS British Antiques Roadshow: Wollaton Hall 1 WORLD Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-10/26, 6 a.m., WORLD) 5:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Phoenix 2025, Hour 2 WORLD DW Focus on Europe (R-10/26, 7 a.m., WORLD)

WORLD Jack Has a Plan

(See 10/24 at 8 p.m. on WORLD) (R-10/25, 3 p.m., WORLD)

9:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Quebec City, Canada 10:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Pati’s Mexican Table: A Sense of Beauty WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 10:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Lidia’s Kitchen: Dream of Summer WORLD The Whitney Reynolds Show Courage Chapters TV-PG 11:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Coconut Curry & Stir-Fried Chicken WORLD Independent Lens: Ratified (See 10/20 at 10 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 11:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Ingredient: Pears NOON Iowa PBS Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue: Planet Barbecue 12:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Cook’s Country WORLD POV Shorts: In Her Lane

Lionel is miffed at the rewrite to his script and refuses to attend the premiere of the miniseries. Two Mexican American brothers, both decorated Vietnam veterans, find themselves facing deportation. (R 10/25, 11 p.m., WORLD) TV-M

WORLD VOCES: American Exile

7:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Last of the Summer Wine: Bicycle Made for Three

(R-10/26, 11:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

8:00 p.m. WORLD Voces on PBS: From Here/From There (De Aquí/De Allá) Follow the story of the first undocumented attorney to argue a case before the Supreme Court. TV-PG

8:02 p.m. Iowa PBS Queens of Mystery:

Smoke & Mirrors, Part 2 With another murder and a missing lead actress, the theater company is forced to switch up the cast. (R-10/30, 11:10 p.m., Iowa PBS)

Discover a testament to the power of perseverance and what it takes to be a trailblazer. TV-PG

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