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    Upcoming Programs You Will Like

    To Market to Market to Buy a Fat Pig
    Sunday, 9/21 at 12noon

    It's the Neighborhoods
    Sunday, 9/21 at 12noon

    A Flea Market Documentary
    Sunday, 10/5 at 12noon

    Underground Pittsburgh
    Sunday, 10/12 at 12noon

    What Makes Pittsburgh Pittsburgh?
    Sunday, 10/26 at 12noon

    A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway
    Wednesday, 10/29 at 8pm
    Friday, 10/31 at 10pm




Rick Sebak

About Rick: Rick Sebak makes unusual television programs. His slightly wacky documentaries celebrate various aspects of modern American life and the unexpected charms of Pittsburgh. Audiences have learned to recognize his friendly narrative style and the unusual topics that he obviously loves. Read more about Rick.

Rick also writes the back page of Pittsburgh magazine every month. Take a look.

Pittsburgh History Series

INVENTED, ENGINEERED & PIONEERED IN PITTSBURGH
It's a celebration of engineers and innovators in the Pittsburgh region over the past 250 years. From Ferris wheels to computer games, engineers around here have helped create the modern world.
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WHAT MAKES PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH?
We say it's a question with no easy or definitive answer.
It's just fun to consider.
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IT'S THE NEIGHBORHOODS
You often hear that Pittsburgh is a city of great neighborhoods. WQED producer Rick Sebak made a program that celebrates a few areas in Western Pennsylvania that illustrate some of the factors that make neighborhoods around here charming and comfortable places to live.
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Pittsburgh History Series Teachers Guide
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All-American Documentaries

New! A RIDE ALONG THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY
This new hour-long documentary looks at some history of the highway, but also includes new footage of cross-country journeys with unexpected encounters that make traditional two-lane traveling so rewarding.
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TO MARKET TO MARKET TO BUY A FAT PIG
A celebration of market houses, market places and farmers' markets across the United States. Rick Sebak checks out crab cakes in Baltimore's Lexington Market, shops with a chef in Pittsburgh's East Liberty Farmers' Market and attends a tomato tasting in Asheville, North Carolina.
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A CEMETERY SPECIAL
Cemeteries are of course where we bury the dead, where we mark their graves with monuments and markers of many sorts, but also where we go to remember people we have loved, admired, or learned about over the years.
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A PROGRAM ABOUT UNUSUAL BUILDINGS
& OTHER ROADSIDE STUFF

Rick takes a road trip in search of America's most interesting, wacky and goofy buildings, celebrating places such as the Big Duck on Long Island and the world's largest catsup bottle, built as a water tower in Collinsville, Illinois.
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MORE ALL-AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY TITLES
A Flea Market Documentary
Great Old Amusement Parks
A Hot Dog Program
Sandwiches That You Will Like



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