Productions
TPT is one of the few public television organizations that regularly produces programs for the national PBS schedule. Major productions include The New Medicine (2006), Suze Orman: The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life (2004),The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's (2004, Benjamin Franklin (2003), Seth Eastman: Painting the Dakota (2002), American High (2001), American Photography: A Century of Images (1999), Jane Goodall: Reason for Hope (1999), Liberty! The American Revolution (1997–2004), Hoop Dreams (1995), and Grant Wood's America (1985). In addition, TPT has produced the children's science series Newton's Apple (1983–1998) DragonflyTV (2002–2009), and SciGirls (2010–present). Other series included Right On The Money and Alive From Off Center Make: television, produced in collaboration with Make magazine premiered on PBS stations and on the web in January 2009.
TPT also regularly produces programs exclusively for and about Minnesota and the surrounding region. Its Friday night public-affairs program Almanac, has been aired weekly for more than 20 years. Other significant local productions include numerous concerts with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota: A History of the Land (2005), North Star: Minnesota's Black Pioneers (2004), the series Don't Believe The Hype (10 seasons), Seth Eastman: Painting the Dakota (2001), Death of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland (2000), the series Tape's Rolling, Wacipi-Powow (1995), Lost Twin Cities (1995), The Dakota Conflict (1994), Iron Range: A People's History (1994), and How to Talk Minnesotan (1992).
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