# merchant of venice on pbs

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 10, 2001, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merchant-of-venice-on-pbs/86480 "2001-10-10T02:00:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merchant-of-venice-on-pbs/86480/1 "2001-10-10T02:00:41Z")

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Shoot! I meant to tape the Masterpiece Theater presentation of The Merchant of Venice on PBS yesterday, but I forgot. (I wanted to check it out for possible class use later this year.) I have two questions:

1. If anyone here saw it, was it any good?
2. Does anyone know if PBS tends to re-air Masterpiece Theater?

(The only thing I’ve found out so far was via a TV Listings search, and nothing came up under either “Merchant of Venice” or “Masterpiece Theater.” I haven’t tried looking at a PBS site yet, so maybe I should try that?)

Well, thanks for any help.

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**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merchant-of-venice-on-pbs/86480/2 "2001-10-10T02:08:03Z")

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Yes, PBS tends to re-air Masterpiece Theater. Don’t know why, but each year, along with some new films, they air old series (sometimes because there is a new addition to the series, as a sort of re-cap). IIRC, they re-aired Great Expectations, and some of their detective/police series.

[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece) That will give you more information about the film and airing times.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merchant-of-venice-on-pbs/86480/3 "2001-10-10T02:09:57Z")

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This is more appropriate to Cafe Society than GQ. Feel free to repost there.

bibliophage  
moderator GQ