Public Broadcasting's Dave and Dave Peek Into Pennsylvania's Most Unique Museums in New Statewide Documentary

Public Broadcasting's Dave and Dave Peek Into Pennsylvania's Most Unique Museums in New Statewide Documentary

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What do elephants, lighters, bugs, trains, Houdini, and Pez dispensers have in common?

They are just a few of Pennsylvania's offbeat museums which everyone can tour with Dave Rhodes and Dave Hallewell in their next Pennsylvania Public Television Network (PPTN) show called Pennsylvania's Offbeat Museums with Dave and Dave. This is the second installment in the duo's tourism-focused features, launched in 2006 with the Telly-Award winning Eat Pennnsylvania: A Keystone Plate Special with Dave and Dave. The pair took a humorous look last year at some of the state's most unusual eateries from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia.

Unlike conventional museums where visitors are not often permitted to touch and examine the displays, in Offbeat Museums, Dave and Dave travel the Commonwealth to uncover the quirkiest, most unusual -- but always fun -- museums. Viewers will meet the people behind the collections and find out what drives them to not only "save the stuff" but showcase it, as well.

From Pittsburgh to Bradford to Williamsport to Galeton and Philadelphia, Dave and Dave provide a bouncy travelogue featuring:

   -- Harry Houdini Museum, Scranton -- dedicated to the world's greatest      illusionist, but why Scranton?   -- Zippo/Case Museum, Bradford -- the world headquarters of Zippo Lighters   -- Little League Museum, Williamsport -- the international home of Little      League baseball   -- Pez Museum, Easton -- over 1800 of the character-candy dispensers   -- Mr. Ed's Elephant Museum, Ortanna -- 6,000 elephants of all sizes   -- Toy Robot Museum, Adamstown -- it all started with one robot as an      anniversary gift from the owner's wife   -- Pennsylvania Lumber Museum, Galeton -- a homage to the state's logging      industry   -- Insectarium, Philadelphia -- bugs galore   -- Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum, Pittsburgh -- locomotives      and the towns they serve in great tiny detail   -- East Broad Top Railroad, Rock Hill Furnace -- the last remaining      narrow-gauge railroad east of the Mississippi   

Pennsylvania's Offbeat Museums with Dave and Dave premieres statewide on the following dates and times:

   -- WPSU - Sunday, November 11 at 7pm   -- WQED - Thursday, November 15 at 8pm and Sunday, November 18 at 5pm   -- WITF - Sunday, November 18 at 5pm   -- WVIA - Monday, December 31 at 10pm; Friday, January 11 at 10am; and      Saturday, January 12 at 11pm    Who are Dave & Dave?  

Dave Hallewell has created local and national productions and promotions for WQED as a writer, producer, and editor since 1995. His media background includes work for KDKA-TV's Evening Magazine, NBC, HGTV, and freelance production. Hallewell's education includes an English writing degree from The University of Pittsburgh, a working study of digital non-linear editing from Pittsburgh Filmmakers, and Avid (R) training and certification from The International Film & Video Workshops in Rockport, Maine.

Dave Rhodes has directed programs and specials for OnQ Magazine, Black Horizons, LifeQuest, and cooking marathons for QED Cooks host and WQED Director of Programming, Chris Fennimore, for more than 15 years. Rhodes served as an Associate Producer on several of WQED Producer Rick Sebak's local and national programs including: South Side; A Hot Dog Program; and Great Old Amusement Parks. Rhodes has two Emmy nominations for directing WQED's Live from Studio A music shows and was guest director for an episode of PBS' national talk show, Charlie Rose. Rhodes is an alumnus of Ohio University and his writing has been featured in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh Pride Sports Magazine.

Pennsylvania's Offbeat Museums with Dave and Dave is presented by WQED Pittsburgh and funded in part with a grant from the Pennsylvania Public Television Network (PPTN). PPTN is a technology service agency and a grantor to PPTN member stations in Pennsylvania to advance educational, cultural and civic opportunities and support public safety. PPTN is accountable for Commonwealth funds and supports PPTN's public media organizations in their service to the citizens of the Commonwealth.

WQED Pittsburgh, honored with the 2007 and 2006 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for Station Excellence and 12 other Emmy Awards, creates, produces and distributes quality programs, products and services to engage, inform, educate and entertain the public within its community and around the world. It is the parent company of WQED-TV (PBS); WQED-DT; The WQED Neighborhood Channel; WQED-HD; WQEX-TV (A Shop NBC affiliate); WQED-FM89.3/Pittsburgh; WQEJ-FM89.7/Johnstown; a publishing division that includes PITTSBURGH magazine; local and national television and radio productions; WQED Interactive (www.wqed.org); and the WQED Education Department.

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