Last summer, the popular PBS show “Antiques Roadshow” made a stop in Anchorage, drawing thousands of Alaskans to film a series of episodes for its upcoming season.
This week, those episodes hit the air.
The first of three Anchorage episodes premiered on PBS on Monday night and is now streaming on the program’s YouTube page.
According to the show’s website, the final two hours from Anchorage will air on Jan. 15 and Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. on KAKM Channel 7.
[’Antiques Roadshow’ draws thousands to Anchorage stop]
Some of the pieces featured in the first show included an Italian art deco alabaster polar bear lamp from 1925 and a Warner Bros. Vitaphone disc from the film “The Jazz Singer,” dated to 1927.
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/adn/O2UBWJ45K5FEPCQDCPYP7LYIAM.jpg)
It also included some items very specific to the state, like a Chilkat blanket dated to the early 1900s and Susan Butcher’s 1990 Iditarod trophy.
The show’s producers estimated that 3,000 people attended the filming and PBS appraisers reviewed around 6,000 items.
The British version of “Antiques Roadshow” launched in 1979, and the first American episodes were aired in 1997. The show’s stop in July was the first the show has made in the state.
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/adn/GVSFHGJDZNBVTAKEPILENUD2UI.jpg)