AMBRIDGE - Old Economy Village gets the Rick Sebak treatment Aug. 20, when WQED-TV’s documentary maker debuts his newest show, “Right Beside the River.”Airing at 8 p.m. on Pittsburgh’s public broadcasting station, “Right Beside the River” is a travelogue of colorful and historic places along the region’s waterways.

Sebak visits Old Economy in Ambridge, which interprets the history of the Harmony Society, a successful 19th-century religious commune.

While in Ambridge, Sebak and his camera crew also visit a factory beside the Ohio River, where in the early 1940s, U.S. Steel’s American Bridge division built LSTs, the biggest ships ever made in the Pittsburgh area.

“Right Beside the River” also visits the Rachel Carson Homestead in Springdale, Fiddle’s Confectionary in Brownsville, the company town of Vandergrift, an American Indian burial mound in Moundsville, W.Va., and the official Marx Toy Museum, also in West Virginia’s panhandle.

Sebak previously toured the region’s rivers in his first WQED documentary, 1988’s “The Mon, The Al and the O.” He has become one of WQED’s most recognizable personalities, and a big money-maker, with documentaries like “Things That Aren’t There Anymore,” “The Strip Show,” “North Side Story,” “Something About Oakland” and “A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway.”