Your large piece of furniture could be chosen for Antiques Roadshow. If it is, the show will pay to move it for its closeup.

The highest-rated PBS series, Antiques Roadshow, is taping a segment in Dallas for its 2009 season. It's been about 10 years since Roadshow brought its antiques appraisers to town, so this is your best chance to get a ruling on that family heirloom you've always wondered about or that treasure in disguise you spotted at a flea market.

Tickets to the taping June 28 are free (only two per household), but there's a hitch. The show attracts thousands more attendees than it can accommodate; staffers draw names at random and will issue 6,800 tickets per city.

Put your name in the hopper online Monday through April 20, or submit a postcard postmarked by April 5. If you apply online, you will receive an e-mail on or about May 9 informing you whether you will or will not receive tickets. If you apply for tickets by postcard and are chosen, you will not receive a confirmation prior to receiving the tickets.

Ticket holders are allowed to bring two objects for verbal appraisals from the 70 to 80 appraisers who are part of the Roadshow team. Decisions about which items appear on the show, which will air in the series' 14th season, are made months after the taping.

Antiques Roadshow also is visiting Palm Springs, Calif.; Wichita, Kan.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; and Hartford, Conn. At each venue, producers will truck 10 large pieces of furniture to the taping site. Selection is determined in advance, and choices must reside within a 50-mile radius of downtown Dallas, according to Marsha Bemko, the show's executive producer.

If you think you have a cupboard, chest of drawers or other hefty object producers and their consulting appraisers would find irresistible, there's a procedure for its selection, too. Grandfather clocks, pianos, chairs, small furnishings and non-furniture items need not apply.

And an object does not have to be 100 years old, either, to qualify. "Think about the Arts and Crafts period or the great modern furniture," says Ms. Bemko. "Just because it's old doesn't mean it's valuable."

The executive producer says she's looking for objects – whether you carry it in your hand or it's a family heirloom the show chooses to have trucked in – that have compelling stories. "Bring something you're curious about; resist the impulse to show and tell," she says.