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16 Episodes 2019 - 2019
Episode 1
Tue, Jan 15, 2019 30 mins
Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen star about how writer Mary Shelley created her novel "Frankenstein."
Episode 2
Tue, Jan 22, 2019 30 mins
John Muir convinces Teddy Roosevelt to preserve Yosemite; journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas fights to protect the Everglades; Native American activists occupy Alcatraz.
Episode 3
Tue, Jan 29, 2019 30 mins
Moses Fleetwood Walker faces racism in the 19th-century MLB; the Chicago White Sox are accused of intentionally losing the 1919 World Series; the Callaghan sisters inspire the film "A League of Their Own."
Episode 4
Tue, Feb 5, 2019 30 mins
Bessie Coleman is America's first black woman pilot; the students of the Little Rock Nine integrate a high school following the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Episode 5
Tue, Feb 12, 2019 30 mins
People going to extremes for love, including a student who tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall, Edie Windsor topples the Defense of Marriage Act, and John Wojtowicz robs a bank to pay for his wife's gender reassignment surgery.
Episode 6
Tue, Feb 19, 2019 30 mins
John F. Kennedy's doctor administers him meth for his back pain; Dr. John C. Lilly takes LSD while studying the intelligence of dolphins.
Episode 7
Tue, Feb 26, 2019 30 mins
Journalist Maurine Dallas Watkins writes a play about Chicago's infamous Murderesses' Row; Mata Hari goes from exotic dancer to double agent during World War I.
Episode 8
Tue, Mar 5, 2019 30 mins
Colonial gossip columnist James Callender winds up dead; a Hollywood producer dies on a celebrity-filled yacht; Ken McElroy is murdered after terrorizing a Missouri town.
Episode 9
Tue, Jun 18, 2019 30 mins
Larry Walters pilots a balloon-suspended lawn chair, Phineas Gage survives an iron rod to the brain, and the Greenbrier Ghost's testimony is used in court.
Episode 10
Tue, Jun 25, 2019 30 mins
Lead Belly records songs with John Lomax that change the face of music; John Lennon and Yoko Ono almost get deported; and Sam Cooke writes "A Change Is Gonna Come."
Episode 11
Tue, Jul 2, 2019 30 mins
Hedy Lamarr designs the first modern airplane wing, Eartha Kitt's activism provokes the ire of Lady Bird Johnson, and Alexis Pulaski's poodle becomes a huge star.
Episode 12
Tue, Jul 9, 2019 30 mins
Forest service ranger Ed Pulaski saves 40 men from a forest fire; and Ted Patrick rescues teenagers from the psychological grip of the Children of God cult.
Episode 13
Tue, Jul 16, 2019 30 mins
Martha Mitchell leaks the Watergate scandal to the press before Deep Throat does, and the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI stages an epic break-in.
Episode 14
Tue, Jul 23, 2019 30 mins
Marina Raskova forms an all-women air force regiment to fight Nazis in World War II, and smuggler James J. Andrews hijacks a Confederate train for the Union.
Episode 15
Tue, Jul 30, 2019 30 mins
Navy officer Douglas Hegdahl outwits his captors when he's taken as a POW in North Vietnam, and Florence Nightingale revolutionizes the field of nursing.
Episode 16
Tue, Aug 6, 2019 30 mins
Mary Mallon spreads typhoid fever wherever she goes and Cleopatra's younger sister Arsinoe schemes her way in and out of power in Ancient Egypt.