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Time Traveling with Brian Unger

  • 2015-2015
  • 1 season
  • Travel Channel

Time Traveling With Brian Unger goes where ordinary travelers can't, using eye-popping computer-generated graphics to visually travel back in time and tell stories from yesteryear that tourists won't find in the guidebooks. Host Brian Unger is the ultimate tour guide, bringing his irreverent humor and point of view to the fascinating stories that most Americans don't know yet. In each episode, locals agree to accompany Brian to destinations they've never visited before - some off-limits to the general public - or to look at iconic landmarks in a fresh, new way, revealing histories we never knew.

Season 1 Episode Guide

14 Episodes 2015

Episode 1

SF's Golden Gateway & NY's Tallest Five and Dime

Mon, Apr 20, 2015 21 mins

Brian takes locals back to the Great Depression in San Francisco, where an amazing feat of engineering became the Golden Gate Bridge, then to NYC to see how the first building to scrape the sky has transformed from 1913 to today.

Time Traveling with Brian Unger Season 1 SF's Golden Gateway & NY's Tallest Five and Dime

Episode 2

Cowboys, Cops, Corral, Divorce

Mon, Apr 20, 2015 22 mins

Brian travels back to the Wild West of Tombstone to see where the infamous O.K Corral gunfight really took place, then hits the streets of 1940s Las Vegas to see Divorce Ranches & how celebrities like Marilyn Monroe got unhitched.

Episode 3

Monuments Man & Tramping Through Hollywood

Mon, Apr 27, 2015 21 mins

Brian travels back in time to Washington D.C. in 1884 to see how a swamp turned into the National Mall, then takes locals tramping through Hollywood in search of the hidden filming locations and studios of Charlie Chaplin.

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Episode 4

Liberty Bell Escape & Hidden Grand Canyon Treasures

Mon, Apr 27, 2015 22 mins

Brian travels back in time to Washington D.C. in 1884 to see how a swamp turned into the National Mall, then takes locals tramping through Hollywood in search of the hidden filming locations and studios of Charlie Chaplin.

Time Traveling with Brian Unger Season 1 Liberty Bell Escape & Hidden Grand Canyon Treasures

Episode 5

Lincoln's Killer on the Run

Mon, May 4, 2015 21 mins

Brian takes locals back to Washington D.C. at the end of the Civil War to follow the escape route of Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. They hid in a pine thicket, row across the Potomac River, & hang at special tennis courts.

Episode 6

Pocahontas & Death Valley Scotty

Mon, May 11, 2015 21 mins

Brian & locals travel to 1607 in Jamestown, VA, where the first English settlement was built & Pocahontas married. Then to Death Valley to see a scam artist & learn why many flocked to the unforgiving climate in the late 1900's.

Episode 7

Rockets Red Glare & Rockin' LA Hotels

Mon, May 18, 2015 22 mins

Brian & locals travel to 1607 in Jamestown, VA, where the first English settlement was built & Pocahontas married. Then to Death Valley to see a scam artist & learn why many flocked to the unforgiving climate in the late 1900's.

Episode 8

Eye of the Storm, Fountain of Youth

Mon, May 25, 2015 22 mins

Brian & locals travel to Galveston, TX, in 1900 to witness the deadliest hurricane in US history. Then to America's oldest city, St. Augustine, FL, for a taste of life in the 1500's and a search for the Fountain of Youth.

Episode 10

Breaking Barrier's and Sherman's March to the Sea

Mon, Jun 8, 2015 22 mins

Brian and guests travel to the Mojave Desert in the 1940's to see who had "The Right Stuff" at Edwards Air Force Base. Then to Atlanta at the end of the Civil War to witness General Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea."

Episode 11

Rocket Men

Mon, Jun 15, 2015 22 mins

Brian and guests travel back to the 60s and 70s to see where the Space Race was won, Cape Canaveral. They visit NASA's original mission control, the launch control center, and 'VAB', where rockets are still put together.

Episode 12

Bonnie & Clyde & All That Jazz in NOLA

Thu, Jun 25, 2015 22 mins

Brian and guests are on the trail of America's most infamous couple, Bonnie and Clyde. Then to New Orleans to witness the birth of what many say is the American art form, jazz, on a riverboat and a famous country society hall.

Episode 16

Billy the Kid & Atomic History

Thu, Jul 23, 2015 21 mins

Brian and locals take New Mexico by storm, riding in the hoofprints of Wild West legend Billy the Kid. Then they visit the Manhattan Projects top-secret military site, where scientists built and tested the first atomic bomb.

Time Traveling with Brian Unger Season 1 Billy the Kid & Atomic History

Episode 17

Kentucky Bourbon and Horses

Thu, Jul 30, 2015

Time Traveling with Brian Unger Season 1 Kentucky Bourbon and Horses

Episode 18

Paul Revere & the Anarchists in Boston

Thu, Aug 6, 2015 21 mins

Brian travels to Boston to bust the myth of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride and play detective on the trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1920s. The Italian anarchists were charged with the robbery and killing of two men.

Time Traveling with Brian Unger Season 1 Paul Revere & the Anarchists in Boston
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