History Detectives

History Detectives (2003)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Creator: Bernadette McDaid
  • First Air Date: 2003-07-14
  • Last Air Date: 2014-07-22
  • Total Seasons: 11
  • Total Episodes: 116
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 60 min.
  • Production Company: Lion Television USA
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Network: PBS
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Summary

A group of researchers help people to find answers to various historical questions they have, usually centering around a family heirloom, an old house or other historic object or structure. It devotes itself "to exploring the complexities of historical mysteries, searching out the facts, myths and conundrums that connect local folklore, family legends and interesting objects."

  • Keywords: investigation
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    History Detectives Trailer

    History Detectives Seasons

    Season 1

    First Air Date: 2003-07-14
    10 Episodes

    Season 2

    First Air Date: 2004-06-21
    12 Episodes

    Season 3

    First Air Date: 2005-06-27
    11 Episodes

    Season 4

    First Air Date: 2006-06-19
    11 Episodes

    Season 5

    First Air Date: 2007-06-25
    12 Episodes

    Season 6

    First Air Date: 2008-06-30
    11 Episodes

    Season 7

    First Air Date: 2009-06-22
    13 Episodes

    Season 8

    First Air Date: 2010-06-21
    11 Episodes

    Season 9

    First Air Date: 2011-06-21
    12 Episodes

    Season 10

    First Air Date: 2012-07-17
    9 Episodes

    Season 11

    First Air Date: 2014-07-01
    4 Episodes

    History Detectives Episodes

    Title Air Date Duration
    Season 1Episode 1New Jersey60 min
    Season 1Episode 2The Mid West60 min
    Season 1Episode 3New England60 min
    Season 1Episode 4The Capitol60 min
    Season 1Episode 5The South East60 min
    Season 1Episode 6California60 min
    Season 1Episode 7Texas60 min
    Season 1Episode 8New York60 min
    Season 1Episode 9Oregon60 min
    Season 1Episode 10Philadelphia60 min
    Season 2Episode 1Civil War Submarine60 min
    Season 2Episode 2Internment Artwork60 min
    Season 2Episode 3Mail Order Brides60 min
    Season 2Episode 4Hollywood60 min
    Season 2Episode 5Dueling Pistols60 min
    Season 2Episode 6Riding Crop60 min
    Season 2Episode 7Migrant Poems60 min
    Season 2Episode 8Bonnie & Clyde60 min
    Season 2Episode 9Lost Gold Ship60 min
    Season 2Episode 10Pop Lloyd Baseball Field60 min
    Season 2Episode 11Koranic School Book60 min
    Season 2Episode 12Body in the Basement60 min
    Season 3Episode 1The Spirit of St. Louis60 min
    Season 3Episode 2Black Star Line Certificates60 min
    Season 3Episode 3Arthur Szyk's Earliest Cartoons60 min
    Season 3Episode 4Cherokee Bible60 min
    Season 3Episode 5Portrait of George Washington60 min
    Season 3Episode 6Secrets of the Tape60 min
    Season 3Episode 7Doc Holliday's Watch60 min
    Season 3Episode 8Hermann Goering's Shotgun60 min
    Season 3Episode 9Coney Island Lion60 min
    Season 3Episode 10Leisureama Homes60 min
    Season 3Episode 11Home for Unwed Mothers60 min
    Season 4Episode 1The Chisholm Trail; Harry Houdini Poster; McKinley Casket Flag60 min
    Season 4Episode 2Wartime Baseball; Confederate Eyeglass; Howard Hughes' Invention60 min
    Season 4Episode 3Coca-Cola Trade Card; Vicksburg Map; Lawrence Strike60 min
    Season 4Episode 4Alternative Service Certificates; Carolina Mystery Books; Mickey Mouse's Origin60 min
    Season 4Episode 5U.S.S. Indianapolis; Highlander Badge; Spirit of St. Louis60 min
    Season 4Episode 6Orphan Film Reel; Chinese Opium Scale; Hermann Goering's Shotgun60 min
    Season 4Episode 7Survivor Camera; Alcoholics Anonymous Letter; Tallahassee Mystery Cross60 min
    Season 4Episode 8Calf Creek Arrow; Doc Holliday's Watch; Black Star Line Stock Certificates60 min
    Season 4Episode 9Grace Kelly Automobile; Illicit P.O.W. Photos; Mystery Motorcycle60 min
    Season 4Episode 10Lou Gehrig Autograph; Cleveland Electric Car; Philadelphia Freedom Paper60 min
    Season 4Episode 11Superman Sketch; Lost Musical Treasure; Rebel Whiskey Flask60 min
    Season 5Episode 13-D Cuban Missile Crisis; Amon 'n' Andy Record; Women's Suffrage Painting60 min
    Season 5Episode 2Continental Currency; Short-Snorter; Liberty Bell Pin60 min
    Season 5Episode 3GAR Photograph; Jefferson Pledge; Dempsey Fight Bell60 min
    Season 5Episode 4Atocha Spanish Silver; Lucy Parsons Book; Ernie Pyle's Typewriter60 min
    Season 5Episode 5Great Mexican War Posters; Nora Holt Autograph Book; Muhlenberg Robe60 min
    Season 5Episode 6NC-4: First Across the Atlantic; Howard Hughes Crash; Professor Lowe's Hot Air Balloon60 min
    Season 5Episode 7Red Cloud Letter; '32 Ford Roadster; Cast Iron Eagle60 min
    Season 5Episode 8Lincoln Letter; Quaker Map; USS Indianapolis60 min
    Season 5Episode 9Bill Pickett Saddle; McKinley Casket Flag; Hitler Films60 min
    Season 5Episode 10USS Thresher; Pete Gray Cartoon; Manhattan Project Letter60 min
    Season 6Episode 1WWII Diary/Annie Oakley Coin/1856 Mormon Tale60 min
    Season 6Episode 2Red Hand Flag/Seth Eastman Painting/Isleton Tong60 min
    Season 6Episode 3Japanese Balloon Bomb/Society Circus Program/Camp David Letter60 min
    Season 6Episode 4China Marine Jacket/Airstream Caravan/Lincoln Forgery60 min
    Season 6Episode 5Hindenburg Artifact/Bonus Army Stamp/Dempsey Fight Bell60 min
    Season 6Episode 6GAR Photograph/Bill Pickett Saddle/Hiter Films60 min
    Season 6Episode 7Black Tom Shell/USS Olympia Glass/Front Street Blockhouse60 min
    Season 6Episode 8John Adams Book/Mankato Spoon/NC-460 min
    Season 6Episode 9Shipwreck Cannons/Connecticut Farmhouse/Kahil Gibran Painting60 min
    Season 6Episode 10Blueprint Special/Monroe Letter/Atocha Spanish Silver60 min
    Season 7Episode 1PsychoPhone; War Dog Letter; Pancho Villa Watch Fob60 min
    Season 7Episode 2Manhattan Project Patent/Galleon Shipwreck/Creole Poems60 min
    Season 7Episode 3St. Valentine's Day Massacre/Booth Letter/Cemetery Alarm60 min
    Season 7Episode 4Sideshow Babies/Lubin Photos/Navajo Rug60 min
    Season 7Episode 5Tokyo Rose Recording; Crazy Horse Photo; WWII Diary60 min
    Season 7Episode 6Amelia Earhart Plane/Fillmore Pardon/Boxcar Home60 min
    Season 7Episode 7Hindenburg Artifact/John Adams Book/Birthplace of Hip-Hop60 min
    Season 7Episode 8Mussolini Dagger, Liberia Letter, N.E.A.R. Device60 min
    Season 7Episode 9WPA Mural Studies/George Washington Miniature/Japanese Balloon Bomb60 min
    Season 7Episode 10Stalag 17 Portrait/Seadrome/Black Tom Shell60 min
    Season 7Episode 11Duke Ellington Plates/Scottsboror Boys Stamp/Civil War Bridge60 min
    Season 7Episode 12Shipwreck Cannons/Connecticut Farmhouse/Kahlil Gibran Painting60 min
    Season 8Episode 1Space Boot; Satelloon; Moon Museum60 min
    Season 8Episode 2Iwo Jima Map, Copperhead Cane, Theremin60 min
    Season 8Episode 3Lauste Film Clip; Baker's Gold; Transatlantic Cable60 min
    Season 8Episode 4Barton Letter; Andrew Jackson's Mouth; Spybook60 min
    Season 8Episode 5Cromwell Dixon; Bartlett Sketchbook; Duke Ellington Plates60 min
    Season 8Episode 6Korean War Letter, Diana, Lookout Mt. Painting60 min
    Season 8Episode 7St.Valentine's Day Massacre; G. Washington Miniature; Stalag 17 Portrait60 min
    Season 8Episode 8Hot Town Poster, Face Jug, Lost City of Gold60 min
    Season 8Episode 9Jackie Robinson All-Stars, Modoc Basket, Special Agent Five60 min
    Season 8Episode 10WB Cartoons; Galvez Papers; Mussolini's Dagger60 min
    Season 8Episode 11Chicago Clock; Universal Friends; War Dogs60 min
    Season 9Episode 1Yakima Canutt's Saddle; The Ni'ihau Incident; Civil War Cannon60 min
    Season 9Episode 2Spanish Civil War Eulogy; World War II Leaflets; Tiffany Windows60 min
    Season 9Episode 3Siberian Bullet; John Brown Pike; Ronald McDonald Costume60 min
    Season 9Episode 4African American Comic Book; Lindbergh-Sikorsky Fabric; Civil War Letters60 min
    Season 9Episode 5Clara Barton Letter; Teddy Roosevelt War Club; Drone Propeller60 min
    Season 9Episode 6Baker's Gold; Kittery Telescope; Japanese Carved Cane60 min
    Season 9Episode 7Andrew Jackson's Mouth Modoc Basket Hot Town Poster60 min
    Season 9Episode 8Drug Smuggling Doll, Florida Map, Marion Carpenter Camera60 min
    Season 9Episode 91775 Almanac, Exercise Records, Moon Museum60 min
    Season 9Episode 10Leopold Medal, Suffrage Pennant, WB Cartoons60 min
    Season 9Episode 11Continental Club Card, Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, Society Circus Program60 min
    Season 9Episode 12Ince Ledger; Harlem Heirs; Chandler Tintype60 min
    Season 10Episode 1Bob Dylan Guitar; Beatles Autographs; Frank Zappa Collage60 min
    Season 10Episode 2Civil War-Era Pistols; KKK Records; Motown Amp60 min
    Season 10Episode 3Book of Rogues; Empire State Crash; Forbidden Pinup60 min
    Season 10Episode 4Bird of War; Lincoln Oath; War Spoils of a Peace Chief60 min
    Season 10Episode 5Titanic Picture Frame; Woolworth Signs; Nazi Spy Toys60 min
    Season 10Episode 6Vietnam Diary; Bootlegger's Notebook; Hollywood Ledger60 min
    Season 10Episode 7Colored Heroes, Valley Forge Map and a Transistor Radio60 min
    Season 10Episode 8Bill of Sale, Cobb Powder Horn and the Star Spangled Banner60 min
    Season 10Episode 9Mysteries from the Wild West60 min
    Season 10Episode 103-D Cuban Missile Crisis60 min
    Season 11Episode 1Civil War Sabotage?60 min
    Season 11Episode 2The Disappearance of Glenn Miller60 min
    Season 11Episode 3Texas Servant Girl Murders60 min
    Season 11Episode 4Who Killed Jimmy Hoffa?60 min

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