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Mysteries at the Museum: Season 1

Mysteries at the Museum

Mysteries at the Museum: Season 1

Travel Channel (2010)
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
018713582195
TV Series | Art History | Documentary | Reality
English & German | Color |

Host Don Wildman introduces us to a wide variety of museums from across the United States, each filled with extraordinary, often bizarre artifacts with amazing tales to be told -- and secrets to be revealed.


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1 Alcatraz; Enigma Machine; Real Mona Lisa 43 min | Nov 02, 2010

Artifacts include Alcatraz escape dummy heads, WWII Enigma code machine, Fiji Mermaid art relic, Apollo 13 air filter, Dymaxion pre-fabricated house, and Mona Lisa painting copy.

2 Prehistoric Monster; 60 Year Old Government Coverup | Nov 09, 2010

Artifacts include fossilized saber-tooth cat skull, "BOCKSCAR" B-29 Bomber aircraft, Cardiff Giant sculpture, Pullman train car light bracket, Air Force high-altitude parachute test dummy, and President George Washington's dentures.

3 San Francisco Quake; Mastodon Story 43 min | Nov 16, 2010

A San Francisco fire truck and ancient mastodon reveal scandalous stories.

4 Japanese WMD's; Houdini Statue 43 min | Nov 23, 2010

Simple objects reveal a complex, haunted past for Don Wildman.

5 Bonnie & Clyde Rifle; Deep Sea Fish 43 min

Bonnie and Clyde's Gun - The Iwo Jima Flag - The Aerotrain 1955 - The Deep Sea Anglar Fish - Who reach the North Pole First - 1960 100,000 feet parachute Trial.

6 T Rex Skeleton; Slinky & McKinley Nightshirt 43 min | Dec 07, 2010

Artifacts include the "Spruce Goose" aircraft, a T-Rex skeleton, President William McKinley's torn nightshirt, empty picture frames from an art heist, a watch from the Johnstown flood, and the invention of the Slinky.

7 Greensboro Lunch; Radithor; WWII U-Boat 42 min | Dec 14, 2010

In the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, there's a small vial that once contained a wildly popular drug called Radithor. Don Wildman discovers how this doctor-approved "cure-all" end up destroying countless lives.

8 Rosa Parks; Elliott Ness; Bigfoot 43 min | Dec 21, 2010

An early episode of the series from before host Don Wildman joined the show, this episode narrated by actor Jay Thomas includes artifacts relating to the attempted assassination of Teddy Roosevelt, the Cleveland, OH torso murder serial killer, the capture of the land speed record by the U.S. from the British, the sinking of the Titanic, the civil rights movement, and Bigfoot. Some of these segments later had new narration recorded by Wildman and were re-cut into newer episodes of the series.

9 Theremin; Silly Putty; Tacoma Narrows Bridge 43 min | Dec 28, 2010

An electronic instrument in the Philly archives played into spy scandals.

10 Dillingers Death Mask; Frisbee; Shipwreck | Jan 04, 2011

A New York City museum displays an artifact from an airplane which brought dread and destruction to the city; a metal staircase from the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam is on display at the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

11 USS Intrepid; Seattle Glue Pot; Wing Walkers | Jan 11, 2011

An old letter is discovered in the Yale archives; 120 year-old pot transforms Seattle; four mysterious objects are found on the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.

12 Concorde; Robert the Doll; Unabombers Shack 43 min | Jan 11, 2011

How did a stunt become a defining moment for a space program in crisis?

Cast View all

Jay Thomas Self - Narrator
Alex Ursino Marine
Ilana Seagull Houdini's Wife
Justin Gillman Marine
Sarah Fay Preddy Houdini's Assistant
Patricia Hearst Self
Joseph Stalin Self
V.I. Lenin Self
James Gill Eliot Ness
Scott Cassell Self
Leon Theremin Self
Catherine Hearst Self
Randolph Hearst Self
Natalie Johnson Patty Hearst
Barry Moreno Self - Ellis Island Historian
Glynn Martin Self - Museum Director
Joe Kittinger Self - Project Excelsior Aeronaut
Alan B. Carr Self - Bradbury Museum
Craig Breedlove Self
Jamie O'Keefe Self - Registrar
Hopi Hoekstra Self
Mark Ohman Self - Museum Curator
Paul J. Barry Self - Museum Director
Peter Hodgson Self - Silly Putty Marketer
Jim Lovell Self

Edition details

Nr Discs 1
Distributor Travel Channel
Layers Single side, Single layer
Regions Region 1

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