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Season 1

  • S01E01 Hindenburg Disaster

    • February 20, 2022
    • History

    Theo Wilson travels back in time to 1937, finding himself aboard the world's most luxurious airship, the Hindenburg, where he must solve the mystery of what leads to its fiery fall from the sky--the first epic disaster ever caught on moving film.

  • S01E02 Johnstown: America's Deadliest Flood

    • February 21, 2022
    • History

    Theo Wilson time-travels back to 1889 to the bucolic river shores of Johnstown, Pa., where the biggest flood in U.S. history is about to be unleashed.

  • S01E03 Chernobyl Disaster

    • February 28, 2022
    • History

    Theo Wilson time-travels to Russia on April 26, 1986, as workers at the Chernobyl nuclear plant are in the throes of a disaster that will put the lives of millions of Soviet citizens and Europeans in jeopardy.

  • S01E04 Salem Witch Trials

    • March 7, 2022
    • History

    Theo Wilson travels back in time to Salem, Mass., in 1692, where the village is self-destructing over allegations of witchcraft among dozens of its citizens.

  • S01E05 The Death of Jesse James

    • March 14, 2022
    • History

    Theo Wilson time-travels to the mid-1800s where he finds a young man named Jesse James on the path toward becoming America's most infamous outlaw. Wilson separates myth from reality in Jesse James' career, and charts how a thirst for fame, riches, and revenge led James toward his fated murder by a member of his own gang.

  • S01E06 Killer in the White City

    • March 21, 2022
    • History

    Theo Wilson finds himself in the lair of America's first famous serial killer, H.H. Holmes; Theo follows Holmes' dark road from con man to the owner of a fiendishly engineered murder castle.

  • S01E07 Lincoln's Assassination

    • March 28, 2022
    • History

    Theo Wilson time travels to 1865 and immerses himself in the events that lead John Wilkes Booth to hatch a plan to kill President Abraham Lincoln.

  • S01E08 Challenger Disaster

    • April 11, 2022
    • History
  • S01E09 Bloody Sunday

    • April 18, 2022
    • History
  • S01E10 St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    • April 25, 2022
    • History
  • S01E11 Oklahoma City Bombing

    • May 2, 2022
    • History

    Theo Wilson travels back in time to April 19, 1995, when Oklahoma City is rocked by a two-ton fertilizer bomb shortly after 9 a.m. ; Theo investigates the layers of this complicated story.

  • S01E12 Battle of Stalingad

    • May 9, 2022
    • History

    Theo Wilson time-travels to the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, where the underdog Russian army is about to pull off a victory that will turn the tide of the war in favor of Allied forces.