Secrets of the Dead is a PBS

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 television series produced by Thirteen/WNET

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 New York. The show generally follows an investigator or team of investigators exploring what modern science can tell us about some of the great mysteries of history. Most programs incorporate primary source material, first hand accounts, dramatic reenactments, and computer-generated imagery

Computer-generated imagery

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 (CGI) to tell the story.
PBS desription: "Scientists seek to uncover celebrated mysteries of the past in this occasional British

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 series."

Episode topics have included the Titanic, D-Day

D-Day

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, the Shroud of Turin

Shroud of Turin

The Shroud of Turin or Turin Shroud is a linen cloth bearing the image of a man who appears to have suffered physical trauma in a manner consistent with crucifixion. It is kept in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, northern Italy. The image on the shroud is...

, the Salem Witch Trials

Salem witch trials

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in the counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex in colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693...

, Blackbeard

Blackbeard

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's lost ship, and the first English translations of the Bible

Bible

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.

The series premiered on May 15, 2000, airing four programs in three days (the first episode, concerning the Extreme weather events of 535–536, was a two-parter). Despite an irregular schedule, new episodes continue to air.

Season 1 (2000)

• Ep. 1: Catastrophe! (part 1) (5/15/2000)
• Ep. 2: Catastrophe! (part 2) (5/16/2000)
• Ep. 3: The Lost Vikings (5/16/2000)
• Ep. 4: What Happened to the Hindenburg? (5/17/2000)
• Ep. 5: Cannibalism in the Canyon (5/17/2000)

Season 2 (2001)

• Ep. 1: Witches' Curse (6/26/2001)
• Ep. 2: Murder at Stonehenge (7/3/2001)
• Ep. 3: Death at Jamestown (7/10/2001)
• Ep. 4: Day of the Zulu (7/17/2001)
• Ep. 5: Tomb of Christ (7/24/2001)
• Ep. 6: The Syphilis Enigma (7/31/2001)

Season 3 (2002-2003)

• Ep. 1: Search for the First Human (5/8/2002)
• Ep. 2: Mystery of the Black Death (10/30/2002)
• Ep. 3: Titanic's Ghosts (11/20/2002)
• Ep. 4: The Great Fire of Rome (11/27/2002)
• Ep. 5: Tragedy at the Pole (1/15/2003)
• Ep. 6: Bombing Nazi Dams (2/12/2003)

• Ep. ?: Catastrophe: The Day the Sun Went Out (7/31/2002)
• Ep. ?: Blood Red Roses (1/11/2003)

Season 4 (2003-2004)

• Ep. 1: Bridge on the River Kwai 11/12/2003
• Ep. 2: Killer Flu 3/3/2004
• Ep. 3: Shroud of Christ? 4/7/2004
• Ep. 4: D-Day 5/19/2004
• Ep. 5: Amazon Warrior Women 8/4/2004

Season 5 (2005-2006)

• Ep. 1: The Hunt for Nazi Scientists (10/19/2005)
• Ep. 2: Gangland Graveyard (11/16/2005)
• Ep. 3: Voyage of the Courtesans (11/23/2005)
• Ep. 4: The Sinking of the Andrea Doria (7/26/2006)
• Ep. 5: Umbrella Assassin (10/4/2006)

Season 6 (2006-2007)

• Ep. 1: Dogfight Over Guadalcanal (11/8/2006)
• Ep. 2: Battle for the Bible (4/25/2007)
• Ep. 3: Herculaneum Uncovered (5/2/2007)
• Ep. 4: Headless Romans (5/9/2007)
• Ep. 5: Irish Escape (5/16/2007)

Season 7 (2008)

• Ep. 1: Aztec Massacre (4/23/2008)
• Ep. 2: Escape from Auschwitz (4/30/2008)

Season 8 (2008-2009)

• Ep. 1: Doping for Gold (5/7/2008)
• Ep. 2: Sinking Atlantis (5/14/2008)
• Ep. 3: Executed in Error (10/1/2008)
• Ep. 4: Blackbeard's Lost Ship (4/22/2009)

Season 9 (2009-2010)

• Ep. 1: Michelangelo Revealed (5/13/2009)
• Ep. 2: The Airmen and The Headhunters (11/11/2009)
• Ep. 3: Mumbai Massacre (11/25/2009)
• Ep. 4: Japanese SuperSub (5/5/2010)
• Ep. 5: Churchill's Deadly Decision (5/12/2010)
• Ep. 6: Deadliest Battle (5/19/2010)

Season 10 (2010-2011)

• Ep. 1: The Silver Pharaoh (11/3/2010)
• Ep. 2: Slave Ship Mutiny (11/10/2010)
• Ep. 3: Lost Ships of Rome (11/17/2010)
• Ep. 4: Lost in the Amazon (04/20/2011)
• Ep. 5: China's Terracotta Warriors (05/04/11)
• Ep. 6: The World's Biggest Bomb (05/18/2011)

External links

• http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/secrets-dead/episodes/1949491