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| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1985 | Episode 1 | Herculaneum: Voices from the Past | 1985-04-07 | 60 min |
| Season 1993 | Episode 1 | Greyhounds: Running for their Lives | 1993-01-03 | 60 min |
| Season 1993 | Episode 2 | The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal | 1993-05-23 | 60 min |
| Season 1993 | Episode 4 | Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea | 1993-10-03 | 60 min |
| Season 1993 | Episode 5 | Life on the Line | 1993-12-19 | 60 min |
| Season 1993 | Episode 6 | Water Blasters | 1993-12-26 | 60 min |
| Season 1993 | Episode 7 | Ocean Drifters | 1993-08-01 | 60 min |
| Season 1994 | Episode 3 | The Last Voyage of the Lusitania | 1994-04-10 | 60 min |
| Season 1994 | Episode 4 | Jewels of the Caribbean Sea | 1994-04-13 | 60 min |
| Season 1997 | Episode 2 | Arctic Kingdom - Life at the Edge | 1995-01-01 | 60 min |
| Season 1997 | Episode 3 | Intrigue in Istanbul | 1997-05-25 | 60 min |
| Season 1997 | Episode 4 | Tiger's Eye | 1997-04-29 | 60 min |
| Season 1998 | Episode 3 | Wild Passions | 1998-04-28 | 60 min |
| Season 1999 | Episode 1 | Tempest from the Deep | 1999-10-03 | 60 min |
| Season 1999 | Episode 3 | The Battle for Midway | 1999-04-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2001 | Episode 2 | Renegade Lions | 2001-05-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2002 | Episode 1 | Vietnam's Unseen War: Pictures from the Other Side | 2002-01-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2002 | Episode 3 | Hornets From Hell | 2002-10-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2002 | Episode 4 | Lost Subs: Disaster At Sea | 2002-07-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2003 | Episode 1 | A Cheetah Story | 2003-10-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2003 | Episode 2 | Ultimate Crocodile | 2003-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2003 | Episode 3 | The Lion Queen | 2003-11-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2003 | Episode 4 | Wolves: Legends of the Night | 2003-11-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2003 | Episode 5 | Coming of Age with Elephants | 2003-12-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2003 | Episode 6 | Inside the Tornado | 2003-07-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2003 | Episode 10 | Iraq's Lost Treasure | 2003-10-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2004 | Episode 1 | Wolves of the Air; Flight of the Harpy Eagle | 2004-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2004 | Episode 2 | King Rattler | 2004-02-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2004 | Episode 3 | Africa's Deadly Dozen | 2004-02-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2004 | Episode 4 | Gates of Hell | 2004-02-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2004 | Episode 5 | Island of the Vampire Birds | 2004-02-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2004 | Episode 6 | Elephant Power | 2004-03-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2004 | Episode 7 | Fearsome Frogs | 2004-03-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2004 | Episode 8 | Rat | 2004-03-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2004 | Episode 9 | Poison | 2004-03-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2004 | Episode 10 | Roar: One Man's Pride | 2004-04-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2004 | Episode 11 | Killer Crocs of Uganda | 2004-06-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2004 | Episode 12 | Tiger Shark | 2004-06-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2004 | Episode 13 | Female Suicide Bombers | 2004-12-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2004 | Episode 14 | Return of the Mummy | 2004-03-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 1 | Killer Cats | 2005-01-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 2 | The True Face of Hurricanes | 2005-01-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 3 | The Witchcraft Murder | 2005-02-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 4 | Inside Shock and Awe | 2005-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 5 | Tiny Humans: The Hobbits of Flores | 2005-03-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 6 | Hogzilla | 2005-03-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 7 | Surviving Maximum Security | 2005-03-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 8 | Violent Earth | 2005-04-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 9 | DNA Mysteries: The Search for Adam | 2005-06-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 10 | Collapse | 2005-09-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 11 | Pyramids of Fire | 2005-10-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 12 | Nightmare in Jamestown | 2005-11-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 13 | Last Days of the Maya | 2005-11-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 14 | Super Chopper | 2005-11-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 15 | Whales In Crisis | 2004-12-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 16 | Emperors Of The Ice | 2004-12-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 17 | China's Lost Girls | 2004-06-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 1 | Super Snake | 2006-01-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 2 | World's Most Dangerous Gang | 2006-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 3 | Science of Surveillance | 2006-04-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 4 | Fire Ants: Texas Border Massacre | 2006-05-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 5 | Outsmarting Terror | 2006-05-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 6 | Drowning New Orleans | 2006-05-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 7 | Elephant Rage | 2006-06-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 8 | Super Sub | 2006-06-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 9 | Inside The Real NCIS | 2006-05-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 10 | Python vs Gator | 2006-08-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 11 | Ultimate Bear | 2006-08-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 12 | L.A.'s Future Quake | 2006-09-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 13 | Ultimate Hippo | 2006-09-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 14 | Ultimate Cat | 2006-09-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 15 | World's Most Dangerous Drug | 2006-10-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 16 | Attack of the Killer Bees | 2006-12-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 17 | Super Carrier | 2006-12-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 18 | Secret Lives of Jesus | 2006-12-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 1 | Iraq's Guns for Hire | 2007-01-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 2 | Ultimate Shark | 2007-02-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 3 | Inside North Korea | 2007-02-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 4 | Doomsday Volcano | 2007-02-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 5 | Aryan Brotherhood | 2007-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 6 | Struck by Lightning | 2007-04-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 7 | FBI Takedown | 2007-06-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 8 | Jellyfish Invasion | 2007-08-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 9 | Science of Dogs | 2007-08-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 10 | Ultimate Crocodile | 2007-09-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 11 | Science of Babies | 2007-09-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 12 | Mammoth Mystery | 2007-10-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 13 | Heroin Crisis | 2007-10-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 14 | Inside the Body Trade | 2007-11-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 15 | Ultimate Viper | 2007-11-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 16 | China's Secret Mummies | 2007-12-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 17 | Last Christians of Bethlehem | 2007-12-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 1 | Science of Evil | 2008-01-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 2 | Testosterone Factor | 2008-02-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 3 | Alaska's Last Oil | 2008-03-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 4 | Death of the Iceman | 2008-04-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 5 | Shark Superhighway | 2008-04-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 6 | Tunnel to a Lost World | 2008-06-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 7 | Bog Mummies | 2008-06-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 8 | Science of Cats | 2008-06-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 9 | Gorilla Murders | 2008-07-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 10 | Finding Anastasia | 2008-07-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 11 | Moment of Death | 2008-09-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 12 | Congo Bush Pilots | 2008-09-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 13 | Secret History of Gold | 2008-09-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 14 | Marijuana Nation | 2008-10-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 15 | Lost Cities of the Amazon | 2008-11-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 16 | Guns in America | 2008-12-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 1 | The Virus Hunters | 2009-01-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 2 | Italy's Mystery Mummies | 2009-02-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 3 | Monster Fish of the Congo | 2009-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 4 | Peru's Mass Grave Mystery | 2009-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 5 | Kingdom of the Blue Whale | 2009-03-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 6 | T. Rex Walks Again | 2009-03-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 7 | Inside Guantanamo | 2009-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 8 | Child Mummy Sacrifice | 2009-06-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 9 | Easter Island Underworld | 2009-06-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 10 | Inside Death Row | 2009-06-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 11 | Sex, Lies and Gender | 2009-09-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 12 | Chimps on the Edge | 2009-09-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 13 | Climbing Redwood Giants | 2009-09-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 14 | Mystery of The Disembodied Feet | 2009-10-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 15 | Inside LSD | 2009-11-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 16 | Secret History of Diamonds | 2009-11-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 17 | 24 Hours After Asteroid Impact | 2009-11-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 18 | Nazi Mystery: Twins from Brazil | 2009-11-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 19 | Narco State | 2009-12-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 1 | Camp Leatherneck | 2010-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 2 | Inside: the Nuclear Threat | 2010-03-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 3 | Solitary Confinement | 2010-04-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 4 | Journey to an Alien Moon | 2010-04-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 5 | Fatal Insomnia | 2010-04-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 6 | Talibanistan | 2010-05-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 7 | Electronic Armageddon | 2010-05-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 8 | Fighting Back: Stories from the Spill | 2010-07-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 9 | Inside the DEA | 2010-08-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 10 | 24 Hours After Hiroshima | 2010-08-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 11 | Albino Murders | 2010-08-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 12 | Inside Bioterror | 2010-08-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 13 | Can the Gulf Survive? | 2010-09-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 14 | Lost Mummies of New Guinea | 2010-10-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 15 | How Man Tamed the Wild | 2010-10-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 16 | American Doomsday | 2010-11-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 17 | Born to Rage? | 2010-12-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2011 | Episode 1 | American Hostage | 2011-01-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2011 | Episode 2 | Lost Cannibals of Europe | 2011-01-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2011 | Episode 3 | How to Build a Beating Heart | 2011-02-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2011 | Episode 4 | Clash of the Americas | 2011-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2011 | Episode 5 | Mystery of the Murdered Saints | 2011-04-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2011 | Episode 6 | The Angel Effect | 2011-04-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2011 | Episode 7 | Megapiranha | 2011-05-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2011 | Episode 8 | Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes | 2011-05-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2011 | Episode 9 | Crime Lords of Tokyo | 2011-05-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2011 | Episode 10 | Stormageddon | 2011-05-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2011 | Episode 11 | JFK: The Lost Bullet | 2011-11-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2011 | Episode 12 | How to Build an Ancient Man | 2011-11-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2011 | Episode 13 | To Catch a Smuggler | 2011-11-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2011 | Episode 14 | The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden | 2011-11-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2011 | Episode 15 | Hitler's GI Death Camp | 2011-12-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2012 | Episode 2 | 400 Million Dollar Emerald | 2012-01-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2012 | Episode 3 | The Man Who Can Fly | 2012-02-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2012 | Episode 4 | Million Dollar Moon Rock Heist | 2012-03-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2012 | Episode 5 | Finding the Lost da Vinci | 2012-03-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2012 | Episode 6 | Under Cover: Tennessee Dog Fighting | 2012-06-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2012 | Episode 7 | Sex for Sale: American Escort | 2012-02-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2012 | Episode 8 | Martian Mega Rover | 2012-08-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 3 | The Man Who Swims with Crocodiles | 2013-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 1 | Inside the Green Berets | 2014-09-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 2 | Anaconda, Queen of the Serpents | 2014-11-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 3 | James Cameron's Deepsea Challenge | 2014-11-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 1 | Warlords of Ivory | 2015-08-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 2 | Legend of the Monkey God | 2015-10-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 3 | Bill Nye's Global Meltdown | 2015-11-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 4 | The Cult of Mary | 2015-12-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 1 | Call of the Wild | 2016-01-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 2 | Eyes Wide Open | 2016-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 3 | 25 Years | 2016-02-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 4 | Fighting ISIS | 2016-03-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 5 | Faces of Death | 2016-04-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 6 | Point Of No Return | 2016-05-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 7 | Blood Antiquities | 2016-06-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 8 | Battle For Virunga | 2016-06-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 9 | What Would Teddy Do? | 2016-10-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 10 | Episode 10 | 2016-11-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 11 | Episode 11 | 2016-11-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 12 | Episode 12 | 2016-11-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 13 | Episode 13 | 2016-12-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 14 | Episode 14 | 2016-12-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 15 | Episode 15 | 2016-12-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 1 | Drugs, Death and Duterte | 2017-03-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 2 | Life on the Watchlist | 2017-03-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 3 | Dalai Lama | 2017-03-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 4 | Right to Life | 2017-03-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 5 | Island Saves the World | 2017-04-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 6 | Holy Rock | 2017-04-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 7 | Secret War | 2017-04-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 8 | Upwardly Mobile | 2017-04-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 9 | Lawless | 2017-05-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 10 | The Evaporated People | 2017-05-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 11 | How to Sell an Epidemic | 2017-05-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 12 | Grindor on the Ganges | 2017-05-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 13 | Conflict Gold; Chelsea Clinton; | 2017-05-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 14 | A New Normal | 2017-06-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 15 | Cocaine of the Sea | 2017-06-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 16 | A New Face On the Crime Scene | Hiding In Plain Sight | Where's My Jet Pack? | 2017-06-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 17 | A Blow To The Header | 2017-06-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 18 | The Secrets Of Christ's Tomb: Explorer Special | 2017-12-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 1 | The Mouth of Hell | 2018-11-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 2 | Digging Up Dinosaurs | 2018-11-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 3 | In The Eagle's Nest | 2018-11-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 4 | Border Battle | 2018-12-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 5 | Space Race | 2018-12-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 6 | The Boiling River | 2018-12-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 1 | Human Towers | 2019-01-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 2 | Swimming with Sharks | 2019-01-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 3 | Yellowstone Wolves | 2019-01-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 4 | Lions of Zambia | 2019-01-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 5 | Ancient Fighting Arts | 2019-02-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 6 | Race Car Science | 2019-02-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 7 | Inside the Bear's Den | 2019-02-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 1 | The Deepest Cave | 2022-01-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 2 | The last tepui | 2022-12-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 1 | Explorer: Lost in the Arctic | 2023-08-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 2 | Explorer: Lake of Fire | 2023-10-26 | 60 min |
