Dark Matters: Twisted but True
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Dark Matters: Twisted but TrueScientists throughout the ages have performed experiments that, in hindsight, may have seemed questionable. This series, hosted by actor John Noble ("Fringe"), recalls stories of scientific undertakings that didn't just push the envelope but, instead, soared off into Dr. Frankenstein territory. Dramatized re-enactments bring to life Soviet scientist Dr. Ilya Ivanov's attempts to crossbreed humans and apes, UFO researcher Morris Jessup's investigation of government invisibility experiments, as well as other outlandish-but-true topics. Then viewers are left to form their opinions about whether these profiled individuals were truly way ahead of their time -- or just plain crackers.No live or upcoming content available at this time
S3, EP6 "Magical Jet Propulsion; Missing Link Mystery; Typhoid Mary"Mary Mallon spreads typhoid to hundreds even though she is healthy; a skull from 1912 may solve Darwin's puzzle.
S3, EP5 "Theremin; The Monster Study; Roid Rage"Musical genius createss a piece of spy technology; Wendell Johnson turns his stutter into a research topic, but it takes a twist when he experiments on orphans; Dr. John Ziegler introduces steroids to athletes.
S3, EP4 "Pavlovs Children; Raining Aliens; Glow Girls"A student repeats an experiment on orphans to prove they are nothing more than animals; rain in India seems to be filled with biological cells; glow in the dark paint used during WWI contains a deadly ingredient.
S3, EP3 "Remote Control Man; Cadavers for Sale; Einstein's Revenge"Discover how to electronically control the mind; a doctor at Edinburgh University is supplied with fresh human cadavers; Scientist Philip Lenard leads a vendetta against Einstein.
S3, EP2 "Unabomber; Get the Lead Out; Salvation by Starvation"In an experiment, students are mocked for their beliefs as researches profile their personalities; leaded gasoline poisons more people.
S3, EP1 "Agent Orange; Ben Franklin: Fraud Slayer; Price of Beauty"A chemical that speeds up the flowering process in soybeans was also a weapon during Vietnam; Ben Franklin investigates Fraz Mesmer's cure for animal magnetism and it turns out to be hypnotism; Dr. Albert Geyser invents a deadly beauty treatment.
S2, EP7 "Tuskegee STD, Do You See What I See, Cold War Cold Case"US government experiments illegally on black men with syphilis for 40 years; skiers found dead with strange injuries.
S2, EP6 "Creative Evil; Curiously Killed Dr. Katskee; Bat Bomb."The Stanford prison experiment; a dentist's plot to bomb Japan; as a medical experiment, a doctor takes a lethal dose of cocaine.
S2, EP5 "Positively Poisonious, Medusa's Heroin, Beauty and Brains"Fritz Haber feeds and murders the world with the same technology; contaminated heroin freezes addicts like statues; an actress is too beautiful to be taken seriously, as she forsees the future of cell phones and wi-fi.
S2, EP4 "Amnesiac, Party Poopers, Risky Radiation"Brain surgery creates a perfect amnesiac who can't remember from day to day; a scientist goes to extremes to prove his theory; a tiny slip during a test of an A-Bomb releases a blast of radiation.
S2, EP3 "Dr. Lobotomy; Voodoo Rx; Killed by Kindness"Egas Moniz cuts up living brains; a doctor uses the power of mind; George Price proves human kindness is an illusion.
S2, EP2 "Resurrection Row; Operation Brainwash; Rabid Roulette"Dr Robert Cornish designs a way to cheat death; Ewen Cameron finds a number of methods to manipulate the brain; the story of Louis Pasteur and the fight against rabies.
S2, EP1 "Lindbergh; American Nazi; Suicide Song; Living Organ Donor"Charles Lindbergh's attempt to save his dying sister-in-law; Suicide Song is the tale of a song powerful enough to be linked to many suicides.
S1, EP6 "Radio Waves of Death, How to Make a Zombie, Jekyll vs Hyde"Horace Wells pioneered the use of anesthesia but as a result suffered from dementia from testing chloroform on himself; Nikola Tesla's effort to transmit wireless electricity led to the development of a weapon.
S1, EP5 "21 Grams, Missing Cosmonauts, Sound of Death"Proving the existence of the soul; cosmonauts lost in space; taking a look at the work of scientists who worked with ultra-low-frequency sound.
S1, EP4 "It's Alive!, Tripping With Uncle Sam, My Hand Is Killing Me"Taking a look at the work of Giovanni Aldini who found a way to make dead flesh move; examine the causes of alien hand syndrome.
S1, EP3 "Sexy Secret Agent, Full Body Transplant, Honey I Nuked the Planet"A woman is convinced she was the subject of a mind control experiment; gruesome head transplant experiments and the explosion of a hydrogen bomb in space.
S1, EP2 "I Have Einstein's Brain, Unidentified Flying Nazis, Killer Thoughts"Dr. Thomas Harvey stole Albert Einstein's brain to try to uncover the basis of genius; the connection between the Kecksburg UFO incident and Nazi anti-gravity experimentation.
S1, EP1 "The Philadelphia Experiment, Ape-Man Army, Zapped to Death"A UFO writer who studied an experiment in teleportation; a Russian scientist who attempted to create a human-ape hybrid; Thomas Edison's part in the first execution by electricity.
Scientists throughout the ages have performed experiments that, in hindsight, may have seemed questionable. This series, hosted by actor John Noble ("Fringe"), recalls stories of scientific undertakings that didn't just push the envelope but, instead, soared off into Dr. Frankenstein territory. Dramatized re-enactments bring to life Soviet scientist Dr. Ilya Ivanov's attempts to crossbreed humans and apes, UFO researcher Morris Jessup's investigation of government invisibility experiments, as well as other outlandish-but-true topics. Then viewers are left to form their opinions about whether these profiled individuals were truly way ahead of their time -- or just plain crackers.
Original Air Date: Aug 31, 2011
Genres: DramaTV Series
Rating: TV14
Playback: HD
3 seasons available on demand (19 episodes)
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