Secrets of the Dead is part detective story, part true-life drama that unearths evidence from around the world, challenging prevailing ideas and throwing fresh light on unexplained events.
[NOTE: Episodes shown only in the UK are listed in Season 0, first digit of episode number indicated UK series.]
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Secrets of the Dead Airs: Wednesday
Secrets of the Dead Status: Airing
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - General Information
Series Premiere: August 14, 2000 Classification: Documentary Genre: Action | Documentary | History | Mystery | War Network: PBS Airs: Wednesday at 10:00 pm Runtime: 60 Minutes
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 0 -- 11 Episodes
0x205 -- Aug 14, 2000 -- Blood on the Altar (UK) 0x206 -- Aug 21, 2000 -- What Sank the Mary Rose? (UK) 0x301 -- Feb 01, 2001 -- The Riddle of Pompeii (UK) 0x302 -- Feb 08, 2001 -- The Hidden Scrolls of Herculaneum (UK) 0x303 -- May 14, 2001 -- Gladiator Girl (UK) 0x304 -- Nov 12, 2001 -- Sounds from the Stone Age (UK) 0x308 -- Dec 30, 2001 -- King Midas' Feast (UK) 0x401 -- Feb 24, 2002 -- Riddle of the Plague Survivors (UK) 0x402 -- Mar 03, 2002 -- The Birth of the Smart Bomber (UK) 0x403 -- Mar 16, 2002 -- Quest for Noah's Flood (UK) 0x503 -- Mar 27, 2003 -- Plague on the Western Front (UK)
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 1 -- 6 Episodes
1x1 -- May 15, 2000 -- Catastrophe! Part 1: The Day the Sun Went Out 1x2 -- May 15, 2000 -- Catastrophe! Part 2: How the World Changed 1x3 -- May 16, 2000 -- The Lost Vikings 1x4 -- Jun 15, 2000 -- What Happened to the Hindenburg 1x5 -- May 17, 2000 -- Cannibalism in the Canyon 1x6 -- Dec 18, 2015 -- What Sank the Mary Rose?
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 2 -- 7 Episodes
2x1 -- Jun 26, 2001 -- Witches' Curse 2x2 -- Jul 03, 2001 -- Murder at Stonehenge 2x3 -- Jul 10, 2001 -- Death at Jamestown 2x4 -- Jul 17, 2001 -- Day of the Zulu 2x5 -- Jul 24, 2001 -- Tomb of Christ 2x6 -- Jul 31, 2001 -- The Syphilis Enigma 2x7 -- Aug 06, 2001 -- What Sank the Mary Rose?
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 3 -- 7 Episodes
3x1 -- May 08, 2001 -- Search for the First Human 3x2 -- Oct 30, 2002 -- Mystery of the Black Death 3x3 -- Nov 20, 2002 -- Titanic's Ghosts 3x4 -- Nov 27, 2002 -- Great Fire of Rome 3x5 -- Jan 15, 2003 -- Tragedy at the Pole 3x6 -- Feb 12, 2003 -- Bombing Nazi Dams 3x7 -- Nov 01, 2003 -- Blood Red Roses
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 4 -- 6 Episodes
4x1 -- Nov 01, 2003 -- Blood Red Roses 4x2 -- Nov 12, 2003 -- Bridge on the River Kwai 4x3 -- Mar 03, 2004 -- Killer Flu 4x4 -- Apr 11, 2004 -- Shroud of Christ? 4x5 -- May 19, 2004 -- D-Day 4x6 -- Aug 04, 2004 -- Amazon Warrior Women
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 5 -- 5 Episodes
5x1 -- Oct 19, 2005 -- The Hunt for Nazi Scientists 5x2 -- Nov 16, 2005 -- Gangland Graveyard 5x3 -- Nov 23, 2005 -- Voyage of the Courtesans 5x4 -- Jul 26, 2006 -- The Sinking of the Andrea Doria 5x5 -- Oct 04, 2006 -- Umbrella Assassin
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 6 -- 5 Episodes
6x1 -- Nov 08, 2006 -- Dogfight Over Guadalcanal 6x2 -- Apr 25, 2007 -- Battle for the Bible 6x3 -- May 02, 2007 -- Herculaneum Uncovered 6x4 -- May 09, 2007 -- Headless Romans 6x5 -- May 16, 2007 -- Irish Escape
8x1 -- May 07, 2008 -- Doping for Gold 8x2 -- May 14, 2008 -- Sinking Atlantis 8x3 -- Sep 30, 2008 -- Executed in Error 8x4 -- Apr 22, 2009 -- Blackbeard's Lost Ship
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 9 -- 6 Episodes
9x1 -- May 13, 2009 -- Michelangelo Revealed 9x2 -- Nov 11, 2009 -- The Airmen and the Headhunters 9x3 -- Nov 25, 2009 -- Mumbai Massacre 9x4 -- May 06, 2010 -- Japanese SuperSub 9x5 -- May 12, 2010 -- Churchill's Deadly Decision 9x6 -- May 19, 2010 -- Deadliest Battle
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 10 -- 6 Episodes
10x1 -- Nov 03, 2010 -- The Silver Pharaoh 10x2 -- Nov 10, 2010 -- Slave Ship Mutiny 10x3 -- Nov 17, 2010 -- Lost Ships of Rome 10x4 -- Apr 20, 2011 -- Lost in the Amazon 10x5 -- May 04, 2011 -- China's Terracotta Warriors 10x6 -- May 17, 2011 -- The World's Biggest Bomb
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 11 -- 3 Episodes
11x1 -- May 16, 2011 -- The World's Biggest Bomb 11x2 -- Oct 23, 2012 -- The Man Who Saved the World 11x3 -- May 17, 2011 -- The World's Biggest Bomb
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 12 -- 6 Episodes
12x1 -- Oct 23, 2012 -- The Man Who Saved the World 12x2 -- May 01, 2013 -- Bugging Hitler's Soldiers 12x3 -- May 08, 2013 -- Death on the Railroad 12x4 -- May 15, 2013 -- Caveman Cold Case 12x5 -- Jul 10, 2013 -- Ultimate Tut 12x6 -- Jul 23, 2013 -- Bones of the Buddha
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 13 -- 7 Episodes
13x1 -- Nov 11, 2013 -- JFK: One PM Central Standard Time 13x2 -- Mar 26, 2014 -- The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone 13x3 -- Apr 02, 2014 -- Carthage's Lost Warriors 13x4 -- May 06, 2014 -- The Lost Gardens of Babylon 13x5 -- Jul 09, 2014 -- The Mona Lisa Mystery 13x6 -- Aug 08, 2014 -- Dick Cavett's Watergate 13x7 -- Sep 24, 2014 -- Resurrecting Richard III
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 14 -- 3 Episodes
14x1 -- Jan 28, 2015 -- Ben Franklin's Bones 14x2 -- Aug 04, 2015 -- JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness 14x3 -- Oct 13, 2015 -- The Real Trojan Horse
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 15 -- 5 Episodes
15x1 -- Oct 27, 2015 -- Vampire Legend 15x2 -- Nov 24, 2015 -- Jamestown's Dark Winter 15x3 -- Mar 29, 2016 -- The Alcatraz Escape 15x4 -- May 17, 2016 -- Cleopatra's Lost Tomb 15x5 -- May 24, 2016 -- Teotihuacan's Lost Kings
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 16 -- 6 Episodes
16x1 -- Oct 26, 2016 -- After Stonehenge 16x2 -- Nov 02, 2016 -- Graveyard of the Giant Beasts 16x3 -- Dec 14, 2016 -- Van Gogh's Ear 16x4 -- Mar 29, 2017 -- Nero's Sunken City 16x5 -- Apr 05, 2017 -- Leonardo: The Man Who Saved Science 16x99 -- Jan 11, 2003 -- *DUPLICATE SHOW - EDIT THIS TO ADD NEW EPISODE
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 17 -- 7 Episodes
17x1 -- Jan 24, 2018 -- Scanning the Pyramids 17x2 -- Apr 10, 2018 -- Hannibal In The Alps 17x3 -- Oct 03, 2018 -- The Woman in the Iron Coffin 17x4 -- Feb 20, 2019 -- The Nero Files 17x5 -- Mar 27, 2019 -- King Arthur's Lost Kingdom 17x6 -- Apr 03, 2019 -- Egypt's Darkest Hour 17x7 -- Jul 02, 2019 -- Galileo's Moon
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 18 -- 5 Episodes
18x1 -- Oct 03, 2018 -- The Woman in the Iron Coffin 18x2 -- Feb 20, 2019 -- The Nero Files 18x3 -- Mar 27, 2019 -- King Arthur's Lost Kingdom 18x4 -- Apr 03, 2019 -- Egypt's Darkest Hour 18x5 -- Jun 25, 2019 -- World War Speed
20x1 -- Oct 20, 2021 -- Magellan's Crossing 20x2 -- Oct 27, 2021 -- Lady Sapiens 20x3 -- Nov 03, 2021 -- The First Circle of Stonehenge 20x4 -- Nov 10, 2021 -- Hindenburg's Fatal Flaws 20x5 -- Nov 17, 2021 -- A Samurai in the Vatican 20x6 -- Nov 24, 2021 -- The Caravaggio Heist 20x7 -- TBA
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 21 -- 6 Episodes
21x1 -- Oct 09, 2022 -- Archaeology of Althorpe 21x2 -- Oct 19, 2022 -- Last Days of Pompeii 21x3 -- Oct 26, 2022 -- The End of the Romans 21x4 -- Nov 02, 2022 -- Decoding Hieroglyphics 21x5 -- Nov 09, 2022 -- Hidden in the Amazon 21x6 -- Oct 11, 2023 -- The Sunken Basilica
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Season 22 -- 12 Episodes
22x1 -- Oct 11, 2023 -- The Sunken Basilica 22x2 -- Oct 18, 2023 -- Jurassic Fortunes 22x3 -- Oct 25, 2023 -- Eiffel's Race to the Top 22x4 -- Nov 01, 2023 -- Death in Britannia 22x5 -- Nov 22, 2023 -- The Princes in the Tower 22x6 -- Oct 02, 2024 -- Returning to Babylon 22x7 -- Oct 09, 2024 -- Mozart's Sister 22x8 -- Oct 16, 2024 -- The Herculaneum Scrolls 22x9 -- Oct 23, 2024 -- The Civil War's Lost Massacre 22x10 -- Oct 30, 2024 -- Field of Vampires 22x11 -- Nov 13, 2024 -- Lost Treasures of Angkor – The Discovery 22x12 -- Nov 20, 2024 -- Lost Treasures of Angkor – King's Gold
