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Overview
Seconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters of the 20th century. Each episode aims to explain a single incidental by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately effected the disaster. The program uses re-enactments, interviews, testimonies, and CGI to analyze the sequence of events second-by-second for the audience. Narrators for the show are Ashton Smith, Richard Vaughan and Peter Guinness.
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Season 1
13 episodes • 2005Avg: 7.4Golden Era
Season 1
13 episodes • 2005Avg: 7.4Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crash of the Concorde | Sep 19, 2005 | 7.0 |
| 2 | Tunnel Inferno | Oct 10, 2005 | 8.0 |
| 3 | The Bomb in Oklahoma City | Oct 17, 2005 | 8.0 |
| 4 | Fire Onboard the Star (Fire on the Star) | Oct 16, 2005 | 7.0 |
| 5 | High Speed Train Wreck (Derailment at Eschede) | Sep 26, 2005 | 8.0 |
| 6 | Wreck of the Sunset Limited | Nov 4, 2005 | 7.0 |
| 7 | Meltdown in Chernobyl | Nov 6, 2005 | 7.7 |
| 8 | Inferno at Guadalajara | Oct 9, 2005 | 6.0 |
| 9 | Fire on the Ski Slope | Nov 10, 2005 | 7.0 |
| 10 | Explosion in the North Sea | Nov 27, 2005 | 8.0 |
| 11 | Flood at Stava Dam | Nov 20, 2005 | 8.0 |
| 12 | Collision on the Runway | Oct 3, 2005 | 8.0 |
| 13 | Pentagon 9/11 | Sep 11, 2005 | 7.0 |
Season 2
13 episodes • 2005Avg: 8.0Golden Era
Season 2
13 episodes • 2005Avg: 8.0Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Columbia's Last Flight (Space Shuttle Columbia) | Jun 28, 2005 | 8.0 |
| 2 | Alpine Tsunami | Jul 5, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Motorway Plane Crash | Jul 12, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Mount St. Helens Eruption | Jul 26, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster | Aug 16, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Killer Quake (Kobe Earthquake) | Aug 30, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Crash Landing in Sioux City | Sep 13, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Disco Bombing (The Bali Bombing) | Sep 20, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Hotel Collapse | Sep 27, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 10 | TWA Flight 800 | Oct 8, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Runaway Train (Paris Train Crash) | Nov 1, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Hindenburg Airship | Nov 15, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Puerto Rico Gas Explosion | Dec 13, 2005 | 0.0 |
Season 3
19 episodes • 2006Avg: 7.5Golden Era
Season 3
19 episodes • 2006Avg: 7.5Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skywalk Collapse | Jan 10, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Amsterdam Air Crash | Mar 28, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Kursk: Russia's Nuclear Nightmare | Apr 18, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 4 | King's Cross Fire (London's Subway Inferno) | May 19, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Nairobi Bombing | Jun 27, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Everglades Plane Crash | Jul 11, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Titanic | Jul 25, 2006 | 7.0 |
| 8 | Aircraft Carrier Explosion | Aug 15, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Queens Air Crash | Sep 6, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Munich Olympic Massacre | Sep 13, 2006 | 8.0 |
| 11 | Superstore Collapse | Sep 20, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Plane Crash in the Potomac | Sep 27, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Asian Tsunami | Oct 25, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Comet Air Crash | Nov 15, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Flight Engine Down | Nov 29, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Oil Fire in Texas | Dec 6, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Tornado Outbreak | Jan 2, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Space Shuttle Challenger | Jan 31, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Eruption on Montserrat | Mar 7, 2007 | 0.0 |
Season 4
6 episodes • 2011Avg: 7.0
Season 4
6 episodes • 2011Avg: 7.0
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9/11 | Sep 5, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Pearl Harbor | Sep 12, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Paddington Train Collision | Sep 19, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Collision at 35,000 Feet | Sep 26, 2011 | 7.0 |
| 5 | Cable Car Collision | Oct 3, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Bhopal Nightmare | Oct 10, 2011 | 0.0 |
Season 5
6 episodes • 2012Avg: 6.7
Season 5
6 episodes • 2012Avg: 6.7
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan's Nuclear Nightmare | Mar 11, 2012 | 6.0 |
| 2 | Bismarck | Mar 18, 2012 | 7.0 |
| 3 | Mountain Tsunami | Mar 25, 2012 | 7.0 |
| 4 | Waco Cult | Apr 1, 2012 | 6.0 |
| 5 | Deepwater Horizon | Apr 15, 2012 | 7.0 |
| 6 | Massacre in Mumbai | Apr 22, 2012 | 7.0 |
Season 6
10 episodes • 2012Avg: 6.1Valley of Despair
Season 6
10 episodes • 2012Avg: 6.1Valley of Despair
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norway Massacre: I Was There | Jul 22, 2012 | 6.0 |
| 2 | Jonestown Cult Suicide | Nov 5, 2012 | 6.0 |
| 3 | Fire in the Cockpit | Nov 12, 2012 | 6.0 |
| 4 | Black Hawk Down | Nov 19, 2012 | 5.0 |
| 5 | Into The Death Zone | Nov 26, 2012 | 8.0 |
| 6 | Terrified Over Tokyo | Dec 3, 2012 | 6.0 |
| 7 | Runaway Train | Dec 10, 2012 | 7.0 |
| 8 | Nagasaki - The Forgotten Bomb | Dec 17, 2012 | 6.0 |
| 9 | Sinking The Coventry | Dec 24, 2012 | 7.0 |
| 10 | Chinook Helicopter Crash | Jan 7, 2013 | 4.0 |
Season 7
2 episodes • 2018Avg: 5.0Valley of Despair
Season 7
2 episodes • 2018Avg: 5.0Valley of Despair
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chopper Down | Feb 15, 2018 | 5.0 |
| 2 | Deadly Design | Feb 22, 2018 | 5.0 |
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