First Aired: March 3rd, 1999
Status: Ended
Genre: Reality
Network: NBC
Summary: World's Most Amazing Videos is a reality television series that showcases accidents, disasters, police chases and other extraordinary events that are caught on video camera. These videos normally shown anybody involved in these aforementioned incidents survive nonetheless. Although it is similar in content to the other series Real TV and Maximum Exposure, it takes a more serious tone. Originally, the show appeared on NBC as a timeslot filler program. A new series of episodes of the show were created in 2006 first-run for Spike TV, after a six-year hiatus from the NBC stint.
Until the year 2008, all episodes of the show were narrated by Stacy Keach. From that point on, the season was narrated by Erik Thompson. The show is broadcast in the UK on Bravo and Channel One, in which David Wartnaby served as the narrator of the first season followed by Lee Boardman in the second season of broadcast in the particular country, and is expected to return in 2012. In Australia, it is shown on the pay-TV channel FOX8. The series was given its own local name titled Global Shockers for the Philippines market and it was hosted by Johnny Delgado.
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Season 2
Episode 5: 205
Air Date: June 10th, 2006
Summary: Isle of Man Grand Prix – during motorcycle time trials #34 Paul Oritz takes a turn and it starts to wobble, he loses it and slams into a wall and then slides along another 50 feet with his leg reversed in the air. A kayaker nearly drowns; a BASE jumper's chute gets tangled; a man falls from a Ferris wheel; a cameraman is covered by a mudslide; a riot erupts at a prison; a horse falls into a crowd.
Episode 6: 206
Air Date: July 1st, 2006
Summary: Prince George, BC, Canada – at the annual downhill dirt race anything goes – skis, bikes, unicycles, even chairs. Three people with a couch on wheels with no steering or breaks, they go off course, run over someone in the crowd and launches the people over and over and over into a wall.
Episode 18: 218
Air Date: October 7th, 2006
Summary: Phoenix, AZ – during the qualifying round of the hydro racing world finals Scott Lumbert races a yellow boat, it spins, flies up, rips apart and his capsule flies onto land and keeps bouncing along the ground end over end many times, then stops in the water.
Episode 19: 219
Air Date: October 14th, 2006
Summary: Corpus Christi Bay, TX - Jerry Ellison in his first Jet Ski Race. The water was real choppy, he had a bad start, he was too aggressive, not thinking, he lost control in a jet wash and spun around 180 and then got slammed right in the chest by another skier at 45mph. Cat drops 100s of feet from a tree.
Episode 21: 221
Air Date: November 18th, 2006
Summary: Sknyliv Airshow, Ukraine 7/27/02 – fighters do tricks close to the ground. The Ukrainian SU-27 guns it, does an arc, loses the engine, turns, the wing drags along the ground near the crowd, then flips over and explodes in a fireball. Porsche hits wall, bear falls on trampoline.
Episode 22: 222
Air Date: January 6th, 2007
Summary: Mt. Bachelor, OR - Nick Klecker and friends decide to ski jump over a 40 foot highway. He thought it would be easy to make it, then slams into the bank on the other side right on his back. Boxers brawl at a press conference; a massive mudslide leads to rescue efforts; police pursue a former football player.
Episode 23: 223
Air Date: December 9th, 2006
Summary: Valdez, AK - James Peyrouse races his snowmobile everywhere whether there is snow or not like going down stairs. He races it down a forest covered hill, takes a jump, goes 70 feet, hits a log, flips over the top, gets run over and slammed into the ground. Soap opera helicopter crash
Episode 24: 224
Air Date: December 16th, 2006
Summary: Starkville, MS – Mississippi State vs. Alabama NCAA football game. As parachutists enter the stadium #2 Bill Wasser makes a low turn and crashes hard in the end zone and flips over. A meeting turns violent; a referee is knocked out by a boxer; an air guitarist suffers an injury via a chair; an in-line skating misstep
Episode 26: 226
Air Date: January 20th, 2007
Summary: New River Gorge Bridge, WV - Bridge Day festival is a year in the making. Rick Meyner leads a group of 7 people trying to bungee off the bridge in a basket to face their fears. Riot footage includes the destruction of a police vehicle; a motorcycle-rodeo crash is featured; a rider is injured during a bicycle pileup.
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