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 3
Episode 2: Maniacs out of Control
Air Date: January 11st, 2008
Summary: Jackson, NJ - Crazy Mike Gaboff films himself all day. He does a backflip off an M&M vending machine and hits face first into the concrete and bleeds. Foxboro, NJ - at a house party 2 friends wrestle and get thrown out. They go in the snow shirtless. One does flips, another gets hit with snowballs. The other does a belly slide across a snowy car. He lands, gets up, does it again, goes off the roof and slams his face into a sideview mirror. Castle Rock, CO - Dan Fox agrees to get shot with 200 paint balls in the chest with no shirt on.
Episode 6: Wicked Wipe-Outs
Air Date: February 8th, 2008
Summary: Pemperton Valley, British Columbia - Big Dog snowmobile competition. Tim McGregor goes up the mountain and at 600 feet is nearly vertical and the mobile stalls out and rolls over. Wilshire, England - K series racecar challenge. Westchester, PA - Brian Deegan does freestyle motocross at a party on a 90 foot dirt jump.
Episode 9: Freak Accidents
Air Date: February 29th, 2008
Summary: Oahu, HI - Junior World Fire Knife championship. Dallin Muti (11) competes, twirls his knives and soon flames jump onto his face. He rolls them out, then goes back to the performance. He says the fuel got on him, there was too much. Structural collapses, performance mishaps and demonstrations gone awry are featured.
Episode 10: Bare Knuckle Brawls
Air Date: March 7th, 2008
Summary: Newton, KS - mid America youth Basketball tournament. Dale Vestal coaches Lawrence with his son Coulter from the 8th grade. He grabs for a loose ball and they struggle. Then the Wichita player pushes him and punches him hard in the face. Profiling pugilists involved in illegal street fights, female fisticuffs and backyard wrestling bouts.
Episode 11: Hell on Earth
Air Date: March 14th, 2008
Summary: San Bernardino, CA - the worst wildfire in 150 years breaks out so John & Nancy Casper go on Hwy 138 to film it. Choppers with water don’t slow it. The wind kicks up and embers blow across roads and start up all around them. Land, air and sea fires are observed, along with pyrotechnic displays gone awry.
Episode 12: Nature's Fury
Air Date: March 21st, 2008
Summary: Dallas Co. OK - Reed Timmer films a tornado that turns into a huge F4 funnel that drops nearby. He drives right into it and his friend Joel tells him to stop and back up. Then it starts coming down the road right at them. Reed tries to get out as it’s 50 yards away with 200mph winds. Destructive weather events are spotlighted via footage of storms, tornadoes, mudslides, earthquakes and tsunamis.
Episode 13: Disasters of the Deep
Air Date: March 28th, 2008
Summary: Dire Island, South Africa - divers film great white sharks. Jerry Lohman is in a shark cage and they lure sharks with bait. Oahu, HI - the Bonzai pipeline is 15 feet high. Ray Hollowell & Larry Haynes film surfers and the waves are heavy.
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