World's Most Amazing Videos (1999)
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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Episode 1 - 201
Release Date: 2006-06-04Ashen, Holland – Supersport World Championship Motorcycle Race
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Episode 2 - 202
Release Date: 2006-06-04Las Vegas, NV – Malu Brayce bungee jumps from a 17 story platform above a hotel pool.
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Episode 3 - 203
Release Date: 2006-06-04Via Debravo, Mexico – Joe Parr paraglides over a mountain with others.
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Episode 4 - 204
Release Date: 2006-06-03Tampa, FL – lowrider convention.
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Episode 5 - 205
Release Date: 2006-06-10Isle 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.
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Episode 6 - 206
Release Date: 2006-07-01Prince 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.
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Episode 7 - 207
Release Date: 2006-06-17Santa Fe Springs, CA – Williams car is stuck in the LA river as the water moves fast around him
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Episode 8 - 208
Release Date: 2006-07-08Queensland, Australia - a high stakes horse race.
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Episode 9 - 209
Release Date: 2006-07-15Kuala Lampur, Malaysia – The Petronas Towers World basejumping championships. Pierre Pascal jumps, pulls his chute and is blown back into the building 800 feet up.
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Episode 10 - 210
Release Date: 2006-07-22Siloam Springs, AR – Shayna Richardson is going to do her first AFF skydive. Rick West is her boyfriend, instructor and cameraman.
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Episode 11 - 211
Release Date: 2006-07-29Perth, Australia – During a Formula Ford race Bryce Washington is bumped and knocked off the track into the wall.
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Episode 12 - 212
Release Date: 2006-08-05Bristol, MN – teenagers ride innertubes down a snowy hill as Shaina Rasmussen and her friends film wipeouts for a school film.
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Episode 13 - 213
Release Date: 2006-08-27Melbourne, Australia – Carlton Draught Steeplechase race. During a ten horse race Joe Hartley’s horse misses a jump and crashes into Robert McKenna. Joe is launched 15 feet in the air and lands under Rob’s horse.
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Episode 14 - 214
Release Date: 2006-09-02Holland – a fireworks factory catches fire and people gather in the streets to watch. Newsman Danny De Vries records it.
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Episode 15 - 215
Release Date: 2006-09-09Moscow, Russia – Daredevils jump from the 1700 foot Ostankino Broadcast Tower for a competition.
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Episode 16 - 216
Release Date: 2006-09-16Perth, Australia – at the Queen Motorplex, 9 motorcross bikers race.
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Episode 17 - 217
Release Date: 2006-09-23Phoenix, AZ – a carjacker leaves a white truck and takes a black car at gunpoint. The guy gets out and stands there as a helicopter follows him.
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Episode 18 - 218
Release Date: 2006-10-07Phoenix, 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.
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Episode 19 - 219
Release Date: 2006-10-14Corpus 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.
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Episode 20 - 220
Release Date: 2006-11-04Carbayena, Spain – during a road rally race in the rain on residential streets #27 the lime green car skids out and slams into a wall of people knocking them everywhere. Loan offers holds back a robber.
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Episode 21 - 221
Release Date: 2006-11-18Sknyliv 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.
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Episode 22 - 222
Release Date: 2007-01-06Mt. 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.
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Episode 23 - 223
Release Date: 2006-12-09Valdez, 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
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Episode 24 - 224
Release Date: 2006-12-16Starkville, 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
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Episode 25 - 225
Release Date: 2007-01-13Jacumba, CA - Miles Todd & friends mountain bike in the Carriso Canyon Gorge. It’s rocky, hazardous and winter storms caused erosion. A snowmobile accident is depicted; a gang attack occurs at a casino; fans clash at an arena football game.
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Episode 26 - 226
Release Date: 2007-01-20New 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.