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 - Animals Gone Wild!
Release Date: 2008-01-04Karola, India - at a religious festival people ride elephants. One throws riders off and people panic and start running
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Episode 2 - Maniacs out of Control
Release Date: 2008-01-11Jackson, 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.
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Episode 3 - Stunts Gone Bad
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Episode 4 - Wasted, Reckless & Out of Control
Release Date: 2008-01-25Philadelphia, PA - Keith turns 21 so his friends rent a party bus and drive around getting wasted. On the street Dwayne picks a fight and tensions flare, a crowd arrives, then push turns to punches, kicks and chaos.
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Episode 5 - Crash & Burn
Release Date: 2008-02-01Anne Arundel Co. MD - Tommy Passemante does a jump on a BMX bike into a huge dumpster full of foam, then another on his motorcycle. Examining vehicular crashes involving race cars, motorcycles and speed boats and a demolition derby.
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Episode 6 - Wicked Wipe-Outs
Release Date: 2008-02-08Pemperton 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.
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Episode 7 - When Good Sports Go Bad
Release Date: 2008-02-15Louisville, KY - Cardinals vs. Eagles NCAA basketball. Luke Whitehead goes for an alley oop, a guy hits him in midair, he flips and falls 7 feet onto his neck.
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Episode 8 - Terror in the Sky
Release Date: 2008-02-22Brooklyn, NY - helicopters fly over a crime scene and the Channel 4 chopper loses the tail motor and falls wildly out of control, hits a roof, falls over and breaks apart, but everyone walks away.
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Episode 9 - Freak Accidents
Release Date: 2008-02-29Oahu, 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.
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Episode 10 - Bare Knuckle Brawls
Release Date: 2008-03-07Newton, 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.
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Episode 11 - Hell on Earth
Release Date: 2008-03-14San 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.
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Episode 12 - Nature's Fury
Release Date: 2008-03-21Dallas 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.
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Episode 13 - Disasters of the Deep
Release Date: 2008-03-28Dire 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.