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Season 1 – Surviving History

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If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be trapped inside an Iron Maiden or stretched and twisted on a torturer's rack or forced to eat live cockroaches to survive in a penal colony -- well, probably some kind of intensive therapy would be in order. Failing that, however, you can satisfy your curiosity via this series, wherein clever craftsmen from Ohio's haunted-house prop house The Scarefactory re-create (nonlethally) some of history's most harrowing devices.
Surviving History — Season 1

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Josh Craig

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Brian Shoaf

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Chad Reynolds

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Dusty Morrison

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DJ Weatherby

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Chrissy Gidley

Host

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Jun 15, 2008 The macabre world of the Middle Ages; Chad studies the Iron Maiden torture device; Kermit fabricates the Iron Boot; Josh investigates ancient China's early use of gunpowder with fire arrows. Details Episode 2 Aired Jun 22, 2008 The guys explore 2,000 years of military tactics; Iraq veteran Chad examines missile technology dating to ancient Rome; Kermit researches British Royal Navy disciplinary measures; Rob studies a Vietnam War era human knotting experiment. Details Episode 3 Aired Jun 26, 2008 Josh and Brian investigate an ancient spear thrower said to be able to pierce armor; Kermit rebuilds a muzzling apparatus used for 17th-century marriage counseling; DJ re-creates an execution device used in ancient Greece; pillory. Details Episode 4 Aired Jul 3, 2008 Edge devises an apparatus for bastinado torture; Dusty and Josh try to understand how the wheel was reinvented as a method of execution; Chad and Eric explore the hardships of English prison life with a treadmill. Details Episode 5 Aired Jul 12, 2008 While researching the Spanish Inquisition, the team builds a 20-foot-tall pendulum inspired by an Edgar Allan Poe tale; Dusty fabricates a Judas cradle; DJ studies methods of torture. Details Episode 6 Aired Jul 12, 2008 The team tries to understand history through the eyes of the condemned; Edge and Chad spearhead construction of two historic execution devices: the Catalan garrote and gallows; Trevor commits to a sentence of solitary confinement. Details Episode 7 Aired Jul 12, 2008 The team travels back in time to experience ingenious inventions; DJ and Chad recreate the strappado; Kermit fabricates a shame flute; DJ checks out a chastity belt; Josh builds a repeating crossbow and mounts a joust. Details Episode 8 Aired Jul 12, 2008 The team re-creates some of history's groundbreaking inventions; Roman battering ram; medieval Morning Star mace; whirligig; ancient Baghdad battery; ancient Heron's steam engine. Details Episode 9 Aired Jul 20, 2008 Testing bizarre inventions from history; the rack; Archimedes' death ray; Roman barrel roll; Colonial America's ducking stool. Details

Season Info

Network
History
Rating
TV-14
Genre
History, Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date
Jun 15, 2008