I Was There Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Hindenburg DisasterTheo Wilson travels back in time to 1937, finding himself aboard the world's most luxurious airship, the Hindenburg, where he must solve the mystery of what leads to its fiery fall from the sky--the first epic disaster ever caught on moving film.
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Episode 2 - Johnstown: America's Deadliest FloodTheo Wilson time-travels back to 1889 to the bucolic river shores of Johnstown, Pennsylvania where the biggest flood in U.S. history is about to be unleashed. Wilson finds himself dissecting the disaster.
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Episode 3 - Chernobyl DisasterTheo Wilson time-travels to Russia on April 26th, 1986, as workers at the Chernobyl nuclear plant are in the throes of a disaster.
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Episode 4 - Salem Witch TrialsTheo Wilson travels back in time to Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 where the village is self-destructing over allegations of witchcraft amongst dozens of its citizens.
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Episode 5 - The Death of Jesse JamesTheo Wilson time-travels to the mid-1800s where he finds a young man named Jesse James on the path toward becoming America's most infamous outlaw. Wilson separates myth from reality in James' career.
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Episode 6 - Killer in the White CityTheo Wilson time-travels to 1893 Chicago, finding himself in the lair of America's first famous serial killer, H.H. Holmes. But how did Holmes become such a prolific murderer?
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Episode 7 - Lincoln's AssassinationTheo Wilson time travels to 1865 and immerses himself in the events that lead John Wilkes Booth to hatch a plan to kill President Abraham Lincoln.
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Episode 8 - Challenger DisasterOn January 26, 1986, 2.5 million school children watched live as the Challenger space shuttle exploded in the sky, claiming the lives of seven astronauts--including a teacher. With red flags raised in the days before liftoff and multiple chances to stop the ill-fated launch, Theo Wilson is inside the moments that make you wonder, why did Challenger ever take off?
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Episode 9 - Bloody SundayTheo Wilson time travels to the tension-filled 60s to see how inspirational Civil Rights hero, John Lewis, came to lead a historic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday. Wilson charts Lewis' career from his first childhood protest, to risking his body and life as a civil rights icon, and the Bloody Sunday march, and how a decision to air it on national TV helped lead to change.
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Episode 10 - St. Valentine's Day MassacreIt's 1929 and inside a garage in downtown Chicago, host Theo Wilson witnesses the bloodiest execution in gangland history--the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
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Episode 11 - Oklahoma City BombingTheo Wilson travels back in time to April 19, 1995, when Oklahoma City is rocked by a two-ton fertilizer bomb shortly after 9 AM. The catastrophic result of years of planning by domestic terrorist, Timothy McVeigh.
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Episode 12 - Battle of StalingradTheo Wilson time-travels to the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942 where the underdog Russian Army is about to pull off a victory that will turn the tide of the war in favor of Allied forces.
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