“In Search Of”, with Leonard Nimoy. They don’t make ‘em like this anymore
Posted by ManuteBol_Rocks@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 65 comments
This show used to freak me out in the late 1970s, especially the intro music. I had an obsession with Bigfoot and Aliens, but there were lots of great episodes on there.
What were your favorite episodes?
Who better to narrate this than Mr. Spock? This show was epic.
Ithiaca@reddit
Got the series on DVD. Always a fun watch from time to time, now that a lot of what they looked into has been disproven or shown as a hoax. Like the LochNess Monster sighting they did have has been proven to be a hoax.
smarmy1625@reddit
It was fun but it's part of the reason we're here now where it seems at least half of Americans are heavily invested into one conspiracy theory or another.
Salty_Pancakes@reddit
And a lot of that is by design. Like look at the Epstein files and some of the crazy shit in there, and then Epstein getting 4-chan to "muddy the waters" so everyone looks for the pedos "over there" instead of where they actually were.
Dry_Ad687@reddit
Loved this show! Early internet content and I totally grew up to be a conspiracy theorists
sadiebrated@reddit
I rewatched one recently.
I couldn't get through it as a lot of my thoughts were "Wow, that was a hilariously bad jump of logic." and "Gee, that is seriously easy to disprove."
Neat in concept... but this is hilariously bad and agendatized.
garygnu@reddit
You might be interested in the "In Research Of" podcast, where each episode is revisited.
Legal-Quarter-1826@reddit
I had forgotten about this ! Loved it
NOGOODGASHOLE@reddit
Had me thinking sasquatch was coming to nyc
Numerous-Positions_5@reddit
That was a great show!
earinsound@reddit
it was fantastic as a 7 year old! i tried to watch a couple episodes not too long ago--they're kinda terrible.
Conscious-Mulberry17@reddit
I have the official score on CD somewhere. Weird stuff.
Rickk38@reddit
They literally did in 2018 when the History Channel rebooted the show. The History Channel has also made similar schlock concerning bigfoot and aliens.
MisanthropicAnthrope@reddit
Bermuda Triangle coverage was top-tier
RachelMcAdamsWart@reddit
I remember when that was a really big thing, and then it just wasn't anymore.
Fimbir@reddit
Silly writing with the reruns I've seen, bit a killer tune. It probably inspired a lot of people to be researchers or crack-pots.
I was super-stoked in 2000 when I was able to see Loch Ness and Castle Urquhart from the credits.
New-Bite987@reddit
That show scared the $#!+ outta me back in the day.
New-Bite987@reddit
How about that Bermuda Triangle episode? And why are people no longer disappearing there? The Jack the Ripper episode inspired the directors of the movie From Hell, look that up. That crazy show was full of weird hauntings, ghosts, missing people, plane crashes…The ‘80s really had a way of ramping up your childhood anxieties. The freakiest part was that Nimoy’s wife made all of his clothes for the episodes. Real new age, pyramid power looking stuff with open collars and big medallion necklaces. I’m still in therapy at 51 years old.
gizzardgullet@reddit
Haha, same. I was born in 73. 🗿🗿🗿 + freaky synth score and I was like 😶
Blaaamo@reddit
"A giant hairy creature, part ape, part man"
BooterTooterBravo@reddit
I always asked to have my hair cut just like his when I was a kid.
Warcraft_Fan@reddit
Like a Vulcan with a groovy side burn?
GrandPriapus@reddit
If you were brought up on this show, I highly recommend the In Research Of podcast. The hosts do a super deep dive into each episode from a modern, skeptical perspective.
EyeDot@reddit
Plus each episode has a "Nimoy Fashion Alert".
JoeNoble1973@reddit
Amelia Earhart strafed Stonehenge? Man i’m so bad at history i gotta check this out (Tiny me adored this show)
regeya@reddit
"Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer is: No".
tspangle88@reddit
Hey, Spock, what do you want on your hot dog?
regeya@reddit
It is legit one of my all time favorite Simpsons episodes. The fact that they managed to make Scully and Mulder funny but in character is fun. It's a nice companion to a fave X-Files episode of mine, Jose Chung's From Outer Space.
BuffyTheMoronSlayer@reddit
Literally what my 8th grade science class consisted of. This, Carl Sagan, and Nova. My teacher did not teach a lot.
ReadingCat88@reddit
You mean the p.e. teachers and coaches lol
BuffyTheMoronSlayer@reddit
No, mine was a straight up Science teacher. With like a grade and everything. It was to the point that if we didn't see that VCR or a film project, we were outwardly hostile about it.
RetiredPoPo10-8@reddit
Loved this show, especially when he went to Easter Island and looked at the giant head statutes.
homeland1972@reddit
Every Saturday evening growing up barbeque hamburgers.
KuchDaddy@reddit
I loved it at the time, but there was a lot of pseudoscience in that show. I think it had a net negative influence on critical thinking.
LightFlaky2329@reddit
I know people whose mindset can be traced to watching this show while their brains were still forming.
euphramjsimpson@reddit
In search of Sasquatch. That was a kick ass in search of. With Leonard Nimoy kicking out the jams. Hiiii
EmotionDecent6108@reddit
That we were moving into an ice age because the world was cooling 🤣
NPC261939@reddit
I have fond memories of watching this with my grandmother when I was little. Bastards had me convinced we were all going to freeze to death or be abducted by aliens.
MarvinParanoAndroid@reddit
We’ve been abducted. Aliens have taken over.
Skip_Intro0401@reddit
You couldn’t tell 7 yr old me that I wasn’t gonna be haunted by the ghost of Amelia Earhart or somehow swallowed up by the Bermuda Triangle from my California home!
rrrrrrez@reddit
I loved that show, but I only saw reruns. I was a little younger and got freaked out by Robert Stack and Unsolved Mysteries more.
PlantWide3166@reddit
It’s been like a hundred years for me, but didn’t Unsolved Mysteries essentially just go full on unsolved murders and missing people?
BMisterGenX@reddit
Don't know why but it seems like in the 70's there was a much greater mainstream interest in the paranormal. Before we had Google satellite images of the entire Pacific Northwest it was vaguely possible to entertain the notion that Bigfoot exists without coming across as a flat earth lunatic conspiracy theorist
Affectionate_Drop765@reddit
Oak island.
Designer-Ad4507@reddit
While I do love that show, it is a template still used today with Ancient Aliens. So .. they do still make it like this. Nearly exactly.
Brilliant_Park_2882@reddit
I've got a few of the 'Mysterious Worlds of Authur C Clarke' episodes from the 80's...similar format to this.
KuriousOrange@reddit
Loved this show as a kid in that 7pm time slot Sunday nights
blueblocker2000@reddit
Then there was his music career 😄
https://youtu.be/QuQbus0xfhk?si=cIH98hSwBnvS69zM
PlantWide3166@reddit
“Here, let’s just add some nightmare fuel music and away we go!”
Still weirds me out to this day. Lol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kj8Y2sFB6Y0&ra=m
Ivotedforher@reddit
That is some real early days PowerPoint usage there.
rabbitredbird@reddit
When I was a kid our local station played the show on Sunday evenings at 6:30 pm, so it is super embedded with the Sunday Scaries for me (decades before that was a thing)
False-Society-7567@reddit
Great show
IgorRenfield@reddit
Having Leonard Nimoy narrate your show in the 70s is like having Morgan Freeman narrate it today.
ONROSREPUS@reddit
HailLeroy@reddit
In the one about the Yeti, there is a shot of a rocky snowfield and as the camera pans across, one of the larger “rocks” stands up and walk away. Has lived rent free in my head for decades
ElPanguero@reddit
that motherfucker got me too
I still cant look snowy/rocky areas w/o worrying about bigfoot scurrying about
rcw00@reddit
Unfortunately they do still make ‘em like this.
At least the History channel would put up a disclaimer of ‘pseudoscience, for entertainment purposes only’ before showing these reruns in the 90s.
No_Maintenance_9608@reddit
Brilliant_Park_2882@reddit
Used to watch this every week, a few years back I found a few episodes online.
They have not aged well, to be fair it was nearly 50 years ago.
A_Tom_McWedgie@reddit
Came here to say the same thing.
Even worse is the “documentary” movie The Mysterious Monsters with Peter Graves. Just awful.
nixtarx@reddit
Whaddya mean they don't make 'em like this anymore? If you want a show that's ~~based in part on theory and conjecture~~ 99.9% horse manure, The "History" Channel is loaded with them!
the-midnightlurker@reddit
“This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture. The producer's purpose is to suggest some possible explanations, but not necessarily the only ones, to the mysteries we will examine.“
Translation: You’re about to hear some bullshit.
No_Maintenance_9608@reddit
I loved In Search Of. My favorite episode was the one about Pompeii.
headphones_J@reddit
I liked the Nazca lines episode, which you don't hear a lot about anymore.
BacklotSecurity@reddit
In Search Of and Wild Kingdom on Sundays reminded me there was school tomorrow. Lol
SurpriseDesperate156@reddit
I loved this show as a kid,I asked my babysitter after watching this if Bigfoot was real.He said probably,😂couldn’t sleep for a week!