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Never jumped. As good from start as it was in finish.
In one ep, however, about Butch Cassidy ISO wondered if he and Sundance in fact survived the 1908 Bolivian Gunfight they were supposed to have been both killed in. ISO used the testimony's of Butch's then-still-alive 93 year old sister who related her story of how in 1924 Butch drove up in a car to the place she and her father were then living in. This seemed to corroborate the idea that Butch was indeed still alive long after 1908. But people that knew Butch's sister said that while she did indeed tell that story many times she often admitted right after that she was only kidding!

How can In Search Of jump just because reruns were showed on the History Channel! Yeah, they did a hatchet job in regards to the editing, including omiting most of Nimoy's appearances and changing the theme music, but it is not like they made new shows that were lame.

I loved this show but whats more is at 8 years old I had a huge crush on Leonard Nimoy! Most of the episodes scared the CRAP out of me but I had to see him. One I remember was a guy looking for Yeti. He was camped out on this frozen land and its dusk he looks out into the distance and sees what he thinks is a rock. All of a sudden the "rock" stands up and starts to run!
I thought my heart would stop! It still creeps my out to this day.
I still love you Leonard!

I have the entire set of 144 episodes and 4 pilot movies. [On DVD] -Contact me if interested at thorr@epix.net -phil

I have the entire set of 144 episodes and 4 pilot movies. Contact me if interested at thorr@epix.net -phil

There are several episodes of In Search Of on you tube.com.

Anyone know hjow to get ahold of the episodes.....I loved this how and would love to see it again

I was very little when I would watch this and of course miss episodes b/c the adults were watching the only tv in the house. But, it was a great show for kids. I especially love the Big Foot episodes. The one that really scared me though was one I vaguely remember about a SCREAMING crystal skull.

Everytime I saw dog poop in my yard I thought BIGFOOT had been there!

This show was traumatic....but then...so was KISS.

ok this show scared the CRAP outta me when I was little. Ill never forget that "In Search of Haunted Castles" episode! I didnt sleep for WEEKS after seeing that! So, about a year ago my husband and I happened to catch a rerun on tv. I happily laughed about how that episode had scared me when I was little and then that same DAMN GHOST FACE APPEARED ON THE SCREEN (no not leonard this time) and AUGHHHHHHHHHH ......well at least I have medication to help me sleep now.

In Search Of was a relatively entertaining show, and I enjoyed watching it as a kid. Almost all shows I watched as a child sooner or later jumped the shark but not this one. And why is that? It never got stale? The host was fantastic? The stories got more and more interesting. None of the above! The reason this show never jumped the shark was because of an episode I saw that continues to freak me out even as a grown man. It was an episode featuring ghosts, and the narrator discussed the case of a woman in England who had died of fright from seeing a ghost. You see her twisting and turning in bed, then she sits up and starts screaming bloody murder. The camera pans over to a hideous creature - I can't even begin to describe it, except when I first saw it as a little kid, I was scared to go to sleep at night with the lights turned off. No kidding! And I don't get freaked out easily. No horror movie, from the Exorcist to Alien, has ever truly scared the pants off me. But this particular episode sure did. I wish I could see a rerun of this episode - I'd tape it and then freeze the ghost scene, so as to thoroughly examine it. Maybe then I'd get over the chills that I experience whenever I think of that particular episode. The Space 1999 episode 'Dragon's Domain' is the only other TV episode that had a similar effect - scary beyond belief. And let me tell you, shows that can freak you out so much that the respective images are fresh in your mind for years to come, can never truly jump the shark!

I'm surprised a supposed intelligent guy like Leonard Nimoy would have done such exploitive trash as this. Sure, I was hooked as an 8 year old, and scared sh*tless!!!! But as I look back on my diet of total junk-t.v. I am wondering how t.v. shows like this effected me negatively. The most atrocious thing is the producers who made this. They knew exactly how sleazy the show was, they knew exactly how to manipulate the easily influenced average ignorant american t.v. viewer - from the music, Nimoy's voice, everything - and they laughed all the way to the bank. Nimoy sounded dead-on as a serious science student / narrator which helped people buy into all the 90% BS this show spouted out. Just total exploitive mush. Is there anyone out there who can remember the episode about the family who had black spots growing over their furniture and no one knew why? Or was that another show....

NEVER! The background music was great. I'd give anything for a CD of that stuff. If a rapper ever uses In Search Of music as a sample it will be incredible. That stuff scared me when I was like 8 and the creepy 70s footage of Bigfoot and the reenactments which they never said were reenactments were just weird. Its was all like the video footage equivalent of the Black Sabbath sound. Awesome show that needs to be released as a DVD collection. The remake blew. Had that XFiles guy and it looked like Ripleys Believe It Or Not. Leonard Nimoy never stood in some studio. He was in some weird castle or somewhere else looking for Dracula.

In Search of... never jumped because it has to be judged in the context of its time: the pre-internet, pre-cable world of syndication in the late 1970s. It really creeped me out, especially the episode about "In Search of the Elephant Man." I had seen the movie, which was in black and white, but seeing an actor play him in color was freaky--he was looking out of a window with purplish skin! And then Leonard Nimoy's voice sets the scene: "Victorian London was filthy. Disease was rampant, and doctors knew little about the human body..." The only creepier voice to say this kind of stuff would have been Jack Palance's, but he was doing Ripley's.