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IN SEARCH OF ...
Series Producer: Robert L. Long,
Richard J. Wells, J. Francis Hichting a. o.
Series Host: Leonard Nimoy
Executive Producer: Alan Landsburg
Dir.: H. G. Stark; Nicolas Webster
Writer: Richard J. Wells, Sharron Miller, Robin Crichton a. o.
(Writer of "Vincent van Gogh": Leonard Nimoy)
This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture. The producer's purpose is to suggest some possible explanation, but not necessarily the only ones to the mysteries we will examine.
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The Voice speaks...
The following is Leonard Nimoy's complete foreword to Allan Landsburg's book In Search of Missing Persons, (Bantan Books, New York, 1978)*. It offers a unique perspective on the series as a whole -- Nimoy's role and thoughts about the show's objectives...
My first working association with the television series In Search Of... was a narration session in which I was asked to read aloud the major objectives of the various categories - Lost Civilizations, Strange Phenomena, Missing Persons, Magic and Witchcraft, Myths and Monsters, and, finally, Extraterrestrials. The roll call of subjects was mind-bending. I kept on reading the sentences appended to the list but my mind was focused on the prospect of walking the electrifying path between what is scientific fact and what is considered far-out science fiction.
Alan Landsburg is a much-honored producer of television documentary films, and his extraordinarily talented staff of directors, writers, cameramen, and editors were out in the field collecting some of the most unusual images ever recorded for the television screen. What appealed to me most was the very range of subjects. On one hand, we might be searching for Amelia Earhart, lost on a trans-Pacific flight in 1937; on the other, for the famed Count Dracula of myth and fact. Who really did build Stonehenge? Where do UFO's land? Is there really life after death? Do plants speak? The quest and the questions presented a virtually unlimited source of adventure. More than a hundred people were scattered around the world recording data, clues, evidence that fulfilled Hamlet’s promise that "there are more things on earth than you have dreamed of in your philosophy."
I liked the experience of butting up against old ideas and demonstrating the new explanations possible. In pursuit of old and baffling mysteries, the programs opened new directions to pursue in search of more illuminating answers. For all these reasons, I immersed myself in the fascinating game. It's good to know that our television series In Search Of... has now become something of a byword for many viewers.
This book is a chronicle of the efforts that have gone into making the television series. It's a fascinating log-book to me, filled with the excitement of overcoming the seemingly impossible and with the fulfillment of discovery. I hope you find it as intriguing as I did.
-Leonard Nimoy
- 12/31/1977
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1976 First season |
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# 1 - 04/17/1977 |
Other Voices |
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# 2 - 04/24/1977 |
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# 3 - 04/24/1977 |
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# 4 - 04/27/1977 |
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# 5 - 04/28/1977 |
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# 6 - 05/01/1977 |
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# 7 - 05/07/1977 |
Earthquakes |
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# 8 - 05/14/1977 |
Mummy's Curse |
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# 9 - 05/21/1977 |
Martians |
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# 10 - 06/22/1977 |
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# 11 - 05/26/1977 |
Psychic Detectives |
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# 12 - 05/28/1977 |
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# 13 - 05/28/1977 |
Learning ESP |
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# 14 - 05/29/1977 |
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# 15 - 06/01/1977 |
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# 16 - 06/08/1977 |
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# 17 - 06/15/1977 |
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# 18 - 06/22/1977 |
Ghosts |
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# 19 - 06/29/1977 |
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# 20 - 07/06/1977 |
Loch Ness |
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# 21 - 07/13/1977 |
U.F.O.s |
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# 22 - 07/26/1977 |
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# 23 - 08/11/1977 |
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# 24 - 11/10/1977 |
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1977 Second season |
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# 1 - 12/24/1977 |
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# 2 - 12/31/1977 |
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# 3 - 01/05/1978 |
Firewalkers |
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# 4 - 01/07/1978 |
Mayan Mysteries |
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# 5 - 01/12/1978 |
Astrology |
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# 6 - 01/21/1978 |
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# 7 - 01/26/1978 |
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# 8 - 01/28/1978 |
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# 9 - 02/04/1978 |
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# 10 - 02/09/1978 |
Dead Sea Scrolls |
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# 11 - 02/11/1978 |
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# 12 - 02/18/1978 |
Shark Worshippers |
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# 13 - 02/23/1978 |
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# 14 - 02/25/1978 |
Secrets of Live (DAN) |
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# 15 - 02/27/1978 |
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# 16 - 03/04/1978 |
Swamp Monster |
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# 17 - 03/09/1978 |
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# 18 - 03/11/1978 |
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# 19 - 03/18/1978 |
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# 20 - 04/27/1978 |
Haunted Castles |
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# 21 - May 1978 |
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# 22 - May 1978 |
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# 23 - May 1978 |
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# 24 - 06/01/1978 |
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1978 Third season |
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# 1 - 09/14/1978 |
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# 2 - 09/21/1978 |
Tornadoes |
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# 3 - 09/28/1978 |
Cloning |
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# 4 - 10/05/1978 |
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# 5 - 10/12/1978 |
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# 6 - 10/19/1978 |
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# 7 - October1978 |
The Siberian Fireball |
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# 8 - 11/02/1978 |
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# 9 - 11/09/1978 |
Monster Hunters (Sasquatch) |
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# 10 - 12/07/1978 |
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# 11 - 12/14/1978 |
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# 12 - 12/21/1978 |
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# 13 - 12/28/1978 |
Lost Vikings |
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# 14 - 01/04/1979 |
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# 15 - 01/11/1979 |
Animal ESP |
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# 16 - 01/18/1979 |
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# 17 - 01/25/1979 |
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# 18 - 02/01/1979 |
The Angel of Death |
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# 19 - 02/08/1979 |
Noah's Flood |
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# 20 - 02/15/1979 |
The Diamond Curse |
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# 21 - 02/22/1979 |
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# 22 - 03/17/1979 |
Brain Power |
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# 23 - 05/10/1979 |
Sodom |
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# 24 - 05/17/1979 |
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1979 Fourth Season |
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# 1 - 09/20/1979 |
Tidal Waves |
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# 2 - 09/27/1979 |
Carlos: The World's Most Wanted Man |
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# 3 - 10/04/1979 |
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# 4 - 10/11/1979 |
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# 5 - 10/18/1979 |
Immortal Sharks |
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# 6 - 10/25/1979 |
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# 7 - 11/08/1979 |
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# 8 - 11/15/1979 |
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# 9 - 11/22/1979 |
The Abominable Snowman |
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# 10 - 11/29/1979 |
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# 11 - 12/06/1979 |
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# 12 - 12/13/1979 |
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# 13 - 12/20/1979 |
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# 14 - 12/27/1979 |
The San Andreas Fault |
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# 15 - 01/03/1980 |
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# 16 - 01/10/1980 |
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# 17 - 01/17/1980 |
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# 18 - 01/24/1980 |
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# 19 - 01/31/1980 |
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# 20 - 02/07/1980 |
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# 21 - 02/14/1980 |
Air Disaster Predictions |
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# 22 - 02/21/1980 |
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# 23 - 03/07/1980 |
Glenn Miller |
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# 24 - 03/14/1980 |
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1980 Fifth Season |
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# 1 - 09/20/1980 |
O.F.O. Cover-ups |
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# 2 - 09/27/1980 |
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# 3 - 10/04/1980 |
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# 4 - 10/11/1980 |
The Daredevils Deathwish |
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# 5 - 10/18/1980 |
Life After Life |
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# 6 - 10/25/1980 |
Moon Madness |
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# 7 - 11/01/1980 |
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# 8 - 11/08/1980 |
The Lindbergh Kidnapping |
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# 9 - 11/15/1980 |
Acupuncture |
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#10 - 11/22/1980 |
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#11 - 11/29/1980 |
The Fountain of Youth |
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#12 - 12/06/1980 |
Laugh Therapy |
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#13 - 12/13/1980 |
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#14 - 12/27/1980 |
Super Children |
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#15 - 01/10/1981 |
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#16 - 01/24/1981 |
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#17 - 01/31/1981 |
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#18 - 02/07/1981 |
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#19 - 02/14/1981 |
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#20 - 02/21/1981 |
Chinese Explorers |
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#21 - 02/21/1981 |
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#22 - 04/30/1981 |
The Lusitania |
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#23 - 05/16/1981 |
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#24 - 05/19/1981 |
Sun Worshippers |
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1981 Sixth Season |
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# 1 - 09/21/1981 |
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# 2 - 09/28/1981 |
Biofeedback |
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# 3 - 10/05/1981 |
Ghosts in Photography |
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# 4 - 10/12/1981 |
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# 5 - 10/19/1981 |
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# 6 - 10/26/1981 |
The Lincoln Conspiracy |
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# 7 - 10/31/1981 |
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# 8 - 11/02/1981 |
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# 9 - 11/09/1981 |
Tower of London Murders |
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#10 - 11/16/1981 |
The Aztec Conquest |
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#11 - 11/21/1981 |
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#12 - 11/23/1981 |
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#13 - 11/30/1981 |
The Titanic |
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#14 - 12/06/1981 |
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#15 - 12/13/1981 |
Nostradamus |
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#16 - 12/20/1981 |
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#17 - 01/03/1982 |
The Human Aura |
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#18 - 01/17/1982 |
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#19 - 01/24/1982 |
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#20 - 02/01/1982 |
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#21 - 02/08/1982 |
The Walls of Jericho |
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#22 - 02/15/1982 |
The Ultimate Disaster |
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#23 - 02/22/1982 |
Bishop Pike |
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#24 - 03/01/1982 |
Life Before Birth |
