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- Season 1 1993-12-10
- Season 2 1994-12-16
- Season 3 1995-08-20
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- Season 5 1997-08-17
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- Season 18 2011-10-03
- Season 19 2013-07-16
- Season 20 2021-02-20
- Season 21 2021-07-25
- Season 22 2021-11-28
- Season 23 2022-02-16
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- Season 12 Poison
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- Season 12 The Arch
- Season 12 More Nature's Engineers
- Season 12 World's Biggest Machines 3
- Season 12 Blackbird Stealth
- Season 12 The Butcher
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- Season 12 Desert Tech
- Season 12 Sub Zero
- Season 12 The Great Bridge: 8 Miles of Steel
- Season 12 Howard Hughes Tech
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- Season 12 Taxidermy
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- Season 12 The Doomsday Clock
- Season 12 The Basement
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- Season 12 Secret Japanese Aircraft of World War II
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- Season 12 Secrets of Soviet Space Disasters
- Season 12 Mountain Roads
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- Season 12 World's Biggest Machines 4
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- Season 12 Secret Luftwaffe Aircraft of World War II
- Season 12 The World's Fastest
- Season 12 The B-2 Stealth Bomber
- Season 12 High Risk: Helicopter Lineman
- Season 12 Wiring America
- Season 12 Nature Tech: Lightning
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- Season 12 Engineering an Empire: Rome
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- Season 12 Cereal: History in a Bowl
- Season 12 F-117 Nighthawk Stealth
- Season 12 German Small Arms of World War II
- Season 12 The Auto Store
- Season 12 Secret Allied Aircraft of World War II
- Season 12 Engineering Disasters 17
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- Season 12 The Lumberyard
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Modern Marvels - Season 12 Episode 19 The Basement
7.90 44 minutes Venture down that creaky staircase to explore the most misunderstood room in the house! From Pompeii to Pittsburgh, the dark, cool, and forlorn spaces beneath our living quarters have always contained things that helped us live comfortably. Ancient Hittites, Phrygians, and Persians carved subterranean rooms for food, water, and wine storage, and for shelter from weather and marauders. For ancient Greeks and Romans, a basement greatly increased a house’s value. Ruins of homes at Pompeii reveal the importance of basements in providing both heat and storage for rich Roman families. Renaissance architects placed kitchens, servant quarters, and laundry rooms there, hidden from the eyes of their aristocratic patrons! Colonial Americans expanded the practice, and by the 20th century, the basement was a routine feature. Come along as we demystify this domestic underworld, which turns out to be an area of innovation, imagination, and creativity.
