Dark Matters: Twisted But True

2011
Dark Matters: Twisted But True

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 Lindbergh, Suicide Song, Living Organ Donor Jul 14, 2012

Charles Lindburgh plans to conquer death, but only for the select few. A song is blamed for 18 suicides. Some donate their dead bodies to science, but science wants one man's body while he was still alive.

EP2 Resurrection Row, Operation Brainwash, Rabid Roulette Jul 21, 2012

Robert Cornish's method for cheating death means a murderer could walk free.The CIA pays Ewen Cameron to invent brainwashing at an awful price for his patients. Louis Pasteur creates a rabies vaccine by gambling with the life of a child.

EP3 Dr. Lobotomy, Voodoo Rx, Killed by Kindness Jul 28, 2012

Egas Moniz chops up living brains to cure mental illness and gets shot for it. Can words kill? A doctor uses the power of mind to save his patient. George Price proves human kindness is an illusion and it drives him to suicide.

EP4 Amnesiac, Party Poopers, Risky Radiation Aug 04, 2012

Brain surgery creates a perfect amnesiac who can't remember his own life from day to day. A scientist goes to extremes to prove his theory and save lives. A tiny slip while testing the core of an A-bomb releases a blast of radiation.

EP5 Positively Poisonous, Medusa's Heroin, Beauty and Brains Aug 11, 2012

Fritz Haber feeds the world and murders it with the same technology. Contaminated heroin freezes addicts like statues and the cure uses fetal brain cells. An actress forsees cell-phones and wi-fi but is too beautiful to be taken seriously.

EP6 Creative Evil, Curiosity Killed Dr. Katskee, Bat-Bomb Aug 18, 2012

The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most notorious in the history of science. A doctor takes a lethal dose of cocaine as a medical experiment. A dentist tries to bomb Japan with tiny bombs carried by millions of bats.

EP7 Tuskegee STD, Do You See What I See?, Cold War Cold Case Aug 25, 2012

US government experiments illegally on black men with syphilis for 40 years. N-Rays will transform physics in France, if they actually exist. 9 skiers found dead with strange injuries. Was it a quarrel, a secret Soviet weapon, or a yeti?

EP8 Agent Orange, Ben Franklin: Fraud Slayer, Price of Beauty Nov 21, 2012

A chemical that speeds up the flowering process of soybeans and was used as a weapon during the Vietnam War is examined. Also: the origins of hypnotism; a deadly beauty treatment.

EP9 Unabomber, Get the Lead Out, Salvation by Starvation Nov 28, 2012

Examining a psychological experiment that Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) underwent during his teenage years. Also: leaded-gasoline poisonings; a look at Russian scientists who protected their work from the Nazis during World War II.

EP10 Remote Control Man, Cadavers for Sale, Einstein's Revenge Dec 05, 2012

Jose Delgado begins to discover how to electronically control the mind. A doctor at Edinburgh University doesn't ask any questions when two men begin supplying him with fresh human cadavers. Scientist Phillip Lenard leads a vendetta against Einstein.

EP11 Pavlovs Children, Raining Aliens, Glow Girls Dec 12, 2012

Pavlovian experiments are performed on orphans; red rain that appears to contain biological cells falls in India; a glow-in-the-dark paint used during World War I contains a deadly ingredient.

EP12 Theremin, The Monster Study, Roid Rage Dec 19, 2012

A musical genius is forced to create the most brilliant piece of spy technology ever. Wendell Johnson turns his own stutter into a research topic, but it takes a twist in when he experiments on orphans. Dr John Ziegler introduces steroids to athletes.

EP13 Magical Jet Propulsion, Missing Link Mystery, Typhoid Mary Dec 26, 2012

One man combined the occult and rockets to produce the technology that underpinned Mutually Assured Destruction. A skull found in 1912 seems to solve Darwin's puzzle of where we came from. Mary Mallon infects hundreds with typhoid despite being healthy.
Synopsis

Dark Matters: Twisted But True is a television series featured on the Science Channel. Hosted by actor John Noble of Fringe and Lord of the Rings, the show takes the viewer inside the laboratory to profile strange science and expose some of history's most bizarre experiments. This show uses narration and reenactments to portray the stories in this show. A new season of episodes, under the title Dark Matters: Extra Twisted, premiered on January 23, 2013. The episodes revisit previous stories with "deeper insight and new information."

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