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Time Traveling With Brian Unger

Time Traveling With Brian Unger

With the help of modern technology, Brian Unger travels back in time to present a sense of history not typically found in guidebooks. Amazing CGI graphics transport Unger -- an actor, comic and writer with credits including "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "The Daily Show" -- to San Francisco during the Depression, to Arizona during the Wild West days, to 1884 to learn about the U.S. Capitol's construction, and to "divorce ranches" in 1940s Las Vegas. Other iconic landmarks, personalities and events are covered in half-hour episodes, revealing historical, heretofore mysterious details.
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Season 112 of 18 Episodes

  • The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco; the first building in NYC to scrape the sky in 1913.

  • The infamous O.K. Corral gunfight in the Wild West of Tombstone; the streets of 1940's Las Vegas to see Divorce Ranches.

  • How a swamp turned into the National Mall; the hidden filming locations in Hollywood; studios of Charlie Chaplin.

  • Traveling the route of the Liberty Bell; wonders of the Grand Canyon.

  • The escape route of Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

  • 1607 in Jamestown, VA, where the first English settlement was built and Pocahontas was married; Death Valley to see a scam artist.

  • The most famous battle of the War of 1812; the birthplace of our national anthem; Hollywood & rock n' roll history.

  • The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history in 1900; a taste of life in the 1500s in Florida.

  • The Arizona Diamond Backs spring training facility; Brian throws the first pitch, joined by Louis Gonzalez and Eric Byrnes.

  • The Mojave Desert in the 1940's at Edwards Air Force Base; General Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea."

  • NASA's original mission control; the launch control center; `VAB' where rockets are put together.

  • NYC's Coney Island back in the late 1800s; the birthplace of San Francisco at a military base.
Time Traveling With Brian Unger

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With the help of modern technology, Brian Unger travels back in time to present a sense of history not typically found in guidebooks. Amazing CGI graphics transport Unger -- an actor, comic and writer with credits including "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "The Daily Show" -- to San Francisco during the Depression, to Arizona during the Wild West days, to 1884 to learn about the U.S. Capitol's construction, and to "divorce ranches" in 1940s Las Vegas. Other iconic landmarks, personalities and events are covered in half-hour episodes, revealing historical, heretofore mysterious details.

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