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All Upcoming Episodes

• Episode #701

  A phonograph is believed to have been made by Thomas Edison to record messages from the afterlife.

  • Sun, November 22, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, November 23, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, November 23, 10:00 AM on IPTV World

• Episode #702

  A plan to hide atomic secrets in plain sight and carved beeswax from a shipwreck are investigated.

  • Sat, November 28, 2:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sat, November 28, 8:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sun, November 29, 12:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, November 30, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, November 30, 10:00 AM on IPTV World

• Episode #703

  A shotgun is researched for clues that one of Al Capone's men fired it in a Chicago gang massacre.

  • Sat, November 28, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sun, November 29, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, December 1, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, December 1, 10:00 AM on IPTV World

• Episode #704

  A photo album of silent movie stars sheds light on an enormous film studio empire in Philadelphia.

  • Sat, December 5, 2:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sun, December 6, 12:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, December 7, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, December 7, 10:00 AM on IPTV World

• Episode #705

  A recording may hold evidence used in the World War II treason trial of Iva Tugori, aka Tokyo Rose.

  • Sat, December 5, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sat, December 5, 9:08 PM on IPTV World
  • Sun, December 6, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, December 8, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, December 8, 10:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Fri, December 11, 5:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Fri, December 11, 8:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sat, December 12, 1:00 AM on IPTV World

• Episode #706

  A souvenir may be a piece of Amelia Earhart's airplane, found before she and the plane disappeared.

  • Sat, December 12, 2:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sat, December 12, 8:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sun, December 13, 12:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, December 14, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, December 14, 10:00 AM on IPTV World

• Episode #707

  An instrument panel is investigated to find if it is from the horrifying crash of the Hindenburg.

  • Sat, December 12, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sun, December 13, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, December 15, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, December 15, 10:00 AM on IPTV World

• Episode #708

  Records and expert opinions may reveal if a dagger belonged to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

  • Sat, December 19, 2:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sat, December 19, 8:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sun, December 20, 12:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, December 21, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, December 21, 10:00 AM on IPTV World

• Episode #709

  Murals of African Americans from the 1930s and a painting of George Washington are investigated.

  • Sat, December 19, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sat, December 19, 9:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sun, December 20, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, December 22, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, December 22, 10:00 AM on IPTV World

• Episode #710

  Discover the fate of a man who sketched a portrait inside a German POW camp during World War II.

  • Sat, December 26, 2:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sat, December 26, 8:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sun, December 27, 12:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, December 28, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, December 28, 10:00 AM on IPTV World

• Episode #711

  Evidence of an old bridge abutment in Columbia, South Carolina may redraw the maps of the Civil War.

  • Sat, December 26, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sun, December 27, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, December 29, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, December 29, 10:00 AM on IPTV World

Past Episodes

These episodes of History Detectives aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.

• Episode #701
• Red Cloud Letter/'32 Ford Roadster/Cast Iron Eagle (#507)
• Episode #610
• Episode #609
• Episode #608
• Episode #606
• Episode #607
• Episode #605
• Great Mexican War Posters/Nora Holt Autograph Book/Muhlenberg Robe (#505)
• Episode #604
• Episode #603
• Episode #602
• Episode #601
• Uss Thresher/Pete Gray Cartoon/Manhattan Project Letter (#510)
• Bill Pickett Saddle/Mckinley Casket Flag/Hitler Films (#509)
• Lincoln Letter/Quaker Map/U.S.S. Indianapolis (#508)
• Nc-4: First Across The Atlantic/Howard Hughes Crash/Professor Lowe's Hot Air Balloon (#506)
• Atocha Spanish Silver/Lucy Parsons Book/Ernie Pyle's Typewriter (#504)
• Gar Photograph/Jefferson Pledge/Dempsey Fight Bell (#503)
• Episode #711
• Continental Currency/Short-Snorter/Liberty Bell Pin (#502)
• 3-D Cuban Missile Crisis/Amos 'n' Andy Record/Women's Suffrage Painting (#501)
• Episode #710
• Superman Sketch (#411)
• Lou Gehrig Autograph/Cleveland Electric Car/Philadelphia Freedom Paper (#410)
• Episode #709
• Grace Kelly Automobile/Illicit P.O.W. Photos/Mystery Motorcycle (#409)
• Episode #708
• Calf Creek Arrow/Doc Holliday Watch/Black Star Line Certificates (#408)
• Survivor Camera/Alcoholics Anonymous Letter/Tallahassee Mystery Cross (#407)
• Orphan Film Reel/Chinese Opium Scale/Hermann Goering's Shotgun (#406)
• U.S.S. Indianapolis/Highlander Badge/Spirit of St. Louis (#405)
• Episode #707
• Alternative Service Certificates/Carolina Mystery Books/Mickey Mouse's Origin (#404)
• Coca-Cola Trade Card/Vicksburg Map/Lawrence Strike (#403)
• Wartime Baseball/Confederate Eyeglass/Howard Hughes' Invention (#402)
• Episode #706
• Coney Island Lion/Legacy of a Doll/Ballet Shoes (#309)
• Leisureama Homes/Jim Thorpe Tickets/1667 Land Grant (#310)
• Episode #705
• Hermann Goering's Shotgun/Calf Creek Arrow/The Edison House (#308)
• The Spirit of St. Louis/Gary Powers' "Suicide Pin"/Image of Apache Warrior Geronimo (#301)
• Episode #704
• Doc Holliday's Watch/Civil War Female Soldiers/Japanese Internment Camp Artwork (#307)
• Secrets of the Tape/Mountain Mail Bag/Banned Birth Control Box (#306)
• Episode #703
• Portrait of George Washington/Revolutionary War Poem/Revolutionary War Cannon (#305)
• Episode #702

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