Dark Matters: Twisted But True(2011)

Name: Dark Matters: Twisted But True
Genre: Documentary, Reality
Released: 2011-08-31
Rating: 7.4
Cast: John Noble

★ 7.4(16)43m19 episodesEnded

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."

First aired:: 2011-08-31
Country:: US
Network:: Science

Episodes

Season 1(6)Season 2(13)

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1. Lindbergh, Suicide Song, Living Organ Donor
★ 6.0
2012-07-14 · 43m
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.
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2. Resurrection Row, Operation Brainwash, Rabid Roulette
★ 6.0
2012-07-21 · 43m
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.
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3. Dr. Lobotomy, Voodoo Rx, Killed by Kindness
★ 6.0
2012-07-28 · 43m
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.
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4. Amnesiac, Party Poopers, Risky Radiation
★ 6.0
2012-08-04 · 43m
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.
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5. Positively Poisonous, Medusa's Heroin, Beauty and Brains
★ 6.0
2012-08-11 · 43m
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.
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6. Creative Evil, Curiosity Killed Dr. Katskee, Bat-Bomb
★ 6.0
2012-08-18 · 43m
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.
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7. Tuskegee STD, Do You See What I See?, Cold War Cold Case
★ 6.0
2012-08-25 · 43m
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?
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8. Agent Orange, Ben Franklin: Fraud Slayer, Price of Beauty
★ 6.0
2012-11-21 · 43m
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.
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9. Unabomber, Get the Lead Out, Salvation by Starvation
★ 6.0
2012-11-28 · 43m
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.
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10. Remote Control Man, Cadavers for Sale, Einstein's Revenge
★ 6.0
2012-12-05 · 43m
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.
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11. Pavlovs Children, Raining Aliens, Glow Girls
★ 6.0
2012-12-12 · 43m
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.
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12. Theremin, The Monster Study, Roid Rage
★ 6.0
2012-12-19 · 43m
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.
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13. Magical Jet Propulsion, Missing Link Mystery, Typhoid Mary
2012-12-26 · 43m
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.