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Modern Marvels
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Modern Marvels
Modern Marvels
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Title card since 2007 |
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Created by
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Narrated by
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Country of origin
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United States
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Original language(s)
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English
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No. of seasons
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18
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No. of episodes
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660+ (List of
episodes)
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Production
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Executive producer(s)
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Don Cambou
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Running time
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44 minutes
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Productioncompany(s)
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Broadcast
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Original channel
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Original run
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January 1, 1995 – present
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Modern Marvels is a television series that
premiered on December 10, 1993 on the History Channel.
The program focuses on how technologies affect and are used in today's society.
Since its debut in 1995, Modern
Marvels has produced over 650 episodes covering various topics
involving (to list a few) science, technology, electronics, mechanics, engineering,architecture, industry, mass production, manufacturing, and agriculture. Part of the appeal of Modern
Marvels and the reason the show has been on the air for this long is
the fact that it covers a wide range of subjects. Unlike most other science and
technology shows,[citation needed] Modern
Marvels focuses a significant portion of the episode on the history of the subject.[1]
The show began to premiere new
episodes in January 2010, not having done so through all of 2009.[2] In August 2010, History Channel
began to air older episodes that had been edited to fit a 30-minute time slot,
under the title Modern Marvels: Essentials.
In October 2011, Modern
Marvels began airing first-run episodes on History 2 (formerly History
International) in addition to its main run on History Channel.
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Occasionally, the show airs a
special sub-series called Engineering
Disasters. These periodic episodes describe the circumstances of situations
in which technology doesn't work correctly, such as building
collapses and airplane crashes, resulting in spectacular (and sometimes fatal)
failures. Including an episode on New Orleans, there have been 22 originalEngineering
Disasters episodes on Modern Marvels.
A former title
screenshot of Modern Marvels.
[edit]Introduction
Distinct from other History
Channel series, the introduction of Modern Marvels features
visuals and sounds of a bolt being turned by a
ratchetwrench, followed by a partially computer-generated sequence
involving construction workers building
and hanging the title.
[edit]Narration
There have been a few narrators in the history of the series.
The most current and longest running is Max Raphael, who has also narrated other
History Channel series, such as Command Decisions.
The History Channel has
re-packaged some episodes that originally aired in other series and stand-alone specials into
episodes of Modern Marvels, such as Ice Road Truckers, which originally aired
in 2000 as part of the series Suicide
Missions. These episodes are not narrated by Raphael.
[edit]Production
Bruce Nash is credited with creating the
series. Don Cambou has
acted as executive producer on
over 350 episodes for Actuality
Productions, the production company behind the series.
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