Weird and fun old documentaries/series you remember - The stuff that played the Discovery/History/NatGeo/AnimalPlanet and other places.

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I was not around when the History Channel and the Discovery Channel was in their prime but I do remember that weird era during the 2000s between that and the reality shows they had latter. History and Discovery may not have been living up to their name back then (and even less now) but they were still trying to make stuff that was interesting and somewhat educational. Here are the stuff that I remember the best.


Walking With Dinosaurs.
This spawn a trilogy of documentaries and other side ones like the one with Big Al and Nigel Marvin.
Even if it's a little outdated it's still a fun watch.

The Future is Wild

Alien Planet
The two above were fun speculation documentaries.

The Universe
This show got me interested in astronomy for awhile.

How The Earth Was Made
This show really puts the whole world into a different perspective.

Life After People
This documentary spawn a two season series that really puts into perspective of how impermanent everything is.

Mythbusters
Was my most favorite non cartoon show as a kid.
 
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I was just thinking about the messed up stuff I saw as a too young kid by watching PBS.
Back before Nipplegate PBS would show almost anything.

I was a huge Beatles fan and I remember being excited for a show about John Lennon that was coming up.
It turns out this show was made largely of footage of him and Yoko laying around nude.
No one should have to see that.

I remember an episode of POV called Rate it X all about porn.
You can't show porn on broadcast TV but back then you could show and "educational" documentary about porn on broadcast TV.

I will also never forget the "camera from in the inside" showing just exactly how the egg gets fertilized during NOVA's Miracle of Life.
Somthing odd about watching a guy nailing a chick and blowing his load in her on broadcast TV.

There was tons and tons of homo shit.
I remember the story of a guy who joined the Marines to try to toughen the gay away.
He found it full of closet cases just like himself.
He described how his first gay sex experince happened during a fire fight in Nam.
That right there lead me to believe that gays in the military was a really bad idea.

I understand this is all super tame and vanilla now in the internet age.
For a grade school kid in the middle of nowhere with maybe 6 TV channels to choose from back in the 80's it was eye opening.

PBS used to have great nature shows and I really did learn a lot as a kid by watching PBS.
Now everything they do is filtered though such a narrow political lens it is more propaganda than educational.
That probably was true back then and I just didn't notice it.
 
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I used to watch The Secret Life of Machines with my dad like, 30 years ago.

 
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Life after People was great.
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It was a very unique and very interesting series. Just watching most of what man has made fall apart from a very short time to a couple of hundred years is a fun watch. The show also had a great narrator James Lurie, who had the perfect voice that can make anything sound interesting.
 
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The best show ever came out of Australia. Even today some of the segments leave you going 'huh, how? Amazing'.
 
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