Well, I finally bought this show, which I used to love dearly as a boy. It was at Costco today for only $21, all seasons. I'm going to watch it, yes I am.

Simon, my brother from another mother, also liked this show. Simon and I were connected like Matthew McConaughey and his daughter in Interstellar. We sent each other signals across time and space about what to like.

As much as I could make it so, what with the crappy scheduling of this show on my local affiliates, this was must-see TV for me. Loved it.

This is where it started for me. Now, I'll watch any pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo "reality" show about ghosts, UFOs, cryptids, parapsychology, you-name-it.

It all seemed more plausible back in the 70s. I guess we were more innocent back then.

When you get to the Bigfoot episode, watch for Dr. Grover Krantz. He was my Anthropology professor at WSU.

Ditto. Ironically, I was often in search of "In Search Of," but whenever I found it, I was glued to the set.

First episode was about talking plants -- "Other Voices."

Fail.

I knew a girl once who claimed to hear the voices of plants. She was complaining about it because she heard the screams when her neighbor was pulling up and tossing out plants from his garden. She said it caused nightmares for days.
I asked how she could stand it when people were mowing their lawns? She gave back some BS answer about how grass was like Earth's hair and it didn't count.
All the while I had my hand behind my back out of view, snapping twigs off of the bush we were standing near. Not a peep from her about the agony that poor bush must have been going through.

I also own this show and while there are some moments of failure, it's worth sitting through them for the moments of epic win. The ones about UFO's - in particular the story about a phone call to a radio broadcast that was allegedly from/by aliens - are magnificent. Anything involving Bigfoot is a masterpiece. The one about Roanoke or any "lost civilizations" or "Lost aircraft/boats" ones are great. Nimoy's voice and presentation style have a lot to do with the show's greatness. Also, it's the most powerfully nostalgic TV show of my whole childhood. I just love it so much, far more than anything else I've ever seen on TV.

True, there is the odd episode (such as the one about Count Saint Germaine) involving reincarnation and the like which is just....not good. But these are rare. Most of it is pure enjoyment.

Surely we can't over look "Bullshit or Not?" as hosted by Henry Silva.

In fairness to that girl, the plant Hugh was attacking was probably struck mute with horror at what he was doing.

Great post. I believed in everything back then.

I watched the "Ancient Aviators" one this morning in the wee hours (insomnia). It was a good one. The one about all those giant drawings you can see from the sky.

That's the stuff that's really memorable. The stuff that remains inexplicable, yet isn't too 'supernatural'. Stuff that's there but nobody knows why or how it got there, or stuff that people saw or heard that can't be explained away entirely.

I know you believe in Bigfoot, and I'm having in internal debate about when to spring a zinger about that in this thread. I know the right moment will come to me. And I don't have the zinger yet. I hope the words will come.

I had a vanilla Zinger just last night.

Wasn't there an episode about the coming Ice Age? Very 70s.

Was Animal ESP an episode? I seem to recall that one.