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In Search Of… S05E07 Dangerous Volcanoes

Disaster porn again, this time about erupting volcanoes. The main focus is the 1980 eruption of Mt Saint Helens in the USA’s Pacific Northwest. The

How does heat work? Ask a scientist today, and they’ll tell you that heat is a form of molecular motion. Molecules jiggle faster when they

We open on the San Andreas Fault, so full marks there. Spooky music and Nimoy talking in urgent tones. Shots of buildings and surveyors. When

We open on a) music with a driving rhythm and b) frikkin’ sharks. Nimoy gives a super buildup to the great white sharks, and sharks

Hello again, my tens of readers! My life’s taken a busy turn of late and so my In Search Of updates have been a little

And we open on… Oh God. This looks like it’s going to be a bad one. Some women are manipulating the body of a small

Cold open on a nuclear explosion. Very well, In Search Of. You have my attention. Nimoy says that, sure nuclear tests were big in the

It’s an episode on cryonics — an idea so terrible I can’t even be bothered debunking it. Just google ‘debunking cryonics’ or ‘cryogenics = crap’

We open on some mice and an eerie musical cue. Nimoy tells us that some of these mice have genes from several other mice, some

Disaster porn is a fairly minor theme in In Search Of… but it’s always well done. Whatever else you can say about the show, they