Expedition Unknown
Expedition Unknown is an American reality television series produced by Ping Pong Productions, that follows explorer and television presenter Josh Gates as he investigates mysteries and legends. The series currently airs Wednesdays at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel, also airing on Discovery Channel.[1][2][3]
Expedition Unknown | |
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Genre | Documentary Reality Adventure Travel |
Starring | Josh Gates |
Narrated by | Josh Gates |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Executive producers | Brad Kuhlman Casey Brumels Josh Gates, Brea Tisdale |
Editors | Nicholas Caramonta, Robert Claridge, Marc Femenella, Dustin Peterson, Scott Simmons, Ben Simoff |
Running time | 45 minutes |
Production company | Ping Pong Productions |
Distributor | Travel Channel |
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Original network | Travel Channel Discovery Channel |
Original release | January 8, 2015 – present |
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History
The program premiered on January 8, 2015, on the Travel Channel.[1][2] The second season premiered on October 7, 2015,[4] and on March 24, 2016, the Travel Channel renewed the series for a third season, which premiered on November 2, 2016.[5] On March 14, 2017, the Travel Channel renewed the series for a fourth season.[6]
The eighth season premiered on February 5, 2020 and a spinoff series titled Expedition X premiered on February 12, 2020.[7]
In 2020, Josh Gates hosted Josh Gates Tonight, an at-home version of the show as SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 2020 pandemic filler programming, where Gates videoconferences with guests, about travel and life.[8][9][10]
Series overview
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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First aired | Last aired | ||||
1 | 12 | January 8, 2015 | April 2, 2015 | ||
2 | 20 | October 7, 2015 | June 22, 2016 | ||
3 | 18 | November 2, 2016 | June 14, 2017 | ||
4 | 10 | December 27, 2017 | February 28, 2018 | ||
5 | 7 | May 30, 2018 | September 6, 2018 | ||
6 | 10 | April 7, 2019 | May 29, 2019 | ||
7 | 13 | August 8, 2019 | October 31, 2019 | ||
8 | TBA | February 6, 2020 | TBD | ||
Specials | TBD | November 11, 2015 | TBD | ||
EF | TBD | March 30, 2016 | TBD | ||
ET | 5 | October 4, 2017 | TBD | ||
AL | 5 | October 7, 2018 | October 28, 2018 | ||
AS | TBD | October 4, 2017 | TBD | ||
JGT | TBD | April 1, 2020 | TBD |
Episodes
Season 1 (2015)
No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
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1.1 | "Amelia Earhart" | January 8, 2015 | N/A | |
In the series two-hour premiere, Gates seeks new evidence on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Gates first sets off to Papua New Guinea where he treks through the uncharted jungle of tribal lands, then his journey brings him to Fiji where he tries to discover her remains. | ||||
1.2 | "Temple of Doom" | January 15, 2015 | 0.78[11] | |
In a search for a lost city, Gates goes to the remote jungles of Cambodia to investigate the ancient Khmer Empire to find a Linga stone, a 1,000-year-old relic that, legend has it, was used by the God King to incinerate his enemies. | ||||
1.3 | "World's 8th Wonder" | January 22, 2015 | 0.85[12] | |
Gates' hunt for the Amber chamber takes him to Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia for research. Then to Germany, where he retraces the steps of Nazi soldiers who looted the treasure during World War II as he explores abandoned bunkers and a silver mine in hopes of finding the chamber. | ||||
1.4 | "The Legend of Jesse James" | January 29, 2015 | N/A | |
Gates searches across the American Midwest for outlaw Jesse James' "gold loot", which he and his gang stole from guards in Mexico. He walks a mile in James's boots, following his trail from his farm in Kearney, Missouri, to Robbers Cave, where he rappels off a cliff to find this hidden treasure, then to Cement, Oklahoma, to join up with a team using high-tech equipment. | ||||
1.5 | "City of Gold" | February 5, 2015 | 0.86[13] | |
Gates travels through Peru in search for the Incan lost city of Paititi. His journey takes him from the Cusco, to the heights of Machu Picchu, and finally into the Amazon's jungles. | ||||
1.6 | "Viking Sunstone" | February 12, 2015 | 0.92[14] | |
Gates tries to unlock the secrets to the Sunstone of the Vikings while traveling through the British island of Alderney and Norway, where he explores a crypt underneath Nidaros Cathedral to find the final resting place of Viking king St. Olaf. Later, he descends into a 37-mile-long (60 km) calcite mine to make his own sunstone, testing its power while at sea with locals who live like Vikings. | ||||
1.7 | "Captain Morgan's Lost Gold" | February 19, 2015 | 1.01[15] | |
Gates joins archaeologists in Panama as they search for the Satisfaction, the sunken flagship of pirate Captain Henry Morgan. He also searches one of many shipwrecks near Fort San Lorenzo at the reef, where Morgan's ship ran aground. | ||||
1.8 | "Code to Gold" | February 26, 2015 | 0.93[16] | |
Gates searches the Virginia backcountry in search of the Thomas Beale treasure. He meets up with local treasure hunters and explores a 4 mile search radius in Bedford County using a printed copy of the Declaration of Independence, believed to have hidden symbols that James B. Ward, the author of the Beale Papers encoded. He then meets up with a crypto-anaylst to get further evidence on the hoax theory. | ||||
1.9 | "Mayan Apocalypse" | March 5, 2015 | 0.83[17] | |
Gates investigates the fall of the Mayan Empire. He explores the many cenotes— caverns believed to be gateways to the underworld—below the jungles and many ruins of Mexico, including the largest Mayan city, Chichén Itzá. While SCUBA diving in the dark waters of the Holtun Cenote, he unearths human skulls and ancient sacrificial altars, which gets him closer to why their empire collapsed. | ||||
1.10 | "Secrets of the Nazca" | March 19, 2015 | 0.97[18] | |
Gates flies to Peru to investigate the giant geoglyphs known as the Nazca Lines that were drawn into the desert by the ancient Nazca tribe. By studying newly found lines recently discovered on a mountain made by the Paracas people and joining a Nazca psychedelic ritual, he uncovers the supposed meaning behind the tracings. | ||||
1.11 | "Samurai Sword of Power" | March 26, 2015 | 0.86[19] | |
Gates heads to Japan to search for the missing Honjo Masamune sword. After learning about the legend of this katana, his search takes him to the back alleys of Tokyo and the city's red-light district, an ancestral burial ground, Imperial tunnels in Nagano, and an ancient mountaintop Shinto shrine in Togakushi. | ||||
1.12 | "Curse of the Golden Bell" | April 2, 2015 | 0.72[20] | |
Gates travels to Myanmar to join in the search for the Golden Bell of King Dhammazedi, believed to be sunk at the bottom directly in the center of the Bago River, the Yangon River and the Pazundaung Creek when Portuguese warlord Filipe de Brito e Nicote's ship was wrecked in 1599 after stealing the massive bell. |
Season 2 (2015–16)
No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
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2.1 | "The Quest for King Arthur" | October 7, 2015 | 0.60[21] | |
Gates investigates whether King Arthur was real and if so, who was he? He searches for answers in Arthur's birthplace at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, England, and then in the ruins of Cadbury Castle in Somerset, a 5th-century hill fort that is believed to have once served as the capitol of Camelot. | ||||
2.2 | "Genghis Khan's Tomb" | October 14, 2015 | 0.63[22] | |
Gates researches the legends about Genghis Khan to get ready for his journey to search for his long-lost tomb. It is believed to be somewhere in Mongolia at what's known as the "forbidden zone" located on top of the "Holy Mountain" or Burkhan Khaldun, which is guarded by a local tribe and completely closed off to foreigners. | ||||
2.3 | "Blackbeard's Hidden Gold" | October 21, 2015 | 0.55[23] | |
Gates goes to sea in search of Blackbeard's buried gold. He explores underwater sea caves in Cayman Brac, gets up close to his wrecked flagship Queen Anne's Revenge, and drives down the Outer Banks on North Carolina's coast to dig up artifacts on Ocracoke Island, the site of his last stand. | ||||
2.4 | "Hunting Vampires" | October 28, 2015 | 0.52[24] | |
Gates digs up the truth behind vampire legends. His travels start at Curtea Veche in Romania, where he learns about Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration behind Dracula. Then off to Marotinu de Sus, a Romanian village, where six men desecrated a fresh grave believing it to be a "strigoi". He ends in Perperikon, Bulgaria to examine a supposed vampire grave. | ||||
2.5 | "The Real Robin Hood" | November 4, 2015 | 0.52[25] | |
Gates travels the English countryside on a mission to learn if Robin Hood was a real man and if he's the hero from the legends or a murderous outlaw. He visits London's British Library, explores tunnels and caves beneath Nottingham, and joins historians in search of Hood's grave, first in Kirklees Priory, Yorkshire, and lastly at a churchyard in Loxley, where researchers believe an outlaw named Roger Godberd who was the real Robin Hood is buried. | ||||
2.6 | "Finding Fenn's Fortune" | November 18, 2015 | 0.46[26] | |
Gates searches for the treasure of art dealer Forrest Fenn, who after being diagnosed with terminal cancer hid his fortune, worth $2 million, deep in the Rocky Mountains north of his hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico. | ||||
2.7 | "Columbus Unearthed" | December 9, 2015 | 0.66[27] | |
The search for Christopher Columbus continues with finding his missing remains. Gates follows his five-century voyage across two continents to search for his final resting place believed to be at Columbus Lighthouse in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic or at Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See in Seville, Spain, both countries laying claim to his bones. | ||||
2.8 | "Japan's Atlantis" | December 16, 2015 | 0.63[28] | |
Gates goes to the ruins of Yonaguni Island, the westernmost Japanese island on the East China Sea, to determine whether the undersea structures are geologic or man-made. The Yonaguni Monument discoverer, Kihachiro Aratake, dives with Josh, showing him the undersea area with cut steps leading up to a level platform. Josh takes a rock sample for geologic analysis. In Osaka, archaeologist Michio Maezano shows Josh an ancient rock tomb. It proves that ancient people could have carved the Yonaguni structures, then an earthquake could have sunk them. Geologist Masahide Furukawa examines Josh's rock sample. It's composed of layered sandstone and shale. Furukawa conducts stress tests on the rock. It breaks along bedding planes, forming a flat surface every time. Josh concludes the Yonaguni monument is a natural product of tectonics and wave action. | ||||
2.9 | "True Cross of Christ" | December 23, 2015 | 0.88[29] | |
Gates searches for the True Cross. This relic, said to have mystical healing powers, has been lost for 2,000 years. Gates visits Jerusalem, Israel and Istanbul, Turkey, to find if the cross or fragments of it still exist. The cross was cut into three pieces on the orders of Empress Helena. He examines this legend at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City where the tomb of Jesus is located and where he was crucified. Then he learns more about crucifixion in Tel Aviv, and discovers ancient cross wall carvings at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Next, he heads to the Ayasofya in Constantinople, where priests hid pieces of the relic under the nearby Hippodrome. Lastly, he joins archaeologists at a dig in Sinop, Turkey. | ||||
2.10 | "The Sultan's Heart" | January 6, 2016 | 0.63[30] | |
Gates hunts for the Heart of Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. When Suleiman died in 1566 during a battle in Hungary, his body was brought back to Istanbul, but not before a ritual was performed involving the removal of his heart being placed in a gold container and buried beneath his tent. The Sultan's followers believed his heart has magical powers and continues to beat, waiting to be returned to its host. The town of Tubek was built over the burial site to honor the Sultan. A century later, invaders destroyed this now lost city and the heart vanished. | ||||
2.11 | "Africa's Gold Hoard" | January 13, 2016 | 0.70[31] | |
Gates travels to South Africa to search for the missing Kruger Millions, the gold coins of the country's entire financial reserve. The treasure vanished overnight after South African President Paul Kruger loaded the hoard on a train and it vanished overnight in 1900 during the Boer War. | ||||
2.12 | "Kalahari Desert's Lost City" | January 27, 2016 | 0.68[32] | |
Gates searches for a lost city in the Kalahari Desert in Africa. First discovered by circus pioneer The Great Farini in 1885, he supposedly came across the ruins of a lost city half buried in the scorching sands. Those who followed in his footsteps came up empty-handed and claimed it a hoax, while even some vanished. Today, a modern explorer launched an all new expedition which Gates joins. | ||||
2.13 | "Yamashita's Gold" | February 10, 2016 | 0.74[33] | |
Gates searches for Yamashita's Gold, millions of dollars in Southeast Asian gold and jewels that was looted by Japan and covertly transported to the Philippines under the direction of Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita during World War II. The fortune was hidden by gangsters, military generals, and a secret organization in tunnels and caves somewhere in the conquered country. But the treasure was lost when the Allies won the war, until a treasure hunter found part of it in 1970 and has been searching for it ever since. | ||||
2.14 | "Columbus: Legend or Liar?" | February 17, 2016 | 0.59[34] | |
Gates investigates the myths behind Christopher Columbus. To some he is an epic hero, to others a bloodthirsty conqueror. He learns the truth about the explorer's early years, his nationality and his real discoveries. | ||||
2.15 | "Search for Shangri-La" | March 2, 2016 | 0.64[35] | |
Gates searches high in the Himalayas for Shangri-La. He learns of its legend as a hidden utopia. In the most remote reaches of Nepal near the border of Tibet is an area known as the Mustang, an area that's been closed off to the outside world and the passage of time. But now Josh and his fellow archaeologists have been granted access to explore it. He finds out secrets hiding inside its sky caves, man-made chambers carved into cliff walls. | ||||
2.16 | "Shangri-La Found" | March 9, 2016 | 0.83[36] | |
After learning about the ancient Buddhist realm of Shambhala in Kathmandu and exploring the skycaves, Gates continues his search for the real Shangri-La. This time, he discovers a rock tower used for human burials and filled with bones dating back to 800 A.D. Next, he travels to Lo Manthang for another day of investigation in the Martzon area to climb a cave system called Pumamba, which is linked to the legend. Then he heads to Chuusang, a remote cave monastery that has never been excavated before. | ||||
2.17 | "Lost Mexican City" | June 1, 2016 | 0.68[37] | |
Gates searches for the civilization of Teotihuacan, a lost empire left behind in Mexico with pyramids dedicated to the gods, temples, and a treasure trove of cryptic art. He seeks answers on who these indigenous people were, finds out their secrets that have been buried for 2,000 years, and what they left behind. | ||||
2.18 | "Incan King's Mummy" | June 8, 2016 | 0.73[38] | |
Gates searches for the lost mummy of Atahualpa, the last king of the Incan empire, hidden high in the Andes Mountains and in the jungles and highlands of Ecuador. His reign ended when Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro murdered him and brought the Inca civilization to an end. His body was mummified in a ritual that supposedly give him sway over the world of the living. Then, his body vanished. Archaeologists have been searching ever since. | ||||
2.19 | "Nazi Gold Train" | June 15, 2016 | 0.76[39] | |
Gates exposes Nazi secrets as he searches for the lost fortune of war criminal Adolf Hitler's billions in gold, art and relics stolen on his orders by the Nazis. They also built networks of hidden tunnels and bunkers. Today, archaeologists use modern technology to recover treasure and excavate the underground legacy of the Third Reich. On his journey, Gates joins them, first finding answers in Germany, identifying gold in a Nazi train hidden inside a mountain in Poland. Then, in Austria, he explores a subterranean facility to a top secret lab to build a war machine. | ||||
2.20 | "Hitler's Atomic Secrets" | June 22, 2016 | 0.94[40] | |
The search for Nazi secrets and their stolen gold continues both underground and underwater. This time, Gates dives for relics of Nazi foreign minister Joachim Von Ribbontrop who sank his family's entire fortune in Lake Fuschlsee in the Austrian Alps. In order to learn if the Nazis where building an atomic bomb, he starts his quest for answers in Hitler's hometown of Linz. Then, he stops at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp memorial in Sankt Georgen an der Gusen to pay his respects to the hundreds of thousands who perished here. He also explores 25 miles of tunnel under the Bergkristall complex, the largest secret underground facility ever built. It was designed by SS General Hans Kammler to oversee the Nazis nuclear project. |
Season 3 (2016–17)
No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
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3.1 | "Plummer's Gold" | November 2, 2016 | 0.70[41] | |
Gates sets off for gold rush country to search for the lost fortune of a Montana sheriff. During his investigation, Gates explores hidden cave systems and blows open a mine that's been sealed for over a century. | ||||
3.2 | "The Lost Tomb of Attila the Hun" | November 9, 2016 | 0.87[42] | |
Gates travels to Hungary to join three separate archeological teams looking for the lost tomb of Attila the Hun. Legends and ancient texts lead the search from the bottom of the Danube to the mountain forests just outside of Budapest. | ||||
3.3 | "The Vanished Empire" | November 16, 2016 | 0.90[43] | |
On the Mediterranean island of Crete, the Minoans built one of the most glorious civilizations in the ancient world and then vanished. Gates travels to Greece to find out exactly how Europe's first superpower disappeared. | ||||
3.4 | "The Lost Colony of Roanoke" | November 23, 2016 | 0.77[44] | |
Gates joins leading archeologists as they investigate America's first missing-persons case, the lost colony of Roanoke. | ||||
3.5 | "Cloning the Woolly Mammoth" | December 28, 2016 | 1.03[45] | |
To help clone the extinct woolly mammoth back to life, Gates visits the Korean biotech lab driving the project and excavates ancient bones in a working Canadian gold mine. He then descends into a vast sinkhole in Siberia to unearth frozen DNA. | ||||
3.6 | "Journey to the Ice Age" | January 4, 2017 | 0.96[46] | |
To find a viable sample of mammoth DNA, Gates retrieves bone samples from the massive Batagay crater, then journeys far upriver to a site in the Siberian wilderness where tusk hunters carve out troves of bones from the permafrost. He takes the DNA samples back to the lab and watches the process of treating and testing the specimens. At long last, he views the DNA results to find out if the woolly mammoth will walk the earth again. | ||||
3.7 | "Cracking the D.B. Cooper Case" | January 11, 2017 | 0.94[47] | |
Gates investigates the only unsolved plane hijacking in US history. He joins private individuals on the hunt for D.B. Cooper in the Pacific Northwest. He discovers new clues and theories before jumping out of a plane as Cooper did. | ||||
3.8 | "Lasseter's Gold" | January 18, 2017 | 0.91[48] | |
Gates sets off deep into the Australian Outback, following the footsteps of explorer Harold Lasseter, who claims to have found a vast field of gold. He speaks to two of Australia's Lasseter experts. | ||||
3.9 | "Tracking Tasmania's Tiger" | January 25, 2017 | 0.92[49] | |
Gates goes to Australia's island state of Tasmania to investigate sightings of the supposedly extinct thylacine, also known as the tasmanian tiger. Recent eyewitness accounts and photographic evidence suggest it may not be extinct. | ||||
3.10 | "Captain Kidd's Treasure" | February 22, 2017 | 0.89[50] | |
Gates retraces the footsteps of Captain Kidd in the hopes of finding his buried treasure. From the East Coast to the Caribbean, the search takes him to a real pirate shipwreck and to the island hideout of the buccaneer. | ||||
3.11 | "Africa's Cursed Lake of Gold" | March 1, 2017 | 0.92[51] | |
Gates journeys to the wilds of Namibia to embark on a deep dive in Lake Otjikoto for a long lost World War I treasure. | ||||
3.12 | "The Ark of the Covenant" | March 8, 2017 | 0.92[52] | |
Gates emulates Indiana Jones as he searches in Israel and Ethiopia for the lost Ark of the Covenant, the relic said to contain the Ten Commandments. | ||||
3.13 | "England's Vanished Crown Jewels" | March 15, 2017 | 1.04[53] | |
Gates tries to find the lost treasure of King John. He explores the marshlands of England to find the king's crown jewels, which were swept away in a freak tidal surge in the 13th century. | ||||
3.14 | "Corsica's Nazi Treasure" | March 22, 2017 | 0.92[54] | |
Gates hunts for the hidden treasure of Erwin Rommel, a Nazi general who plundered the wealth of North Africa as his tank corps fled the continent. The search brings Gates to never-explored underground lakes and undersea relics of World War II. | ||||
3.15 | "Italy's Barbarian Booty" | May 31, 2017 | 0.93[55] | |
To find the plundered riches of the Roman Empire, Gates looks for the tomb of the Visigoth king Alaric in Italy. The hunt extends from the capital of Rome to the southern city of Cosenza, where the mayor is spearheading an effort to find the tomb. | ||||
3.16 | "India's Atlantis" | June 7, 2017 | 0.92[56] | |
Gates travels to India in search of Dwarka, a mythical kingdom swallowed by the ocean. To find evidence that the golden city is real, Gates dives into the Arabian Sea and visits a dig site. | ||||
3.17 | "Lost Spanish Fortune Found!" | June 14, 2017 | 0.92[57] | |
Gates travels down to the coast of Florida and to Cuba in search of a sunken treasure from a fleet of Spanish ships that were sunk in 1715; the hunt takes him deep into the Atlantic and the National Archives of Cuba. |
Season 4 (2017–18)
No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
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4.1 | "Viking Secrets" | December 27, 2017 | N/A | |
Gates investigates how a group of Norse tribesman gained power in medieval Europe, travelling to Denmark and Iceland. | ||||
4.2 | "Vikings in America" | January 3, 2018 | N/A | |
Gates follows the Vikings' westward expansion from Iceland to Greenland and into North America. | ||||
4.3 | "Origins of Stonehenge" | January 10, 2018 | N/A | |
Gates travels to Britain to explore the origins of Stonehenge. He views a selection of monuments. | ||||
4.4 | "The Secret" | January 17, 2018 | N/A | |
Gates travels all over the US to attempt to find the treasures featured in The Secret, a cryptic book published in the 1980s. He meets with members of the book's following, who each think they're about to find one of the 10 remaining treasures. | ||||
4.5 | "Butch Cassidy's Lost Loot" | January 24, 2018 | N/A | |
Gates investigates Butch Cassidy's missing money. He goes to Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. | ||||
4.6 | "Hunt For The Metal Library" | January 31, 2018 | N/A | |
Gates goes to the jungles of Ecuador to explore a flooded cave looking for some metal plates. | ||||
4.7 | "Great Women of Ancient Egypt" | February 7, 2018 | N/A | |
Gates goes to Egypt to investigate Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, and Cleopatra. (Part 1 of 2). | ||||
4.8 | "Egypt's Lost Queens" | February 14, 2018 | N/A | |
Second part of above episode. | ||||
4.9 | "Global Game Show: Out of This World" | February 21, 2018 | N/A | |
Game show on the theme of extraterrestrials | ||||
4.10 | "Secrets of Brother XII" | February 28, 2018 | N/A | |
Gates attempts to uncover a treasure left behind by the Aquarian Foundation. |
Season 5 (2018)
Season 5 started on Tuesday May 29, 2018.[58] The series moved to the Discovery Channel for its 5th season.
No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
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5.1 | "City Of The Snake Kings, Part 1" | July 12, 2018 | N/A | |
Josh ventures into the ancient Mayan city of El Mirador in search of the lost tombs of a mysterious ruling dynasty called the Snake Kings. | ||||
5.2 | "Lost City Of El Mirador" | July 19, 2018 | N/A | |
Josh concludes his investigation into the mysterious Maya city of El Mirador, from the possible burial of the elusive Snake Kings to uncovering the secrets behind the fall of one of history's greatest ancient cities. | ||||
5.3 | "Nazis In Argentina" | July 26, 2018 | N/A | |
Josh ventures to Argentina, where many Nazi SS officers escaped to after World War II. | ||||
5.4 | "Lost Gold Of Jean Lafitte" | August 3, 2018 | N/A | |
Josh ventures to the American south to uncover the mystery of real-life buccaneer Jean Laffite and the location of his hidden treasure. | ||||
5.5 | "Mahogany Ship" | August 10, 2018 | N/A | |
Josh goes down under to search along Australia's infamous Shipwreck Coast for the missing Mahogany Ship. | ||||
5.6 | "Hunt for the Ruby Slippers" | August 17, 2018 | N/A | |
Josh investigates the theft of one of the most iconic pieces of Hollywood memorabilia of all time -- the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 classic movie, The Wizard of Oz. | ||||
5.7 | "Solved: Mystery of the Lost Ruby Slippers" | September 6, 2018 | N/A | |
With updates following the recovery of the ruby slippers - Josh investigates the theft of one of the most iconic pieces of Hollywood memorabilia of all time: the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 classic movie, The Wizard of Oz. |
Season 6 (2019)
No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
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6.1 | "Egypt Live" | April 7, 2019 | N/A | |
From Egypt, Josh Gates gains access to an underground tomb complex, where a sealed sarcophagus may contain the identity of a mummy who has remained a mystery for 3,000 years. | ||||
6.2 | "Deciphering the Last Nazi Code" | April 10, 2019 | N/A | |
Josh Gates ventures into the former Third Reich in search of an elusive Nazi fortune hidden with a code allegedly created by Adolf Hitler's private secretary and embedded into a piece of sheet music. | ||||
6.3 | "Mysteries of Jesus" | April 17, 2019 | N/A | |
Josh Gates journeys to the Holy Land to find out where Jesus was born; his investigation leads to potentially explosive revelations that may change people's understanding of Jesus' origin story. | ||||
6.4 | "Atlantis of the Andes" | April 24, 2019 | N/A | |
Josh Gates dives into a mystery below the surface of Lake Titicaca in South America; during the investigation, Josh discovers multiple structures of the ancient Tiwanaku people, including ruins hidden in the depths, dubbed the Atlantis of the Andes. | ||||
6.5 | "Lost Gold of Scotland" | May 1, 2019 | N/A | |
Hunting for a lost cache of gold, Josh Gates heads to the Scottish Highlands; his search focuses on a huge gold reserve hidden after the Jacobite Uprising of 1745 and never recovered; Josh joins treasure hunters chasing a lead across the Highlands. | ||||
6.6 | "Ghost Ship of the Great Lakes" | May 8, 2019 | N/A | |
Josh uses a state of the art two-man submersible to find The Griffon, the first ship to be lost in the Great Lakes. | ||||
6.7 | "Legend of the Crystal Skull" | May 15, 2019 | N/A | |
Josh Gates takes on Central America's jungles to investigate the legendary crystal skull discovered by a renowned adventurer who was the inspiration for the movie character, Indiana Jones. | ||||
6.8 | "America's Lost WWII Hero" | May 22, 2019 | N/A | |
Josh Gates explores the case of WASP pilot Gertrude "Tommy" Tompkins who went missing in her P-51 Mustang during World War II; Josh joins search teams using modern technology to locate Tompkins' lost aircraft. | ||||
6.9 | "The Hunt for the Golden Owl" | May 29, 2019 | N/A | |
Josh uses a book of riddles with cryptic clues and joins treasure hunters using new leads to find the Golden Owl statuette hidden somewhere in France. |
Season 7 (2019)
No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
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7.1 | "Mysteries Of The Dead Sea Scrolls" | August 8, 2019 | N/A | |
Josh Gates travels to the Holy Land to dig in with an archaeologist who has recently discovered new Dead Sea Scrolls. Josh also sees cutting-edge technology restore scroll fragments in a way that could change how we read the Bible. | ||||
7.2 | "Treasure Of The Copper Scroll" | August 15, 2019 | N/A | |
Josh Gates investigates a unique Dead Sea Scroll etched with riddles that could lead to an ancient treasure. Following new leads, Josh treks into the punishing Jordanian desert in search of the potential fortune. | ||||
7.3 | "Chasing The Fortune Of Sir Francis Drake" | August 22, 2019 | N/A | |
Josh Gates searches land and sea for the lost fortune of legendary pirate Sir Francis Drake. Joining treasure hunters and maritime archaeologists, Josh hunts for a lost cache of Spanish gold and the remains of Drake himself. | ||||
7.4 | "Mystery Of Dead Mountain" | August 29, 2019 | N/A | |
Braving the sub-zero conditions of Siberia, Josh Gates investigates one of the strangest and most brutal cold cases: the Dyatlov Pass incident. Nine Soviet hikers died suspiciously. Sixty years later, no one knows how or why. | ||||
7.5 | "Siberia's Coldest Case" | September 5, 2019 | N/A | |
Josh Gates concludes his in-depth investigation of the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Taking on Dead Mountain's brutal conditions, Josh and two investigators retrace the hikers' last steps. A big discovery could finally solve the mystery. | ||||
7.6 | "The Search For Florida's Lost Pirate" | September 12, 2019 | N/A | |
Josh Gates sets sail for Florida chasing the long-lost treasure of Jose Gaspar. Josh joins marine archaeologists and treasure hunters working to crack the mysteries of the pirate's life so they can find the riches he left behind. | ||||
7.7 | "Hunt For The Chupacabra" | September 19, 2019 | N/A | |
In the dark caves and thick jungles of Puerto Rico, Josh Gates tracks a possible chupacabra. | ||||
7.8 | "Lost Tomb Of The Mummy" | September 19, 2019 | N/A | |
Josh Gates heads to an active dig site in Egypt, where he joins famous archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass on the cusp of an incredible discovery: the mummy of an ancient high priest. | ||||
7.9 | "Chasing the Snake Kings[59]" | September 25, 2019 | N/A | |
With a potential new breakthrough in the search for a Snake King tomb, Josh Gates returns to the jungles of Guatemala and the archaeological dig at the ancient Mayan city of El Mirador; the archeologists attempt to pinpoint the tomb's location.[59] | ||||
7.10 | "Cracking the Secret[59]" | October 2, 2019 | N/A | |
Josh Gates is on a nation-wide treasure hunt to solve a mystery no one has cracked for 40 years: The Secret. Josh travels coast-to-coast and back in time using cutting edge augmented reality and tapping into a network of obsessed Secret detectives.[59] | ||||
7.11 | "Gold Rush Of The Atlantic" | October 10, 2019 | N/A | |
Josh Gates has a fresh lead on the massive lost treasure of the shipwrecked 1715 Spanish fleet. Josh returns to the waters of Florida's Atlantic coast and dives in with a new expedition that uses the latest high tech to locate the fleet's flagship. | ||||
7.12 | "Search For The Sultan's Heart" | October 17, 2019 | N/A | |
Four years after Josh Gates went on a journey to find the lost heart of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, he travels to the newly rediscovered town of Turbek for some shocking new revelations about the case. | ||||
7.13 | "The Secret Solved" | October 31, 2019 | N/A | |
Breaking news sends Josh Gates racing across the globe. One of the wickedly hard puzzles of The Secret, which Josh has been chasing for years, might have been solved. He's been crisscrossing the US, but this solution is in Josh's hometown. |
Season 8 (2020)
No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
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8.1 | "Digging Into D-Day" | February 6, 2020 | N/A | |
Josh Gates touches down in Normandy to investigate battles on land, air and sea. The expedition reveals a Nazi threat greater than ever imagined, unearthing a massive German bunker complex buried for 75 years. | ||||
8.2 | "Searching For America's Lost Flight" | February 16, 2020 | N/A | |
The mysterious vanishing of Northwest Flight 2501 with 58 people on board. | ||||
8.3 | "Hunting Our Ancient Ancestors" | February 19, 2020 | N/A | |
Josh Gates takes a trip to Africa, where he investigates the mystery of humanity’s origins, squares off with lions and more. | ||||
8.4 | "Revealing Our Ancient Ancestors" | February 26, 2020 | N/A | |
Josh Gates continues his epic investigation as he ranges across Africa to study wild chimpanzees and scales sheer cliffs on his quest for the missing links of human evolution. | ||||
8.5 | "The Warrior Queen's Treasure" | March 4, 2020 | N/A | |
Searching across England, Josh Gates unearths a cache of ancient treasure as he chases the legend of Queen Boudica, the legendary Celtic queen who nearly defeated the invading Roman army 2,000 years ago. | ||||
8.6 | "The Fortune of the Buzzard" | March 11, 2020 | N/A | |
Josh Gates takes on the Indian Ocean's punishing waters as he chases the lost treasure of Olivier Levasseur, AKA "The Buzzard," rumored to be worth more than a billion dollars. | ||||
8.7 | "Mysteries of Bermuda Triangle" | March 18, 2020 | N/A | |
Josh Gates dives into the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. His investigation leads him to the ocean floor, the skies above and even the edge of space as he tackles some of the most intriguing disappearances in history. | ||||
8.8 | "Revealing the Bermuda Triangle" | March 25, 2020 | N/A | |
In the conclusion of his epic investigation, Gates uses cutting-edge technology to investigate the Triangle's most infamous shipwreck and lost flights. |
Specials (2015–17)
No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
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1 | "Raw & Unfiltered" | November 11, 2015 | 0.42[60] | |
Gates answers viewers' questions. Some footage from behind the scenes is shown. | ||||
2 | "Most Dangerous Moments" | November 25, 2015 | 0.38[61] | |
Gates describes his "top ten most dangerous moments" from the first season. | ||||
3 | "Secrets of Christopher Columbus" | December 2, 2015 | 0.73[62] | |
Gates retraces Christopher Columbus' voyages, visits his hometown on the island of Madeira, where he worked as a chart maker, and discovers the fate of his missing flagship, the Santa Maria, which hasn't been seen since she ran aground off the coast of Haiti in 1492. | ||||
4 | "Legendary Stories: The Real Lewis & Clark" | December 30, 2015 | 0.56[63] | |
Gates, along with several historians, describes explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their expedition. He also describes the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and discusses Wyatt Earp. | ||||
5 | "Weird, Wild and Off the Rails" | January 20, 2016 | 0.54[64] | |
More "behind the scenes" footage. | ||||
6 | "What to Know Before You Go" | February 24, 2016 | 0.45[65] | |
Gates shares tips on travel, clothing, shopping, and food. | ||||
7 | "Most Extreme Moments" | March 16, 2016 | 0.52[66] | |
Gates describes his top ten "most extreme" adventures. | ||||
8 | "Global Game Show" | March 23, 2016 | 0.59[67] | |
Gates hosts a trivia game show. | ||||
9 | "Insider's Guide: Secret Safari" | August 3, 2016 | 0.40[68] | |
Behind the scenes footage of the season two expedition searching for a lost city in the Kalahari Desert in Africa. | ||||
10 | "Insider's Guide: Cursed Gold" | August 10, 2016 | 0.47[69] | |
Behind the scenes footage of the season two episode searching for Yamashita's gold. | ||||
11 | "Insider's Guide: Ladder of Death" | August 17, 2016 | 0.38[70] | |
12 | "Insider's Guide: Genghis Khan's Tomb" | August 24, 2016 | 0.48[71] | |
13 | "Insider's Guide: Japan's Atlantis" | August 31, 2016 | 0.61[72] | |
14 | "Insider's Guide - Columbus: Legend or Liar?" | September 7, 2016 | 0.59[73] | |
15 | "Nazi Secrets Revealed" | September 14, 2016 | 0.48[74] | |
16 | "Hunt for the Yeti - Return of the Yeti" | October 5, 2016 | 0.77[75] | |
17 | "Hunt for the Yeti - The Monster and the Mountain" | October 12, 2016 | 0.84[76] | |
18 | "Hunt for the Yeti - Out of Thin Air" | October 19, 2016 | 0.72[77] | |
19 | "Hunt for the Yeti - Unmasking the Myth" | October 26, 2016 | 0.89[78] | |
20 | "Further Off the Rails!" | November 30, 2016 | 0.64[79] | |
Previously unseen footage. | ||||
21 | "Greatest Treasure Hunts" | December 7, 2016 | 0.56[80] | |
Gates describes his top ten treasure hunts. | ||||
22 | "More Extreme Adventures" | December 14, 2016 | 0.65[81] | |
Gates describes another top ten investigations. | ||||
23 | "Global Game Show: Greek Odyssey" | February 1, 2017 | 0.76[82] | |
Gates plays a trivia game in Greece. | ||||
24 | "Global Game Show: Without Borders" | February 8, 2017 | 0.58[83] | |
Gates hosts the trivia game show again. | ||||
25 | "Global Game Show: Aussie Adventure" | February 15, 2017 | 0.60[84] | |
Trivia game show in Australia. | ||||
26 | "Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth" | June 21, 2017 | 0.52[85] | |
27 | "Daring Discoveries!" | June 28, 2017 | 0.70[86] | |
28 | "Beyond Extreme Adventures!" | July 5, 2017 | 0.62[87] | |
29 | "Over the Edge" | July 12, 2017 | 0.69[88] | |
30 | "Top 5 Expeditions: Corsica's Nazi Treasure" | July 26, 2017 | 0.60[89] | |
31 | "Top 5 Expeditions: Captain Morgan's Lost Gold" | August 2, 2017 | 0.72[90] | |
32 | "Top 5 Expeditions: The Ark of the Covenant" | August 9, 2017 | 0.64[91] | |
33 | "Top 5 Expeditions: Resurrecting The Woolly Mammoth" | August 16, 2017 | 0.63[92] | |
34 | "Top 5 Expeditions: England's Vanished Crown Jewels" | August 23, 2017 | 0.53[93] | |
35 | "Global Game Show: American Legends" | September 6, 2017 | 0.70[94] | |
36 | "Global Game Show: Heroes and Villains" | September 13, 2017 | 0.57[95] | |
37 | "Global Game Show: Lost Civilizations" | September 20, 2017 | 0.54[96] | |
38 | "Global Game Show: Hidden Treasures" | September 27, 2017 | 0.48[97] |
Extra Finds (2016–17)
Extra Finds episodes involve viewers interacting with Gates.
No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
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1 | "Extra Finds: Captain Morgan's Lost Gold" | March 30, 2016 | N/A | |
Additional coverage of Gates's attempt to find Captain Morgan's lost gold and sunken flagship. | ||||
2 | "Extra Finds: Temple of Doom" | April 6, 2016 | N/A | |
Additional coverage of Gates's search for the Linga stones. | ||||
3 | "Extra Finds: Secrets of the Nazca" | April 13, 2016 | N/A | |
Additional coverage of the Nazca Lines. | ||||
4 | "Extra Finds: Mayan Apocalypse" | April 20, 2016 | N/A | |
Additional coverage of the season one Mayan Empire episode. | ||||
5 | "Extra Finds: Amelia Earhart" | April 27, 2016 | N/A | |
6 | "Extra Finds: Samurai Sword of Power" | May 4, 2016 | N/A | |
7 | "Extra Finds: Code to Gold" | May 11, 2016 | N/A | |
Additional coverage of the Thomas Beale treasure. | ||||
8 | "Extra Finds: City of Gold" | May 18, 2016 | N/A | |
Additional coverage of the City of Gold. | ||||
9 | "Extra Finds: Curse of the Golden Bell" | May 25, 2016 | N/A | |
10 | "Extra Finds: A Day in the Life" | June 29, 2016 | 0.62[98] | |
11 | "Extra Finds: Secrets of Shangri-La" | July 6, 2016 | 0.59[99] | |
Additional coverage of Shangri-La. | ||||
12 | "Extra Finds: Viking Sunstone" | July 13, 2016 | N/A | |
13 | "Extra Finds: The Legend of Jesse James" | July 20, 2016 | 0.31[100] | |
Additional coverage of Jesse James' lost gold. | ||||
14 | "Extra Finds: World's 8th Wonder" | July 27, 2016 | N/A | |
Additional coverage of the Amber Chamber. | ||||
15 | "Extra Finds: The Quest for King Arthur" | March 29, 2017 | N/A | |
16 | "Extra Finds: The Real Robin Hood" | April 5, 2017 | N/A | |
17 | "Extra Finds: True Cross of Christ" | April 12, 2017 | N/A | |
18 | "Extra Finds: Blackbeard's Hidden Gold" | April 19, 2017 | 0.60[101] | |
19 | "Extra Finds: Finding Fenn's Fortune" | April 26, 2017 | 0.55[102] | |
20 | "Extra Finds: Hunting Vampires" | May 3, 2017 | 0.58[103] | |
21 | "Extra Finds: The Sultan's Heart" | May 10, 2017 | 0.53[104] | |
22 | "Extra Finds: Nazi Secrets Revealed" | May 17, 2017 | 0.56[105] | |
23 | "Extra Finds: Africa's Gold Hoard" | May 24, 2017 | 0.59[106] | |
24 | "Extra Finds: Lost Mexican City" | July 19, 2017 | 0.63[107] |
Hunt for Extraterrestrials (2017)
No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) |
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1 | "Hunt for Extraterrestrials - Close Encounters" | October 4, 2017 | 0.76[108] |
2 | "Hunt for Extraterrestrials - Ancient Visitors" | October 11, 2017 | 0.70[109] |
3 | "Hunt for Extraterrestrials - UFOs Over England" | October 18, 2017 | 0.80[110] |
4 | "Hunt for Extraterrestrials - Roswell Revealed" | October 25, 2017 | 0.71[111] |
Search for the Afterlife (2018)
No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
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1 | "Heaven and Earth" | October 7, 2018 | N/A | |
Seeking evidence of the afterlife, Josh Gates enters an ancient Roman gate to hell that still claims victims; in New York, a medical doctor shows how consciousness survives death; in California, a gifted medium shocks Josh with a message from beyond. | ||||
2 | "Death and Beyond" | October 14, 2018 | N/A | |
Dr. Deepak Chopra advises Josh to investigate the phenomenon of reincarnation in India; in Turkey, Josh explores an Islamic path to paradise; he returns to face a man possessed by an evil spirit. | ||||
3 | "Edge of Existence" | October 21, 2018 | N/A | |
From ancient tombs to the latest technology, humans have always been obsessed with cheating death; Josh visits a tribe in Indonesia where people live with mummies; a Russian cryonics laboratory freezes humans for the future. | ||||
4 | "Crossing Over" | October 28, 2018 | N/A | |
In the Amazon, Josh meets a shaman who takes him on an ayahuasca trip to the brink of the afterlife; a team of investigators guide Josh into one of the most haunted places on Earth. |
Aftershows
'After the Hunt is a series of aftershows for Expedition Unknown.
Hunt for Extraterrestrials: After the Hunt (2017)
No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) |
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1 | "Hunt for Extraterrestrials - After the Hunt" | October 4, 2017 | 0.64[108] |
2 | "Hunt for Extraterrestrials - After the Hunt" | October 11, 2017 | 0.62[109] |
3 | "Hunt for Extraterrestrials - After the Hunt" | October 18, 2017 | 0.66[110] |
4 | "Hunt for Extraterrestrials - After the Hunt" | October 25, 2017 | 0.60[111] |
Expedition Unknown: After the Hunt — Season 6 (2020)
Season 6 of After the Hunt, aftershows for season 8 of Expedition Unknown[112][113]
No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) |
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1 | "After the Hunt: D-Day Revealed" | February 5, 2020 | N/A |
2 | "After the Hunt: America's Mysteries Uncovered" | February 12, 2020 | N/A |
3 | "After the Hunt: Unknown Ancestors" | February 19, 2020 | N/A |
4 | "After the Hunt: Uncovering Humanity" | February 26, 2020 | N/A |
5 | "After the Hunt: Mysteries Beneath Our Feet" | March 4, 2020 | N/A |
6 | "After the Hunt: Diving Deeper, Looking Higher" | March 11, 2020 | N/A |
7 | "After the Hunt: Uncovering Land and Sea" | March 18, 2020 | N/A |
Josh Gates Tonight
Josh Gates Tonight was created as filler programming for the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period, starting to fill in the end of season 8 of Expedition Unknown.[112][113][8][9][10]
Expedition Unknown: Josh Gates Tonight (2020)
Josh Gates Tonight serves as season 8.5 of Expedition Unknown.[112][113][8][9][10]
No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) |
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1 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Safer at Home" | April 1, 2020 | N/A |
2 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Along For The Ride" | April 8, 2020 | N/A |
3 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Digging In" | April 15, 2020 | N/A |
4 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Earth Day" | April 22, 2020 | N/A |
5 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Exploration Home Office" | April 29, 2020 | N/A |
6 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Stayin' Inside" | May 6, 2020 | N/A |
7 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Indiana Josh" | May 13, 2020 | N/A |
8 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Unexplained and Unexplored" | May 20, 2020 | N/A |
9 | "Josh Gates Tonight: The Merry Adventures of Josh Gates" | May 27, 2020 | N/A |
10 | "Josh Gates Tonight: GI Josh" | June 3, 2020 | N/A |
11 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Wild Wild Josh" | June 17, 2020 | N/A |
12 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Show Me the Mummy" | June 24, 2020 | N/A |
13 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Mother Russia" | July 1, 2020 | N/A |
14 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Gold Digging Josh" | July 8, 2020 | N/A |
15 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Back From Outer Space" | July 15, 2020 | N/A |
16 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Like, Totally Josh" | July 22, 2020 | N/A |
17 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Game, Set, Josh" | August 20, 2020 | N/A |
18 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Alive" | August 27, 2020 | N/A |
19 | "Josh Gates Tonight: No Fear of Heists" | September 2, 2020 | N/A |
20 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Josh's Monster Mash" | September 9, 2020 | N/A |
21 | "Josh Gates Tonight: A Spot of Josh" | September 16, 2020 | N/A |
22 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Sherlock Josh" | September 23, 2020 | N/A |
23 | "Josh Gates Tonight: King Me!" | September 30, 2020 | N/A |
Josh Gates Tonight: Shark Week (2020)
No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) |
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SW1 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Shark Week" | August 9, 2020 | N/A |
SW2 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Shark Week: Totally Jaw-Some" | August 10, 2020 | N/A |
SW3 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Shark Week: Some-Fin Special" | August 11, 2020 | N/A |
SW4 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Shark Week: The Gill Of It All" | August 12, 2020 | N/A |
SW5 | "Josh Gates Tonight: Shark Week: Are We Having Fin Yet?" | August 13, 2020 | N/A |
Expedition X
On January 15, 2020, it was announced that a spinoff series titled Expedition X would premiere on February 12, 2020.[7] While Josh Gates was hosting Josh Gates Tonight in summer 2020, his regular camera crew were filming episodes of Expedition X after the initial 2020 COVID-19 lockdown cleared.[8]
On October 31, 2020, it was announced that the second season will premiere on November 11, 2020.[114]
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External links
- Travel Channel: Official website
- Discovery Channel: Official website
- Expedition Unknown at IMDb
- Expedition Unknown at TV.com
- Expedition Unknown at TV Guide