These were definitely based in history, but they definitely played some things up for TV entertainment. Like suspense of finding something, then cutting to commercial. The closest I can think of in modern times might be Expedition Unknown (on Discovery), but if that were live and on NBC. I wish I could think of what they might have been called, this was early 90s.
There was a show on discovery for a while that followed some preppers. Watched the first season. Some of the stuff that the people did was cool, but some of the other things was a little out there for me
There is a dramatic series made just for WGN-TV called Manhattan. Its about life in Los Alamos during the bomb development times. Its about spies, counter-spies, bored horny housewives and bomb development. it was more interesting in the beginning, but has bogged down in subplots.
Maybe we should have TV shows like this, I can't help but feel anything that gets the general public a bit more aware about how this stuff really works and makes them more suspicious about "bad" practices is a net win. Not to mention that if it had some pretty good writers it would make for quite compelling TV. I'm thinking something in the Crime genre, maybe like CSI?
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