| World's Most Amazing Videos | |
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| Genre | Reality television Clip show |
| Created by | Bruce Nash |
| Voices of | Don LaFontaine (announcer) |
| Narrated by | Stacy Keach (1999–2007) Erik Thompson (2008) |
| Theme music composer | Shawn K. Clement |
| Composer | Shawn K. Clement |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 65 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Andrew Jebb Bruce Nash Robyn Nash Debra Weeks |
| Running time | 42 minutes (without commercials) |
| Production companies | Nash Entertainment NBC Studios |
| Original release | |
| Network | |
| Release | March 3, 1999 (1999-03-03) – March 28, 2008 (2008-03-28) |
World's Most Amazing Videos is an Americanreality television series that ran onNBC from March 3, 1999, until 2001, as afiller program when other shows were cancelled and later revived onSpike TV from 2006 until 2008.
The show showcasesaccidents,disasters,police chases and other extraordinary events that were caught onvideo camera.
Until 2007, all episodes of the show were narrated byStacy Keach. From that point on, the season was narrated byErik Thompson. The show was broadcast in the United Kingdom onBravo andChannel One, in which David Wartnaby served as the narrator of the first season followed byLee Boardman in the second season of broadcast and was expected to return in 2012. In Australia, it is shown on the pay-TV channelFox8. The series was given its own local name titledGlobal Shockers in thePhilippines that was aired onABC-5 (now known as TV5) from 2006 until 2007 and was hosted byJohnny Delgado, but upon cancellation of the former, this series was officially aired in its original title in 2008 until 2011 viaRPN (under its interim blocktimer "Suspense Shift" viaSolar Entertainment Corporation owned-C/S 9 (from 2008 until 2009) and carried over toSolar TV (from 2009 until 2011), now known asRPTV).
The fifth and final season changed the format; instead of multiple random clips in one episode, each episode now focuses on a certain theme.
These videos normally show anybody involved in these aforementioned incidents surviving nonetheless. Although it is similar in content to other series likeReal TV,World's Wildest Police Videos,Maximum Exposure,Most Shocking,Most Daring,Shockwave andDestroyed in Seconds, it took a more serious tone. The clips contain dangerous disasters, daring rescues, fights, amateur sports, robberies, animal attacks, and car accidents.
All of the older episodes ofWorld's Most Amazing Videos (NBC version run only) were re-aired onSpike TV from 2005 to 2008. A new series of episodes of the show were created in 2006 first-run forSpike, after a six-year hiatus from the NBC stint.[1] The show was re-aired onCMT from 2009 to 2010, in Spanish onTelemundo asVideos Asombrosos until the late 2010s andChiller from 2016 to 2017. The series aired reruns onReelz, but the first 12 episodes premiered from November 7, 2023 to December 5, 2023. The next three episodes aired on May 20, 2024. The next two episodes of season 2 aired on June 17, 2024.
Since the closure ofBravo andChannel One in January 2011, the series has not aired on any other UK TV channels. Due to this, the UK-voiced variant of the series has mostly becomelost media.
From 1999 until 2000,Trimark Home Video (under the label NBC Home Video) released 13 episodes of the first season of the original NBC version of the show in six volumes onVHS.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
On November 4, 2008,Universal Studios Home Entertainment releasedWorld's Most Amazing Videos: Volume One that features the first five episodes of the 2006 revival version (Season 3) onDVD inRegion 1.[8]
