Thank you for finding these shows! I haven't seen them since I was 7 or 8 years old and they used to scare the heck out of me then. Since that time I have been forever interested in natural disasters.
Great video. My parents met in SanSebastiano during the war. They were married here in the USA a few years later. Dad told me they would cook food on the lava during that eruption. I have a copy of STARS AND STRIPES where the headline reads....'Vesuvius awakens to greet his American friend's Thanks for this upload.
Who ever you are, THANKS for posting these shows! Just like post below, the show scared and fascinated me - the 'havoc' music stayed with me all these years. Up here in Canada most people don't recall this show - believe it was shown out of Buffalo NY on PBS WNED. THANKS AGAIN!
+Ranger32b You are welcome. I was 8 years old in 1978 when my father recorded these. We lived in NW Indiana at the time, and these were shown on PBS out of Chicago. I was happy the tapes still played after 37 years.
Thank you for finding these shows! I haven't seen them since I was 7 or 8 years old and they used to scare the heck out of me then. Since that time I have been forever interested in natural disasters.
Your channel is kick ass, thanks for this, ESPECIALLY This series. Love it!
Great video. My parents met in SanSebastiano during the war. They were married here in the USA a few years later. Dad told me they would cook food on the lava during that eruption. I have a copy of STARS AND STRIPES where the headline reads....'Vesuvius awakens to greet his American friend's
Thanks for this upload.
You know, watching this, I can't help but think how different it would have been if they'd made this episode just three years later...
That story wouldn't be as entertaining. A few campers and Harry Truman.
Who ever you are, THANKS for posting these shows! Just like post below, the show scared and fascinated me - the 'havoc' music stayed with me all these years. Up here in Canada most people don't recall this show - believe it was shown out of Buffalo NY on PBS WNED. THANKS AGAIN!
+Ranger32b You are welcome. I was 8 years old in 1978 when my father recorded these. We lived in NW Indiana at the time, and these were shown on PBS out of Chicago. I was happy the tapes still played after 37 years.
Those were the days when PBS was educational, informative, and not pushing an agenda; tax dollars well spent. Can't say the same today by a long shot.
So glad to see these shows again! Haven't seen them since 1978.
Douglas Bell. Great old shows!
I wish this show would of gotten a chance in prime time in its day
That awkward moment when you discover that prayer won't hold back a lava flow... but seawater pumped through fire hoses WILL.
it looked like hell's gates
That intro from Beethoven’s Fifth is frightening as heck.
St. Pierre the ' Pompeii of martinique'