James Lurie
Himself - Narrator
Forgotten Planet (2011)
Season 1
Fogotten Planet takes you to places forgotten by time eerie locations that once hummed with activity and now are desolate. Enter the eerie emptiness of the city of Chernobyl, walk the halls and streets of abandoned Hashima Island, the Old West ghost town of Bodie, the transplanted German village of Kolmanskop - abandoned in the Namibian desert. What happens when humans abandon a place?
Released Jan. 1, 2011
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.ghost-town, tmdb.abandoned
Production Companies: Flight 33 Productions
Network: 3net
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Pripyat/Picher
The story of two cities abandoned by the industrial disasters. Pripyat, Ukraine, is the closest city to Chernobyl, the world's worst nuclear disaster. Picher, Oklahoma, a center for lead and zinc mining, is one the most toxic towns in America.
Feb. 13, 2011, midnight
S1E2 - Bodie/Namibia
Diamonds and gold lured people to very inhospitable places. In Africa's Namibian desert, German miners built European towns in a sand-blasted hell. On the treeless high Sierras of California, gold-rush era miners carved a city miles from civilization.
March 2, 2011, midnight
S1E3 - Balestrino/Hunters Point
As it fell apart around them, the residents of Balestrino abandoned their homes in the medieval town once ruled by a murderous Marquis. At Hunters Point, San Francisco, the massive industrial spaces succumb to an invasion by the forces of nature.
April 1, 2011, midnight
S1E4 - Salton Sea/Weston
Once hailed it as the next Palm Springs, Salton Sea is now populated only with decaying vacation homes and dead fish carcasses. West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum stands empty – but it’s filled with dark secrets.
April 8, 2011, midnight
S1E5 - Chile/Detroit
High in Chile’s Altacama Desert, the eerie remains of Humberstone and Santa Laura evoke the glory days of South America’s nitrate mining era, while Detroit’s shattered factories and abandoned neighborhoods stand a stark warning for post-industrial man.
April 15, 2011, midnight
S1E6 - Hashima/Gary
Hashima, Japan, is a coal-mining island that was once the most populated city on Earth and is now a decaying hulk filled with rubble in the middle of the sea. Gary, Indiana was built on steel, but hard times turned the downtown into an urban wasteland.
April 22, 2011, midnight
Network: 3net
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: Jan. 1, 2011
Last Air Date: April 22, 2011, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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