Did anyone else watch that Dogfights show on the History Channel? That show was great and it seems like they ended the show when they have material for several more seasons. They have every war since WW1 to get stories from!
History Channel - Dogfights, why aren't there new shows?
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It's the same reason they won't make anymore of the 360 CG WW2 shows. it's cheaper to send camera crews following white trash cutting wood in the mountains, digging for gold in alaska and nearly killing themselves (yeah i know that's discovery channel but same company and mentality) and hunting gators in the bayou. Sadly quality shows like that can't win against the same viewers who wanted Wrestling on scifi.
They did a little of that, but they could add more. I do remember one where they showed a Luftwaffe pilot shooting up a P-47. He would fire and then fly up beside it because it wasn't going down. He repeated that several times until he expended all his ammo with the P-47 still flying, then flew alongside, dipped his wing and flew off. :lol
yt
Sr Member
SO TRUE!! :thumbsup
+1 :thumbsup Wouldn't surprise me if some moron thought that's what the series was about.
Solo4114
Master Member
This.
The specialty stations of the 90s are dying. Or dead already, depending on one's perspective.
My advice: if you're REALLY interested in history, check out The Teaching Company. This is a company that records college level lectures (with audio-visual aids, so it's not JUST the professor speaking at you for hours) on a variety of courses. So far, I've done courses on the early, high, and late middle ages, the crusades, WWI, a diplomatic history of Europe from 1500-2000, the 19th century in Europe, and I'm wrapping up a course on war and its effects on history, which will be followed by a course on Henry VIII and Tudor England.
You can buy the DVDs (which is what I do), and rip 'em to your MP3 player, or just download the much cheaper MP3s and listen to 'em on a run or while you're cooking or whatever. Good stuff, and FAR better than the crap the History Channel produces.
:lol :thumbsup
The last college history professor I had tried to tell us that when Pearl Harbor was attacked Japan missed (as in the bombs missed) our carriers and they got away... I raised my hand and said "Uh, no the carriers were at sea, that's why they got away." I wish I could have walked out, but that would have been expensive. :wacko
Why no new shows?
It was good, it was actual history, they talked to the actual guys, it showed that history and reality is ten times more amazing then pseudo made up history crap.
Therefore it had no place on the History Channel.
Time for ghosts, Nostradamus and UFO shows!
It was good, it was actual history, they talked to the actual guys, it showed that history and reality is ten times more amazing then pseudo made up history crap.
Therefore it had no place on the History Channel.
Time for ghosts, Nostradamus and UFO shows!
Gigatron
Sr Member
I loved DogFights - it's what inspired me to get back into modeling after a 20 year hiatus. Specifically, it was the HellCat vs. Zero episode, which may have been the first one. After that episode, I jumped online and purchased a 1/32 F6F-5 HellCat and a 1/32 A6M5 Type 52 Zero. After that, whenever I saw a plane that really interested me, I would build a kit of it.
I would love to see more, new episodes of that show.
-Fred
I would love to see more, new episodes of that show.
-Fred
Commander Max
Sr Member
Oh boy, more shows about something that isn't there.
That makes me glad I got rid of satellite. I'll bet the Direct TV dish could be turned into a cool prop.
Actually....:rolleyes I had to explain this to my current girlfriend when she was texting me while I was watching the 2nd season of Dogfights. In truth it was the P-47 episode already mentioned. I had read that account years ago in an anthology Stephen Coonts put together of biographies and autos from many aces.
I loved the show, I really wished there would have been more episodes from all points of view, not sure how it would go over but I'd loved to have seen an episode on Pearl Harbor from the Val and Zero pilots prespective, or a Luftwaffe pilot in the Battle of Britain.
I saw that too. Normally I like his stuff but i think it's basically another version of dirty jobs or something like that. Yep i just looked at it. They're picking out the strangest jobs and hobbies in America for him to try so its basically Dirty jobs that even mike rowe wouldn't do lol
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