''World's Most Amazing Videos'' is an American

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series that ran on

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from March 3, 1999, until 2001, as a filler program when other shows were cancelled and later revived on

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from 2006 until 2008. The show showcases

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s, police chases and other extraordinary events that were caught on

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. Until 2007, all episodes of the show were narrated by

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. From that point on, the season was narrated by

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. The show was broadcast in the United Kingdom on

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and Channel One, in which David Wartnaby served as the narrator of the first season followed by

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in the second season of broadcast and was expected to return in 2012. In Australia, it is shown on the pay-TV channel Fox8. The series was given its own local name titled ''Global Shockers'' in the

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that was aired on

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(now known as TV5) from 2006 until 2007 and was hosted by Johnny Delgado, but upon cancellation of the former, this series was officially aired in its original title in 2008 until 2011 via RPN (under its interim blocktimer "''Suspense Shift''" via

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owned- C/S 9 (from 2008 until 2009) and carried over to

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(from 2009 until 2011), now known as RPTV). The fifth and final season changed the format; instead of multiple random clips in one episode, each episode now focuses on a certain theme.

Synopsis

These videos normally show anybody involved in these aforementioned incidents surviving nonetheless. Although it is similar in content to other series like '' Real TV'', ''

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'', '' Maximum Exposure'', '' Most Shocking'', '' Most Daring'', ''

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'' and '' Destroyed in Seconds'', it took a more serious tone. The clips contain dangerous disasters, daring rescues, fights, amateur sports, robberies, animal attacks, and car accidents.

Syndication and revival

All of the older episodes of World's Most Amazing Videos (NBC version run only) were re-aired on

from 2005 to 2008. A new series of episodes of the show were created in 2006 first-run for Spike, after a six-year hiatus from the NBC stint. The show was re-aired on CMT from 2009 to 2010, in Spanish on

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as ''Videos Asombrosos'' until the late 2010s and

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from 2016 to 2017. The series aired reruns on

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, 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 of

and Channel 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 become

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Home media releases

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 on

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. On November 4, 2008,

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released ''World's Most Amazing Videos: Volume One'' that features the first five episodes of the 2006 revival version (Season 3) on

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in Region 1.

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Synopsis

Syndication and revival

Home media releases

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