In Search of...
Butch Cassidy
TV Flash files “Butch Cassidy” as hour 45 of 152 in the TV Flash guide — In Search of... (1977–1982) on Syndicated, season 2, episode 21, aired 1978-05-04, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E21: listed hour 45 of 152 in the In Search of... guide, hour 21 of 24 in season 2. It aired 1978-05-04 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Haunted Castles” (S02E20). Next is “Deadly Ants” (S02E22).
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Butch Cassidy: Examines the possibility that Butch Cassidy was not killed in Bolivia along with the Sundance Kid, but actually lived a full life and died peacefully in 1937.
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Where does Butch Cassidy sit in the In Search of... guide?
S02E21 is listed hour 45 of 152 — hour 21 of 24 in season 2, season 2 episode 21.
When did In Search of... S02E21 air?
Butch Cassidy aired 1978-05-04 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is this a skeptical documentary?
It investigates with serious tone and does not require a closed answer. Nimoy's calm is the gravitas; the hypothesis can stay open.
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Why this series still plays
Leonard Nimoy narrates Bigfoot, Atlantis, and every late-night rabbit hole with Spock-grade calm. Syndicated paranormal documentary as mass habit, occult-chic 1970s meeting proto-cable mystery television. The voice, the grainy reenactments, and the pleasure of a hypothesis that never has to close.
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