In Search of...
The Money Pit Mystery (aka Captain Kidd)
TV Flash files “The Money Pit Mystery (aka Captain Kidd)” as hour 64 of 152 in the TV Flash guide — In Search of... (1977–1982) on Syndicated, season 3, episode 16, aired 1979-01-18, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E16: listed hour 64 of 152 in the In Search of... guide, hour 16 of 24 in season 3. It aired 1979-01-18 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Animal ESP” (S03E15). Next is “Psychic Sea Hunt” (S03E17).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Was a secret treasure buried on Oak Island off the coast of Nova Scotia? This episode examines the possibilities that it was and also covers some of the searches for it.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Money Pit Mystery (aka Captain Kidd) sit in the In Search of... guide?
S03E16 is listed hour 64 of 152 — hour 16 of 24 in season 3, season 3 episode 16.
When did In Search of... S03E16 air?
The Money Pit Mystery (aka Captain Kidd) aired 1979-01-18 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.
In the series
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.
The voice arrives before the hypothesis. Syndicated, 1977–1982 in the best-known version: Alan Landsburg's In Search of... puts Leonard Nimoy in the host/narrator chair covering UFOs, cryptids, lost civilizations, and conspiracies with serious tone and eerie synths. Spock-grade calm lending gravitas to wild hypotheses. Bigfoot, Atlantis, every late-night rabbit hole. Grainy reenactments. Occult-chic 1970s meeting proto-cable mystery television. Aesthetic ancestor of countless paranormal docuseries. **They were…
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