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Amaze friends, family and total strangers alike with your dominance of history -- past, present and future; the prominent, esoteric and obscure.
So you think you know history? We’ll see about that!
The ‘Closer in Time’ series takes a unique approach to history -- reminding us that our sense of time and progress can often be at odds with the actual facts. Did you know that Mick Jagger’s birth was closer to Abe Lincoln’s assassination than to the release of The Stones latest album? Or that we’re closer in time to Cleopatra than she was to the building of the Giza Pyramid?
By making seemingly odd comparisons, the series provides a new way to look at our place in history. Whether you’re a history buff, a fan of offbeat trivia, or just someone who wants to understand the Simpsons in a new context, these brief but informative episodes are an engaging way to spend your own precious time!
During season, new episodes air the 2nd and 4th Friday of every month, 5:00pm Pacific Time.
C i T Season 3
S3 E1 (2025-08-22)
Season 3 premiere! A Tale of Tales of Three: Three Amigos, Three Stooges & The Three Musketeers
C i T Season 2
S2 E16, Season 2 Finale, (2025-04-11)
(Fad) Diets! Luigi Cornaro, Zepbound
S2 E15 (2025-03-28)
(Fad) Diets! Lord Byron, Lulu Hunt Peters, John Harvey Kellogg, Audrey Eyton + much much more!
S2 E14 (2025-03-14)
The Code of Hammurabi, Code of Ur-Nammu, Pax Romana + more!
S2 E13 (2025-02-28)
The U.S. Constitution, The Magna Carta, The Pax Romana
S2 E12 (2025-02-14)
Timelines of Modern Valentine's Day, Saint Valentine, Venus of Hohle Fels + more!
S2 E11 (2025-01-24)
Timelines of Paul McCartney, Prince Albert, Manchester City FC, Princess Victoria + more!
S2 E10 (2025-01-10)
Timelines of That 70s Show, That 90s Show, Happy Days + more!
S2 E9 (2024-12-27)
Timelines of This Is Spinal Tap, actual spinal tap, first commercial antibiotics + more!
S2 E8 (2024-12-13)
Timelines of the formation of Bananarama and their album Glorious: The Ultimate Collection + more!
S2 E7 (2024-11-22)
Timelines of World Banana Forum at Fruit Attraction 2024, propaganda short ‘Why The Kremlin Hates Bananas’, Founding of Chiquita Banana + more!
S2 E6 (2024-11-08)
Timelines of Woody Allen’s Bananas, Juan Jose Dominguez in Bananas!*, World Banana Forum and Yes! We Have No Bananas
S2 E5 (2024-10-25)
Timelines of Josephine Baker’s banana skirt, Coach McGuirk’s Chiquita tattoo, Miss Chiquita Banana, United Fruit Company + more!
S2 E4 (2024-10-01)
Timelines of Jimmy Carter, Thomas Jefferson, and Centennial Birthdays
S2 E3 (2024-09-27)
Timelines of Banana Land, Blood, Bullets and Poison, musical Bananaland, ESPN’s Bananaland, Jack Johnson’s song Banana Pancakes + more!
S2 E2 (2024-09-13)
Timelines of Machiavelli’s The Prince, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War + more!
S2 E1 (2024-08-23)
Season 2 premiere! Timelines of Queen Nefertiti, Pharaoh Akhenaten, Sumerian civilization, Gobekli Tepe
C i T Season 1
S1 E16 (2024-04-12)
Season 1 finale! Timelines of the Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia, Giuseppe Maria Bonaparte I + more!
S1 E15 (2024-03-22)
Timelines of Jean Landis and the WASP, Thaddeus Lowe and the US Army Balloon Corps, Elisabeth Thible, first ever woman aeronaut + much more!
S1 E14 (2024-03-08)
Timelines of the first electric car, Tesla Roadster, GM EV1 + much more!
S1 E13 (2024-02-23)
Timelines of John Gorrie and the ‘Ice Wars’, Carta Marina, very early ice skating + more.
S1 E12 (2024-02-09)
Timelines of early and modern ice hockey, Lidwina’s Fall + much more!
S1 E11 (2024-01-26)
Timelines of Interstellar Space Travel, Wright Flyer and more.
S1 E10 (2024-01-12)
Timelines of Collective Soul, Soul Train and lots more.
S1 E9 (2023-12-22)
Timelines of the development of geometry, algebra and more.
S1 E8 (2023-12-08)
Timelines of Attila The Hun, Glenn Miller’s Tomorrow’s Another Day and more.
S1 E7 (2023-11-24)
Timelines of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the movie Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and much more.
S1 E6 (2023-11-10)
Timelines of ZAO, ZOA, Ausso, and more.
S1 E5 (2023-10-27)
Timelines of Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds, The First World Series + much more.
S1 E4 (2023-10-13)
Timelines of Woodstock and more.
S1 E3 (2023-09-22)
Timelines of The Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Stegosaurus and more.
S1 E2 (2023-09-08)
Timelines of The Simpsons, Eisenhower, and lots more!
S1 E1 (Pilot) (2023-08-25)
Timelines of The Great Pyramid of Giza, Cleopatra, Caesar Augustus, and more!
C i T Special Editions
‘Viewers Choice’ Best of 2024 Compilation (2024-12-31)
Welcome 2025!
Relive some of your favorite Closer in Time moments from 2024!
‘Viewers Choice’ Best of 2023 Compilation (2024-01-01)
Welcome 2024!
Relive some of your favorite Closer in Time moments from 2023!