It’s a miracle any of us survived the great ol’ days — and this new eight-part collection, government produced and hosted by Joyful Days star Henry Winkler, proves it. Hazardous Historical past With Henry Winkler (Sundays at 10pm ET/PT, starting June 15 on HISTORY) appears to be like on the toys, hobbies, meals, merchandise, amusements and extra that appeared like actually good concepts on the time, however turned out to be harmful or outright lethal.
“It’s fascinating that each one this creativeness was put out into the world, after which the world realized, ‘Wait a minute. We’re not taking good care of our inhabitants. We’re not taking good care of the youngsters,’” Winkler says. “The historical past of it’s wonderful. The information about it are wonderful. And the ‘Oh wow, what have been they considering?’ portion of it’s wonderful.”