| Urban Legends | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Michael Allcock |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 45 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Simon Lloyd Sam Linton Katherine Buck |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Biography Channel History Television |
| Original run | June 18, 2007 – present |
Urban Legends is a 30 minute 2007 television documentary-style series hosted by Michael Allcock. In each episode, three urban legends are dramatized and presented to the television audience; the audience is then to speculate which one or two of the three is true. Each legend has witnesses to tell the story. For the one or two fake legends, the witnesses are actors, while the true legend(s) uses real people affected by the story. Included in each episode are two quick quiz-like stories, called mini-myths, which air before the commercial breaks. Each will begin with the number of the mini myth and its name, followed by the story. After the commercial, the answer to the mini-myth is announced and the rest of the programming continues as it previously had. The show originally aired on the Biography Channel in the U.S., History Television in Canada and FX in the United Kingdom where it was hosted by Mark Dolan. It has also aired in Argentina, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, Australia, Finland, Estonia, The Netherlands, and Russia.
The series returned to the Syfy network as an "Original Series" with new episodes on Monday April 18, 2011, then moved to a new time, Fridays at 10. The new episodes follow the exact same format as the original but are now narrated by Stargate's David Hewlett. The network also airs a rerun of the original version of the show following the new episode.
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