Antiques Roadshow Detours
By GBH
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Ever wondered what happens to the treasures featured on America’s beloved ANTIQUES ROADSHOW after the cameras leave town? ANTIQUES ROADSHOW DETOURS tracks down the juicy afterlives of your favorite finds from PBS’s hit series. Hosted by longtime Roadshow producer Adam Monahan, this podcast dives deep into mysteries, secrets, and surprises as each episode takes a thrilling “detour” into a single ROADSHOW object, astonishing and amusing listeners with every turn. A production of GBH and distributed by PRX.
Antiques Roadshow is a trademark of the BBC and Detours is a trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation.
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Encore: A Soldier for Sale
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Encore: David and the Two Lamps
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Encore: That Time the FBI Called
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Encore: The King of Fakes Gets Faked
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Encore: Skippy the Hero Dog
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Encore: Six Touchdowns and a Song
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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On Top of the World
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Standing the Test of Time
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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One of a Kind
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Elvis Tries to Leave the Building
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Treasure from the Trash Heap
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May 12, 2025 |
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The Case of the Folk Art Forgers
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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The Most Dangerous Book
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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A Fact Re-Checked
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Antiques Roadshow Detours Season 6 Trailer
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame - How the Boston Red Sox, Babe Ruth and the long-forgotten Bunker Hill Brewery combined to make one homerun of a calendar!
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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The Poster Boy Takes a Dive – How an 1890s waterpark, the power of Victorian-era advertising and one man’s unlimited dreams culminated in drama at the auction block in 2023
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Skippy the Hero Dog – How the story of a kidnapped baby, a spunky hero dog and today’s TikTok fans came together to determine the true value of a tattered Dog of the Year award.
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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The First Japanese American -- How a story involving sailors lost at sea, 1850s San Francisco, and a Japanese teenager’s quest to build a new life connected two strangers more than a century later.
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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The Unsinkable Titanic Biscuit – An epic shipwreck continues to fascinate a century later creating a collector’s market for Titanic memorabilia that thrives today.
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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The Bob Ross Appreciation Society – How the US Air Force, fluffy clouds and the power of PBS combined to create a pop culture icon and paintings worth mountains of money.
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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To Bean or Not to Bean—How an unexplored mention of personal turmoil spurs a look into the short but impactful life of Keith Haring: famous pop artist, trailblazing activist, friend to Andy Warhol and Madonna, and beloved brother.
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Spilling the Secret Sauce – How a chatty event volunteer discovered an uncanny connection involving the U.S military, World War II airborne warfare and an elite military unit so secret that it was kept classified until the 1980s.
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Yacht What it Looks Like – An unsigned maritime masterpiece of a yacht race, a 19th-century pastime of the idle rich, takes DETOURS to visit appraisers, auction experts and the Peabody Essex Museum as the mystery of the painter’s identity is revealed.
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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The Barbie Boost? – How a pioneering Mattel designer created a superstar sensation and how a recent No. 1 Barbie’s sale defined the doll’s new moment.
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Billy the Kid? – How the notorious Wild West outlaw is still a “wanted” man, and why everyone—even National Geographic—is interested in getting to the bottom of the authenticity of his image
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Breaking the Ice – the story of how Whirlpool’s Miracle Kitchen traveled to Russia and ignited a frosty debate between two superpowers
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Seeing the Bigger Picture
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Byrd Flies South – how The New York Times, Wrigley’s, Paramount Pictures, and other early 20th century icons helped to usher in the age of the personal brand
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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All that Glitters - Gold ingots, retrieved from the ocean floor and appraised on America’s favorite antiques show back in 1999 are now the subject of an international investigation.
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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To Utah Beach and Back – How a World War II helmet revealed a Naval hero in Normandy and the memorial efforts across two countries to document this veteran’s story.
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May 29, 2023 |
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Good Grief – A Charles Schulz comic strip collection (and its owner) gets a Hallmark-moment
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Theresa's Choice – When an inherited piece of New Orleans Art Pottery is appraised for thousands, does it still pay to keep it in the family?
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Do you Believe in Magic? - 1990's trading cards worth the price of a car
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Is This a Letdown? - How a Galileo forgery found at the University of Michigan led to a historical hunt for answers
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Six Touchdowns and a Song - The epic appraisal and auction of an NFL legend's jersey
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Cowboy Jim's Big Gamble - does a test on a red diamond ring reveal big money jewelry or big disappointment?
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Let's Get Naked
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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The Boy in the Bottle
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Man vs. Rat vs. Conscience
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Very Truly Yours, Frank Sinatra
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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A Bronze in the Haystack
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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A Reappraisal
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Mo's Mystery Bust
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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If it’s Brown it’s Down
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Whose Club Is It?
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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A Life in Miniature
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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The Roadshow Kids... Where Are They Now?
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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David and the Two Lamps
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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When Appraisers Get it Wrong
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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The Rolex Effect
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Carolyn’s Next Chapter
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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The Case of the Missing Panels
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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That Time the FBI Called
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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The King of Fakes Gets Faked
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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A Soldier for Sale
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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The Hardest Fact I Ever Checked
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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A Show About a Show About Old Stuff
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Aug 31, 2020 |