The Story Behind the Story With Mike Rowe

Hedy Lamar, known to the public only for her sensational beauty, creates the technology that makes our modern lives possible.

In the middle of a baseball game, the newswire giving radio broadcasters the play-by-play goes down. So, the radio broadcaster, Ronald Reagan, makes up foul ball after foul ball while he waits on the signal to be resorted.

Fred was tasked to create a potato chip that wouldn’t turn to crumbles in the bottom of a bag after shipping. Instead, he created a completely new package design and molded the iconic chip to fit it.

Small town girl, Peg Entwhistle, failed on Broadway and went to Hollywood to pursue her dreams. Her one movie bombed so she goes to the biggest name in town to have it out once and for all.

During the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Bank of America founder, Amadeo Giannini, made a deal on a handshake with a garbage man to hire his son in the future that changes the course of history.

Allen Hale Jr's odyssey to an audition that would change his life forever and give him a role in one of the most syndicated shows of all time.