The Darkest Moments in TV History

foreign [Music] it was a typical day in the world of daytime television infomercials soap operas and highly scripted legal shows filled viewer screens with one of the more popular at the time being a program called Christina's Court in Christina's Court the show centered around a woman named Christina Perez giving counsel and advice to those wrapped up in legal drama and on this particular morning comedian Sean Harris would be featured filing suit against his ex-girlfriend in the hopes of recouping unpaid rent every month it would be something different you know like what I had this month because I had to do this or that and I'm like man so you let her go nine months without penguin no like I said these shows were very obviously scripted at least to some degree and with Sean himself being a professional comedian it led to countless funny moments and what turned out to be one of the show's more iconic episodes with by far the most memorable moment coming at the very end when when things seem to deviate from the script constantly like a challenge people love they yell at each other I don't know he looked mad [Music] Ness [Applause] [Music] here we see the comedian take aim at Christina's bailiff a man named Renard Spivey who was an integral part of the show being the judge's sidekick for years and years though it wasn't often that he found himself at the end of a joke like this as Sean suggests that Renard looked unhappy when it was revealed that he had been married for over 27 years he's very happy okay all right let's get back to the queen all in all it made for a rather Charming moment with viewers adoring the lighthearted jab aimed at one of the show's most beloved characters [Applause] though no one could have known at the time just how true that joke about his happy marriage turn out to be still developing tonight A Harris County Sheriff's deputy facing serious charges 63-year-old Renard Spivey accused of killing his wife 52 year old Patricia Spivey after an argument that turned deadly KPRC Channel 2's Bill Barajas on July 28 2019 over a decade after the aforementioned program aired Reynard Spivey was confronted by his wife Patricia about what she believed to be steroid use or perhaps even infidelity and in the midst of this heated argument Spivey would draw his gun and shoot his wife once in the arm and then in the chest shortly after police would find her lifeless body crumpled in their bedroom closet now after years and years of taking part in this once famed legal show Spivey can be found alone in his prison cell where he'll likely remain for the next 14 years of his life for murdering the woman that he was so happily married to Turning what was once one of Christina's Court's most iconic moments into one of the darkest examples of irony in all of television history when you find a good woman you've got hang on for dear life because then it's hard to find another one so my advice as a happy woman married woman before we get any further 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this day was set to feature a game show like segment in the remote rice fields of takachi hocho the game itself was simple competitors stood back to back on a small wooden stand above the shallow muddy water below and when given the queue they would attempt to shove their opponent into the water without turning their bodies around in the end and the one left standing on the platform would be declared the winner with a loser being left humiliated in the mud [Music] [Applause] [Music] one goes off without a hitch resulting in the losing contestant being covered head to toe in a thick brown sludge with the whole atmosphere perfectly encapsulating the craziness and high energy charm that you would expect from a Japanese game show made at the time and so far everything was all in good fun with this excitement only escalating as the contestants convinced one of the show's hosts a man named tasuchi yanagida to join in on the competition it took some convincing but eventually tetsuchi agrees to compete much to the enjoyment of everyone spectating and from there the comedy writes itself as immediately after the round starts it's apparent that he stood little to no chance foreign instantly losing his balance tasuki reacts in a split second and dives off the platform Landing head first into the muddy water below which causes his body to fall limp the water that he had just dove into was merely six inches deep with the rest consisting of a thick layer of mud which his head would strike directly instantly causing his neck to break and in that very moment tatsuchi would be irreversibly paralyzed leaving him unable to move from the neck down it was a tragic accident however the accident itself is far from the most awful part of this live broadcast with that coming immediately after unaware of tesucci's severe injury the crew believed that he was merely playing a prank on them and just joking around and so they left him there face first in the water and proceeded to shove his face even deeper and deeper into the mud splashing even more on top of his head to rub in the fact that he had lost [Applause] come on they had no idea that during their Antics hisuchi was in a desperate fight for survival as in those six inches of water he was slowly drowning and completely unable to pick up his head to breathe this lasts for an excruciatingly long 15 seconds before they begin to Bob his head up and down and eventually pull tasuchi's face out of the water but this reprieve was short-lived as the contestants proceed to drop him back into the mud face first [Music] it is so incredibly painful to watch and made all the more disturbing with the over-the-top hysterical laughter coming from everyone around him who are completely oblivious to the situation in front of them finally after what feels like in eternity tsuchi is hoisted above the water and the camera switched back to the main broadcast ending both tesucci's and the viewers Pain by some stroke of Good Fortune tsuchi would survive the ordeal but just barely as it's estimated that even just a few more seconds in that mud would have likely led to his death but thankfully this wasn't the case and according to his Facebook page tasuchi has learned to live with his body-wide paralysis and even went on to rejoin the show years later in some capacity ending the century off on somewhat of a bright spot despite this otherwise being one of the more unsettling and appalling broadcast accidents than I've ever seen had been in a coma for the previous on the topic of broadcasts that have left an impression on my life I would say none have had more of an emotional impact than a story run by 60 Minutes about a man named Donald Herbert the story starts back in 1995 just four days after Christmas when a fire broke out in a home in Buffalo New York in an attempt to put out the blaze firefighter Donald Herbert was standing on the roof of the building when suddenly it gave way as a result Herbert would fall into the attic where he would be trapped in the Smoke unable to breathe he would lay there without oxygen for six whole minutes before they finally were able to pull his body to safety with a whole ordeal being filmed and shown on local news somehow Herbert managed to survive this accident but being without air for that long caused him to lose most of his brain function leading to him spending the following years in a minimally conscious State unable to eat unable to breathe and seemingly unable to understand the world around him eventually his condition led to him being placed in a nursing home where a feeding tube was the only thing keeping him alive for all intents and purposes the man was gone but then something happened on April 20th 2005 a staggering nine and a half years after his accident Donald Herbert woke up in the nursing home where he had spent most of the years unresponsive he would suddenly turn to a nurse and ask for his wife Linda while displaying signs of being fully Lucid which prompted the staff to immediately call his family who rushed to see him and sure enough despite Herbert being completely blind he was not only fully responsive but recognized almost all of his family members the moments following were all captured by cameras and later shown on an episode of 60 minutes with the footage being some of the hardest hitting and emotional that I've personally ever seen [Music] Halloween quite a while quite a while oh 10. 10 years the pain in discovering that he had been gone for 10 years all that time missed robbed from a man who was just doing his job is indescribably gut-wrenching but it's what happens after this footage that proves to be the most upsetting part for nearly 16 hours the newly awakened man spoke with his family catching up on every little detail that he had missed and though from that point on he had moments going in and out of his Lucidity his long-term prognosis actually seemed hopeful throughout the next few weeks Donald was surrounded by family members at all times not only to take advantage of every single second that Herbert was awake but also for his own safety as well as sense his Awakening he would thrash violently in his sleep as if he still believed he was trapped in that Blaze and so to ensure his safety at least one family member would be stationed with a man while he slept though on one night one of the family members on duty had grown too exhausted to stay any longer and from the first time since he became Lucid Donald Herbert was left alone and during that night he would again start to thrash violently with Herbert flailing so hard that he would fall out of his bed and strike his head against the floor causing his brain to start bleeding from that moment on Donald Herbert would never become Lucid again and as a result of his injuries he would pass away one year later from pneumonia [Music] if anyone had ever thought that such a horrendous thing Could Happen obviously we would have stopped The Twilight Zone throughout its lengthy run this television series provided some of the most entertaining and memorable moments in all of Television but for this section I'm going to be cheating a little bit as rather than looking at an event surrounding the show itself I'll be highlighting the far less memorable movie version of the series simply named Twilight Zone The Movie the film was broken up into multiple sections serving as sort of an anthology work with three separate storylines and for the sake of this story only one section and really only one scene Bears discussion the scene was intended to simulate a battle in the Vietnam War in which the protagonist a character played by actor Vic Morrow is attempting to outrun and attack helicopter and escape the area the footage was intended to serve as the section's dramatic conclusion with it being described as the following in the scene that served as the original ending Bill the character portrayed by Maro stumbles into a deserted Vietnamese village where he finds two young Vietnamese children Left Behind when a U.S army helicopter appears and begins shooting at them Mara was to take both children under his arm and Escape out of the village as the hovering helicopter destroyed the village with multiple explosions based on that description alone shooting the scene was going to be tricky and likely a very intense process on the set as all the effects used were set to be done practically meaning that they would require an actual helicopter and real pyrotechnics not only this but the director a man named John Landis wanted to use actual child actors for the scene which given that it was planned to take place at night and near explosions was technically illegal in the state of California despite the laws in place however Landis decided to shoot the scene regardless enlisting seven-year-olds Mika din Lee and six-year-olds Renee Sheen Yi Chen to play the roles of the Vietnamese children and with all the pieces now in place the cameras began to roll and what was said to be the stunning conclusion to this particular section [Music] as the scene starts the spectacle of it all can't be understated as the lighting setting and the pyrotechnics truly set a haunting tone however unbeknownst to the production team there was a major problem developing as stated prior all the effects you see here are real and during the scene there was an actual helicopter flying just above the actors which by itself was already very dangerous and made even more so due to the pyrotechnics for the pilots the explosions lodged in the air created Fireballs in the sky making things much more difficult to navigate but those on the ground were never made aware of this and being pressed to make things look even more and more intense the crew decided to double down on their explosions launching two massive charges back to back a decision that proved to be a costly one as the second blast was so strong that it dislodged the helicopter's tail prop causing the craft to spin uncontrollably and within mere seconds as the cameras roll on the three actors trudging their way through the water foreign the craft crashes directly on top of them somehow everyone on board the helicopter survived the wreck though those on the ground weren't so lucky as in one Split Second the blade of the helicopter slashed into Vic Morrow and Mika din Lee instantly decapitating them and as the craft slammed to the ground Renee Shin Yi Chen would be crushed beneath its massive weight in one frame there were three living actors and in the next there were none in retrospect it's not hard to see the red flags and the dangerous practices being used by the production team however following several long legal battles no one would be found liable in the deaths of the three actors and Landis himself would go on to enjoy an incredibly successful career the twilight's own film would eventually be released years later only with a different ending oh they're not going to demolish it there's nobody will come in here I'll fight force with Force our final story takes us to the quaint Countryside of buttsfield England where a man named Albert Dryden had been living a fairly solitary life following his retirement from steelworking Albert dedicated his life to building up a plot of land which he had purchased in the area his main goal was to construct a bungalow for his elderly mother where she could live during the Summers while also planning to build some sort of Fallout bunker on the same plot but right from the start he ran into issues as his permit request to build these structures on his land was promptly denied this did not stop Dryden however as despite the ruling he began his construction anyway believing he had found a workaround with the law as rather than building the house in a standard manner he instead dug a deep hole into the ground and began to construct his home there labeling it as the home in a hole due to this the home only stood about eight feet or so above the ground which Dryden believed made the construction legal however he was wrong in his assumption and the building swiftly caused agreement between the man and the Derwent Side District Council with this Rift growing more and more Amplified as time went on in the midst of this ordeal a man named Harry Collinson was appointed as chief of the council and assigned to handle the case as his first order of business and he did so by initially sending dried in a letter demanding that he stopped construction and also tear down what he had already built Dryden however decided to counter with a court appeal which was swiftly denied leading to the Court's final order that the building be demolished within three months it was around the same time that the local news began to document the ongoing feud between Dryden and the government and despite the numerous rulings against him Dryden still refused to give in to the government's demands and eventually the council decided to take matters into their own hands and decided to demolish the structure themselves so on June 20th 1991 Harry Collinson a demolition team and a group of police constables traveled to dryden's property to demolish the structure before this group arrived the decision was made that should drive an attempt to escalate the situation they were to immediately back off and come up with another plan to avoid any sort of physical altercation at the scene numerous reporters had already began gathering at the property line including a cameraman for the BBC who was there to document the feud in real time and right from the start he was clear that Dryden was not going to be going down without a fight the gate to his property was chain locked with Dryden standing behind it pointing to two letters that he believed proved that he should be able to keep his structure intact at least for the time being read that as an official letter and as an appealia that an inspector coming out on this site in five weeks [Music] chapter coming out and find this game well all is I'm asking us to waste five weeks of the outcome maybe six weeks it'll take a week after he's been out on Spotify now but there's nothing in these documents that affects the legality of the enforcement notice that the inspector has confirmed however dryden's request for more time was clearly falling on years and realizing this Dryden began to grow more and more agitated with his tone quickly turning far more menacing if you don't open the gate now we'll have to we'll obviously have to take the fence down with the machine so if you want you can have some time to remove the fence yourself to minimize the damage do you want to do that any damage that subsequently caused as a result of you preventing us doing that will be your liability well you might not be around through the outcome of This Disaster now we've been warned in this thing remember that well I'm not going to explain but if you had any sense you would go away now and be excited right that's my last word on it if you show me the letter referring the letter we will continue to call you where the letter is at this point based on their initial plan the crew should have certainly turned back as he was now getting to the point that Dryden was outright threatening Collinson warning him that if you were to step on his property that something awful was going to happen and though this did cause colinson to take a few steps back He Still Remains steadfast in carrying out the task and remained on the edge of the property line standing his ground even when Dryden escalates the situation even further and what the Lord don't know [Music] can you get a shot at this gun has the two stand face to face Dryden brandishes his pistol and points it directly at Collinson and wanted to ensure the man's combative Behavior was being documented Collinson asks the cameraman to get a shot of his gun which subsequently leads to this moment a shot at this gun out of it in an instant with cameras rolling Dryden fires a shot directly into the chest of Harry Collinson and then fires another at the crowd standing before him leading to things devolving into a chaotic scene of running and screaming as more shots were fired from a pistol the camera crew and Luke North reporter Tony Belmont ran for cover we were standing we were standing watching what was going on and then a shot rang out the chief planner fell to the ground and I I felt a shot in the arm and I've clearly been shot here in the arm as the camera crew finally gets to a safe distance and catches their breath it's revealed that one of the journalists for the BBC had been struck in the arm along with one of the officers though in the midst of all this Carnage we see no sign of Harry Collinson as by this point he was likely still on the ground where he had originally Fallen dead from his gunshot wound with his final words being and he got a shot at this gun out of it following the incident police would engage in a standoff with Dryden who claimed that he had set up booby traps and landmines along with other explosives on the property though this would turn out to be a bluff and eventually he would be grabbed by officers and taken into custody where he would subsequently be tried and sentenced to life in prison and despite his actions on that day Albert Dryden would go on to become somewhat of a national hero growing a legitimate fan base for the way he stood up against the government Dryden would live out his time in prison until 2017 when he suffered a massive stroke to which he was let out on a compassionate release with a man eventually passing away just one year later though his actions that day will forever be immortalized as one of the most notorious and darkest moments in television history I want to give a big thank you to semford for sponsoring this video make sure to check out those links below as well as my god tier patrons Alexander 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Published: Thu Dec 15 2022