Great Minds with Dan Harmon (2016)

Name: Great Minds with Dan Harmon
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Dan Harmon, Spencer Crittenden

Comedy

Writer Dan Harmon has his assistant Spencer Crittenden construct a time machine to transport historical figures from the past so he can interview them. The interviewees only survive for a few hours before undergoing a "total protoplasmic disconversion" and collapsing into dust, which Spencer collects in a jar.

IMDb rating: 7.9 (517 votes)
Episode average: 8.3 +0.4 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2016)

8.33 avg 15 episodes 8.5 → 9.6 11 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Ludwig van Beethoven	8.5	29
2	Ernest Hemingway	8.0	19
3	Thomas Edison	8.5	21
4	Mary Wollstonecraft	8.7	13
5	William Shakespeare	8.1	15
6	Idi Amin	9.0	13
7	Betsy Ross	7.8	14
8	Amelia Earhart	8.3	7
9	Sigmund Freud	8.0	11
10	Edgar Allan Poe	8.6	10
11	The Buddha	7.8	17
12	John Wilkes Booth	7.4	10
13	Ada Lovelace	8.3	10
14	John F. Kennedy	8.4	7
15	Harry S. Truman	9.6	7