Henry Winkler on New Show ‘Hazardous History’: ‘Oh Wow, What Were They Thinking?’

It’s a miracle any of us survived the good ol’ days — and this new eight-part series, executive produced and hosted by Happy Days star Henry Winkler, proves it. Hazardous History With Henry Winkler (Sundays at 10pm ET/PT, beginning June 15 on HISTORY) looks at the toys, hobbies, foods, products, amusements and more that seemed like really good ideas at the time, but turned out to be dangerous or outright deadly.

“It is fascinating that all this imagination was put out into the world, and then the world realized, ‘Wait a minute. We’re not taking care of our population. We’re not taking care of the kids,’” Winkler says. “The history of it is amazing. The facts about it are amazing. And the ‘Oh wow, what were they thinking?’ portion of it is amazing.”