The Mega-Brands That Built America - Season 4

First aired: 8/2/2026 3 episodes

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Episodes

1. Road Warriors

Aired: 8/2/2026

During WWII, a struggling automaker and Detroit's industry titan race to build a revolutionary all-purpose military vehicle, then spend decades battling to reinvent their wartime creation into America's most popular type of car: the SUV.

2. The Game Makers

Aired: 8/9/2026

A showman named Mark Goodson and a former nightclub singer named Merv Griffin wage a three-decades battle to reinvent the television game show, creating franchises with spinning wheels, buzzers, and catchphrases that become ingrained in American culture as billion-dollar global brands.

3. Ideas That Stick

Aired: 8/16/2026

A husband's homemade bandage, a college dropout's breakthrough adhesive, and a factory worker's wartime fix transform simple strips of tape into indispensable American icons - creating a $90 billion industry, one sticky invention at a time.