List of Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum episodes.
This list is in production order, as PBS airs the series out of order.
Season 1 (2019-2022)[]
Ep. | Title | Original Airdate | Theme |
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0 | Premiere | 11/11/2019 (PBS) | |
1 | I Am Johann Sebastian Bach/I Am Marie Curie | November 12, 2019 | Following Your Dreams |
2 | I Am Mary Shelley/I Am Harry Houdini | November 13, 2019 | Overcoming Fears |
3 | I Am Helen Keller/I Am Alexander Graham Bell | December 2, 2019 | Listening |
4 | I Am Florence Nightingale/I Am George Washington Carver | December 9, 2019 | Medics/Importance of Plants |
5 | I Am Leonardo da Vinci/I Am Amelia Earhart | December 16, 2019 | Trying New Things |
6 | I Am Isaac Newton/I Am Golda Meir | November 18, 2019 | Solving Problems |
7 | I Am Winston Churchill/I Am Cleopatra | November 19, 2019 | Speech/Leaders |
8 | I Am Catherine the Great/I Am Tomioka Tessai | November 20, 2019 | Overcoming Shyness |
9 | I Am George Washington/I Am Susan B. Anthony | November 14, 2019 | Leadership |
10 | I Am Zora Neale Hurston/I Am Charles Dickens | December 23, 2019 | Storytelling |
11 | We Are the Wright Brothers/We Are the Bronte Sisters | November 27, 2019 | Siblings |
12 | I Am Mark Twain/I Am Abigail Adams | November 27, 2019 | Making The Best of a Bad Situation |
13 | I Am Julia Child/I Am Neil Armstrong | November 27, 2019 | Taking One Step at a Time |
14 | I Am Jackie Robinson/I Am Anna Pavlova | January 20, 2020 | Physical Activities |
15 | I Am Mary Leakey/I Am Alexander Hamilton | January 20, 2020 | Adventure |
16 | I Am Theodore Roosevelt/I Am Eleanor Roosevelt | January 22, 2020 | Helping Others |
17 | I Am Lou Gehrig/I Am Marie Owens | January 23, 2020 | Positivity |
18 | I Am Nikola Tesla/I Am Nellie Bly | August 3, 2020 | Perserverance |
19 | I Am Maya Angelou/I Am Frederick Douglass | August 4, 2020 | Learning |
20 | I Am Louis Pasteur/ I Am Rachel Carson | August 5, 2020 | Science |
21 | I Am Harriet Tubman | October 9, 2020 | Courage |
22 | I Am Kate Warne/ I Am Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | August 6, 2020 | Detective Skills |
23 | I Am Rosa Parks/I Am Thurgood Marshall | August 9, 2020 | Justice and Fairness |
24 | I Am Wilma Rudolph/I Am Jonas Salk | February 1, 2021 | Polio |
25 | I Am Confucius/I Am Sacagawea | October 6, 2020 | Respectfulness |
26 | I Am Cesar Chavez/I Am Dolores Huerta | October 5, 2020 | Latino Civil Rights Activists |
27 | I Am Mary Anning/I Am Charlie Chaplin | October 7, 2020 | Happiness |
28 | I Am Billie Jean King/I Am Arthur Ashe | October 8, 2020 | Tennis Players (Fought for Equal Rights) |
29 | I Am James Naismith/I Am Temple Grandin | April 5, 2021 | Inventors |
30 | I Am Albert Einstein/I Am Carol Burnett | April 6, 2021 | Personal Growth |
31 | I Am Abraham Lincoln/I Am Jane Jacobs | April 7, 2021 | Fairness |
32 | I Am Edmund Hillary/I Am Celia Cruz | April 8, 2021 | Confidence |
33 | I Am Rukmini Devi/I Am Bob Ross | January 28, 2022 | The Arts |
34 | I Am Ibn Battuta/I Am Beulah Louise Henry | November 2, 2021 | Inventions |
35 | I Am Jesse Owens/I Am Ella Fitzgerald | February 2, 2021 | Doing Your Best |
36 | I Am Jigonsaseh/I Am Sacagawea (rerun) | November 1, 2021 | Indigenous Women |
37 | I Am Fred Rogers (season finale) | January 31, 2022 | You Are Special |
Season 2 (2024-)[]
Ep. | Title | Original Airdate | Theme |
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1 | I Am Michelangelo/I Am Dorothy Levitt | January 15, 2024 | Taking Your Time |
2 | I Am Bessie Coleman/I Am King Sejong the Great | January 16, 2024 | Perseverance |
3 | I Am Eugenie Clark/I Am Benjamin Banneker | January 17, 2024 | Nature Scientists |
4 | I Am Ruth Bader Ginsburg | January 18, 2024 | Creating Change |
5 | I Am Grandmaster Flash/I Am Mary Seacole | January 19, 2024 | Exploring Different Approaches to Achieve a Goal |
6 | I Am Hedy Lamarr/I Am Archimedes | January 22, 2024 | Science and Creativity |
7 | I Am James Braidwood/I Am Queen Lili' Oukalani | January 23, 2024 | Leadership and Responsibilities |
8 | I Am Alvin Ailey/I Am Lucy Maud Montgomery | January 24, 2024 | Being Excluded |
9 | I Am Zelia Nuttall/I Am Jules Léotard | January 25, 2024 | Eponyms |
10 | I Am Louis Braille/I Am Zaha Hadid | January 26, 2024 | New Ideas |
11 | I Am Jim Thorpe/I Am Norval Morrisseau | July 15, 2024 | Indigenous Men |
12 | I Am Roberto Clemente/I Am Kristi Yamaguchi | July 16, 2024 | Importance of Helping/Athletes |
13 | I Am Madam C.J. Walker/I Am Edwin Binney | July 17, 2024 | Inventors and Entrepreneurs |
14 | I Am William Shakespeare/I Am Katherine Johnson | September 9, 2024 | Self-Acceptance |
15 | I Am Gwen Ifill/I Am Matthew Henson | December 9, 2024 | Inquiries and Discoveries |
16 | We Are Siegel and Shuster/I Am Edmonia Lewis | October 14, 2024 | Being Proud of Creative Pieces |
17 | I Am Bruce Lee/I Am Sonia Manzano | September 10, 2024 | Managing Big Feelings/Actors |
18 | I Am David Suzuki/I Am Esther Martinez | October 15, 2024 | Connections |
19 | I Am Kofi Annan/We Are William and Caroline Herschel | December 10, 2024 | Cooperation and Being Included |
20 | I Am Grace Hopper/I Am Itzhak Perlman | TBA | Doing Things Differently |
21 | I Am Willard Wigan/I Am Maria Sibylla Merian | February 17, 2025 | Patience |
22 | I Am Ravi Shankar/I Am Babe Didrikson Zaharias | TBA | Self-improvement |
23 | I Am Jackie Robinson (remake) | February 18, 2025 | Courage |
24 | I Am Full of Possibilities | March 17, 2025 | Passions |
25 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
26 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Specials[]
- I Am Madam President (March 16, 2020)
Alternate numbering[]
In some presentations (possibly due to programming codes rather than debut dates), while the numbering of the first two episodes is the same, it differs in subsequent episodes:
3rd is Washington and Anthony (instead of 9th)
11th is Nightingale and Carver (instead of 4th)