Suggestion survey: call for shorter-scope topics!

When it comes to the Extra History video schedule we are currently looking at early spring 2019, and writer/director Rob Rath is going to be taking some well-deserved paternity leave sometime around that season! Anticipating our need for flexibility and our desire to make even more patron-chosen topics as fully realized Extra History videos, we are looking for suggestions for shorter series (2-3 episodes). 

When we have our next poll in November, we'll end up picking the top 2 winners to fill out the schedule block after the Irish Potato Famine airs. (The plan, currently, is to still have a Lies episode in the schedule but it would cover both of these shorter series, one at a time).

While the following list is not at all intended to bias anyone as to what they should pick, here are some very general ideas to consider if you are not sure about what a smaller Extra History series would look like.

• Specific cities (as opposed to large countries/regions)
• Influential (but less widely known) people
• The history of a particular object or invention
• Oh, here's a playlist of the types of one-offs and mini-series we've done before! 
• Any other topics that seem like they could potentially be "one-offs" will most likely still work as a 2-3 episode series. One of our biggest challenges in making Extra History is having to figure out what to cut, not just in order to tell a cohesive story but also because 7-10 minutes per episode really isn't enough time. 

 Some notes about your suggestions:

• Submit between now and 11:59 AM Pacific standard time on Saturday, October 27. Only one suggestion per person please! Multiple suggestions from the same person during any given survey period will be manually removed.
• If a suggestion we encounter only has enough research material/production scope for a one-off episode instead of a full series, we file it in a separate list to reference later when we are planning to schedule a one-off episode between series (this is true for every survey we do). 
• Anything that happened or started before 1920 is fair game to suggest. We typically don't cover more recent events, unless we're working with sponsors who can provide more documentation about that historical topic.
• We have a ratio of 2 suggestion surveys to every 1 voting poll. So if/when we ever do a theme for the survey, that theme will appear twice in a row. The results of both surveys are collected and added together when we determine patron suggestions to include in the next voting poll.