Forbidden Places (TV series)

Forbidden Places is a Canadian television documentary series, which aired on Discovery Channel from 1995 to 1998. Narrated by Anthony Sherwood, the series profiled the science behind complex systems.

It was one of the first new series aired by the channel at its launch in January 1995, and the highest-rated original program on the network in its first year.

Episodes of the series included "The Professionals", which visited a firefighter training school; "Wildkill", about the illegal poaching and smuggling of animal parts; "Unauthorized Access", about the phenomenon of computer fraud; "Zone of Separation", about the Canadian peacekeeping mission in the Yugoslav Wars; "Silent Witness", about the role of forensic science in criminal justice; and "Crash Course", profiling the work of airplane crash investigators. Other episodes included documentaries about how heating systems work, and the construction of the Confederation Bridge.

John Haslett Cuff criticized the show's title as being a bit deceptive, as it carried much more sinister and menacing connotations than the show's actual content, but praised the show as a worthy educational series.