These were definitely based in history, but they definitely played some things up for TV entertainment. Like suspense of finding something, then cutting to comm

These were definitely based in history, but they definitely played some things up for TV entertainment. Like suspense of finding something, then cutting to commercial. The closest I can think of in modern times might be Expedition Unknown (on Discovery), but if that were live and on NBC. I wish I could think of what they might have been called, this was early 90s.