{"id":1545,"date":"2026-07-15T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:30:19","slug":"the-15-best-dateline-episodes-of-all-time-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1545","title":{"rendered":"The 15 Best Dateline Episodes Of All Time Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With nearly 35 seasons of <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/tv-show\/dateline-nbc-1992\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Dateline<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, there are close to 3,000 episodes of the news show, but the best <em>Dateline<\/em> episodes are those that deal with the most compelling, complex, and longstanding cases. The series&#8217; real-life expos\u00e9s on crimes, criminals, and their victims have been captivating audiences since the 90s, and shows no sign of slowing down \u2014 despite increasing competition in other formats. <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/best-true-crime-books-all-time-ranked\/\" target=\"_blank\">From true-crime books<\/a> to documentaries, and the proliferation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/best-podcasts-about-true-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\">podcast format of true-crime stories<\/a>, there is an embarrassment of true-crime riches available today \u2014 which also means that some have forgotten the original true-crime series.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With nearly 35 seasons of Dateline, there are close to 3,000 episodes of the news show, but the best Dateline episodes are those that deal with the most compelling, complex, and longstanding cases. The series&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}