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Outrageous 911

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ21160095 ↗
Source-derived summary

Outrageous 911 is an American reality television series that premiered on the TLC cable network, on December 14, 2013. The series features some of the strangest and oddest calls to police during mishaps and accidents.

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“Outrageous 911” enters the record as television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Outrageous, television and series can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Outrageous, television and series.
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“Outrageous 911” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Outrageous, television and series provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21160095. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Outrageous 911” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.