I didn’t know enough either way and took it for what it was.
The bits of campy stock footage were a nice touch.
If you dug in a little deeper, you would find out he would leave out any artifacts/evidence that contradicted whatever narrative he was pushing for that particular episode. In some cases it wasn’t a big deal in other cases it was really fraudulent. He also had no real training/education in archaeology. Most of the time like you I enjoyed the show