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- Season 1 overviewApr 16-Jul 9, 200913 episodesSeason 1 episodes1. S1 E1 Apr 16, 2009
- A pirate captain worries about an early bedtime; a soldier from World War I; the four King Georges.
- 2. S1 E2 Apr 23, 2009
- A Stone Age doctor tries to help a modern patient.
- 3. S1 E3 Apr 30, 2009
- An emperor finds a nasty alternative to candles.
- 4. S1 E4 May 7, 2009
- The Tudors sing their family history.
- 5. S1 E5 May 14, 2009
- A priest makes a piano from live pigs.
- 6. S1 E6 May 21, 2009
- An evil Greek god appears on a talk show.
- 7. S1 E7 May 28, 2009
- A terrible smell in the Houses of Parliament.
- 8. S1 E8 Jun 4, 2009
- The Saxons exchange disgusting Christmas gifts.
- 9. S1 E9 Jun 11, 2009
- A Victorian inspector makes sure that a school is cruel.
- 10. S1 E10 Jun 18, 2009
- News report from the Battle of Thermopyla.
- 11. S1 E11 Jun 25, 2009
- Queen Victoria learns her British comforts aren't very British.
- 12. S1 E12 Jul 2, 2009
- A Victorian teacher is confused by her pupils' bizarre names.
- 13. S1 E13 Jul 9, 2009
- A lazy aristocrat invents the sandwich.
Horrible Histories is a children's live-action historical and musical sketch-comedy TV series based on the book series of the same name written by Terry Deary. The show ran for five series of thirteen episodes each (plus seven full-length one-off specials), between 2009 and 2013.
Episode 1. A pirate captain worries about an early bedtime and the four King Georges form a boy band. 28 mins. Episode 2. A Stone Age doctor tries to help a modern patient and a pharaoh invents...
Horrible Histories: With Jim Howick, Simon Farnaby, Mathew Baynton, Martha Howe-Douglas. A group of British comedians show the sides of history they don't teach you in school. From the 'Savage Stone Age' to the 'Troublesome 20th Century', you see the full side to history.
From the Vicious Vikings and Awful Egyptians to the Slimy Stuarts and Terrible Tudors, Horrible Histories covers the funniest, yuckiest and most gruesome bits of history for kids.
Featuring a female dinosaur expert who sells seashells down on the seashore, Brian the handsome scientist reveals the weird wonders of the Greek Universe, TV's fastest-talking pensioner, Bob Hale, tries to explain the Space Race between the USA and the USSR, and there's a fitting musical finale to the end of the series. 9.2/10. Rate. Top-rated.
DI Bones investigates an unusual Victorian traffic accident, Roman scientist Pliny the Elder suffers a Stupid Death in ancient Pompeii, Prime Ministers Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill argue online over what to do about Adolf Hitler, and we discover the horrible history of early Australia.
Watch TV programmes from the Horrible Histories collection on BBC iPlayer.