Name: Horrible Histories Season 1
Genre: Comedy, Family, History
Released: 2009

S01 Episode 1

Episode 1

A pirate captain worries about an early bedtime and the four King Georges form a boyband.

30 mins · Thu, 16 Apr 2009

S01 Episode 1

Horrible Histories

A pirate captain worries about an early bedtime; a soldier from WWI struggles to cook with fake food; the four King Georges form a boy band.

28 mins · Thu, 16 Apr 2009

S01 Episode 2

Episode 2

A Stone Age doctor tries to help a modern patient and a Pharaoh invents the pyramid.

30 mins · Thu, 23 Apr 2009

S01 Episode 3

Episode 3

A Roman emperor finds a nasty alternative to candles, and an Egyptian tries to save money.

30 mins · Thu, 30 Apr 2009

S01 Episode 4

Horrible Histories

The Tudors sing their family history, Bob explains the complete history of Rome in two minutes, and a mad Victorian gentleman eats King Louis XIV's mummified heart.

28 mins · Thu, 7 May 2009

S01 Episode 5

Horrible Histories

A priest makes a piano from live pigs, and there are some disgusting beauty tips from ancient Egypt.

28 mins · Thu, 14 May 2009

S01 Episode 6

Horrible Histories

An evil Greek god appears on a daytime chat show, a rich Georgian swaps his wife with a peasant, and we meet some weird medieval monsters.

27 mins · Thu, 21 May 2009

S01 Episode 7

Horrible Histories

There is a terrible smell in the Houses of Parliament; Cinderella struggles with the Blitz; Helen of Troy reveals her complicated love life.

28 mins · Thu, 28 May 2009

S01 Episode 8

Horrible Histories

The Saxons exchange disgusting Christmas presents; a caveman goes on a TV cooking show; we discover the bizarre causes of the First World War.

28 mins · Thu, 4 Jun 2009

S01 Episode 9

Horrible Histories

A Victorian inspector checks that school is suitably cruel; HHTV News reports live from the Great Plague; Thumbelina drowns unpleasantly.

27 mins · Thu, 11 Jun 2009

S01 Episode 10

Horrible Histories

HHTV News reports live from the Battle of Thermopylae; Celt housewives find decorative uses for severed heads; the revolting truth about Roman toilets.

28 mins · Thu, 18 Jun 2009

S01 Episode 11

Horrible Histories

Queen Victoria learns her British comforts aren't very British; a Viking warrior won't stop talking in rhyme; on Axe Factor, the contestants try to become executioners.

28 mins · Thu, 25 Jun 2009

S01 Episode 12

Horrible Histories

A Victorian teacher is confused by her pupils' bizarre names; the Romans run out of animals to execute; Queen Victoria advertises her exercise DVD.

27 mins · Thu, 2 Jul 2009

S01 Episode 13

Episode 13

A lazy aristocrat invents the sandwich, the Romans host their own revolting cookery show and William Shakespeare is haunted by the ghost of King Richard III.

30 mins · Thu, 9 Jul 2009

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