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Horrible Histories (2009)
Horrible histories is a British program for all ages. The writers have made learning history entertaining, with funny skits, spin offs of TV shows like; Wife Swap (Historical Wife Swap), Master Chef (Historical Master Chef), and Fashion Fix (Historical Fashion Fix). It teaches us history through songs too.
TV-Y7
8.8
- 2009
- Comedy, Family, History, Documentary, Children, Animation
- Seasons
- 10 (204 episodes)
- Director
- Studios
- Lion Television, Citrus Television
Season 8
2019 | 15 episodes
Horrible Histories (2009) Season 8 Episodes
- Episode 1: Queen Vic's Home VidsFeaturing Victorian fake news, paparazzi, and cameramen strapped to the front of moving trains, Queen Victoria shows you how her subjects invented and became obsessed with films!
- Episode 2: Fashion Faux PasThe Horrible History of (sometimes literally) dressing to kill. Henry VIII has beef over whose armour is best and Louis XV dresses as a hedge.
- Episode 3: Chaotic CollabsHistory is filled with tales of great minds coming together, and collaborating, to achieve incredible things. It’s also full of idiots working together to create an unholy mess, and people forming partnerships for decidedly sinister reasons - welcome
- Episode 4: Mind Your Manners!Rattus is panicking, as the Rat Queen is visiting the sewer and he has no idea how to behave nicely around royalty! Not only that, if he can somehow appear attractive to the Queen, maybe he could be the next Rat King?! Luckily, help is at hand in the
- Episode 5: Fearsome FamiliesFamilies - sometimes you love them, sometimes you bicker with them, and sometimes you marry them off to consolidate your power in Europe. Welcome to a look at some of history’s most fearsome families.
- Episode 6: Bizarre BeastsA look at some of the various ways in which, throughout history, humans have lived with, worked with, and interacted with animals.
- Episode 7: Moon MayhemComedian and space nerd Dara O Briain joins Rattus as guest host for a special show that marks the anniversary of the 1969 moon landings.
- Episode 8: Putrid PoliticsDani Dyer becomes Rattus’ political advisor as we look at everything from the birth of democracy to Margaret Thatcher having to change her voice so she would be taken more seriously.
- Episode 9: Heroic Home FrontA look at how World War II played out on the home front, featuring Churchill's secret loo, the heroic 'ATA Girls' and German spies being caught out by their delicious sausages.
- Episode 10: Fierce FemalesA celebration of some of history’s greatest females, including Spartan Queen Gorgo terrorising Historical Love Island, supergroup The Tudor Queens and the original Wonder Women.
- Episode 11: Outrageous OlympicsAlex Scott joins Rattus for a sport-themed special. Mary Queen of Scots goes grief-golfing, the H2 Freestylers take on a whole village, and the sports-mad Henry VIII sings Get Sweaty.
- Episode 12: Mayflower MalarkeyThe Puritans set sail, Queen Elizabeth I loses a colony, and the Founding Fathers sing!
- Episode 13: Holly H Song SpecialRattus has launched his own radio station (‘BBC Radio Number Two’) and who better to advise him on the songs he should be playing than social media star Holly H? Together, they bring us a collection of some of the best songs of this series, plus new
- Episode 14: Fantastic Firsts SpecialA special show featuring some of history’s greatest firsts, including the first ever library, Olympic Games, people on the moon and rat roller-skating on TV!
- Episode 15: Beastly Bodily Functions SpecialDoctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken join Rattus for a selection of old and new sketches relating to bodies.
Cast
- JEJohn EcclestonRattus Rattus (voice)
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