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The Worst Episodes of Extraordinary People

Every episode of Extraordinary People ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Extraordinary People!

Extraordinary People is a television documentary series broadcast on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom. Each programme follows the lives of people with a rare...
Genre:Documentary
Network:Channel 5

Worst Episodes Summary

"The Man Who Paints the Future" is the worst rated episode of "Extraordinary People". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/28/2003. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Woman Who Dives the Deepest".

  • The Man Who Paints the Future
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    #1 - The Man Who Paints the Future

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/28/2003

    David Mandell predicts the future from his dreams. To record his dreams, he paints the event and then takes a photograph of himself and the art in front of a bank showing the date and time...BEFORE the event happens.

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  • The Woman Who Dives the Deepest
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    #2 - The Woman Who Dives the Deepest

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/2/2003

    Extraordinary People reports on Tanya Streeter as she attempts a world record for diving without scuba tanks.

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  • The Child Who's Older than Her Mother
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    #3 - The Child Who's Older than Her Mother

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/2/2003

    The story of Hayley Okines, a four-year-old with a rare disease which causes her body to age eight times faster than the normal rate.

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  • The Woman with the Mysterious Brain
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    #4 - The Woman with the Mysterious Brain

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/21/2003

    A follow up story on Sharon Parker who had most of her brain removed surgically as a child.

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    #5 - Archie - The Six Stone Baby

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/11/2004

    Archie is just two years old and weighs almost six stone, or 84 pounds. He has a rare genetic disease called MOMO syndrome, which belongs to the family of overgrowth syndromes. This disease has only been diagnosed in four cases in the world. The name is an acronym of the four primary aspects of the disorder: Macrosomia (excessive birth weight), Obesity, Macrocephaly (excessive head size) and Ocular abnormalities.

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  • The Man Who Swears He's Normal
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    #6 - The Man Who Swears He's Normal

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/25/2004

    This is the story of three young men who suffer from Tourette's Syndrome. Some of the symptoms of this disorder are involuntary muscle twitching, tics, and even loud verbal outbursts.

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    #7 - The Boy with a Tumour for a Face

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/11/2004

    Novemthree, five years old, was born on November 3, in Indonesia. When he was three, tumors started growing in his face. They became so large, his face was distorted and he could hardly breathe or eat. A radical surgery was his only hope.

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  • Bodies Out of Control
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    #8 - Bodies Out of Control

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/8/2004

    In this episode of Extraordinary People, a group of people suffer from a rare condition called Dystonia. Dystonia is a neurological muscle disorder that causes uncontrollable, painful spasms anywhere in the body. Although not very well known, it is estimated that there are more than 500,000 people in North America alone that have the disease. This is more than Muscular Dystrophy, Huntington's Disease, and Lou Gehrig's disease combined.

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  • The 46-Year Pregnancy
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    #9 - The 46-Year Pregnancy

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 3/23/2005

    This episode is about Zahra, a 75 year old woman from Morroco, admitted to the hospital for abdominal pains. To the surprise of the doctor, the pain was due to a baby, mummified in her womb from a pregnancy 46 years earlier. The second part of this episode is about Jane Ingram...who gave birth to a baby that developed outside of the womb, in her abdomen.

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  • The Child Who's Older than Her Grandmother
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    #10 - The Child Who's Older than Her Grandmother

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 5/9/2005

    This episode of Extraordinary People is an update on the documentary from two years ago, titled "The Child Who's Older Than Her Mother." This is the tragic story of Hayley Okines, a six year old girl born with a rare ageing condition known as Progeria.

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  • Born Without a Face
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    #11 - Born Without a Face

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 5/16/2005

    Juliana Wetmore was born with a genetic disease called Treacher Collins syndrome. This is her story of her severe facial disorder.

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    #12 - She Stole My Foetus

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 6/6/2005

    Extraordinary People investigates abductions of unborn babies from pregnant women. This episode follows the story of Elijah Evans who was brutally cut from his murdered mother's belly.

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  • The Woman with the Remarkable Body
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    #13 - The Woman with the Remarkable Body

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 6/13/2005

    In this episode, Alison Lapper stands up for the rights of the disabled. Herself, born without arms or legs, is an artist, mother and spokesperson for the handicapped.

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  • The Woman with Half of a Body
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    #14 - The Woman with Half of a Body

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/2005

    In this story, the deformed legs of Rosemarie Siggins were amputated when she was a child. Today, she works on cars and cares for her family in Pueblo, Colorado.

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  • Joined at the Head
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    #15 - Joined at the Head

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/2005

    Extraordinary People reports on conjoined twins, Josie and Teresita Alvarez, and, Lori and Dori Schappell, who were surgically separated as children. However, it did not go as well for the adult conjoined twins, Laden and Leleh Bijani from Iran.

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  • The Real Rain Man
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    #16 - The Real Rain Man

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 2/27/2006

    In this episode, Extraordinary People reports on the savant Kim Peek who has an amazing recall of facts and information. He can remember everything he has ever read. His condition combines a mixture of both brilliance and disability. Using a brain scan, it was determined that he is missing the normal connection between the left and right side of his brain.

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  • The Twin Inside Me
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    #17 - The Twin Inside Me

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 3/6/2006

    How can it be that DNA testing proves that Lydia Fairchild cannot be the mother of her own children? In this episode, Lydia was found to be a "chimera" where at her own conception, two separate fertilized eggs merged together instead of growing as two separate twins.

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  • The Woman Who Lost 30 Stone
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    #18 - The Woman Who Lost 30 Stone

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 3/13/2006

    In this episode of Extraordinary People, Onnie Jackson of Nashville, Tennessee endures complicated surgery to removed excess skin from her body after losing more than 400 pounds!

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  • The Seven Year Old Surgeon
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    #19 - The Seven Year Old Surgeon

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 3/20/2006

    In this episode of Extraordinary People, Akrit Jaswal, just twelve years old, is studying at the University of India to be a doctor. He travels to Britain to be studied by scientists at the Imperial College.

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  • The Girl Who Makes Miracles
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    #20 - The Girl Who Makes Miracles

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 4/3/2006

    Audrey Santo has been in a coma since she was three years old, back in 1987. Since then, she has undergone stigmata manifestations, and religious statues in her room even cry with blood and tears. Thousands of people visit her every years in hopes for a miracle cure.

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    #21 - The Boy with a Tumour for a Face (Update)

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 4/10/2006

    Extraordinary People presents an update on the Indonesian boy named Novemthree, who underwent radical surgery in Taiwan to remove a huge, facial tumor. One year later, his tumors have grown and now his life is once again in danger from suffocation and starvation.

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  • The Couple with 27 Children
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    #22 - The Couple with 27 Children

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 4/16/2006

    A generous couple from Atlanta, Georgia, have adopted 23 handicapped children. John and Jeanette Murphy, together with their own four children, take care of the huge family. This is the story of thier daily life.

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    #23 - Identical Quads

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 4/24/2006

    In this episode of Extraordinary People, four identical quad girls are followed in their growth in the Mathias family home.

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  • The Musical Genius
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    #24 - The Musical Genius

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/2006

    Extraordinary People reports on Derek Paravicini. Derek is autistic, blind, retarded, and yet, is a genius at the piano. He can play anything he hears just once. This reports follows him to a major concert where he teams up with another genius pianist...with the same handicap.

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  • The Four Year Old Who Ran 40 Miles
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    #25 - The Four Year Old Who Ran 40 Miles

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/2006

    Budhia Singh is just four years old when his coach, Biranchi Das enters Budhia into a controversial 40 mile run for media exposure. Budhia was an orphan, always running, as much as 20 miles a day since the age of three. Now, Biranchi is training Budhia to become the world's youngest Olympic marathon runner. But the public is not too keen on the exploitation of such of young boy.

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