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Based on the best-selling children's books and liberally splattered with guts, blood and poo, a group of British comedians offer an anarchic and unconventional take on some of history's most gruesome and funny moments, with topics

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Season 1

7.5/10153 votes
Episode 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/16/2009
A pirate captain worries about an early bedtime and the four King Georges form a boyband.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Dave Cohen, Ben Ward, Lucy Clarke, Jon Holmes
7.7/10105 votes
Episode 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/23/2009
A Stone Age doctor tries to help a modern patient and a Pharaoh invents the pyramid.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Ben Ward, Lucy Clarke, George Sawyer, James Harris, Steve Punt, George Poles, Mark Blakewill
7.9/1094 votes
Episode 3
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/30/2009
A Roman emperor finds a nasty alternative to candles, and an Egyptian tries to save money.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Ben Ward, Jon Holmes, James Harris, Steve Punt, Arnold Widdowson, Mark Blakewill
7.7/1081 votes
Episode 4
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/7/2009
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.9/1071 votes
Episode 5
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/14/2009
A priest makes a piano from live pigs, Emperor Caligula declares war on the sea, and there are some disgusting beauty tips from Ancient Egypt.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.9/1063 votes
Episode 6
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/21/2009
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Laurence Rickard
7.8/1067 votes
Episode 7
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/28/2009
There is a terrible smell in the Houses of Parliament, Cinderella struggles with the Blitz, and Helen of Troy reveals her complicated love life.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.8/1059 votes
Episode 8
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/4/2009
The Saxons exchange disgusting Christmas presents, a caveman goes on a TV cookery show, and we discover the bizarre causes of the First World War.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.9/1058 votes
Episode 9
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/11/2009
A Victorian inspector checks that school is suitably cruel, HHTV News reports live from the Great Plague, and Thumbelina drowns unpleasantly.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.0/1057 votes
Episode 10
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/18/2009
HHTV News reports live from the Battle of Thermopylae, Celt housewives find decorative uses for severed heads, and we learn the revolting truth about Roman toilets.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.1/1057 votes
Episode 11
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/25/2009
Queen Victoria learns that her British comforts are not very British, a Viking warrior won't stop talking in rhyme, and on 'Axe Factor', the contestants try to become executioners.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.2/1054 votes
Episode 12
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 7/2/2009
A Victorian teacher is confused by her pupils' bizarre names, the Romans run out of animals to execute, and Queen Victoria advertises her exercise DVD.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.2/1054 votes
Episode 13
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/9/2009
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown