6.5/1020 votes#1 - Queen Vic's Home Vids
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 6/3/2019
Featuring 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!
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7.4/1010 votes#2 - Fashion Faux Pas
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 6/10/2019
The Horrible History of (sometimes literally) dressing to kill. Henry VIII has beef over whose armour is best and Louis XV dresses as a hedge.
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7.4/1010 votes#3 - Chaotic Collabs
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 6/17/2019
History 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 to Horrible Histories’ Chaotic Collabs!
Director: Adam Jenkins
Writer: N/A
7.5/109 votes#4 - Mind Your Manners!
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 6/24/2019
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 (very well-mannered) shape of First Dates’ Fred Sirieix, a man who knows all about how to behave politely in high society. Fred will guide Rattus through the Horrible History of Manners and Etiquette, in a bid to help him on his quest.
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7.9/1010 votes#5 - Fearsome Families
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 7/1/2019
Families - 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.
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8.2/1011 votes#6 - Bizarre Beasts
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 7/8/2019
A look at some of the various ways in which, throughout history, humans have lived with, worked with, and interacted with animals.
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8.4/1014 votes#7 - Moon Mayhem
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 7/15/2019
Comedian and space nerd Dara O Briain joins Rattus as guest host for a special show that marks the anniversary of the 1969 moon landings.
Director: Adam Jenkins
Writer: N/A
7.4/108 votes#8 - Putrid Politics
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 7/22/2019
Dani 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.
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8.0/1010 votes#9 - Heroic Home Front
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 9/9/2019
A 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.
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6.8/108 votes#10 - Fierce Females
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 3/8/2020
A 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.
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7.2/108 votes#11 - Outrageous Olympics
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 7/17/2020
Alex 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.
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6.7/1012 votes#12 - Mayflower Malarkey
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 9/14/2020
The Puritans set sail, Queen Elizabeth I loses a colony, and the Founding Fathers sing!
Director: Adam Jenkins
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#13 - Holly H Song Special
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 7/17/2020
Rattus 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 material from some of the famous historical faces we meet along the way.
Director: N/A
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NaN/100 votes#14 - Fantastic Firsts Special
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 7/27/2020
A 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!
Director: Adam Jenkins
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#15 - Beastly Bodily Functions Special
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 8/3/2020
Doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken join Rattus for a selection of old and new sketches relating to bodies.
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Season 8 Ratings Summary
"Queen Vic's Home Vids" is the best rated episode of "Horrible Histories" season 8. It scored 6.5/10 based on 20 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/3/2019. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "Fashion Faux Pas".