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The Best Episodes of Horrible Histories Season 8

Every episode of Horrible Histories Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Horrible Histories Season 8!

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 including the Stone Age, the Middle Ages, the Egyptians and the Romans, among others.

Genres:FamilyComedy
Network:CBBC

Season 8 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Horrible Histories" season 8 is "Queen Vic's Home Vids", rated 6.5/10 from 20 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Queen Vic's Home Vids" aired on 6/3/2019 and is rated 0.9 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Fashion Faux Pas".

  • Queen Vic's Home Vids
    6.5/10 20 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!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fashion Faux Pas
    7.4/10 10 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Chaotic Collabs
    7.4/10 10 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

  • Mind Your Manners!
    7.5/10 9 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fearsome Families
    7.9/10 10 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bizarre Beasts
    8.2/10 11 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Moon Mayhem
    8.4/10 14 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

  • Putrid Politics
    7.4/10 8 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Heroic Home Front
    8.0/10 10 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fierce Females
    6.8/10 8 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Outrageous Olympics
    7.2/10 8 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mayflower Malarkey
    6.7/10 12 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

  • Holly H Song Special
    NaN/10 0 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

    Writer: N/A

  • Fantastic Firsts Special
    NaN/10 0 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

  • Beastly Bodily Functions Special
    NaN/10 0 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A