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The Best Episodes of Urban Myths

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Our Urban Myths are stories that have been passed down over time and have now become part of urban folklore. But are they true? We take a slightly tongue in cheek, mischievous – and deliberately

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Urban Myths Season 1 Episode 2 - Samuel Beckett and Andre the Giant
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Samuel Beckett and Andre the Giant

    S1:E2

    Inspired by true events, this comedy charts the unlikely friendship between Samuel Beckett and a young Andre the Giant.

    Director:Ben Palmer
    Writer:Neil Forsyth

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  2. Urban Myths Season 1 Episode 5 - The Greatest of All Time
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #2 - The Greatest of All Time

    S1:E5

    Comedy based on the time Muhammad Ali talked a suicidal man down from a ninth floor balcony.

    Director:Ben Palmer
    Writers:Mark Boutros, Neil Webster

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  3. Urban Myths Season 1 Episode 1 - Bob Dylan: Knockin' on Dave's Door
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #3 - Bob Dylan: Knockin' on Dave's Door

    S1:E1

    Music legend Bob Dylan decides to fly to the U.K. one day to visit his mate Dave Stewart. Soon he finds himself waiting for Dave in his flat dutifully being served tea by his girlfriend. But is he really in the right place? You decide.

    Director:Ben Palmer
    Writer:Neil Webster

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  4. Urban Myths Season 2 Episode 7 - Public Enemy (Feat. Kev Wells)
    8.1/10(97 votes)

    #4 - Public Enemy (Feat. Kev Wells)

    S2:E7

    When the rap icons find themselves late for a gig and without transport, a kindly local fan offers them a lift

    Director:Ben Palmer
    Writer:Neil Webster

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  5. Urban Myths Season 4 Episode 1 - Les Dawson's Parisienne Adventure
    8.0/10(54 votes)

    #5 - Les Dawson's Parisienne Adventure

    S4:E1

    Inspired by his heroes, the writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, a young Les Dawson leaving his home in Manchester to live in Paris in order to pursue his dream of becoming a serious novelist. Unfortunately, things didn't quite work out as he planned, and he ended up becoming a pianist in a brothel.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Urban Myths Season 3 Episode 1 - Princess Diana, Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett
    7.6/10(67 votes)

    #6 - Princess Diana, Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett

    S3:E1

    Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett put a disguise on their good friend, Princess Diana, and take her out for a night on the town, ending up at a club which results in an encounter with Gareth, a drag artist with a painful secret.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Urban Myths Season 2 Episode 2 - 13.7.85: Backstage at Live Aid
    7.5/10(141 votes)

    #7 - 13.7.85: Backstage at Live Aid

    S2:E2

    Behind the scenes at Love Aid, as Bob Geldof, Midge Ure, Elton John, Sade, Freddie Mercury, Status Quo and many more cross paths

    Director:John Hardwick
    Writer:Neil Forsyth

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  8. Urban Myths Season 3 Episode 7 - Paul McCartney's Scrambled Eggs
    7.5/10(71 votes)

    #8 - Paul McCartney's Scrambled Eggs

    S3:E7

    Paul McCartney dreams a tune, and become obsessed with finding out what it is. The story of how the song "Yesterday" was made.

    Director:Simon Delaney
    Writer:Simon Nye

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  9. Urban Myths Season 2 Episode 8 - Sex Pistols Vs Bill Grundy
    7.4/10(122 votes)

    #9 - Sex Pistols Vs Bill Grundy

    S2:E8

    The punk band unleash hell on live TV in 1976

    Director:Simon Delaney
    Writer:Simon Nye

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  10. Urban Myths Season 3 Episode 3 - Bleak House Guest
    7.4/10(48 votes)

    #10 - Bleak House Guest

    S3:E3

    The true-ish story of when Dickens superfan Hans Christian Andersen turned up unexpectedly on Charles and Catherine Dickens' doorstep quickly proving to be the most impossible (and unshakeable) house-guest imaginable.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Urban Myths Season 3 Episode 4 - The Trial of Joan Collins
    7.3/10(46 votes)

    #11 - The Trial of Joan Collins

    S3:E4

    The film will cover Collins' extraordinary real-life 1996 court case with publishers Random House, who had paid her a whopping advance for a novel, only to claim that her submitted manuscript was "unreadable".

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Urban Myths Season 3 Episode 5 - Grace Under Pressure
    7.2/10(97 votes)

    #12 - Grace Under Pressure

    S3:E5

    A burglar stumbled into Grace Jones and artist Jean-Paul Goude’s New York apartment, armed with a very small gun. When he inadvertently chose to break into Grace and Jean-Paul’s home, he ended up with more than he bargained, having to deal with these two flamboyant, volatile lovers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Urban Myths Season 3 Episode 8 - Mick Jagger and Princess Margaret
    7.1/10(84 votes)

    #13 - Mick Jagger and Princess Margaret

    S3:E8

    Examining the decades-long friendship between Mick Jagger and Princess Margaret, we find out that Tony Blair submitted Jagger’s name for the Queen’s Honours’ List annually, from 1997 to 2002. However, every year the Queen turned him down. This comic tale travels from London to the Caribbean and dives head-first into the worlds of rock and royalty to ponder exactly why that was.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Urban Myths Season 1 Episode 3 - Hitler the Artist
    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Hitler the Artist

    S1:E3

    With the help of his friend Gustl, a young Adolf Hitler attempts to get in to the prestigious Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

    Director:Dan Zeff
    Writer:Ben Edwards

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  15. Urban Myths Season 4 Episode 2 - When Joan Kissed Barbra
    6.6/10(49 votes)

    #15 - When Joan Kissed Barbra

    S4:E2

    As Joan Rivers told it, before she and Barbra Streisand were famous, they were in an off-Broadway play together. Failing as a club comic and returning to more artistic pursuits, Rivers demanded she be cast in the production without even reading the script. The result: the role she was given called for a love scene between herself and Streisand.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Urban Myths Season 1 Episode 4 - Cary Grant and Timothy Leary
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Cary Grant and Timothy Leary

    S1:E4

    Comedy following Cary Grant and Timothy Leary on a psychedelic trip while on the set of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller North by Northwest.

    Director:Geoffrey Sax
    Writers:Ed Dyson, Roger Drew

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  17. Urban Myths Season 2 Episode 6 - The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie
    6.5/10(116 votes)

    #17 - The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie

    S2:E6

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dorothy L Sayers join the manhunt when fellow crime writer Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears without trace

    Director:Guillem Morales
    Writers:Abigail Neale-Wilson, Paul Doolan

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  18. Urban Myths Season 2 Episode 5 - When Bowie Met Bolan
    6.4/10(114 votes)

    #18 - When Bowie Met Bolan

    S2:E5

    In the 1960s, the young rock superstars spend an afternoon decorating their manager's Soho office.

    Director:Jim O'Hanlon
    Writer:Freddy Syborn

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  19. Urban Myths Season 2 Episode 1 - Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder: 'It's Me, Sugar'
    6.3/10(165 votes)

    #19 - Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder: 'It's Me, Sugar'

    S2:E1

    Comedy about Marilyn Monroe's bust-up with Billy Wilder.

    Director:Sean Foley
    Writer:David Cummings

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  20. Urban Myths Season 4 Episode 4 - Orson Welles in Norwich
    6.3/10(68 votes)

    #20 - Orson Welles in Norwich

    S4:E4

    A story of how the great star briefly went missing in Norwich in 1972 whilst working on F for Fake, a faux documentary now regarded as his last masterpiece.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Urban Myths Season 2 Episode 3 - Johnny Cash and the Ostrich
    6.2/10(134 votes)

    #21 - Johnny Cash and the Ostrich

    S2:E3

    The tale of Johnny Cash's dramatic run-in with a killer ostrich in a Nottingham hotel

    Director:Al Campbell
    Writer:Frank Skinner

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  22. Urban Myths Season 4 Episode 3 - Hendrix & Handel
    6.1/10(41 votes)

    #22 - Hendrix & Handel

    S4:E3

    Housemates separated by time, Jimi Hendrix and George Frideric Handel grapple with the stresses of the music business in this funny and intimate portrait of two eccentric musical geniuses and the events leading up to a transformative moment when Jimi saw Handel's ghost.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Urban Myths Season 3 Episode 2 - Andy & The Donald
    6.0/10(100 votes)

    #23 - Andy & The Donald

    S3:E2

    In 1984, property magnate and entrepreneur Donald Trump bought an American football team. In an attempt to stir up some publicity, he held cheerleader auditions in the basement of Trump Tower with a panel of celebrity judges, including Andy Warhol.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Urban Myths Season 2 Episode 4 - The Dali and The Cooper
    5.7/10(143 votes)

    #24 - The Dali and The Cooper

    S2:E4

    Alice Cooper and Salvador Dali spend a weird weekend in 1970s New York City

    Directors:Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard
    Writers:Ed Dyson, Roger Drew

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  25. Urban Myths Season 3 Episode 6 - Madonna and Basquiat
    5.2/10(73 votes)

    #25 - Madonna and Basquiat

    S3:E6

    Before she was famous, Madonna had a short but passionate and influential relationship with Jean Michel Basquiat, a pioneer and darling of the 1980s New York art scene. This myth takes place across one night on the New York subway, just before Madonna infamously door-stepped music producer Seymour Stein at his hospital bedside where he signed her on the spot.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Samuel Beckett and Andre the Giant" is the best rated episode of "Urban Myths". It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Ben Palmer and written by Neil Forsyth, it aired on 1/26/2017. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Greatest of All Time".