8.1/1094 votesLoading...#1 - Public Enemy (Feat. Kev Wells)
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/24/2018
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
8.0/104 votesLoading...#2 - Bob Dylan: Knockin' on Dave's Door
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/19/2017
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
8.0/101 votesLoading...#3 - Samuel Beckett and Andre the Giant
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/26/2017
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
8.0/101 votesLoading...#4 - The Greatest of All Time
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/16/2017
Comedy based on the time Muhammad Ali talked a suicidal man down from a ninth floor balcony.
Director: Ben Palmer
Writer: Mark Boutros, Neil Webster
8.0/1054 votesLoading...#5 - Les Dawson's Parisienne Adventure
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/2020
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1066 votesLoading...#6 - Princess Diana, Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/10/2019
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1070 votesLoading...#7 - Scrambled Eggs
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 5/22/2019
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
7.5/10140 votesLoading...#8 - 13.7.85: Backstage at Live Aid
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/19/2018
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
7.4/10119 votesLoading...#9 - Sex Pistols Vs Bill Grundy
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 5/31/2018
The punk band unleash hell on live TV in 1976
Director: Simon Delaney
Writer: Simon Nye
7.4/1048 votesLoading...#10 - Bleak House Guest
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 4/24/2019
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1045 votesLoading...#11 - The Trial of Joan Collins
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/1/2019
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1082 votesLoading...#12 - Mick Jagger and Princess Margaret
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 5/29/2019
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/10115 votesLoading...#13 - The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/17/2018
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dorothy L Sayers join the manhunt when fellow crime writer Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears without trace
Director: Guillem Morales
Writer: Paul Doolan, Abigail Neale-Wilson
6.5/1050 votesLoading...#14 - When Joan Kissed Barbra
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/2020
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/10112 votesLoading...#15 - When Bowie Met Bolan
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/10/2018
In the 1960s, the young rock superstars spend an afternoon decorating their manager's Soho office.
Director: Jim O'Hanlon
Writer: Freddy Syborn
6.3/10164 votesLoading...#16 - Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder: 'It's Me, Sugar'
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/12/2018
Comedy about Marilyn Monroe's bust-up with Billy Wilder.
Director: Sean Foley
Writer: David Cummings
6.3/1068 votesLoading...#17 - Orson Welles in Norwich
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/2020
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.2/10130 votesLoading...#18 - Johnny Cash and the Ostrich
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/26/2018
The tale of Johnny Cash's dramatic run-in with a killer ostrich in a Nottingham hotel
Director: Al Campbell
Writer: Frank Skinner
6.1/1094 votesLoading...#19 - Grace Under Pressure
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 5/8/2019
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votesLoading...#20 - Hitler the Artist
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/2/2017
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
6.0/101 votesLoading...#21 - Cary Grant and Timothy Leary
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/9/2017
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
Writer: Roger Drew, Ed Dyson
6.0/1096 votesLoading...#22 - Andy & The Donald
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/17/2019
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.0/1040 votesLoading...#23 - Hendrix & Handel
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/2020
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.7/10139 votesLoading...#24 - The Dali and The Cooper
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 5/3/2018
Alice Cooper and Salvador Dali spend a weird weekend in 1970s New York City
Director: Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard
Writer: Roger Drew, Ed Dyson
5.1/1072 votesLoading...#25 - Madonna and Basquiat
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 5/15/2019
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Urban Myths
Every episode of Urban Myths ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Urban Myths!
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...
Genres:ComedyDramaDocumentary
Network:Sky Arts
Best Episodes Summary
"Public Enemy (Feat. Kev Wells)" is the best rated episode of "Urban Myths". It scored 8.1/10 based on 94 votes. Directed by Ben Palmer and written by Neil Webster, it aired on 5/24/2018. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Bob Dylan: Knockin' on Dave's Door".