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The Best Episodes of Urban Myths

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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...

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  1. Background image for Bob Dylan: Knockin' on Dave's Door
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #1 - 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.

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    Director:Ben Palmer
  2. Background image for Samuel Beckett and Andre the Giant
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - 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.

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    Director:Ben Palmer
  3. Background image for The Greatest of All Time
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Greatest of All Time

    S1:E5

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

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  4. Background image for Princess Diana, Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett
    7.6/10(67 votes)

    #4 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Scrambled Eggs
    7.6/10(71 votes)

    #5 - 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.

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    Director:Simon Delaney
    Writer:Simon Nye
  6. Background image for Bleak House Guest
    7.5/10(48 votes)

    #6 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Trial of Joan Collins
    7.4/10(46 votes)

    #7 - 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".

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Mick Jagger and Princess Margaret
    7.1/10(83 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Grace Under Pressure
    6.2/10(95 votes)

    #9 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Andy & The Donald
    6.1/10(100 votes)

    #10 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Hitler the Artist
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - 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.

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    Director:Dan Zeff
  13. Background image for Cary Grant and Timothy Leary
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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  14. Background image for The Dali and The Cooper
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The Dali and The Cooper

    S2:E4

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

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  15. Background image for Madonna and Basquiat
    5.2/10(73 votes)

    #14 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for When Joan Kissed Barbra
    5.0/10(1 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder: 'It's Me, Sugar'
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    #16 - Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder: 'It's Me, Sugar'

    S2:E1

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

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    Director:Sean Foley
  18. Background image for 13.7.85: Backstage at Live Aid
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    #17 - 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

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  19. Background image for Johnny Cash and the Ostrich
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    #18 - Johnny Cash and the Ostrich

    S2:E3

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

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    Director:Al Campbell
  20. Background image for When Bowie Met Bolan
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    #19 - When Bowie Met Bolan

    S2:E5

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

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  21. Background image for The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie
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    #20 - 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

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  22. Background image for Public Enemy (Feat. Kev Wells)
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    #21 - 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

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    Director:Ben Palmer
  23. Background image for Sex Pistols Vs Bill Grundy
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    #22 - Sex Pistols Vs Bill Grundy

    S2:E8

    The punk band unleash hell on live TV in 1976

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    Director:Simon Delaney
    Writer:Simon Nye
  24. Background image for Les Dawson's Parisienne Adventure
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    #23 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Hendrix & Handel
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    #24 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Orson Welles in Norwich
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    #25 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Bob Dylan: Knockin' on Dave's Door" is the best rated episode of "Urban Myths". It scored 8/10 based on 4 votes. Directed by Ben Palmer and written by Neil Webster, it aired on 1/19/2017. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Samuel Beckett and Andre the Giant".