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The Worst Episodes of Urban Myths

Every episode of Urban Myths ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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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Network:Sky Arts

Worst Episodes Summary

"Madonna and Basquiat" is the worst rated episode of "Urban Myths". It scored 5.1/10 based on 72 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/15/2019. This episode scored 0.6 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Dali and The Cooper".

  • Madonna and Basquiat
    5.1/1072 votes
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    #1 - 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 Dali and The Cooper
    5.7/10139 votes
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    #2 - 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

  • Hitler the Artist
    6.0/101 votes
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    #3 - 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

  • Cary Grant and Timothy Leary
    6.0/101 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • Andy & The Donald
    6.0/1096 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • Hendrix & Handel
    6.0/1040 votes
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    #6 - 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

  • Grace Under Pressure
    6.1/1094 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • Johnny Cash and the Ostrich
    6.2/10130 votes
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    #8 - 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

  • Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder: 'It's Me, Sugar'
    6.3/10164 votes
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    #9 - 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

  • Orson Welles in Norwich
    6.3/1068 votes
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    #10 - 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

  • When Bowie Met Bolan
    6.4/10112 votes
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    #11 - 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

  • The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie
    6.5/10115 votes
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    #12 - 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

  • When Joan Kissed Barbra
    6.5/1050 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • Mick Jagger and Princess Margaret
    7.1/1081 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • The Trial of Joan Collins
    7.2/1044 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • Sex Pistols Vs Bill Grundy
    7.4/10118 votes
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    #16 - 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

  • Bleak House Guest
    7.4/1048 votes
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    #17 - 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

  • 13.7.85: Backstage at Live Aid
    7.5/10140 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • Princess Diana, Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett
    7.6/1066 votes
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    #19 - 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

  • Scrambled Eggs
    7.6/1070 votes
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    #20 - 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

  • Bob Dylan: Knockin' on Dave's Door
    8.0/104 votes
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    #21 - 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

  • Samuel Beckett and Andre the Giant
    8.0/101 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • The Greatest of All Time
    8.0/101 votes
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    #23 - 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

  • Les Dawson's Parisienne Adventure
    8.0/1054 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • Public Enemy (Feat. Kev Wells)
    8.1/1094 votes
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    #25 - 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