8.8/104 votes#1 - Heroin Town
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/2017
America's love affair with prescription painkillers has led to widespread dependency on opiates. But following a crackdown on their over-prescription, where does this leave the two million Americans who have developed a habit for these high-strength painkillers? With the pills now becoming increasingly expensive and scarce on the black market, vast numbers of Americans have turned to the cheaper and stronger opiate: heroin. The drug now claims more lives in the US than either car accidents or gun crime. And, for the first time in over two decades, life expectancy in the US is declining - largely attributed to the rise in fatal heroin overdoses. In Huntington, West Virginia, Louis Theroux embeds himself in an Appalachian community that is being devastated and stretched to its limits by widespread heroin use. With one in ten babies in the city born dependent on opiates and a fatal overdose rate 13 times the national average, this is the epicentre of the most deadly drug epidemic in US history. Louis spends time with the user community caught in the vice-like grip of drug misuse and follows the emergency services struggling to cope with multiple overdoses each day.
Director: N/A
Writer: Louis Theroux
7.5/102 votes#2 - Born Again Christians
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/15/1998
In Dallas, Louis meets TV evangelists Marcus and Joni Lamb, and joins a group of hardline Christians called The Family as they visit the Deep Ellum entertainment district.
Director: N/A
Writer: Louis Theroux
7.5/102 votes#3 - Survivalists
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/5/1998
Louis travels to the American North West, a place where survivalists, white separatists, and paranoid "freedom fighters" are arming themselves against the "New World Order". Meet the "radical nuts" and "noodles" who shoot first and ask questions later.
Director: N/A
Writer: Louis Theroux
7.4/1013 votes#4 - Jimmy Savile
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/13/2000
Louis visits 73-year-old Jimmy Savile, the miner who became a TV and radio star.
Director: Will Yapp
Writer: Louis Theroux
7.0/101 votes#5 - Paul & Debbie
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/2/2001
Louis joins Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee in their home beside the River Thames and on the road as the magician appears on Celebrity Ready, Steady, Cook and his wife launches a ballet company.
Director: Will Yapp
Writer: Louis Theroux
7.0/101 votes#6 - The Hamiltons
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/11/2001
Louis follows the former Tory MP and his wife as they try to make a living as "objects of curiosity". The film features Louis on the sofa with a tipsy Christine, and following Mr and Mrs Hamilton when they are arrested over an alleged sexual scandal (both were cleared later).
Director: Will Yapp
Writer: Louis Theroux
7.0/101 votes#7 - Ann Widdecombe
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/2002
A prickly encounter with the Conservative politician in which Louis upsets her by asking about her possibly non-existent sex life and hears about her love of poetry and cats.
Director: Kate Townsend
Writer: Louis Theroux
7.0/101 votes#8 - Chris Eubank
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/12/2002
Louis joins the ex-boxer at home, in the ring and on a trip to buy jodhpurs. Eubank attempts a tongue twister and pontificates on being a role model for children.
Director: Alicia Kerr
Writer: Louis Theroux
7.0/101 votes#9 - Keith Harris and Orville
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/19/2002
Louis meets the ventriloquist who no longer enjoys the TV light entertainment limelight (and can't hide his bitterness about that) but is still earning a good living. He has a flash car, an ex-model missus, a large home and a role in Crewe's pantomime.
Director: Kate Townsend
Writer: Louis Theroux
7.0/101 votes#10 - Max Clifford
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/26/2002
Louis meets the PR guru/media manipulator as he handles Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell and child star Declan Galbraith and organises a charity do involving Westlife.
Director: Alicia Kerr
Writer: Louis Theroux
7.0/102 votes#11 - UFOs
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/22/1998
Louis has a close encounter with the community of hardcore UFO believers in the South West of America - but not even an illicit foray into the ultra-top-secret Area 51 military base and a garbled message from the planet Koldas can answer all his questions.
Director: N/A
Writer: Louis Theroux
7.0/101 votes#12 - Rap's New Frontline
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/20/2022
Louis Theroux immerses himself in Florida’s multimillion-dollar rap scene - as notorious for its controversy as its creativity.
Director: N/A
Writer: Louis Theroux
5.7/103 votes#13 - Porn
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/29/1998
Louis strips off and plunges into the world of Porn. From the glossy high-end productions to the sleazy "gonzo" flicks, he gets intimate with the men and women who bang for bucks. But is it all as fun as it seems? And what happens when you can't "get wood"?
Director: N/A
Writer: Louis Theroux
5.7/103 votes#14 - Love Without Limits
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/4/2018
For hundreds of years, romantic relationships in western society have been based on the idea of monogamy: two people, together, for ever. But with nearly half of all US marriages ending in divorce, perhaps the traditional model is no longer fit for purpose. In Love Without Limits, Louis travels to Portland, Oregon, the heart of a movement seeking to rewrite the rulebook on how we conduct intimate relationships and experience family life. Portland, whose city motto is 'Keep Portland Weird', is seen as the US capital of polyamory and ethical non-monogamy, the practice of openly and transparently having multiple relationships that go further than just sex. Louis embeds himself with families who have made the bold decision to open up their relationships in a number of different ways, whether inviting others into existing relationships or allowing partners to seek romance elsewhere. He discovers that for many, more partners means more love and more happiness. But for others, multiple relationships have led to jealousy, upset and broken hearts.
Director: Arron Fellows
Writer: Louis Theroux
4.7/103 votes#15 - Extreme and Online
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/13/2022
Louis Theroux meets the latest incarnation of the American far right: a political movement born out of the internet and increasingly making its presence felt on the political stage.
Director: Daniel Dewsbury
Writer: Louis Theroux
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"Heroin Town" is the best rated episode written by Louis Theroux. It scored 8.75/10 based on 4 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 10/8/2017 and is rated 1.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Born Again Christians".