Horrible Histories - Season 5
Season 5
Episodes
Smashing Saxons
The Saxon gods form an unlikely team of superheroes and Rosa Parks sings about her struggle for equality.
Slimy Stuarts
There's a surprisingly charming Stuart highwayman, while the captain of the Titanic holds the world's worst safety briefing.
Awful Egyptians
Charles Dickens sings about his life and books, and Vlad the Impaler reveals his horrible new plan for keeping out the neighbours.
Slimy Stuarts
Featuring the rather eccentric Georgian philosopher Jeremy Bentham and super-rich Roman politician Crassus, who raps about his blinging lifestyle.
Smashing Saxons
Famous monk St Augustine struggles to introduce Christianity to Saxon England, and Stuart diarist Samuel Pepys annoys the smartest men in Britain.
Vile Victorians
Queen Victoria's coronation doesn't go quite as planned, while George IV pulls out all the stops to impress his guests on Historical Come Dine with Me.
Rotten Romans
Roman emperor Caesar Augustus reveals the lazy secret of his success, and TV's most excitable reporter Bob Hale explains the very complex history of WWII.
Terrible Tudors
A Celtic farmer isn't terribly keen on plans for Hadrian's Wall, and the brainy pioneers of transportation sing about their inventions.
Slimy Stuarts
There is public confusion when King Charles II bans coffee shops and mighty Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II meets some smelly peasants on Historical Wife Swap.
Rotten Romans
There is a right royal squabble over who should rule medieval England.
Vile Victorians
Prime Ministers Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill argue online over what to do about Adolf Hitler.
Vile Victorians
Featuring a female dinosaur expert who sells seashells down on the seashore. Also, a handsome scientist reveals the weird wonders of the Greek Universe.
Savage Songs
Some of history's greatest characters serenade us with tales of their lives. Featuring the all-conquering Alexander the Great.
Ridiculous Romance
A romance special of the award-winning comedy, featuring some of history's biggest love rats. King Henry VIII goes on a TV dating show.
Frightful First World War Special
Bob Hale and Rattus Rattus guide viewers through the horrible history of 1914-18. Featuring the soldiers, civilians, suffragettes and even kings who were caught up in the fighting.
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Murder Most Puzzling
When a strange murder takes place in the sleepy market town of Bakerbury. The local police are baffled by a crossword puzzle left on the body.
With their case going nowhere, they turn reluctantly to Cora Felton, a recent arrival in Bakerbury; whose fame as the eponymous Puzzle Lady suggests she can help DCI Hooper and the Bakerbury police solve its first murder case. But the eccentric Cora isn't who she claims to be, and as she throws herself into a murder case that has the town's residents baffled, she starts to gather allies and enemies in equal measure.
In Flight
Jo Conran is a single mum working as a flight attendant. Her son is serving a fifteen-year sentence in a Bulgarian prison for a murder he swears he did not commit. Jo is approached by a gang who know all about her son and is blackmailed into using her job to smuggle drugs. She soon finds herself pulled into a murky underworld of corrupt cops and hired killers, forced to carry out their orders with no escape in sight. However, no matter how far Jo finds herself from her old life, her mission remains the same, to keep her son alive.
Irish Blood
Irish Blood focuses on Fiona, whose path in life is earmarked by her father, Declan, who seemingly abandoned her and her mother on her tenth birthday. After years of channelling anger toward him, to the benefit of her litigious clients, a message from her father sends her to Ireland. There she learns key truths about her father as well as a family that doesn't know she exists, and, moreover, that the story of abandonment that has shaped her entire life - was a lie. A lie intended to protect her and her mother from her father's shady business dealings. Fiona resolves to uncover the full truth about her father and reconnect with the parent she only thought she knew.