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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