Horrible Histories
The history they don't teach you in school.
Horrible Histories (2009 — present)
Seasons: 11,
episodes: 154
Episode runtime: 92 min
Average rating:
8.6/10
7 288
Status
Returning Series
Country
Network
CBBC
Production
Creators
Actors
Jess Robinson, John Eccleston, Simon Farnaby, Lawry Lewin, Sarah Hadland, Alice Lowe, Meera Syal, Alexei Sayle, Alice Lowe, Giles Terera
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Susie Donkin, Ben Ward
Producer
Caroline Norris, Giles Pilbrow, Imogen Cooper, Lisa Mitchell, Matt Lamont, Richard Bradley, Melissa Hardinge, Simon Welton, Kim Shillinglaw
Camera operator
Composer
Editing
Jack Cheshire
Whole Team (35)
Whole Team (35)
Short description
Based on the best-selling children's books and liberally splattered with guts, blood and poo, a group of British comedians offer an anarchic and unconventional take on some of history's most gruesome and funny moments, with topics including the Stone Age, the Middle Ages, the Egyptians and the Romans, among others.
Seasons
| Season | Episodes | Release date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
Series 1 All 13 episodes of the BBC series! History with the nasty bits left in! Based on the bestselling series of books for kids (and for adults, but they just won't admit it), Horrible Histories is an anarchic, surprising and unconventional take on history's most gruesome and funny moments. Foul facts,…
|
13 | 2009-04-16 | 6.9 |
| 12 | 2010-05-31 | 7.5 | |
| 13 | 2011-05-30 | 7.5 | |
| 13 | 2012-04-09 | 7.4 | |
| 13 | 2013-05-27 | 7.9 | |
| 15 | 2015-02-13 | — | |
| 15 | 2017-06-15 | — | |
| 15 | 2019-06-03 | — | |
Season 9 Historical sketch show, based on the successful books by Terry Deary.
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15 | 2021-04-30 | — |
| 15 | 2023-06-16 | — | |
| 15 | 2025-02-07 | — |
What's left behind the scenes
- During its first week of television broadcast in June 2009, the series drew a record number of viewers in the UK—191,000 people. In the UK, 50% of children aged 6-12 watched the first season, and 34% of children in the same age group watched the second, totaling 1.6 million people. Throughout its run, the series consistently ranked at the top of the CBBC viewership ratings, with episode 10 of season 5 reaching a record 548,000 viewers.
- The idea that pirates used black ink blots to warn other pirates that they were facing death was borrowed from Robert Louis Stevenson's (1850-1894) novel 'Treasure Island' (1883) and is not supported by historians.
- The series has won numerous awards and nominations, both in Britain and internationally.
- It was the first children's program to receive a British Comedy Award and four consecutive BAFTA Children's Awards for Best Comedy.
- Based on the book series by Terry Deary, first published in 1993, the television series largely mirrors the style and content of the books. It maintains the franchise's general focus on the darkest, grimmest, and most obscene aspects of the history of British and, more broadly, Western civilization, from the Stone Age to the post-World War II era.
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