The BEST episodes of Horrible Histories (2009)
Every episode of Horrible Histories (2009) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Horrible Histories (2009)!
Sketches, cartoons and quizzes liberally splattered with blood and gore, based on the books published by Scholastic.
#1 - Episode 1
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/30/2011
Meet an annoying French prankster from the Middle Ages, witness bizarre Aztec food on Historical Masterchef, see what happens when Queen Elizabeth I needs the toilet, and learn how not to impress a woman in Victorian times -a painful lesson in manners. The truth about Dick Turpin in song; certainly no New Romantic.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Episode 2
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/31/2011
Some medieval knights discover the most disgusting way to attack a castle, the Saxons demonstrate the stupidest way to lose a battle, a Georgian goes shopping in a modern pet shop, and the kings and queens of England demonstrate how to remember them all, through the power of song.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Episode 13
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/22/2013
Some of history's greatest characters serenade us with tales of their lives. Featuring the all-conquering Alexander the Great, the cash-loving Crassus, the feisty Joan of Arc, the brilliant but miserable Charles Dickens, and the very determined Rosa Parks.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - Episode 1
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/16/2009
A pirate captain worries about an early bedtime, a soldier from World War I struggles to cook with fake food and the four King Georges form a boy band.
#9 - Episode 3
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/1/2011
A confused World War I soldier spends his first day in the trenches, William Wallace launches his music career as a rock rebel, Lady Jane Grey wins a frankly terrible competition, and the Welsh women of Fishguard defeat a French invasion without even trying.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - Episode 13
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/4/2012
A compilation of the songs from the season, featuring We're the Thinkers, Mary I, William Shakespeare & the Quills, It's a New World (Pilgrim Fathers), Luddites!, Victoria & Albert: A Love Ballad, Mary Seacole, Natural Selection, and The Few.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Episode 5
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/14/2009
A priest makes a piano from live pigs, Emperor Caligula declares war on the sea, and there are some disgusting beauty tips from Ancient Egypt.
#18 - Horrid Health
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/18/2017
A look at the hideous history of health, from the invention of toilet paper to the healthy origins of the cornflake. Along the way we discover that the Mayans believe that drinking wee could cure all ills, that the Tudors had to teach themselves how to swim again (everyone had forgotten), Victorians had a taste in beauty products that was literally shocking, and we take an in-depth look at Louis XIV's bottom problems.
Watch Now:Amazon#20 - Episode 8
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/21/2011
HHTV reporter Mike Peabody gets caught up in the French Revolution, Henry VIII enjoys a highly dangerous sport for children, Saxon King Ethelred the Unready suffers online bullying from the Vikings, and the Suffragettes set the record straight in song.
Watch Now:Amazon#21 - Episode 7
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/27/2012
Emperor Napoleon plays in a very unusual chess match, a Victorian inventor builds an anti-seasickness ship with one small design flaw, a snowball fight breaks out at a public execution and the British army hires a dead tramp to defeat the Germans in World War II.
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - Episode 4
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/2/2011
An unusual Stuart highwayman doesn't always steal cash, a modern detective struggles to solve a series of murders in Emperor Caligula's house, HHTV goes undercover to prove allegations of cheating in Middle Ages jousting tournaments, and King George IV meets his dead relatives.
Watch Now:Amazon#25 - Episode 6
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/2012
A confused Christopher Columbus declares he has found India and a Georgian woman reveals her very Stupid Death. Also, Victoria and Albert attend the Great Exhibition and Tsar Peter III brings a very weird case to the Court of Historical Law.
Watch Now:Amazon