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Episode 1
Episode number: 1
Overview: A pirate captain worries about an early bedtime and the four King Georges form a boyband.
Episode 2
Episode number: 2
Overview: A Stone Age doctor tries to help a modern patient and a Pharaoh invents the pyramid.
Episode 3
Episode number: 3
Overview: A Roman emperor finds a nasty alternative to candles, and an Egyptian tries to save money.
Episode 4
Episode number: 4
Overview: The Tudors sing their family history, Bob explains the complete history of Rome in two minutes, and a mad Victorian gentleman eats King Louis XIV's mummified heart.
Episode 5
Episode number: 5
Overview: 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.
Episode 6
Episode number: 6
Overview: An evil Greek god appears on a daytime chat show, a rich Georgian swaps his wife with a peasant, and we meet some weird medieval monsters.
Episode 7
Episode number: 7
Overview: There is a terrible smell in the Houses of Parliament, Cinderella struggles with the Blitz, and Helen of Troy reveals her complicated love life.
Episode 8
Episode number: 8
Overview: The Saxons exchange disgusting Christmas presents, a caveman goes on a TV cookery show, and we discover the bizarre causes of the First World War.
Episode 9
Episode number: 9
Overview: A Victorian inspector checks that school is suitably cruel, HHTV News reports live from the Great Plague, and Thumbelina drowns unpleasantly.
Episode 10
Episode number: 10
Overview: HHTV News reports live from the Battle of Thermopylae, Celt housewives find decorative uses for severed heads, and we learn the revolting truth about Roman toilets.
Episode 11
Episode number: 11
Overview: Queen Victoria learns that her British comforts are not very British, a Viking warrior won't stop talking in rhyme, and on 'Axe Factor', the contestants try to become executioners.
Episode 12
Episode number: 12
Overview: A Victorian teacher is confused by her pupils' bizarre names, the Romans run out of animals to execute, and Queen Victoria advertises her exercise DVD.
Episode 13
Episode number: 13
Overview: A lazy aristocrat invents the sandwich, the Romans host their own revolting cookery show and William Shakespeare is haunted by the ghost of King Richard III.