Gorgeous Georgians (Sketches)

Gorgeous Georgians is a Historical Era sketch in the Horrible Histories TV series.

It explains the rulers, the lifestyles, & the events that occurred during the Georgian era (1714-1837). 

Sketches[]

Series 1, Episode 1[]

• Twisted Fairytales: “The Three Little Pigs” (window tax)
• How to vote in Georgian elections

Series 1, Episode 5[]

• Join the Georgian Navy! (advertisement)
• Historical Hospital: ‘Master of medicaments’ Montague Fuzzlepeck diagnoses a patient

Series 1, Episode 6[]

• Historical Wife Swap: Lord & Lady Posh from the Manor swap with the Peasant family of Poorville

Series 1, Episode 8[]

• This is Georgian Food (parody of Marks & Spencer advertisements)
• A Georgian dentist prepares to replace a tooth

Series 1, Episode 13[]

• John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, “invents” the sandwich
• HHTV Sport: Lice racing

Series 2, Episode 2[]

• HHTV Sport: Ex-slave Bill Richmond revolutionizes boxing
• Parents tour a boarding school during a violent pupil rebellion

Series 2, Episode 4[]

• Legendary Admiral Horatio Nelson turns out to be a trifle less than physically impressive
• HHTV News: The public execution of escape artist Jack Sheppard

Series 2, Episode 5[]

• Prince Regent George IV has an unexpectedly good reaction to some bad news–not so much to the news that his corset’s no longer working

Series 2, Episode 6[]

• Mad King George III’s royal physicians torture him in the name of treatment
• Ready Steady Feast: On the run from the cure, the King pauses to plant a beef loin

Series 2, Episode 8[]

• Shouty (Wo)Man: New! Georgian Fan, the communications revolution
• A courtship is conducted entirely via fan sign language
• Historical Fashion Fix: A peasant gets a taste of aristocratic Macaroni fashion

Series 2, Episode 10[]

• HHTV Sport: Play-by-play of a pinching match
• A fresh army recruit gets a rude surprise on reporting for duty

Series 3, Episode 1[]

• Pay your way to luxury in Newgate Prison (parody of Premier Inn advertisements)

Series 3, Episode 2[]

• Historical Pet Shop: Smuggling lace in a goose’s prop
• Inventor John Joseph Merlin belatedly discovers a few key design flaws while filming an advertisement for the first practical roller skates

Series 3, Episode 4[]

• “George IV: Who on Earth Are You?”: The newly crowned King takes a genealogist on a most unusual tour of the family tombs (parody of Who Do You Think You Are?)

Series 3, Episode 6[]

• The controversial final moments of Admiral Nelson, & then the unusual preservation method used on his body.
• Stupid Deaths: Countess of Coventry

Series 3, Episode 7[]

• George I’s English isn’t any better than Robert Walpole’s German, which poses a serious problem re running the country–or does it?
• HHTV Sport: Twisting off the hindquarters of a dead cow at the Highland Games

Series 3, Episode 10[]

• A fashionable day out to view the patients in Bedlam
• Mercury is the key ingredient in Solomon’s Live (not so very) Long Water (advertisement)

Series 4, Episode 1[]

• The perils of for-profit fire brigades
• The toilet queues in Queen Caroline of Ansbach’s court are less than dignified

Series 4, Episode 6[]

• Court of Historical Law: Tsarevich Peter III brings a case against a very odd defendant
• Stupid Deaths: Hannah Twynnoy

Series 4, Episode 7[]

• “Le Survival Guide” gives tips on (literally) staying cool in the French army during Napoleon’s march on Moscow
• HHTV Sport: Napoleon VS the mechanical chess-playing Turk - Napoleon’s famed strategic gifts are no match for the mechanical chess-playing Turk
• “Waterloo” tells the very personal story of Le Petit Caporal’s last stand (movie trailer)

Series 4, Episode 8[]

• Historical Apprentice: Viscount ‘Turnip’ Townshend (special guest Chris Addison) & his Team Whig vie with peasant Team Go Wurzel to negotiate the agricultural revolution

Series 4, Episode 9[]

• Historical Dentist: The era’s dentist offers some bizarre options for cleaning teeth
• Changing wig fashions lead to spats among the fashionable aristocracy

Series 4, Episode 12[]

• HHTV News: Bob Hale’s Napoleon Report

Series 5, Episode 1[]

• Hostile Environment Training: Escorting an unpopular nobleman through the streets of London
• Jonathan Wild, Thief-Taker General, hits upon a novel method of keeping himself employed (parody of Sherlock)

Series 5, Episode 2[]

• HH Movie Pitch: Mary Shelley tries for a Frankenstein reboot in which the monster is correctly named … Adam?
• Movie Trailer: Brooding Lord Byron is forced to disillusion a breathless groupie in “Twit Light” (parody of the Twilight movie series)

Series 5, Episode 4[]

• A noble patron is bewildered by a visit to Jeremy Bentham’s office.
• Words We Get From Jeremy Bentham
• Stupid Deaths: Madame Blanchard

Series 5, Episode 5[]

• In “History’s Greatest Escapes” the wife of the Earl of Nithsdale has a daring plan to break him out of the Tower of London

Series 5, Episode 6[]

• Historical Come Dine with Me: Georgian Come Dine With Me - A round of dinner parties with George III, George IV, Beau Brummell, & Sake Dean Mahomed includes a trip to the first curry house in London.

Series 5, Episode 7[]

• The odd antics of absent minded Reverend Harvest.
• Some equally offbeat celebrities are featured on “Georgian Showbiz News”.

Series 5, Episode 10[]

• Historical Apprentice: James Watt V Team (Spinning) Jenny - James Watt & Team (Spinning) Jenny vie to produce textiles.
• ‘Mad Jack’ Mytton’s wildly unconventional election campaign.

Series 5, Episode 11[]

• Salvation is close at hand for the beleaguered settlers of Port Jackson–or is it?

Songs[]

• Born 2 Rule (Series 1, Episode 1)
• A Gorgeous Georgian Lady (Series 1, Episode 6)
• George IV: Couldn't Stand My Wife (Series 2, Episode 5)
• Dick Turpin, Highwayman (Series 3, Episode 1)
• Luddites! (Series 4, Episode 8) (Parody of early punk rock, feat. the Sex Pistols & The Clash)
• Georgian Army (Parody of Vindaloo by Fat Les, incorporating John Barnes’ rap from World in Motion)
• Australia (Parody of "I Should Be So Lucky" by Kylie Minogue)
• Court Life (Gorgeous George III) (Parody of Park Life by Blur)

Notes[]

External Links[]

• Gorgeous Georgians at Horrible Histories TV