| Horrible Histories - Series 2, Episode 8 | |
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| Season Two, Episode Eight | |
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| Air date | 22 June 2010 |
| Written by | Mathew Baynton, Dave Cohen, Toby Davies & Chris Pell, Jon Holmes, Giles Pilbrow, Steve Punt, Laurence Rickard, George Sawyer, Mark Shillabeer, & Ben Willbond |
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Horrible Histories - Series 2, Episode 8 was the 21st episode of the Horrible Histories TV series, having first aired on June 22, 2010, on CBBC.
This episode includes some Vikings, a peasant getting mugged, Crimewatch BC trying to solve the murder of Julius Caesar, & the confusing Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Sketches[]
Vicious Vikings[]
Viking warpaint[]
An attempt at fearsome war paint.
Lindisfarne monastery Viking attack[]
The attack on Lindisfarne monastery is interrupted when the warriors can’t quite remember why they’re attacking.
Terrible Tudors[]
HHTV Sport[]
Tudor Football[]
Inter-village football matches are serious business.
Tudor mugger[]
A mugger tries to adjust his rates to avoid punishment.
Awful Egyptians[]
Song[]
- Main article: Learn Your Hieroglyphics
An Egyptian class learns hieroglyphics-which isn’t any harder than numbers!
Woeful Second World War[]
German attempts to keep warm at Stalingrad[]
Some of the more gruesome German attempts to keep warm at Stalingrad.
Dodgy War Inventions[]
No. 28: Russian anti-tank dog bombs[]
Gorgeous Georgians[]
Shouty (Wo)Man[]
Georgian Fan[]
The communications revolution.
Fan communication[]
A courtship is conducted entirely via fan sign language.
Historical Fashion Fix[]
Georgian Peasant[]
A Georgian peasant gets a taste of aristocratic Macaroni fashion.
Slimy Stuarts[]
Stupid Deaths[]
Arthur Aston[]
Scary Stories[]
The Terror of Tedworth[]
Rotten Romans[]
News of the Empire[]
Julius Caesar Special
Crimewatch BC[]
“Crimewatch BC” attempts to help locate Caesar’s assassins. (A parody of Crimewatch UK)
Cast[]
| Vicious Vikings | Terrible Tudors | Awful Egyptians | Woeful Second World War | Gorgeous Georgians | Slimy Stuarts | Rotten Romans | ||||||||
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| Viking warpaint | Lindisfarne monastery Viking attack | HHTV Sports | Tudor mugger | Song | German attempts to keep warm at Stalingrad | Dodgy War Inventions | Shouty (Wo)Man | Fan communication | Historical Fashion Fix | Stupid Deaths | Scary Stories | News of the Empire | Crimewatch BC | |
| Mathew Baynton | x | x | x | x | x(photograph) | x | ||||||||
| Simon Farnaby | x | |||||||||||||
| Sarah Hadland | ||||||||||||||
| Martha Howe-Douglas | x | x | x | |||||||||||
| Jim Howick | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||
| Laurence Rickard | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||
| Ben Willbond | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| Susie Donkin | ||||||||||||||
| Lawry Lewin | x | x | ||||||||||||
| Alice Lowe | x | |||||||||||||
| Nathaniel Martello-White | ||||||||||||||
| Dominique Moore | ||||||||||||||
| Daniel Taylor | ||||||||||||||
| Giles Terera | x | |||||||||||||
| Katy Wix | x | x | ||||||||||||
| David Baddiel | x | |||||||||||||
| Terry Deary | x | x | ||||||||||||
| Alexei Sayle | ||||||||||||||
| Rattus Rattus (voiced by John Eccleston) | ||||||||||||||
| Jon Culshaw | x | |||||||||||||
| Jess Robinson | ||||||||||||||
| Dave Lamb | ||||||||||||||
Notes[]
External Links[]
- Series 2, Episode 8 at Horrible Histories TV