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Horrible Histories - Series 4, Episode 12
Season Four, Episode Twelve
Necropolis railway
Air date 1 June 2012
Written by Dave Cohen, Rosanna Lowe, Charlie Martin, Giles Pilbrow, Steve Punt, Laurence Rickard, & Ben Ward
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Horrible Histories - Series 4 Episode 12 was the 52nd episode of Horrible Histories, the twelfth episode of Series 4. It first aired on the 1st of June, 2012.

This episode features a cemetery on train tracks.

Sketches[]

Vile Victorians[]

London Necropolis Railway[]

It’s always a one-way ticket for the coffins transported on the London Necropolis Railway.

Stupid Deaths[]

Robert Cocking[]

Rotten Romans[]

Historical Dentists[]

Roman dentist[]

A dentist from the Roman era goes to extreme measures to get ingredients for a treatment.

Tarpeian Rock[]

What happened if the criminals thrown from the Tarpeian Rock weren’t killed by the fall.

Terrible Tudors[]

Historical Masterchef[]

Tudor Chef[]

There are shed loads of meat from a Tudor cook from Hampton Court, who decides to strip down in the kitchen!

Henry VIII's Sleep Aid[]

Paranoid Henry VIII demands extreme security measures before he can sleep.

Smashing Saxons[]

Bank of Earth[]

When a bank was literally a bank–of the earth.

HH Movie Pitch[]

Alfred the Great[]

Alfred the Great tries to avoid being typecast as “Cake Guy”.

Groovy Greeks[]

Words We Get From History[]

Yet Even More Words We Get From The Greeks[]

Historical Mastermind[]

Nikos Ancientgreekios on "Greek Inventions"[]

Alexander & the Gordian Knot[]

Alexander the Great takes the most direct route to solve the riddle of the Gordian knot. 

Gorgeous Georgians[]

HHTV News[]

The Napoleon Report[]

Song[]

Main article: Georgian Navy

(We’re the) Georgian Navy” (parody of Vindaloo by Fat Les, incorporating John Barnes’ rap from World in Motion).

Cast[]

Vile Victorians Rotten Romans Terrible Tudors Smashing Saxons Groovy Greeks Gorgeous Georgians
London Necropolis Railway Stupid Deaths Historical Dentists Tarpeian Rock Historical Masterchef Henry VII's Sleep Aid Bank of Earth HH Movie Pitch Words We Get From History Historical Mastermind Alexander & the Gordian Knot HHTV News Song
Mathew Baynton x
Simon Farnaby x
Sarah Hadland x
Martha Howe-Douglas x x x
Jim Howick x x x
Laurence Rickard x x
Ben Willbond x x x
Jalaal Hartley
Katherine Jakeways
Lawry Lewin
Jason Lewis
Dominique Moore
Jessica Ransom x
Giles Terera
Katy Wix
Chris Addison
Jermain Defoe
Mark Gatiss x
Amir Khan
Steve Pemberton
Reece Shearsmith
Rattus Rattus (voiced by John Eccleston)
Jon Culshaw
Jess Robinson

Notes[]

At one point the subtitles say Henry XIII.

External Links[]

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