Ranked #1
S4 Ep38: The Faversham Explosives Disaster - 1916
S4 Ep38: The Faversham Explosives Disaster - 1916
It’s 1916. It’s Uplees just outside Faversham, and the good people of the Explosives Loading Company are about to open t... Read more
11 May 2020
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58mins
Ranked #2
S4 Ep15: New Coke - 1985
S4 Ep15: New Coke - 1985
It's 1985, it's Atlanta Georgia and in the underground lair of PROJECT KANSAS evil soft drink scientists are cooking up ... Read more
24 Feb 2019
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43mins
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Ranked #3
S4 Ep28: The Le Mans Motor Racing Disaster - 1955
S4 Ep28: The Le Mans Motor Racing Disaster - 1955
It’s 1955. It’s Le Mans, France and a quarter of a million people have turned out to watch one of the most boring sporti... Read more
16 Sep 2019
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57mins
Ranked #4
S4 Ep17: The Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster - 1987
S4 Ep17: The Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster - 1987
It's 1987. It's the Port of Zeebrugge, and a whole load of Sun readers are on their way home from a lovely trip to Belgi... Read more
24 Mar 2019
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55mins
Ranked #5
S4 Ep29: The Moorgate Tube Crash - 1975
S4 Ep29: The Moorgate Tube Crash - 1975
It’s 1975, it’s fancy central London and at Moorgate Underground Station a load of miserable commuters are waiting to ca... Read more
7 Oct 2019
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57mins
Ranked #6
S4 Ep4: The Battle of Isandlwana (Rorke's Drift in Context) - 1879
S4 Ep4: The Battle of Isandlwana (Rorke's Drift in Context) - 1879
It's 1879, it's South Africa, and Britain fancies nicking another bit of the world that don't belong to her. In what is ... Read more
24 Sep 2018
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46mins
Ranked #7
S4 Ep7: The San Francisco Earthquake - 1906
S4 Ep7: The San Francisco Earthquake - 1906
It's 1906, It's San Francisco and it's far too early in the morning to deal with this sort of nonsense. In what the Coll... Read more
5 Nov 2018
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39mins
Ranked #8
S4 Ep3: Gerald Ratner's Infamous Speech - 1991
S4 Ep3: Gerald Ratner's Infamous Speech - 1991
It's 1991, it's the Royal Albert Hall and Gerald Ratner is about to tell a joke that he'll regret for the rest of his li... Read more
10 Sep 2018
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42mins
Ranked #9
S4 Ep5: "Pea Souper" - The Great Smog of London - 1952
S4 Ep5: "Pea Souper" - The Great Smog of London - 1952
It's 1952 and London looks like the set of an 80s music video. In what historians will one day call the fifth episode of... Read more
8 Oct 2018
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43mins
Ranked #10
S4 Ep21: The Slapton Sands Tragedy - 1944
S4 Ep21: The Slapton Sands Tragedy - 1944
It's 1944. It's wartime Devon, and a shed load of American troops have just turned up in a tiny British village to take ... Read more
19 May 2019
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38mins
Ranked #11
S4 Ep37: The Musee Etienne Terrus - 2018
S4 Ep37: The Musee Etienne Terrus - 2018
It’s 2018. It’s Elne in Southern France, and the Mayor has just cut the ribbon on one of the the most worthless art coll... Read more
28 Apr 2020
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55mins
Ranked #12
S4 Ep22: The Strasbourg Dancing Plague - 1518
S4 Ep22: The Strasbourg Dancing Plague - 1518
It's 1518, It's medieval Strasbourg and Frau Troffea has just kicked off the least enjoyable dance off since Ann Widdeco... Read more
2 Jun 2019
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46mins
Ranked #13
S4 Ep9: Crinkley Bottom Theme Park - 1994
S4 Ep9: Crinkley Bottom Theme Park - 1994
It's the 90s and Noel's House Party is one of the biggest shows on British television! In what must now be the ninth epi... Read more
3 Dec 2018
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46mins
Ranked #14
S4 Ep6: BBC's Eldorado Soap Opera - 1992
S4 Ep6: BBC's Eldorado Soap Opera - 1992
It's 1992, and ITV are wiping the floor with the BBC using a soap made out of television. In what must now be numericall... Read more
22 Oct 2018
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42mins
Ranked #15
S4 Ep23: The Big Dipper Roller Coaster Crash - 1972
S4 Ep23: The Big Dipper Roller Coaster Crash - 1972
It's 1972. It's London, England and in Battersea Park loads of kids are riding a roller coaster with a worse safety reco... Read more
16 Jun 2019
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39mins
Ranked #16
S4 Ep32: The Iraq Poison Grain Disaster - 1971
S4 Ep32: The Iraq Poison Grain Disaster - 1971
It’s 1971. It’s Iraq and Saddam Hussein has just imported 95,000 tonnes of chemically coated Mexican grain so dangerous ... Read more
16 Dec 2019
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38mins
Ranked #17
S4 Ep26: The Victoria Hall Stampede - 1883
S4 Ep26: The Victoria Hall Stampede - 1883
It's 1883. It's The Victoria Hall Sunderland, and an out-of-town prestidigitator is about to take part in the worst thea... Read more
19 Aug 2019
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37mins
Ranked #18
S4 Ep16: The Bradford Sweet Poisoning - 1858
S4 Ep16: The Bradford Sweet Poisoning - 1858
It's 1858, It's Victorian Bradford, and 'Humbug' Billy is about to sell a batch of boiled mint lozenges ten-thousand tim... Read more
10 Mar 2019
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43mins
Ranked #19
S4 Ep30: The Lewes Avalanche - 1836
S4 Ep30: The Lewes Avalanche - 1836
It’s Christmas 1836, it’s Lewes on the south coast of England and a whole load of snugly Dickensian folk are about to ge... Read more
29 Oct 2019
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42mins
Ranked #20
S4 Ep13: The Hoover Free Flights Fiasco - 1992
S4 Ep13: The Hoover Free Flights Fiasco - 1992
It's 1992, and the Hoover Suction Sweeper Company are about to launch a sales promotion that sucks harder than its Turbo... Read more
27 Jan 2019
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45mins