The essential episodes of Drunk History
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Drunk History — each pick states its reason.
- 01
A series that spoofs the past with inebriated reenactors begins with journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein exposing the Watergate scandal; a feud between actor brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth; and Elvis Presley meeting President Nixon at the White House.
- 02
The Pueblo Indians revolt against the Spanish, Boy Scout founder Ernest Thompson Seton hunts a wolf, and a mysterious crash in Roswell appears to be alien debris.
- 03
Alexander Graham Bell steals the original design for the telephone from Elisha Gray, and Thomas Edison tries to create a movie-making monopoly.
- 04
J.T. McWilliams forms a community but is muscled out by William Clark; Bugsy Siegel bets his life on the Flamingo Casino; the Moulin Rouge is the first casino to break the color barrier.
- 05
Love blossoms between Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan; Russian cosmonauts make the first spacewalk; Wernher von Braun becomes a pioneer in rocket science.
- 06
In the Season 4 premiere, LSD guru Timothy Leary breaks out of prison; a sailor attempts a bold rescue from Devil's Island; and a baker remains calm on the Titanic thanks to his whiskey habit.
- 07
Sam Patch becomes America's first daredevil; Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald form a lasting friendship; Buster Keaton takes his talents to the big screen.
- 08
Teddy Roosevelt revolutionizes football; Winston Churchill pays FDR a visit at Christmastime; Eleanor Roosevelt becomes friends with a female Soviet sniper.
- 09
Charles Ponzi hires a publicist to improve his image; Sadie the Goat becomes a notorious Hudson River pirate; a con man poses as a Scottish royal.
- 10
Katharine Wright helps her brothers build an airplane; the Kopp sisters fight to protect their home; the Fox sisters stoke the spiritualism craze.
- 11
Emily Roebling oversees construction of the Brooklyn Bridge; con-man Victor Lustig sells the Eiffel Tower; Shakespeare steals the Globe Theatre.
- 12
Mayor La Guardia fights the mob over artichokes; Julia Child meets the love of her life while working as a spy; a molasses flood devastates Boston.
- 13
Taran Killam, Jerry O'Connell and Bob Odenkirk explore the lives of Jack Parsons, occultist cofounder of the Jet Propulsion Lab; W.C. Minor, the man who helped write the Oxford English Dictionary; and Rasputin, adviser to Tsar Nicholas II.
- 14
Questlove, Method Man, Raven-Symone and more celebrate the early history of hip hop, the man known for inventing Motown, Berry Gordy, and "Star Trek" actress Nichelle Nichols's incredible activism on and off the TV screen.
- 15
Mary Mallon spreads typhoid fever wherever she goes, and Cleopatra's younger sister Arsinoe schemes her way in and out of power in Ancient Egypt.
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Comedy set in different historical periods that features the ill-fated exploits of the mean-spirited Edmund Blackadder and his dim sidekick Baldrick. - 04Comedy·HistoryThe essential episodes of The Decameron2024–2024
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In this irreverent retelling set in the 18th century, Turpin is the most famous but least likely of highway robbers, whose success is defined mostly by his charm, showmanship and great hair. - 06Comedy·History·ThrillerThe essential episodes of Hazardous History with Henry Winkler2025–present·HistoryThe eight-episode fast-paced, nostalgia-fueled series will take viewers on a thrilling ride through America's past.
