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CLIPS:

Clips

Episodes

Series 3 aired 12 half-hour episodes and 1 highlights special (Savage Songs) on CBBC from May to July 2011.

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Series 3 Episode 1

Including an annoying French prankster from the Middle Ages, bizarre Aztec food on Historical MasterChef, what happens when Queen Elizabeth I needs the toilet, and how not to impress a woman in Victorian times.

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Series 3 Episode 2

Some medieval knights discover the most disgusting way to attack a castle, a Georgian goes shopping in a modern pet shop, and the kings and queens of England demonstrate how to remember them all - through the power of song.

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Series 3 Episode 3

William Wallace launches his music career as a rock rebel, Lady Jane Grey wins a frankly terrible competition, and the Welsh women of Fishguard defeat a French invasion without even trying.

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Series 3 Episode 4

An unusual Stuart highwayman doesn't always steal cash, a modern detective struggles to solve a series of murders in Emperor Caligula's house, and HHTV goes undercover to reveal cheating in Middle Ages jousting tournaments.

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Series 3 Episode 5

A Welsh prince from the Middle Ages has a very stupid death, King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette go on Historical Wife Swap with some starving French peasants, and Queen Cleopatra sings about her reputation as a femme fatale.

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Series 3 Episode 6

Henry VIII promotes his all-meat and no-vegetables diet plan, Bob Hale struggles desperately to explain the Middle Ages' Wars of the Roses, a Stone Age man invents farming and Admiral Nelson confuses everyone with his last words.

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Series 3 Episode 7

Robert Walpole struggles to talk to England's German king, a Scottish sportsman attacks dead cows in the Highland Games, and American inventor Paul Revere demonstrates his gunpowder toothpaste.

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Series 3 Episode 8

HHTV reporter Mike Peabody gets caught up in the French Revolution, Henry VIII enjoys a highly dangerous sport for children, whilst Saxon king Ethelred the Unready suffers online bullying from the Vikings.

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Series 3 Episode 9

The Vikings launch their advert for We Sell Any Monk, Queen Elizabeth I surprises her court with some very odd laws, and the sacrifice-obsessed Aztec priests sing their gruesome disco song.

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Series 3 Episode 10

First World War soldiers try very unusual ways to cure frostbite in the winter. Plus the not-at-all-romantic movie starring William the Conqueror, and a strange Stuart doctor takes a snooze in the middle of a battle.

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Series 3 Episode 11

A pirate chef disgusts the judges on Historical MasterChef, a Stone Age man appears on Dragons' Den with his innovative inventions, and we look at the odd marriage of Mary I and Philip II of Spain.

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Series 3 Episode 12

The people of Strasbourg literally can't stand still with 'dance fever', and King Charles II meets the man who tried to steal the crown jewels. 

Highlights specials

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Series 3 Episode 13

Savage Songs Special

Featuring the hip hop battle of the boasting Celts, pop superstar Cleopatra, rock rebel William Wallace, and more.

MAIN CAST

SUPPORTING CAST

GUEST

Mathew Baynton

Simon Farnaby

Martha Howe-Douglas

Jim Howick
Laurence Rickard
Ben Willbond

Lawry Lewin

Alice Lowe

Dominique Moore

Rhashan Stone

Giles Terera

Katy Wix

David Baddiel

PUPPETEER

John Eccleston

ADDITIONAL VOICES

Jon Culshaw

Jess Robinson

ALSO

WRITING TEAM

PRODUCTION TEAM

Dave Cohen

Gerard Foster

Jon Holmes

Greg Jenner

Giles Pilbrow

Steve Punt

Laurence Rickard

George Sawyer

Colin Swash

Ben Ward

DIRECTORS

Dominic Brigstocke

Steve Connelly

SERIES PRODUCER

Caroline Norris

PRODUCERS

Imogen Cooper

Giles Pilbrow

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Richard Bradley

Alison Gregory

EDITORS

Mike Holliday

Nigel Williams

PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Miranda Jones

COMPOSER

Richie Webb

ANIMATION

Tim Searle

SERIES 3 ON DVD

You can get series 3 on DVD here.

You can get the complete series 1 - 6 on DVD here.

You can get the complete series 1 - 5 on DVD here.

You can get the complete series 1 - 3 on DVD here.

REVIEWS:

Clare Heal of the Daily Express, in her review of the third series, praised the show's "spot-on spoofs of modern telly" and agreed that "There's no particular target audience but pretty much anyone of any age will find something in there for them".

Kerrie Mills of PopMatters rated the first three series 9/10, opining that the show "does also provide evidence, edgewise between the falling bodily fluids, of a sharp comic intelligence ... in fact, it might just be one of the most successful original comedy shows to appear in years."

GALLERY:

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