Broadcast: Monday 27th July 2020 (CBBC 5:25pm)

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Summary: A special show featuring some of history’s greatest firsts, including the first ever library, Olympic Games, people on the moon and rat roller-skating on TV!

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Highlights special: Written by Ben Ward, Dave Cohen, The Dawson Brothers, Susie Donkin, Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, Max Olesker and Henri Ward.

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• Song: King Tut's Haul - Fashion Pharaoh Tutankhamen shows you round his tomb and how to look good in the afterlife (from S08E02)

• Emporio Anubis presents Fat-Head, the Egyptian perfumed wax cone that's placed on your head and melts throughout the day (advertisement) (from S08E02)

• The world's very first library, the Library of Alexandria, opens to the pubic for a one-off. But does it have funny cat pictures?

• Historical PR: Sophie and Sebastian help excite the ancient Festival of Zeus by turning into the Olympics (from S08E11)

• America: Who really discovered the continent? (film trailer) (from S08E12)

• John Cabot keeps his social media followers fresh with his voyage to America - and more importantly, massive fish (from S08E12)

• The keeper of Elizabeth I's menagerie suggests that maybe the various exotic animals in it are starting to outgrow the Tower of London (from S08E06)

• Song: The Earth Spins Round the Sun - The terrific astronomical trio of Copernicus, Issac Newton and Galileo explain how they each came to their universal scientific conclusions (from S08E07)

• Two Macaronis compare outfits before finding out their third compatriot has changed his style (from S08E02)

• A Public Service Broadcast For Ladies is taken over by some first female pilots, on account of the sexism not being true.

• Song: Flying to the Moon - The Space Race is on and President JF Kennedy wants to put a man on the moon because it is there – but so does Nikita Krhushchev (from S08E07)

Cast & crew: See Series 8 page

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