Horrible Histories TV | Series 8 Episode 3

Series 8 Episode 3 Chaotic Collabs

Broadcast: Monday 17th June 2019 (CBBC 5:30pm / on iPlayer from 10th June)

Summary: History is filled with tales of great minds coming together, and collaborating, to achieve incredible things. It’s also full of idiots working together to create an unholy mess, and people forming partnerships for decidedly sinister reasons - welcome to Horrible Histories’ Chaotic Collabs!

Sketches: Written by Dave Cohen, Cariad Lloyd, James McNicholas, Max Olesker and Ben Ward.

Mission: Incompetent: The bumbling group of assassins known as the Black Hand are tasked with assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (parody of Mission: Impossible).
Historical Educating: Burke and Hare - Mr. Burke and Mr. Hare tell the students about their unconventional business model: murder.
Historical PR: Pharaoh Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti hire PR specialists Sophie and Sebastian to give their pantheon a makeover.
Ahoy! Magazine tells all about Britain's hottest couple, Lord Nelson and Emma Hamilton - both of whom are married to someone else!
We join Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay as Norgay saves the ungrateful Hillary's life and the two are chosen to be first to the top of Mt. Everest... if the first choice doesn't make it.
President Roosevelt needs to have an urgent meeting with Winston Churchill, but finds he's willing to wait a bit when he sees what the British Prime Minister is currently up to.
The story of Hillary and Norgay continues as they end up the first people on the summit of Mt. Everest, but they can't quite agree on which one was the very first.
William Shakespeare has a brainstorming session with fellow playwrights Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson about how to make Macbeth more to the liking of the King.
Charles Dickens invites fellow best-selling author Hans Christian Andersen to his home for a collaboration, but the Danish author's eccentricities drive him and his family to.
Song: The Romantic Poets - William Wordsworth, John Keats, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and Percy Shelley express themselves with an epic pop ballad.