Horrible Science

8.0

2025

Hilarious new characters, mind-boggling science facts, and Sir Isaac Newton on terrifying rollercoasters - science is about to get very horrible indeed!

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15 Episodes • Premiered 2025

1. Gravity the Musical, a T-rex and Vampires on Holiday

A totally wicked song about gravity, a T-rex going to see a doctor, vampires on holiday, and Sir Isaac Newton riding a rollercoaster - welcome to the bizarre world of Horrible Science!

2. Light, Sound and Electricity Special

Big Danny and Big Manny find science shocking, Da Vinci does a sound experiment, Newton rides again, Queen Vic shows off, and Dr Big Brain doesn’t see the attraction of electromagnets!

3. Mary Ploppins, Magnets and Sorting Your Bits Out

Mary Ploppins soothes those digestive ills, Dr Big Brain tries banana power, and Einstein reacts to Tim Peake. Fred Sirieix guest stars.

4. Manky Materials And Shifty States Special

Guy Mowbray narrates Elemental Gladiators, Judge Rinder has a science beef, someone tries to steal the earth's gold. Gladiator Steel and Big Manny guest star.

5. The Force Force, Lever Man And The Goldilocks Zone

Meet superheroes the Force Force and some of the 17th century's greatest minds in Friends parody Colleagues.

6. Dinosaur Traitors, A Grumpy Moon And A Big Bang

An episode featuring everything from the creation of the number zero to the beginnings of the whole universe. The moon gets lonely, there's an ISS cookery competition, and DI Loofah arrests a banana.

7. Fartenheimer, The Water Cycle And 206 Bones

Science goes too far in Fartenheimer, music goes too far in Heads, Shoulders, Knees, Toes and All the other Bones in the Body, and there's a Swiftian take on the water cycle

8. A Meteor For The Dinosaurs, Binary Bangers And Perilous Plants

Fred Sirieix stars in Scientific First Dates, Marie Curie reacts to space, and the dinosaurs get an unwelcome musical meteor visitor.

9. Space Vomit, Pet Mushrooms And Death By Chicken

Revolting space travel, evolving cows, pet mushrooms, and Einstein watches a car on a trampoline.

10. Real Mutants, Volcanoes And Drinking Vomit

The Real Mutants assemble, people are drinking vomit and electrocuting themselves for science, and the earth and moon have an earworm about the solar system.

11. Dragon's Blood, Rude Flowers And Wibbly Wobbly Gravity

Big Brain has a chemical catastrophe, Sir Isaac Newton rides a coaster again, with shocking results, Loofah is after a murderer, and Dr Henry VIII on call!

12. Sizzling Monks, Algorithms And Weather Frogs

Dr Big Brain has an electrical short circuit, Marie Curie is wowed by a rocket man, some of the great women of science are celebrated, and 200 monks get electrocuted!

13. Earth And Space Special

Rapping science teacher Matt Green becomes the first human being ever to visit Quark as he joins Pipette on her home planet to help host this special episode about Earth and space.