Original title
Horrible Histories
Released
1/1/2001
Origin country
AU, GB, US
Genre
Animation
Production companies
Scholastic Productions, Mike Young Productions, Splash Entertainment, Telegael
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
26
Horrible Histories is an animated children's television series based on the Terry Deary book series of the same name. The series ran for 26 episodes between January 1, 2001 and March 25, 2002. The show features the characters Stitch Fleischer, Mo Burrows and Darren Dongle. The show is produced by Mike Young Productions and Scholastic Productions. It is directed by Andrew Young and Gordon Langley. It is produced By Martha Atwater, Tamar Simon Hoffs, Michelle Conway, Paul Cummings, Deborah Forte, Mike Young, Mark Young, Beth Richman and Charlie Stickney, among others. It is animated by Glenn Jason Hanna.It is written by Martha Atwater, Terry Deary, Charlie Stickney, Andrew Young, Gordon Langley, William Forrest Cluverius. It has a running time of 25 minutes. The series was released as a 3-disc DVD box set in 2005.
Mo is about to lose her soccer team to Darren, and she does not like it one bit! The narrator zaps her and Stitch to Elizabethan England where they meet Queen Elizabeth I. Will Mo learn about how to coach her soccer team by watching how Elizabeth rules her kingdom?
Stitch and Mo think they have good luck, but the narrator tells them that luck isn't what it's cracked up to be! He zaps the two to the Aztec Empire where they learn that the Aztecs were the most superstitious people in history!
Mo is grounded until she decides to clean up her room! However, Mo refuses because she has civic rights. The narrator then zaps her and Stitch to Feudal England where the peasants live in their own filth and all the civic rights go to King John. Will Mo ever learn her lesson?
Stitch, Mo, and Darren have the same report in history class: Vikings, and Darren thinks that he will beat Stitch and Mo by a long shot! The narrator then zaps the two to Greenland where they meet Erik the Red, and his ignored son Leif Eriksson and learn about the true histories of the famed seamen.
Stitch and Mo get into an argument after they're late for gym class. Darren challenges the two to the art of wrestling, making one of them face him. The narrator then zaps Stitch and Mo to Ancient Greece where wrestling was a popular sport in the Olympics. But will the journey teach them to make up?
A student couldn't make it for teacher conference, so Darren came to take his place! While he was making his speech, he was wearing red boots. Stitch and Mo wonder why? The narrator zaps them to Ancient Rome where they meet Julius Caesar. Will they solve the red boot mystery?
Darren forces Stitch and Mo to go down a scary-looking snowboarding course! Stitch and Mo think they should just give up but the narrator zaps them to the Wild West where they meet a blacksmith and learn that there's always an opportunity.
Stitch and Mo's feelings are hurt after Darren called them neanderthals, but the narrator zaps them to the Stone Age to teach them that neanderthals were more than we thought they were!
Darren is being unfair to everyone when took his uncle's job as keeper of a paintball court! The narrator then zaps Stitch and Mo to the American Revolution where they get separated and learn more from the two sides: the Americans and the British.
Stitch thinks that his relatives are royalty and wishes to be "King of Doughnuts". The narrator then zaps him and Mo to see three of the world's most famous kings. Will Stitch learn his lesson and find out that royalty is not what it's cracked up to be, or will he just keep thinking about building a doughnut castle?
Stitch and Mo want their own jobs, so the narrator zaps them to the Industrial Revolution where children are bound to have jobs! But will they be successful?
Darren knows about nature far more than Stitch and Mo do, which made them pretty upset. The narrator zaps them to Mongol China where they meet Marco Polo. Will they learn the secrets of the great outdoors?
Mo trades her brand new comic book for a trashy, old one! Mo is pretty upset by her trade, so the narrator zaps her and Stitch to the Mali Empire where common items were made their weight in gold. They also meet a man who wishes to be a magician. Will Mo learn the tricks for the trade?
Stitch and Mo fail at building a doughnut-making machine for a science fair. The narrator zaps them to South America where they meet Simón Bolívar.
Stitch and Mo are sent to detention after Mo put her cousin's lizard Slimeball into Darren's locker. Darren then tells the two one terrible thing: "Once a criminal, always a criminal"! The narrator then zaps Stitch and Mo to Australia where they were being taken as prisoners. They also meet Captain William Bligh and find out how life in Australia is!
Stitch and Mo are terrified to find out that Darren Dongle is moving into Mo's neighborhood! Mo then thinks about building a wall so Dongol won't any them! The narrator then zaps the two to Ancient China and find the Great Wall. But building it isn't all what it's cracked up to be!
There is garbage all over Stitch and Mo's favorite park! The two both cleaned up the park, but then a garbage truck came to dump more trash in! Stitch and Mo then decided to give up, but the narrator zaps the two to Canada where Stitch gets captured by a criminal and Mo teams up with mounties to save him. Will Mo find Stitch, or will Stitch end up playing the blues?
Stitch and Mo have trouble deciding what to paint for art show, so the narrator zaps them to the Renaissance where Michelangelo and where Mo gets a crush on his assistant Guido!
Stitch and Mo have to find away to defeat Darren and his snowball-launcher in the simplest of ways. The narrator zaps them to Ancient Egypt where they meet Tutankhamen. King Tut ordered them to find a place for the party of the great flood. But his adviser get jealous at them and try to get rid of them.
Stitch is afraid to get his shot, so he and Mo gets zapped to Italy where the Bubonic Plague is spreading! Will Stitch learn his lesson why getting medicine is important?
The terrier mascot of Stitch and Mo's basketball team has disappeared, and the team are desperate without it! The narrator zaps the two to Scotland where they meet King Robert the Bruce. The Scottish are trying to get their independence by getting the Stone of Destiny back!
Mo doesn't want to waste her time with her grandma Grannykins. Instead, she wants to play her new samurai video game! The narrator then zaps her and Stitch to Heian era Japan where they learn what being a samurai is all about!
Stitch and Mo are supposed to compete against Darren in an obstacle course! When Stitch and Mo think they're going to lose, the narrator zaps to the Arctic Circle where they Robert Edwin Peary, the first man ever to make it to the North Pole!
Mo can't stand that the "one glass of mil at a time" rule keeps the lunch line waiting! Plus, she doesn't want to miss out on the surf club showing a video of the Malolo Pupule, the best surf move in the world! The narrator then zaps her and Stitch to Hawaii where there were many unusual rules(or what the Hawaiians called "kapus")!
Stitch and Mo are forced to take to two dopey students as partners in Capture the Flag. The narrator zaps the two to the Rocky Mountains where they meet Lewis and Clark and their unusual partner Sacagawea!
Darren Dongle is the substitute teacher and challenges Stitch and Mo to a true-or-false quiz about the Christopher Columbus! Zapping them back in time won't help them, so they're on their own!
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