Horrible Science: Full TV Schedule and Live Stream For Kids

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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Series 1 · 9. Space Vomit, Pet Mushrooms and Death by Chicken
Series 1: 9. Space Vomit, Pet Mushrooms and Death by Chicken
Revolting space travel, evolving cows, pet mushrooms, and Einstein watches a car on a trampoline.
⏱ 26 mins
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Sun 15 Feb · 12:45
UK
Sun 15 Feb · 12:45
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Series 1 · 9. Space Vomit, Pet Mushrooms and Death by Chicken
Revolting space travel, evolving cows, pet mushrooms, and Einstein watches a car on a trampoline.
⏱ 26 mins
Time
Your Time
Sun 15 Feb · 12:45
UK
Sun 15 Feb · 12:45

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Series 1 15. Forces and Motion Special

15. Forces and Motion Special

A weird and wonderful look at how gravity, magnetism and friction impact everything. With Fred Sirieix.
Duration: 25 mins First broadcast: 9 May 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Oct 2029)
Series 1 14. Working Scientifically Special

14. Working Scientifically Special

A special guide to working scientifically, whether that involves drinking black vomit, measuring people’s farts, or firing arrows into their bum.
Duration: 26 mins First broadcast: 9 May 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Oct 2029)
Series 1 13. Earth and Space Special

13. Earth and Space Special

Rapping science teacher Matt Green becomes the first human being ever to visit Quark when he joins Pipette on her home planet to help host this special episode about Earth and space.
Duration: 25 mins First broadcast: 9 May 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Oct 2029)
Series 1 12. Sizzling Monks, Algorithms and Weather Frogs

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!
Duration: 26 mins First broadcast: 9 May 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Oct 2029)
Series 1 11. Dragon’s Blood, Rude Flowers and Wibbly Wobbly Gravity

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!
Duration: 26 mins First broadcast: 9 May 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Oct 2029)
Series 1 10. Real Mutants, Volcanoes and Drinking Vomit

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.
Duration: 25 mins First broadcast: 9 May 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Oct 2029)
Series 1 9. Space Vomit, Pet Mushrooms and Death by Chicken

9. Space Vomit, Pet Mushrooms and Death by Chicken

Revolting space travel, evolving cows, pet mushrooms, and Einstein watches a car on a trampoline.
Duration: 26 mins First broadcast: 9 May 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Oct 2029)
Series 1 8. A Meteor for the Dinosaurs, Binary Bangers and Perilous Plants

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.
Duration: 25 mins First broadcast: 9 May 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Oct 2029)
Series 1 7. Fartenheimer, the Water Cycle and 206 Bones

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.
Duration: 26 mins First broadcast: 9 May 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Oct 2029)
Series 1 6. Dinosaur Traitors, a Grumpy Moon and a Big Bang

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.
Duration: 26 mins First broadcast: 9 May 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Oct 2029)
Series 1 5. The Force Force, Lever Man and the Goldilocks Zone

5. The Force Force, Lever Man and the Goldilocks Zone

Meet superheroes the Force Force, and some of the 17th century’s greatest minds star in Friends parody Colleagues.
Duration: 25 mins First broadcast: 9 May 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Oct 2029)
Series 1 4. Manky Materials and Shifty States Special

4. Manky Materials and Shifty States Special

Guy Mowbray narrates Elemental Gladiators, Judge Rinder has a science beef, and someone tries to steal the earth’s gold. Gladiator Steel and Big Manny guest star.
Duration: 22 mins First broadcast: 9 May 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Oct 2029)
Series 1 3. Mary Ploppins, Magnets and Sorting Your Bits Out

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.
Duration: 25 mins First broadcast: 9 May 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Oct 2029)
Series 1 2. Light, Sound and Electricity Special

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!
Duration: 26 mins First broadcast: 9 May 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Oct 2029)
Series 1 1. Gravity the Musical, a T-rex and Vampires on Holiday

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!
Duration: 25 mins First broadcast: 5:30pm 9 May 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Oct 2029)

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