The History of the World Backwards(2007)
Comedy
First Air Date: 2007-10-30
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 0.0
Votes: 1
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 6
The History of the World Backwards is a comedy sketch show written and starring Rob Newman. It is a mock history programme set in an alternative world, where time flows forwards, but history flows backwards. It was shown on BBC Four, starting on 30 October 2007, and later shown on BBC Two. It was Newman's first television project for 14 years.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 6E01
Episode 1
Air Date: 2007-10-30
Nelson Mandela enter prison as a sweet-natured Spice Girls fan, but emerge from a long incarceration as a terrorist b...
E02
Episode 2
Air Date: 2007-11-06
Looking to plug the £40b pensions black hole, Britain sets a target to have 90 per cent of the population smoking by ...
E03
Episode 3
Air Date: 2007-11-13
Rob Newman attempts to explain the sudden drop in numbers of successful women in business, engineering, science and m...
E04
Episode 4
Air Date: 2007-11-20
In this instalment of Rob Newman's The History Of The World Backwards, viewers discover how a gathering of anti-socia...
E05
Episode 5
Air Date: 2007-11-27
Christopher Columbus returns home to discover that half of Spain is now ruled by Arabs, and the T'ang Dynasty attempt...
E06
Episode 6
Air Date: 2007-12-04
Viewers are taken back to the sunset of recorded time in this final instalment of The History Of The World Backwards,...
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