History Bites was a television series on the History Television network that ran from 1998-2003. Created by Rick Green, History Bites explored what would be on television if the medium had been around for the last 5,000 years of human history. Typically, a significant historical event was chosen and mock news, sports and entertainment programming was created around it. Each episode included several segments of Green offering historical background of the episode's chosen era and otherwise showed frequent shifts from one comedy sketch to another representing a channel-surfing viewer who never watched any one sketch for more than a few minutes at a time. Reruns of History Bites are currently being shown on History Television and The Comedy Network.
Air Date: 1998-10-01
The greatest medical disaster in Western History is seen through the eyes of television. Featuring news updates on th...
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He's incompetent, insane, incestuous, and in charge. A Roman reign of terror ends with news coverage of the death of ...
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The troublemaker who has upset so many apple carts, gets his punishment: death by Hemlock. As Athenian news anchors u...
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Throughout history great cities all over the world have had one thing in common: burning down now and then. The fire ...
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The story of one of the great lights of the Dark Ages. Charlemagne, the greatest European king of the his century, en...
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The Declaration of Independence was one of history's greatest documents. It was also a dangerous one to have your na...
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It's power politics at it's most dangerous, and the beginning of democracy as we know it. The medieval media cover th...
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The Vandals, barbarians from Northern Europe, had already conquered the Roman Empire to the South and East. In the ye...
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Set in the cruel climax of the French Revolution, this episode explores the death of famed firebrand Robespierre. Aft...
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Nobody expects it. It's the infamous official witchhunt to end all witchhunts, as seen through news reports, stand-up...
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It's Napoleonic news coverage of Bonaparte's last stand. This breaking story is covered in live updates from the conf...
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The story of the fateful meeting between two warrior cultures, that started out peacefully, went from bad to worse, a...