Horrible Science
Horrible Science is a TV show on CBBC. Hilarious new characters, mind-boggling science facts, and Sir Isaac Newton on terrifying rollercoasters - science is about to get very horrible indeed! The program has been available since 2025. A total of 16 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in June 2026.
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Horrible Science
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!
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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!
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!
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.
Revolting space travel, evolving cows, pet mushrooms, and Einstein watches a car on a trampoline.
Fred Sirieix stars in Scientific First Dates, Marie Curie reacts to space, and the dinosaurs get an unwelcome musical meteor visitor.
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.
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.
Meet superheroes the Force Force, and some of the 17th century’s greatest minds star in Friends parody Colleagues.
Mary Ploppins soothes those digestive ills, Dr Big Brain tries banana power, and Einstein reacts to Tim Peake. Fred Sirieix guest stars.
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!
A weird and wonderful look at how gravity, magnetism and friction impact everything. With Fred Sirieix.
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.
A special guide to working scientifically, whether that involves drinking black vomit, measuring people’s farts, or firing arrows into their bum.
Horrible Science, coming soon! Hilarious new characters, mind-boggling science facts, and Sir Isaac Newton on terrifying rollercoasters. Science is about to get very horrible indeed.
Series 2, Episode 1 - Paddington T-rex, The Farters and the Toxic Bake Off...
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Cloudia Stinkleman presents The Farters, aliens try to steal the universe’s most valuable substance: wood, a family adopts Paddington T-rex, and Chappell Groan sings Got to Go.