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 30 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2026.
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Horrible Science
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.
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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.
Series 2
A guide to the human body, featuring the Handsome Vampires at the dentist, Big Brain losing muscle control, Newton explaining the need for sleep, and the ultimate disco DNA song.
Pooey goes to Uncle Skid’s barbe-poo, Ethan Huntergatherer bites off more than he can chew in Mammoth: Impossible, some Witches get salty, and Clare Shedding presents Grrrufts.
Series 1
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 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!
Series 2
Greg Davies and Alex Horne host Scientific Taskmaster, and Einstein unpacks why belly flops hurt. Also, meet superhero team the Insect Revengers.
The Thantastic Three show why they are superheroes that matter, the handsome vampires get a taste of their own medicine, and dinosaurs don’t do battle in Prehistomon!
Series 1
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 is 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.
Series 2
Astronaut Tim Peake and Pipette journey into space to reveal how to go to the loo on suction toilets and that the drinking water is recycled wee.
Series 1
A weird and wonderful look at how gravity, magnetism and friction impact everything. With Fred Sirieix.
Series 2
A special collection of sketches, featuring appearances by Gabby Logan, Micah Richards, Alan Shearer, Guy Mowbray and Gladiator Dynamite... and Sir Isaac Newton and Einstein!
Series 1
A special guide to working scientifically, whether that involves drinking black vomit, measuring people’s farts, or firing arrows into their bum.
Series 2
Big Brain tries to turn off the sun, there’s a real stink at First Honk of the Proms, and Tesla’s Queen-inspired Don’t Shock Me Now.