The Boy Who Gave Birth to His Twin
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2003
The incredible story of seven-year-old Alamjan from Kazakhstan who underwent surgery only for doctors to discover his own twin was growing inside him
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2003
The incredible story of seven-year-old Alamjan from Kazakhstan who underwent surgery only for doctors to discover his own twin was growing inside him
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Dec 15, 2003
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Dec 22, 2003
The chances of being bitten by a shark are 80 million to one. This incredible documentary features and analyses two such cases illustrating how future attacks could be stopped.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jan 5, 2004
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Mar 1, 2004
Exploring the extraordinary and disturbing story of Armin Miewes, a 41-year-old man from Germany who advertised on the internet for willing victims he could kill and eat.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Jan 31, 2005
Terry Wallis is a medical miracle, having awoken from a 20-year coma, but this is no fairytale awakening as Terry believes he is still an able-bodied 19-year-old
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Feb 7, 2005
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Feb 14, 2005
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Feb 19, 2005
In Romania, Lucica Bunghez is being eaten alive, consumed by an 11-stone tumour growing out of her back. Dr McKay McKinnon travels from Chicago to see if he can save Lucica's life.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Feb 28, 2005
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Jan 30, 2006
With her legs fused together like a tail, Milagros Cerron has one of the world's rarest birth abnormalities: sirenomelia, or 'mermaid syndrome'. Can plastic surgeon Dr Luis Rubio save her?
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Feb 6, 2006
An exploration of the world of extreme human obesity through the story of Patrick Deuel, who until recently was the fattest man in the world.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Feb 13, 2006
In 2003 in a remote Indian village a Swiss doctor made a dramatic discovery: tiny, fragile children, hair thinning, bones dissolving, who looked like they were aged 80
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Mar 20, 2006
Manar Maged was born with two heads; her second head shows signs of independent consciousness, but it is a parasite that is killing her. BodyShock follows the struggle to save her life.
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Sep 11, 2006
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Sep 25, 2006
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Nov 27, 2007
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Nov 26, 2008
Dzhambulat Khatokhov, aged seven, weighs in at 16 stone - as much as a baby elephant. British doctor Ian Campbell travels to the far south of Russia to uncover a disturbing story.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Feb 19, 2008
Two-year-old Lakshmi was born with one of the world's rarest physical abnormalities: joined at the pelvis to her half-formed conjoined twin, she has four arms and four legs
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Jan 26, 2009
The story of 19-year-old Billy Robbins from Houston, Texas. Weighing 60 stone and reportedly the world's heaviest teenager, he now wants to shed much of his weight and turn his life around.
Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Feb 1, 2009
The story of the world's heaviest woman, Renee Williams, a 64-stone, 29-year-old mother of two who, in a desperate bid to save her life, undergoes major surgery.
Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Jun 11, 2009
This Bodyshock special meets Jyoti Amge, a normal Indian teenager who enjoys going to school and socialising with her friends, but Jyoti is only one foot 11 inches tall.
Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Oct 19, 2009
First broadcast in 2009, as experts considered a review of UK guidelines for treating transgender children, this film follows children in the US who told their parents they were born in the wrong body
Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Nov 22, 2009
Kenneth Brumley, 40, weighed 73 stone when he prepared for a do-or-die operation. This is the story of a father, his family and his country, America, with 15 million morbidly obese people.
Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Jan 12, 2010
For two years 13-year-old Twinkle has inexplicably cried tears of blood. She meets leading religious and medical figures to determine the cause of her condition.
Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Jan 28, 2010
Lakshmi Tatma was born with four arms and four legs. This Bodyshock Special revisits her a year after she underwent a life-saving operation to remove her half-formed conjoined twin's limbs.
Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Mar 10, 2010
China's 'Elephant Man', Huang Chuncai, tells his own moving and extraordinary story as he undergoes life-saving surgery to remove tumours weighing 20kg
Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: May 18, 2010
Ten-year-old Shiloh Pepin was born with sirenomelia, which leaves her legs fused together. Bodyshock spends six months with Shiloh and her family as their lives change for ever.
Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: May 25, 2010
Three-year-old twins Krista and Tatiana are conjoined at the head and can never be separated. Bodyshock presents a rare portrait of a family determined to give the twins a fulfilling life.
Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Jun 1, 2010
Tanya Angus is 6ft 8ins, weighs almost 32 stone and is still growing. This Bodyshock special meets Tanya, other people affected by acromegaly, and the medical experts trying to help them.
Episode: 7x01 | Airdate: Apr 7, 2011
A sensitive and intimate portrait of a family in which both the parents are gay men - who were born as Jessica and Laura - and are about to have a third child
Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: Apr 11, 2011
This film in the series about the world's most extreme human bodies explores the extraordinary life of Edward Hernandez, who at the age of 24 is just 27 inches tall
Episode: 7x03 | Airdate: May 26, 2011
At over eight feet tall, Sultan Kösen from Turkey is the world's tallest man. This documentary follows his journey around the world in search of a cure for his gigantism.
Episode: 7x04 | Airdate:
In 2008 in rural India, against odds of 50 million to one, a baby, seemingly in perfect health, was born with two faces. This is the amazing story of baby Lali.
Episode: 8x01 | Airdate: Apr 25, 2012
The extraordinary story of Didier, a six-year-old boy from Colombia with a giant mole that covered 40% of his body: a story of childhood bravery, cutting-edge medicine and a mother's love
Episode: 8x02 | Airdate: Jun 24, 2013
The extraordinary story of Wesley Warren Jr, whose testicles started growing following an accident in 2008, to the extent that he could no longer live a normal life.