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Bodyshock - Episode Guide

Season 1

The Boy Who Gave Birth to His Twin

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2003

The Boy Who Gave Birth to His Twin

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

Wild Child

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Dec 15, 2003

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Anatomy of a Shark Bite

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Dec 22, 2003

Anatomy of a Shark Bite

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.

The Man Who Ate His Lover

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Mar 1, 2004

The Man Who Ate His Lover

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.

Season 2

The Man Who Slept for 19 Years

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Jan 31, 2005

The Man Who Slept for 19 Years

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

Megatumour

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Feb 19, 2005

Megatumour

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.

Season 3

Curse of the Mermaid

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Jan 30, 2006

Curse of the Mermaid

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?

Half Ton Man

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Feb 6, 2006

Half Ton Man

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.

The 80-Year-Old Children

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Feb 13, 2006

The 80-Year-Old Children

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

Born with Two Heads

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Mar 20, 2006

Born with Two Heads

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.

Season 4

World's Biggest Boy

Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Nov 26, 2008

World's Biggest Boy

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.

The Girl with Eight Limbs

Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Feb 19, 2008

The Girl with Eight Limbs

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

Season 5

Half Ton Son

Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Jan 26, 2009

Half Ton Son

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.

Half Ton Mum

Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Feb 1, 2009

Half Ton Mum

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.

Two Foot Tall Teen

Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Jun 11, 2009

Two Foot Tall Teen

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.

Age 8 and Wanting a Sex Change

Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Oct 19, 2009

Age 8 and Wanting a Sex Change

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

Half Ton Dad

Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Nov 22, 2009

Half Ton Dad

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.

Season 6

Girl Who Cries Blood

Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Jan 12, 2010

Girl Who Cries Blood

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.

Girl with Eight Limbs Grows Up

Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Jan 28, 2010

Girl with Eight Limbs Grows Up

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.

I Am the Elephant Man

Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Mar 10, 2010

I Am the Elephant Man

China's 'Elephant Man', Huang Chuncai, tells his own moving and extraordinary story as he undergoes life-saving surgery to remove tumours weighing 20kg

Our Daughter, the Mermaid

Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: May 18, 2010

Our Daughter, the Mermaid

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.

The Twins Who Share a Brain

Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: May 25, 2010

The Twins Who Share a Brain

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.

I'm Turning Into a Giant

Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Jun 1, 2010

I'm Turning Into a Giant

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.

Season 7

Dad's Having a Baby

Episode: 7x01 | Airdate: Apr 7, 2011

Dad's Having a Baby

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

The 27 Inch Man

Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: Apr 11, 2011

The 27 Inch Man

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

World's Tallest Man: Looking for Love

Episode: 7x03 | Airdate: May 26, 2011

World's Tallest Man: Looking for Love

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.

The Girl with Two Faces

Episode: 7x04 | Airdate:

The Girl with Two Faces

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.

Season 8

Turtle Boy

Episode: 8x01 | Airdate: Apr 25, 2012

Turtle Boy

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

The Man with the 10-Stone Testicles

Episode: 8x02 | Airdate: Jun 24, 2013

The Man with the 10-Stone Testicles

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.

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