Bodyshock
Channel 4 Running
8 Seasons · 36 Episodes · Premiered December 8, 2003
Long-running documentary strand that investigates extraordinary and moving real-life stories about the extremes of the human body.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
5 episodes
E01
The Boy Who Gave Birth to His Twin
Mon, Dec 8 2003 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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
E02
Wild Child
Mon, Dec 15 2003 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
Anatomy of a Shark Bite
Mon, Dec 22 2003 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E04
Riddle of the Elephant Man
Mon, Jan 5 2004 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
The Man Who Ate His Lover
Mon, Mar 1 2004 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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
5 episodes
E01
The Man Who Slept for 19 Years
Mon, Jan 31 2005 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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
E02
Orgasmatron
Mon, Feb 7 2005 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
The Girl with X-Ray Eyes
Mon, Feb 14 2005 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Megatumour
Sat, Feb 19 2005 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E05
When Anaesthesia Fails
Mon, Feb 28 2005 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 3
4 episodes
E01
Curse of the Mermaid
Mon, Jan 30 2006 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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?
E02
Half Ton Man
Mon, Feb 6 2006 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E03
The 80-Year-Old Children
Mon, Feb 13 2006 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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
E04
Born with Two Heads
Mon, Mar 20 2006 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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
5 episodes
E01
The Boy in the Bubble
Mon, Sep 11 2006 11:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E02
Kill Me to Cure Me
Mon, Sep 25 2006 11:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
Half Man, Half Tree
Tue, Nov 27 2007 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
World's Biggest Boy
Wed, Nov 26 2008 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E05
The Girl with Eight Limbs
Tue, Feb 19 2008 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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
5 episodes
E01
Half Ton Son
Mon, Jan 26 2009 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E02
Half Ton Mum
Sun, Feb 1 2009 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E03
Two Foot Tall Teen
Thu, Jun 11 2009 11:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E04
Age 8 and Wanting a Sex Change
Mon, Oct 19 2009 11:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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
E05
Half Ton Dad
Sun, Nov 22 2009 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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
6 episodes
E01
Girl Who Cries Blood
Tue, Jan 12 2010 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E02
Girl with Eight Limbs Grows Up
Thu, Jan 28 2010 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E03
I Am the Elephant Man
Wed, Mar 10 2010 12:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
China's 'Elephant Man', Huang Chuncai, tells his own moving and extraordinary story as he undergoes life-saving surgery to remove tumours weighing 20kg
E04
Our Daughter, the Mermaid
Tue, May 18 2010 11:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E05
The Twins Who Share a Brain
Tue, May 25 2010 11:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E06
I'm Turning Into a Giant
Tue, Jun 1 2010 11:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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
4 episodes
E01
Dad's Having a Baby
Thu, Apr 7 2011 11:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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
E02
The 27 Inch Man
Mon, Apr 11 2011 11:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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
E03
World's Tallest Man: Looking for Love
Thu, May 26 2011 11:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E04
The Girl with Two Faces
60 min
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
2 episodes
E01
Turtle Boy
Wed, Apr 25 2012 11:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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
E02
The Man with the 10-Stone Testicles
Mon, Jun 24 2013 11:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
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.