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- Larry lifts off in a weather balloon propelled lawn chair. Phineas Gage survives a metal rod through his brain to become a sideshow. A ghost helps convict a man of murder.
- Lead Belly records songs with John Lomax that changes the face of music. John Lennon and Yoko Ono are nearly deported. The story of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come."
- Hedy Lamarr designs the first modern airplane wing, Eartha Kitt's activism provokes the ire of Lady Bird Johnson, and Alexis Pulaski's poodle becomes a huge star.
- Forest service ranger Ed Pulaski saves 40 men from a forest fire, and Ted Patrick rescues teenagers from the psychological grip of the Children of God cult.
- Martha Mitchell is the original Watergate leaker. The Citizen's Commission stage an epic break-in to FBI headquarters.
- Marina Raskova forms an all-women Air Force regiment to fight Nazis in World War II; smuggler James J. Andrews hijacks a Confederate train for the Union.
- Navy officer Douglas Hegdahl outwits his captors when he's taken as a POW in North Vietnam, and Florence Nightingale revolutionizes the field of nursing.
- Mary Mallon spreads typhoid fever wherever she goes, and Cleopatra's younger sister Arsinoe schemes her way in and out of power in Ancient Egypt.
- John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola from wine and cocaine, the FBI tries to take down Martin Luther King Jr., and Stetson Kennedy infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan. Guest starring Bill Hader, Simon Helberg, Kevin Nealon and more.
- Woodward and Bernstein blow open the Watergate scandal, actors/brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth engage in a tragic feud, and Elvis crashes the White House to meet Nixon. Guest starring Jack Black, Dave Grohl, Bob Odenkirk.
- Al Capone gets destroyed by an unlikely enemy, prairie lawyer Abraham Lincoln gets a huge break, and the police go to war with protestors during the Haymarket Riot. Guest starring Ike Barinholtz, Joe Lo Truglio, Matt Besser.
- Mary Dyer wages war with the Puritan establishment, two cunning thieves pull off a $500 million art heist, & the most notorious arsonist in New England history is revealed. Guest star: Winona Ryder, Michael Cera, Nick Offerman
- Patty Hearst gets kidnapped and brainwashed, Mark Twain flees the city in fear and finds his unlikely first hit story. Abolitionist Mary Ellen Pleasant becomes and influential Hotel Mogal. Guest starring Kristen Wiig, Terry Crews, Lisa Bonet and more.
- Ralph Nader goes to war with General Motors, Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle go from best friends to bitter rivals, and the Kellogg Brothers invent cereal but battle each other.
- Hold-outs fight to the bitter end at the Alamo, Billy the Kid goes on the run from lawman Pat Garrett, and Teddy Roosevelt rounds up the Rough Riders and goes to war. Guest starring Jake Johnson, Chris Parnell, Andy Daly and more.
- Lewis and Clark explore the dangerous west, evolution is questioned in the controversial "trial of the century," and Dolly Parton has to leave the man who made her famous. Guest starring Tony Hale, Aubrey Plaza, Jack McBrayer and more.
- Scientist Percy Julian overcomes racial barriers, Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her bus seat months before Rosa Parks's famous protest, and Joe Louis fights German boxer Max Schmeling.
- The U.S. reluctantly accepts the Statue of Liberty, Sybil Ludington goes on an epic ride to warn of a British attack, and journalist Nellie Bly infiltrates a corrupt mental institution.
- Alan Freed becomes one of the first radio DJs to broadcast rock 'n' roll, Kris Kristofferson gets his big break with some help from his hero, Johnny Cash, and Sylvia Robinson creates The Sugarhill Gang. Featuring Johnny Knoxville, Jack McBrayer and Retta.
- Abraham Lincoln tries to avoid assassination on the way to his inauguration, Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner," and Edgar Allan Poe feuds with Rufus Griswold. Featuring Charlie Day, Adrianne Palicki, Jesse Plemons and Jason Ritter.
- Charles Sumner gets caned on the Senate floor, Judge J. Waties Waring helps to end segregation, and a slave named Robert Smalls commandeers a Confederate warship. Featuring Patton Oswalt, Johnny Knoxville, Busy Philipps and Brandon T. Jackson.
- Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) upsets William Randolph Hearst: animator Ub Iwerks helps Walt Disney create Mickey Mouse: Nancy Reagan convinces her husband Ronald Reagan to enter politics.
- James Cook "discovers" Hawaii and parties with the natives, Japanese-American Daniel Inouye fights heroically in World War II, and Eddie Aikau becomes one of the world's greatest big wave surfers.
- Frances Cleveland becomes the youngest first lady ever, Edith Wilson runs the country after Woodrow Wilson's stroke, and Dolley Madison saves several artifacts from destruction. Featuring Courteney Cox, Bobby Moynihan, Alia Shawkat and Casey Wilson.
- Baron von Steuben helps train the Continental Army, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson campaign against each other for president, and Benedict Arnold betrays George Washington's army.
- Jim Thorpe is named the greatest athlete of the 20th century, Babe Didrikson breaks down gender barriers in sports, and Jim Abbott achieves prominence as a pitcher despite having only one hand. Featuring Jason Momoa, Zach Gilford and Emily Deschanel.
- Paleontologists Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope become rivals, and Penzias & Wilson discover the echo of the Big Bang. Featuring Greg Kinnear, Stephen Merchant, Justin Long, Jason Ritter, Tony Hale and Christopher Meloni.
- Pirate John Lafitte helps Andrew Jackson defeat the British during the War of 1812, Sam Zemurray becomes a banana kingpin, and Louis Armstrong becomes a jazz legend. Featuring Jack McBrayer, Thomas Middleditch, Jason Momoa, Miles Brown and Andre Royo.
- Actor Clark Gable joins the Air Force during World War II, Ponce de Leon quarrels with Diego Columbus, and Griselda Blanco takes over the cocaine trade in Miami.
- Virginia Hall works as a spy behind enemy lines in France during World War II; and intelligence officer Roald Dahl aids the British war effort against the Axis powers. Also: Harriet Tubman supplies the Union army with information.
- Wayne Wheeler becomes the face of Prohibition, Dorothy Fuldheim breaks barriers in news broadcasting, and Muhammad Ali refuses to fight in the Vietnam War.
- Milton Bradley popularizes board games, Roger Sharpe helps overturn a pinball ban, and chess master Bobby Fischer defeats Russian rival Boris Spassky during the Cold War. Featuring Topher Grace, Zach Gilford, Taran Killam and Jake Johnson.
- Kentucky Daisy stakes a claim to land, Gordon Cooper overcomes mechanical issues on a one-man space mission, and African-American Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves is the inspiration for the Lone Ranger. Featuring Kat Dennings, Colin Hanks and Jaleel White.
- Derek Waters travels to different cities to get people drunk and have them tell a tale from history. Then the dialogue is portrayed by real actors and comedians.
- The Wild West origins of the LAPD, Rin Tin Tin's rise to fame as a Hollywood star, and the shady dealings behind the LA Aqueduct and St. Francis Dam. Featuring Giancarlo Esposito, Ryan Phillippe, Derek Waters, Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Zach Woods, and Rowdy, as Rin Tin Tin.
- Popé leads the Pueblo Indians in a revolt, Boy Scouts founder Ernest Thompson Seton tracks a wolf, and the truth behind the Roswell UFO conspiracy is revealed. Featuring Colin Hanks, Jason Mantzoukas, Rob Huebel, Tom Lennon and Patton Oswalt.
- Alexander Graham Bell steals the original design for the telephone from Elisha Gray, and Thomas Edison tries to create a movie-making monopoly. Featuring Parker Posey, Chris Parnell, Jason Ritter, Martin Starr, Michael McKean, and Henry Winkler.
- Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan fall in love, Wernher von Braun becomes the father of American rocket science, and Russian cosmonauts perform the first spacewalk.
- J.T. McWilliams forms a community but is muscled out by William Clark, Bugsy Siegel bets his life on the Flamingo Casino, and the Moulin Rouge is the first casino to break the color barrier. Featuring Sam Rockwell, Donald Faison, and Dennis Quaid.
- LSD pioneer Timothy Leary escapes from prison, a sailor travels to Devil's Island to perform a daring rescue, and a baker's whiskey habit keeps him calm aboard the Titanic. Featuring Thomas Middleditch, Chris Parnell, Tom Lennon and Ron Funches.
- Sam Patch becomes America's first daredevil, Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald form a lasting friendship, and Buster Keaton takes his talents to the big screen. Featuring Kyle Mooney, Tony Hale, Billie Joe Armstrong, Juno Temple and Gabourey Sidibe.
- Carry A. Nation starts the temperance movement by smashing up bars. Andrew Jackson, the brawler, is involved in a duel. Marsha Johnson defends LGBT rights.
- Teddy Roosevelt revolutionizes football, Winston Churchill pays FDR a visit at Christmastime, and Eleanor Roosevelt befriends a female Soviet sniper. Featuring Rob Riggle, Mae Whitman, Busy Phillips, Rich Fulcher and Louie Anderson.
- Charles Ponzi hires a publicist to improve his image, Sadie the Goat becomes a notorious Hudson River pirate, and a conman poses as a Scottish royal. Featuring Jesse Plemons, Kat Dennings, Ed Helms, Taran Killam, Josh Charles and Ronda Rousey.
- Katharine Wright helps her brothers build an airplane, the Kopp sisters fight to protect their home, and the Fox sisters stoke the spiritualism craze. Featuring Elizabeth Olsen, Jason Ritter, Rachel Bilson, Sugar Lyn Beard, Sarah Ramos and Jenna Fischer.
- Host Derek Waters and fan fave Steve Berg relive the best Drunk History stories about presidents and elections, including the tense campaign between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln's pre-presidential law career.
- Emily Roebling oversees construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Victor Lustig sells the Eiffel Tower.
- Mayor La Guardia fights the mob over artichokes, Julia Child meets the love of her life while working as a spy, and a molasses flood devastates Boston. Featuring Michael McKean, Joe Lo Truglio, Kevin Pollak, Samm Levine, Jason Ritter and Michaela Watkins.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, his enemy Aaron Burr & their infamous fight to the death.
- The Cherry sisters take their terrible vaudeville act on the road, rival Shakespearean actors fuel a bloody riot, and a Chicago DJ goes postal on a crate of disco records.
- Tiffany Haddish, Evan Rachel Wood, Busy Philipps and Mandy Moore pay tribute to the first woman to fight in the Revolutionary War and receive a pension, a museum curator who saved art from the Nazis and Civil War hero Clara Barton.
- In an exploration of history's most dangerous minds featuring Rasputin, W.C. Minor and Jack Parsons.
- The early history of hip hop. Berry Gordy invents the Motown sound. Nichelle Nichols is known for her activism on and off the screen.
- Margaret Sanger leads a crusade for accessible birth control. The Kinsey scale is created. Gloria Steinheim goes undercover in the Playboy Club.
- A tribute to the women that fought for suffrage. In Birmingham, children march for civil rights. A look into disability rights.
- Fred Rogers fights for government funded children's programming. Ida Tarbell takes down Rockerfeller's oil monopoly.
- 'Tis the season to learn about history's finest Yuletide stories, from George Washington crossing the Delaware to Charles Dickens's creation of modern-day Christmas, with guest stars Ken Marino, Rob Corddry and Colin Hanks.
- Drunk History investigates Agatha Christie's disappearance, the anonymous letter writer who terrorized Circleville and the mastermind behind America's only unsolved airplane hijacking, with Kirsten Dunst, Vanessa Bayer and Taran Killam.
- An Italian handyman steals the Mona Lisa. A bank in Texas is robbed by the Santa bandits. A Nazi general is captured by Massod in Argentina.
- A lawyer defends the lives of rats in court, Henry Bergh establishes the ASPCA, and horse learns to solve math problems. Featuring Mae Whitman, Claudia O'Doherty, Paul Scheer, Martin Starr and Samm Levine.
- Joan of Arc leads France to victory, Temujin rises to power in Mongolia, and uber-rich emperor Mansa Musa takes his entourage to Mecca.
- Robert E. Lee's estate becomes a burial ground for Union soldiers; a gang of counterfeiters attempt to kidnap Abraham Lincoln's body; an embalmed bandit makes his way around the country.
- A victim of the Salem witch trials curses the town, one woman changes the way people celebrate Halloween, and Vlad the Impaler inspires the novel "Dracula."
- The story of how Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.
- A group of artists known as the Ghost Army trick German troops, a resistance movement grows within Japanese internment camps, and Adolf Hitler's nephew fights for the U.S.
- John Muir convinces Teddy Roosevelt to preserve Yosemite, journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas fights to protect the Everglades, and Native American activists occupy Alcatraz.
- Moses Fleetwood Walker faces racism in the 19th-century MLB, the Chicago White Sox throw the World Series, and the Callaghan sisters inspire the film "A League of Their Own."
- Bessie Coleman becomes the first female aviator in American history; in 1957, the Little Rock Nine fight back against racial segregation in order to attend Little Rock Central High School.
- A student tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall, Edie Windsor topples the Defense of Marriage Act, and John Wojtowicz robs a bank to pay for his wife's gender reassignment surgery.
- John F. Kennedy's doctor administers him meth for his back pain, and Dr. John C. Lilly takes LSD while studying the intelligence of dolphins.
- Mata Hari goes exotic dancer to double agent during World War I; Journalist Maurine Dallas Watkins writes a play about Chicago's infamous Murderesses' Row.
- Colonial gossip columnist James Callender winds up dead; a Hollywood producer dies on a celebrity-filled yacht; Ken McElroy is murdered after terrorizing a Missouri town.