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Body Shock

TV documentary series


Summary

TV documentary series

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imageBodyShock.png
genreDocumentary
countryUnited Kingdom
languageEnglish
runtime49 minutes
channelChannel 4
first_aired
last_aired

Body Shock (also: Bodyshock) is a British medical documentary series about the conditions or lives of extraordinary people. It was originally produced by redback for Channel 4 in the UK, but in September 2006, it was taken over by ArkMedia.

There have been three series since December 2003.

  • The Boy Who Gave Birth to His Twin (Alamjan Nematilaev from Kazakhstan)
  • Wild Child (Genie from the United States, episode was also titled Wild Child: The Story of Feral Children in the United States)
  • Anatomy of a Shark Bite
  • Riddle of the Elephant Man (Joseph Merrick from the United Kingdom)
  • The Man Who Ate his Lover (Armin Meiwes from Germany)
  • The Man Who Slept for 19 Years (Terry Wallis from the United States)
  • Orgasmatron
  • The Girl with X-Ray Eyes (Natasha Demkina from Saransk, Russia)
  • Megatumour (Lucica Bunghez from Romania and Matt Peperell from England)
  • When Anaesthesia Fails (Anesthetic awareness)
  • The Curse of the Mermaid (Milagros Cerrón from Peru, who was born with Sirenomelia)
  • Half Ton Man (Patrick Deuel from the United States)
  • The 80-Year-old Children (The Hussein family from India)
  • Born with Two Heads (Manar Maged from Egypt)
  • The Boy in the Bubble (David Vetter from the United States)
  • Kill Me to Cure Me (Brett Kehrer from the United States)
  • World's Biggest Boy (Dzhambulat Khatokhov from Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia)
  • Half Ton Mum
  • The Girl with Eight Limbs (Lakshmi Tatma from Bihar, India)
  • I am the Elephant Man (Huang Chuncai from China)
  • The Girl with Two Faces (Lali Kumar from India)
  • Half Ton Son (Billy Robbins from Houston, Texas, United States)
  • Two Foot Tall Teen (Jyoti Amge, from Nagpur, India)
  • Age 8 and Wanting a Sex Change
  • The Girl Who Cries Blood (Twinkle Dwivedi from Lucknow, India)
  • Our Daughter, the Mermaid (Shiloh Pepin from Maine)
  • The Twins Who Share A Brain (Krista and Tatiana Hogan from Vernon, Canada)
  • Dad's Having a Baby (Thomas and Scott Moore from California, US)
  • The 27 Inch Man (Edwardo Hernandez)
  • Turtle Boy
  • World's Tallest Man (Sultan Kösen from Turkey)
  • The Man with the 10-Stone Testicles (Wesley Warren, Jr. from the United States)
  • The Girl who Never Ate (Tia McCarthy from the United Kingdom, who suffered from and received corrective surgery for Oesophageal atresia)

References

References

  1. "World's Biggest boy".
  2. "Dad's Having a Baby". Channel 4.
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