Episode guide
Drunk History: Season 6
16 episodes · premiered Jan 15, 2019
This season of Drunk History tackles such far-ranging topics as Martha “The Mouth” Mitchell's role in Watergate, Hedy Lamarr’s invention of frequency hopping and the story behind the creation of “Frankenstein.”
- Episode 1: Are You Afraid of the Drunk? Jan 15, 2019 · 22m Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen star in this episode about how teenage writer Mary Shelley created her legendary novel, “Frankenstein.”
- Episode 2: National Parks Jan 22, 2019 · 22m John Muir convinces Teddy Roosevelt to preserve Yosemite, journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas fights to protect the Everglades, and Native American activists occupy Alcatraz.
- Episode 3: Baseball Jan 29, 2019 · 22m 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."
- Episode 4: Trailblazers Feb 5, 2019 · 22m Bessie Coleman is America’s first black woman pilot, and the students of the Little Rock Nine integrate a high school following the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
- Episode 5: Love Feb 12, 2019 · 22m 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.
- Episode 6: Drugs Feb 19, 2019 · 22m 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.
- Episode 7: Femme Fatales Feb 26, 2019 · 22m Journalist Maurine Dallas Watkins writes a play about Chicago’s infamous Murderesses’ Row, and Mata Hari goes from exotic dancer to double agent during World War I.
- Episode 8: Drunk Mystery II Mar 5, 2019 · 22m Colonial gossip columnist James Callender winds up dead, a Hollywood producer dies on a celebrity-filled yacht, and Ken McElroy is murdered after terrorizing a Missouri town.
- Episode 9: Believe It Or Not Mar 12, 2019 · 22m Larry Walters pilots a balloon-suspended lawn chair, Phineas Gage survives an iron rod to the brain, and the Greenbrier Ghost’s testimony is used in court.
- Episode 10: Legacies Jun 25, 2019 · 22m Lead Belly records songs with John Lomax that change the face of music, John Lennon and Yoko Ono almost get deported, and Sam Cooke writes “A Change Is Gonna Come.”
- Episode 11: Fame Jul 2, 2019 · 22m 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.
- Episode 12: Good Samaritans Jul 9, 2019 · 22m 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.
- Episode 13: Whistleblowers Jul 16, 2019 · 22m Martha Mitchell leaks the Watergate scandal to the press before Deep Throat does, and the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI stages an epic break-in.
- Episode 14: Behind Enemy Lines Jul 23, 2019 · 22m Marina Raskova forms an all-women air force regiment to fight Nazis in World War II, and smuggler James J. Andrews hijacks a Confederate train for the Union.
- Episode 15: S.O.S. Jul 30, 2019 · 22m 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.
- Episode 16: Bad Blood Aug 6, 2019 · 22m 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.