Body Shock Explained
| Genre: | Documentary |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Runtime: | 49 minutes |
| Channel: | Channel 4 |
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 (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)
- 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)[1]
- 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)[2]
- 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)
Notes and References
- Web site: World's Biggest boy. 25 January 2010. 26 January 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100126051517/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/bodyshock/episode-guide/series-7/episode-1. dead.
- Web site: Dad's Having a Baby. BodyShock. Channel 4. 2011-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20130724013013/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/bodyshock/episode-guide/series-24/episode-1. 2013-07-24. dead.
