Drunk History - Season 6
Season 6
Episodes
Are You Afraid of the Drunk?
Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen star in this episode about how teenage writer Mary Shelley created her legendary novel, "Frankenstein".
National Parks
John Muir convinces Teddy Roosevelt to preserve Yosemite; journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas fights to protect the Everglades; Native American activists occupy Alcatraz.
Baseball
Moses Fleetwood Walker faces racism in the 19th-century MLB; the Chicago White Sox are accused of intentionally losing the 1919 World Series; the Callaghan sisters inspire the film "A League of Their Own".
Trailblazers
Bessie Coleman is America's first black woman pilot; the students of the Little Rock Nine integrate a high school following the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Love
People going to extremes for love, including a student who 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.
Drugs
John F. Kennedy's doctor administers him meth for his back pain; Dr. John C. Lilly takes LSD while studying the intelligence of dolphins.
Femme Fatales
Journalist Maurine Dallas Watkins writes a play about Chicago's infamous Murderesses' Row; Mata Hari goes from exotic dancer to double agent during World War I.
Drunk Mystery II
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.
Believe It or Not
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.
Legacies
Lead Belly records songs with John Lomax that change the face of music; John Lennon and Yoko Ono almost get deported; Sam Cooke writes "A Change Is Gonna Come".
Fame
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.
Good Samaritans
Forest service ranger Ed Pulaski saves 40 men from a forest fire; Ted Patrick rescues teenagers from the psychological grip of the Children of God cult.
Whistleblowers
Martha Mitchell leaks the Watergate scandal to the press before Deep Throat does; the Citizen's Commission to investigate the FBI stages an epic break-in.
Behind Enemy Lines
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.
S.O.S.
Navy officer Douglas Hegdahl outwits his captors when he's taken as a POW in North Vietnam; Florence Nightingale revolutionizes the field of nursing.
Bad Blood
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.
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