History Bites
History Bites was a television series on the History Television network that ran from 1998-2003. Created by Rick Green, History Bites explored what would be on television if the medium had been around for the last 5,000 years of human history. Typically, a significant historical event was chosen and mock news, sports and entertainment programming was created around it. Each episode included several segments of Green offering historical background of the episode's chosen era and otherwise showed frequent shifts from one comedy sketch to another representing a channel-surfing viewer who never watched any one sketch for more than a few minutes at a time. Reruns of History Bites are currently being shown on History Television and The Comedy Network.
- Created By
Rick GreenDuncan McKenzie
- First Aired on
Oct 01, 1998
- Popularity: 2.2588
- 2 votes
- Networks
- (US)
- Production
S&S Productions (CA)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
5 seaons till Jul 31, 2004
Last episode: A Newtiful Mind
Seasons & episodes
Total 5 seasons, 101 episodes
Specials
Aired
Episode 1The End Of The World30 min
Overview not available
Episode 2Mother Britain30 min
Rick Green exposes the myths of Confederation and skewers the nations’ leaders showing how Canada’s battle to be free of Britain was more a case of Britain pushing us away. Starting from the days of Cabot and Cartier, we see how this French colony of Canada became British. Wolfe and Montcalm’s battle for The Plains of Abraham is recreated using robots and bat creatures. Rick compares the bloodbath of the American Revolution to the booze-ups behind Canadian Confederation. A parade of plucky Prime Ministers reveals how the True North Strong and Free was the result of chance, chicanery, and double dealing. It’s the shocking, funny and outrageous story of a bunch of small colonies who went from being Mother Britain’s ‘momma’s boy’ to a world leader in niceness.
Episode 3Uncle Sam30 min
The history of U.S./Canada relations.
Episode 4The Separatists30 min
A special on the history of separatist movements in Canada from the Upper and Lower Canada Rebellions to the Clarity Act.
Episode 5Celine Dion30 min
Celine Dion is a tv episode.
Crew & Team
Executive Producer
Producer
