Season 6
16 episodes · 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.”
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S6E1Are You Afraid of the Drunk?
Jan 15, 201922mWill Ferrell and Seth Rogen star in this episode about how teenage writer Mary Shelley created her legendary novel, “Frankenstein.”
S6E2National Parks
Jan 22, 201922mJohn Muir convinces Teddy Roosevelt to preserve Yosemite, journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas fights to protect the Everglades, and Native American activists occupy Alcatraz.
S6E3Baseball
Jan 29, 201922mMoses 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."
S6E4Trailblazers
Feb 5, 201922mBessie 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.
S6E5Love
Feb 12, 201922mA 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.
S6E6Drugs
Feb 19, 201922mJohn F. Kennedy’s doctor administers him meth for his back pain, and Dr. John C. Lilly takes LSD while studying the intelligence of dolphins.
S6E7Femme Fatales
Feb 26, 201922mJournalist 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.
S6E8Drunk Mystery II
Mar 5, 201922mColonial 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.
S6E9Believe It Or Not
Mar 12, 201922mLarry 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.
S6E10Legacies
Jun 25, 201922mLead 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.”
S6E11Fame
Jul 2, 201922mHedy 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.
S6E12Good Samaritans
Jul 9, 201922mForest 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.
S6E13Whistleblowers
Jul 16, 201922mMartha 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.
S6E14Behind Enemy Lines
Jul 23, 201922mMarina 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.
S6E15S.O.S.
Jul 30, 201922mNavy officer Douglas Hegdahl outwits his captors when he’s taken as a POW in North Vietnam, and Florence Nightingale revolutionizes the field of nursing.
S6E16Bad Blood
Aug 6, 201922mMary Mallon spreads typhoid fever wherever she goes, and Cleopatra’s younger sister Arsinoe schemes her way in and out of power in Ancient Egypt.