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Drunk History: Season 6
January 15, 2019
16 Episodes
~22 min per episode
Overview
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.”
Episodes
16
1
Are You Afraid of the Drunk?
Jan 15, 2019
22 min
Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen star in this episode about how teenage writer Mary Shelley created her legendary novel, “Frankenstein.”
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2
National Parks
Jan 22, 2019
22 min
John Muir convinces Teddy Roosevelt to preserve Yosemite, journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas fights to protect the Everglades, and Native American activists occupy Alcatraz.
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3
Baseball
Jan 29, 2019
22 min
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."
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4
Trailblazers
Feb 5, 2019
22 min
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.
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5
Love
Feb 12, 2019
22 min
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.
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6
Drugs
Feb 19, 2019
22 min
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.
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7
Femme Fatales
Feb 26, 2019
22 min
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.
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8
Drunk Mystery II
Mar 5, 2019
22 min
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.
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9
Believe It Or Not
Mar 12, 2019
22 min
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.
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10
Legacies
Jun 25, 2019
22 min
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.”
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11
Fame
Jul 2, 2019
22 min
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.
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12
Good Samaritans
Jul 9, 2019
22 min
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.
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13
Whistleblowers
Jul 16, 2019
22 min
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.
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14
Behind Enemy Lines
Jul 23, 2019
22 min
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.
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15
S.O.S.
Jul 30, 2019
22 min
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.
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16
Bad Blood
Aug 6, 2019
22 min
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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