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This article is an episode list for Puppet History, a comedy game show YouTube series produced by Watcher Entertainment.[1]
The pilot episode was released on January 10, 2020.[2]
In season one, the contestants sat in chairs in the same room as the puppet theater. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, seasons two and three were carried out virtually and the show was named Puppet History: Online University.[3] In season 4, the show returned to being in person.
Season 5 of Puppet History premiered on November 11, 2022, with an episode titled "How Hippo Meat Almost Saved America". Season 6 premiered July 7, 2023. The show has been renewed for a seventh season.
Two holiday specials have aired in 2020 and in 2021.
Series Overview
edit| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 4 | January 10, 2020 | May 22, 2020 | |
| 2 | 8 | August 14, 2020 | October 2, 2020 | |
| 3 | 6 | March 12, 2021 | April 23, 2021 | |
| 4 | 6 | August 27, 2021 | October 3, 2021 | |
| 5 | 6 | November 11, 2022 | December 16, 2022 | |
| 6 | 6 | July 7, 2023 | August 11, 2023 | |
Episodes
editSeason 1 (2020)
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "Life During the Black Death" | Shane Madej | January 10, 2020 | |
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The Professor explores the era of the Black Death. Special guest: Steven LimMusical Puppet Guest: Death, depicted as a skeleton | |||||
| 2 | 2 | "Stealing the World's Most Expensive Necklace" | Shane Madej | February 27, 2020 | |
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The Professor presents the Affair of the Diamond Necklace. Special guest: Kate PetermanMusical Puppet Guest: A big pile of diamonds | |||||
| 3 | 3 | "Surviving the Titanic: History's Luckiest Woman" | Shane Madej | April 10, 2020 | |
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The Professor presents the story of Miss Unsinkable, Violet Jessop. Special guest: Jenny LorenzoMusical Puppet Guest: The Britannic's propeller | |||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Dancing Plague" | Shane Madej | May 22, 2020 | |
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The Professor presents the dancing plague of 1518 in Strasbourg, Alsace. Special guest: Jermaine FowlerMusical Puppet Guest: God, depicted as a one-eyed purple humanoid | |||||
Season 2: Online Puppet University (2020)
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "How America's First Female Detective Saved Abe Lincoln" | Garrett Werner | August 14, 2020 | |
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The Professor presents the story of Kate Warne and her plans to stop the Baltimore Plot. Special guest: Kate PetermanMusical Puppet Guest: Abraham Lincoln's train | |||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Terrifying Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius" | Garrett Werner | August 21, 2020 | |
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The Professor presents the events of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD and its effects on Pompeii Special guest: Matt RealMusical Puppet Guest: Mount Vesuvius | |||||
| 3 | 3 | "Hatshepsut: The Forgotten Pharaoh" | Garrett Werner | August 28, 2020 | |
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The Professor presents the life of Hatshepsut, the fifth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Special guest: Ryann GrahamMusical Puppet Guest: A mummified goose from the tomb of Hatshepsut | |||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Disastrous 1904 Olympic Marathon" | Garrett Werner | September 4, 2020 | |
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The Professor presents the strange events that took place at the 1904 Olympic Marathon. Special guest: Kristin ChiricoMusical Puppet Guest: The Olympic Torch | |||||
| 5 | 5 | "Isaac Newton's Nemesis" | Garrett Werner | September 11, 2020 | |
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The Professor presents the life of conman, William Chaloner. Special guest: Keith HabersbergerMusical Puppet Guest: A clipped coin | |||||
| 6 | 6 | "The World's Greatest/Rudest Samurai" | Garrett Werner | September 18, 2020 | |
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The Professor presents the life of Miyamoto Musashi. Special guest: Garrick BernardMusical Puppet Guest: Two oars | |||||
| 7 | 7 | "Policarpa: The Revolutionary Teen Spy" | Garrett Werner | September 25, 2020 | |
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The Professor presents the short life of Neogranadine spy Policarpa Salavarrieta. Special guest: Curly VelasquezMusical Puppet Guest: A spool of thread | |||||
| 8 | 8 | "The Grisly Journey of the Donner Party" | Garrett Werner | October 2, 2020 | |
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The Professor presents the horrifying journey of the Donner Party. Special guest: Joyce Louis-JeanMusical Puppet Guest: A snowman full of human bones and organs from the shores of Donner Lake | |||||
Season 3: Online Puppet University (2021)
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "The Beast of Gévaudan" | Garrett Werner | March 12, 2021 | |
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The Professor presents the accounts of animal attacks in Gévaudan and the Beast of Gévaudan. Special guest: Sara RubinMusical Puppet Guest: The Beast of Gévaudan, depicted as a wolf with a stereotypical French beret and mustache. | |||||
| 2 | 2 | "The War of the Golden Stool" | Garrett Werner | March 26, 2021 | |
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The Professor presents the War of the Golden Stool. Special guest: Kate PetermanMusical Puppet Guest: The Golden Stool | |||||
| 3 | 3 | "Ziryab: The World's First Rock Star" | Garrett Werner | April 2, 2021 | |
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The Professor presents the life of eighth century musician, Ziryab. Special guest: Zach KornfeldMusical Puppet Guest: Ziryab's oud with the Professor on guitar | |||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Affair of the Poisons" | Garrett Werner | April 9, 2021 | |
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The Professor presents the major French murder scandal, the Affair of the Poisons. Special guest: Garrick BernardMusical Puppet Guest: Two deadly bottles of posion | |||||
| 5 | 5 | "Ching Shih: The Pirate Queen" | Garrett Werner | April 16, 2021 | |
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The Professor presents the life of Chinese pirate, Ching Shih. Special guest: Joyce Louis-JeanMusical Puppet Guest: The flower boat that Ching Shih once worked on | |||||
| 6 | 6 | "The Great Molasses Flood" | Garrett Werner | April 23, 2021 | |
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The Professor presents the deadly and sticky story of the Boston Molasses Disaster. Special guest: Garrett WattsMusical Puppet Guest: A horse from the streets of Boston named Stanley Melvin Murphy, and God. | |||||
Season 4 (2021)
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "The Great Emu War" | Katie LeBlanc | Garrett Werner | August 28, 2021 | |
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The Professor presents the Australian wildlife operation, the Great Emu War. Special guest: Kate PetermanMusical Puppet Guest: A stalk of wheat and a flock of emus | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Mansa Musa: The Richest Man in History" | Katie LeBlanc | Garrett Werner | September 4, 2021 | |
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The Professor presents the life of the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, Mansa Musa. Special guest: Ify NwadiweMusical Puppet Guest: A fraction of Mansa Musa's fortune | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "America vs. Smallpox: How Vaccines Saved the Nation" | Katie LeBlanc | Garrett Werner | September 11, 2021 | |
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The Professor presents the history of smallpox in America and the creation of vaccines by Dr. Edward Jenner. Special guest: Jermaine FowlerMusical Puppet Guest: A lump of pus and a walnut shell full of smallpox scabs | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "José Rizal: The Philippines' Reluctant Revolutionary" | Katie LeBlanc | Garrett Werner | September 17, 2021 | |
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The Professor presents the life of Filipino nationalist, José Rizal. Special guest: Josh WeinsteinMusical Puppet Guest: A book written by José Rizal | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "The Bloody Revenge of Saint Olga of Kyiv" | Katie LeBlanc | Garrett Werner | September 24, 2021 | |
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The Professor presents the horrific events Saint Olga enacted upon the Drevlians to avenge her husband Igor of Kiev. Special guest: Selorm KploanyiMusical Puppet Guest: Two birch trees holding the corpse of Igor of Kyiv | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "The Demonic Possessions of Loudun" | Katie LeBlanc | Garrett Werner | October 3, 2021 | |
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The Professor presents the notorious witchcraft trial of 1634, the Loudun possessions affair. Special guest: Sara RubinMusical Puppet Guest: The demon Asmodeus, shown as a three headed furry green monster. Satan, depicted as a typical red demon, also appears at the end of the episode with a minor singing role. | ||||||
Season 5 (2022)
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "How Hippo Meat Almost Saved America" | Mark Celestino | Garrett Werner | November 11, 2022 | |
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The Professor presents the story and the failure of the American Hippo bill. Special guest: Sara RubinMusical Puppet Guest: A hippopotamus | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Defenestrations of Prague" | Mark Celestino | Garrett Werner | November 18, 2022 | |
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The Professor presents the infamous events of the Defenestrations of Prague. Special guest: Brian David GilbertMusical Puppet Guest: A stained glass window | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Vietnamese Sisters Who Fought An Empire" | Mark Celestino | Garrett Werner | November 25, 2022 | |
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The Professor presents the lives of Vietnamese heroines and military leaders, the Trưng sisters. Special guest: Maya MurilloMusical Puppet Guest: An immortal white tiger | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "America's First Black Aviatrix" | Mark Celestino | Garrett Werner | December 2, 2022 | |
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The professor presents the journey of the first African-American woman to hold a pilot license, Bessie Coleman. Special guest: Ryan GrahamMusical Puppet Guest: A cloud | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "The Bloody Life of England's Fastest Surgeon" | Mark Celestino | Garrett Werner | December 9, 2022 | |
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The Professor presents the story of British surgeon, Robert Liston. Special guest: Aria InthavongMusical Puppet Guest: Concupiscence McNasty, evil holographic clone of the Professor | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "The Dreadful Demise of the Dinosaurs" | Mark Celestino & Shane Madej | Garrett Werner & Shane Madej | December 16, 2022 | |
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The Professor presents the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event and theories of the sudden mass extinction. Special guest: Garret Watts, Joyce Louis-JeanMusical Puppet Guest: The Professor and the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs | ||||||
Season 6 (2023)
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "The Unkillable Weirdo Who Invented the Saxophone" | Anthony Frederick | Garrett Werner | July 7, 2023 | |
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The Professor presents the life Belgian inventor and musician, Adolphe Sax. Special guest: Steven LimMusical Puppet Guest: An unnused prototype saxophone | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Mistress Who Killed Her Way to the Throne" | Anthony Frederick | Garrett Werner | July 14, 2023 | |
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The Professor presents of the life of the first and only female emperor in Chinese history, Wu Zetian. Special guest: Joyce Louis-JeanMusical Puppet Guest: A Chinese dragon said to have been Wu Zetian's biological father | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Fiery Sports Riot That Nearly Destroyed Constantinople" | Anthony Frederick | Garrett Werner | July 21, 2023 | |
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The Professor presents the events of the Nika revolt in Constantinople. Special guest: Ricky WangMusical Puppet Guest: The Hippodrome of Constantinople | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Scandalous Life of France's Bisexual Opera Icon" | Anthony Frederick | Garrett Werner | July 28, 2023 | |
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The Professor presents the riveting life of French opera singer, Julie d'Aubigny. Special guest: Kwesi JamesMusical Puppet Guest: Cupid | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "How a Pope's Nepobaby Became One of the Worst Tyrants in History" | Anthony Frederick | Garrett Werner | August 4, 2023 | |
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The Professor presents the short chaotic life of tyrant Italian cardinal, Cesare Borgia. Special guest: Zach KornfeldMusical Puppet Guest: A pope's mitre and God | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "The Deadly Race To The South Pole" | Anthony Frederick | Garrett Werner | August 11, 2023 | |
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The Professor presents the race between Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and British explorer Robert Falcon Scott to reach the Geographic South Pole. Special guest: Sara RubinMusical Puppet Guest: The continent of Antarctica | ||||||
Specials
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "The Story of St. Nicholas" | Unknown | Garrett Werner | December 25, 2020 | |
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The Professor presents the life of early Christian bishop Saint Nicholas of Myra and the creation of Santa Claus. Special guest: Kate PetermanMusical Puppet Guest: The big pile of diamonds, the oars, the mummified goose, the bones of St. Nicholas | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Puppet History Holiday Spectacular!" | Katie LeBlanc | Garrett Werner | December 24, 2021 | |
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The puppets gather together to honor and memoralize the Professor. Musical Puppet Guest: Choir of past puppet guests | ||||||
References
edit- ^ Puppet History (Comedy, Game-Show, History), Shane Madej, Ryan Bergara, Garrett Watts, Watcher Entertainment, 2020-01-10, retrieved 2024-02-06
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Bass, Sophie (2023-03-22). "Review: 'Puppet History'". Writing in the Media. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ Wen, Aimi (February 7, 2021). "Watcher Is the YouTube Channel Where Horror Meets Food". Studybreaks.com. Retrieved August 22, 2021.