Sky History 2 Tuesday

The team explores outlandish stories from a headless chicken that lives over one year to an out-of-this-world 'celestial body

The eccentric and strange innovations that have graced the battlefield, from a million bats armed with tiny bombs to inflatable tanks, robot assassins - and even war dolphins

An array of mysterious phenomena, as seen from above. These include a Nazi weapon in Northern France and a Russian military tower near Chernobyl

How bad design, human error and the enemy sent great ships to tragic ends, such as Britain's K13 submarine and HMS Hood and Sweden's 17th-century Vasa

The ships that made mighty empires, from those that patrolled the high seas for imperial Britain to the USS Laffey's Second World War battle against kamikazes at Okinawa

Theorists offer compelling evidence suggesting that the ancient monolith thought to depict Egyptian pharaoh Khafra once represented an alien being

An investigation into whether Earth's deepest caves could contain secret conduits to other worlds, or harbour evidence that aliens once visited the planet

Experts investigate whether the US military has a secret space programme, as well as evidence suggesting alien races have been in conflict for millennia

Alice Roberts explores the Georgian era in Bristol, taking a horse-drawn carriage ride, sampling backstreet gin, and discovering the story of the world's first chocolate factory

Alice Roberts explores Cardiff's Edwardian past, discovering how the coal industry transformed the Rhondda Valley and brought immigrants from across the world to Wales

The team explores outlandish stories from a headless chicken that lives over one year to an out-of-this-world 'celestial body

The eccentric and strange innovations that have graced the battlefield, from a million bats armed with tiny bombs to inflatable tanks, robot assassins - and even war dolphins

An array of mysterious phenomena, as seen from above. These include a Nazi weapon in Northern France and a Russian military tower near Chernobyl

How bad design, human error and the enemy sent great ships to tragic ends, such as Britain's K13 submarine and HMS Hood and Sweden's 17th-century Vasa

The ships that made mighty empires, from those that patrolled the high seas for imperial Britain to the USS Laffey's Second World War battle against kamikazes at Okinawa

Unexpected things revealed by catastrophic disasters, featuring a submerged funerary complex in Greece and ancient mammal footprints preserved by a Turkish volcanic eruption

The unexpected things revealed by catastrophic disasters - both natural and human made - can reveal in their wake

Theorists offer compelling evidence suggesting that the ancient monolith thought to depict Egyptian pharaoh Khafra once represented an alien being

An investigation into whether Earth's deepest caves could contain secret conduits to other worlds, or harbour evidence that aliens once visited the planet

Experts investigate whether the US military has a secret space programme, as well as evidence suggesting alien races have been in conflict for millennia

Alice Roberts explores the Georgian era in Bristol, taking a horse-drawn carriage ride, sampling backstreet gin, and discovering the story of the world's first chocolate factory

Alice Roberts explores Cardiff's Edwardian past, discovering how the coal industry transformed the Rhondda Valley and brought immigrants from across the world to Wales

The Hawker Hurricane was the first RAF aircraft to fly over 300mph. Over half of every enemy aeroplane destroyed in the Battle of Britain was by a Hurricane, not a Spitfire

Part one of two. Rust Valley's competing shops get ready to face off at the annual Hit-to-Pass race. The cost of Avery's Deuce-and-a-Half music truck spirals out of control

A look at some outlandish inventions, including a full-body gas mask for babies, Smell-o-Vision, a robot powered by slugs and inflatable airplanes