Body Shock

Body Shock
Genre	Documentary
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Running time	49 minutes
Original release
Network	Channel 4
Release	2003 – 2014

Body Shock (also: Bodyshock) is a British medical documentary series about the conditions or lives of extraordinary people. It was originally produced by redback for Channel 4 in the UK, but in September 2006, it was taken over by ArkMedia.

There have been three series since December 2003.

• The Boy Who Gave Birth to His Twin (Alamjan Nematilaev from Kazakhstan)
• Wild Child (also titled Wild Child: The Story of Feral Children in the United States)
• Anatomy of a Shark Bite
• Riddle of the Elephant Man (Joseph Merrick from the United Kingdom)
• The Man Who Ate his Lover (Armin Meiwes from Germany)
• The Man Who Slept for 19 Years (Terry Wallis from the United States)
• Orgasmatron
• The Girl with X-Ray Eyes (Natasha Demkina from Saransk, Russia)
• Megatumour (Lucica Bunghez from Romania and Matt Peperell from England)
• When Anaesthesia Fails (Anesthetic awareness)
• The Curse of the Mermaid (Milagros Cerrón from Peru)
• Half Ton Man (Patrick Deuel from the United States)
• The 80-Year-old Children (The Hussein family from India)
• Born with Two Heads (Manar Maged from Egypt)
• The Boy in the Bubble (David Vetter from the United States)
• Kill Me to Cure Me (Brett Kehrer from the United States)
• World's Biggest Boy (Dzhambulat Khatokhov from Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia)
• Half Ton Mum
• The Girl with Eight Limbs (Lakshmi Tatma from Bihar, India)
• I am the Elephant Man (Huang Chuncai from China)
• The Girl with Two Faces
• Half Ton Son (Billy Robbins from Houston, Texas, United States)
• Two Foot Tall Teen (Jyoti Amge, from Nagpur, India)
• Age 8 and Wanting a Sex Change
• The Girl Who Cries Blood (Twinkle Dwivedi from Lucknow, India)
• Our Daughter, the Mermaid
• The Twins Who Share A Brain (Krista and Tatiana Hogan from Vernon, Canada)
• Dad's Having a Baby (Thomas and Scott Moore from California, US)
• The 27 Inch Man (Edwardo Hernandez)
• Turtle Boy
• World's Tallest Man (Sultan Kösen from Turkey)
• The Man with the 10-Stone Testicles (Wesley Warren, Jr. from the United States)
• The Girl who Never Ate (Oesophageal atresia)

External links

• Channel 4 official episode guide
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