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Current Broadcasts[edit]

Still playing on the Comedy Network? Okay, I'll take your word for it, though I can't find History Bites on their website. BryanEkers 01:10, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On Rogers Cable here in Toronto it plays a total of 3 times Saturdays and 3 times Sundays, on the Comedy Network and History Television. Try http://tvlistings2.zap2it.com/zipcode.asp?partner_id=national for listing in your area. - Mcasey666 20:39, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I often see it on the Comedy Network through ExpressVu. Kc4 23:52, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's been done[edit]

A similar kind of show was Michael Palin's The Complete and Utter History of Britain, first aired in 1969. "...To replay history as if television had been around at the time: interviewing the vital characters in the dressing-room after the Battle of Hastings; having Samuel Pepys present a TV chat-show," etc. I bet there are others. - Mcasey666 20:43, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Patrick Watson had a show in 1970 called Witness to Yesterday and Steve Allen had a 1977 show called Meeting of Minds in which they "interviewed" actors playing various historical figures, but only History Bites could have an episode about Julius Caesar in which he talks with a Boston accent and his assassination is the subject of conspiracy-theory buffs (or, in this case, anti-conspiracy-theory buffs who believe against all evidence that that murder was committed by a "lone knifeman"), interspersed with footage of Martha Stewart giving advice on keeping your vomitorium clean. The show is as much a parody of modern pop culture as history, and I watch it every chance I get. BryanEkers 15:36, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DVD now out[edit]

I have never been able to find this on PirateBay... so just tonight I did a search, and found there is now a History Bites DVD that has been released. [1] So should a new section be added to the article noting that some of it has been released on DVD? Does anyone know if more DVDs will come out? Used to be all I could find was some shoddy website offering individual episodes on VHS for far too much money. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 01:19, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is a CANADIAN TV Show[edit]

I don't believe it has aired at all in the U.S. but maybe someone knows better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.90.202.88 (talk) 16:12, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe wrong air dates for season 4 and 5[edit]

The end of season 4 episodes have a 2001 copyright date, and the end of season 5 episodes have a 2002 copyright date. I think this wikipedia page is incorrect when it says they aired in 2002/2004. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.235.217.130 (talk) 07:01, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Verify Date of Chronologically Last Episode[edit]

Can somebody with a DVD copy verify the date of the third-season episode "The Shootout At Fly’s Photographic Studio". This page and the connected episode page list it as 1880, but the actual shootout took place in 1881. It would still be the most recent setting for a History Bites episode, but if there's an error, that's also worth noting since they were usually pretty careful about stuff like that. The official History Bites YouTube page does not (yet) include this episode, or I'd check myself.173.179.6.160 (talk) 12:21, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]