Body Shock
| Body Shock | |
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| Genre | Documentary | 
| Country of origin | United Kingdom | 
| Original language | English | 
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| 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 (Genie from the United States, episode was 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, who was born with Sirenomelia)
 - 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)[1]
 - 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 (Lali Kumar from India)
 - 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 (Shiloh Pepin from Maine)
 - 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)[2]
 - 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 (Tia McCarthy from the United Kingdom, who suffered from and received corrective surgery for Oesophageal atresia)
 
References
- ^ "World's Biggest boy". Archived from the original on 26 January 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
 - ^ "Dad's Having a Baby". BodyShock. Channel 4. Archived from the original on 24 July 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
 
External links
- Body Shock at IMDb
 
