{{short description|TV documentary series}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}} {{Use British English|date=February 2014}} {{Infobox television | image = BodyShock.png | caption = | alt_name = | genre = Documentary | writer = | director = | presenter = | narrator = | composer = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | num_episodes = | executive_producer = | producer = | editor = | location = | runtime = 49 minutes | company = | channel = Channel 4 | first_aired = {{start date|2003}} | last_aired = {{end date|2014}} | related = }} '''''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)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/bodyshock/episode-guide/series-7/episode-1|title=World's Biggest boy|access-date=25 January 2010|archive-date=26 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100126051517/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/bodyshock/episode-guide/series-7/episode-1|url-status=dead}}</ref> * ''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)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/bodyshock/episode-guide/series-24/episode-1|title=Dad's Having a Baby|work=BodyShock|publisher=Channel 4|accessdate=2011-12-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724013013/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/bodyshock/episode-guide/series-24/episode-1|archive-date=2013-07-24|url-status=dead}}</ref> * ''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== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0990536}}
Category:2003 British television series debuts Category:2014 British television series endings Category:2000s British documentary television series Category:2010s British documentary television series Category:Channel 4 documentary series Category:English-language British television shows Category:British medical television series