My Shocking Story
Television Documentary Series

My Shocking Story is a documentary television series originally broadcast in 2008 on Discovery Channel UK.[1] It was broadcast by The Learning Channel in the United States, Discovery Channel Australia and Seven Network in Australia[2] and Discovery Channel Italy in Italy. The series documents unusual or shocking medical ailments and conditions.[3][4][5]

Episodes

Series One

  • "Half-Man Half-tree
  • "World's Fattest Kids"
  • "My Big Foot"
  • "The Man With No Face"
  • "World's Smallest Mom"
  • "World's Smallest Kids"

Series Two

  • "Octoboy"
  • "Human Spider Sisters", about the Spider Girls, conjoined twins from India
  • "Treeman Meets Treeman"
  • "World's Tallest Giants"
  • "Albino Crisis"
  • "Giant Head"
  • "Treeman: Search for The Cure"
  • "Human Face Transplant"
  • "Real Wolf Kids"
  • "Octopus Man"
  • "Electric Human"
  • "Freak Show Family"
  • "Coma Miracle"
  • "Burnt And Survived"
  • "Which Sex Am I?"
  • "World's Heaviest Man"
  • "Reconstruct My Face"
  • "Can't Stop Growing"
  • "Rewire My Brain"
  • "Save Me Before I'm Born"
  • "Sleep Sex"

Reception

Laura Brown of the Sunday Times called the series "spectacular as it chronicles the lives of patients with unusual medical conditions".[6] The Age television critic Brad Newsome praised as "wonderful" the moments during which Dede and Zainal, two people afflicted with warts, meet.[7] Kerrie Murphy of The Australian said the show "handl[es] the topics with the sort of sensitivity unexpected from a show with that title" and called it an "affecting documentary".[8][9]

References

  1. ^ "Five takes on 'My Shocking Story'". Digital Spy. 7 April 2008. Retrieved 1 January 2026.
  2. ^ https://www.tvsa.co.za/shows/viewshowabout.aspx?showid=780
  3. ^ Beckett, Angharad E. (3 July 2013). "Non-disabled children's ideas about disability and disabled people". British Journal of Sociology of Education. 35 (6): 856–875. doi:10.1080/01425692.2013.800444. ISSN 0142-5692.
  4. ^ Durbach, N. (1 January 2014). ""Skinless Wonders": Body Worlds and the Victorian Freak Show". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 69 (1): 38–67. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrs035. ISSN 0022-5045.
  5. ^ Souza, Virgínia Laís de (17 July 2013). "O corpo monstruoso: da espetacularização midiática às práticas de resistência". Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo.
  6. ^ Brown, Laura (24 May 2009). "Pick of the Week". Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 1 January 2026. Retrieved 1 January 2026.
  7. ^ Newsome, Brad (28 February 2010). "Pay TV - Sunday, February 21". The Age. Archived from the original on 1 January 2026. Retrieved 1 January 2026.
  8. ^ Murphy, Kerrie (11 December 2010). "Quick Bites --- Friday December 17". The Australian. Archived from the original on 1 January 2026. Retrieved 1 January 2026.
  9. ^ Murphy, Kerrie (9 October 2010). "Quick Bites - Friday October 15". The Australian. Archived from the original on 1 January 2026. Retrieved 1 January 2026.
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