Queye TV Urban Myths
Comedy
Drama
Documentary
Urban Myths
NR
2017
0:23
4 Seasons 25 Episodes
★ 7.3
🇬🇧
Our Urban Myths are stories that have been passed down over time and have now become part of urban folklore. But are they true? We take a slightly tongue in cheek, mischievous – and deliberately ambiguous – look at what might have happened...

Episodes

Bob Dylan: Knockin' on Dave's Door
Episode 1

Bob Dylan: Knockin' on Dave's Door

Music legend Bob Dylan decides to fly to the U.K. one day to visit his mate Dave Stewart. Soon he finds himself waiting for Dave in his flat dutifully being served tea by his girlfriend. But is he really in the right place? You decide.

23m
Samuel Beckett and Andre the Giant
Episode 2

Samuel Beckett and Andre the Giant

Inspired by true events, this comedy charts the unlikely friendship between Samuel Beckett and a young Andre the Giant.

23m
Hitler the Artist
Episode 3

Hitler the Artist

With the help of his friend Gustl, a young Adolf Hitler attempts to get in to the prestigious Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

23m
Cary Grant and Timothy Leary
Episode 4

Cary Grant and Timothy Leary

Comedy following Cary Grant and Timothy Leary on a psychedelic trip while on the set of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller North by Northwest.

23m
The Greatest of All Time
Episode 5

The Greatest of All Time

Comedy based on the time Muhammad Ali talked a suicidal man down from a ninth floor balcony.

23m
Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder: 'It's Me, Sugar'
Episode 1

Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder: 'It's Me, Sugar'

Comedy about Marilyn Monroe's bust-up with Billy Wilder.

23m
13.7.85: Backstage at Live Aid
Episode 2

13.7.85: Backstage at Live Aid

Behind the scenes at Love Aid, as Bob Geldof, Midge Ure, Elton John, Sade, Freddie Mercury, Status Quo and many more cross paths

23m
Johnny Cash and the Ostrich
Episode 3

Johnny Cash and the Ostrich

The tale of Johnny Cash's dramatic run-in with a killer ostrich in a Nottingham hotel

23m
The Dali and The Cooper
Episode 4

The Dali and The Cooper

Alice Cooper and Salvador Dali spend a weird weekend in 1970s New York City

23m
When Bowie Met Bolan
Episode 5

When Bowie Met Bolan

In the 1960s, the young rock superstars spend an afternoon decorating their manager's Soho office.

23m
The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie
Episode 6

The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dorothy L Sayers join the manhunt when fellow crime writer Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears without trace

23m
Public Enemy (Feat. Kev Wells)
Episode 7

Public Enemy (Feat. Kev Wells)

When the rap icons find themselves late for a gig and without transport, a kindly local fan offers them a lift

23m
Sex Pistols Vs Bill Grundy
Episode 8

Sex Pistols Vs Bill Grundy

The punk band unleash hell on live TV in 1976

23m
Princess Diana, Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett
Episode 1

Princess Diana, Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett

Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett put a disguise on their good friend, Princess Diana, and take her out for a night on the town, ending up at a club which results in an encounter with Gareth, a drag artist with a painful secret.

23m
Andy & The Donald
Episode 2

Andy & The Donald

In 1984, property magnate and entrepreneur Donald Trump bought an American football team. In an attempt to stir up some publicity, he held cheerleader auditions in the basement of Trump Tower with a panel of celebrity judges, including Andy Warhol.

23m
Bleak House Guest
Episode 3

Bleak House Guest

The true-ish story of when Dickens superfan Hans Christian Andersen turned up unexpectedly on Charles and Catherine Dickens' doorstep quickly proving to be the most impossible (and unshakeable) house-guest imaginable.

23m
The Trial of Joan Collins
Episode 4

The Trial of Joan Collins

The film will cover Collins' extraordinary real-life 1996 court case with publishers Random House, who had paid her a whopping advance for a novel, only to claim that her submitted manuscript was "unreadable".

44m
Grace Under Pressure
Episode 5

Grace Under Pressure

A burglar stumbled into Grace Jones and artist Jean-Paul Goude’s New York apartment, armed with a very small gun. When he inadvertently chose to break into Grace and Jean-Paul’s home, he ended up with more than he bargained, having to deal with these two flamboyant, volatile lovers.

23m
Madonna and Basquiat
Episode 6

Madonna and Basquiat

Before she was famous, Madonna had a short but passionate and influential relationship with Jean Michel Basquiat, a pioneer and darling of the 1980s New York art scene. This myth takes place across one night on the New York subway, just before Madonna infamously door-stepped music producer Seymour Stein at his hospital bedside where he signed her on the spot.

23m
Paul McCartney's Scrambled Eggs
Episode 7

Paul McCartney's Scrambled Eggs

Paul McCartney dreams a tune, and become obsessed with finding out what it is. The story of how the song "Yesterday" was made.

23m
Mick Jagger and Princess Margaret
Episode 8

Mick Jagger and Princess Margaret

Examining the decades-long friendship between Mick Jagger and Princess Margaret, we find out that Tony Blair submitted Jagger’s name for the Queen’s Honours’ List annually, from 1997 to 2002. However, every year the Queen turned him down. This comic tale travels from London to the Caribbean and dives head-first into the worlds of rock and royalty to ponder exactly why that was.

23m
Les Dawson's Parisienne Adventure
Episode 1

Les Dawson's Parisienne Adventure

Inspired by his heroes, the writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, a young Les Dawson leaving his home in Manchester to live in Paris in order to pursue his dream of becoming a serious novelist. Unfortunately, things didn't quite work out as he planned, and he ended up becoming a pianist in a brothel.

23m
When Joan Kissed Barbra
Episode 2

When Joan Kissed Barbra

As Joan Rivers told it, before she and Barbra Streisand were famous, they were in an off-Broadway play together. Failing as a club comic and returning to more artistic pursuits, Rivers demanded she be cast in the production without even reading the script. The result: the role she was given called for a love scene between herself and Streisand.

23m
Hendrix & Handel
Episode 3

Hendrix & Handel

Housemates separated by time, Jimi Hendrix and George Frideric Handel grapple with the stresses of the music business in this funny and intimate portrait of two eccentric musical geniuses and the events leading up to a transformative moment when Jimi saw Handel's ghost.

23m
Orson Welles in Norwich
Episode 4

Orson Welles in Norwich

A story of how the great star briefly went missing in Norwich in 1972 whilst working on F for Fake, a faux documentary now regarded as his last masterpiece.

23m

Cast

Crew

Morwenna Gordon

Executive Producer

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