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Extraordinary People — Storyline

Extraordinary People is a television documentary series broadcast on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom. Each programme follows the lives of people with a rare medical condition or unusual ability. People featured have or had rare illnesses such as rabies and eye cancer. Many of these people do activities previously thought impossible for people in their condition.

The show began airing on 28 March 2003.

Cast & Crew

Extraordinary People — Series Details

Extraordinary People — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: The Man Who Paints the Future (2003-03-28) — David Mandell predicts the future from his dreams. To record his dreams, he paints the event and then takes a photograph of himself and the art in front of a bank showing the date
• E2: The Woman Who Dives the Deepest (2003-04-02) — Extraordinary People reports on Tanya Streeter as she attempts a world record for diving without scuba tanks.
• E3: The Child Who's Older than Her Mother (2003-04-02) — The story of Hayley Okines, a four-year-old with a rare disease which causes her body to age eight times faster than the normal rate.
• E4: The Woman with the Mysterious Brain (2003-04-21) — A follow up story on Sharon Parker who had most of her brain removed surgically as a child.

Season 2

• E1: Archie – The Six Stone Baby (2004-10-11) — Archie is just two years old and weighs almost six stone, or 84 pounds. He has a rare genetic disease called MOMO syndrome, which belongs to the family of overgrowth syndromes. Thi
• E2: The Woman with Seven Personalities (2004-10-18) — Helen has a multiple personality disorder, probably caused by childhood abuse. Helen's lifelong friend, Dr. Ruth Selwyn, investigates the different personalities, ranging from chil
• E3: The Man Who Swears He's Normal (2004-10-25) — This is the story of three young men who suffer from Tourette's Syndrome. Some of the symptoms of this disorder are involuntary muscle twitching, tics, and even loud verbal outburs
• E4: The Boy with a Tumour for a Face (2004-11-11) — Novemthree, five years old, was born on November 3, in Indonesia. When he was three, tumors started growing in his face. They became so large, his face was distorted and he could h
• E5: Bodies Out of Control (2004-11-08) — In this episode of Extraordinary People, a group of people suffer from a rare condition called Dystonia. Dystonia is a neurological muscle disorder that causes uncontrollable, pain

Season 3

• E1: The 46-Year Pregnancy (2005-03-23) — This episode is about Zahra, a 75 year old woman from Morroco, admitted to the hospital for abdominal pains. To the surprise of the doctor, the pain was due to a baby, mummified in
• E2: The Child Who's Older than Her Grandmother (2005-05-09) — This episode of Extraordinary People is an update on the documentary from two years ago, titled "The Child Who's Older Than Her Mother." This is the tragic story of Hayley Okines,
• E3: Born Without a Face (2005-05-16) — Juliana Wetmore was born with a genetic disease called Treacher Collins syndrome. This is her story of her severe facial disorder.
• E4: The Boy with the Incredible Brain (2005-05-23) — Extraordinary People looks into "savants" which are geniuses capable of calculating complex mathematics and feats of memory.
• E5: She Stole My Foetus (2005-06-06) — Extraordinary People investigates abductions of unborn babies from pregnant women. This episode follows the story of Elijah Evans who was brutally cut from his murdered mother's be
• E6: The Woman with the Remarkable Body (2005-06-13) — In this episode, Alison Lapper stands up for the rights of the disabled. Herself, born without arms or legs, is an artist, mother and spokesperson for the handicapped.
• E7: A Hundred Orgasms a Day (2005-07-21) — In this episode, Extraordinary People tells the story of three women tormented 24 hours a day by the need for orgasm.

Season 4

• E1: The Girl Whose Muscles are Turning Into Bone (2005-11-07) — Luciana Wulka's is just seven years old. She was diagnosed with Fibrodysplasia Ossifcans Progressiva, a rare disease, which is progressively changing all of her muscle tissue into
• E2: The Woman with Half of a Body (2005-11-14) — In this story, the deformed legs of Rosemarie Siggins were amputated when she was a child. Today, she works on cars and cares for her family in Pueblo, Colorado.
• E3: Joined at the Head (2005-11-21) — Extraordinary People reports on conjoined twins, Josie and Teresita Alvarez, and, Lori and Dori Schappell, who were surgically separated as children. However, it did not go as well
• E4: The Real Rain Man (2006-02-27) — In this episode, Extraordinary People reports on the savant Kim Peek who has an amazing recall of facts and information. He can remember everything he has ever read. His condition
• E5: The Twin Inside Me (2006-03-06) — How can it be that DNA testing proves that Lydia Fairchild cannot be the mother of her own children? In this episode, Lydia was found to be a "chimera" where at her own conception,
• E6: The Woman Who Lost 30 Stone (2006-03-13) — In this episode of Extraordinary People, Onnie Jackson of Nashville, Tennessee endures complicated surgery to removed excess skin from her body after losing more than 400 pounds!
• E7: The Seven Year Old Surgeon (2006-03-20) — In this episode of Extraordinary People, Akrit Jaswal, just twelve years old, is studying at the University of India to be a doctor. He travels to Britain to be studied by scientis
• E8: The Girl Who Makes Miracles (2006-04-03) — Audrey Santo has been in a coma since she was three years old, back in 1987. Since then, she has undergone stigmata manifestations, and religious statues in her room even cry with
• E9: The Boy with a Tumour for a Face (Update) (2006-04-10) — Extraordinary People presents an update on the Indonesian boy named Novemthree, who underwent radical surgery in Taiwan to remove a huge, facial tumor. One year later, his tumors h
• E10: The Couple with 27 Children (2006-04-16) — A generous couple from Atlanta, Georgia, have adopted 23 handicapped children. John and Jeanette Murphy, together with their own four children, take care of the huge family. This i
• E11: Identical Quads (2006-04-24) — In this episode of Extraordinary People, four identical quad girls are followed in their growth in the Mathias family home.

Season 5

• E1: The Boy Who Lived Before (2006-09-18) — Cameron, ever since he was just a toddler, talks about another family he used to live with, called the Robertsons. Cameron knows the names of his previous family, where they lived,
• E2: The Musical Genius (2006-09-25) — Extraordinary People reports on Derek Paravicini. Derek is autistic, blind, retarded, and yet, is a genius at the piano. He can play anything he hears just once. This reports follo
• E3: The Four Year Old Who Ran 40 Miles (2006-10-02) — Budhia Singh is just four years old when his coach, Biranchi Das enters Budhia into a controversial 40 mile run for media exposure. Budhia was an orphan, always running, as much as
• E4: Britain's Identical Quads (2006-10-09) — José and Julie are about to become parents of identical quads in Britain. The story by Extraordinary People covers the risky pregnancy and birth of the quads.
• E5: Building a New Face (2006-10-17) — This episode of Extraordinary People takes a look at Juliana Wetmore, who was born with Treacher Collins syndrome, a genetic craniofacial disorder. This disease prevented her face
• E6: The Twin Within the Twin (2006-10-23) — Extraordinary People reports on the phenomena of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, which occurs in developing twin fetuses, when one of the twins dies and is enveloped by the othe
• E7: The Girl Who Survived Rabies (2006-10-30) — This documentary of Extraordinary Poeple is about 15 year old, Jeanna Giese, from Wisconsin in the USA, who survived rabies thanks to an innovative and desperate treatment tried ou
• E8: The Man with No Past (2007-01-22) — In this episode of Extraordinary People, David Fitzpatrick experienced sudden inexplicable total memory loss at the age of twenty-five. The report follows David as he tries to rega
• E9: The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes (2007-01-29) — Ben Underwood has taught himself to use echo location to navigate around the world. Ben is blind, but has managed to do some truly extraordinary feats.
• E10: The Twins Who Share a Body (2007-03-15) — This episode by Extraordinary People contains a rare look at Abby and Brittany Hensel, dicephalus conjoined twins, having two heads and sharing one body.

Season 6

• E1: 7/7 – The Man Who Should Be Dead (2007-09-03) — Extraordinary People looks at Danny Biddle, who was sitting only a few feet away from suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan on the London Underground when Khan exploded his bomb. He
• E2: The Man Who Dreams the Future (2007-09-10) — This report by Extraordinary People looks at Chris Robinson, from Dunstable in Britain, who has pre-cognitive dreams, often of disasters, and who dreamed about planes crashing into
• E3: The Real Sleeping Beauty (2007-09-17) — Extraordinary People investigates the story of Sarah Scantlin, who was injured in a car accident in 1984 and awoke from a coma twenty years later. She was able to speak and think c
• E4: The Tiniest Boy in Britain (2007-09-24) — This episode of Extraordinary People centers on Alex Connerty from Liverpool, England, who was born with the rare genetic condition primordial dwarfism. This disease severely stunt
• E5: Living with Half a Brain (2007-10-01) — Six year old Cameron Mott from North Carolina, USA, suffers from continuous epileptic fits caused by the progressive brain disorder called Rasmussen's Encephalitis. Extraordinary P
• E6: The Boy Who Can Never Grow Old (2007-10-08) — Horizon looks at 19 year old Stuart Wickison, who suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The condition is usually fatal by the time those affected reach their early twenties. In
• E7: The Girl with a New Face (2007-10-15) — Marlie Casseus from Haiti is just 13 years old as she undergoes dangerous and pioneering facial operations to remove a huge lesion caused by the fibrous dysplasia. Without the surg
• E8: The Man with No Face (2007-12-06) — Horizon reports on a 51 year old Lisbon man, Jose Mestre, whose face has been engulfed by a massive tumor. Horizon shows how Jose copes with his condition and follows him as he exp
• E9: The Boys Joined at the Head (2008-02-20) — This episode of Horizon reports on the Ibrahim twins, conjoined twins joined at the head, documenting the pioneering surgery to separate them in 2003 and their return home to Egypt
• E10: Hope for Hayley (2008-02-27) — Horizon updates a previous documentary on nine year old Hayley Okines, who suffers from the ageing disease, Progeria. They follow her as she embarks on a journey to test a new drug
• E11: The Fastest Man on No Legs (2008-03-05) — In this report by Extraordinary People, Oscar Pistorius, a South African Para-olympic champion, had his legs amputated when he was born. Today, he uses state-of-the art artifical l
• E12: The Girls with Too Much Skin (2008-03-19) — Extraordinary People looks at sisters Lucy and Hannah Betts, and Dana and Lara Bowen, who have the genetic disorder Harlequin Ichthyosis, which makes their skin grow at an abnormal
• E13: The World's Heaviest Man (2008-04-02) — This documentary by Extraordinary People is about Manuel Urib from Mexico, who weighs more than 1218 pounds and is completely bed-ridden. This report follows him over a year as he
• E14: The Human Camera (2008-04-09) — This episode of Extraordinary People is about Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic savant artist, who has the extraordinary ability to draw detailed pictures of buildings and cities enti
• E15: Half Man Half Tree (2008-04-14) — Extraordinary People brings you the story of Dede, an Indonsian man, who suffers from a bizarre skin condition that has left him covered in organic tree-like growths. He travels to
• E16: World's Smallest Kids (2008-04-27) — This report by Extraordinary People is about the lives and experiences of three children who were born with the Primordial Dwarfism. With this disease, the children can only expect
• E17: The World's Tallest man (2008-06-25) — This episode of Extraordinary People features 36 year old Ukranian, Leonid Stadnyk, who is the tallest living man in the world at 8'4". Professor Michael Besser, the UK's leading s
• E18: Robochick and the Bionic Boy (2008-07-02) — Extraordinary People explores the life of Cheri Robertson, who was fitted with a prototype electronic vision system 15 years after losing her sight an automobile accident. However,
• E19: Outlaw Births (2008-07-09) — In this story, Extraordinary People follows three women as they prepare to give birth without medical attention, anesthetics, or professional intervention. Known as freebirthing, i
• E20: The Rainman Twins (2008-07-23) — Extraordinary People investigates Savantism, a rare disorder in which sufferers of developmental disabilities, often autism, are capable of acts of genius that far outstrip their e
• E21: Woman with Giant Legs (2008-08-21) — Documentary about Mary Sellars, a woman whose legs are four times larger than average and who suffers from an extreme form of Proteus Syndrome. Follows her as she travels to see do

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Extraordinary People have? 11 season(s) with 84 episodes.

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