It Happened Here Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Richard Pryor

44 mins

Richard Pryor was a comedy truth teller, who busted taboos about race, language, and sexuality. But what made Richard so raw and honest was also the source of his troubled and tumultuous personal life - bouts of addiction, domestic abuse, and host of other personal demons, culminating in a very public drug-induced meltdown on Parthenia Street in Los Angeles, where he lit himself on fire and ran down the street in an unhinged suicide attempt.

Episode 2

John Belushi

Sat, Mar 17, 201844 mins

John Belushi achieved international fame by expertly playing abrasive, obnoxious, and juvenile characters, both as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and in iconic films like The Blues Brothers and Animal House. Everything about Belushi was larger than life, and his desire to be the life of the party drove him down a dark path of substance abuse, culminating in his untimely death in 1982 at the Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood.

Episode 3

Kurt Cobain

Sat, Mar 24, 201844 mins

As an alternative rock legend, Kurt Cobain changes the course of music history with a single song.

Episode 4

Notorious B.I.G & Tupac Shakur

Sat, Mar 31, 2018

In the mid 90's the infamous East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry was in full swing, and two of raps biggest icons - former friends The Notorious B.I.G, and Tupac Shakur - were caught in the middle of it. It was a battle that tragically cost both starts their lives before the end of the decade, in a pair of murders that remain unsolved to this day.

Episode 5

Marilyn Monroe

Thu, Apr 12, 201844 mins

On August 5, 1962, silver screen legend Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her home in Brentwood, California. She was found by her housekeeper, face down on her bed, with an empty pill bottle at her side at the age of 36. Marilyn's life was full of mysteries and contradictions, and we'll visit the locations that tell her life story through that lens.

Episode 6

Marvin Gaye

44 mins

Soul music legend Marvin Gaye's life was cut short a day before his 45th birthday on April 1, 1984, when he was shot and killed by his own father in their family home in Los Angeles.

Episode 7

Joan Rivers

Episode 8

John Lennon

60 mins

A true pop culture icon, John Lennon gave us some of the most enduring and memorable music of the twentieth century as part of The Beatles, and as a solo artist. His enormous popularity also gave him an unprecedented platform to promote his political views, which caused him serious problems when he moved to New York in the early 1970s. In his hometown of Liverpool, we'll visit the locations that lead to the founding of The Beatles - the childhood home where he lived with his Aunt Mimi and first started writing music, the bus stop on Menlove Avenue where his mother was tragically killed when John was a teenager, and the church hall where he famously met Paul McCartney for the first time in 1957. And in New York City, we'll trace John's political activism at his apartment in Greenwich Village where he was hounded by the FBI, the New York City Bar Association where he fought deportation, and The Dakota Building, where he tragically lost his life in 1980.

Episode 9

Janis Joplin

44 mins

A talented singer, Janis Joplin breaks through rock 'n' roll's glass ceiling in the mid 1960s; a serious alcohol addiction and on-again off-again dalliances with heroin tragically cost Janis her life at the age of 27.

Episode 10

Andy Warhol

44 mins

Andy Warhol was the target of a bizarre assassination attempt at the height of his fame.