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1. EPISODE 101 - JULY 28, 1998
   The first episode, featuring a woman who can pop her eyeballs out of their sockets, a man walking on a beam between two hot-air balloons and the world's largest tumour.
2. EPISODE 102 - AUGUST 4, 1998
   The man with the world's longest fingernails, the heaviest woman ever and a man who attempts to glide for 4 miles in a specially-made winged suit.
3. EPISODE 103 - AUGUST 11, 1998
   A man attempts to squeeze through an unstrung tennis racquet, a three-layer bed of nails, the world's shortest twins, and exclusive home video footage of the largest and most destructive mouse plague.
4. EPISODE 104 - AUGUST 18, 1998
   Features Robert Wadlow, the tallest man that ever lived, a man attempting to spin more than 20 basketballs, and a human blockhead.
5. EPISODE 105 - AUGUST 25, 1998
   Two men attempt to set a record for long-distance cricket spitting, the fastest rocket-powered speed luge, the most extensive facial prosthesis.<1>EPISODE 106 - SEPTEMBER 6, 1998
6. EPISODE 107 - SEPTEMBER 15, 1998
   A man sits in a bathtub with rattlesnakes, a man tries to balance 11 beer kegs on his head, the 'mind warrior' Dominick Giacobbe gives an incredible performance of mind over matter.
7. EPISODE 108 - SEPTEMBER 22, 1998
   Karate black belt Cliff 'The Concrete Man' Flenoy, the man with the largest waist, a man squeezes into a tiny box, the furthest human cannonball flight and the most extreme flesh-eating disease.
8. EPISODE 109 - OCTOBER 6, 1998
   The most tattooed woman, the smartest parrot, the highest roof-to-roof motorcycle jump, the man with the longest hair, eating live worms.
9. EPISODE 113 - OCTOBER 13, 1998
   A 'Best of the Best' special edition, featuring sword swallower Brad Byers, the world's most flexible man, the man with the stretchiest skin, and clips from past episodes.
10. EPISODE 110 - NOVEMBER 3, 1998
    A man blows spaghetti out of his nostril, the world's tallest woman, the fastest fire engine, the most extensive cranial reconstructive surgery.
11. EPISODE 111 - NOVEMBER 10, 1998
    A man who can shift and contort his bones, the tallest house of cards, and Tim 'Zamora The Torture King' Cridland, who inserts 100 needles through his body.
12. EPISODE 112 - NOVEMBER 17, 1998
    A man lifts weights with his body piercings, the highest jump on to an airbag, a restaurant in China that serves rats, and a man who will attempt to hold the most bees inside his mouth.
13. EPISODE 114 - DECEMBER 1, 1998
    A man tries to cram 150 straws in his mouth, the fastest hand-walker, and a team of doctors who sliced a cadaver into hair-thin slices to map the human body from the inside out.
14. EPISODE 115 - DECEMBER 8, 1998
    A stuntwoman attempts to blow herself up in a box, the world's biggest food fight, a man attempts a 24-hour exercise marathon, and the story of a baby born with a tumour bigger than his head.
15. EPISODE 116 - JANUARY 12, 1999
    Two men snort milk up their nose and squirt it out of their eye, a man who eats three live scorpions every day, the oldest living male conjoined twins.
16. EPISODE 117 - FEBRUARY 9, 1999
    A Hapkido black-belt attempts to hold a 900-degree piece of molten lead in his mouth, a man who can balance a motorcycle on his teeth, a hairy Mexican family that carries the rare gene for 'Werewolf syndrome'.
17. EPISODE 118 - FEBRUARY 16, 1999
    A man who can swallow and regurgitate billiard balls, goldfish and bees, the woman with the longest toenails, a man foot-juggles a dining table, and the largest foreign object successfully removed from a human brain - an 8-inch knife.
18. EPISODE 119 - FEBRUARY 23, 1999
    A special edition live from Las Vegas. Featuring a stuntman who will attempt to break the record for the longest full-body burn, and a tightrope walker who will try to cross 600-feet of wire blindfolded.
19. EPISODE 120 - MARCH 19, 1999
    A spaghetti nose-blowing contest, the most buildings imploded simultaneously, a Chinese kung fu master attempts to climb a staircase of machetes barefoot, and a man who has 99.9% of his body tattooed in a leopard-skin design.
20. EPISODE 121 - APRIL 9, 1999
    A man attempts to swallow 5 intact stainless steel wristwatches, a man attempts to memorise a list of 50 items, the greatest distance travelled on a flying trapeze, the most beneficial parasite to humans.
21. EPISODE 122 - APRIL 23, 1999
    Mr. Lifto returns to try and suspend a beer keg from his ear piercings, a man who can climb a 400-foot sheer cliff face without ropes or gear in less than 6 minutes, and exclusive 1979 footage of a Chinese man with a parasitic head.
22. EPISODE 123 - APRIL 30, 1999
    The Bandbaz Brothers attempt a swordtip-to-swordtip balancing act, the most active volcano, bubble-artist Fan Yang, the woman with the longest fingernails, a worm-eating contest.
23. EPISODE 124 - JUNE 4, 1999
    The human regurgitator returns, a man tries to ride the world's smallest unicycle, a man pulls an 8,400 pound trolley car with his ear, and an aerobatics world record attempt for the most inverted flat spins.
24. EPISODE 125 - AUGUST 31, 1999
    A married couple perform a William Tell stunt involving 9 crossbows, a knife thrower tosses knives at a revolving door, a man attempts to suspend his body from a single hook through the skin of his back.
25. EPISODE 203 - DECEMBER 9, 1999
    A special edition made up of Guinness challenges. Brad Byers returns to try and swallow 10 swords, a contest for the most boards broken over the head, and a man and woman compete for the record of sitting in a bathtub with the most rattlesnakes.
26. EPISODE 202 - DECEMBER 16, 1999
    A woman with a 15-inch waist, a contortionist gets into a locked straitjacket, the steepest tightrope walk, a man with three feet.
27. EPISODE 204 - MAY 27, 2000
    A man attempts to have over 3,000 pounds piled on to his body, a man foot-skis behind a motorcycle, the first-ever successful separation of craniopagus Siamese twins.
28. EPISODE 205 - JUNE 8, 2000
    The woman with the longest beard, a man lifts weights with his ear, a team of explorers dive through the world's longest underwater cave system, two men blow bubbles with a tarantula in their mouth.
29. EPISODE 207 - JULY 12, 2000
    A man dispenses a milkshake through his nose, the largest donation of human hair, the most rhinestones on a human body, the highest shallow dive.
30. EPISODE 208 - JULY 19, 2000
    The senior citizen with the most tattoos, a man attempts to balance 81 glasses on his chin, a man who has eaten over 9 tonnes of metal.
31. EPISODE 209 - JULY 26, 2000
    A double-jointed man crushes eggs by bending his fingers back, wing-walking between two planes, a man attempts to kiss 11 deadly cobras.
32. EPISODE 211 - AUGUST 4, 2000
    A contest for the world's loudest burp, the Peking acrobat troupe attempts the tallest human chair stack, two strongmen roll up frying pans like newspaper, five motorcyclists try to ride around a woman in the globe of death.
33. EPISODE 210 - AUGUST 11, 2000
    The fastest ketchup-drinker, a man propels dimes with his earlobe, world record freediving.
34. EPISODE 213 - AUGUST 18, 2000
    Clay targets are aimed at a shooter's head, a man tries to hold his breath for more than 7 minutes, a ramp-to-truck motorcycle jump, a skin-stretching contest.
35. EPISODE 212 - AUGUST 25, 2000
    A woman fires a bow and arrow with her feet to burst a balloon above a man's head, a man who can parallel park at 70 mph, the highest kayak drop, a man attempts to pull a 3,175 pound truck with a wire through his throat.
36. EPISODE 206 - SEPTEMBER 6, 2000
    Two men blow up hot-water bottles with their lungs, a woman catches bowls on her head while unicycling, the human speed bump, the longest a twin has remained undiscovered inside the human body.
37. EPISODE 201 - DECEMBER 2, 2000
    A man lies in a coffin with over 20,000 giant cockroaches, the heaviest model, the highest and longest slackline walk.
38. EPISODE 301 - DECEMBER 8, 2000
    A man tries to clip the most clothespegs on his face, a hotel made of ice, the largest facial tumour, and the last attempt to break the 2-minute full-body burn without oxygen.
39. EPISODE 302 - JULY 19, 2001
    Three contortionists squeeze into a tiny box, the most cars driven on two side wheels in a single line, and a man tries to set record for both the most scorpions in the mouth and the largest scorpion in the mouth.
40. EPISODE 303 - JULY 26, 2001
    The largest bubblegum bubble blown through the nose, the cow with the most legs, a man who can score a basketball shot from the 3-point line using only his head, and man who swims under ice while holding his breath, wearing only a pair of swimming trunks.
41. EPISODE 304 - AUGUST 2, 2001
    The first of three 'Guinness Extreme' special episodes. Featuring a man trying to execute a backflip on a scooter, the highest skateboard drop on to a quarterpipe, and a man who survived being impaled by a 4-foot gardening stake.
42. EPISODE 313 - AUGUST 9, 2001
    A man opens factory-sealed bottles with his teeth, the most extensive facial reconstructive surgery.
43. EPISODE 305 - AUGUST 16, 2001
    A married couple blows up a balloon with a 'tandem nose-blow', the longest power-assisted BMX ramp jump, a man makes a sandwich with his feet, and a woman with no legs who gave birth to a healthy baby.
44. EPISODE 306 - AUGUST 23, 2001
    Catching fish with one hand, a 57-year old woman who rides bareback broncos in the rodeo, an 11-year old boy who breaks concrete blocks with his head, the youngest recipient of a full-limb transplant.
45. EPISODE 308 - SEPTEMBER 6, 2001
    A man is buried up to his neck in ice cubes for more than an hour while wearing only a pair of swimming trunks, the highest martial arts kick, the best-preserved prehistoric bog body.
46. EPISODE 307 - SEPTEMBER 20, 2001
    The second of the 'Guinness Extreme' specials. Featuring the longest ramp-to-ramp skateboard jump and the man with the longest nose.
47. EPISODE 310 - SEPTEMBER 20, 2001
    The last of the 'Guinness Extreme' specials. Featuring the highest motorcycle jump and a woman who eats only dirt.
48. EPISODE 309 - SEPTEMBER 27, 2001
    A man smashes glass panes with his bare hand, the man with the longest moustache, a man solves a Rubik's cube blindfolded, the largest human pyramid on a tightrope.
49. EPISODE 314 - SEPTEMBER 27, 2001
    A man lifts a woman off the ground with his beard, a man is suspended from a helicopter using the suction created between his stomach and a rice bowl.
50. EPISODE 311 - OCTOBER 4, 2001
    A man husks a coconut with his teeth, the fastest bicycle wheelie, a man who can swallow hotdogs whole.
51. EPISODE 312 - OCTOBER 4, 2001
    The highest keg toss, the world's shortest man, a man attempts to sharpen a pencil with a sharpener on the roof of a car while controlling his helicopter.
52. EPISODE 315 - DECEMBER 22, 2001
    A man clears two pool tables in less than 2 minutes, a woman shoots clay targets while hanging upside-down, a man rips decks of cards, a man who has survived 169 snakebites.