Who Do You Think You Are?

8.0
/10
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  • family relationships
  • reality
  • documentary
  • british
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Celebrities study their lineages and family trees, usually learning surprising secrets they never knew about their families.
  • 59min
  • Seasons: 20
  • Episodes: 170
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Who Do You Think You Are?

season 5

serie United Kingdom 2004

Episode rating

Season 5
9.4
E1
8.8
E2
7.0
E3
8.2
E4
6.1
E5
9.3
E6
9.0
E7
5.9
E8

Cast of season 5

In order of relevance in the season

Episodes of season 58

  • 9.4
    /10

    Patsy Kensit
    episode S5.E1 august 2008
    Kensit, knew a great deal about her father the notorious gangster of 1960's London. Through research she learned that her grandfather was also a criminal of great stature.
  • 8.8
    /10

    Boris Johnson
    episode S5.E2 august 2008
    Johnson, not really sure of his heritage delves into the history books to find he has a half french grandmother as well as roots that date back to Turkey where his great-grandfather was involved in politics.
  • 7
    /10

    Jerry Springer
    episode S5.E3 august 2008
    Springer, who was born in London to Jewish Parents who had escaped Nazi Germany days before WW2 outbreak. Jerry continues to investigate his Grandmothers history and find out some grim details.
  • 8.2
    /10

    Esther Rantzen
    episode S5.E4 september 2008
    Rantzen, thought of her family history is a upper class, high society type of family that ran the same path. She found out about her great-grandfather who abandoned his family and became involved with the darker side of life.
  • 6.1
    /10

    Ainsley Harriott
    episode S5.E5 september 2008
    Harriott, thought he knew a lot about his forefathers, little did he know that his family history was as colorful as it turned out. His Great Grandfather fought for the British at Sierra Leone.
  • 9.3
    /10

    David Suchet
    episode S5.E6 september 2008
    Suchet, had a mixed bag of guesses of where he came from. He began to explore the British side, it turns out he had a love for boats. His Great Grandfather came from France and was a well known photographer.
  • 9
    /10

    Jodie Kidd
    episode S5.E7 september 2008
    Kidd discovered that both sides of her family were awarded titles, one was a knight and another a Lord. She traced her routs as far back as the 17th Century to the first settlers of Canada. There was even a connection to an infamous murder.
  • 5.9
    /10

    Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
    episode S5.E8 september 2008
    Llwelyn-Bowen, always had a love for the Sea, so he wanted to research his family history. It turns out that his grandfather was a Captain during the first world war, and his great grandfather was a Captain that sailed all over the world.