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.
The man who paints the future
The woman who dives the deepest
The child who's older than her mother
The woman with the mysterious brain
Archie - the six stone baby
The woman with seven personalities
The man who swears he's normal
The boy with a tumour for a face
Bodies out of control
The 46-year pregnancy
The child who's older than her grandmother
Born without a face
The boy with the incredible brain
She stole my foetus
The woman with the remarkable body
A hundred orgasms a day
The girl whose muscles are turning into bone
The woman with half of a body
Joined at the head
The real rain man
The twin inside me
The woman who lost 30 stone
The seven year old surgeon
The girl who makes miracles
The boy with a tumour for a face (update)
The couple with 27 children
Identical quads
The boy who lived before
The musical genius
The four year old who ran 40 miles
Britain's identical quads
Building a new face
The twin within the twin
The girl who survived rabies
The man with no past
The boy who sees without eyes
The twins who share a body
7/7 - the man who should be dead
The man who dreams the future
The real sleeping beauty
The tiniest boy in britain
Living with half a brain
The boy who can never grow old
The girl with a new face
The man with no face
The boys joined at the head
Hope for hayley
The fastest man on no legs
The girls with too much skin
The world's heaviest man
The human camera
Half man half tree
World's smallest kids
The world's tallest man
Robochick and the bionic boy
Outlaw births
The rainman twins
Woman with giant legs
The world's smallest muscleman
The million dollar mind reader
The little mermaid
The world's oldest conjoined twins
Tree man - the cure
Freak show family
The world's heaviest man gets married
Britain's tiniest toddlers
The man with someone else's face
Octopus man
The man who shared his liver
Growing up without a face
Electric human
The world's strongest toddler
Real wolf kids
Hayley: the 96-year-old schoolgirl
The tiniest girl in the world
Hayley - the 96 year old schoolgirl
7 new faces in 7 days
Losing one of my giant legs
The eight limbed boy
World's oldest teenager
The woman who lost her face
The girl with 90% burns
The boy they call fish
The baby with a new face
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