Louis Theroux: Weird Weekends

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends is a television documentary series, in which Louis Theroux gives viewers the chance to get brief glimpses of things they wouldn't normally come into contact with. In most cases this means interviewing people with extreme beliefs of some kind, or just generally belonging to subcultures not known to exist by most or just frowned upon. It was first shown in the UK on BBC2.




Season 1

Episode 1: Televangelists
Original Air Date�15 January 1998
In Dallas, Louis meets TV evangelists Marcus and Joni Lamb, and joins a group of hardline Christians called The Family as they visit the red-light district.
Episode 2: UFOs
Original Air Date�22 January 1998
This episode follows several people who believe in UFOs. One of these is a man called Thor Templar, the self titled "Lord Commander of the Earth Protectorate". He claims to have killed more than ten aliens by chopping their heads off.
Episode 3: Porn
Original Air Date�29 January 1998
Is being a porn star really the dream job for any man? This episode offers a look at very different sides of the porn industry, as Louis interviews countless male and female porn stars. He reveals the problems a lot of porn actors face, be it not getting a job in straight porn and therefore having to do gay porn, or not getting an erection when it is needed.
Episode 4: Survivalists
Original Air Date�5 February 1998
In Idaho, Louis meets military enthusiasts and right-wing patriots who are preparing for a global catastrophe, including trips to survivalists' store Safetrek and a mountain refuge for conspiracy theorists called Almost Heaven. Louis also visits the Aryan Nation Church and helps to build a straw-bale home. The episode focuses on the survivalism movement and communities formed around it. The fact that several self-proclaimed survivalists were also hippies and environmentalists is a recurring theme.

Season 2

Episode 1: Informercials
Original Air Date�12 May 1999
Louis attempts to become a presenter on Florida's Home Shopping Network TV channel and meets the people who invent, sell and make a fortune from products such as the Win Gym.
Episode 2: Swingers
Original Air Date�26 May 1999
Louis meets a couple from Southern California who have been hosting swinging parties for countless years. He visits one of these very popular parties to find out what drives couples to want to swap partners. This program also offers a brief look into other kinds of swinging through an organisation that has a database of members that are rated on a scale of 1 to 10. Under this system, you can only visit the parties of people of your level and lower.
Episode 3: Black Nationalism
Original Air Date�2 June 1999
American black nationalist groups have been branded anti-Semitic, homophobic, misogynist and even racist by the mainstream press. Louis Theroux goes to Harlem in New York to meet its proponents, and meets the Reverend Al Sharpton, the main point of contact in the black nationalist movement. Theroux also meets Khalid Abdul Muhammad, dubbed by the media 'the most dangerous man in America' and visits the Israeli School of Universal Practical Knowledge, who believe that blacks are the true Israelites and that all English monarchs until early modern times were black. Theroux also joins Al Sharpton on a march on Wall Street to protest at the shooting by New York police of Armadou Diallo, who was shot 19 times.
Episode 4: Demolition Derby
Original Air Date�9 June 1999
Episode 5: Off-Off Broadway
Original Air Date�15 June 1999
Louis meets the hordes of out-of-work actors in New York as they try to land a part � and even goes on an audition himself, for a job on a Norwegian cruise ship.
Episode 6: Wrestling
Original Air Date�6 July 1999
Louis takes a look at different types of wrestling from the high profile WCW to people organizing events in their spare time. He also visits the WCW Power Plant, a training facility where some of the WCW wrestlers started out. The training he receives there from Dwayne Bruce shows him that some wrestlers will not break kayfabe (the illusion of fiction being fact) and will take exception when their profession's authenticity is questioned.

Season 3

Episode 1: Self-Fulfillment
Original Air Date�25 September 2000
Louis meets a Las Vegas hypnotist who claims he can make dreams come true and meets a California man who teaches chat-up techniques.

Episode 2: India: Enlightenment
Original Air Date�2 October 2000
Louis meets astrologer Deepak who studies meditation, an Indian guru, Mike, who is a follower of Swami G, and Amma who claims spiritual powers through hugging people. He joins her on a pilgrimage with 400 believers on their three-month tour of India. He also meets Swami G, but is not convinced that the Swami's techniques differ from those of magician David Copperfield.
Episode 3: Boer Separatists
Original Air Date� 9 October 2000
Louis meets white separatists who dream of building non-black communities in post-apartheid South Africa, including Nazi leader Eugene Terre 'Blanche.
Episode 4: Body-Building
Original Air Date�16 October 2000
Louis travels to California, home of the body beautiful, to see if he can join the world of extreme body building. After working out with Guy Grundy, a leading amateur, he soon realises he is not cut out to be a muscle man and goes off in search of another role in the body-building world. Theroux travels to Charles Peeple's farm in Connecticut, where Peeple's has transformed his farm into a playboy mansion for female body builders. While here, Theroux gets a part in a female muscle film being made at the farm.
Episode 5: Looking for Love
Original Air Date�23 October 2000
Louis visits a Bangkok marriage agency where Western men meet Thai brides.
Episode 6: Rap
Original Air Date�30 October 2000
This episode shows Louis going to New Orleans to have a look at the gangsta rap scene known as the "Dirty South". He starts his own Gangsta rap, having a CD cover designed for him as well as getting the rappers Reece and Bigelow to write a song for him to perform on a rap radio show. Other parts include him interviewing a pimp turned rapper, as well as rap superstar Master P.

Extra

Christmas Special
Louis is reunited with some of the people he met in earlier programmes.

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