What are the best episodes of Icons?

The best rated episodes of Icons are: Entertainers - S1E4 rated 8.5, Live Final - S1E8 rated 8.0

What are the worst episodes of Icons?

The lowest rated episodes of Icons are: Activists - S1E5 rated 7.0, Scientists - S1E3 rated 7.5

Icons Episode Rating Graph

Jan 2019 - Feb 2019

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Browse episode ratings trends for Icons. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of Icons's 8 episodes.

Best Episodes of Icons

Entertainers
S1 Ep4
8.5
15th Jan 2019
Exploring the achievements of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Kathleen Turner looks at Charlie Chaplin, Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe and David Bowie.
Live Final
S1 Ep8
8.0
5th Feb 2019
The live final of the series exploring the achievements of some of the greatest figures of the 20th century. The public vote for who they believe should be called the greatest.

Worst Episodes of Icons

Activists
S1 Ep5
7.0
21st Jan 2019
Exploring the achievements of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Examining the lives of Emmeline Pankhurst, Mahatma Gandhi, Helen Keller and Martin Luther King Jr.
Scientists
S1 Ep3
7.5
14th Jan 2019
Exploring the achievements of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Chris Packham assesses the lives of Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Alan Turing and Tu You You.

Icons Episode Guide

Leaders
S1 Ep1
8.0
8th Jan 2019
During his illustrious broadcasting career, Sir Trevor McDonald has interviewed many of the top politicians of our time. In the first episode of Icons, he argues that a political leader deserves to be crowned the public's icon of the 20th Century. From the darkness of 1940s Blitz Britain to a hopeful new South Africa, Sir Trevor tells a story of four iconic leaders: Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela.
Explorers
S1 Ep2
8.0
9th Jan 2019
The second in series charts the story of exploration in the 20th century with the public deciding who the greatest explorer was.
Scientists
S1 Ep3
7.5
14th Jan 2019
Exploring the achievements of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Chris Packham assesses the lives of Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Alan Turing and Tu You You.
Entertainers
S1 Ep4
8.5
15th Jan 2019
Exploring the achievements of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Kathleen Turner looks at Charlie Chaplin, Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe and David Bowie.
Activists
S1 Ep5
7.0
21st Jan 2019
Exploring the achievements of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Examining the lives of Emmeline Pankhurst, Mahatma Gandhi, Helen Keller and Martin Luther King Jr.
Sports
S1 Ep6
8.0
22nd Jan 2019
Exploring the achievements of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Exploring the legacies of sports stars Pele, Muhammad Ali, Billie Jean King and Tanni Grey-Thompson.
Artists & Writers
S1 Ep7
29th Jan 2019
Exploring the achievements of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Lily Cole looks at Pablo Picasso, Virginia Woolf, Alfred Hitchcock and Andy Warhol.
Live Final
S1 Ep8
8.0
5th Feb 2019
The live final of the series exploring the achievements of some of the greatest figures of the 20th century. The public vote for who they believe should be called the greatest.