Timewatch

Season 13, Episode 7

Episode Title: The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition

Air Date: 1994-11-06

Overview:

An entire popular mythology has made the Spanish Inquisition a byword for human evil - sadistic, fanatical and omnipotent. But in reality it was none of these things. How did the truth come to be so distorted? Through special access to the secrets of the Inquisition's own archives, Timewatch presents a very different version of history's most notorious institution. NEW SERIES.