The WORST episodes of Survivorman
Every episode of Survivorman ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Survivorman!
No food, no shelter, no fresh water, no tools ... no camera crew. One man - alone in the wilderness for seven days with only his wits and stamina to sustain him.
#1 - Survivorman and Son: Wabakimi
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/2/2016
Les and Logan set out for a father/son fishing trip in a tin boat. Stranded after their motor dies, Les and Logan are quickly plunged into an intense survival situation that could happen to any summer cottager. This father/son team must work together to stay hydrated, secure food, make shelter and flag down a rescue plane. Les gets creative using bug spray as a fire-starter. Father/son dynamics effect their decision-making.
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#2 - Survivorman Bigfoot: Radium Springs
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/26/2014
In the second episode of this 2-part special, Les continues his survival in the remote area of Northern Alberta to get as close as he can – if that’s possible – to the legend known as Sasquatch. Full of skepticism, Les enlists the help of a Bigfoot tracker named Todd Standing, who claims to have had multiple interactions with the legendary creature in the area. (Also named "Episode 2: Alberta – Part Two")
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#3 - Survivorman Bigfoot: Nordegg
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/19/2014
In the first episode of this 2-part special, Les finds himself in a remote track of forested land in Alberta, Canada, a renowned Bigfoot hot spot. Inundated by requests from fans to uncover the truth about Bigfoot since revealing his own possible Bigfoot encounter while shooting Survivorman in Alaska in 2009, Les sets out to uncover the truth about this elusive and quite possibly fictitious creature. (Also named "Episode 1: Alberta – Part One")
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#4 - Survivorman and Son: Ecuador
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/3/2016
Father and son embark on a photography expedition deep in the Ecuadorian jungle but when the tour guide doesn’t return, Les and Logan must put their wills of survival to the ultimate test… After being stranded in the Ecuadorian jungle, father-son team Les and Logan must confront the diversities and dangerous of one of the most dangerous rainforests. Les and Logan take on a photography expedition in the jungles of Ecuador; ecologically one of the most diverse and dangerous in the world. When the tour guide fails to return, Father and son team must put their survival skills and willpower to the ultimate test.
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#5 - Survivorman Bigfoot: Giants of the Forest
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/22/2015
Les returns to the wilds of Rural Alberta to document evidence of Sasquatch activity. He approaches with a skeptic’s eye, experimenting with stealth camera equipment and using infrared trail cams and thermal imaging. The search for definitive proof gives him the edge. The mission is to document the increasing regularity and recurrence of phenomenon that is baffling science – and hopefully, provoke an interaction. Things keep happening, events recorded in nature, that wild life biology is having a hart time explaining, without including Sasquatch. It’s not so much a mission as a quest. A piece of the puzzle is out there…and that puzzle is Bigfoot.
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#6 - Survivorman Bigfoot: Hidden World of Bigfoot
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/15/2015
Les plants himself in Bigfoot hot spots across North America, collecting stories and experiences from Bigfoot believers, gathering and examining evidence to debunk the mysteries that surround this ancient legend. Les has had his own eerie experiences in the wild, things he can’t quite explain, but he isn’t a Bigfoot believer. It’s not his job to say it’s an alien or an ape. It’s his job to wage war in the middle ground, where a battle is raging for reason. But what happens when reason isn’t enough? Over and over, Les encounters people who approach Bigfoot from a more spiritual angle. Is there an intelligent life-form surviving in the forgotten wilderness of our world? And if so, does it want to be found?
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#7 - Survivorman Bigfoot: Smoky Mountain Sasquatch
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/29/2015
Things get weird when Les tracks Bigfoot in the smoky mountains of Tennessee with Scott Carpenter, a local researcher claiming to have interactions with Bigfoot in the area. Scott’s theories leave Les feeling jumpy. Or maybe that’s the black bears. There are more than 1,500 black bears that live in these mountains. Les knows that where bears thrive, humans can survive, too. But, is it possible that something else could be surviving in the unknown wild? A higher intelligence? Something that doesn’t want to be found? Battling his own psyche, Les enters the Bigfoot hot spot, planting hidden cameras and scent traps, in an effort to elicit an interaction, seeking irrefutable proof. But the longer Les hunts for Sasquatch, the weirder things get.
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#8 - Survivorman Bigfoot: Legend of Klemtu Hill
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/1/2015
In the largely unexplored wilderness of Klemtu, an Indian Reserve on the coastal fijords of Canada’s beautiful British Columbia, local residents have been telling stories for generations about Bigfoot. Klemtu Hill is an old volcano, it’s a sacred area and the Bigfoot reports here are in the hundreds. Something that is supposed to weigh 900 pounds has to leave a trail – whatever is there, it leaves tracks, makes sounds in the night, makes friends and helps people, abducts and even kills people. Les Stroud’s approach is to place himself in the hot spots, in the firing line, wherever there have been reports of sightings or strange happenings, in a tent, outside of a tent, with fire, without fire, inside of a cabin, walking on lonely roads, whatever it takes to provoke an encounter. Les’s quest is to make contact and in this wild place of abundance, where large animals could exist indefinitely, it is the unknown that keeps him coming back for more.
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#9 - Survivorman Bigfoot: Searching the Southwest
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/6/2015
Les begins his search in East Texas, invited onto private land by a local who claims to have experienced Bigfoot phenomenon for over 35 years. For Les to succeed, he has to find concrete proof. He collects DNA samples, analyzes tree breaks and plants hidden cameras to lure Bigfoot into his frame. Combining low-tech with high-tech surveillance puts the odds in his favor, but Les has to keep digging if he wants to find out the truth. Locals’ stories lead him to the remote mountain terrain of rural Utah. Here, ungodly screams and tales of haunted hollows find Les camped out in a canyon way off the beaten path. Les remains firmly planted between skepticism and acceptance. Lacking irrefutable evidence, Bigfoot is a contradiction. A 10ft monster that he can’t find…
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#10 - Survivorman Bigfoot: Mystery of Bigfoot Mountain
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/15/2015
In this episode, Les is going for broke: he plants multiple hidden cameras, prepares DNA traps, hangs pheromone chips, hand bells and chimes with camouflaged sound recorders, all in an effort to coax an interaction out of the alleged Sasquatch. He returns to the site where Todd captured audio of a near-fatal Sasquatch encounter. Whoops and strange noises from the forest interior leave Les unsettled yet skeptical. Taking casts of animal footprints to compare with possible Sasquatch tracks, Les finds grizzly prints bigger than his hand. He scales the most remote and dangerous Grizzly Bear territory of the Canadian Rockies alone in his search for the truth. Les has to think like an animal – go slow and take breaks often. In this vast-reaching untouched forest, anything could yet survive.
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#11 - Survivorman Bigfoot: Where the Myth Began
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/8/2015
Les tracks Bigfoot in the ancient red cedar forests of Northwest California: sixty miles in-land from Eureka, California sits the land of the Hoopa Valley Tribe. Here the wide trunks of ancient red cedar trees stand like old guardians; their disorienting and protective branches stretching for miles towards the northwest sky. It’s easy to get lost here. And this old forest is dangerous. It’s the densest black bear territory in California…and a hot spot for Bigfoot activity. Les heads back out into the wilderness in search of Sasquatch. Les isn’t a believer – not yet. He needs irrefutable proof. He’s got to catch one on film. The town of Hoopa is swimming in Sasquatch stories. Les sifts through the evidence, talking to the locals, looking for signs, and attempting to invoke an encounter.
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#13 - Kalahari
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/10/2007
Les begins the second season in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa. The scenario: running out of gas in the middle of the desert. His supplies: enough water for only four days, two empty soda cans, an empty jar of peanut butter, some jam, an ostrich egg, a broken down truck, and a bucket. The dangers: the brutal summer heat where temperatures on the sand reach 140F/60C; dehydration and heatstroke; scorpions and highly venomous Cape cobras.
#14 - Patagonia
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/19/2015
Les retraces the last steps of experienced Argentinan hiker Laureano Emanuel Santos on the circuit track of Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia to investigate how tragedies can occur even on well-traveled wilderness trails.
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#17 - Grenada Jungle
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2014
Les must survive for 5 days in the jungle on the island of Grenada.
#18 - Deep Woods (Temagami Hunting)
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/5/2008
This week, Les Stroud has an accompanying friend, Bob, who joins him on his hunting trip to the forests of Temagami. When plans for bear, moose and caribou hunting go wrong, Stroud is forced to measure the pros and cons of bringing along a friend on an adventure such as this.
#23 - Labrador
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/24/2007
Les journeys into Labrador in the Canadian Maritimes. The scenario: driving a dog sled team almost 100 miles back to civilization in late winter. The supplies: a .22 rifle, a bucket of caribou meat (for the dogs, not for him), and, for the first time, a self-designed survival kit. The dangers: hypothermia, getting lost, the weather's effect on the trail, and injury from the sled or the dogs. Added difficulties: the dogs aren't familiar with Les, the possibility of vicious fights between the dogs, and Les simulates the role of stranded dog sled driver.
#24 - Canadian Boreal Forest
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/6/2005
Les Stroud simulates becoming stranded after a canoeing accident in a Northern Ontario forest.
#25 - Plane Crash
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/25/2005
In the remote winter-bound forests of Northern Ontario, a crashed plane lies in the snow beside a frozen lake. There is no one alive on board. But this plane didn't crash here - the decrepit old wreck has been airdropped from a helicopter to provide a temporary home for Survivorman. For a week Les will have to survive in this harsh snowy wilderness with only an axe, a multi-tool and a single blanket to aid him.