The BEST episodes of The Island with Bear Grylls

Every episode of The Island with Bear Grylls ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Island with Bear Grylls!

Bear Grylls abandons a group of British men and women on a remote, uninhabited Pacific island, where they must stay completely alone for six weeks. With only the clothes they are wearing and some basic tools, do they have what it takes to survive?

Last Updated: 2/11/2024Network: Channel 4Status: Ended
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Episode 5
star
8.23
71 votes

#1 - Episode 5

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/30/2018

Facing their last week of isolation, the two camps decide to settle their class issues and battle the high seas, in a joint bid to raft to the neighbouring island. Can they bury their differences before Bear arrives.

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Episode 2
star
7.64
112 votes

#2 - Episode 2

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/24/2017

The young group's campsites turns into a swamp in the rain. They join up with the orders but immediately there's a row. Freddie kills a snake, and Kaggy goes on a turkey hunt.

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Episode 3
star
7.64
47 votes

#3 - Episode 3

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/16/2018

In search of much-needed food, Barnes decides to risk strong currents and riptides on a journey by raft to a nearby island. But the voyage has disastrous consequences.

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The Men's Island
star
7.64
66 votes

#4 - The Men's Island

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/13/2015

Malnourished, exhausted and under pressure, the group turn on each other. Vic and Sam argue, while a fishing venture goes disastrously wrong for Will.

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Episode 2
star
7.63
115 votes

#5 - Episode 2

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/4/2016

The men and women meet on the beach and agree to unite. Iraq veteran Hannah attempts to motivate the group to bond more, but a vicious tropical storm has a devastating effect.

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Episode 5
star
7.63
112 votes

#6 - Episode 5

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/14/2017

After four weeks on the island, the group have collectively lost almost 30 stone. Can Aran and Jacqui make a killing with a dangerous caiman crocodile and provide food for all?

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Episode 3
star
7.57
124 votes

#7 - Episode 3

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/1/2017

With the old and young living side by side, the islanders hope to hit their stride. But hunger and frayed tempers lead to bust-ups as the islanders turn on one of their own.

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Surviving the Island
star
7.56
27 votes

#8 - Surviving the Island

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/2/2014

Bear Grylls visits the men at the end of their stay on the island to explore how they coped and how the experience has affected them.

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Surviving the Island
star
7.53
43 votes

#9 - Surviving the Island

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/21/2015

Bear meets the men and women who made it through six weeks on a Pacific island, to see how they coped battling hunger, thirst, and each other, in one of the biggest tests of their lives

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The Men's Island
star
7.53
70 votes

#10 - The Men's Island

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/29/2015

The men build a raft to go fishing. But, as Vic gets dragged towards razor-sharp rocks, he faces a life and death struggle to turn the raft around.

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The Women's Island
star
7.52
61 votes

#11 - The Women's Island

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/14/2015

Hunger and disorganisation is causing the group to fragment. Lauren and Beth make a push for leadership but Jaime and Belinda push back.

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Episode 3
star
7.52
86 votes

#12 - Episode 3

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/19/2014

With the men losing weight on a diet of just 300 calories a day, Ryan heads off alone in search of food. But without water, he soon finds himself lost and in imminent danger.

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Episode 1
star
7.52
132 votes

#13 - Episode 1

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/23/2017

Old and young go head to head for the fourth series of Bear Grylls epic survival show. With just the clothes on their backs and a handful of basic tools, which generation has what it takes to survive when pushed to the limits of human endurance?

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Episode 2
star
7.52
77 votes

#14 - Episode 2

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/12/2014

It's been 48 hours since the men had a meal and hunger grips the group. The race is on to bring food back to camp before they become too weak to hunt.

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Episode 4
star
7.52
124 votes

#15 - Episode 4

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/8/2017

The islanders face mother nature at her most violent and brutal. Having endured a series of torrential downpours which have ravaged their campsite, unknown to them a hurricane is brewing 100 miles to the north.

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The Men's Island
star
7.50
64 votes

#16 - The Men's Island

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/20/2015

After five weeks on the island, the men are low on food and energy. They make a last bid to hunt for food before Bear arrives to take them back to civilisation.

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Surviving the Island
star
7.49
37 votes

#17 - Surviving the Island

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/3/2016

In this special show, Bear Grylls takes an in-depth look at how the castaways survived the latest series. How did they cope with all the extremes?

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The Women's Island
star
7.48
58 votes

#18 - The Women's Island

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/6/2015

It's almost four weeks into the experiment and the women are entering dangerous medical territory. They're given a 36-hour deadline to turn things around.

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The Women's Island
star
7.46
68 votes

#19 - The Women's Island

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/30/2015

The extreme conditions are taking their toll, with the women on the brink of starvation. Lauren, Beth and Belinda go pig hunting in the jungle.

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Episode 5
star
7.45
75 votes

#20 - Episode 5

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/2/2014

The men enter their fourth week of living on the island with the group hungry and divided. They elect an island leader. But will everyone back him?

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Episode 4
star
7.45
109 votes

#21 - Episode 4

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/18/2016

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Episode 1
star
7.45
121 votes

#22 - Episode 1

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/28/2016

The two groups swim ashore to face a storm and a life-or-death search for water. A row breaks out with the men, while one of the women sees something that makes her suspect they may not be alone.

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Episode 5
star
7.44
146 votes

#23 - Episode 5

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/25/2016

Following Patrick's fall, the island is in crisis as the safety team struggle to land in a stormy sea. And with the need for food as urgent as ever, Tilly wants to join the hunt.

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The Men's Island
star
7.43
74 votes

#24 - The Men's Island

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/22/2015

The men come face to face with a fearsome predator. And, as the group's body weight and energy levels plummet, there's division and conflict in the camp.

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The Men's Island
star
7.40
80 votes

#25 - The Men's Island

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/15/2015

The men have barely slept or had a real meal since landing. And a bitter rivalry between the island's two builders, Paul and Andy, has turned into all-out war.

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