The BEST Episodes of The Island with Bear Grylls
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Jul 21, 2020
Network: Channel 4
Bear Grylls abandones 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?
#1 - Episode 5
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired Apr 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.
8.25 
#2 - Surviving the Island
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired Jun 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.
7.81 
#4 - Surviving the Island
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired May 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
7.79 
#5 - The Men's Island
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired May 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.
7.70 
#6 - The Men's Island
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired May 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.
7.68 
#7 - Episode 3
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired Apr 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.
7.67 #8 - Episode 2
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired Apr 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.
7.65 
#9 - The Men's Island
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired Apr 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.
7.64 
#10 - The Women's Island
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired May 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.
7.63 #11 - Episode 2
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired Apr 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.
7.62 #12 - Episode 5
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired May 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?
7.61 #13 - Episode 3
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired May 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.
7.59 
#14 - Episode 5
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired Jun 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?
7.58 
#15 - The Women's Island
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired May 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.
7.57 
#16 - Episode 4
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired May 26, 2014
Three weeks into their survival experience, the group are barely getting by on a meagre diet of snails and coconuts. Willing to take ever greater risks, Mike and Chris battle with dangerous tides.
7.57 
#17 - The Women's Island
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired Apr 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.
7.57 #19 - Episode 4
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired May 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.
7.56 
#20 - The Men's Island
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired Apr 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.
7.56 
#21 - Episode 3
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired May 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.
7.56 #22 - Episode 1
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired Apr 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?
7.54 
#23 - The Men's Island
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired Apr 8, 2015
The men swim ashore. Hammered by a succession of tropical storms, they must find a safe place away from deadly scorpions, snakes and caiman crocodile. And less than a week in, a fierce row breaks out.
7.52 
#24 - Episode 2
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired May 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.
7.52 
#25 - The Men's Island
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired Apr 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.
7.51