The WORST episodes of The Island with Bear Grylls

#1 - Episode 1

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

After Bear drops the men off on the island, the enormity of their task begins to dawn on them. They need to find shelter and water, and make fire, or their time on the island will be over.

#2 - The Women's Island

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/16/2015

The camp has split in two and is dangerously low on water. As the main group head into the jungle, looking for lost members, they're in for a nasty surprise.

#3 - Episode 2

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/9/2018

After a class war on the Pacific desert island, the wealthy and less well-off teams go their separate ways and set up two camps at opposite ends of the same beach.

#4 - Episode 4

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/23/2018

After three weeks on the island, the castaways are malnourished. Still living at opposite ends of the same beach, the wealthy and less well-off teams finally put their differences aside in a joint hunting expedition.

#5 - Episode 1

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/2/2018

Bear drops the castaways in caiman-infested mangroves and deep water. As the two teams meet, the prospect of living together kickstarts a class war.

#6 - The Women's Island

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/9/2015

Bear Grylls abandons 14 women on a desert island in the Pacific. As night falls on Day 1, they make camp in the jungle - at the mercy of deadly creatures and voracious sand flies.

#7 - Surviving the Island

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/14/2017

Bear Grylls examines how the two groups from different generations survived their five weeks as castaways. Was it the wisdom of age or the energy of youth that proved most valuable?

#8 - Episode 6

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/2/2016

It's been a month, and the men and women are hungry and on the brink of disaster as their bodies start to fail. Simon leads a hunt in the jungle for the dangerous caiman crocodile.

#9 - Episode 4

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/26/2014

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.

#10 - The Men's Island

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/8/2015

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.

#11 - Surviving the Island

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/1/2018

Bear Grylls arrives on the island eager to get the stories behind the castaways' class war and their often dubious survival strategies.

#12 - Episode 3

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/11/2016

The islanders have been marooned for ten days with barely anything to eat. Faced with starvation, they start taking increasingly terrifying chances, including a risky swim in the deep.

#13 - The Women's Island

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/23/2015

Starving and seriously dehydrated, the group leave camp looking for water. They find two pigs, but can't agree whether to adopt them, or eat them.

#14 - 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.

#15 - 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.

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - 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?

#19 - Episode 4

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

#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?

#21 - 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.

#22 - 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.

#23 - 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.

#24 - 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.

#25 - 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.