The WORST episodes of The Island with Bear Grylls

Every episode of The Island with Bear Grylls ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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: 9/12/2026Network: Channel 4Status: Ended
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#1 - 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.

The Women's Island
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#2 - 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.

The Men's Island
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#3 - 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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#4 - 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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#5 - 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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#6 - 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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#7 - 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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#8 - 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.

Surviving the Island
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#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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#10 - 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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#11 - 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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#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.

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#13 - Episode 4

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

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#14 - 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.

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#15 - 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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#16 - 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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#17 - 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?

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#18 - 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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#19 - 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.

The Women's Island
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#20 - 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.

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#21 - 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.

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#22 - 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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#23 - 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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#24 - 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.

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#25 - 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?