The WORST episodes of World's Most Dangerous Roads
Every episode of World's Most Dangerous Roads ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of World's Most Dangerous Roads!
Pairs of brave comedy stars and celebrities tackle perilous terrain as they embark on extraordinary road trips through some of the most breathtakingly beautiful and remote parts of the world.
#1 - Ho Chi Minh Trail
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/15/2012
Sue Perkins and Liza Tarbuck drive the legendary Ho Chi Minh Trail, a network of dangerous roads hacked through the mountains and jungles of Laos and Vietnam.
#2 - Rhod Gilbert's Extra Mile Compilation 2
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/13/2025
Rhod Gilbert introduces more highlights, previously unseen footage and outtakes from the past two series of the show.
#3 - Georgia
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/28/2012
Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes were a perfect match in BBC Two's comedy hit Twenty Twelve. Now they pair up again for a terrifying road trip through the former Russian state of Georgia. Driving from the border with Azerbaijan to the Black Sea, Jessica soon discovers her spirit of adventure causes Hugh a few moments of high anxiety. Yet Hugh realises that there is plenty more to come as they find themselves stuck on a high mountain pass in bad weather and he must overcome his vertigo. While the drive is a challenge all the way, the pair are transported into a land that time forgot as Georgia and its people delight and surprise them at every turn.
#4 - Siberia
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/8/2012
Good friends and fellow comedians Ed Byrne and Andy Parsons brave temperatures as low as minus 50 to drive across Siberia's infamous Road of Bones.
#5 - Rhod Gilbert's Extra Mile Compilation 1
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/17/2024
Rhod Gilbert presents a selection of some of the funniest and most dramatic moments from recent series of the programme.
#6 - Italy
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/18/2024
Rhod Gilbert and friend and fellow comedian Angela Barnes cross Italy's most treacherous Alpine roads in Rhod's first adventure since being treated for cancer.
#7 - Madagascar
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/27/2012
Driving up Madagascar's eastern coast at the tail end of the rainy season is enough to test the best of friends. Angus Deayton and Mariella Frostrup are game enough to take on the challenge and luckily, good enough friends to poke fun at each other as the road puts them to the test. It is a route with countless river crossings, offering Angus and Mariella a terrifying variety of broken bridges and flimsy ferries as the only way across. The roads themselves are mired with thick mud, making progress increasingly painful, until finally the road gets the better of them and they are forced to spend a night in the car.
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#8 - Ethiopia
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/22/2012
Hugh Dennis and David Baddiel make their way along over 1,200 miles of dangerous roads in Ethiopia on a journey to Aksum, the country's most holiest place.
#11 - Bolivia
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/9/2013
Funny men Phill Jupitus and Marcus Brigstocke head to Bolivia for a high-altitude road trip that promises adrenalin, hilarity and drop-dead beautiful scenery. Already good friends, the terrified duo first have to survive Bolivia's infamous Road of Death only to find themselves deep in notorious bandit country. Disorientation takes them by surprise as they have to navigate the stunning Salar de Uyuni, a salt lake so vast that Buzz Aldrin could see it from space. Their goal is to reach the ancient mountain city of Potosi whose silver once financed the great Spanish empire but at almost 5000 meters above sea level this proves to be a heart stopping finale.
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#12 - Alaska
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/4/2011
Comedian Sue Perkins and adventurer Charley Boorman travel across Alaska to the notorious Dalton Highway, where avalanche units operate throughout the year.
#23 - Peru
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/2011
Adventurer Ben Fogle and comedian Hugh Dennis drive a historic route from the Peruvian Andes to the depths of the Amazon. They hope to find the lost city of Constitucion.
