8.0/10127 votes#1 - Piranha
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/2009
In 1976 a packed coach crashed into the Amazon killing 39 people. By the time the bodies were pulled out by rescuers some had been so viciously mutilated by piranha they could only be identified by their clothes. Tracking down survivors and eyewitnesses of piranha attacks, Jeremy Wade reveals why the piranha fills our nightmares.
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8.4/10105 votes#2 - Killer Catfish
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/12/2009
Two years ago, on the treacherous Kali River, high in the mountains of Northern India, Jeremy Wade unearthed the mother of all fisherman's tales and the ultimate freshwater horror: a super-sized freshwater fish turned man-eater. Jeremy takes on the biggest, toughest challenge he's ever faced as he heads back to the Himalayas to separate fact from fiction and track down the monstrous beast.
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7.5/10111 votes#3 - Alligator Gar
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/19/2009
In the Deep South is a river monster with the reputation of a devil. Blamed for a series of violent attacks on humans, this creature is said to be as vicious as a shark and as big as an alligator. The authorities said it should be annihilated, but not all are so quick to condemn it. Extreme angler Jeremy Wade heads to Texas on its trail in an attempt to uncover the facts behind this animal's notoriety. Helped by local expertise and with his own wits honed sharp, he finds new ways to reveal the truth about the monster alligator gar.
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8.1/10106 votes#4 - European Maneater
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/26/2009
Reports of an attack on a swimmer in a lake close to Berlin is the starting point for an intense and shocking investigation. Wade travels to Germany where he meets modern-day victims of a beast that has been raising its snout above the surface of fresh waters in Europe regularly over the past 700 years. Investigations travel to Spain where Wade discovers firsthand that the wels catfish is a living, breathing aggressive predator growing to man-eating proportions capable of everything depicted in medieval records and more.
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8.3/1094 votes#5 - Amazon Assassins
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/3/2009
In the darkest depths of the Amazon lurks a dinosaur. Legends tell of an evil spirit inhabiting an enormous fish. Taller than a man, it is covered in scales and crushes its prey with a tongue made of bone. Jeremy Wade has encountered this creature once before, and he came out second best. He's taking no chances in the rematch.
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8.3/1092 votes#6 - Amazon Flesh Eaters
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/10/2009
A man swallowed whole by a fish. A body eaten alive from within. Another penetrated in a most unnatural fashion, and yet more with multiple stab wounds. Jeremy Wade is in pursuit of these notorious killers to discover the facts — to determine if their crimes are real and their methods as gruesome as reported.
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7.8/1089 votes#7 - Freshwater Shark
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/17/2009
No fish inspires the same terror as the shark, a creature with an insatiable hunger for brutal violence. But at least these killers are confined to the oceans. Or are they? Expert angler Jeremy Wade investigates whether it's possible for sharks to live in freshwater, and if so just how far inland these vicious predators will bring their reign of terror.
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The Best Episodes of River Monsters Season 1
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Extreme angler Jeremy Wade is on the hunt for fish with a taste for human flesh. This rip-roaring ride mixes action and adventure with mysteries,...
Genres:DocumentaryAction & AdventureReality
Network:Animal Planet
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Piranha" is the best rated episode of "River Monsters" season 1. It scored 8/10 based on 127 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/5/2009. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Killer Catfish".