8.5/1043 votesLoading...#1 - Grenada Jungle
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2014
Les must survive for 5 days in the jungle on the island of Grenada
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8.4/1063 votesLoading...#2 - Lost at Sea
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/1/2005
Living "off the land" takes on a new meaning as Les Stroud casts off for a week at sea. With no food and only a bare minimum of equipment, Stroud will be set adrift in an inflatable life raft off the coast of Belize. Battling hunger, thirst and the Caribbean heat, he must also keep his cameras dry to film the ordeal. To top it off - the life raft has a few bad leaks and needs constant bailing. It also leaks air and requires frequent re-inflation with a hand pump - Survivorman is in for a busy few days!
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- 8.4/1043 votesLoading...
#3 - Papua New Guinea
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 12/19/2008
Les Stroud must survive in the jungles of Papua New Guinea.
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- 8.3/1064 votesLoading...
#4 - Ecuador
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 8/29/2007
The phrase “It’s a jungle out there” takes on a whole new meaning when Les Stroud pays a visit to one of the densest, deepest parts of the Amazon jungle. For seven days, Les “Survivorman” Stroud will test his mettle, his will and his ingenuity — everything he’s got — to survive in one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
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- 8.3/1038 votesLoading...
#5 - Sierra Nevada
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 11/7/2008
Les tries to survive in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. This time he has more than just his trusty harmonica and his multi tool, He also has some basic backpacking gear as well like a tent, a sleeping bag, and a flashlight. When he doesn’t show up at camp his team is forced to organise a Search and Rescue team to find him. Will they find him in time?
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- 8.3/1023 votesLoading...
#6 - Temagami Forest
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/2014
Les Stroud travels into the forests of Ontario's Temagami, and the oldest mountains in North America to survive for 5 days, with no food, no water, no shelter, and no crew.
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- 8.2/1063 votesLoading...
#7 - Plane Crash
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/25/2005
In the remote winter-bound forests of Northern Ontario, a crashed plane lies in the snow beside a frozen lake. There is no one alive on board. But this plane didn't crash here - the decrepit old wreck has been airdropped from a helicopter to provide a temporary home for Survivorman. For a week Les will have to survive in this harsh snowy wilderness with only an axe, a multi-tool and a single blanket to aid him.
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- 8.2/1055 votesLoading...
#8 - Kalahari Desert
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 8/15/2007
Just when you think it can’t get any hotter, Les Stroud finds out it can. In this episode, Les dips his toes in the scorching red sands of the Kalahari Desert — one of the most extreme climates on Earth.
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- 8.2/1052 votesLoading...
#9 - African Plains
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/12/2007
The plains of South Africa conjure up images of beauty — and danger. In this episode, Les Stroud lands here for an arid adventure that would make even the most seasoned safari traveler sweat. And not just because of the heat.
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- 8.2/1041 votesLoading...
#10 - Arctic Tundra
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/2008
Stranded on northern Baffin Island, "Survivorman" Les Stroud learns harsh lessons in solo arctic survival in 24hour daylight.
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#11 - Temagami Hunting - Deep Woods
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 12/5/2008
Survivorman Les Stroud finds himself scrounging to feed two people after a hunting trip goes wrong.
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- 8.2/1039 votesLoading...
#12 - Australian Outback
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 12/12/2008
Les Stroud is stranded in the outback when his ultralight airplane runs out of fuel.
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- 8.2/1020 votesLoading...
#13 - Survivorman's Top Ten
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 9/16/2012
With all the ground Les has covered, it's little wonder there's a dark side. Hope you weren't one of the people on that canoe trip; and it's hard to imagine what he'd do if he happened on a litterbug.
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- 8.2/1034 votesLoading...
#14 - Tierra del Fuego
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/2014
Les Stroud travels to the Mitre Peninsula, a remote peninsula located on the easternmost tip of Isla Grande in the province of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
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- 8.2/1022 votesLoading...
#15 - Fan Challenge
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 11/7/2015
Les teaches winner of a fan submission contest, amateur filmmaker Joseph McConnell, about wilderness survival in the remote Ontario wilderness.[8][9][10]
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8.1/1078 votesLoading...#16 - Canadian Boreal Forest
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/6/2005
The Boreal forest of Northern Canada is a vast tract of wilderness stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. It is home to moose and beaver, crisscrossed by rivers and lakes and frost-free for only about three months of the year. Les intentionally tips his canoe in mid-stream and crawls from the icy waters onto shore where he does a quick inventory of his supplies. A handful of cashews and beef jerky, a solitary match, a multi-tool and 50 lbs of camera equipment to document the next seven days in the bush.
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- 8.1/1067 votesLoading...
#17 - Georgian Swamp
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/27/2005
The swamplands of Georgia's Altamaha River Basin are all that one would expect of a Primordial bog: dank, menacing, swimming with slithering creepy-crawlies and, of course, alligator-infested. This is the welcoming environment Les Stroud will be immersed in for seven sweaty days and bone-chilling nights.
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- 8.1/1061 votesLoading...
#18 - Canadian Arctic
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/4/2005
Pond Inlet, on the Northern reaches of Baffin Island, provides one of the most challenging landscapes our planet has to offer. Over 700km north of the Arctic Circle, it sits amidst grinding, ever-shifting flows of sea-ice where polar-bears roam in search of meat. In this severe climate, Les has been equipped with a bare minimum of raw materials to aid him for the next 7 days - a hunk of uncooked seal-liver, some oil-rich blubber for heat, a seal-hook, three matches, and a knife.
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8.1/1055 votesLoading...#19 - Canadian Rockies
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/11/2005
Les is airdropped onto a snow-covered peak in the Canadian Rockies courtesy of the Canadian Mountain Air Rescue Service. They'll come looking for him in seven days. Until then Les is entirely on his own, save for the grizzlies, cougars and wolves that also call this place home. To emulate a real-life survival scenario - in this case a heli-hiking expedition come to grief - Les has been provided with a few readily salvageable items, among them a broken camcorder and tripod. One man's trash is another man's treasure!
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- 8.1/1055 votesLoading...
#20 - Utah Canyonlands
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/18/2005
The spectacular red landscapes of Utah's canyonlands are as beautiful as they are inhospitable. Like outlaws of old who were known to eat their own horses out of desperation in this forlorn place, Stroud will cannibalize the mountain-bike he has ridden into the middle of nowhere. As well as these scavenged bike parts to aid him, he also has a multi-tool, a magnesium flint-stick and an old energy-bar - that he has a use for other than eating.
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- 8.1/1032 votesLoading...
#21 - Behind the Scenes
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/8/2005
Les presents clips and outtakes from the previous nine survival episodes.
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- 8.1/1036 votesLoading...
#22 - Colorado Rockies
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/2008
"Survivorman" Les Stroud takes two horses into the Colorado Rockies and discovers the challenges of surviving for three.
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- 8.1/1020 votesLoading...
#23 - Norway Mountain - Part 2
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 7/7/2012
Les Stroud is stranded in the Norwegian mountains. Surviving for ten days, Les has no food supplies and little water. Alone and exhausted, Les tests the will to live like never before.
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- 8.1/1020 votesLoading...
#24 - Tiburón Island Coast – Part 1
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 7/14/2012
Les Stroud is shipwrecked on the desert island of Tiburon. With limited food supplies and no fresh water, Les scavenges to survive on the desert shore.
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8.1/1036 votesLoading...#25 - Frigate Island
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/2014
Les must survive for 5 days on Frigate Island in the Grenadines
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The Best Episodes of Survivorman
Every episode of Survivorman ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Survivorman!
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Best Episodes Summary
"Grenada Jungle" is the best rated episode of "Survivorman". It scored 8.5/10 based on 43 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/1/2014. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Lost at Sea".