Series synopsis
情MAN转转转 is a South Korean action & adventure documentary television series that premiered on Discovery on August 7, 2004. It was created by Steve Rankin.
Bear strands himself in popular wilderness destinations where tourists often find themselves lost or in danger.
Premise
Bear strands himself in popular wilderness destinations where tourists often find themselves lost or in danger.
Episodes
This series spans 8 seasons with 104 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 14 | July 20, 2007 | July 4, 2025 |
| Season 1 | 39 | August 7, 2004 | February 12, 2005 |
| Season 2 | 13 | November 8, 2007 | June 5, 2008 |
| Season 3 | 10 | August 6, 2008 | February 15, 2009 |
| Season 4 | 11 | August 12, 2009 | February 17, 2010 |
| Season 5 | 6 | June 1, 2009 | September 2, 2009 |
| Season 6 | 6 | February 17, 2011 | March 24, 2011 |
| Season 7 | 5 | July 10, 2011 | August 18, 2011 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Never Before Seen Bear gets up close and personal with sharks in the Pacific, where he also must deal with rip currents and pounding surf. |
July 20, 2007 |
| 2 |
Bear's Mission Everest In this special, Bear attempts his most daring mission to date when he tries to fly a paramotor glider over the world's highest mountain. |
November 8, 2007 |
| 3 |
Bear's Essentials A clip-show from previous Man vs Wild episodes highlighting important survival techniques. |
September 16, 2008 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | August 7, 2004 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | August 14, 2004 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | August 21, 2004 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Sahara In the sun-scorched Sahara Desert, Grylls uses survival tactics of the indigenous people, including eating a scorpion and a sandfish. He also explains how to escape from quicksand. |
November 8, 2007 |
| 2 |
Desert Survivor In the desert, Grylls offers tips on skinning and disemboweling a dead camel for water. |
November 15, 2007 |
| 3 |
Panama (1) Grylls travels to Panama, where he travels in the equatorial heat through mangrove swamps and rain forest, and endures more than 100 mosquito bites and one painful snake bite. |
November 22, 2007 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Baja Desert Grylls must cross blistering desert and barren salt plains in Mexico's Baja peninsula. While collecting honey Grylls is stung by a bee and his face becomes severely swollen, nearly blinding him. |
August 6, 2008 |
| 2 |
The Deep South Grylls enters the swamps of Louisiana where he kills an alligator with a knife, and catches a catfish with his bare hands |
August 27, 2008 |
| 3 |
Ireland Grylls jumps from a boat a kilometre off the west coast of Ireland. He travels down the coast before turning inland to cross the bogs. Here he retrieves a sheep carcass from a bog whose skin he uses as a sleeping bag (sheeping bag), a waterproof sack, and a flotation device. |
September 3, 2008 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Arctic Circle Grylls goes to the Arctic Circle, where he encounters a frozen waterfall, wild reindeer and some of the coldest conditions on the planet. |
August 12, 2009 |
| 2 |
Alabama Grylls wrestles a pig, squeezes through some tight spots, and survives a forest fire in the swamps of Alabama. It is revealed that Grylls broke his shoulder while in Antarctica two months previously. |
August 19, 2009 |
| 3 |
Vietnam Grylls demonstrates what it was like for soldiers who had to survive in the jungles of Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. |
August 26, 2009 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Western Pacific Grylls is on a desert island, south of Papua New Guinea. He wades across a shark-infested tidal channel, climbs crumbling volcanic cliffs, leaps over a 100-foot death drop, and constructs a bamboo windsurfer to make his escape. |
June 1, 2009 |
| 2 |
Northern Australia In Australia's Northern Territory, Grylls must rely on many of the skills honed by the Aboriginal people to survive in this sweltering landscape dominated by crocodiles. |
June 1, 2009 |
| 3 |
Canadian Rockies While in the Canadian Rockies, Grylls is buried alive in an avalanche, swims long distance beneath an ice-covered lake, and is airvac-ed to the hospital when an icy glissade goes horribly wrong. |
June 1, 2009 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Arizona Sky Islands In Arizona, Bear transforms into a one man high speed glider with a cutting edge wingsuit and flies into the Arizona Sky Islands. Bear shows viewers how to find water in the parched desert landscape, builds a sand-buggy from a wrecked aircraft and crosses heart-stopping rock drops. |
February 17, 2011 |
| 2 |
Cape Wrath, Scotland In Scotland off the rugged coast of Cape Wrath, Bear is dropped into open ocean. After getting ashore, he realises he's on an island and must swim to the mainland. Bear fashions a wetsuit from a seal's hide to withstand the frigid crossing. Well into the trek, he is forced to turn back as an incoming estuary tide nearly cuts him off. After he makes it to dry land, Bear has a close call with the steep treacherous Scottish rock terrain |
February 24, 2011 |
| 3 |
Norway: Edge of Survival Bear and his team are in Norway. Armed with the latest technology they'll be creating the harshest conditions possible while sensors monitor how Bear copes trying to survive in one of the world's most beautiful but wettest countries. |
March 3, 2011 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Men vs. Wild with Jake Gyllenhaal Bear brings along a companion, actor Jake Gyllenhaal, to test how he measures up to unpredictable and unforgiving Mother Nature. |
July 10, 2011 |
| 2 |
New Zealand: South Island This week Bear braves the remote wilderness of New Zealand's South Island, crossing the country's tallest mountains and attempting to start a fire with wood that is soaking wet. |
July 17, 2011 |
| 3 |
Iceland: Fire and Ice Bear returns to Iceland to demonstrate the challenge of surviving its many pitfalls. His trek begins on an ice cap covering an active volcano, where food sources are scarce and travels down towards a civilization with swollen rivers between him and safety. |
July 24, 2011 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Discovery |
|---|---|
| First aired | August 7, 2004 |
| Last aired | February 12, 2005 |
| Runtime | 40 minutes |
| Status | continue |
| Schedule | Tuesday at 22:00:00 |