Series synopsis
Guardians of the Glades is an American reality television series that premiered on Discovery on May 28, 2019. It ended on February 25, 2020. It stars Dusty Crum.
Florida has a snake problem, and snake hunter Dusty Crum has assembled the team to tackle it. Burmese pythons have decimated more than 90 percent of certain mammal and bird species in parts of the Everglades. Dusty has made it his life’s calling (and business) to save the Glades.
Premise
Florida has a snake problem, and snake hunter Dusty Crum has assembled the team to tackle it. Burmese pythons have decimated more than 90 percent of certain mammal and bird species in parts of the Everglades. Dusty has made it his life’s calling (and business) to save the Glades.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Dusty Crum as Self
Episodes
This series spans 2 seasons with 13 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 5 | May 28, 2019 | July 2, 2019 |
| Season 2 | 8 | January 8, 2020 | February 25, 2020 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Land of Monsters Snakehunter Dusty Crum wages war on thousands of invasive pythons killing the Everglades, backed by his one-of-a-kind team. |
May 28, 2019 |
| 2 |
Night Terror Rival snake hunters encroach on Dusty's hunting spot, so he and his team take a major risk by day and night hunting deep in the dangerous Sawgrass Plains. |
June 4, 2019 |
| 3 |
Fists Full of Snakes Dusty and his team mount a hunt from a swamp buggy before racing south to the python-infested Ten Thousand Islands off the coast of southwest Florida. |
June 11, 2019 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Stranglehold Dusty Crum and his team of snake hunters devise a plan to stop Florida’s invasive pythons from spreading north and becoming a national emergency. |
January 8, 2020 |
| 2 |
Python Tourniquet While Dusty and the team stave off the spreading invasion by creating a “tourniquet” at the Stormwater Treatment Areas, Gary lobbies to go down south and hunt for a new record-breaking snake. |
January 15, 2020 |
| 3 |
Bone Valley Dusty and the team must capture a giant calf-eating snake and venture into an abandoned factory to save upper Florida from invasive pythons |
January 22, 2020 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Discovery |
|---|---|
| First aired | May 28, 2019 |
| Last aired | February 25, 2020 |
| Runtime | 42 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Tuesday at 22:00:00 |