List of Survive This episodes (Season One)
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This is a list of episodes for the first season of Survive This
, a Canadian
reality TV
show on which eight teenagers with limited survival skills training
are taken into a forest and confronted with a number of survival challenges to test their skills and perseverance. The show is hosted by Les Stroud
, who narrates each episode, provides the teens with survival challenges, and assesses their performance. The show premiered on April 7, 2009, in Canada and on June 17, 2009, in the United States
. Cartoon Network ceased to air Survive This after August 19, 2009; the last episode to air was "Mountain." The final three episodes screened only on the Cartoon Network Web site.
Survive This
Survive This is a Canadian reality TV show on which eight teenagers with limited survival skills training are taken into a forest and confronted with a number of survival challenges to test their skills and perseverance. The series airs on YTV in Canada and Cartoon Network in the United States...
, a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
reality TV
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
show on which eight teenagers with limited survival skills training
Survival skills
Survival skills are techniques a person may use in a dangerous situation to save themselves or others...
are taken into a forest and confronted with a number of survival challenges to test their skills and perseverance. The show is hosted by Les Stroud
Les Stroud
Les Stroud is a Canadian musician, filmmaker, and survival expert best known as the creator, writer, producer, director, cameraman and host of the television series Survivorman...
, who narrates each episode, provides the teens with survival challenges, and assesses their performance. The show premiered on April 7, 2009, in Canada and on June 17, 2009, in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Cartoon Network ceased to air Survive This after August 19, 2009; the last episode to air was "Mountain." The final three episodes screened only on the Cartoon Network Web site.
Participants
Eight teenagers were given a week's survival training before being taken into the wilderness. The Season One cast included:
- Adam—Adam Deganis is a 15-year-old native of Mississauga, Ontario
Mississauga, OntarioMississauga is a city in Southern Ontario located in the Regional Municipality of Peel, and in the western part of the Greater Toronto Area. With an estimated population of 734,000, it is Canada's sixth-most populous municipality, and has almost doubled in population in each of the last two decades...
, who attends Loyola Catholic Secondary SchoolLoyola Catholic Secondary SchoolLoyola Catholic Secondary School is a Roman Catholic high school located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The school has 1369 students, and is operated by the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board....
. Labeled as "the sportsman" on the series, his survival experiences consisted of hunting, fishing, and spending summers at his family vacation home. A fan of Survivorman, he applied to be on the series because he wanted to meet Les Stroud. Deganis is an arachnophobeArachnophobiaArachnophobia or arachnephobia is a specific phobia, the fear of spiders and other arachnids such as scorpions. It is a manifestation of zoophobia, among the most common of all phobias. The reactions of arachnophobics often seem irrational to others...
.- Becca—Becca Mehaffey is a 17-year-old from Markham, Ontario
Markham, OntarioMarkham is a town in the Regional Municipality of York, located within the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada. The population was 261,573 at the 2006 Canadian census...
, who has almost no outdoors experience. Her friends and family laughed at her when she applied to be on the show. She was called "the princess" on the show, and practices dance in her spare time.- Becky—Becky Tran is a 17-year-old from Newmarket, Ontario
Newmarket, OntarioNewmarket is a town in Southern Ontario located approximately 50 km north of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Greater Toronto Area and is connected to Toronto by freeway, and is served by three interchanges along Highway 404. It is also connected to Highway 400 via Highway 9...
, who was labeled "the environmentalist" on the series, but whom the other participants called "BT." Tran, who is admittedly "addicted" to her hair ironHair ironA hair iron or hair tong is a tool used to change the structure of the hair using heat. There are three general kinds: curling irons, used to make the hair curly, straightening irons, commonly called straighteners or flat irons, used to straighten the hair, and crimping irons, used to create crimps...
, was frightened of dirt, germs, and insects.- Catarina—Catarina is a 17-year-old who was described as "the tough girl" on the series.
- Holden—Holden Adams is a 16-year-old who was called "the city boy" on the show. After the show ended, he admitted that lack of sleep, hunger, and physical exhaustion often led him to rest while others did the work of finding food and building shelter.
- Jen—Jennifer Daub is a 16-year-old resident of Blind River, Ontario
Blind River, OntarioPopulation trend:* Population in 2006: 3780* Population in 2001: 3969* Population in 1996: 3152 * Population in 1991: 3355-Economy:Its main businesses are tourism, fishing, logging, and uranium refining....
. She attends W. C. Eaket Secondary SchoolW. C. Eaket Secondary SchoolW.C. Eaket Secondary School, also known as Eaket, is the only English language high school in Blind River, Ontario, Canada. It is operated by the Algoma District School Board, and as of 2006 it had 312 students and 59 faculty members...
. She was labeled "the hunter" on the series because she had spent time tracking and hunting deerDeerDeer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. Species in the Cervidae family include white-tailed deer, elk, moose, red deer, reindeer, fallow deer, roe deer and chital. Male deer of all species and female reindeer grow and shed new antlers each year...
with her father, and was an expert rifleman, all-terrain vehicleAll-terrain vehicleAn all-terrain vehicle , also known as a quad, quad bike, three wheeler, or four wheeler, is defined by the American National Standards Institute as a vehicle that travels on low pressure tires, with a seat that is straddled by the operator, along with handlebars for steering control...
driver, and camper. One of her older brothers learned about the show and encouraged her to apply. She applied online by sending in a photo of herself with a deer she had shot and killed, and had a telephone interview and video interview before being picked for the show. She was often frustrated by having to help other participants who had little outdoors experience.- Kareem—Kareem Ali is a 17-year-old native of Toronto
TorontoToronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Canada. Given the label of "the movtivator" by the producers, he was seen as more competitive than the others. He attends Bloor Collegiate InstituteBloor Collegiate InstituteBloor Collegiate Institute is a public secondary school located at the intersection of Bloor Street and Dufferin Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The school is located in the Dufferin Grove neighbourhood.-History:...
.- Zac—Zac Siegel is a 14-year-old resident of Thornhill, Ontario
Thornhill, OntarioThornhill is a community in the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada, located on the northern border of the city of Toronto. Once a municipal village, Thornhill is now a community and postal designation geographically split into two municipalities along Yonge Street, the city of...
, who attends Westmount Collegiate InstituteWestmount Collegiate InstituteWestmount Collegiate Institute is a high school in the Thornhill, Ontario district of the greater city of Vaughan. It opened its doors in 1996, as part of the multi-purpose Benjamin Vaughan Complex, named for Benjamin Vaughan, the diplomat for which the city is named...
. He applied to be on the show through a survival camp he was already enrolled at. He had extensive wilderness survival skills before he joined the show, has a photographic memory, and a high-level intelligence. He was extremely frustrated on the show because the other participants had so little wilderness survival skill. "In many cases I had to teach people to start a fire or build a proper shelter, collect berries, basically I spent a lot of time with those who didn't have a clue what Les was talking about," he told the press. Labeled as "the camp counselor" by the producers, the others saw him as an overachiever.
List of Season One (2009) episodes
| Episode | Title | Original Airdate | US Airdate |
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