Your Worst Animal Nightmares
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Your Worst Animal Nightmares is a 2009 television show made by John Stainton
broadcast by Animal Planet
for The Discovery Channel. It is a docudrama
with real events re-enacted by actors, along with actual news footage of the events and some interviews. Most of the episodes are set in Australia
, with one set in New Zealand
.
Subject: A grandmother tries to defend her family from a crocodile attack.
Subject: A couple teenagers get attacked by great white sharks
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Subject: Another shark attack on an Australian beach.
Subject: A spider bite by a funnel web spider. preview
Episode 5 - Death Roll: The Val Plumwood
Aired June 10, 2009
Subject: Val Plumwood attacked by a rouge crocodile
in a canoe. preview
Subject: Yet another shark attack
in New Zealand. previewhttp://www.diveplanet.co.nz/paulmorrissharkattack/deathrollsharkbait.asp
Episode 7 - Perfect Prey: The Rodney Fox
Aired June 17, 2009
Subject: The famous Rodney Fox bite, as a great white shark
attacks during a spear fishing competition.
Subject: An attack by saltwater crocodile in an outback water hole.
This has to be the funniest in the "Your Worst Animal Nightmares" series, even the rescuers throughout the episode couldn't keep the smile off their faces. Daniel's fear of Grass and Carpet snakes still affect him daily and he frequently wakes up in cold sweats. Thanks for the laugh.
Subject: Another snakebite
on the isolated Moreton Island in Australia.
Subject: A man is decapitated in a fatal crocodile
attack while crossing a river. preview
adolescent gets bit next to a river, fainting in the water.
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John Stainton
John Stainton is a motion picture film artist . He was close friends with Australian naturalist Steve Irwin prior to his death in September 2006...
broadcast by Animal Planet
Animal Planet
Animal Planet is an American cable tv specialty channel that launched on October 1, 1996. It is distributed by Discovery Communications. A high-definition simulcast of the channel launched on September 1, 2007.-History:...
for The Discovery Channel. It is a docudrama
Docudrama
In film, television programming and staged theatre, docudrama is a documentary-style genre that features dramatized re-enactments of actual historical events. As a neologism, the term is often confused with docufiction....
with real events re-enacted by actors, along with actual news footage of the events and some interviews. Most of the episodes are set in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, with one set in New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
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Episodes
Two episodes are aired together. Of the twelve episodes so far, five have been about crocodiles, four about sharks, two about snakes and one spiders.Episode 1 - Camp Terror: The Alicia Sorohan Story
Aired May 27, 2009Subject: A grandmother tries to defend her family from a crocodile attack.
Episode 2 - Blood Bath: The Nick Peterson Story
Aired May 27, 2009Subject: A couple teenagers get attacked by great white sharks
Great white shark
The great white shark, scientific name Carcharodon carcharias, also known as the great white, white pointer, white shark, or white death, is a large lamniform shark found in coastal surface waters in all major oceans. It is known for its size, with the largest individuals known to have approached...
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Episode 3 - Bloody Monday: The Ken Crew story
Aired June 3, 2009Subject: Another shark attack on an Australian beach.
Episode 4 - Trial by Venom: The Gordon Wheatley Story
Aired June 3, 2009Subject: A spider bite by a funnel web spider. preview
Episode 5 - Death Roll: The Val PlumwoodVal PlumwoodVal Plumwood , formerly Val Routley, was an Australian ecofeminist intellectual and activist, who was prominent in the development of radical ecosophy from the early 1970s through the remainder of the 20th century....
Story
Aired June 10, 2009Subject: Val Plumwood attacked by a rouge crocodile
Crocodile
A crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae . The term can also be used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia: i.e...
in a canoe. preview
Episode 6 - Shark Bait: The Paul Morris story
Aired June 10, 2009Subject: Yet another shark attack
Shark attack
A shark attack is an attack on a human by a shark. Every year around 60 shark attacks are reported worldwide, although death is quite unusual. Despite the relative rarity of shark attacks, the fear of sharks is a common phenomenon, having been fueled by the occasional instances of serial attacks,...
in New Zealand. previewhttp://www.diveplanet.co.nz/paulmorrissharkattack/deathrollsharkbait.asp
Episode 7 - Perfect Prey: The Rodney FoxRodney FoxRodney Winston Fox is a South Australian film maker, conservationist, survivor of an attack by a great white shark and one of the world's foremost authorities on the great white shark. Fox was inducted into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame in 2007.-Biography:Rodney Winston Fox was born...
story
Aired June 17, 2009Subject: The famous Rodney Fox bite, as a great white shark
Great white shark
The great white shark, scientific name Carcharodon carcharias, also known as the great white, white pointer, white shark, or white death, is a large lamniform shark found in coastal surface waters in all major oceans. It is known for its size, with the largest individuals known to have approached...
attacks during a spear fishing competition.
Episode 8 - Horror Down Under: The Isabel Von Jordan Story
Aired June 17, 2009Subject: An attack by saltwater crocodile in an outback water hole.
Episode 9 - Mortal Coil: The Daniel Blair Story
Aired June 24, 2009This has to be the funniest in the "Your Worst Animal Nightmares" series, even the rescuers throughout the episode couldn't keep the smile off their faces. Daniel's fear of Grass and Carpet snakes still affect him daily and he frequently wakes up in cold sweats. Thanks for the laugh.
Subject: Another snakebite
Snakebite
A snakebite is an injury caused by a bite from a snake, often resulting in puncture wounds inflicted by the animal's fangs and sometimes resulting in envenomation. Although the majority of snake species are non-venomous and typically kill their prey with constriction rather than venom, venomous...
on the isolated Moreton Island in Australia.
Episode 10 - Fatal Crossing: The Kerry Mcloughlin Story
Aired June 24, 2009Subject: A man is decapitated in a fatal crocodile
Crocodile
A crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae . The term can also be used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia: i.e...
attack while crossing a river. preview
Episode 11 - Deadly Strike: The Ryan Cole Story
Subject: An Australian TaipanTaipan
The taipans are a genus of large, fast, highly venomous Australasian snakes of the elapid family.-Overview:The taipan was named by Donald Thomson after the word used by the Wik-Mungkan Aboriginal people of central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia.There are three known species: the coastal...
adolescent gets bit next to a river, fainting in the water.
Episode 12 - Lethal Trap: The Ginger Meadows Story
Subject: Two women are cornered next to a waterfall, when one of them tries to flee, being mutilated on the water by a crocodileCrocodile
A crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae . The term can also be used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia: i.e...
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Reference
- Croc Hunter's mate John Stainton to trade on attacks, news.com.au Aug 23, 2008
- imdb
- NY times TV overview