Austin Stevens: Snakemaster

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Austin Stevens: Snakemaster
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Also known asAustin Stevens: Most Dangerous (Europe and Asia)
Austin Stevens Adventures (season 2)
Genre Nature documentary
Directed byMichael Davies
Presented by Austin Stevens
StarringAustin Stevens
Narrated byAustin Stevens
Theme music composerOliver Ledbury
Country of origin United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes28
Production
Executive producerAustin Stevens
Running time40–50 minutes
Production companiesTigress Productions
Cineflix
Discovery Communications
NextFilm Productions
Release
Original network Animal Planet (United States)
5 (United Kingdom)
Original releaseOctober 2, 2004 (2004-10-02) 
December 10, 2009 (2009-12-10)

Austin Stevens: Snakemaster is a nature documentary television series hosted by herpetologist and filmmaker, Austin Stevens, that was broadcast on Animal Planet in the United States and 5 in the United Kingdom. Most of the footage was filmed in HD format with certain episodes featuring sequences of time-slice photography.

In the second season, the series was retooled as Austin Stevens Adventures and began focusing on other animals besides just snakes, such as hyenas, rhinos and grizzly bears, among many others.

Premise

Austin Stevens is a South African national, living in Australia. As a wildlife photographer and documentarian, he travels on assignment, documenting his activities finding and photographing snakes. During each episode, he searches for a certain species, while encountering, describing and photographing a variety of other snakes along the way. Beginning in season 2, the series was retooled as Austin Stevens Adventures, and took a different approach. In a similar vein to fellow Animal Planet series, The Crocodile Hunter and The Jeff Corwin Experience , the show began focusing on other animals as well, other than just snakes.

List of episodes

Season 1 (Austin Stevens: Snakemaster; 2004−07)

No. in seriesTitleOriginal air date
1"In Search of the Giant Anaconda"October 2, 2004
2"In Search of the Man-Eating Python"October 5, 2004
3"In Search of the Giant Lizard"October 12, 2004
4"In Search of Monster Rattlers"October 19, 2004
5"In Search of the Ultimate Pit Viper"October 26, 2004
6"Rattlers of the Wild West"November 2, 2004
7"Valley of the Snakes"November 9, 2004
8"Seven Deadly Strikes"November 23, 2004
9"In Search of the King Cobra"November 30, 2004
10"In Search of the Silent Fate"March 1, 2005
11"In Search of Desert Giants"March 8, 2005
12"The Snake That Killed Cleopatra"October 22, 2005
13"Austin Stevens' Most Striking Moments"November 27, 2005
14"In Search of the Flying Snake"December 17, 2005
15"Komodo Dragons"December 17, 2005
16"In Search of the Black Mamba"March 27, 2007

Season 2 (Austin Stevens Adventures; 2009)

No. in seriesTitleOriginal air date
17"Giant Python Invader"February 4, 2009
18"Australia's Lost Eden"February 12, 2009
19"In the Shadow of Armoured Giants"February 19, 2009
20"Grizzly Bear Stakeout"February 26, 2009
21"Man-Eating Leopards"February 26, 2009
22"Night of the Hyena"March 11, 2009
23"The Last Serpent"March 11, 2009
24"Elephant Charge"November 20, 2009
25"Killer Amazon Bats"November 26, 2009
26"Monster Python"November 27, 2009
27"Hippo Face-Off"December 10, 2009
28"Killer Lion Stakeout"December 10, 2009

Home video releases

Three episodes from Season 1, Man-Eating Python, Giant Lizard, and Monster Rattlers, were released on DVD in North America. The King Cobra episode was released on VHS as "Snake Bite: In Search of the King Cobra". Several episodes were also released on Blu-ray in Germany.

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