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Genre | Documentary Fishing |
Directed by | Stef Dijkstra Charlotte Jones Barny Revill Luke Wiles Lucy d'Auvergne Duncan Chard Stephen Gooder Alex Parkinson Dominic Weston Ben Roy Doug Hope Charlier Bingham Daniel Huertas Daniel Rasmussen |
Presented by | Jeremy Wade |
Composers | Timo Baker Audio Network Musicotopia |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of seasons | 9 |
No. of episodes | 57 + 44 specials + 2 additional episodes |
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Executive producers | Harry Marshall Laura Marshall Lisa Bosak Lucas |
Producers | Andie Clare Luke Wiles Doug MacKay Hope |
Running time | 40 minutes 50 minutes (extended cut) 90 minutes (some episodes) |
Production companies | Icon Films, Discovery Channel, ITV Studios |
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Network | Animal Planet, ITV, Discovery Channel, Discovery MAX |
Release | 5 April 2009 – 28 May 2017 |
River Monsters is a British and American wildlife documentary television series produced for Animal Planet by Icon Films of Bristol, United Kingdom. It is hosted by angler and biologist Jeremy Wade, who travels around the globe in search of big and dangerous fish.
River Monsters premiered on ITV in Great Britain and became one of the most-watched and successful programmes in Animal Planet's history. It is also one of the most-viewed series on Discovery Channel in the American market.
River Monsters follows the worldwide adventures of Suffolk-born British [1] host, biologist, adventurer and extreme angler Jeremy Wade. He explores rivers and lakes to uncover the creatures behind local folklore and harrowing tales of monster fish. The show has taken viewers to England, Scotland, Cambodia, Canada, Germany, Spain, Colombia, Bolivia, Iceland, Norway, Greenland, Argentina, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, India, Japan, France, Russia, Suriname, Brazil, Guyana, The Solomon Islands, Indonesia, Zambia, Malaysia, Nepal, The Bahamas, The Cayman Islands, Mexico, Peru, Uganda, South Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nicaragua, Mongolia, Ukraine, Botswana, and the U.S. states of Alaska, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Washington, Illinois, Oregon, and Vermont.
In the first season, Wade's weekly quest had him in search of piranha, goonch catfish (during his investigation of the Kali River goonch attacks), alligator gar, wels catfish, arapaima, piraíba, and the bull shark. All of them are potentially deadly creatures poorly understood by humans. The show also focuses on explaining the creatures' feeding habits, behaviour and conservation status. Rebroadcasts of the episodes with captions showing behind the scenes commentary from the host about the particular episode can also be seen on both Animal Planet and Discovery Channel. These episodes are going by the title River Monsters: Unhooked.
The second season of River Monsters began airing on 24 April 2010, although the first episode, titled "Demon Fish" first appeared on Discovery Channel on 28 March 2010. This season consisted of 7 episodes and took viewers to the River Congo and other distant locations. In the episode, "Death Ray", Wade caught a pregnant giant freshwater stingray, the largest fish he ever landed. She later gave birth to two pups while being examined by Wade and a team of biologists. This season featured the white sturgeon, Wade's second largest catch.
The ninth season of River Monsters was announced as the final season.
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1 | "Piranha" | 5 April 2009 | 5 May 2010 | |
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2 | "Killer Catfish" | 12 April 2009 | 23 May 2010 | |
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3 | "Alligator Gar" | 19 April 2009 | 9 May 2010 | |
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4 | "European Maneater" | 26 April 2009 | 26 May 2010 | |
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5 | "Amazon Assassins" | 3 May 2009 | 28 April 2010 | |
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6 | "Amazon Flesh Eaters" | 10 May 2009 | 2 May 2010 | |
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7 | "Freshwater Shark" | 17 May 2009 | 12 May 2010 | |
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8 | "Demon Fish" | 28 March 2010 | 16 August 2010 | |
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9 | "Death Ray" | 25 April 2010 | 20 August 2010 | |
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10 | "Killer Snakehead" | 2 May 2010 | 9 August 2010 | |
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11 | "Congo Killer" | 9 May 2010 | 6 August 2010 | |
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12 | "Alaskan Horror" | 16 May 2010 | 19 August 2010 | |
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13 | "Rift Valley Killers" | 23 May 2010 | 19 August 2010 | |
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14 | "Hidden Predator" | 30 May 2010 | 12 August 2010 | |
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Special | "Killer Catfish (Extended Cut)" | 31 May 2010 | TBA | |
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Special | "The Giants" | 6 March 2011 | TBA | |
Biologist and extreme fisherman Jeremy Wade offers a retrospective of his harrowing attempts to reel in some of the largest freshwater fish in the world, including a man-eating catfish and a massive stingray in Thailand. | ||||
Special | "The Deadliest" | 3 April 2011 | TBA | |
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15 | "The Mutilator" | 10 April 2011 | 29 May 2011 | |
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16 | "Flesh Ripper" | 17 April 2011 | 24 May 2011 | |
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17 | "Silent Assassin" | 24 April 2011 | 26 May 2011 | |
Featured animals: short-tailed river stingray, red-bellied piranha, tiger sorubim, pati, golden dorado In Argentina's part of the Paraná River, a young girl was killed by a river stingray. Venturing to a country he's never been to before, to face a fish he's never heard of before, Jeremy travels to this river to find the killer: the shorttail river stingray, which grows to 6 feet across. Unlike Thailand's giant freshwater stingray, this fish isn't long or wide. Instead it is thick and heavy, with a short, clublike tail with which it delivers its venomous sting. After hearing many more reports of attacks, Jeremy becomes determined to face this beast, which can glue itself to the river bottom like a suction cup. Its strength is then proven as Wade hooks into this tank-like fish in what is his longest battle to date.
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18 | "Chainsaw Predator" | 1 May 2011 | 28 May 2011 | |
Featured animals: Largetooth sawfish, bull shark, barramundi, saltwater crocodile, mangrove crab ![]() | ||||
Special | "The Most Bizarre" | 8 May 2011 | TBA | |
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19 | "Electric Executioner" | 15 May 2011 | 23 May 2011 | |
Featured animals: electric eel, Black piranha, Bigtooth river stingray, redtail catfish, marbled swamp eel, trahira, fidalgo. ![]() | ||||
20 | "Cold Blooded Horror" | 22 May 2011 | 25 May 2011 | |
Featured animals: Japanese giant salamander, Chinese giant salamander, Chinese/Japanese hybrid salamander, giant Lake Biwa catfish, Amur catfish, tiger puffer, turtle ![]() | ||||
Special | "River Monsters Goes Tribal" | 29 May 2011 | TBA | |
![]() Featured animals: fringelip mullet, grey reef shark, Houndfish Jeremy Wade travels to the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific to put his fishing skills to the test. Living with an island tribe with ancient customs, he learns of their traditional and even unusual fishing methods using bows, vines, and spiderwebs. Inspired by Ernest Hemingway's novel, The Old Man and the Sea , read nearly four decades earlier, Jeremy finally achieves his lifelong dream of landing a shark simply with a baited handline...and in a dugout canoe, no less! | ||||
21 | "Jungle Killer" | 30 May 2011 | 1 June 2011 | |
Featured animals: wolf fish, redtail catfish, trahira, Black piranha, spectacled caiman |
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22 | "American Killers" | 1 April 2012 | 21 May 2012 | |
Featured animals: bull shark, Atlantic tarpon, Atlantic Goliath grouper, alligator gar, longnose gar, American paddlefish, blue catfish, flathead catfish, channel catfish ![]() Next, Wade returns to Texas' Trinity River, for a rematch with the alligator gar. In season 1, he had caught a 7-foot female gar and concluded that the fish had no interest in attacking people. Now, reports have surfaced that gar in Texas are once again reaching lengths of up to 14 feet, the perfect size for a potential killer. Having already experienced their impenetrable armour and razor sharp teeth, Jeremy follows reports of giant gar all over the Trinity, only to find possible evidence of giant gar in a very unexpected place. Then, Jeremy turns his attention to the Lake of the Ozarks, America's 3rd most dangerous lake, to investigate stories of catfish growing to man-eating proportions. Local divers have allegedly witnessed giant catfish and been too scared to dive in the lake again. Jeremy uncovers unbelievable stories of catfish eating already deceased humans, but he wonders if a catfish could ever be big enough or strong enough to kill a person. He finds his answer in Oklahoma, where people catch catfish in a very unusual and dangerous method. | ||||
23 | "Pack of Teeth" | 8 April 2012 | 21 May 2012 | |
Featured animals: African tigerfish, redbreast tilapia, African sharptooth catfish, African pike, great egret, Nile crocodile ![]() | ||||
24 | "Invisible Executioner" | 15 April 2012 | 22 May 2012 | |
Featured animals: vundu catfish, brown squeaker, African tigerfish, African sharptooth catfish, hippopotamus ![]() After hearing reports of fishermen disappearing in the Zambezi River in Zambia, Jeremy Wade journeys there to uncover the truth behind their deaths. He hears tales of a man getting pulled in and drowning in the rapids after hooking into a monster fish. The natives believe it to be the work of a large, serpentine fish the size of a man. They also tell Wade of a snakelike river spirit called Nyaminyami , who is angry at the Kariba Dam for blocking its river. Believing Nyaminyami to be inspired from the killer fish, he travels to Lake Kariba to find the beast. After nearly being capsized in a storm, Jeremy hears reports of small toddlers and children being eaten by the fish, known locally as "Mazunda," as well as a fisherman being dragged to the depths beneath the dam. Interviewing a witness of the "Mazunda," Wade learns of the vundu catfish, southern Africa's largest fish. Travelling all over the Zambezi, Jeremy gains access to the prohibited waters directly beneath the dam, where he finally hooks into a monster. Note* The vundu catfish was also featured in the Season 2 episode "Congo Killers"; no mention was made in this episode of ever having caught it before. | ||||
25 | "Asian Slayer" | 22 April 2012 | TBA | |
Featured animals: sareng catfish, golden mahseer, Asian redtail catfish, Amazon redtail catfish, Chinese seerfish, firewood catfish, arapaima, Mekong giant catfish, Asian elephant, Bengal tiger ![]() Jeremy Wade's journey into extreme fishing started in India, where he caught large mahseer, and where he later caught a massive goonch that had been killing bathers. Now, he returns following reports of a new predator, capable of taking pets and small children. Looking around, he uncovers its identity: the sareng catfish, a streamlined predator with long jaws and sharp teeth. He also finds a problem: the sareng is sacred in India's Hindu religion and harming it is believed to curse you with bad luck. Almost immediately he encounters problems when the lake where he is fishing is closed and tries his luck in the wilderness of Corbett National Park, sharing the territory with man-eating tigers and wild elephants. The monsoon comes early and the fish are not biting, forcing him to leave the river. To escape what appears to be the wrath of the gods, he travels to Thailand to a lake inhabited by sareng, as well as countless other introduced river monsters. Despite not being a Hindu country, Thailand offers no protection from the gods as Jeremy seemingly catches every fish, especially red-tailed catfish, in the lake but the sareng. Deciding to face his demons instead of running from them, he returns to India to take part in a Hindu blessing, to appease the gods and convince them he means the fish no harm. Returning to the river, Jeremy finds he might have finally met his match. Notes
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Special | "Killer Sharks and Rays" | 29 April 2012 | TBA | |
Featured animals: Bigtooth river stingray, short-tailed river stingray, grey reef shark, bull shark, Largetooth sawfish Jeremy Wade relives his most memorable encounters with deadly sharks and rays. Episode featured "Electric Executioner"- Jeremy reels in an unusual-looking stingray. "Silent Assassin"- Jeremy hooks into a massive river stingray in the longest battle on the show to date. "River Monsters Goes Tribal"- After gaining the tribe's trust, Jeremy lives his dream of reeling in a full-grown shark, with his bare hands. "Freshwater Shark"- Jeremy discovers that bull sharks not only live in rivers, but breed in them. "Hidden Predator"- Jeremy lands an enormous bull shark, in a heavily populated river. "Chainsaw Predator"- Jeremy finds an elusive species of ray that swims up rivers, and wields the most terrifying weapon of all time. | ||||
26 | "Russian Killer" | 6 May 2012 | 24 May 2012 | |
Featured animals: kaluga, chum salmon, Amur catfish, Soldatov's catfish, Japanese sturgeon, bearded seal ![]() | ||||
27 | "Mongolian Mauler" | 13 May 2012 | 25 May 2012 | |
Featured animals: taimen, Siberian dace, common lenok, Arctic grayling, Halys viper ![]() | ||||
28 | "Phantom Assassin" | 20 May 2012 | 23 May 2012 | |
Featured animals: northern river shark, bull shark, barramundi, Largetooth sawfish, freshwater whipray, winghead shark, king threadfin, saltwater crocodile, mangrove crab ![]() | ||||
Special | "Killer Weapons" | 22 May 2012 | TBA | |
Featured animals: Largetooth sawfish, red-bellied pacu, electric eel, New Zealand longfin eel, bull shark, candiru, short-tailed river stingray Episode featured "Chainsaw Predator" – Jeremy goes through and gets a dangerous sawfish. "Electric Executioner" – Jeremy finds the ultimate eel. "Flesh Ripper" – Jeremy fishes an eel in New Zealand. "Hidden Predator" – Wade finds a camouflaged shark in Australia. "Amazon Flesh Eaters" – Jeremy goes to the Amazon River and catches the candiru. | ||||
Special | "Lethal Legends" | 23 May 2012 | TBA | |
Featured animals: Japanese giant salamander, white sturgeon, sareng catfish, taimen, New Zealand longfin eel, vundu catfish Episode featured "Cold Blooded Horror" – Jeremy caught a Japanese giant salamander by hand. "Alaskan Horror" – Jeremy caught a white sturgeon "Asian Slayer" – Jeremy encounters problems when he tries to fish for the sareng catfish, a fish sacred in Hindu religion. "Mongolian Mauler" – Catching taimen in Mongolia is considered bad luck so Jeremy visited a shaman to appease the spirit of the river. His offering paid off and he managed to catch a taimen. "Flesh Ripper" – Jeremy caught a New Zealand longfin eel using a technique he learned from a local fisherman. "Invisible Executioner" – Jeremy investigated the legend of Nyaminyami, a snakelike river spirit. He hooked a vundu catfish after he was given permission to fish in a restricted area, located directly beneath a dam. | ||||
Special | "Deadliest Encounters" | 24 May 2012 | TBA | |
Featured animals: wolf fish, arapaima, flathead catfish, giant snakehead, grey reef shark, Nile tilapia, sockeye salmon Jeremy recounted some of his closest call with forces beyond his control that nearly turned danger into disaster. Episodes featured "Jungle Killer" – Jeremy and his crew were struck by lightning while fishing for wolf fish in Suriname, Brazil. "Amazon Assassins" – Having once been injured by arapaima, Jeremy tried to overcome his fear for the fish by helping some arapaima fisherman at a fish farm. Out in the wild, Jeremy managed to catch a giant 150 lb arapaima. "American Killers"- Jeremey tried hand-catching for flathead catfish in Oklahoma. "Killer Snakehead" – Jeremy travels to Thailand and hunts for giant snakehead in a murky river with his guide using a rusty hand-made spear gun. "River Monsters Goes Tribal" – Jeremy dives into a reef full of sharks without getting bitten. "Rift Valley Killers" – Jeremy encounters crocodile and hippopotamus while helping the local fisherman tend their fishing nets for Nile tilapia. "Alaskan Horror" – Jeremy travels to Alaska to fish for sockeye salmon. The first salmon he caught was stolen by a grizzly bear cub. | ||||
Special | "Untold Stories" | 25 May 2012 | TBA | |
Jeremy Wade is renowned for tracking down freshwater beasts, yet it's the untold stories of what happened along the way that are often the best. In this special 'Behind-the-Scenes' edition, Wade reveals how reeling in the big fish is often the easy part. | ||||
Special | "Deadliest Catfish" | 27 May 2012 | TBA | |
Featured animals: goonch catfish, piraiba, blue catfish, flathead catfish, wels catfish, vundu catfish, sareng catfish, candiru, candiru acu, Jeremy remembers some of his encounters with the catfish family over the years. Episodes featured "European Maneater" – Jeremy investigates the wels catfish where medieval accounts reported an aggressive maneater that swallow man whole. "Amazon Flesheaters" – Jeremy catches the redtail catfish. He also find the candiru which has entered a man's body through his urethra. Finally, he investigates the candiru-acù, a small catfish that dills holes in dead or dying animals before eating them from the inside. "American Killers" – Jeremy catches the blue catfish and channel catfish at the Lake of the Ozarks. "Amazon Flesheaters" – Jeremy catches the Amazon's largest catfish, an 80 lb (36 kg) piraiba. "Asian Slayer" – Jeremy investigates the sareng catfish in India. "Killer Catfish" – Jeremy attempts to catch a goonch catfish which has reportedly grown to man-eating size. | ||||
Special | "Lair of Giants" | 28 May 2012 | 28 May 2012 | |
Featured animals: laulao catfish, Barbado catfish, payara, redtail catfish, red bellied piranha, jau catfish, Tambaqui, wolf fish, arapaima, black caiman, green anaconda, Goliath tarantula ![]() |
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29 | "Face Ripper" | 7 April 2013 | 20 May 2013 | |
Featured animals: black piranha, largespot river stingray, flatwhisker catfish, red bellied piranha, payara, speckled peacock bass, arapaima, piraiba (flash back), black caiman ![]() | ||||
30 | "Atomic Assassin" | 14 April 2013 | 17 May 2013 | |
Featured animals: wels catfish, northern pike, European perch, Volga zander, European chub, marsh tit ![]() | ||||
31 | "Killer Torpedo" | 21 April 2013 | 23 May 2013 | |
Featured animals: Atlantic tarpon, horse eye jack, Serra Spanish mackerel, black vulture, crab, shrimp, mullet | ||||
32 | "Colombian Slasher" | 5 May 2013 | 24 May 2013 | |
'Featured animals discus ray, red bellied piranha, ocellated river stingray, Ripsaw catfish, fidalgo, piraiba, arapaima | ||||
33 | "Vampires of the Deep" | 12 May 2013 | 26 May 2013 | |
Featured animals: sea lamprey, Pacific lamprey, longnose gar, bowfin, greater redhorse, Eurasian carp, lake trout ![]() Wade learns of a series of attacks on swimmers in Lake Champlain and sets off to uncover the truth. After discovering countless fish in the lake bearing the signs of this ancient predator, he learns from a victim that the attacker is the sea lamprey. Unable to catch the fish using a rod and line, Wade offers himself as bait to test the lampreys' abilities and then travels to the Pacific Northwest to catch lamprey by hand with a native tribe. Note: A reference to the events of this episode is made in Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys , a 2014 horror film in which Jeremy Wade makes a cameo appearance. His character, a lamprey expert consulted by the film's main character, mentions that he once received a hickey on his neck from a lamprey; in this episode, Wade attached a lamprey to his neck to test its abilities. | ||||
Special | "Year of Beasts" | 20 May 2013 | TBA | |
Jeremy recounts the exciting adventures of season 5, as he faces never before seen stunts in search of true monsters. Before Jeremy caught radioactive catfish in Chernobyl and killer stingrays in Colombia, he didn't think Season 5 would bring any new or unusual river monsters. | ||||
Special | "Top Ten Beasts" | 24 May 2013 | TBA | |
In this special edition of River Monsters, extreme angler Jeremy Wade brings together the ten biggest and baddest catches of his career. His battles with them have drawn blood, nearly ripped off his arms and become obsessions. | ||||
34 | "Legend of Loch Ness" | 27 May 2013 | TBA | |
Featured animals: Greenland shark, European eel, Atlantic cod, coalfish, European plaice, haddock, Arctic char, brown trout, Norwegian skate, blackmouth catshark, Atlantic wolffish, bottlenose dolphin, Plesiosaurus, minke whale. ![]() | ||||
Special | "Worst Nightmares" | 31 October 2013 | TBA | |
Jeremy relives the encounters that have haunted him over time. Angler Jeremy Wade recalls haunting encounters with freshwater creatures in Vermont, South America and Papua New Guinea. |
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Special | "River Monsters LIVE!" | 6 April 2014 | TBA | |
Welcome to River Monsters LIVE! The conversation with Jeremy Wade continues right here, after the Season 6 premiere episode "Amazon Apocalypse" and the first half-hour of the live Aftershow on your TV. Join River Monsters Executive Producer Lisa Lucas as she sits down with our favourite angler to answer every burning question from fans and give intimate insight into the new season to come. | ||||
35 | "Amazon Apocalypse" | 6 April 2014 | TBA | |
Featured animals: redtail catfish, piraiba, silver tetra, red bellied piranha, Ripsaw catfish, candiru-acu, piracatinga, flatwhisker catfish, Black piranha, black caiman, Amazon river dolphin | ||||
36 | "Jungle Terminator" | 13 April 2014 | TBA | |
Featured animals: electric eel, red bellied piranha, tiger sorubim, redtail catfish ![]() | ||||
37 | "River of Blood" | 20 April 2014 | TBA | |
Featured animals: golden dorado, boga, speckled piranha, Spotted sorubim ![]() | ||||
38 | "Man-Eating Monster" | 4 May 2014 | TBA | |
Featured animals: piraiba, basha, redtail catfish, blinker catfish, dawala, black caiman ![]() | ||||
39 | "Bone Crusher" | 18 May 2014 | TBA | |
Featured animals: green anaconda, smoothback river stingray, redtail catfish ![]() | ||||
Special | "Monster-Hunting Secrets" | 18 May 2014 | TBA | |
In this special episode of River Monsters, Jeremy Wade reveals his own hard-won trade secrets: the tactics and techniques that help him land the biggest and most unpredictable fresh-water predators. Jeremy shows how using the wrong rod to catch a giant stingray in Thailand taught him a valuable lesson, the hard way! He demonstrates the line he used to bring in a man-eating piraiba in Brazil; how catching the fearsome Goliath tigerfish on the Congo River required a special rig of hooks; and how the torpedo-like Atlantic tarpon in Nicaragua demanded a radical approach. But how did he manage to bring up the elusive Greenland shark from a depth greater than the height of the Empire State Building? | ||||
Special | "Killer Mysteries" | 20 May 2014 | TBA | |
In this special episode of River Monsters, Jeremy Wade relives some of the toughest and most baffling cases of his career. He turns detective to unravel the truth behind the mysterious legend of an ancient child killer in Japan and devises an experiment to finally reveal the killer of a young bride in Colombia. In some cases, it's not the fish but the location itself that becomes his greatest adversary. In The Republic of the Congo, Jeremy fears for his own life in his hunt to track down a river monster. In the Amazon, he faces his most daunting challenge, putting himself directly in the firing line to prove that a perpetrator with no motive belongs to that sinister line-up of fresh-water killers. | ||||
Special | "Lethal Encounters" | 21 May 2014 | TBA | |
Jeremy Wade has placed himself in more danger than he cares to remember during his 30 years of travelling the globe. In this special edition of River Monsters, Jeremy relives some of his scariest encounters and looks back at the cases that took him to the brink of disaster in the most hostile environments on the planet. Whether he encounters a plane crash, a lightning bolt, a predator with an invisible weapon or a radioactive landscape, Jeremy reveals how the hunt for a true river monster can take him to death's door at any moment. | ||||
Special | "American Horrors" | 22 May 2014 | TBA | |
For three decades, Jeremy Wade has travelled the world to find the biggest and most fearsome river monsters on the planet. But not all monsters live in remote jungles – there are fearsome fish much closer to home. In this special edition of River Monsters, Jeremy relives the biggest and most surprising catches of his career, right in America's backyard. Jeremy reveals the powerful and potentially lethal fish that lurk across much of the United States, before he exposes its most destructive and devastating monster of all, an ancient fish that threatens to take over America's largest bodies of fresh water. | ||||
40 | "Body Snatcher" | 26 May 2014 | TBA | |
Featured animals: arapaima, redtail catfish, black piranha ![]() |
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41 | "Canadian Horror" | 5 April 2015 | TBA | |
Featured animals: muskellunge, lake trout, northern pike, smallmouth bass, green anaconda, white sturgeon, bull shark, Common snapping turtle ![]() | ||||
42 | "Mekong Mutilator" | 12 April 2015 | TBA | |
Featured animals: Fang's puffer, Mekong giant catfish, giant barb, giant snakehead, Cantor's giant softshell turtle ![]() | ||||
43 | "Prehistoric Terror" | 19 April 2015 | TBA | |
Featured animals: Xenacanthus , alligator gar, Xiphactinus , Indo-Pacific sailfish, Leedsichthys , whale shark, Megapiranha , red bellied piranha, Helicoprion , Dunkleosteus , white sturgeon, Rhizodus , saltwater crocodile | ||||
Special | "Jeremy's Favorite Moments 1" | 26 April 2015 | TBA | |
Jeremy looks back on his encounter in the Congo River with the notorious Goliath tiger fish. | ||||
Special | "Jeremy's Favorite Moments 2" | 26 April 2015 | TBA | |
Jeremy looks back on his journey to South Africa in search of a monstrous freshwater shark. | ||||
44 | "Alaska's Cold Water Killer" | 26 April 2015 | TBA | |
Featured animals: Pacific halibut, Chinook salmon, salmon shark, china rockfish, lingcod ![]() | ||||
Special | "Jeremy's Favorite Moments 3" | 3 May 2015 | TBA | |
Jeremy looks back on the time he learned the gruesome truth about a Mongolian killer fish. | ||||
Special | "Jeremy's Favorite Moments 4" | 3 May 2015 | TBA | |
Jeremy relives his journey through the Amazon rainforest in search of a legendary creature said to swallow men whole. | ||||
Special | "Jeremy's Favorite Moments 5" | 10 May 2015 | TBA | |
Jeremy Wade looks back on a mysterious man-eating eight-foot beast said to be legend over 200-years old. | ||||
Special | "Jeremy's Favorite Moments 6" | 10 May 2015 | TBA | |
Jeremy Wade looks back on his mission to track down the famous monster of Loch Ness. | ||||
45 | "South Pacific Terrors" | 10 May 2015 | TBA | |
Featured animals: giant mottled eel, giant trevally, narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, spotfin balloonfish, bull shark, saltwater crocodile ![]() ![]() | ||||
Special | "Jeremy's Favorite Moments 7" | 17 May 2015 | TBA | |
Jeremy looks back on his European quest in search of an aggressive man-eating predator. | ||||
Special | "Jeremy's Favorite Moments 8" | 17 May 2015 | TBA | |
Jeremy reflects on the Central American quest that took him to the breaking point. | ||||
46 | "Africa's Deadliest" | 17 May 2015 | TBA | |
Featured animals: African tigerfish, blackspotted squeaker catfish, humpback largemouth bream, vundu catfish, Nile crocodile, African fish eagle ![]() | ||||
Special | "South American Killers" | 17 May 2015 | TBA | |
Extreme angler, Jeremy Wade, is on the hunt for freshwater fish with a taste for human flesh. This rip-roaring ride through the dark side of nature mixes action and adventure with mysteries, edge of the seat chase and a battle of wills between man and almost supernatural beasts who lurk in the serpentine waterways of the planet, mooching murderously underwater, growing to truly awesome sizes. Watch as Jeremy Wade deconstructs exactly how these river monsters are constructed to kill. | ||||
Special | "Canadian Horror – Alternate Cut" | 17 May 2015 | TBA | |
From Canada's waterlogged wilderness come stories of a twenty-foot lake monster that attacks humans. Freshwater detective Jeremy Wade tries to track down this shadowy predator with a mouth said to resemble a bear-trap. Features the extinct whale Basilosaurus cetoides . | ||||
Special | "Killer Treasures" | 18 May 2015 | TBA | |
Jeremy shows off various treasures he has acquired – from lucky charms to penis sheaths; from knife-proof gloves to yak-skin; Jeremy shares the bizarre stories behind each one. | ||||
Special | "Size Matters" | 19 May 2015 | TBA | |
Jeremy looks back on seven specific blockbuster catches with the largest and scariest beasts of his career. | ||||
Special | "African Horrors" | 20 May 2015 | TBA | |
Jeremy relives his encounters with record-breaking sharks and a super-sized Congo tiger-fish in African waters. | ||||
Special | "Jurassic-Sized Prehistoric Terror" | 24 May 2015 | TBA | |
Featured animals: Xenacanthus , alligator gar, Xiphactinus , Indo-Pacific sailfish, Leedsichthys , whale shark, Megapiranha , red bellied piranha, Helicoprion , Pacific hagfish, spotted ratfish, Dunkleosteus , white sturgeon, Rhizodus , Queensland lungfish, saltwater crocodile This extended two-hour special of "Prehistoric Terror" features new footage of Jeremy investigating prehistoric monsters and their modern day counterparts. |
Promoted as a special season under the title River Monsters: Mysteries of the Ocean, this season sees Jeremy Wade shift his focus from freshwater to oceanic fish.
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Special | "Into the Ocean" | 7 April 2016 | TBA | |
In this special episode, Jeremy charts the journey that has taken him from freshwater rivers into the heart of the big blue and revisits the extraordinary and deadly monsters he has encountered along the way. | ||||
47 | "Deep Sea Demon" | 7 April 2016 | TBA | |
Featured animals: Salp, Common ling, European conger, Moray eel, Atlantic horseshoe crab, Stomatopoda, Giant oarfish | ||||
48 | "Death Down Under" | 14 April 2016 | TBA | |
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49 | "Razorhead" | 21 April 2016 | TBA | |
Featured animals: Great barracuda, Pacific cubera snapper, Lemon shark. Southern stingray ![]() | ||||
Special | "Deadly Superstitions" | 28 April 2016 | TBA | |
Wade revisits some of his previous adventures and investigates the spiritual and mythological events behind them. Featured episodes:
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50 | "Terror in Paradise" | 5 May 2016 | TBA | |
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Special | "Invisible Killers" | 12 May 2016 | TBA | |
After several of his crew members suffer parasitic infections during their shoots, Jeremy decides to submit himself for testing by a prestigious Liverpool medical lab. While awaiting the results of his tests, he travels to the Amazon to look into various types of parasites he may have fallen victim to. | ||||
Special | "Killer Discoveries" | 19 May 2016 | TBA | |
Jeremy revisits some of the many scientific projects he has worked with over his career and presents new information discovered since his time with the researchers. Featured episodes:
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51 | "Devil of the Deep" | 26 May 2016 | TBA | |
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Special | "Secrets at Sea" | 2 June 2016 | TBA | |
Extreme angler Jeremy Wade heads into new territory – the open ocean. Go behind the scenes as Jeremy and his crew face stormy seas, deep-water dives, dangerous creatures and extreme hardship as they produce an entire season at sea. | ||||
Special | "North American Nightmares" | 19 December 2016 | TBA | |
Jeremy Wade revisits some monster encounters in North America from the brackish channels of Florida to the freezing waters of Alaska. On the way, he encounters treacherous bull sharks, much-feared alligator gars and nearly 500 pound halibuts. | ||||
Special | "Africa's Assassins" | 26 December 2016 | TBA | |
Jeremy relives monstrous moments in Africa from the Okavango Delta to the Zambezi and Congo Rivers. | ||||
Special | "Deadliest Amazon Encounters" | 26 December 2016 | TBA | |
The waters of the Amazon hide venomous giant stingrays, bone crushing anacondas, and colossal catfish that are said to swallow men whole. |
This season was dubbed "the final season", as it is the last season of River Monsters. [2]
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52 | "Killers From The Abyss" | 23 April 2017 | TBA | |
Featured animals: skipjack tuna, Mahi-mahi, barracuda, snoek, bluntnose sixgill shark, oceanic whitetip shark, tiger shark, cookiecutter shark, brown fur seal, dolphin, isopod, pig ![]()
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53 | "Ice Cold Killer" | 30 April 2017 | TBA | |
Featured animals: Greenland shark, Atlantic cod, Atlantic halibut, Rose fish, Cusk, dog, seagull ![]() | ||||
Special | "Monster Scars" | 30 April 2017 | TBA | |
Extreme angler Jeremy Wade talks about some of the injuries he has had over the years filming River Monsters. | ||||
54 | "Coral Reef Killer" | 7 May 2017 | TBA | |
Featured animals: black marlin, needlefish, Bluespotted stingray ![]() | ||||
Special | "Don't Try this at Home" | 7 May 2017 | TBA | |
Jeremy Wade talks about some of the dangers of his career, like gigantic groupers and poisonous box jellyfish. It also features the anaconda, taimen, lau lau and stonefish. | ||||
55 | "Return of the Killer Catfish" | 14 May 2017 | TBA | |
Featured animals: Goonch catfish golden mahseer, gharial, giant snakehead ![]()
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Special | "Fishing Secrets Revealed" | 14 May 2017 | TBA | |
Jeremy Wade talks Recalls some experiences that left their mark on him, like a nearly deflated boat in Australia, and survival in an area of the Great Rift Valley that is infamously known as the 'Devil's Cauldron'. | ||||
Special | "Amazon Pack Attack" | 21 May 2017 | TBA | |
The Amazon is home to a terrifying pack hunter that can bring down prey far larger than itself. | ||||
56 | "Volcanic Island Terror" | 21 May 2017 | TBA | |
Featured animals: golden snapper, Leopard coral grouper, barracuda, giant trevally, Papuan black bass, bull shark ![]() | ||||
Special | "Aquatic Aliens" | 21 May 2017 | TBA | |
The waters of the world are full of strange aquatic beasts. In this special episode, Wade discusses some of them. | ||||
Special | "Queensland Grouper" | 25 May 2017 | TBA | |
A special episode focused on large animals and deep sea sharks. | ||||
Special | "River Monster 'Unfinished Business'" | 28 May 2017 | TBA | |
The "Asian Slayer" episode on TV to re announce biologist and angling explorer, Jeremy Wade's attempt and failure to catch the sereng catfish, and lead up to the series finale, "Malaysian Lake Monster". | ||||
57 | "Malaysian Lake Monster" | 28 May 2017 | TBA | |
Featured animals: Wallago leerii , arapaima, giant snakehead, pig, Asian water monitor ![]() | ||||
Special | "Final Cast: Arctic Assailant" | 29 May 2017 | TBA | |
Jeremy Wade hears of an elusive sea monster that washed up on Northumberland's beaches, in the UK Wade follows the trail to Greenland, and then on to Norway searching for this elusive predator. | ||||
Special | "Final Cast: The Goonch" | 29 May 2017 | TBA | |
A special episode retelling Jeremy Wade's season 9 encounter with the goonch catfish in the episode, "Return of the Killer Catfish". | ||||
Special | "Final Cast: Beast of Volcano Island" | 29 May 2017 | TBA | |
On the volcanic island of Papua New Guinea, a mysterious creature is attacking people, and leaving only one clue to its identity: some mysterious puncture wounds on victims. | ||||
Special | "Final Cast: Reef Ripper" | 29 May 2017 | TBA | |
A coral reef is home to a terrifying creature. | ||||
Special | "South American Stinger" | 11 June 2017 | TBA | |
The Rio Parana in Argentina is home to a giant, powerful stingray. | ||||
Special | "Argentinean Attacker" | 11 June 2017 | TBA | |
Extreme angler Jeremy Wade returns to the remote Parana river in Argentina, this time in search of a toothy predator that is leaving behind a river of blood. | ||||
Special | "African Abductor" | 19 June 2017 | TBA | |
A dangerous African river monster is leaving behind a trail of terror. | ||||
Special | "Goliath of the Congo" | 19 June 2017 | TBA | |
A river monster unlike any other is patrolling the Congo river of Africa | ||||
Special | "Bolivian Nightmare" | 26 June 2017 | TBA | |
A man has had his whole face ripped off in a remote Bolivian river. Jeremy Wade attempts to hunt down the culprit. | ||||
Special | "Peruvian Maneater" | 26 June 2017 | TBA | |
In Peru, a terrifying sea monster has been leaving behind unidentifiable wounds on its numerous victims. | ||||
Special | "Mekong Monster" | 2 July 2017 | TBA | |
From the Mekong River, reports are surfacing of an enormous beast armed with a sword like barb on its tail. Wade heads to Thailand to find the source of these stories, and ends up battling a 700 pound monster, and snapping a tendon in the process of a colossal fight with the beast once it is hooked. | ||||
Special | "Cambodian Terror" | 2 July 2017 | TBA | |
In Cambodia, sinister wounds are turning up on the unfortunate victims of some mysterious river monster. |
This season only had one episode, "Jeremy's Monster Story".
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Special | "Jeremy's Monster Story" | 29 May 2017 | |
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1 | "The Lost Reels: Amazonian Giant" | 27 May 2011 | |
Featured animals: arapaima, river stingray, black piranha, redtail catfish Jeremy Wade ventures to the Amazon to face the legendary arapaima, but gets more than he bargained for when his plane crashes and he feels the full force of these powerful animals. | |||
2 | "The Lost Reels: Himalayan Giant" | 27 May 2011 | |
Featured animals: goonch, golden mahseer, dwarf snakehead, carp, Indian flapshell turtle, mully catfish, flathead catfish After reading about monster fish in India, Jeremy Wade travels to the Himalayas to catch a monster himself. After hearing stories at the local fish markets, he encounters predators, giants and one chilling story about a monster fish that has an appetite for human flesh. |
River Monsters had the best series premiere in Animal Planet's network history by delivering 1.3 million viewers. It was also its most watched regularly airing primetime telecast in over six years. [3] The second episode of Animal Planet's River Monsters delivered a 39% boost in total viewers (1.866 million) compared to the series premiere. Those numbers made it the best performing regularly scheduled primetime telecast in Animal Planet's history. [4] The first season of River Monsters made it the best performing show in Animal Planet's history with every episode averaging over 1 million households. The season finale delivered about 1.47 million households. [5]
The second season premiere episode became the network's best season premiere ever. It drew in 1.7 million total viewers. [6]
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