All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    • May 5, 2014
    • Channel 4

    After Bear drops the men off on the island, the enormity of their task begins to dawn on them. They need to find shelter and water, and make fire, or their time on the island will be over.

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    • May 12, 2014
    • Channel 4

    It's been 48 hours since the men had a meal and hunger grips the group. The race is on to bring food back to camp before they become too weak to hunt.

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    • May 19, 2014
    • Channel 4

    With the men losing weight on a diet of just 300 calories a day, Ryan heads off alone in search of food. But without water, he soon finds himself lost and in imminent danger.

  • S01E04 Episode 4

    • May 26, 2014
    • Channel 4

    Three weeks into their survival experience, the group are barely getting by on a meagre diet of snails and coconuts. Willing to take ever greater risks, Mike and Chris battle with dangerous tides.

  • S01E05 Episode 5

    • June 2, 2014
    • Channel 4

    The men enter their fourth week of living on the island with the group hungry and divided. They elect an island leader. But will everyone back him?

  • S01E06 Surviving the Island

    • June 2, 2014
    • Channel 4

    Bear Grylls visits the men at the end of their stay on the island to explore how they coped and how the experience has affected them.

Season 2

  • S02E01 The Men's Island

    • April 8, 2015
    • Channel 4

    The men swim ashore. Hammered by a succession of tropical storms, they must find a safe place away from deadly scorpions, snakes and caiman crocodile. And less than a week in, a fierce row breaks out.

  • S02E02 The Women's Island

    • April 9, 2015
    • Channel 4

    Bear Grylls abandons 14 women on a desert island in the Pacific. As night falls on Day 1, they make camp in the jungle - at the mercy of deadly creatures and voracious sand flies.

  • S02E03 The Men's Island

    • April 15, 2015
    • Channel 4

    The men have barely slept or had a real meal since landing. And a bitter rivalry between the island's two builders, Paul and Andy, has turned into all-out war.

  • S02E04 The Women's Island

    • April 16, 2015
    • Channel 4

    The camp has split in two and is dangerously low on water. As the main group head into the jungle, looking for lost members, they're in for a nasty surprise.

  • S02E05 The Men's Island

    • April 22, 2015
    • Channel 4

    The men come face to face with a fearsome predator. And, as the group's body weight and energy levels plummet, there's division and conflict in the camp.

  • S02E06 The Women's Island

    • April 23, 2015
    • Channel 4

    Starving and seriously dehydrated, the group leave camp looking for water. They find two pigs, but can't agree whether to adopt them, or eat them.

  • S02E07 The Men's Island

    • April 29, 2015
    • Channel 4

    The men build a raft to go fishing. But, as Vic gets dragged towards razor-sharp rocks, he faces a life and death struggle to turn the raft around.

  • S02E08 The Women's Island

    • April 30, 2015
    • Channel 4

    The extreme conditions are taking their toll, with the women on the brink of starvation. Lauren, Beth and Belinda go pig hunting in the jungle.

  • S02E09 The Women's Island

    • May 6, 2015
    • Channel 4

    It's almost four weeks into the experiment and the women are entering dangerous medical territory. They're given a 36-hour deadline to turn things around.

  • S02E10 The Men's Island

    • May 13, 2015
    • Channel 4

    Malnourished, exhausted and under pressure, the group turn on each other. Vic and Sam argue, while a fishing venture goes disastrously wrong for Will.

  • S02E11 The Women's Island

    • May 14, 2015
    • Channel 4

    Hunger and disorganisation is causing the group to fragment. Lauren and Beth make a push for leadership but Jaime and Belinda push back.

  • S02E12 The Men's Island

    • May 20, 2015
    • Channel 4

    After five weeks on the island, the men are low on food and energy. They make a last bid to hunt for food before Bear arrives to take them back to civilisation.

  • S02E13 Surviving the Island

    • May 21, 2015
    • Channel 4

    Bear meets the men and women who made it through six weeks on a Pacific island, to see how they coped battling hunger, thirst, and each other, in one of the biggest tests of their lives

Season 3

  • S03E01 Episode 1

    • March 28, 2016
    • Channel 4

    The two groups swim ashore to face a storm and a life-or-death search for water. A row breaks out with the men, while one of the women sees something that makes her suspect they may not be alone.

  • S03E02 Episode 2

    • April 4, 2016
    • Channel 4

    The men and women meet on the beach and agree to unite. Iraq veteran Hannah attempts to motivate the group to bond more, but a vicious tropical storm has a devastating effect.

  • S03E03 Episode 3

    • April 11, 2016
    • Channel 4

    The islanders have been marooned for ten days with barely anything to eat. Faced with starvation, they start taking increasingly terrifying chances, including a risky swim in the deep.

  • S03E04 Episode 4

    • April 18, 2016
    • Channel 4

  • S03E05 Episode 5

    • April 25, 2016
    • Channel 4

    Following Patrick's fall, the island is in crisis as the safety team struggle to land in a stormy sea. And with the need for food as urgent as ever, Tilly wants to join the hunt.

  • S03E06 Episode 6

    • May 2, 2016
    • Channel 4

    It's been a month, and the men and women are hungry and on the brink of disaster as their bodies start to fail. Simon leads a hunt in the jungle for the dangerous caiman crocodile.

  • S03E07 Surviving the Island

    • May 3, 2016
    • Channel 4

    In this special show, Bear Grylls takes an in-depth look at how the castaways survived the latest series. How did they cope with all the extremes?

Season 4

  • S04E01 Episode 1

    • April 23, 2017
    • Channel 4

    Old and young go head to head for the fourth series of Bear Grylls epic survival show. With just the clothes on their backs and a handful of basic tools, which generation has what it takes to survive when pushed to the limits of human endurance?

  • S04E02 Episode 2

    • April 24, 2017
    • Channel 4

    The young group's campsites turns into a swamp in the rain. They join up with the orders but immediately there's a row. Freddie kills a snake, and Kaggy goes on a turkey hunt.

  • S04E03 Episode 3

    • May 1, 2017
    • Channel 4

    With the old and young living side by side, the islanders hope to hit their stride. But hunger and frayed tempers lead to bust-ups as the islanders turn on one of their own.

  • S04E04 Episode 4

    • May 8, 2017
    • Channel 4

    The islanders face mother nature at her most violent and brutal. Having endured a series of torrential downpours which have ravaged their campsite, unknown to them a hurricane is brewing 100 miles to the north.

  • S04E05 Episode 5

    • May 14, 2017
    • Channel 4

    After four weeks on the island, the group have collectively lost almost 30 stone. Can Aran and Jacqui make a killing with a dangerous caiman crocodile and provide food for all?

  • S04E06 Surviving the Island

    • May 14, 2017
    • Channel 4

    Bear Grylls examines how the two groups from different generations survived their five weeks as castaways. Was it the wisdom of age or the energy of youth that proved most valuable?

Season 5

  • S05E01 Episode 1

    • April 2, 2018
    • Channel 4

    Bear drops the castaways in caiman-infested mangroves and deep water. As the two teams meet, the prospect of living together kickstarts a class war.

  • S05E02 Episode 2

    • April 9, 2018
    • Channel 4

    After a class war on the Pacific desert island, the wealthy and less well-off teams go their separate ways and set up two camps at opposite ends of the same beach.

  • S05E03 Episode 3

    • April 16, 2018
    • Channel 4

    In search of much-needed food, Barnes decides to risk strong currents and riptides on a journey by raft to a nearby island. But the voyage has disastrous consequences.

  • S05E04 Episode 4

    • April 23, 2018
    • Channel 4

    After three weeks on the island, the castaways are malnourished. Still living at opposite ends of the same beach, the wealthy and less well-off teams finally put their differences aside in a joint hunting expedition.

  • S05E05 Episode 5

    • April 30, 2018
    • Channel 4

    Facing their last week of isolation, the two camps decide to settle their class issues and battle the high seas, in a joint bid to raft to the neighbouring island. Can they bury their differences before Bear arrives.

  • S05E06 Surviving the Island

    • May 1, 2018
    • Channel 4

    Bear Grylls arrives on the island eager to get the stories behind the castaways' class war and their often dubious survival strategies.