River Monsters

Extreme angler Jeremy Wade is on the hunt for fish with a taste for human flesh. This rip-roaring ride mixes action and adventure with mysteries, edge-of-the-seat chase and a battle of wills between man and nature.

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Documentary
Action & Adventure
Reality
Created By

First Aired on

Apr 05, 2009

9 seaons till May 28, 2017

Popularity: 9.0085
54 votes
Networks
(US)
Production

Discovery Productions (DK)Icon Films (GB)

Status: Ended

Show Ended

Last episode: Malaysian Lake Monster

Seasons & episodes

Total 9 seasons, 59 episodes

Specials

Aired

24 Episodes
  • Episode 1Killer Catfish - Extended Cut87 min

    Two years ago, on the treacherous Kali River, high in the mountains of Northern India, Jeremy Wade unearthed the mother of all fisherman's tales and the ultimate freshwater horror: a super-sized freshwater fish turned man-eater. Jeremy takes on the biggest, toughest challenge he's ever faced as he heads back to the Himalayas to separate fact from fiction and track down the monstrous beast.

  • Episode 2The Giants42 min

    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.

  • Episode 3The Deadliest42 min

    Jeremy re-lives his most heart-stopping encounters with the world's deadliest fish.

  • Episode 4The Most Bizarre43 min

    Angler Jeremy Wade re-lives his encounters with some of the world's most bizarre, and gruesome, freshwater monsters - beasts that can swallow you whole, swim up your private parts, or even eat you alive from within!

  • Episode 5The Lost Reels – Amazonian Giant42 min

    This two-part special — featuring long-lost footage never before seen by U.S. audiences — captures some of the biggest moments in Jeremy Wade's life. Journey back to 2002 in part one, "Amazon," as Jeremy searches for one of the world's largest freshwater fish: the arapaima. And in part two, "India," Jeremy travels to India in 2005 in search of a man-eating catfish called the goonch.

Crew & Team

Barny Revill

Director

Dominic Weston

Director

Alex Parkinson

Director

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