Savage Builds

Adam Savage combines his insatiable curiosity and nearly unparalleled inventiveness as he attempts to build working, innovative items. Each episode will focus on one project as Adam collaborates with notable experts in their fields, friends, colleagues and others.

Documentary

Savage Builds

Documentary

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First Aired on: Jun 14, 2019
Popularity: 3.1561: 17 votes
Networks: (US)
Production: Whalerock Industries (US)
Status: Ended: Show Ended

Seasons & episodes

Total 1 seasons, 8 episodes

Season 1

Aired 6 years ago

8 Episodes

Episode 1Building Iron Man43 min
Adam calls on Richard Browning, the inventor and chief test pilot of the Gravity Jet Suit, which is powered by five 1,000-horsepower mini jet engines, to help get Adam’s titanium Marvel Studios’ Iron Man-inspired suit to fly.
Episode 2Wheel of Death43 min
Adam Savage and a NASA engineer team up to build a rocket-propelled experimental superweapon that could have changed the course of World War II, and using cutting-edge tech, they try to make this notorious engineering failure an explosive success.
Episode 3Mad Max Melee43 min
Adam Savage and genius inventors team up to build a fleet of junkyard vehicles that look straight out of Mad Max, and using scrapyard materials and wicked-smart engineering, they face off to see whose motorized monster packs the most vicious punch.
Episode 4Forging Excalibur43 min
A swordsmith tries to forge the Excalibur and see if the legendary sword was made of iron from somewhere else.
Episode 5Nitro Explode-aganza43 min
Adam Savage and his team determine the danger of nitroglycerine.