YOUR Survival Show

cmurphy

cmurphy

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There are quite a few these days. I'm curious what are the favorites but more importantly.... What type of survival show would you want to see/do if you had the means?


I like Dual Survival.

I'd like to see a show that doesnt focus on experts, but shows how a person of 'average' competence can get by with basic instruction and tools in a scenario.
 
I'd love to see something more along the lines of urban survival after a natural disaster or the likes.
 
I'd like someone to pay me to hike off into the woods and futz about making camp while drinking good beer and playing with knives. I'd watch that show.
 
dual survival, survivorman, and the colony are my favorites. The Colony isnt the best for info, but its an interesting idea.
 
I enjoy all of them right now, but I do notice a "reality show-drama queen" trend beginning to leek into them. I'd stop that if I could. I'd like to see a show that took three different people, like an average joe, a military vet, and a college student, put them into some serious backwoods wilderness and tell them to live individually and alone for a week. Could make it competition based with some challenges or what not. Also have some expert guests like Tom Brown Jr., Cody Lundine, Dave Canterberry, Randle from R.A.T., etc. Kind of let them commentate. I think we'd see a lot of funny stuff there.
 
Cynt said:
I'd like someone to pay me to hike off into the woods and futz about making camp while drinking good beer and playing with knives. I'd watch that show.
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hell ya! and with lots of Johnny Cash music in the background. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw1bHaUk1CM&feature=related

beer drinking, knife slinging, trucking along the logging roads, stopping to make shelters and sh:eek:t, fires, just plain real living as our forefathers lived.

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I'd like to see a show where someone very skilled with plenty of gear actually lives off the land. Not just scratching around waiting to go home and eating deer poop, but instead actually foraging and taking game and doing fine.
I get tired of all the shows where they don't have any gear and basically just endure the hardship until they can leave.

In many parts of the world you could do fine if you have outdoor skills and the right equipment. I enjoyed Survivorman but on many shows Les would be pretty ragged by the end. I'd rather watch someone showing how they can stay in the wild for months with reasonable comfort than just show how to stay alive until a rescue helicopter arrives.
 
My favorite survival show is Survivorman. I really like Les' style and he seems like someone who would sit back and drink a beer with ya.

I didn't like Dual Survival at first (and I watched almost all Dave's YouTube vids before the show aired). After watching a couple episodes it grew on me and I actually enjoyed it.

Same thing with Man, Woman, Wild. First time I saw it, thought it was dumb. Now I've watched every episode and have quite a bit of respect for both of them. This ranks just below Survivorman for me.

Did anyone ever catch Out of the Wild: The Alaska Experiment? It only aired for a single season but they did a nice job with it.


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I really like survivor man but it would be cool to see I bit more variety of different tools or gear (firesteels, ect) on there
 
I was in India for three months, and lived near people who live in conditions the normal american would consider survival conditions. I would like to see a show where people from America live with those people. I think there have been shows like that, but don't recall where I have seen them.

I would also like to see a documentary series where homeless people from all over the world are observed surviving in different environments.
 
Tyrkon Lawson said:
I'd love to see something more along the lines of urban survival after a natural disaster or the likes.
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Check out Les Stroud's special called Surviving Urban Disasters: Flood. You can watch the whole thing on YouTube. Here is part one:

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I like survivorman, and dual survival.. and even man woman wild has it;s moments
My favs have to be the anyhting I;ve seen by Ray Mears..
I would like a show that focuses on skill sets
WHere a howst will spend the entire episode workin on a specific series of skill within a given context... For example Today I'm in the yucatan and we're going to explore numerous ways of making fire here.
or Now I'm in the Boreal forrest and we're going to construct shelters.
 
the word survival had a very different means in another countries, a regular people cant understant
 
Dual Survival consistently teaches me new things...

Man, Woman, Wild consistently makes me thankful that I never take women into the mountains, unless its a date.

Man vs Wild shows me all the things I would not do with the occasional tactical inspiration like hiding out in a hollowed out camel to get the jump on the dream police on my trail.

Survivorman teaches me that the real key to surviving is 80% mental attitude, 20% gear and material related.

Mantracker is fun.

Ray Mears is the Bill Walsh of it all.

All told my favorite is all of them for different reasons listed here, the best one shot show I have ever seen is without a doubt "After Armageddon"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r97xoSOEjM

Best book on the subject theoretically would be "Patriots" sans the moral highground for me though thanks..."One second After" is right up there as well.

For real life in the present day...

How about the "The Backpackers Field Manual".
 
I'd like to see one of the networks pick a varied group of 6 or so,ala The Colony, and put them on the western coast of vacouver island.
of fresh water and forest. Do it a May 15 to July 15. Give 'em quite a bit of gear even.
One group axe,
one group hatchet,
one group machete.
40 waterproof matches.
Each gets a Vic Farmer or Multitool.
2 - 12 x 12 blue tarps.
100 feet of paracord
couple pots and pans
Bacis 1st aid kit.
eco candle lantern w/60 hrs worth of candles.
etc.
I'm pretty generous.
Give 'em enought to get a good start, kinda like survivor(CBS), and some staples food wise.

It be interesting to see. No games, voting, or crap like that.
 
JMAN86 said:
Check out Les Stroud's special called Surviving Urban Disasters: Flood. You can watch the whole thing on YouTube. Here is part one:

[youtube]ROZFRh-ycsw[/youtube]
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Oh cool. I missed that one. Thanks for the heads up. :thumbup::thumbup:
 
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