Dual Survival
SurvivalStaying alive against nature, scarcity or pursuit.This show: 10/10Nature & scienceThe natural world or science itself as the subject.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Paul Christie
Starring
Paul Christie
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Dual Survival Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | ||
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| S1 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 7.6 | 8.3 | ||||
| S2 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 7.4 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.8 | ||
| S3 | 6.9 | 6.5 | 6.2 | 6.5 | 6.6 | 7.1 | 6.5 | 7.2 | 7.9 | 7.1 | 7.5 | 7.7 | |||
| S4 | 6.6 | 6.5 | 6.9 | 6.6 | 7.2 | 3.5 | 7.1 | 6.5 | 7.2 | 6.6 | 7.6 | ||||
| S5 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 6.9 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 6.9 | 7.2 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 6.7 | 6.8 | 7.2 | |
| S6 | 6.9 | 6.8 | 6.9 | 6.9 | 7.1 | ||||||||||
| S7 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 6.2 | 5.5 | 5.7 | 6.3 | 5.8 | 4.2 | ||||
| S8 | 6.2 | 5.8 | 6.6 | 6.4 | 6.9 | 6.9 | 4.9 | 5.2 | |||||||
| S9 | 6.3 | 6.4 | 6.4 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 6.1 | 7.0 | 6.2 |
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About
"Two survivalists, one wilderness, endless philosophical bickering"
Dual Survival drops two survival experts, usually with clashing philosophies and personalities, into harsh wilderness with minimal gear and tasks them with getting out alive. The hook is the friction between a bare-minimum primitive-skills guy and a more gear-reliant pragmatist, bickering their way through deserts, jungles, and mountains. It's practical, occasionally tense, and educational in a campfire-chat way, though the survival stakes feel softened by production. Casual, breezy pacing carries it more than any real danger, and personality clashes often outshine the actual bushcraft.
Watch it for
the odd-couple chemistry between contrasting survival philosophies under real physical strain.
Maybe skip if
you want genuine danger over reality-TV personality conflict and repetitive scenarios.
Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.
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Season 12010
7.9470107h 19m
Two survival experts, military-trained Dave Canterbury and naturalist Cody Lundin, they take on some of the planet's most unforgiving terrain to demonstrate how the right skills and some creative thinking can keep you alive.
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Season 22011
7.8454128h 48m
Cody Lundin and Dave Canterbury once again join forces to endure survival scenarios that push them to their limits. They must draw upon their personal arsenal of skills to devise extraordinary, MacGyver-like ways to survive. From swamps to avalanches and sweltering heat to sub-zero temperatures, this season Cody and Dave will show what it takes to survive in: the Florida Everglades, made up of 4,000 miles of cypress swamp; the scorching deserts of Baja, Mexico; Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina - less than 500 miles from Antarctica; the wet cloud forests of Panama, 7,000 feet in the air; and Wyoming's Rocky Mountains in the dead of winter.
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Season 32013
6.9356128h 48m
Returning this season is Cody Lundin, a 20 plus-year survival veteran who honed his skills living in the deserts and mountains with little modern tools, equipment or assistance. New this season is Joseph Teti, a combat-tested special operations veteran and graduate of more than 30 formal schools related to special operations. His training in the art of staying alive has helped him survive countless classified missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Together they could be the most formidable survival team on the planet - if only they could agree on strategy.
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Season 42014
6.6243106h 59m
Joseph Teti and Cody Lundin join forces again to take on some of the planet's most unforgiving terrain in order to stay alive. This season the challenges are bigger, the environments are more extreme and the differences between the two men couldn't be greater. Lundin and Teti will tough it out in the endless mangroves of Sri Lanka, the blazing Arabian desert in Oman, the snow-capped Norwegian mountains and more. The stakes are higher than ever before and as a twist of events unravels throughout the season, one member of Dual Survival will leave the show for good.
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Season 52015
7.1308139h 13m
This season Joe Teti has to join force with a survival expert with a drastically different background, Matt Graham, to survive in some of the world's toughest environments. Teti and Graham will show what it takes to survive in environments that range from a deserted island in the Caribbean to the swamps of Georgia, and in Central America, among other destinations.
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Season 62015
6.99742h 50m
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Season 72016
5.6190107h
Each week, new co-hosts Grady Powell and Bill McConnell will be dropped into survival situations that anyone, anywhere in the world, could one day encounter. Grady is a former U.S. Army Green Beret with a "no quit" mindset, who passed selection at only 21 years old, and is among some of the youngest soldiers to have made it into the elite brotherhood of Special Forces Operators. Meanwhile, his new partner Bill McConnell, a primitive wilderness survivalist, takes a much different approach. Bill considers himself to be on a lifelong journey to connect with nature and often 'talks' to plants and animals in the wild.
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Season 82016
6.212774h 54m
Returning to the series from last season is former U.S. Army Green Beret Weapons Sergeant Grady Powell, who tends to adopt a strong-willed and impetuous approach in order to overcome any obstacle. Grady is joined this season by new partner Josh James, an experienced outdoorsman from New Zealand's South Island. Josh and Grady must draw on their unique skills and experiences to battle with some of the toughest wilderness environments on the planet, where everything that can go wrong does, and opposing mindsets present frequent - and often amusing - conflicts.
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Season 92016
6.314675h 4m
Army combat veteran, EJ Snyder, and wilderness survivalist Jeff Zausch are no strangers to harsh environments - as fan favorites on Naked an Afraid, the two have bared it all to survive in unforgiving conditions. This season, EJ and Jeff experience tests like they've never encountered before. With two varying approaches to survival, the tough journey often becomes rockier as their disagreements come to a head. Can they overcome their differences and utilize their combined arsenal of skills to survive?
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Cody Lundin Self
Paul Christie Narrator
Joe Teti Self
Dave Canterbury Self
Grady Powell Self
Matt Graham Self
Bill McConnell Self
E.J. Snyder Self - Survival Specialist
Jeff Zausch Self - Survival Specialist
Josh James Self
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