Episode guide
Series 1
Deadly 60
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South Africa
Fearless naturalist Steve Backshall searches for 60 of the planet's most deadly creatures. Steve is on the hunt for a deadly snake in Hoedspruit, South Africa.
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South Africa
Presenter Steve Backshall has close encounters with 60 of the world's deadiest beasts. Steve pits himself against the mighty fish eagle as he dives for his supper.
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South Africa
Steve Backshall gets up close and personal with 60 of the world's most deadly creatures. Steve braves rough seas off South Africa as he pursues a great white shark.
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Australia
Wildlife expert Steve Backshall tracks the planet's deadliest creatures. In Perth, Steve meets tiger snakes and - perhaps surprisingly on the Deadly 60 list - pelicans.
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Australia
Steve Backshall has hair-raising encounters with a huge lace monitor lizard and a redback spider as he continues his quest to find 60 of the world's deadliest animals.
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Australia
Steve Backshall tracks down 60 menacing creatures, from duck-billed platypuses to giant cuttlefish. In the Pacific, Steve learns what makes yellowfin tuna so special.
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Australia
Steve Backshall hunts for the planet's most deadly creatures. Steve tackles the saltwater crocodile and covers his neck as he goes underground in search of ghost bats.
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India
Steve Backshall comes face to face with the world's deadliest creatures. Steve is on the trail of the saw-scaled viper, which is responsible for 50,000 human deaths a year.
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India
Steve Backshall risks life and limb to track 60 of the planet's deadliest creatures. In India, Steve squares up to a tiger and an endangered gharial crocodile.
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Malaysia
The wildlife series that's not for the faint-hearted. In Borneo's Gomantong Caves, Steve Backshall encounters cockroaches, wrinkle-lipped bats and scutigera centipedes.
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Malaysia
Hair-raising encounters with deadly animals. Steve comes face to face with a highly venomous scorpion fish and witnesses the formidable spear mantis impaling its supper.
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United Kingdom
Steve Backshall pursues the world's deadliest beasts. Gannets prove to be a match for Steve in a diving competition. Our host is also hunted by a hungry goshawk.
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United Kingdom
Steve Backshall tracks 60 deadly beasts. Steve plays pigeon for an afternoon as he is hunted by a peregrine falcon. Steve also encounters the UK's biggest spider.
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Alaska
Adventurer and wildlife expert Steve Backshall packs his cold weather gear as he heads north to Alaska in search of a wolverine, polar bear, bald eagles and Arctic foxes.
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Arizona
Steve Backshall and his fearless friends brave the intense heat of the Arizona desert as they track the Harris hawk, some deadly rattlesnakes and an elusive cougar.
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Louisiana
Steve Backshall is kept on his toes by 60 carnivorous creatures. The crew find themselves up to their armpits as they seek out a deadly cottonmouth snake in a swamp.
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Bahamas - Shark Special
Steve Backshall is on a mission to track down 60 of the world's deadliest creatures. Steve visits the Bahamas to swim with reef sharks and a tiger shark.
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Brazil
Nerve-shredding wildlife series following Steve Backshall as he searches for 60 deadly creatures. The team hunts for the elusive giant anteater and a tough little owl.
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Brazil
The intrepid Steve Backshall throws himself into alarming encounters with 60 of the world's most dangerous creatures. Steve takes a swim in a piranha-infested river.
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Brazil
Wildlife expert Steve Backshall completes the savage set as he tracks down two remaining deadly creatures. Steve encounters a monster tarantula and a colony of army ants.
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Series 2
Deadly 60
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Baja California, Mexico
Not content with one series of death-defying animal encounters, Steve Backshall returns. In Mexico, Steve tracks venomous snakes and a deep sea monster.
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British Columbia
Nerve-jangling animal encounters. Steve Backshall tracks a weird-looking fish, gets up close to a giant Pacific octopus and goes kayaking with killer whales.
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Vancouver
Fearless wildlife expert Steve Backshall takes to icy waters in search of the world's biggest sea lion. A surprise is in store when Steve meets the infamous black bear.
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Costa Rica
Extreme wildlife series. Steve Backshall ventures deep into the steamy rainforests of Costa Rica on a mission to find the largest cat in South America, the jaguar.
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Costa Rica
Extreme wildlife show. In the jungles of Costa Rica, Steve Backshall is strangled by a boa, gets hands-on with a poisonous frog and nearly gets a nip from a vampire!
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Panama
Nail-biting animal encounters. Steve chases a deadly racer snake downriver and even faces his fears to handle some giant bullet ants, while on the hunt for a harpy eagle.
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Mozambique
Steve Backshall confronts another 60 of the world's deadliest beasts. Steve trawls the Indian Ocean for a fish so big that it can weigh as much as a double decker bus.
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South Africa
With his intrepid crew in tow, beast-tamer Steve Backshall is on a mission to find all the animals that most Africans spend as much time as possible avoiding.
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Namibia
Risky encounters with deadly beasts. A clever camera brings Steve close to a tiny but mighty spider, while persistence pays off as the team track down an elusive reptile.
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Namibia 2
Up close with the world's deadliest predators. Steve Backshall dons a camouflage suit to beat a leopard at its own game, but it proves to be a lot harder than it looks.
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Madagascar
Extreme wildlife show. Steve Backshall encounters gremlin-like aye-ayes and Madagascar's most ferocious carnivore as he searches the island for Deadly 60 contenders.
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Uganda
Extreme animal encounters. Steve is in Uganda, getting up close and personal with gorillas in the mountains, squabbling baboons on the savannah and chimps in the forest.
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Thailand
Hair-raising animal encounters. In Thailand, Steve comes face-to-face with the longest venomous snake in the world, the king cobra, whose bite could kill an elephant.
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Philippines, Part 1
Extreme wildlife series. In the Philippines, Steve goes nose-to-nose with a living dinosaur and meets an arachnid with legs four times longer than its body.
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Philippines Part Two
Extreme wildlife series. Steve dives in the beautiful waters of the Philippines to see a shark that spends most of the day 550 metres below the surface.
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Romania
Alarming animal encounters. Steve Backshall looks at dogs and their distant relatives, wolves. He also heads to the Arctic Circle, where huskies teach him about stamina.
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Norway
Steve Backshall heads to the frozen north of Norway in pursuit of beasts way more deadlier than a Norwegian Blue. He follows the tracks of Europe's largest cat, the lynx.
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UK
Steve Backshall and the team are on their home turf as the wildlife series goes native. The adventure begins in a lake, as Steve dives in to track down a deadly monster.
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Argentina
Steve Backshall tracks down the world's baddest beasts. Steve visits the marshlands of Argentina, where he hunts for an anaconda and swims in piranha-infested waters.
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Peru
Exhilarating wildlife encounters. Steve is searching for elusive giant river otters in Peru when he has a chance meeting with the largest reptile in South America.
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