Episode list

Deadly 60

On a Mission - Baja California, Mexico
Steve heads to the Mexican state of Baja California where he has the time of his life looking for snakes in the desert before donning chain mail to dive with the deadly Humboldt squid in the Sea of Cortez.
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On a Mission - British Columbia
Steve starts in a natural museum comparing skeletons, notably dental, of predators from British Columbia. In coastal waters, he meets the huge Steller sea-lion with a scarier mouth then bears. On the sea bottom lurks the basilisk-like fish wolf-eel, who crushes even sea-urchins, devoured with spine. Next the giant Pacific octopus, a crab cracking specialist. As finale orcas, the only killer whale species, actually the largest dolphins, who even demonstrate they hunt the giant sea-lion, but it escapes.
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On a Mission - Vancouver
In Vancouver Steve takes to icy waters in search of the world's biggest sea lion, and there's a surprise in store when Steve meets the infamous black bear.
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On a Mission - Costa Rican Coast
Steve is excited about the variety of landscape types and exceptional bio-diversity in small Costa Rica. On the Pacific coast, predators vary from monkeys and frogs to snakes and crocodiles. The star killer however is the jaguar, an elusive jungle cat, a stealth master whose mighty bite smashes large skulls.
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On a Mission - Costa Rican Jungle
Steve 'auditions' the Costa Rican jungle snakes as candidates. From, the giant boa constrictor's strangulation method makes the list, and various poisonous species, including the bushmaster, with superior camouflage, and adder with exquisite heath detection and supersonic bite, he chooses the second. The world's most toxic creatures are Latin American jungle frogs, which produce curare. Vampire bats also make the list.
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On a Mission - Panama
Steve and his crew take a flight into the heart of Panama's remote rainforest on a mission to track down the elusive harpy eagle. While there, they also meet the friendly local villagers and the less friendly local wildlife.
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On a Mission - Mozambiquean Coast
In the Indian Ocean, Steve marvels at giant species living (mainly) on tiny plankton, such as manta, whale shark and whales. Self-invited aboard their yacht is a scarily fast spider-relative, contrary to legend not poisonous. On the ocean-shore, he marvels at the ultimate starfish.
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On a Mission - Southern South Africa
Steve is in South Africa, a land he's visited before but one with untapped potential. Off the coast he goes diving with sharks before heading into the Drakensberg Mountains to see killer bees up close and go paragliding with a black eagle.
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On a Mission - Namibia
In the scorching deserts of Namibia, Steve searches for reptiles and invertebrates hidden in the sand dunes with the help of his trusty crew, before heading inland to get up close with a scavenging vulture.
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On a Mission - Namibian Savannah
Continuing his Namibian adventure, Steve goes on the hunt for a leopard with the help of local researcher Natasha and after an unsettling night's sleep, observes the hunting technique of the lioness.
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On a Mission - Madagascar
Steve is on the island of Madagascar where he searches for the island's unusual predator, the fossa before heading into the jungle to look for the ultimate masters of disguise.
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On a Mission - Uganda
Steve heads to Uganda, the "Pearl of Africa" where he goes searching for three different species of primate: the mountain gorilla, the olive baboon and the chimpanzee.
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On a Mission - Thailand
In Thailand Steve visits a village that's crazy about snakes, compares two of Asia's deadliest big cats at a local zoo and finally is inspired to climb a building after finding a tokay gecko in his hotel room.
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On a Mission - Philippines
Steve is in the tropical Philippines where he shows off the amazing abilities of the water monitor, a true living dinosaur, before going hunting for arachnids in the caves and tracking down a defensive pangolin late at night.
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On a Mission - Philippines 2
In Philippine waters, Steve is excited to swim with the fox shark. Next the yellow lip, a highly toxic coastal sea-snake which hides in cliff caves. In the mangrove swamp, a kingfisher. In the jungle, a nocturnal primitive primate named tarsier.
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On a Mission - Canines
Steve and the crew set their sights for Romania where he plans to get close to wild wolves, but first they take a detour to Norway and his native England to show off the senses of their domesticated descendants.
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On a Mission - Norway
In Norway's wilderness Steve and his crew trek through thick snow in search of two elusive predators, the Arctic fox and Eurasian lynx. Along the way they also encounter the powerful musk ox.
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On a Mission - UK
Steve and his crew return home to the UK where he goes diving with a pike in an English lake, shows off the incredible eyesight of eagles in Scotland and attempts to make his own giant spiderweb with the help of some human technology.
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On a Mission - Argentine Marshland
Steve and the crew embrace their inner cowboy when they ride horses across the marshland of Argentina looking for the yellow anaconda but things take an unexpected turn when Steve is bitten on the leg by a spectacled caiman lying in wait.
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On a Mission - Peru
Arriving in Peru for the end of his adventure, Steve finds himself racing across a lake to catch a glimpse of a family of giant otters before they disappear. He then attempts to catch a black caiman on camera and goes hunting for reptiles.
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On a Mission - Making of
Before Steve's team can leave, extensive preparations are made at BBC Bristol research and in logistics. The production, technicians and actual team face many logistic and other practical problems concerning transport, lodging, clothing, climate, dust etcetera. Frequent discomfort is topped by danger coming trough, as Steve's many wounds testify.
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On a Mission - Tracking
Steve and his team show how they find predators. Apart from footprints and equivalents made by other bodies (like snakes), the clues include bones and other food remains, housing and droppings.
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On a Mission: Skeletons
Steve shows in a natural museum how crucial the predators' bones are for their general anatomy and physical performances. Basic models are often around since the dinosaur age, such as sharks and crocodiles. Skeletons can be extremely different, from the heavy crocodile - to the featherweight bird skull.
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On a Mission: Poisonous Killers
Steve, who physically exposed himself to repeated sting risks throughout the series, compares some killer species with redoubted poisons, notably from four important families. With scorpions, big pincers mean mild venom, unlike comparatively big darts. Serpents are his favorites, with various modes of toxin use. Spiders are by far the most abundant poisonous killers. Finally insects, starring ants and a sinister wasp.
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On a Mission - Unseen
Steve shows some footage of predator species that didn't make the theme episodes. In Namibia's desert dunes, African wild dogs, an erratic crab spider, which builds sands traps, a tiny scorpion, a thorn-bush grasshopper producing a nasty secretion, a giant millipede doing the same and. In Central American jungle, vegetarian ants whose guards' bite a strong enough to close wounds, a fishing bat and the giant earthworm. In Uganda, a rascal monkey. In Baja California, another millipede. In the Philippines, a kingfisher, a ray and a hermit crab.
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Endangered Special
Steve Backshall looks at animals that are both deadly and endangered, including the chimpanzee, mountain gorilla and harpy eagle, as well as the bizarre aye-aye.
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