They are the full length 45~ min episodes.

I was going to order it from Amazon til I found out about it being cheaper at Wal-mart and including Urban Disasters. I've been unsuccessfull in catching it on tv so that works out better.

It's also out earlier than Amazon was going to have it!

Also if anyone is interested, and I find it hard to believe, Man vs Wild is also available from Discovery. It's 1 episode per disc and priced at $21.95 each. If it were cheaper..say around $30 or less for the whole season I'd be all over it, but alas no. Someone over at Discovery or someone involved with the show is making a lot of money off that. Or smoking some serious crack for pricing it that way!

I also got one at WalMart. What a great deal! Three DVDs for less than $17. My boys are glued to the tube watching the episodes.

Buy one, you'll love it!

It's pretty good (except the "lost at sea" ep). The host goes and gets himself stranded each ep with a multitool and whatever little else he has... plus 60 pounds of camera gear. He then strips down whatever method he was stranded with (if any) and survives for a week, usually attempting to get back to civilization on his own. One of the big things is that he does it with all of the camera gear -- so, you see a shot of him walking away into the distance, he has to come back, pick up the camera, and then re-walk the same way.

He certainly knows what he's doing. He got his start start making an award-winning documentary with his wife about the year that they spent living a paleolithic existence in the Canadian wilderness.

Whatever you do, avoid like the plague a show called "Man vs. Wild". It's such a con. The guy pretends to be surviving, but if you pay attention, you find that everything is staged... the raft he builds in "Desert Island" is bound with manila rope, the river that he swims in to "get away from a bear" in the Rockies episode doesn't hide the fact that he's wearing a life jacket under his clothes (or that the camera filming his cliff jump is on the wrong side of the cliff, meaning that he waited while his crew went around), etc. It's half full of survival techniques and half full of suicide techniques disguised as survival techniques.

Can't wait to watch mine got it today thanks for the info.

Lee

my wal-mart didn't have survivorman. they looked at me like I was an idiot

bummer

7k7k99

Did you look in the new DVD section?

yep, even asked an employee working in the department -- that's where I got the look like I was an idiot

to update this -- I went to a different walmart in the area over the weekend and they had it, so now I have the dvd's

the bonus urban disk is great, I learned a lot on that one and I think I need to add waterproof containers to my bug out bag instead of the zip lock bags I have my stuff in. thanks to Les, I know that wet survival gear isn't much good

I've tried to find it as well, with no luck. It's also not on their website. I'll keep looking though.