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Image Episode title Episode number Original airdate Unhooked airdate
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Jeremy holding a small but deadly Piranha caught in the Amazon River.
Piranha 1 5 April 2009 5 May 2010
In 1976, a packed coach crashed into the Amazon killing 39 people. Some of the bodies had been so viciously mutilated by piranhas they could only be identified by their clothes. Extreme angler Jeremy Wade investigates the piranha.
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Jeremy and a couple villagers holding his (temporary) world record catch
Killer Catfish 2 12 April 2009 23 May 2010
Numerous terrifying reports hail from India's Kali River. Jeremy Wade travels here in search of answers. Did the legendary Goonch Catfish really cause human deaths? Jeremy will attempt to catch this monster at all costs, despite the fact that the odds are against him.
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Jeremy and a couple scientists holding a medium-sized alligator gar.
Alligator Gar 3 19 April 2009 9 May 2010
In the deep south there's a fish reputed to have committed a series of violent attacks on humans. The creature's said to be as vicious as a shark & big as a 'gator. Jeremy Wade heads to TX to reveal the truth about the Alligator Gar.
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Jeremy holding a large Wels Catfish.
European Maneater 4 26 April 2009 26 May 2010
Jeremy travels to Germany where he meets victims of a beast that's been raising its snout above the fresh waters in Europe for the past 700 years. We discover that the Wels catfish is an aggressive predator of man eating proportions.
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Jeremy and a local holding a large Arapaima caught in the Amazon River.
Amazon Assassins 5 3 May 2009 28 April 2010
In the darkest depths of the Amazon lurks a dinosaur. Legends tell of an evil spirit inhabiting an enormous fish. Taller than a man, it's covered in scales & crushes its prey with a tongue made of bone. This is the legendary Arapaima.
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Jeremy holding a medium-sized Piraiba
Amazon Flesh Eaters 6 10 May 2009 2 May 2010
A man swallowed whole by a catfish, a body eaten alive from within, another penetrated in a most unnatural fashion yet more with multiple stab wounds. Jeremy Wade is in pursuit of some of the Amazon's most notorious flesh eater catfishes.
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Jeremy holding a juvenile Bull Shark caught in Australia's Fitzroy River.
Freshwater Shark 7 17 May 2009 12 May 2010
No fish inspires the same terror as the shark. A creature with an insatiable hunger for brutal violence. But at least these killers are confined to the oceans. Or are they? Expert angler Jeremy Wade investigates the deadly Bullshark.

Next Season[]

River Monsters Season 2

References[]

https://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/river-monsters/

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