I Shouldn't Be Alive (Season 1)

The show features accounts of individuals and groups caught in dangerous scenarios, presented both through interviews and dramatic reenactments. The main focus is how the survivors survived and the decisions they made that kept them alive.

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    Shark Survivor (Episode 1)

    Writer: Ian Barnes

    Air date: 2005-10-28

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 1982. Five people get caught in a tropical storm and their yacht sinks. They have to survive in the middle of the ocean on a raft with absolutely no survival equipment. To their horror they find the area of the ocean to be infested with sharks.

  • Poster for Lost in the Snow

    Lost in the Snow (Episode 2)

    Air date: 2005-11-04

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A U.S. Army Private, his wife, and their five-month old son travel to a funeral, but on the way there, they miss the sign that leads to the city and instead go into an uninhabited national park which is closed for the winter.

  • Poster for Escape from the Amazon

    Escape from the Amazon (Episode 3)

    Air date: 2005-11-11

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Three friends go to the Amazon for a trip but things get nasty when their guide leads them to jeopardy. As the four (three friends and guide) split into two groups, one pair faces disaster at every turn, while the other two are never heard from again.

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    Swept Away (Episode 4)

    Air date: 2005-11-18

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Two friends go kayaking in the Strait of Georgia. When the tide comes in, one friend falls from his kayak and fears that he will end up in the Pacific Ocean.

  • Poster for Kidnap in the Killing Fields

    Kidnap in the Killing Fields (Episode 5)

    Air date: 2005-11-25

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A man involved in demining Cambodia accidentally steps on a landmine and blows off his leg. Two years earlier, he was kidnapped by a murderous group of Khmer Rouge.

  • Poster for Jaws of Death

    Jaws of Death (Episode 6)

    Air date: 2005-12-02

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A man crashes his plane in the African savannah. With legs broken in a total of six different places, he has to make it alive past lions and other dangerous predators in a state of intense pain and loss of leg mobility.

  • Poster for Trapped Under a Boulder

    Trapped Under a Boulder (Episode 7)

    Writer: Nick Copus

    Air date: 2006-03-10

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: An environmentalist heads for a remote island off the coast of Queensland, he then meets a Dutch man on a deserted beach. A one ton slab of granite hits the environmentalist and pins him down to the bed of a creek. The Dutchman must find help for his new friend.

  • Poster for Ice Cave Survivor

    Ice Cave Survivor (Episode 8)

    Air date: 2006-03-17

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 1995. A man and his son go on a skiing trip to Turkey. When a snowstorm arrives, they lose their way, and the father has to chose between staying with his son or finding help.

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    Shipwrecked (Episode 9)

    Air date: 2006-03-24

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Two cousins go on a fishing trip when they realize they are shipwrecked on a deserted island.

  • Poster for Alaskan Avalanche

    Alaskan Avalanche (Episode 10)

    Air date: 2006-03-31

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Two climbers are scaling a sheer ice-wall in an Alaskan mountain when one of the climbers falls and is badly injured. A passing aircraft sees their SOS signal, but damages the landing gear in the process. Now, the people on board are also stranded on the icy wasteland.

  • Poster for Lost at Sea

    Lost at Sea (Episode 11)

    Air date: 2006-06-09

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Two sons looking to repair their relationship with their father plan a fishing trip with their father in Mexico. An unexpected storm leaves them stranded in the middle of the Sea of Cortez.

  • Poster for Crash in a Volcano

    Crash in a Volcano (Episode 12)

    Air date: 2006-06-16

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Three men filming a volcano in their helicopter crash after losing control and get trapped in a crater of the active volcano. Surrounded by unclimbable ridges and poisonous gases, they must send one of them to radio for help.

  • Poster for Lost in the African Bush

    Lost in the African Bush (Episode 13)

    Air date: 2006-06-23

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Five survivors of a private plane crash must survive the dangers of the desolate African wilderness. With two severely injured, some of the group must wander off to find rescue, even though there is no civilization for hundreds of miles.

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