''Danger! 50,000 Volts!'' was a 2002

British television Regular television broadcasts in the United Kingdom started in 1936 as a public service which was free of advertising, which followed the first demonstration of a transmitted moving image in 1926. Currently, the United Kingdom has a collection ...

programme written and presented by

Nick Frost Nicholas Jonathan Frost (born 28 March 1972) is a British actor, author, comedian, painter, producer and screenwriter. He has appeared in the ''Three Flavours Cornetto'' trilogy of films, consisting of ''Shaun of the Dead'' (2004), ''Hot Fuzz ...

, which presented viewers with various life-threatening scenarios and suggested ways out of these situations. The show was a spoof of the outdoors

survival Survival, or the act of surviving, is the propensity of something to continue existing, particularly when this is done despite conditions that might kill or destroy it. The concept can be applied to humans and other living things (or, hypotheti ...

genre in which survival experts demonstrated how to improvise solutions to dangerous problems. A feature of the series was the clever and humorous use of danger iconography in the graphic design of segment titles, further identifying the show with the British tradition of stoic resolve in the face of (comically) overwhelming odds. In the DVD release of the programme, a 30-minute spin-off episode called ''Danger! 50,000 Zombies!'' is included as an extra. This episode saw Frost paired up with Dr. Russell Fell (played by

Simon Pegg Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham; born 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He came to prominence in the UK as the co-creator of the Channel 4 sitcom ''Spaced'' (1999–2001), directed by Edgar Wright. H ...

), as they dealt with the situation of a

zombie A zombie (Haitian French: , ht, zonbi) is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse. Zombies are most commonly found in horror and fantasy genre works. The term comes from Haitian folklore, in whic ...

outbreak and what to do in such an event. In 2003, a second season was made called '' Danger! Incoming Attack!''

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* {{IMDb title, 0443366, Danger! 50,000 Volts! 2000s British comedy television series 2002 British television series debuts 2002 British television series endings Works about survival skills Television series by Endemol Channel 5 (British TV channel) original programming