''Man, Woman, Wild'' was a cable television

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which originally aired on the

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from July 2010 to January 2012. The show features former

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survival expert

Mykel Hawke Mykel Hawke (born November 29, 1965) is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces officer, author, and television and film personality. He is perhaps best known for the television programs he created on Discovery Channel called '' Man, Woman, Wild'' an ...

, and his television journalist wife,

Ruth England Ruth England (born 29 March 1970) is a British television presenter and actress. From 2010 to 2012, she starred in the Discovery Channel show '' Man, Woman, Wild'' with her husband Mykel Hawke, a former US Army Special Forces officer. A gra ...

, who have to survive for a half-week with limited supplies in wild and inhospitable locations around the world. The show focuses on Hawke teaching his wife various

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such as starting fire without the aid of modern implements like

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and

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, locating and treating sources of water, and eating non-traditional forms of food such as

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and wild plants. An emergency crew remained on permanent stand-by during filming and was actually utilized during the first season, for example, when England was overcome by severe

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and

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in a

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desert. Originally running for two seasons, ''Man, Woman, Wild's'' first episode aired on July 16, 2010, and its last episode aired on January 19, 2012. The survival series was not renewed for a third season, which was confirmed by Mykel Hawke via

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in January 2012. About the closure, Hawke stated: "The show in its current format was too hard on us and our family, so, we chose to stop". In 2014, the couple resurrected the format in the Travel Channel series ''Lost Survivors''.

Episodes

Season 1 (2010)

# 2010-07-16,

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# 2010-07-23,

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# 2010-07-30,

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# 2010-08-20,

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# 2010-08-27,

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# 2010-09-03, Motukitiu, Aitutaki, Cook Islands # 2010-09-10,

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(

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) # 2010-09-17,

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( The Smoky Mountains) # 2010-09-24,

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Season 2 (2011–2012)

# 2011-09-02, Lost at Sea (near

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) # 2011-09-09,

Firestorm # 2011-09-16,

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Maze # 2011-09-23, Quicksand & Sinkholes (

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in the Bahamas) # 2011-09-23, Volcanic Destruction (

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) # 2011-09-30, Message in a Bottle (

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) # 2011-10-07, High Desert Thirst (

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Peril

References

External links

* * {{Discovery Channel programming 2010s American reality television series 2010 American television series debuts 2012 American television series endings 2010s American documentary television series Discovery Channel original programming Works about survival skills

Episodes

Season 1 (2010)

Season 2 (2011–2012)

See also

References

External links