''Your Worst Animal Nightmares'' is a 2009 short-lived television show made by

John Stainton John Stainton is an Australian film and television producer and director. He was close friends with Australian naturalist Steve Irwin until his death in September 2006. Stainton also created Irwin's popular nature documentary television seri ...

broadcast by

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for

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. It is a

docudrama Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event". Docudramas typic ...

with real events re-enacted by actors, along with actual news footage of the events and some interviews. Most of the episodes are set in

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, with one set in

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Episodes

''Your Worst Animal Nightmares'' focuses on stories of incidents involving victims and survivors of the worst animal attacks. Two episodes are aired together. Of the twelve episodes so far, five have been about

crocodile Crocodiles (family (biology), family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to inclu ...

s, four about

shark Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Modern sharks are classified within the clade Selachimo ...

s, two about

snake Snakes are elongated, Limbless vertebrate, limbless, carnivore, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other Squamata, squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping Scale (zoology), scales. Ma ...

s and one about

spider Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species ...

Episode 1 - Camp Terror: The Alicia Sorohan Story

Aired May 27, 2009 Subject: A grandmother tries to defend her family from a

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Episode 2 - Blood Bath: The Nick Peterson Story

Aired May 27, 2009 Subject: A group of teenagers get attacked by

great white shark The great white shark (''Carcharodon carcharias''), also known as the white shark, white pointer, or simply great white, is a species of large mackerel shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans. It is nota ...

s. One of them is killed just as his father predicted in his nightmare.

Episode 3 - Bloody Monday: The Ken Crew story

Aired June 3, 2009 Subject: Another

shark attack A shark attack is an attack on a human by a shark. Every year, around 80 unprovoked attacks are reported worldwide. Despite their rarity, many people fear shark attacks after occasional serial attacks, such as the Jersey Shore shark attacks of ...

on an Australian beach.

Episode 4 - Trial by Venom: The Gordon Wheatley Story

Aired June 3, 2009 Subject: A

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by an

Australian funnel-web spider Atracidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders, commonly known as Australian funnel-web spiders or atracids. It has been included as a subfamily of the Hexathelidae, but is now recognized as a separate family. All members of the family are native to ...

Episode 5 - Death Roll: The
Val Plumwood Val Plumwood (11 August 1939 – 29 February 2008) was an Australian philosopher and ecofeminist known for her work on anthropocentrism. From the 1970s she played a central role in the development of radical ecosophy. Working mostly as an indepe ...
Story

Aired June 10, 2009 Subject: Rowing on a river, Val Plumwood is attacked by a rogue

in a canoe.

Episode 6 - Shark Bait: The Paul Morris story

Aired June 10, 2009 Subject: Yet another

in New Zealand.

Episode 7 - Perfect Prey: The
Rodney Fox Rodney Winston Fox (born 9 November 1940) is an Australian film maker, conservationist, survivor of an attack by a great white shark, and one of the world's foremost authorities on that species. He was inducted into the International Scuba D ...
story

Aired June 17, 2009 Subject: The famous Rodney Fox bite, as a

attacks during a spear fishing competition.

Episode 8 - Horror Down Under: The Isabel Von Jordan Story

Aired June 17, 2009 Subject: An attack by saltwater crocodile in an outback water hole.

Episode 9 - Mortal Coil: The Daniel Blair Story

Aired June 24, 2009 Subject: A surfer survives a

snakebite A snakebite is an injury caused by the bite of a snake, especially a venomous snake. A common sign of a bite from a venomous snake is the presence of two puncture wounds from the animal's fangs. Sometimes venom injection from the bite may occu ...

on the isolated Moreton Island in Australia.

Episode 10 - Fatal Crossing: The Kerry Mcloughlin Story

Aired June 24, 2009 Subject: A man is decapitated in a fatal

attack while crossing a river.

Episode 11 - Deadly Strike: The Ryan Cole Story

Subject: An Australian adolescent gets bitten by a

Taipan Taipans are snakes of the genus ''Oxyuranus'' in the elapid family. They are large, fast-moving, highly venomous, and endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Three species are recognised, one of which, the coastal taipan, has two subspecies. Taipan ...

, the world's second most venomous snake, next to a river and faints in the water.

Episode 12 - Lethal Trap: The Ginger Meadows Story

Subject: Two women are cornered next to a waterfall, when one of them tries to flee, being mutilated on the water by a

Reception

''Common Sense Media'' rated the show 2 out of 5 stars.

References

External links

{{IMDb title, 1476951 Discovery Channel original programming Animal Planet original programming 2009 American television series debuts 2009 American television series endings 2009 Australian television series debuts 2009 Australian television series endings