Original title
Austin Stevens: Snakemaster
Released
10/5/2004
Origin country
GB
Genre
Documentary
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
15
Austin Stevens: Snakemaster also known as Austin Stevens: Most Dangerous and Austin Stevens Adventures in some countries, is a regular airing nature series hosted by Austin Stevens that is broadcast on Animal Planet and five. Most of the footage was filmed in HD format with certain episodes featuring sequences of time slice photography. The series took a five-year hiatus, but was revived in fall of 2008, having started to air on Channel Five and Discovery Canada. The new episodes do not always focus on snakes; several feature other animals such as hyenas, rhinos and niglett bears.
Join Austin Stevens as he hunts down the deadliest snakes in Africa – creatures with the killing power to easily dispatch a human being. Learn why these snakes attack, their methods and the power of their incredible attacks. In this episode Austin Stevens searches out seven deadly snakes and rates them out of ten in three categories – Speed, Venom and Strike… The snakes include: A Peringuey’s Adder; A Spitting Cobra; A Puff Adder; A Snouted Cobra; A Boomslang; A Gaboon Viper; And the Black Mamba.
Austin Stevens goes to Borneo to find the Reticulated Python. He soon finds the snake on the edge of a river bed. Thinking it was a small snake hidden beneath the log, it turns out to be a 20-foot snake which bites Stevens on his arm (edited off in the final episode, but shown in Most Striking Moments) and coils around his waist.
Austin Stevens is now in Australia to find the Perentie Lizard. He spends 37 days without finding one, but finally he finds one running across the outback.
Austin Stevens is in the Florida Panhandle in search of the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake. He eventually finds one in the middle of the ocean.
Austin Stevens is in the forests of Costa Rica to look for a large Terciopelo,commonly known as Lancehead viper. During the making of this episode, Stevens planned upon finding a Black-Headed Bushmaster, but after weeks of not being able to find one, he found a Lancehead instead.
Austin Stevens is in the deserts of the southwestern United States to find western Diamondback Rattlesnakes hibernating in caves. In doing so he overcomes his claustrophobia.
Deep in the Queensland rain forest lays a remote and inaccessible valley where Australia's biggest snake, the Amethystine Python is rumored to congregate. Austin Stevens embarks on a journey to find this hidden valley and photograph its enormous inhabitants in a race against time. Impending storms will make getting into the valley impossible or could leave him stranded once inside. On his way, Austin encounters some of the world's most deadly snakes and some of its most treacherous terrain on a journey that has cost previous explorers their lives.
Snake master Austin Stevens photographs a powerful green anaconda in the Amazon.
This episode tells of the King Cobra, which Stevens goes to India to look for.
Join Austin Stevens as he hunts down the deadliest snakes in Africa – creatures with the killing power to easily dispatch a human being. Learn why these snakes attack, their methods and the power of their incredible attacks. In this episode Austin Stevens searches out seven deadly snakes and rates them out of ten in three categories – Speed, Venom and Strike… The snakes include: A Peringuey’s Adder; A Spitting Cobra; A Puff Adder; A Snouted Cobra; A Boomslang; A Gaboon Viper; And the Black Mamba.
Check out the amazing pictures Austin Stevens takes when he gets too close for comfort to a pit viper.
How close can Austin Stevens get to a heard of roaming elephants? Pretty darn close.
In this episode he looks for the mystery snake said to have killed Cleopatra, later determined to be the Egyptian Cobra.
Stevens searches for fighting male Komodo Dragons on the Island of Komodo.
Even though active flight is commonly associated only to birds, insects and bats, the Golden Tree Snake has an amazing gliding ability that makes it look like its actually flying! The gliding of the Golden Tree Snake can reach a distance of at least 79 feet (29m).
Austin handles a black mamba in the Namibian desert. Black Mambas are the second largest venomous snakes in the world.
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