Episode 1
Amazon
1h
Stranded deep in the Amazon, Myke and Ruth fight to survive the searing heat, poisonous reptiles, and a jungle that conceals its most deadly threats - and the way out.
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Man, Woman, Wild
20102 seasons6.7 / 10
Mykel Hawke is a former Special Forces survival expert. His wife Ruth is a television journalist. Together, they take on some of the most forbidding and remote locations around the world. Dropped into each spot, they must survive as a team for four days and nights, with only a knife and the clothes on their backs. As they test their will and their marriage, the two find common ground standing up to nature as husband and wife in the wildest places on Earth.
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Synopsis
Mykel Hawke is a former Special Forces survival expert. His wife Ruth is a television journalist. Together, they take on some of the most forbidding and remote locations around the world. Dropped into each spot, they must survive as a team for four days and nights, with only a knife and the clothes on their backs. As they test their will and their marriage, the two find common ground standing up to nature as husband and wife in the wildest places on Earth.
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Episode 2
Botswana
1h
When their safari vehicle breaks down, Myke and Ruth find themselves at the bottom of the food chain with little more than a plastic water bottle, spare auto parts and a toolkit filled with survival skills to keep the beasts at bay.
Where to watch Man, Woman, WildEpisode 3
Louisiana
1h
Mykel and Ruth get blown off course while sky diving, and find themselves knee deep in Louisiana gator country, far from help and far too close to a murders' row of hungry reptiles.
Where to watch Man, Woman, WildEpisode 4
Tasmania
1h
Shipwrecked on the remote coastline of Tasmania, Mykel and Ruth battle hypothermia, dehydration and hunger in the face of an approaching storm that threatens to make a bad situation, deadly.
Where to watch Man, Woman, WildEpisode 5
Mexico
1h
The survival adventure turns deadly when Ruth collapses in the from the broiling heat in the Mexican desert.
Where to watch Man, Woman, WildEpisode 6
Utah
1h
When their raft overturns in the frigid waters of the Colorado, Mykel and Ruth find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place, with a barren canyon on one side, a raging river on the other, and the Moab desert all around.
Where to watch Man, Woman, WildEpisode 7
Aitutaki
1h
Myke and Ruth wash up on the shores of the remote, rat-infested desert island of Aitutaki, surrounded by water but without a drop to drink.
Where to watch Man, Woman, WildEpisode 8
Alaska
1h
Mykel and Ruth must survive Alaska's spring thaw after their snowmobile breaks down in the wilderness.
Where to watch Man, Woman, WildEpisode 9
Tennessee
1h
Mykel and Ruth must elude black bears and other hidden hazards in the Smokey Mountains.
Where to watch Man, Woman, WildEpisode 10
Dominica
1hfinale
Mykel and Ruth find themselves in a jungle on the island of Dominica.
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More about Man, Woman, Wild
Cast
Ruth EnglandMykel Hawke
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Reality
- Episodes
- 22
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
DiscoveryUnited States
Themes
couplesurvivalwilderness