Deadly 60 — Season 2

Aired 8 July 2010 • 29 min

On a trip to Mexico, Steve Backshall takes to the water in search of a monster of the deep seas and searches for snakes in the desert.

Aired 15 July 2010 • 29 min

Steve tracks the weirdest-looking fish on the planet, comes face-to-face with a giant Pacific octopus and goes kayaking with killer whales.

Aired 22 July 2010 • 28 min

Steve Backshall takes to icy waters in search of the world's biggest sea lion, and there's a surprise in store when he meets the infamous black bear.

Aired 29 July 2010 • 28 min

Steve and the crew are thrown deep in the steamy rainforests of Costa Rica. They are on a mission to find the largest cat in South America, the jaguar.

Aired 5 August 2010 • 29 min

In the jungles of Costa Rica, Steve is strangled by a boa, gets hands-on with a poisonous frog and nearly gets a nip from a blood-sucking vampire.

Aired 12 August 2010 • 29 min

Steve chases a deadly racer snake downriver and even faces his fears to handle some giant bullet ants, while on the hunt for a harpy eagle.

Aired 19 August 2010 • 29 min

Steve Backshall explores the Indian Ocean, searching for a fish that can weigh as much as a double decker bus, and looking for the fastest fish on the planet.

Aired 26 August 2010 • 29 min

In South Africa, Steve Backshall swims with a pack of 30 blacktip sharks, examines a nest of killer bees and encounters a black eagle.

Aired 2 September 2010 • 29 min

Steve Backshall visits Namibia, where he uses a special camera to examine a spider, before tracking down an elusive but lethal reptile and having a close encounter with a vulture.

Aired 9 September 2010 • 29 min

Steve Backshall is in Namibia on the trail of Africa's big cats. Donning a camouflage suit, he tries to beat a leopard at its own game, before witnessing a pride of lions hunting.

Aired 16 September 2010 • 29 min

Steve encounters gremlin-like aye-ayes and Madagascar's most ferocious carnivore as he searches the vast island for contenders for the Deadly 60.

Aired 23 September 2010 • 28 min

Steve is in Uganda, getting up close and personal with gorillas in the mountains, squabbling baboons on the savannah and chimps in the forest.

Aired 30 September 2010 • 28 min

In Thailand, Steve comes face-to-face with the longest venomous snake in the world, the king cobra, whose bite could kill an elephant.

Aired 7 October 2010 • 28 min

In the Philippines, Steve goes nose-to-nose with a living dinosaur and meets an arachnid with legs four times longer than its body.

Aired 14 October 2010 • 28 min

Steve dives in the beautiful waters of the Philippines to check out a shark that spends most of the day 550 metres below the surface.

Aired 21 October 2010 • 28 min

Steve Backshall takes a look at dogs and their distant relatives, wolves. He heads to the Arctic Circle where huskies show him a thing or two about stamina.

Aired 28 October 2010 • 29 min

Steve and his trusty team head to the frozen north of Norway. He follows the tracks of Europe's largest cat, the elusive lynx, up into the hills.

Aired 4 November 2010 • 29 min

Steve and the Deadly 60 team are on their home turf, the UK. The adventure begins in a lake as Steve dives in to track down a deadly monster lurking in its depths.

Aired 11 November 2010 • 29 min

Steve heads for the marshlands of Argentina, where he searches for an anaconda and swims in piranha-infested waters.

Aired 18 November 2010 • 28 min

Steve and the crew are in Peru, searching for elusive giant river otters, when Steve has a chance encounter with the largest reptile in South America.

Aired 25 November 2010 • 29 min

A behind-the-scenes look at how the series is filmed, from where the team eat and sleep to the extreme measures they have to take as they travel.

Aired 2 December 2010 • 29 min

Steve Backshall demonstrates how reading the tracks and signs left by an animal can lead to fantastic encounters.

Aired 9 December 2010 • 28 min

At the Museum of Natural History in Oxford, Steve takes a look inside some of the top predators featured on Deadly 60 to find out what makes them so deadly.

Aired 16 December 2010 • 29 min

Steve is spat at and bitten by scorpions, spiders and snakes in his quest to prove that venom is one of the most lethal weapons of the animal kingdom.

Aired 23 December 2010 • 29 min

In this special episode, Steve shares stories of the contenders that didn't quite make it onto the Deadly 60 list.

Aired 30 December 2010 • 28 min

Steve Backshall reports on animals that are endangered, and explores why the chimpanzee, mountain gorilla and harpy eagle are threatened with habitat loss and their populations severely depleted. In Madagascar, he also meets the most bizarre creature he has ever seen - the aye-aye.