About this season
Adam Savage combines his insatiable curiosity and nearly unparalleled inventiveness as he attempts to build working, innovative items. Each episode will focus on one project as Adam collaborates with notable experts in their fields, friends, colleagues and others.
Episodes (8)
1. Building Iron Man
8.3Aired 14 June 2019 • 43 min
Adam calls on Richard Browning, the inventor and chief test pilot of the Gravity Jet Suit, which is powered by five 1,000-horsepower mini jet engines, to help get Adam’s titanium Marvel Studios’ Iron Man-inspired suit to fly.
2. Wheel of Death
8.0Aired 21 June 2019 • 43 min
Adam Savage and a NASA engineer team up to build a rocket-propelled experimental superweapon that could have changed the course of World War II, and using cutting-edge tech, they try to make this notorious engineering failure an explosive success.
3. Mad Max Melee
7.5Aired 28 June 2019 • 43 min
Adam Savage and genius inventors team up to build a fleet of junkyard vehicles that look straight out of Mad Max, and using scrapyard materials and wicked-smart engineering, they face off to see whose motorized monster packs the most vicious punch.
4. Forging Excalibur
Aired 5 July 2019 • 43 min
A swordsmith tries to forge the Excalibur and see if the legendary sword was made of iron from somewhere else.
5. Nitro Explode-aganza
Aired 12 July 2019 • 43 min
Adam Savage and his team determine the danger of nitroglycerine.
6. Hollywood's Deadliest Weapon
Aired 19 July 2019 • 43 min
Adam Savage teams up with Gary Oldman to build one of Hollywood’s deadliest weapons, the ZF1 Multi-Artillery Gun from The Fifth Element, a weapon so lethal that it features both a rocket launcher and a flamethrower.
7. Dogfight Derby
7.0Aired 26 July 2019 • 43 min
Adam Savage teams up with Peter Jackson to restore a fleet of fighter planes. Using cutting-edge technology, they stage a high-flying dogfight straight out of World War I.
8. Mega Food Fight
Aired 26 July 2019 • 43 min
Adam Savage teams up with Tory Belleci to stage the world’s most epic food fight. Using the latest science and technology, they build a rapid-fire weapon that turns hot dogs into projectiles.