Savage Builds
2019 · Discovery · 60 min · 1 season
S01E08 · Mega Food Fight
Sat, 27 July, 1:00 pm
Adam Savage teams up with Tory Belleci to stage the world's most epic food fight, and using the latest science and tech, they build a rapid-fire weapon that turns hot dogs into destructive projectiles.
About
Putting his insatiable curiosity and nearly unparalleled inventiveness to the test, Adam Savage will take on the biggest and baddest builds of his career. Each episode of Savage Builds will focus on one project as Adam collaborates with notable experts in their fields, friends, colleagues, and some of his favorite people on the planet. Nothing is guaranteed of course when venturing into the unknown, but whether a build is a success or failure, the results are sure to thrill.
Episodes
- E01
Building Iron Man
Sat, 15 June· 60 minAdam Savage teams up with a daredevil inventor to build an authentic Iron Man suit that flies and stops bullets just like Tony Stark's.
- E02
Wheel of Death
Sat, 22 June· 60 minAdam 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.
- E03
Mad Max Melee
Sat, 29 June· 60 minAdam Savage and genius inventors team up to build a deadly fleet of junkyard vehicles that look straight out of "Mad Max." Using scrapyard materials and wicked-smart engineering, they face off to see whose motorized monster packs the most vicious punch.
- E04
Forging Excalibur
Sat, 6 July· 60 minA swordsmith tries to forge the Excalibur and see if the legendary sword was made of iron from somewhere else.
- E05
Nitro Explode-aganza
Sat, 13 July· 60 minAdam Savage and his team determine the danger of nitroglycerine.
- E06
Hollywood's Deadliest Weapon
Sat, 20 July· 60 minAdam Savage teams up with actor 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.
- E07
Dogfight Derby
Sat, 27 July· 60 minAdam teams up with Lord of the Rings filmmaker, Peter Jackson, to restore a deadly fleet of fighter planes. They stage a high-flying dogfight straight out of WWI.
- E08
Mega Food Fight
Sat, 27 July· 60 minAdam Savage teams up with Tory Belleci to stage the world's most epic food fight, and using the latest science and tech, they build a rapid-fire weapon that turns hot dogs into destructive projectiles.
Cast
Adam Savage
Adam Savage