Savage Builds

Synopsis

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.

First Air Date: 2019-06-14

Last Air Date: 2019-07-26

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 8

Networks: Discovery

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Top Cast

Adam Savage as Himself - Host
Gary Oldman as Self
Adam Steltzner as Self
Tory Belleci as Self
Laura Kampf as Self
Simone Giertz as Self

Seasons

Season 1 (2019)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Building Iron Man (2019-06-14)

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.
Ep. 2: Wheel of Death (2019-06-21)

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.
Ep. 3: Mad Max Melee (2019-06-28)

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.
Ep. 4: Forging Excalibur (2019-07-05)

A swordsmith tries to forge the Excalibur and see if the legendary sword was made of iron from somewhere else.
Ep. 5: Nitro Explode-aganza (2019-07-12)

Adam Savage and his team determine the danger of nitroglycerine.
Ep. 6: Hollywood's Deadliest Weapon (2019-07-19)

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.
Ep. 7: Dogfight Derby (2019-07-26)

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.
Ep. 8: Mega Food Fight (2019-07-26)

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.