Savage Builds (2019–2019)

TV ShowEndedDIY1 season, 8 episodes
Savage Builds posterReview score: 78%

Plot

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.

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  1. 01Savage Builds S01E01Building Iron ManS01E01 · 8.3Adam 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. 02Savage Builds S01E02Wheel of DeathS01E02 · 8.0Adam 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. 03Savage Builds S01E03Mad Max MeleeS01E03 · 7.5Adam 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.

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode8Episodes2019Aired 7.7Season avg
  1. S01E01Savage Builds S01E01Season's bestBuilding Iron ManJune 14, 2019 8.3Adam calls on Richard Browning, the inventor and chief test pilot of the Gravity Jet Suit, which is powered by five 1,000-horsepower mini je
  2. S01E02Savage Builds S01E02Wheel of DeathJune 21, 2019 8.0Adam Savage and a NASA engineer team up to build a rocket-propelled experimental superweapon that could have changed the course of World War
  3. S01E03Savage Builds S01E03Mad Max MeleeJune 28, 2019 7.5Adam Savage and genius inventors team up to build a fleet of junkyard vehicles that look straight out of Mad Max, and using scrapyard materi
  4. S01E04Savage Builds S01E04Forging ExcaliburJuly 5, 2019—A swordsmith tries to forge the Excalibur and see if the legendary sword was made of iron from somewhere else.
  5. S01E05Savage Builds S01E05Nitro Explode-aganzaJuly 12, 2019—Adam Savage and his team determine the danger of nitroglycerine.
  6. S01E06Savage Builds S01E06Hollywood's Deadliest WeaponJuly 19, 2019—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 w
  7. S01E07Savage Builds S01E07Dogfight DerbyJuly 26, 2019 7.0Adam Savage teams up with Peter Jackson to restore a fleet of fighter planes. Using cutting-edge technology, they stage a high-flying dogfig
  8. S01E08Savage Builds S01E08Mega Food FightJuly 26, 2019—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 rapi

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