Lindsay Wagner
Host
Against All Odds (2012)
Season 1
Against All Odds is an NBC reality series hosted by Lindsay Wagner and Everett McGill. The series showcased people and animals who overcame enormous odds to survive in life-threatening situations or rescued others at great risk to their own lives.
Released Jan. 18, 2012
Episode 30 min
None+
Keywords: tmdb.hero, tmdb.heroism, imdb.rescue, imdb.near-death-experience
Network: SVT
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Back From The Dead
A snowmobile accident victim lives after his heart stops in an icy lake. A car crash victim survives after her life support is terminated. A patient recalls a surgical procedure in detail after surgeons have induced her clinical death. Learn how they defied medical convention to come back from the dead. A forensic inquest explores these death-defying stories - only science can unlock the mystery.
S1E2 - Bolt From The Blue
Incredible stories from the survivors of lightning strikes including a golfer whose heart stops on the links, and a tobogganer who finds a chain embedded in their neck during a freak winter storm.
S1E3 - Buried Alive
A cross country skier is caught in an avalanche and buried six feet under the snow. A construction worker is buried for 16 hours under five feet of dirt by a trench cave in. A diver is trapped in a small air pocket more than one thousand feet inside an underwater cave. They all survived. Explore the science behind these unbelievable events that seem to be against all odds.
S1E4 - Crash
Incredible stories with extraordinary odds of survival, from the racing driver who loses both legs in a 200-mile-an-hour crash to the 13-year-old boy internally decapitated when hit by a car.
S1E5 - Falling From The Sky
Incredible stories of survival, from the skydiver whose parachute fails to open before she falls into a parking lot at 30mph to the flight attendant who plunges 30,000 feet from an exploded jetliner.
S1E6 - Superhuman Strength
Incredible stories of survival, from the climber who is crushed when a half-ton boulder lands on top of him to the firefighter pinned under flaming debris and the man trapped under his 1.5 ton car.
Network: SVT
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 180 min.
Released: Jan. 18, 2012
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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