Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9181 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-05-11
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 5
• Running time: 664 minutes

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Here's where it all began. The first season of Survivor dominated the ratings in the summer of 2000, helped spur the reality-TV craze, and inspired countless water-cooler jokes about getting voted off the island. The first season established the formula that would continue, with sometimes surprising variations, over numerous subsequent seasons: 16 people intended to represent the American mosaic are stranded far from civilization (in this case, the island of Pulau Tiga, off the coast of Borneo), struggle for food and shelter, compete in a series of physical and mental challenges, and at the end of each three-day episode vote out one of their fellow contestants. After 39 days, the one sole survivor who is able to outwit, outplay, and outlast the others wins a million-dollar prize. Because the Survivor craze preceded the craze for complete-season DVD boxed sets, the first season was represented on DVD and video by a 150-minute highlights package called Season One: The Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments. Now, all 13 episodes are available in a five-disc set (the fifth disc is ...Outrageous Moments) that contains every challenge, every political maneuver, every next-episode preview and previous-episode recap, every tribal council including the famous finale, and the reunion show. If you started watching Survivor in the Australian Outback or later, this is the perfect opportunity to see how host Jeff Probst, scheming Richard Hatch, tough truck driver Sue Hawk, ex-Navy SEAL Rudy Boesch, athletic Kelly Wiglesworth, and the others got the ball rolling. If you did watch the first season, here's your chance to relive it, and you also get an enthusiastic group commentary by host Jeff Probst (poking fun at himself) and contestants Hatch (talking the most, which should surprise no one), Boesch, and Gervase Peterson on the first and last episodes, plus some minor featurettes (seven minutes of footage of the contestants leaving L.A. for Borneo, David Letterman's Top 10 featuring the contestants, and 10 minutes of new interviews with Hatch, Boesch, and Peterson). Many reality shows have come and gone in the meantime, but in terms of staying fresh over a long run, Survivor has outwitted, outplayed, and outlasted them all. --David Horiuchi

From the Back Cover
"Survivor: The Complete First Season" is a five-disc box set that follows the first group of castaways as they learn to outwit, outlast and outplay each other to the bitter end. Disc 5 is the disc that was previously released on DVD in January, 2001.

The DVD collection of "Survivor: The Complete First Season" features all 12 episodes from season one plus the 2-hour finale and town hall meeting.

The contestants on "Survivor" first find themselves divided into two tribes: the Tagi and the Pagong. Forced to compete in a series of physical and immunity challenges, the teams come together for ritual "tribal counsel" meetings where players are individually voted off the island by their colleagues. Forced to forge alliances and provide necessities for themselves, the contestants, consisting of Richard Hatch, Colleen Haskell, Rudy Boesch, Kelly Wiglesworth, Susan Hawk, Gervase Peterson, Jenna Lewis, Sean Kenniff, Gretchen Cordy, Greg Buis, Sonja Christopher, BB Anderson, Stacey Stillman, Dirk Been, Ramona Gray and Joel Klug, soon begin to dwindle in numbers, until two teams turn into one and the tensions grow even deeper.

Customer Reviews

The orginal great one
Well, what can you say about a show that started one of the biggest changes in the history of television?
I am glad that I have been there from the start and that I have this season on DVD so that I can relive some of the best moments over again.

For me, this was the start of something special that would forever change my Thursday nights like nothing before it. Because of this show, this is why nobody calls me on Thursdays nights between 8 and 9 because that is Survivor night!!!

Thanks Survivor!!!

Survivor SEASON One
I am a survivor nut, but by far this is most annoying one yet, lots of mean people on this show , and lots of sore losers.

This one frankly got on my nerves. ! !

survivor 1
if u luv suvivor u will luv this 1 it's awsome! buy it & u will see for yourself! debi!