Madventures Season 3

Season 3

10 x 22" international episodes in English, produced in 2009 with the Travel Channel (U.S.) and Fiver (U.K.)

Air date: 2009-04-05

Episodes: 10

Episodes

E1: AMAZONAS: On the River of Shamans

Riku and Tunna travel from urban jungles of Rio’s favelas to the rainforests of the Amazon basin in the footsteps of William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, searching for the deepest swamps and quagmires of the sub-consciousness.

Air date: 2009-04-05

E2: EX-CCCP: From Radiation to Revolution

A journey beyond the rusted iron curtain and into the radioactive zone! The longest, the most mythical railway on earth takes Madventures to the man who seems to have reached immortality. Also in this episode: the weirdest sport on the planet!

Air date: 2009-04-12

E3: WEST AFRICA

Flip into the tranced-out Loa trip of the bloodiest indigenous religion on the planet. Old scars are ripped open and the new ones are carved straight into the face of the innocent. The blood is the life!

Air date: 2009-04-19

E4: FELIX ARABIA

Nomads Riku and Tunna boogie down to the desert of The Empty Quarter, equipped only with camels and khat. Following each step are constant dangers of the hostile nature, armed tribal leaders and their own western prejudices.

Air date: 2009-04-26

E5: NIPPON: Robots & Samurais

Madventures is diving deep into the cornucopia of holy steel, perfection as an ideal, mechanical love and the collision of the ultramodern and the truly traditional and ancient.

Air date: 2009-05-03

E6: HINDUSTAN

In the land of the myriad gods, Riku and Tunna face the most holy and unholy men in existence. The boys also join the pilgrimage of 10 million tarnished karmas to cleanse themselves of all their sins.

Air date: 2009-05-10

E7: CHINA: The Quest for True Kung Fu

Madventures is looking for the ultimate meaning of the ancient philosophy. On Mad Cook’s plate, a hot dog is served.

Air date: 2009-05-17

E8: NEW GUINEA: Warriors and cannibals

Explorers Rantala & Milonoff get lost in terra incognita, the darkest of jungle infested with mummies, missionaries and other merciless predators as they search for the mankind’s ultimate taboo. Is cannibalism still alive?

Air date: 2009-05-24

E9: PHILIPPINES: Crimes and Crucifixions

Madventures is looking for faith, hope and charity where none is usually found – prisons and cemeteries. Riku becomes a practicing catholic in the most painful sense of the word as the boys take part in the Easter ceremonies like you rarely get to see.

Air date: 2009-05-31

E10: SOUTH-EAST ASIA: The Long Road to Burma

Riku and Tunna travel through South-East Asia to in search of freedom. Drinking cobra blood and shooting bazookas, our mad men take on the ruthless military junta of Myanmar.

Air date: 2009-06-07