Survivor - The Complete First Season

by CBS Television

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Director:Mark Burnett
Release Date:2004-05-11
Label:CBS Television
UPC:097368779044
Binding:DVD
Published By:CBS Television
ASIN:B0001ZDKXI
Category:DVD

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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

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The orginal great one - Reviewed on 2008-10-06
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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 - Reviewed on 2008-08-08
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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 - Reviewed on 2008-06-10
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if u luv suvivor u will luv this 1 it's awsome! buy it & u will see for yourself! debi!
Impressed - Reviewed on 2008-01-29
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I don't personally watch Survivor, but ordered this as a very late Christmas Present (on 12/21) With 2 day shipping, it was at my house on the 23rd as advertised and saved me a 'the package is late' excuse.
Good - Reviewed on 2007-08-12
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It's funny to see how this popular show started. Thank goodness they made some improvements during the following seasons.
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