Savage Builds

1 season available

Adam Savage takes on the most inventive builds of his career, from an Iron Man-inspired suit of armor to a rocket propelled explosive weapon.
Building Iron Man
S1 E1

Richard Browning, the inventor and chief test pilot of the Gravity Jet Suit, which is powered by five 1,000-horsepower mini jet engines, helps get Adam's titanium Marvel Studios' Iron Man-inspired suit to fly.

Wheel of Death
S1 E2

Adam Savage and a NASA engineer team up to build a rocket-propelled experimental super-weapon that could have changed the course of World War II; using cutting-edge tech, they try to make this notorious engineering failure an explosive success.

Mad Max Melee
S1 E3

Adam Savage and inventors build a deadly 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.

Forging Excalibur
S1 E4

Adam wants to build his own version of King Arthur's legendary sword: Excalibur; using the iron found in a meteorite, he attempts to make an indestructible weapon.

Nitro Explode-aganza
S1 E5

Adam Savage and a demolition expert team up to test one of the most dangerous and explosive substances on the planet, and cutting-edge science and tech will reveal if nitroglycerine really deserves its notorious reputation.

Hollywood's Deadliest Weapon
S1 E6

Adam Savage teams up with Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman to build one of Hollywood's deadliest weapons, the ZF1 Multi-Artillery Gun from "The Fifth Element," a weapon so lethal that it features both a rocket launcher and a flamethrower.

Dogfight Derby
S1 E7

Adam Savage teams up with filmmaker Peter Jackson to restore a fleet of fighter planes; using cutting-edge technology, they stage a high-flying dogfight straight out of World War I.

Mega Food Fight
S1 E8

Adam Savage teams up with TV personality Tory Belleci ("MythBusters") to stage the world's most epic food fight; using the latest science and technology, they build a rapid-fire weapon that turns hot dogs into projectiles.