Savage Builds

Overview

Adam Savage combines his insatiable curiosity and nearly unparalleled inventiveness as he attempts to build working, innovative items. Each episode will focus on one project as Adam collaborates with notable experts in their fields, friends, colleagues and others.

Episodes

Building Iron Man

S01E01 Building Iron Man

June 14, 2019 8.5 43 min
Adam calls on Richard Browning, the inventor and chief test pilot of the Gravity Jet Suit, which is powered by five 1,000-horsepower mini jet engines, to help get Adam’s titanium Marvel Studios’ Iron Man-inspired suit...
Wheel of Death

S01E02 Wheel of Death

June 21, 2019 10.0 43 min
Adam Savage and a NASA engineer team up to build a rocket-propelled experimental superweapon that could have changed the course of World War II, and using cutting-edge tech, they try to make this notorious engineering...
Mad Max Melee

S01E03 Mad Max Melee

June 28, 2019 8.0 43 min
Adam Savage and genius inventors team up to build a 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...
Forging Excalibur

S01E04 Forging Excalibur

July 5, 2019 43 min
A swordsmith tries to forge the Excalibur and see if the legendary sword was made of iron from somewhere else.
Nitro Explode-aganza

S01E05 Nitro Explode-aganza

July 12, 2019 43 min
Adam Savage and his team determine the danger of nitroglycerine.
Hollywood's Deadliest Weapon

S01E06 Hollywood's Deadliest Weapon

July 19, 2019 43 min
Adam Savage teams up with 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...
Dogfight Derby

S01E07 Dogfight Derby

July 26, 2019 8.0 43 min
Adam Savage teams up with 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

S01E08 Mega Food Fight

July 26, 2019 43 min
Adam Savage teams up with Tory Belleci 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.

Cast

Adam Savage
Adam Savage
Himself - Host

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