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Season 1

  • S01E01 Python Ambush

    • November 7, 2014
    • National Geographic Wild

    Tattooed snake-catching team Simon Keys and Siouxsie Gillett have had a hectic summer of catching snakes in Durban, South Africa. Today, their first call comes in an hour before sunrise, and it’s their most unusual job yet: snake on a train! Armed with grabsticks and flashlights, Simon and Siouxsie run alongside the train in the dark, jumping over trenches and signaling gear. It could be anything from a harmless house snake to a spitting cobra out hunting at night or even a black mamba that’s been disturbed. It’s a race against time. This train is leaving to pick up 200 passengers at the next station. A venomous snake on the train could spell disaster when the passengers board. Little do they know that the snake they’re looking for has deadly venom, which, drop for drop, is even more potent than that of the black mamba.

  • S01E02 Spitting Mad Cobra

    • November 14, 2014
    • National Geographic Wild

    Snake bounty hunters Simon and Nadine are swamped with calls and hopeful that Mike, a friend and fellow snake-catcher in training, will prove a useful ally in their deadly deployments. After an already shaky start to the snake season, Mike and Simon head out to a local resident’s home to find a massive Burmese python sunning itself by the pool. This snake is strong, and Mike may have bitten off more than he can chew. The team then moves on to the next call, where they soon find themselves face to face with an angry female snake in defence mode, only to discover she may not be traveling alone.

  • S01E03 Attack of the Black Mambas

    • November 21, 2014
    • National Geographic Wild

    Snake bounty hunters Simon, Nadine and Mike receive a frantic call from a father who has spotted a deadly black mamba in his yard. The team races to get to the scene before the man’s children return from school. With the venomous snake hiding high up in a tree, the snake hunters have to get creative if they want to catch it. The black mamba’s bite has a 100 percent fatality rate if left untreated, so being cautious is key to their success. Then they get a call from the fire department that a snake has been spotted in a house downtown. After a bit of commotion, the perpetrating snake is caught — and the team discovers that it’s nothing more than a harmless bush snake.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Mamba In My Closet

    • October 16, 2015
    • National Geographic Wild

    Snake-catchers Simon Keys and Siouxsie Gillett face a deadly forest cobra that is hiding out in a tree. The forest cobra is an excellent climber, and its bite could lead to muscle paralysis in minutes — not something you want to experience ever, let alone 15 feet up a tree! But it’s all in a day’s work for this brave couple. They then respond to a call about a black mamba that has made its way into a man’s home. Black mambas tend to get aggressive when cornered. Their venom affects both the heart and the nervous system, swiftly leading to death if you don’t get to the hospital right away. But the risk is worth the reward for Simon and Siouxsie. They put their lives on the line every day in their obsession to save snakes.

  • S02E02 Panic In The Streets

    • October 23, 2015
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon and Siouxsie are woken up in the early hours of the morning with a call from panicked residents: a very large snake is slithering around their village, eating their livestock. There is only one snake that is capable of taking on large mammals in this area — the southern African python. A big snake like that, capable of killing a small child, is considered to be a huge threat to a community. Simon is concerned that the frightened members of the community will take matters in their own hands and either attempt to catch the snake or, worse, kill it. Time is of the essence, and the snake-catchers know they need to prepare themselves for either outcome. On another call out, Simon and Siouxsie find themselves working to the clock of nature itself. Instead of running into a situation and removing a snake as quickly and swiftly as possible, this time they have to wait: A hungry forest cobra wants to finish its breakfast first.

  • S02E03 Ghost Snake

    • November 30, 2015
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon and Siouxsie travel from one side of the city to the other, responding to the cries for help as snakes wander into the wrong places. The snakes are everywhere. At one man’s home, a black snake was seen entering a dark room but quickly disappears. The snake could be anywhere, and the situation is far from ideal. They search with torchlight, but something is not right; Simon has a funny feeling that something is going to go very wrong.

  • S02E04 Bed Of Snakes

    • November 6, 2015
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon and Siouxsie travel from one side of the city to the other, responding to the cries for help as snakes wander into the wrong places. The snakes are everywhere. At one man’s home, a black snake was seen entering a dark room but quickly disappears. The snake could be anywhere, and the situation is far from ideal. They search with torchlight, but something is not right; Simon has a funny feeling that something is going to go very wrong.

  • S02E05 Snakes On A Train

    • November 13, 2015
    • National Geographic Wild

    Tattooed snake-catching team Simon Keys and Siouxsie Gillett have had a hectic summer of catching snakes in Durban, South Africa. Today, their first call comes in an hour before sunrise, and it’s their most unusual job yet: snake on a train! Armed with grabsticks and flashlights, Simon and Siouxsie run alongside the train in the dark, jumping over trenches and signaling gear. It could be anything from a harmless house snake to a spitting cobra out hunting at night or even a black mamba that’s been disturbed. It’s a race against time. This train is leaving to pick up 200 passengers at the next station. A venomous snake on the train could spell disaster when the passengers board. Little do they know that the snake they’re looking for has deadly venom, which, drop for drop, is even more potent than that of the black mamba.

  • S02E06 Into the Snake Pit

    • November 20, 2015
    • National Geographic Wild

    Snake-catchers Simon Keys and Siouxsie Gillett are faced with a tricky situation — a woman spotted a large snake slithering around in her garage and is having trouble locating it. From her description, the snake sounds like it could be a black mamba, but Simon and Siouxsie can’t confirm without getting up close and personal with the deadly intruder. If it is a black mamba, the slightest mistake could be fatal, and without access to anti-venom a bite will result in death.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Deadliest Catch

    • January 13, 2017
    • National Geographic Wild

    Snake catcher Simon Keys and his herpetologist girlfriend, Siouxsie Gillett, risk their lives to capture and relocate snakes.

  • S03E02 Recipe for Disaster

    • January 20, 2017
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon and Siouxsie come to the aid of a terrified woman who has a brown snake in her kitchen; Simon comes face to face with an enormous black mamba in an oven.

  • S03E03 Cobra in the Kitchen

    • January 27, 2017
    • National Geographic Wild

    After getting a call from a family who spotted a snake behind their kitchen cupboards, Simon and Siouxsie rush over there to find a lethal spitting cobra has made itself at home.

  • S03E04 Hiss Of Death

    • February 3, 2017
    • National Geographic Wild

    Smon and Siouxsie receive a call from a man who is certain he has spotted two large black mambas in his chicken coop. The situation turns dangerous when the snake turns out to be a Mozambique spitting cobra.

  • S03E05 Country Club Killer

    • February 10, 2017
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon Keys and his girlfriend, Siouxsie Gillett, receive a call when a huge snake is spotted in a swimming pool. It happens to be one of the biggest black mambas they have ever seen.

  • S03E06 The Cape Crusaders

    • February 17, 2017
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon Keys and Siouxsie Gillett receive an unusual call.

Season 4

  • S04E01 The Wedding Crasher

    • July 30, 2017
    • National Geographic Wild

    Streetwise snake-catcher Simon Keys and his herpetologist girlfriend Siouxsie Gillet race to save a local community who have been terrorized by a 10-foot-long black mamba for the last week.

  • S04E02 Psycho Mamba

    • August 6, 2017
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon and Siouxsie track down a black mamba that is hiding in a kitchen, a cobra lurking in a bathroom, and a green mamba stuck up in a tree.

  • S04E03 Trailer Park Terror

    • August 13, 2017
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon and Siouxsie receive a call to remove an angry black mamba from a wood pile.

  • S04E04 Monster Under The Bed

    • August 20, 2017
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon and Siouxsie race to save a child’s life after a black mamba is found in the family’s bed.

  • S04E05 Twice Bitten

    • August 27, 2017
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon and Siouxsie save an injured cobra from a home, and then receive a call about a black mamba that has eaten two kittens.

  • S04E06 Slithering Heights

    • September 3, 2017
    • National Geographic Wild

  • S04E07 Say Your Prayers

    • September 10, 2017
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon and Siouxsie catch an injured spitting cobra and save a mystery green snake from someone’s car, and a huge black mamba eats two kittens.

  • S04E08 Office Nightmare

    • September 17, 2017
    • National Geographic Wild

    A green snake puts an office on lockdown, a black mamba disappears into a scrap yard and Simon makes a gruesome discovery inside a shipping container.

  • S04E09 Mamba Hotline

    • September 24, 2017
    • National Geographic Wild

  • S04E10 Venomous Encounters

    • October 1, 2017
    • National Geographic Wild

    Ride shotgun with snake-catcher Simon Keys and herpetologist girlfriend, Siouxsie Gillett, as they rush across Snake City in response to screams of terror, from deadly black mambas in wardrobes to cobras in factories.

Season 5

Season 6

  • S06E01 Divide and Conquer

    • October 2, 2019
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon and Siouxsie catch and release mating boomslangs. Teamwork is everything, but sometimes they split up to help all the snakes.

  • S06E02 There's A Snake In The Fridge!

    • October 9, 2019
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon risks his life to rescue a mamba up a tree. He also wrestles a mini dinosaur and finds himself in the dark with two lethal forest cobras!

  • S06E03 Snakes and Sewage

    • October 16, 2019
    • National Geographic Wild

  • S06E04 The Dark Night

    • October 23, 2019
    • National Geographic Wild

  • S06E05 Kindergarten Terror

    • October 30, 2019
    • National Geographic Wild

  • S06E06 Housing Estate Horror

    • November 6, 2019
    • National Geographic Wild

    A black mamba hides under the kitchen sink, and a spitter gives Simon the run around.

Season 7

  • S07E01 Python Party

    • January 25, 2021
    • National Geographic Wild

    Catching a black mamba at midnight is only part of Simon and Siouxsie's latest challenge; they also bring 25 baby rock pythons into the world.

  • S07E02 Cobra Wedding Crashers

    • February 1, 2021
    • National Geographic Wild

    A hitchhiking forest cobra at a wedding keeps Simon and Siouxsie guessing and an emergency black mamba callout turns into a canine rescue mission.

  • S07E03 Mamba Mayhem

    • February 8, 2021
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon and Sioux try to secure a black mamba escape artist, wrangle an irate python, and catch a cat killer.

  • S07E04 Black Mamba Summer

    • February 15, 2021
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon has his hands full with a lightning fast mamba and an unidentified snake terrorizes a school, before Siouxsie handles the deadliest of the lot.

  • S07E05 The Snake Pit

    • March 22, 2021
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon has his hands full with a massive black mamba that doesn't want to be caught, a cobra hiding in a room of old sacks, and a snake in a car!

  • S07E06 Big Mamma Mamba

    • March 29, 2021
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon has a close shave with a pregnant black mamba looking to lay her eggs, and she's not the only female mamba that Simon and Sioux have to catch.

Season 8

Season 9

  • S09E01 Snakes & Ladders

    • July 3, 2023
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon and Sioux continue to train their apprentice Mbali before heading to the snake capital of the world. It is monsoon season in the Indian city of Mysore and local snake catcher Snake Shyam needs help.

  • S09E02 Mamba Invasion

    • July 4, 2023
    • National Geographic Wild

  • S09E03 Cobra Chaos

    • July 5, 2023
    • National Geographic Wild

    The hosts try to catch some of the most poisonous snakes found in various destinations across the world and encounter life-threatening situations.

  • S09E04 Monster Python

    • July 6, 2023
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon and Siouxsie must help local snake catcher Shyam catch a variety of deadly snakes in Mysore, whose monsoon rains bring about pythons, vipers, cobras and rat snakes.

  • S09E05 Killer Krait

    • July 6, 2023
    • National Geographic Wild

    Together with Snake Shyam, Simon and Sioux set off to rescue a deadly Russell's viper trapped in a net. Also, a cranky keelback snake and one of the world's most venomous snakes hiding in a shoe.

  • S09E06 Cobra Dive

    • July 10, 2023
    • National Geographic Wild

    The hosts try to catch some of the most poisonous snakes found in various destinations across the world and encounter life-threatening situations.

Season 10

  • S10E01 Summer of Snakes

    • July 1, 2024
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon, Sioux and Mbali face a global snake crisis; as cities continue to grow and temperatures rise, thousands of snakes are on the move in a desperate search for food, water and shelter, which has led to a spike in snakebites.

  • S10E02 Mamba Mania

    • July 8, 2024
    • National Geographic Wild

    In the height of black mamba season, the team splits up to deal with all the calls; Sioux and Mbali face a feisty black mamba while Simon wrestles an enormous specimen solo.

  • S10E03 Snake King

    • July 15, 2024
    • National Geographic Wild

    Simon and Sioux help rescue some of the world's deadliest snakes. A giant rat snake causes chaos at a kid's summer camp, a woman gets a surprise visit from a cobra in the toilet, and the team come face to face with a King cobra for the first time.

  • S10E04 Colossal Cobra

    • September 24, 2024
    • National Geographic Wild

  • S10E05 Royal Visit

    • October 1, 2024
    • National Geographic Wild

  • S10E06 Simon vs. King Cobra

    • October 8, 2024
    • National Geographic Wild