• Air date: 05 Oct '02 16 episodes
      Endurance is an American reality television children's program, previously shown on the Discovery Kids cable network in the United States and also on networks in other countries. The show's format is somewhat similar to the CBS television series Survivor, though with a teenaged cast. Endurance contestants live in a remote location and participate in various mental and physical challenges, although Endurance contestants compete as pairs, and the outcome of the competitions determines which pair of players is eliminated. In its six-year run between 2002–2008, each season began with a new slate of contestants, who were gradually eliminated as the season progressed until the remaining two teams competed to get all of the Endurance Pyramid pieces. The winning boy and girl received an all-expenses paid vacation package with their parents to an exotic location as the prize. Production ended with the final episode of the sixth season, first aired on March 8, 2008. Reruns of Endurance continue to be...
  • List of Episodes (16)
    • 1. Right To Stay

      05 Oct '02
      ""Endurance"" begins as 20 kids arrive on an island in the Pacific Ocean on an 82 foot ship. As the ship comes onto the beach, the contestants are introduced: Shane, 13 Cree, 15 Trevor, 12 Jenna, 14 Alejandro, 15
    • 2. Partner Game

      12 Oct '02
      From Discovery Kids After breakfast, JD broke the news that the contestants wouldn't be picking their own partners, but another Endurance player would do it for them. An intense debate began on how to decide who gets who as a partner. Jonna saved the day by writing up ""The List"" of teams that each player decided on, and they all memorized it before the game to make sure it was followed. Max, on the other hand, didn't want to follow the list because as he says, ""if people get what they want t
    • 3. Tilt

      19 Oct '02
      This episode opens with the kids playing on the beach, looking like they are having fun and are carefree. However, based on the kids' confessionals, that is not the case. Max, of the grey team, tells the cameras that things on the island somtimes get pretty slow. His partner, Jenna, says that she is noticing a lot of ""playful flirting"" between some of the other competitors. According to the kids, Chelsea has a thing for Max, and there is definitely something going on between Sabrina and Aaro
    • 4. Knotted Up

      24 Oct '02
      As the episode opens, Sabrina, of the yellow team, explains that everyone is nervous about the upcoming temple mission. Chelsea, of the orange team, tells the cameras that her team is a target to be sent up to the Temple of Fate, but she isn't worried because she believes they'll do really well in the Temple Mission. Max, of the grey team, has a similar confidence and says that he isn't a target to be sent to the Temple anyway. Later, the teams meet J.D. Roth on the beach, where they get the
    • 5. Plant the Flag

      16 Nov '02
      The morning after the Grey team's departure, J.D. met the kids near their huts,and gave Jonna Max's hat that he left behind. Along with the hat, Max left a note for Jonna. The note read: ""Give this to the next team you want to betray"". Aaron and Jonna of the Blue team are both shocked and confused by the letter, because, as Aaron says to the cameras, he thought Max understood why his team was sent to the temple. Jonna tells the cameras that she didn't agree to sending the Grey team to temp
    • 6. Squeeze Play

      23 Nov '02
      From Discovery Kids.com With just six teams remaining on the island, and the Purple team not allowed to participate because they received the Samadhi, the five eligible teams competed in their second Temple Mission: Squeeze Play. This mission was a mental challenge based on the questionnaire the contestants took at the rock the day before. The kids were asked the same questions as before, but this time they had to answer based on what they thought the majority of the group said. Ashley answered
    • 7. The First Six Days

      30 Nov '02
      A review of the first six episodes, and a preview of the upcoming competitions and events.
    • 8. Water Logged

      07 Dec '02
      Weather becomes a critical factor in the competition; the Yellow Team vies with the Blue Team for most powerful as each team applies pressure to the other.
    • 9. Eruption

      14 Dec '02
      from Discoverykids.com The five remaining teams made the trek over to the Temple Mission to compete for the right to stay on the island for at least two more days. The winning team will also have to make the tough decision on which two teams to send to the Temple of Fate. The game, called ""Eruption"", was based on volcanoes. Pressure builds and builds under the earth's surface until it finally explodes, causing an eruption. This game was the ultimate test of strength and endurance as each tea
    • 10. House of Cards

      04 Jan '03
      From Discovery Kids.com With the Orange team's departure leaving the Green team to fend for itself against the powerful Blue-Red-Yellow alliance, the final four teams competed in another Endurance Mission. As the girls walked up to the Endurance Mission, ""House of Cards"", they were shocked to find their partners buried in the sand up to their necks with their heads hidden beneath buckets. Modeled after the impressive construction of the Great Wall of China and intended to honor the many th
    • 11. Dial In

      11 Jan '03
      From Discovery Kids.com The final four teams competed in a very important Temple Mission to ensure that they did not have to make the journey to the Temple of Fate. The mission, called ""Dial In,"" was patterned after the science of cracking codes. Each team had to decode a message from a giant wheel with letters and numbers that, when lined up correctly, would reveal a question that the teams needed to answer. Since the Blue team had received the Samadhi from the Green team, they had to star
    • 12. Build a Pyramid

      18 Jan '03
    • 13. Leap of Fate

      25 Jan '03
      The final face-off between the red, blue, and yellow teams. When two teams leave for the Temple of Fate, who will come back?
    • 14. Don't Drop the Ball

      22 Feb '03
      From Discoverykids.com In the final Endurance Mission, ""Don't Drop the Ball,"" the Blue and Yellow teams competed for the final Pyramid Piece, which the Red Team left behind when they were eliminated from the island. In this game, each team was perched atop their own platform above the ocean. The object was for each team to hold a giant ball over their head for as long as they could. The first team to drop their ball into the ocean would lose. Jon and Sabrina of the Yellow team were steady th
    • 15. Endurance Reunion (Part I)

      13 Sep '03
      Nearly one year after they first started the game, the 7 teams of ""Endurance"" come together to talk about their experiences on the show. The teens are shocked when they learn two of them will return to the island as a team for ""Endurance 2"". Hosted by J.D. Roth
    • 16. Endurance Reunion (Part II)

      20 Sep '03
      The second half of the Reuniuon special features clips from the competitions and never-before seen footage from the last days on the beach. We learn that the audience has voted for Max and Jenna to return to the island, but the votes from the 14 competitors are yet to be counted, and the results will remain a secret until ""Endurance 2"" premieres. Hosted by J.D. Roth