American Gladiators

📊 Series Specifications

Network USA Network
Episode Runtime ~60 min
Total Seasons 7
Total Episodes 167
Original Language EN

American Gladiators (1988)

Created by Dan Carr , Johnny C. Ferraro
⭐ 2.9 / 5 (29 votes) 🎬 7 Seasons 📼 167 Episodes 🏷️ Reality 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

American Gladiators is an American competition television program that aired weekly in syndication from September 1989 to May 1996. The series matched a cast of amateur athletes against each other, as well as against the show's own gladiators, in contests of strength and agility. The concept was created by Dan Carr and John C. Ferraro, who held the original competition at Erie Tech High School in Erie, Pennsylvania. They sold the show to The Samuel Goldwyn Company where the concept was enhanced and became American Gladiators. An effort in 2004 to launch a live American Gladiators show on the Las Vegas Strip became mired in a securities fraud prosecution. However, the television series was restarted in 2008. Episodes from the original series were played on ESPN Classic from 2007 to 2009. Several episodes are available for download on Apple's iTunes Service.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Round One Preliminaries

Females: Frankie Perry vs Brenda Hund Males: Craig Williams vs John Shumski

E2 Round One Preliminaries

First Half Preliminary Round 2: Moore vs Wirth / Henry vs Jorge

E3 Round One Preliminaries

First Half Preliminary Round 3: McCarthy vs. Needham/Hutson vs. Simmons

E4 Round One Preliminaries

First Half Preliminary Round 4: Petitto vs. Ross/Carroll vs. Wyatt

E5 Round One Preliminaries

First Half Preliminary Round 5: Phillips vs. Cotton/Rogers vs. Todd

E6 Round One Quarterfinals

First Half Quarterfinal Round 1: Cotton vs. Hund/Williams vs. Shumski

E7 Round One Quarterfinals

First Half Quarterfinal Round 2: Petitto vs. Ross/Wirth vs. Simmons

E8 Round One Quarterfinals

First Half Quarterfinal Round 3: Henry vs. Needham/Moore vs. Hutson

E9 Round One Quarterfinals

First Half Quarterfinal Round 4: McCarthy vs. Phillips/Carroll vs. Todd

E10 Round One Semi-finals

First Half Semifinal Round 1: Needham vs. Petitto/Williams vs. Carroll/Shumski

E11 Round One Semi-finals

First Half Semifinal Round 2: Cotton vs. Phillips/Hutson vs. Wirth

E12 Round One Finals

First Half Final Round: Petitto vs. Phillips/Williams vs. Hutson

E13 Highlights From Round One

First Half Highlight Show

E14 Round Two Preliminaries

Preliminary Round 1: Seymour vs. Jordan/Schwartze vs. Farwell

E15 Round Two Preliminaries

Preliminary Round 2: Podesta vs. Harrison/Allen vs. Herbst

E16 Round Two Preliminaries

Second Half Preliminary Round 3: Anderson vs. Brady/Venturi vs. Rampe

E17 Round Two Preliminaries

Second Half Preliminary Round 4: Sutton vs. Cueva/Lakatos vs. Silich

E18 Round Two Preliminaries

Second Half Preliminary Round 5: Stinson vs. Kidd/Brown vs. Koeberle

E19 Round Two Quarterfinals

Second Half Quarterfinal Round 1: Seymour vs. Brady/Venturi vs. Harrison

E20 Round Two Quarterfinals

Second Half Quarterfinal Round 2: Kidd vs. Herbst/Podesta vs. Koeberle

E21 Round Two Quarterfinals

Second Half Quarterfinal Round 3: Sutton vs. Jordan/Lakatos vs. Silich

E22 Round Two Quarterfinals

Second Half Quarterfinal Round 4: Anderson vs. Allen/Brown vs. Farwell

E23 Round Two Semi-finals

Second Half Semifinal Round 1: Jordan vs. Anderson/Venturi vs. Silich

E24 Round Two Semi-finals

Second Half Semifinal Round 2: Podesta vs. Brown/Kidd vs. Seymour/Herbst

E25 Round Two Finals

Second Half Final Round: Kidd vs. Anderson/Venturi vs. Brown

E26 Grand Championship

Grand Championship Final: Anderson vs. Hutson/Venturi vs. Phillips

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