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American Gladiators

1h

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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.

Production Companies

Four Point Entertainment

The Samuel Goldwyn Company

TWI

Episodes

Cast

Season 1

Round 1: Preliminaries

1. Round 1: Preliminaries

1h

31st Dec 1988

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

Round One Preliminaries

2. Round One Preliminaries

1h

7th Jan 1989

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

Round One Preliminaries

3. Round One Preliminaries

1h

14th Jan 1989

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

Round One Preliminaries

4. Round One Preliminaries

1h

14th Jan 1989

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

Round One Preliminaries

5. Round One Preliminaries

1h

21st Jan 1989

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

Round One Quarterfinals

6. Round One Quarterfinals

1h

31st Jan 1989

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

Round One Quarterfinals

7. Round One Quarterfinals

1h

31st Jan 1989

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

Round One Quarterfinals

8. Round One Quarterfinals

1h

31st Jan 1989

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

Round One Quarterfinals

9. Round One Quarterfinals

1h

1st Feb 1989

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

Round One Semi-finals

10. Round One Semi-finals

1h

1st Mar 1989

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

Round One Semi-finals

11. Round One Semi-finals

1h

1st Mar 1989

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

Round One Finals

12. Round One Finals

1h

1st Mar 1989

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

Highlights From Round One

13. Highlights From Round One

1h

1st May 1989

First Half Highlight Show

Round Two Preliminaries

14. Round Two Preliminaries

1h

1st Sep 1989

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

Round Two Preliminaries

15. Round Two Preliminaries

1h

1st Sep 1989

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

Round Two Preliminaries

16. Round Two Preliminaries

1h

1st Sep 1989

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

Round Two Preliminaries

17. Round Two Preliminaries

1h

1st Sep 1989

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

Round Two Preliminaries

18. Round Two Preliminaries

1h

1st Sep 1989

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

Round Two Quarterfinals

19. Round Two Quarterfinals

1h

1st Mar 1990

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

Round Two Quarterfinals

20. Round Two Quarterfinals

1h

1st Mar 1990

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

Round Two Quarterfinals

21. Round Two Quarterfinals

1h

1st Mar 1990

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

Round Two Quarterfinals

22. Round Two Quarterfinals

1h

1st Mar 1990

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

Round Two Semi-finals

23. Round Two Semi-finals

1h

1st Mar 1990

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

Round Two Semi-finals

24. Round Two Semi-finals

1h

1st Mar 1990

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

Round Two Finals

25. Round Two Finals

1h

1st Mar 1990

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

Grand Championship

26. Grand Championship

1h

1st Apr 1990

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

First air date

31st Dec 1988

Last air date

1st Sep 1994

Status

Returning Series

Type

Reality

Original language

en

Networks