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American Gladiators
American Gladiators
TV ShowReturning Series

American Gladiators

5.6 / 10
1988
7 seasons
167 episodes
Reality

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.

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Cast

M

Mike Adamle

M

Marisa Pare

Danny Lee Clark

Michael M. Horton

William 'Billy' Smith

Tonya Knight

Jim Starr

Lori Fetrick

G

Galen Tomlinson

Sha-Ri Pendleton

Raye Hollitt

Larry Csonka

Seasons

  • Round 1: Preliminaries

    1.Round 1: Preliminaries

    31-12-198860m

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

  • Ep 2

    2.Round One Preliminaries

    07-01-198960m

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

  • Ep 3

    3.Round One Preliminaries

    14-01-198960m

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

  • Ep 4

    4.Round One Preliminaries

    14-01-198960m

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

  • Ep 5

    5.Round One Preliminaries

    21-01-198960m

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

  • Ep 6

    6.Round One Quarterfinals

    31-01-198960m

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

  • Ep 7

    7.Round One Quarterfinals

    31-01-198960m

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

  • Ep 8

    8.Round One Quarterfinals

    31-01-198960m

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

  • Ep 9

    9.Round One Quarterfinals

    01-02-198960m

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

  • Ep 10

    10.Round One Semi-finals

    01-03-198960m

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

  • Ep 11

    11.Round One Semi-finals

    01-03-198960m

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

  • Ep 12

    12.Round One Finals

    01-03-198960m

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

  • Ep 13

    13.Highlights From Round One

    01-05-198960m

    First Half Highlight Show

  • Ep 14

    14.Round Two Preliminaries

    01-09-198960m

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

  • Ep 15

    15.Round Two Preliminaries

    01-09-198960m

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

  • Ep 16

    16.Round Two Preliminaries

    01-09-198960m

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

  • Ep 17

    17.Round Two Preliminaries

    01-09-198960m

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

  • Ep 18

    18.Round Two Preliminaries

    01-09-198960m

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

  • Ep 19

    19.Round Two Quarterfinals

    01-03-199060m

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

  • Ep 20

    20.Round Two Quarterfinals

    01-03-199060m

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

  • Ep 21

    21.Round Two Quarterfinals

    01-03-199060m

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

  • Ep 22

    22.Round Two Quarterfinals

    01-03-199060m

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

  • Ep 23

    23.Round Two Semi-finals

    01-03-199060m

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

  • Ep 24

    24.Round Two Semi-finals

    01-03-199060m

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

  • Ep 25

    25.Round Two Finals

    01-03-199060m

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

  • Ep 26

    26.Grand Championship

    01-04-199060m

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

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