Episode
River Monsters: Return of the Killer Catfish
Overview
Jeremy Wade investigates a case in Nepal that sounds strangely familiar - a lone fisherman dragged off his feet & into a mountain river by an unseen creature. Is the original river monster, the goonch catfish, back from the brink?
Details
- Series
- River Monsters
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 2017-05-14
- Runtime
- 46 min
Episode context
Return of the Killer Catfish is Episode 4 in Season 9 of River Monsters. It aired on 2017-05-14. The runtime is 46 min.
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Episode 3: Coral Reef Killer
When a snorkeler is impaled & killed by an unseen underwater assailant in the waters surrounding the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, Jeremy Wade travels to the islands to investigate a spate of similar attacks across the region.
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On a volcanic Pacific island, an ancient fishing community is being terrorized by something unknown in the water that’s been leaving behind mysterious puncture wounds on its victims. Can Wade uncover the identity of this fanged assailant?
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