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Survivor

Season 1

14 listed hours · 2000–present · CBS

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How this season is filed

Filed by Rex Fontaine · Golden Age Dispatch

Outwit, outplay, outlast: Mark Burnett brought Charlie Parsons's format to CBS as summer event TV and launched an American reality empire. Jeff Probst as permanent referee, Tribal Council as weekly election. Early seasons are cultural history; the grammar still trains audiences to read social gameplay.

TV Flash files Season 1 of Survivor (2000–present) on CBS as the first listed season of 51 — 14 listed hours, 2000-05-31–2000-08-23 from “The Marooning” (S01E01) to “Survivor: Borneo Reunion” (S01E14). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S01E01 The Marooning

    The Marooning is origin night: Burnett bringing Parsons's format to CBS summer, Probst as referee, Tribal Council as a new weekly election.

  2. S01E07 The Merger

    The Merger is the grammar lesson — two tribes becoming one vote, the structural turn every later season still trains audiences to expect.

  1. S01E01 The Marooning
  2. S01E02 The Generation Gap
  3. S01E03 Quest for Food
  4. S01E04 Too Little Too Late?
  5. S01E05 Pulling Your Own Weight
  6. S01E06 Udder Revenge
  7. S01E07 The Merger
  8. S01E08 Thy Name is Duplicity
  9. S01E09 Old and New Bonds
  10. S01E10 Crack in the Alliance
  11. S01E11 Long Hard Days
  12. S01E12 Death of an Alliance
  13. S01E13 The Final Four
  14. S01E14 Survivor: Borneo Reunion

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