Johnny C. Ferraro
Director
American Gladiators (1989)
Season 2
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.
Released Dec. 31, 1988
Episode 60 min
10+
Genres: Action, Game Show, Reality, Sport
Keywords: tmdb.competition, tmdb.strength, tmdb.sports-show, imdb.gladiator, imdb.non-fiction, imdb.1980s, imdb.1990s + 4 more, imdb.physical-game-show, imdb.elimination-game-show, imdb.contest, tmdb.game-show
Watch Providers: Amazon Prime Video, The Roku Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Production Companies: Four Point Entertainment, TWI, Samuel Goldwyn Company
Network: USA Network
Country: United States
Languages:
English,
Spanish
S2E1 - Round 1: Preliminaries
Females: Sheila Mercer vs Trish Tillotson
Males: Rico Costantino vs John Adams
Sept. 1, 1990, midnight
S2E2 - Round 1: Preliminaries
Females: Margaret McCargo vs Susan Hirst
Males: Chris Vopatek vs Purple Roundy
Sept. 8, 1990, midnight
S2E3 - Round 1: Preliminaries
Females: Marla Smith vs Kelley Peacock
Males: Dale Thompson vs Rob Bottiggi
Sept. 15, 1990, midnight
S2E4 - Round 1: Preliminaries
Females: Maria Nichting vs Esther Ratner
Males: Dwayne Thomas vs Lincoln Simonds
※Note: During Assault, Dwayne Thomas sustained an eye injury and was replaced with Nate Foster.
Sept. 22, 1990, midnight
S2E5 - Round 1: Preliminaries
Females: Samantha Bryant vs Cinda Mentzer
Males: Wesley Keck vs Scott Reiff
Sept. 29, 1990, midnight
S2E6 - Round One Quarterfinals
Round one quarterfinals with contenders: Constantino vs. Foster and Mercer vs. Tillotson.
Oct. 6, 1990, midnight
S2E7 - Round One Quarterfinals
Round one quarterfinals with contenders: Vopatek vs. Keck and Nichting vs. Hirst.
Oct. 13, 1990, midnight
S2E8 - Round One Quarterfinals
Round one quarterfinals with contenders: Thompson vs. Simonds and Ratner vs. Mentzer.
Oct. 20, 1990, midnight
S2E9 - Round One Quarterfinals
Round one quarterfinals with contenders: Roundy vs. Adams and McCargo vs. Peacock.
Oct. 27, 1990, midnight
S2E10 - Round One Semi-finals
Round one semi-finals with contenders: Costantino vs. Simonds and McCargo vs. Tillotson.
Nov. 3, 1990, midnight
S2E11 - Round One Semi-finals
Round one semi-finals with contenders: Vopatek vs. Adams and Nichting vs. Mentzer.
Nov. 10, 1990, midnight
S2E12 - Round One Finals
Round one finals with contenders: Costantino vs. Adams and Nichting vs. Tillotson.
Nov. 17, 1990, midnight
S2E13 - Round Two Preliminaries
Round two preliminaries with contenders: Branham vs. McKleskey (alt. Kieser) and Look-Jaeger vs. Wilcox (alt. Dorsa)
Nov. 24, 1990, midnight
S2E14 - Round Two Preliminaries
Round two preliminaries with contenders: Kiernan vs. Johnson and Henger vs. Akai.
Dec. 1, 1990, midnight
S2E15 - Round Two Preliminaries
Round two preliminaries with contenders: Duke vs. Suzuki and Duke vs. Hill-Hudgins.
Dec. 8, 1990, midnight
S2E16 - Round Two Preliminaries
Round two preliminaries with contenders: Nasca vs. Dieter and Cumberbatch vs. Jarchow
Dec. 15, 1990, midnight
S2E17 - Round Two Preliminaries
Round two preliminaries with contenders: Montgomery vs. Altshuler and Telley vs. Stickelman.
Dec. 22, 1990, midnight
S2E18 - Round Two Quarterfinals
Round two quarterfinals with contenders: Montgomery vs. Duke and Duke vs. Akai.
Dec. 29, 1990, midnight
S2E19 - Round Two Quarterfinals
Round two quarterfinals with contenders: Johnson vs. Dieter and Look-Jaeger vs. Dorsa.
Jan. 5, 1991, midnight
S2E20 - Round Two Quarterfinals
Round two quarterfinals with contenders: Nasca vs. Kiernan and Cumberbatch vs. Jarchow.
Jan. 12, 1991, midnight
S2E21 - Round Two Quarterfinals
Round two quarterfinals with contenders: Altshuler vs. Branham and Telley vs. Stickelman.
Jan. 19, 1991, midnight
S2E22 - Round Two Semi-finals
Round two semi-finals with contenders: Branham vs. Montgomery and Telley vs. Akai.
Jan. 26, 1991, midnight
S2E23 - Round Two Semi-finals
Round two semi-finals with contenders: Kiernan vs. Dieter and Cumberbatch vs. Dorsa.
Feb. 2, 1991, midnight
S2E24 - Round Two Finals
Round two finals with contenders: Branham vs. Dieter and Cumberbatch vs. Telley.
Feb. 9, 1991, midnight
S2E25 - Grand Championship
Grand championship with contenders: Costantino vs. Branham and Nichting vs. Cumberbatch.
Feb. 16, 1991, midnight
S2E26 - Alumni Show
Alumni show with contenders: Cheryl Ann Silich, Aimee Ross, Lucian Anderson and Terry Moore.
Feb. 23, 1991, midnight
USA Network
60 min/ep
10020 min
Dec. 31, 1988
Sept. 1, 1994, midnight
Returning Series
TV-PG / 10+
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