Survivor was must-watch TV for my wife and I for the first three seasons; the shine was already lessening by the time our son arrived in 2003, and then we fell off almost completely all the way until South Pacific in 2011. Not long after that we started watching with our son and daughter and it's been a family affair ever since.
There's some real kismet in catching up on the first season, the highest-rated show of the 2000, right now in my project. The tape in the picture above is a full-season recap and behind-the-scenes featurette, found in a thrift shop a couple of years ago and just waiting for its time to come. Also, the 50th season just began, bringing with it all sorts of nostalgia and retrospectives.
The tape, which mostly features player profiles, their auditions, their eliminations, and their final confessionals, lost sound about halfway through - but that's okay, I've been trained to watch TV with closed captioning for years now.
They actually didn't show a lot of challenge material, but I'm glad they focused on the final challenge of simply not letting go of an idol pole. I always like the simplicity and endurance of that one.
This show is the primary reason we still have satellite TV.
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