Madventures

2002 - 2022 8.3 (14 votes) 5 Seasons

Official Website

Genres

Documentary

Networks

Travel Channel
Sub
5Star

Overview

Riku and Tunna travel around the globe on a shoestring budget, carrying nothing but their backpacks and a camera, on a quest to reveal the most bizarre and dangerous secrets of the planet. No crew, no security, no limits.

Top Cast

Tuomas Milonoff

Himself

Riku Rantala

Himself

Seasons

Season 0 ()

No overview available.

10 episodes

Episodes

Season 1 (2002)

No overview available.

25 episodes

Episodes

Episode 1: Episode 1

2002-10-13

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 2: Episode 2

2002-10-20

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 3: Episode 3

2002-10-27

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 4: Episode 4

2002-11-03

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 5: Episode 5

2002-11-10

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 6: Episode 6

2002-11-17

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 7: Episode 7

2002-11-24

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 8: Episode 8

2002-12-01

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 9: Episode 9

2002-12-08

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 10: Episode 10

2002-12-15

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 11: Episode 11

2002-12-22

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 12: Episode 12

2002-12-29

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 13: Episode 13

2003-01-05

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 14: Episode 14

2003-01-12

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 15: Episode 15

2003-01-19

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 16: Episode 16

2003-01-26

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 17: Episode 17

2003-02-02

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 18: Episode 18

2003-02-09

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 19: Episode 19

2003-02-16

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 20: Episode 20

2003-02-23

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 21: Episode 21

2003-03-02

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 22: Episode 22

2003-03-09

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 23: Episode 23

2003-03-16

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 24: Episode 24

2003-03-23

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 25: Episode 25

2003-03-30

Runtime: 45 min

Season 2 (2005)

No overview available.

11 episodes

Episodes

Episode 1: Jamaica

2005-02-20

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 2: Tokyo

2005-02-27

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 3: Japan

2005-03-06

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 4: China

2005-03-13

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 5: Tibet

2005-03-20

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 6: West Papua

2005-03-27

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 7: Cuba

2005-04-04

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 8: Africa 1

2005-04-10

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 9: Africa 2

2005-04-17

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 10: Indochina 1

2005-04-24

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 11: Indochina 2

2005-05-01

Runtime: 45 min

Season 3 (2009)

10 x 22" international episodes in English, produced in 2009 with the Travel Channel (U.S.) and Fiver (U.K.)

10 episodes

Episodes

Episode 1: AMAZONAS: On the River of Shamans

2009-04-05

Riku and Tunna travel from urban jungles of Rio’s favelas to the rainforests of the Amazon basin in the footsteps of William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, searching for the deepest swamps and quagmires of the sub-consciousness.

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 2: EX-CCCP: From Radiation to Revolution

2009-04-12

A journey beyond the rusted iron curtain and into the radioactive zone! The longest, the most mythical railway on earth takes Madventures to the man who seems to have reached immortality. Also in this episode: the weirdest sport on the planet!

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 3: WEST AFRICA

2009-04-19

Flip into the tranced-out Loa trip of the bloodiest indigenous religion on the planet. Old scars are ripped open and the new ones are carved straight into the face of the innocent. The blood is the life!

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 4: FELIX ARABIA

2009-04-26

Nomads Riku and Tunna boogie down to the desert of The Empty Quarter, equipped only with camels and khat. Following each step are constant dangers of the hostile nature, armed tribal leaders and their own western prejudices.

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 5: NIPPON: Robots & Samurais

2009-05-03

Madventures is diving deep into the cornucopia of holy steel, perfection as an ideal, mechanical love and the collision of the ultramodern and the truly traditional and ancient.

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 6: HINDUSTAN

2009-05-10

In the land of the myriad gods, Riku and Tunna face the most holy and unholy men in existence. The boys also join the pilgrimage of 10 million tarnished karmas to cleanse themselves of all their sins.

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 7: CHINA: The Quest for True Kung Fu

2009-05-17

Madventures is looking for the ultimate meaning of the ancient philosophy. On Mad Cook’s plate, a hot dog is served.

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 8: NEW GUINEA: Warriors and cannibals

2009-05-24

Explorers Rantala & Milonoff get lost in terra incognita, the darkest of jungle infested with mummies, missionaries and other merciless predators as they search for the mankind’s ultimate taboo. Is cannibalism still alive?

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 9: PHILIPPINES: Crimes and Crucifixions

2009-05-31

Madventures is looking for faith, hope and charity where none is usually found – prisons and cemeteries. Riku becomes a practicing catholic in the most painful sense of the word as the boys take part in the Easter ceremonies like you rarely get to see.

Runtime: 45 min

Episode 10: SOUTH-EAST ASIA: The Long Road to Burma

2009-06-07

Riku and Tunna travel through South-East Asia to in search of freedom. Drinking cobra blood and shooting bazookas, our mad men take on the ruthless military junta of Myanmar.

Runtime: 45 min