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Solitary
2006 - 2020 6.9 (7 votes) 4 Seasons
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Fox Reality Channel

Solitary

Overview

Solitary is a reality show on the Fox Reality Channel whose contestants were kept in round-the-clock solitary confinement for a number of weeks with the goal of being the last contestant remaining in solitary, for a $50,000 prize.

Seasons

Season 1 (2006)

No overview available.

9 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Experiment Begins
2006-06-05

The nine contestants enter their Pods, meet Val, and start the experiment.

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Episode 2: Bed of Nails
2006-06-12

The contestants continue their first treatment and then do a brand new test. Finally they must lay on a bed of nails until they are told to get up or until they quit.

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Episode 3: To Eat or Not to Eat
2020-06-19

As the contestants finish the bed of nails treatment, someone has been elimated. They do a brand new test which is a puzzle in a horror movie, and start a new treatment. They must eat until they quit or until they throw up. Someone else is elimated.

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Episode 4: Brainwashing
2006-06-26

The contestants finish the eating treatment. They enter a brand new test, which Number 6 can not participate in and begin to start the next treatment. Number 6 leaves his Pod and is elimated from Solitary.

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Episode 5: Head Spin / Tailspin
2006-07-03

Val tests the concentration of the five remaining guests and challenges them to a turbulent test of equilibrium. Another person is elimated.

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Episode 6: Val Turns Up the Heat
2006-07-10

The final four guests are put into darkness, and confront their fears. The next treatment is a fiery experiment of pain.

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Episode 7: Everyone Goes Mad
2006-07-17

After days without human contact, a test forces Val’s guests to begin raving like mad men. Then they face off in a grueling battle of physical endurance that isn’t over until someone collapses.

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Episode 8: The Final Experiment
2006-07-24

In the most difficult challenge yet, the final two guests are locked in Extreme Solitary—and only one emerges with the ultimate prize: $50,000.

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Episode 9: Solitary Reunion Special
2006-07-31

Join the nine former pod people, including the grand-prize winner, as they look back on their time inside their octagon-shaped cells. Get the inside scoop on what it was like dealing with their solitude and the infamous Val.

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Season 2 (2007)

No overview available.

9 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Welcome to Solitary... Now Go Home
2007-08-11

The experiment begins where season one ended as the guests are locked into individual black boxes. One guest freaks out and quits before the first elimination treatment even begins, but when it does, the footbed-of-nails has everyone else suffering the agony of da' feet.

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Episode 2: Say Hello to Your Little Friend
2007-08-18

Val surprises her guests with a small companion in Solitary. But her kindness ends quickly as the guests' sanity and stamina are tested trying to memorize a twisted message. The winning guest is spared an exhausting dance with a weighted dummy that drags everyone else down.

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Episode 3: From Dusk 'til Dominoes
2007-08-25

A child's game becomes the most frustrating test yet as the guests try to steady their nerves and build an impossibly long chain of dominoes. Then Val turns up the cruelty in a treatment that blends the guests' favorite foods together into a vile smoothie that will "throw up" one of them for an exit from Solitary forever.

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Episode 4: Don't Let This Happen to You
2007-09-01

Val's Solitary Auction puts the guests at each other's throats as they fight over comforts for themselves...and discomforts for each other - before Val's brutal "grump rope" treatment causes another guest to bite the dust.

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Episode 5: Open Wide and Say "Ouch"
2007-09-08

A treadmill challenge gives their little friends freedom. Then Val uses restraint.

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Episode 6: Handcuffs Across America
2007-09-15

A test of mathematical madness teaches one Solitarian that quitters never win. Then Val spins one guest out of control and out of Solitary forever in Solitary's latest Treatment.

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Episode 7: All Locked Up and Nowhere to Go!
2007-09-22

Val puts the remaining guests under lock and key... fifty times over. Then a relentlessly puzzling treatment with lots of ups and downs will help shape the final two.

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Episode 8: Hell Night - Morning - Afternoon
2007-09-29

The final two Solitarians compete in a vicious gauntlet of tests that pushes one to their limit. Then Val's Hammock from Hell promises to destroy one guest and make the other fifty thousand dollars richer.

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Episode 9: Solitary Reunion Special
2007-10-06

The nine guests from "Solitary 2.0" meet for the first time to reveal their secrets and share their experiences from their pods. Hosted by Todd Newton.

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Season 3 (2009)

No overview available.

8 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Battle of the Pods
2009-01-17

The experiment begins with a shocking twist. This season’s guests enter Solitary two by two and must fight for their very existence from the moment they arrive. Then two guests are sacrificed at the Solitary altar before this 90-minute special concludes.

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Episode 2: Pinch Me, I Must Be Nightmaring
2009-01-24

The remaining eight guests are put to the test - a nearly impossible one with over forty-thousand possible solutions - before they feel the sting of forty excruciating "Flesh Clips" in Val’s most painful treatment ever.

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Episode 3: Rats
2009-01-31

The agonizing conclusion of Val’s “Flesh Clip” treatment leaves the guests battered and bruised. Their nerves are further tested by dozens of snapping mousetraps. One guest unravels before an aromatic final-assault drives them all senseless.

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Episode 4: I Am A Complete Idiot
2009-02-07

A shocking showdown sends another guest home forever. And a microscopic message has them all speaking in tongues. Later, they devour a feast of cruel confections that makes one guest’s parting a sweet sorrow.

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Episode 5: Sweeny Pod
2009-02-14

Val’s mind games force the guests to question their sanity, and a gruesome test makes animals out of them all. Two guests earn freedom and a trip to "Club Val", while the other three are literally brought to their knees.

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Episode 6: Hello, My Name Is Chubby
2009-02-21

Change is good for some guests…and bad for others, as two break down and two bulk-up to win a suffocating test. Then, a new Valphabet teaches them that “P” is for “Painful” and “Q” is for “Quit”.

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Episode 7: Rest In Pieces
2009-02-28

Val’s most macabre challenge yet has the final three guests attend their own funeral - they build their own coffins before having to lie in them. Later, Val spins a spine-tingling treatment that leaves two lives cliffhanging in the balance.

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Episode 8: The W Of S 3.0
2009-03-07

The conclusion to Val's relentless experiment begins with one guest falling from grace. The final two go head-to-spinning-head in an "a-maze-ing" test that gives one of them an advantage in the electrifying final treatment.

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Season 4 (2010)

No overview available.

8 episodes

Episodes

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