Episode One
In episode one, presenter Danny Parker's (Matt Heath) first interview with New Zealand's "greatest stuntman" Randy Cambell (Chris Stapp) ends in a studio brawl, and Cambell's attempt to jump a BMX bike over an ape goes "horribly wrong" (not for the last time).
Episode Two
A Bullying Special, featuring 12-year-old, ginger-headed Maurice (Phil Brough) from the South Island, futilely attempting to make new friends in a typical Auckland school. Meanwhile, Constables Rob Bogan (Chris Winn) and Neville Pratt (Piers Graham) deal out an "art lesson they won't forget" to unsuspecting graffiti artists. Stuntman Randy Cambell's "dangerous, reckless and bloody stupid" attempt to jump off the back of the studio results in yet another "dark day for the NZ stunt industry".
Episode Three
Chris Stapp and Matt Heath concentrate on drugs. Convinced that all students are on drugs, the constables travel to Dunedin to deal to the local scarfie population. Meanwhile, a baggy-trousered, inner city pothead journeys into the backblocks in search of a cannabis mother lode in 'Te Puke Thunder'. A new feature introduces "extreme" cameraman Wally Symons (Chris Winn), profiling a sight-impaired skate team and stuntman Randy Cambell has to cope with his team's incompetence as well as his own.
Episode Four
This episode promises "action-packed action". The constables need the assistance of the Onehunga Armed Offenders Squad to deal with the threat posed by a small boy with a water pistol. Host Danny Parker interviews South Island mechanic Spanners Watson (Phil Brough) about the increase in mechanical incompetence and hospitalisations since he joined stuntman Randy Cambell's crew. Cambell's stunt will only ever end one way.
Episode Five
In this episode of the "greatest TV show on earth", the ape set on fire in the show's first episode — when Randy Cambell's stunt went "horribly wrong" — has escaped, and the hairy one is after vengeance. Meanwhile, the police show no sympathy for presenter Danny Parker and daredevil Cambell, for the way the show has portrayed them. And against all odds, Spanners Watson's rocket car, 'The Spirit of Russell Crowe', might actually work... but the ape and the police are closing in.
Episode Six
Studio band Deja Voodoo have been fired after the police raid in the previous episode. Replacement band The Warlocks of Firetop Mountain lacks the "sharp suits and sharp tunes" that presenter Danny Parker needs in a band. But the real focus is on stuntman Randy Cambell's last, despairing attempt to succeed at even the simplest challenge. His failure will extract a spectacular and terrifying toll.
Episode Seven
The final episode opens with a tribute to "People's Presenter" Danny Parker, who was a victim of the previous episode's carnage. Show regular Piers Graham looks behind the scenes at the show's imagined past (including 60s exploitation pic Datura Flowers of the Garden of Death) and the real injuries sustained by cast members in the show's stunts, while hapless mechanic Spanners Watson gets his chance to assume daredevil stuntman Randy Cambell's hopeless mantle.
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