Australian Survivor (2002)



Presented by:	Lincoln Howes
Name:	Australian Survivor
Season:	1
Filming Location:	{{{location}}}
Season Run:	February 13, 2002 - May 15, 2002
Episodes:	13
Days:	39
Survivors:	16
Winner:	Robert Dickson
Runner(s)-up:	Sciona Browne
Tribes:	Kadina Tipara Aurora


Australian Survivor 2002 Intro

Next Season:	Celebrity Survivor Australia

Australian Survivor (2002) is the first and only season of the Nine Network incarnation, and the first season overall of the Australian reality show Australian Survivor.

Filmed in the Eyre Peninsula located within Australia, the season featured sixteen castaways competing for $500,000. The format of the season followed close to the inaugural edition of the American Survivor franchise.

Production & Development[]

Conception[]

In 2000, Nine began airing Survivor: Borneo (the first season of the American Survivor series). The agreement for Nine to air the American series included the condition that they must produce their own local Australian edition of Survivor. The local edition was announced publicly during the night of the local airing of the finale of Survivor: The Australian Outback in early May 2001. This announcement also began the casting call for Australians willing to compete on the show.

Filming & Development[]

The people included for consideration for host included Grant Kenny, Jamie Durie and Richard Hatch, the "Sole Survivor" of Survivor: Borneo. Eventually, Lincoln Howles, a journalist from Nine's 60 Minutes, was named as host.

The production scouted locations across Australia to be used for the series. Locations considered included Uluru/Ayers Rock in the Northern Territory and the Kimberley region in Western Australia. However production setteled on Whaler's Way, on the South Australian coastline, 30 km (19 mi) from the town of Port Lincoln, where production was based for the series. This location set up a nautical/shipwreck theme for the series. A majority of the challenges centred around the water (many of which were originally created by the show and not derived from the American series), Tribal Council was located on a shipwreck called "The Great Beyond", Tribal Immunity was in the form of a bell and Individual Immunity was in the form of a rope necklace with shark's teeth. The theme song incorporated an Irish jig in a nod to Australian history – First Fleet arriving. An extended version of the main theme was played during the closing credits of the live Finale and Reunion show.

Broadcast[]

The show was broadcast by the Nine Network in the Wednesday 8:30pm timeslot and was rated PG. In addition to 12 regular hour long episodes and the 3 hour long finale/reunion show, two specials for the series were produced. An auditions special aired the day before the main series aired, showing some of the highlights and lowlights from the 8,500 audition submissions sent in to the show before officially revealing the 16 people who would compete on the series. Additionally, the program included an interview with Ethan Zohn; the "Sole Survivor" of Survivor: Africa. The other special was a behind-the-scenes show that aired a few weeks after the series ended and was titled Surviving Survivor. Among other things, this special revealed that the final four wanted to quit the show due to the dramatic turn of events concerning Katie's behaviour (her mental breakdown right before the Tribal Council on Day 37). The producers threatened to give the prize money to the last eliminated contestant (Sophie) if the contestants continued to defy production.

The format of the Finale and Reunion shows of Nine's Australian Survivor was rather different to the American edition's finales at the time. The finale/reunion program featured reunion show host, Eddie Maguire introducing each segment of the show live from the finale venue as the night progressed. The finale/reunion shows on the American edition would begin to use this format from its 28th season (Survivor: Cagayan).

Promotion[]

The evicted contestant from each episode was featured for an interview on the Today show on the following day. These interviews were conducted by Richard Wilkins just before the 8:00 AM news. This paralleled the American edition, where evicted Survivor contestants were interviewed on CBS' The Early Show during its time on air.

The program had several sponsors who were involved in product placements spots on the show (most as rewards for reward challenges). Sponsors included Cadbury, Pepsi, IBM, Solo, Jetset travel agencies, Schweppes, Fa deodorant for men, Lays potato crisps, Telstra, Doritos, Ford, Pepsi and Intel Pentium (which was also used in producing the show's graphics).

Survivors[]

16 castaways were selected to compete, divided into two tribes.

Contestant		Tribe Affiliation		Finish	Votes Against
Contestant		Original Tribe	Merged Tribe	Finish	Votes Against
	Lucinda Allen-Rhodes 43, Byron Bay, NSW Mother of Three	Kadina		1st Voted Out Day 3	8
	Tim Dugan 51, Green Point, NSW Contract Painter	Kadina		2nd Voted Out Day 6	4
	David Haas 34, Sydney, NSW IT Consultant	Kadina		3rd Voted Out Day 9	6
	Jeff Brown 52, Canberra, ACT Federal Police Superintendent	Tipara		4th Voted Out Day 12	5
	Deborah Peart 26, Sydney, NSW Media Professional	Kadina		5th Voted Out Day 15	4
	Sylvan Dorney 25, Sydney, NSW Author	Kadina		6th Voted Out Day 18	3
	Caren Shaw 28, Darwin, NT Radio Show Co-host	Kadina	Aurora	7th Voted Out Day 21	10
	Naomi Knight 22, Melbourne, VIC School Teacher	Kadina		8th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 24	8
	Craig Abbot 27, Point Lonsdale, VIC Electrician	Kadina		9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 27	8
	Lance Brooks 39, Sydney, NSW Marketing Consultant	Tipara		10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 30	8
	Jane Dalton 18, Newcastle, NSW Student	Tipara		11th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 33	9
	Sophie Woods 30, Sydney, NSW Mother	Tipara		12th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 35	3
	Katie Gold 24, Melbourne, VIC Professional Athlete	Tipara		13th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 37	3
	Joel Betts 22, Sydney, NSW Personal Trainer	Tipara		14th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 38	7
	Sciona Browne 49, Perth, WA Test Pilot	Tipara		Runner-Up	1
	Rob Dickson 37, Melbourne, VIC Ex-AFL Footballer	Tipara		Sole Survivor	5

Season Summary[]

Episode Guide[]

Challenge winners and eliminations by episode
Episode #	Original Air Date	Challenges		Eliminated	Finish
Episode #	Original Air Date	Reward	Immunity	Eliminated	Finish
Whaler's Way	February 13, 2002	Kadina	Tipara	Lucinda	1st Voted Out Day 3
Violent Weather and Violent People	February 20, 2001	Kadina	Tipara	Tim	2nd Voted Out Day 6
The Losing Streak	February 27, 2002	Kadina	Tipara	David	3rd Voted Out Day 9
The Struggle of Both Tribes	March 6, 2002	Tipara	Kadina	Jeff	4th Voted Out Day 12
It's Just Too Hard!	March 13, 2002	Kadina	Tipara	Deborah	5th Voted Out Day 15
This Game is Way Different Then it Looks	March 20, 2002	Tipara	Tipara	Sylvan	6th Voted Out Day 18
It's Time to Merge	April 3, 2002		Craig	Caren	7th Voted Out Day 21
Pick Off	April 10, 2002	Naomi [Craig]	Craig	Naomi	8th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 24
I Just Feel So Bad	April 17, 2002	Lance [Jane, Joel, Katie Rob, Sciona, Sophie]	Sophie	Craig	9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 27
He's a Threat, She's A Threat We're all Threats!	April 24, 2002	Jane	Joel	Lance	10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 30
Cockiness Comes to an End	May 1, 2002	Joel	Sciona	Jane	11th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 33
Who's the Odd Man Out?	May 8, 2002	Katie [Joel, Rob Sciona, Sophie]	Katie	Sophie	12th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 36
Finale/Reunion	May 15, 2002	Katie [Joel, Rob Sciona]	Rob	Katie	13th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 37
			Rob	Katie	14th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 38
				Jury vote
				Sciona	Runner-Up
				Rob	Sole Survivor

Voting History[]

Voting History
		Original Tribes						Merged Tribe
Episode #:		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11			12	13
Eliminated:		Lucinda	Tim	David	Jeff	Deborah	Sylvan	Caren	Naomi	Craig	Lance	Tie	Deadlock	Jane	Sophie	Katie	Joel
Eliminated:		8-0	4-1-1-1	5-1	5-3	3-2	3-1	7-2-1	7-1-1	7-1	5-1-1	3-3	2-2	Countback	3-2	3-1	1-0

◆	Rob	—	—	—	Jeff	—	—	Caren	Naomi	Craig	Lance	Jane	Jane	—	Sophie	Katie	Joel
◆	Sciona	—	—	—	Jane	—	—	Caren	Naomi	Craig	Lance	Jane	Jane	—	Sophie	Katie	—
◆	Joel	—	—	—	Jeff	—	—	Caren	Naomi	Craig	Jane	Jane	None	—	Sophie	Katie	—
◆	Katie	—	—	—	Jane	—	—	Caren	Naomi	Craig	Lance	Joel	Joel	—	Rob	Joel
◆	Sophie	—	—	—	Jeff	—	—	Caren	Naomi	Craig	Lance	Joel	Joel	—	Rob
◆	Jane	—	—	—	Jeff	—	—	Caren	Naomi	Craig	Lance	Joel	None	Eliminated
◆	Lance	—	—	—	Jeff	—	—	Caren	Naomi	Craig	Sciona
◆	Craig	Lucinda	David	David	—	Deborah	Sylvan	Rob	Rob	Rob
◆	Naomi	Lucinda	Tim	David	—	Deborah	Sylvan	Lance	Lance
◆	Caren	Lucinda	Tim	David	—	Deborah	Sylvan	Lance
	Sylvan	Lucinda	Tim	David	—	Caren	Naomi
	Deborah	Lucinda	Tim	David	—	Caren
	Jeff	—	—	—	Jane
	David	Lucinda	Caren	Craig
	Tim	Lucinda	Deborah
	Lucinda	Lucinda