Was exploring YouTube and came across this pearler of a show, something to watch and enjoy for a couple of hours.
Lofty Wiseman Survival Team
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I like it that half of them em are on the dole. proper 80s. watching it now. Soooo badly made. x
Absolute brilliant rubbish. well found. I like all the smoking going on even when there are no smoking signs and the sound track is phenomenal as well. lol x
They had a budget 
Made me laugh as the couple of blokes moaned that they should just tell them where the barrels were so they didn’t have to do so much work and get them even more tired. That’s the attitude fellas
Made me laugh as the couple of blokes moaned that they should just tell them where the barrels were so they didn’t have to do so much work and get them even more tired. That’s the attitude fellas
I watch that regularly for the memories all the time. Spoke to his mate on the programme along time ago about the show. Simple but fun. BBC so budget probably low.
Review:
6.5 / 10
The ideas are quite good. The format is basic survival training, advanced training and a challenge. Mirroring the thee part series. The micro tutorials also stood out as highlights to me. But the show is badly let down by low production quality. None of the tutorials are detailed. So you are getting a nudge that you don’t know enough on a topic, rather than filling in the blank.
With the tutorials little is captured on camera and throughout the adventure nobody has a wireless microphone. Where there should have been interviews or voice overs… we have only fragments of ‘distant’ conversation.
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Basic Notes:
00:00:00 Opening title.
00:00:20 Phase 1: Training in basic survival techniques.
Sleeping bag, (The real lesson is that this was maybe the most essential piece of equipment.)
Survival tin: knife, fish hooks, lines, wire saw
(Lofty has written about what he suggests for a survival kit in his famous book. And a number of people have made youtube videos.)
Plus luxuries (see notes)
Objectives:
Learn how to build shelters,
Light fires,
Find and catch food.
00:02:00 Meet the 6 members of public.
00:03:58 First day building the shelters
Location: Eden of England, likely Lofty's school.
Plenty of deciduous hardwood trees and small game, plus a river full of game fish.
Long poles, Lofty has a machete
Public seen with cordage
Lean-to shelter made from long poles, waterproofed with sphagnum moss and bracken
00:05:57 The first afternoon Paul instructs group on fishing.
** Limited tutorial here.
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00:08:53 The second morning.
A pair are setting a fishing line.
00:11:15 The second afternoon.
Fire lighting.
Knife, cotton wool, ferro rod, candle
Making feather sticks.
** Micro-tutorial on fire lighting from Lofty.
Weather is damp, fogging and cold
Weather at night was raining.
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00:14:43 The third morning after a night of rain.
The shelter and sleeping bags shown.
Interview with wet team members.
00:15:41 The third afternoon, Paul instructing on basic health care.
** Very limited tutorial
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00:17:31 The fourth day, Lofty instructs on trapping
** Quick tutorial on snares.
00:19:40 The Forth evening the instructors discuss the team
Instructor vs instructor 'interview'
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00:21:15 The fifth morning.
Checking the gill nets
Instructor 'interview' voice over.
Shelter isn't good enough
Team keeps getting wet
But the team is acquiring water and more importantly food.
00:24:02 The fifth afternoon
Team has a stainless steel grill
Team has a #10 can for boiling water, at least 3 pots
Team has a chopping board?
Inter-team chat, everyone happy and plenty of food
Interview with lofty: It's the people at the extremes who change.
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00:28:47 Second phase of training (Bridging or preview.)
Journey to the island
Airplane, fishing boat? inflatable.
Objectives:
Recce the island
Find Shelter, food and water without help.
00:30:37 The far side of the island
Instructor interview:
Difficult finding wood and shelter.
Looks like Scotland?
Bracken
Heather
No trees!
Deer
Team gather 'drift wood' and old wooden fence posts.
A basic shelter is made using wood and plastic bags (animal feed sacks?)
00:39:10 The search for food. (night time)
<nothing shown!>
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00:39:46 Part 2.
Advanced survival training.
00:40:03 Objective:
Find food.
Initiate escape plan.
00:41:26 The second day
09:20am The eastern edge of the island
Instructors Mushroom hunting
Looking for white puff ball
00:42:49 11:30am The survival team forage for food.
Stinging nettles
Chamomile
Peppermint
00:46:38 2:10pm The Northern point of the island
Sign of bird life
Limpets
Winkle
Standing water / water run off.
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00:50:05 Three days later
00:50:22 2:15pm
A house/croft
Sheep in the background
Seems like someone has wondered off, and without full kit.
Lofty says people should be in pairs
Deer
00:53:17 3:20pm
Search party looking for missing team member
00:55:14 5:30pm
Found.
It was a setup.
To test the group's emergency procedure
01:00:17 The Forth evening, Moral is getting low.
Seal
Instructor interview:
Team has no leader
Weakness in shelter and fire strategy
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01:03:08 The fifth morning
The team are thinking it will 14 days...
The team's heart isn't fully committed to their tasks.
01:06:28 The fifth evening
The men gather materials to build the raft
Plenty of sawn lumber... hmm.
01:07:18 Lofty inspects the team's signal fire
** Lofty runs a mini tutorial here.
01:10:50 'end of tutorial'
Team finds a 55 US gallon steel drum
(there might be 4 barrels planted on the island?)
Nails! hammer. wire cutters.
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01:18:46 Part 3. ( Part 2b. )
Advanced Survival and escape training
Objective:
To plan and execute escape bid from island.
01:19:13 The tenth day
Team often isn't ready to light signal fires.
01: 22 :44 All tools were found on island
Again, the team still has no leader and won't commit is doing the jobs!
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01:30:52 The eleventh morning
01:31:34 10:30am
01:33:40 3:20pm The raft's first trial
Lofty has a huge coil of climbing rope over his shoulder.
01:41:36 Night
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01:46:34 The twelfth day, 7:15am
Taking the raft out again
01:49:32 10:10am
The duo on the raft, still haven't cleared the bay.
01:50:55 11:25am
The duo on the raft, are clearing the bay?
01:51:30 12:40pm
The duo on the raft, are clearing the bay?
Helicopter, VERY low and VERY close.
The stone signal is still under-sized
The signal fires are 'OK'
The team needs a plan for briefing the helicopter crew.
** Paul Brown gives a tutorial on getting rescued.
Everyone is rescued by boat.
6.5 / 10
The ideas are quite good. The format is basic survival training, advanced training and a challenge. Mirroring the thee part series. The micro tutorials also stood out as highlights to me. But the show is badly let down by low production quality. None of the tutorials are detailed. So you are getting a nudge that you don’t know enough on a topic, rather than filling in the blank.
With the tutorials little is captured on camera and throughout the adventure nobody has a wireless microphone. Where there should have been interviews or voice overs… we have only fragments of ‘distant’ conversation.
=========================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Basic Notes:
00:00:00 Opening title.
00:00:20 Phase 1: Training in basic survival techniques.
Sleeping bag, (The real lesson is that this was maybe the most essential piece of equipment.)
Survival tin: knife, fish hooks, lines, wire saw
(Lofty has written about what he suggests for a survival kit in his famous book. And a number of people have made youtube videos.)
Plus luxuries (see notes)
Objectives:
Learn how to build shelters,
Light fires,
Find and catch food.
00:02:00 Meet the 6 members of public.
00:03:58 First day building the shelters
Location: Eden of England, likely Lofty's school.
Plenty of deciduous hardwood trees and small game, plus a river full of game fish.
Long poles, Lofty has a machete
Public seen with cordage
Lean-to shelter made from long poles, waterproofed with sphagnum moss and bracken
00:05:57 The first afternoon Paul instructs group on fishing.
** Limited tutorial here.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
00:08:53 The second morning.
A pair are setting a fishing line.
00:11:15 The second afternoon.
Fire lighting.
Knife, cotton wool, ferro rod, candle
Making feather sticks.
** Micro-tutorial on fire lighting from Lofty.
Weather is damp, fogging and cold
Weather at night was raining.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
00:14:43 The third morning after a night of rain.
The shelter and sleeping bags shown.
Interview with wet team members.
00:15:41 The third afternoon, Paul instructing on basic health care.
** Very limited tutorial
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
00:17:31 The fourth day, Lofty instructs on trapping
** Quick tutorial on snares.
00:19:40 The Forth evening the instructors discuss the team
Instructor vs instructor 'interview'
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
00:21:15 The fifth morning.
Checking the gill nets
Instructor 'interview' voice over.
Shelter isn't good enough
Team keeps getting wet
But the team is acquiring water and more importantly food.
00:24:02 The fifth afternoon
Team has a stainless steel grill
Team has a #10 can for boiling water, at least 3 pots
Team has a chopping board?
Inter-team chat, everyone happy and plenty of food
Interview with lofty: It's the people at the extremes who change.
===================================================================================
00:28:47 Second phase of training (Bridging or preview.)
Journey to the island
Airplane, fishing boat? inflatable.
Objectives:
Recce the island
Find Shelter, food and water without help.
00:30:37 The far side of the island
Instructor interview:
Difficult finding wood and shelter.
Looks like Scotland?
Bracken
Heather
No trees!
Deer
Team gather 'drift wood' and old wooden fence posts.
A basic shelter is made using wood and plastic bags (animal feed sacks?)
00:39:10 The search for food. (night time)
<nothing shown!>
===================================================================================
===================================================================================
00:39:46 Part 2.
Advanced survival training.
00:40:03 Objective:
Find food.
Initiate escape plan.
00:41:26 The second day
09:20am The eastern edge of the island
Instructors Mushroom hunting
Looking for white puff ball
00:42:49 11:30am The survival team forage for food.
Stinging nettles
Chamomile
Peppermint
00:46:38 2:10pm The Northern point of the island
Sign of bird life
Limpets
Winkle
Standing water / water run off.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
00:50:05 Three days later
00:50:22 2:15pm
A house/croft
Sheep in the background
Seems like someone has wondered off, and without full kit.
Lofty says people should be in pairs
Deer
00:53:17 3:20pm
Search party looking for missing team member
00:55:14 5:30pm
Found.
It was a setup.
To test the group's emergency procedure
01:00:17 The Forth evening, Moral is getting low.
Seal
Instructor interview:
Team has no leader
Weakness in shelter and fire strategy
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
01:03:08 The fifth morning
The team are thinking it will 14 days...
The team's heart isn't fully committed to their tasks.
01:06:28 The fifth evening
The men gather materials to build the raft
Plenty of sawn lumber... hmm.
01:07:18 Lofty inspects the team's signal fire
** Lofty runs a mini tutorial here.
01:10:50 'end of tutorial'
Team finds a 55 US gallon steel drum
(there might be 4 barrels planted on the island?)
Nails! hammer. wire cutters.
=======================================================================
=======================================================================
01:18:46 Part 3. ( Part 2b. )
Advanced Survival and escape training
Objective:
To plan and execute escape bid from island.
01:19:13 The tenth day
Team often isn't ready to light signal fires.
01: 22 :44 All tools were found on island
Again, the team still has no leader and won't commit is doing the jobs!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
01:30:52 The eleventh morning
01:31:34 10:30am
01:33:40 3:20pm The raft's first trial
Lofty has a huge coil of climbing rope over his shoulder.
01:41:36 Night
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
01:46:34 The twelfth day, 7:15am
Taking the raft out again
01:49:32 10:10am
The duo on the raft, still haven't cleared the bay.
01:50:55 11:25am
The duo on the raft, are clearing the bay?
01:51:30 12:40pm
The duo on the raft, are clearing the bay?
Helicopter, VERY low and VERY close.
The stone signal is still under-sized
The signal fires are 'OK'
The team needs a plan for briefing the helicopter crew.
** Paul Brown gives a tutorial on getting rescued.
Everyone is rescued by boat.
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Cooking with the stars!
-Digging a hāngī on a Birmingham roundabout with Dawn French @ 15min..
Lofty & Dawn - Scoff Ep1
-Digging a hāngī on a Birmingham roundabout with Dawn French @ 15min..
Lofty & Dawn - Scoff Ep1
- how did they pay him enough to do that? and, who wears white trousers in those conditions? 
