Deadly 60
Deadly 60 is a program for youth on CBBC. Steve Backshall tracks down 60 of the world's deadliest animals in Deadly 60. The popular program has been available since 2025. A total of 95 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in April 2026.
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Deadly 60
Steve Backshall goes in search of one of Europe’s most venomous snakes: the nose-horned viper. He also hopes to track down a bear and goes deep into a cave system to find a dragon.
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Steve Backshall heads to Timor Leste in search of the biggest animal to have ever lived - the blue whale. He also hopes to find the saltwater crocodile, one of the giants of land.
Series 6
Steve Backshall is in Brazil searching for the world’s most elusive cat: the jaguar. He sees them swimming, meets mothers and cubs, and even witnesses one jaguar hunting a caiman.
Steve Backshall is in Sydney, Australia, searching for the world’s most venomous spider, the fastest striking snake and an ocean dragon that is a camouflaged assassin.
Steve Backshall is in Zambia to witness ten million fruit bats undertake the world’s largest aerial migration. However, these bats are a buffet for Africa’s top three eagles.
Series 3
Wildlife series. Steve and the crew are back in South Africa to turn the latest camera technology on a trio of deadly snakes and meet the predatory crowned eagle.
Wildlife series. Steve and the team head to New Zealand for the first time, where Steve descends deep into the Waitomo caves to find an unusual predator.
Series 6
Steve is underwater in Indonesia with funny-looking frogfish, a stargazer, flamboyant cuttlefish, a mimic octopus and a Bobbit worm.
Series 3
Wildlife series. Steve heads into the blistering sun of the Australian outback to fulfil a lifelong dream of finding the most venomous snake in the world.
Series 6
Steve dives with 100 grey nurse sharks - aka ragged-tooth sharks - a wobbegong and a gigantic whale shark, and he joins a mission in Indonesia to save sharks from over-fishing with eco-tourism.
Series 3
Wildlife series. Steve and the crew head to Mexico's breathtaking Yucatan Peninsula, where he embarks on a high-octane chase with the fastest fish in the sea.
Series 6
Steve Backshall tracks cheetahs across Zambia by motorbike, witnessing epic hunting and the challenges faced by this endangered predator.
Series 3
Wildlife series. Steve Backshall looks for one of the most iconic of all predators in South Africa, the ferocious great white shark.
Wildlife series. Steve and the crew head into the beautiful Alaskan wilderness, home to some of the most impressive predators on Earth - humpback whales and grizzly bears.
Wildlife series. Steve is on his home turf, scouring land, sea and air for some of the deadliest critters that the UK has to offer.
Wildlife series. In the medieval Ethiopian city of Harar, Steve Backshall has a unique and potentially lethal encounter with a pack of spotted hyenas.
Wildlife series. Steve Backshall travels to Indonesia in search of three very different reptiles to add to his list of 60 deadly predators.
Series 2
Steve Backshall looks at animals that are both deadly and endangered, including the chimpanzee, mountain gorilla and harpy eagle, as well as the bizarre aye-aye.
In this special episode, Steve shares stories of the contenders that didn't quite make it onto the Deadly 60 list.
Wildlife series. Steve is spat at and bitten by scorpions, spiders and snakes in his quest to prove that venom is one of the most lethal weapons of the animal kingdom.