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The following episodes are the episode list for Endurance. Episode seven, fifteen, and sixteen are specials. The seventh episode recaps the events of the first six days of the competition. The fifteenth and the sixteenth episodes reunites the cast nearly one year since the series has started.
| # | Title | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Right to Stay" | October 5, 2002 |
| 2 | "Fate Falls" | October 12, 2002 |
| 3 | "Tilt" | October 19, 2002 |
| 4 | "Knotted Up" | October 26, 2002 |
| 5 | "Plant the Flag" | November 16, 2002 |
| 6 | "Squeeze Play" | November 23, 2002 |
| Special | "The First Six Days" | November 30, 2002 |
| 7 | "Water Logged" | December 7, 2002 |
| 8 | "Eruption" | December 14, 2002 |
| 9 | "House of Cards" | January 4, 2003 |
| 10 | "Dial In" | January 11, 2003 |
| 11 | "Build a Pyramid" | January 18, 2003 |
| 12 | "Leap of Fate" | January 25, 2003 |
| 13 | "Don't Drop the Ball" | February 22, 2003 |
| Special | "Reunion (Part 1)" | September 13, 2003 |
| Special | "Reunion (Part 2)" | September 20, 2003 |
| Special | "Best of Endurance: Island" | March 4, 2006 |
The following episodes are the episode list for Endurance. Episode twenty-three and thirty are specials. The twenty-third episode recaps the events of the first six days. The thirtieth episode recaps the most dramatic moments of Endurance Season Two.
| # | Title | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | "Drop-Out" | September 27, 2003 |
| 15 | "Wash-Out" | October 4, 2003 |
| 16 | "Tower Of Power" | October 11, 2003 |
| 17 | "Fireball" | October 18, 2003 |
| 18 | "Rollerball" | October 25, 2003 |
| 19 | "Tide Pull" | November 1, 2003 |
| Special | "Halftime" | November 8, 2003 |
| 20 | "On The Ropes" | January 3, 2004 |
| 21 | "Face To Face" | January 10, 2004 |
| 22 | "Cherry Picker" | January 17, 2004 |
| 23 | "Aqueduct" | January 24, 2004 |
| 24 | "Plank Maze" | January 31, 2004 |
| 25 | "Pathfinder" | February 7, 2004 |
| Special | "The Home Stretch" | February 14, 2004 |
| 26 | "Finale Mission" | February 21, 2004 |
| 27 | "Finale 2" | February 28, 2004 |
| Special | "Best of Endurance 2" | March 11, 2006 |
| # | Title | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| Special | "Casting Special (Part 1)" | September 4, 2004 |
| Special | "Casting Special (Part 2)" | September 11, 2004 |
| 28 | "The Arrival" | September 25, 2004 |
| 29 | "First Elimination" | October 2, 2004 |
| 30 | "Pick Your Partner" | October 9, 2004 |
| 31 | "Headstrong" | October 16, 2004 |
| 32 | "Ring of Fire" | October 23, 2004 |
| 33 | "Bagging on You" | October 30, 2004 |
| 34 | "Squaring Off" | November 6, 2004 |
| 35 | "Out on a Limb" | November 13, 2004 |
| 36 | "From 20 to 12" | November 27, 2004 |
| 37 | "Bamboo Jungle" | December 4, 2004 |
| 38 | "Pipeline" | December 11, 2004 |
| 39 | "I'm Pulling for You" | December 18, 2004 |
| 40 | "Balance Ball" | January 8, 2005 |
| 41 | "The Halfway Mark" | January 15, 2005 |
| 42 | "The Final Four" | January 22, 2005 |
| 43 | "Create Your Own Game" | January 29, 2005 |
| 44 | "Final Elimination" | February 5, 2005 |
| 45 | "Battle for the Pieces" | February 12, 2005 |
| 46 | "Season Finale 3" | February 19, 2005 |
| Special | "Galapagos Special" | September 10, 2005 |
| Special | "Best of Endurance Hawaii (Special)" | September 17, 2005 |
| # | Title | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 47 | "Hang Glide" | October 1, 2005 |
| 48 | "Power Play" | October 8, 2005 |
| 49 | "Blocked" | October 15, 2005 |
| 50 | "Raft Pull" | October 22, 2005 |
| 51 | "Drop Out" | November 26, 2005 |
| 52 | "Super Stumped" | December 3, 2005 |
| Special | "The Halfway Point" | January 14, 2006 |
| 53 | "Waterworks" | January 21, 2006 |
| 54 | "The Return of Fireball" | January 28, 2006 |
| 55 | "Hang 5" | February 4, 2006 |
| 56 | "Cubed" | February 11, 2006 |
| 57 | "Create Your Own Game" | February 25, 2006 |
| 58 | "Circle of Trust" | March 4, 2006 |
| 59 | "Spin Fly" | March 25, 2006 |
| 60 | "Finale 4" | March 25, 2006 |
| Special | "Best of Endurance Tehachapi" | October 7, 2006 |
| Special | "Top Ten Games" | December 30, 2006 |
In the season premiere, 20 strangers arrive at their new home in the Tehachapi Mountains for the entire season. After spending a day with one another, the contestants face the Right-To-Stay Challenge: holding onto a bar while suspended a few feet above the water. The first three girls and guys to let go and fall into the water are automatically sent home. In the end, the underdogs defeat the big and strong as Brittany Harvey, Kendell Yorkey, Brooke Bellows, Nicholas Verderosa, Tucker Baer, and Keith Walker are sent home, leaving the other 14 "strangers" as official Endurance players.
The 14 remaining contestants are put into their partner selection challenge: holding a wooden cylander up in the air for as long as they can. The last one standing wins. They all compete except for Shea Thomas and Amelia "Georgia" Land, who become the Blue Team after speaking up for whom they wanted as their partners. In the end Christopher Tavarez wins and chooses Callie Simpkins as his partner, forming the Yellow Team. They choose the remaining teams: Franke Sisto and Erika Cook become the Red Team, Jonathan Lebowitz and Daniella Bustamante become the Purple Team (even though Daniella wanted to be paired with Michael Delvecchio), John Kardian and Julie Dubela become the Gray Team, and Michael and Kylie Glessman become the Orange Team, leaving Isaac Hainley and Jeszie Geronimo as the Green Team. After the teams choose their Pyramid Pieces, Courage (Blue), Trust (Yellow), Heart (Red), Perseverance (Purple), Commitment (Gray), Knowledge (Orange), and Leadership (Green), as well as the announcing of the Grand Prize- a trip to Costa Rica, the game officially begins.
The teams face their first Endurance mission: they have to hold blocks between one another as they go down a lane, picking up more blocks. The only drawback is that if the blocks are dropped, the team has to pick them up before continuing on. The first team back with all of their blocks wins the Teamwork piece and control of the Samadhi. In the end, the Green team wins, putting them in the lead with two Pyramid Pieces, and they decide to handicap their friends on the Gray Team, after learning that Gray is in an alliance with Blue. The Gray Team ends up getting handicapped with four sandbags.
The teams face their first elimination and everyone's eyes are set on Gray and Blue because of their strong friendship and alliance. The teams has to pile sandbags on another team's colored triangle for 30 seconds before loading sandbags they've been given onto their raft. The teams must then pull their rafts to the other side of the lake and grab their team flag. The first team to make it back and mount their flag onto their colored triangle wins the opportunity to send two teams to the Temple of Fate. Because they got the Samadhi, the Gray Team is given four additional sandbags to start with. Gray and Blue end up with the most sandbags and the Purple Team wins, and as expected, Gray and Blue are sent to the temple. In the end, the Curse of the Gray Team strikes again and the Gray Team is sent home first for the third time in Endurance history, and the Blue Team is given a warm welcome-back from the other five teams.
Following the Gray Team's elimination, they give their Commitment piece to the Blue Team as a sign of a true friendship, putting Blue and Green in a tie for first place. The teams are faced with their next mission: hanging onto a bar suspended a couple of inches over the water (their feet on one end and their hands on the other) for as long as they can. The last one standing wins their team the Discipline piece and the power to choose two opposing teams that will form their Super Team in tomorrow's temple mission. In a shocking development, Erika outlasts all of the guys, winning the challenge for the Red Team and putting them in first place with Green and Blue. In the end, they end up choosing Green and Yellow as part of their Super Team, leaving Purple, Orange, and Blue, the "underdog teams", to face their opponents in the next temple mission.
In today's temple mission, it's Red, Yellow, and Green vs. Orange, Blue, and Purple in the Super Team Temple Mission. The contestants have to use two planks to make a bridge to their Team flag, and then buld another bridge back to shore. The winning Super Team gets to send two of the three teams on the opposing Super Team to the Temple of Fate. After the Red/Green/Yellow Super Team stacks one of their planks on the end of the other, making them jump into the water so Erika could move it, the Purple/Orange/Blue Super Team manages to snag a victory, making this their first (and only) win for Orange and Blue. Even though Jonathan was unsure who to send (because Purple is in an alliance with Green an Yellow), the winning Super Team ultimately decides to send Red and Yellow to the Temple of Fate, where Yellow becomes the second team to be eliminated from the competition.
This was a special recap episode, with recapped the events of the sesason up until now. A sneak preview of the next episode, Waterworks, is shown at the end.
Following the Yellow Team's elimination, the Green Teams reads a note from them that they are giving their Trust piece to the Red Team, putting them in the lead, while Green and Blue remain in second place, each with two pieces. The five remaining teams have to take a piece of canvas and fill it with water, which they must dump into their team-colored barrell, and repeat the process until one team's barrell is filled to the rim with water, which will shoot out the top of the barrell. The winning team gets the Luck piece, and, as usual, the Samadhi. But there's a catch: the losing team will be given a one way ticket to the Temple of Fate, unless they win the next Temple Mission. In the end, the Green Team wins, putting them in first place with Red, who receives the Samadhi, which contains a ten-foot rope, and the Purple Team ends up finishing last, putting them in great danger.
In a very unusual episode of Endurance: Tehachapi, J.D. and Daniella, who is the ultimate Endurance fan, reveal that they went online and asked the fans about choosing a past Temple Mission to appear again. The winner? Fireball. Because they got the Samadhi, the Red Team's raft is placed ten feet further away from shore. In the end, the Green Team wins, and they send Purple (because they lost and were automatically sent to the temple) and Orange (because the other teams saw them as a threat) to the Temple of Fate. In the end, the Orange Team becomes the third team to be eliminated from the competition.
In the opening, the Red Team reads the Orange Team's farewell note and end up receiving their knowledge piece, putting them in the lead with four pieces, Green is in second with three pieces, Blue has two, and Purple still has one. The four remaining teams compete for the Strength piece in the next mission, where one team member holds onto a bar suspended over the water while their partner sits on top and moves their partner across the water. The team member hanging onto the bar has to transport five team-colored triangles back to the other side, one at a time. The first place team receives the Strength piece and, once again, control over the Samadhi. In the end, the Green Team wins, continuing their legendary winning streak, and then argue fiercely over who should get the Samadhi. In the end, Erika tells Jeszie to give the Smadhi to the Red Team, which ends up happening. Franke breaks it open and inside, the Red Team discovers a drawing of a clock with both hands pointing to the number 60.
In the second-to-last Temple Mission, the teams have to assemble a team-colored cube before the other teams do, making this a mental challenge. Because they got the Samadhi, the Red Team is forced to sit out for one minute before starting, but they never get the chance, because, in a shocking development, the Purple Team wins in 51 seconds. When announcing who they are sending to the Temple of Fate, Purple spares the Green Team because of their still-going alliance, sending Red and Blue to the Temple each a second time. In the end, the Red Team wins and is locked into the Final 3, while the Blue Team leaves the competition.
As the Blue team leaves their Courage and Commitment pieces to the Green Team, putting them in the lead with six Pyramid Pieces (Red is in second with four pieces, while Purple still has only one), the "Create Your Own Game" challenge returns to the show as the second-to-last mission this season. The final 3 design a 3-legged race type of game, where the teams, with their ankles tied togeter, have to knock down 5 team-colored cubes off a barrel at the same time, before grabbing three blocks and making their way through the rope obstacle course. Once that's done with, the blocks have to be balanced on a cylander all the way back to the starting line. THe winner gets the Samadhi and the Inginuity piece. In the end, the Purple Team wins their first and only win in a mission and are put onto the board with two pieces and the give the Samadhi to the Green Team, who discover two ten-pound blocks hidden inside.
In the final Endurance 4 Temple Mission, the teams have to hang on to a square-shaped bar while being held up by bungee chords. The last team standing gets a spot in the Final 2 while the losing two teams go to the Temple of Fate. In the end, Erika proves her strength yet again by winning the challenge for the Red Team, sending Purple and Green to the temple (the second time Purple has visited the temple). In the end, the Green Team is eliminated and the Purple Team is locked into the Final 2.
In the final Endurance 4 Mission, the Red and Purple teams must compete for the Friendship piece, and the six pieces that the Green Team left behind: Leadership, Teamwork, Courage, Commitment, Strength, and Luck. Red and Purple create memorials for their fallen teammates and competes in their final mission: one team member from each team is suspended from a beam and has throw sandbags onto one of the pieces in order to claim it. The other teammates have to run in a circle to give their partners momentum before joining in the game. Purple ends up getting Green's Leadership piece, the Friendship piece, the Strength piece, and Gray's Commitment piece, while Red ends up getting the Luck piece, Blue's Courage piece, and the Teamwork piece. The mission puts Red in the lead with seven pieces, and Purple in second with six pieces. In the end, the teams prepare to head to their final challenge in the Temple of Fate and J.D. presents a preview of the finale.
Before going into the final challenge at the Temple of Fate, Franke, Jonathan, Daniella, and Erika are each given a log with the season's artwork etched onto one side as a reminder of what the four accomplished in the game. After making their last confessionals and talking about how they would miss the mountains, they head to the Temple for the finale challenge, which, as usual, involves putting the Pyramid Pieces earned in the game in front of a silver oyramid (the number of pyramids multiply once per round)and the team with the gold pyramid gets all of the pieces on the table. The game game keeps going until one team has won all thirteen pieces. In the end, the Red Team, Franke and Erika, after six tormenting rounds, become the Endurance: Tehachapi champions, winning the grand prize trip to Costa Rica for an eight-day trip, where they help researchers track the endangered sea turtle, and get up close and personal with rain forest creatures from an observation deck 100 feet high up in the air.
| # | Title | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 61 | "Balance is the Key" | October 14, 2006 |
| 62 | "Hanging Around" | October 21, 2006 |
| 63 | "Unwind" | October 28, 2006 |
| 64 | "Hot Potato" | November 4, 2006 |
| 65 | "Moving It Along" | November 11, 2006 |
| 66 | "Walk the Plank" | January 13, 2007 |
| 67 | "Fill & Spill" | January 20, 2007 |
| 68 | "Superboats" | January 27, 2007 |
| Special | "Mid-Season Recap" | February 3, 2007 |
| 69 | "It's a Drag" | February 10, 2007 |
| 70 | "Create Your Own Game" | February 17, 2007 |
| 71 | "Fill 'er Up" | February 24, 2007 |
| 72 | "All Tied Up" | March 3, 2007 |
| 73 | "Slingshot Alley" | March 17, 2007 |
| 74 | "Finale 5" | March 17, 2007 |
| Special | "Best of Endurance High Sierras" | May 27, 2007 |
| # | Title | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 75 | "End of the Rope" | October 13, 2007 |
| 76 | "Memory Race" | October 20, 2007 |
| 77 | "Mana Kisi" | October 27, 2007 |
| 78 | "Blind Faith" | November 3, 2007 |
| 79 | "Box Launch" | November 10, 2007 |
| 80 | "Alliances Uncovered" | November 17, 2007 |
| 81 | "Weight an Hour" | November 24, 2007 |
| Special | "Midseason Recap" | February 2, 2008 |
| 82 | "Island Hopping" | February 9, 2008 |
| 83 | "3 to Go/Shark Bait" | February 16, 2008 |
| 84 | "Stand Bags" | February 23, 2008 |
| 85-86 | "Ultimate Finale" | March 1, 2008-March 8, 2008 |
| Special | "Best of Endurance Fiji" | June 21, 2008 |
| Special | "J.D.'s Greatest Twists" | June 28, 2008 |