Danger! 50,000 Volts! Explained

Genre:Comedy survival series
Developer:Princess Productions
Presenter:Nick Frost
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English
Num Episodes:8
Producer:Jon Riley
Executive Producer:Sebastian Scott
Henrietta Conrad
Justin Gorman
Runtime:23 - 24 minutes per episode
Network:Five

Danger! 50,000 Volts! was a 2002 British television programme written and presented by Nick Frost, which presented viewers with various life-threatening scenarios and suggested ways out of these situations.

The show was a spoof of the outdoors survival genre in which survival experts demonstrated how to improvise solutions to dangerous problems. A feature of the series was the clever and humorous use of danger iconography in the graphic design of segment titles, further identifying the show with the British tradition of stoic resolve in the face of (comically) overwhelming odds.

In the DVD release of the programme, a 30-minute spin-off episode called Danger! 50,000 Zombies! is included as an extra. This episode saw Frost paired up with Dr. Russell Fell (played by Simon Pegg), as they dealt with the situation of a zombie outbreak and what to do in such an event.

In 2003, a second season was made called Danger! Incoming Attack!