Body Invaders
TV Show · Reality · Documentary

From fence posts and refrigerator magnets to surf boards and garden shears, `I Was Impaled' tells incredible true tales of people from around the world who have accidentally ended up with foreign objects in their bodies. Each story is brought to life by first-person testimony and CGI reconstruction, starting from the discovery of the injury to the groundbreaking medical treatment. It describes in detail how the dangerous, bizarre object entered the body, how it affected organs and influenced behaviour, and why the matter was often inches away from causing death.

2012 · 43m
Starring Dale Carman, Kevin Collins

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Don't Pull It Out
    A woman is impaled on an iron spike; a man spears his friend on a fishing trip; and an elderly gardener's shears are lodged in his eye. Can doctors help?
    42 min
  • EPISODE 2
    Danger Outside
    A man is impaled on a fence post; a farmer has an object lodged in his brain; and a woman is skewered on a hooked pole when she feeds the birds. Will they live?
    42 min
  • EPISODE 3
    Unwanted Guests
    A woman gets a Christmas tree imbedded in her neck; a boy out fishing almost chokes on a barb; and a man is filled with enough air to fill 1000 balloons. Learn how they survived.
    42 min
  • EPISODE 4
    Lethal Pursuits
    A look at sporting heroes and heroines whose encounters with body invaders have led to near fatal experiences. Who said exercise was good for you?
    42 min
  • EPISODE 5
    The Enemy Within
    Meet five people with five different unexplained objects inside them, including a young girl who has swallowed a mysterious object which is tearing her guts apart.
    42 min
  • EPISODE 6
    Great And Small
    Follow the extraordinary journeys of the fence pole embedded in an American trucker's midriff to the sewing needle which an elderly man accidentally eats as part of his dinner.
    42 min

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Cast & Crew

  • D‌C
    Dale Carman
    Self
  • Kevin Collins
    Narrator
  • H‌H
    Helen Hawken
    Producer
  • B‌S
    Bridget Sneyd
    Producer
  • A‌M
    Andrew MacKenzie
    Producer
  • E‌M
    Elizabeth McIntyre
    Producer

About

Body Invaders

Reality

From fence posts and refrigerator magnets to surf boards and garden shears, `I Was Impaled' tells incredible true tales of people from around the world who have accidentally ended up with foreign objects in their bodies. Each story is brought to life by first-person testimony and CGI reconstruction, starting from the discovery of the injury to the groundbreaking medical treatment. It describes in detail how the dangerous, bizarre object entered the body, how it affected organs and influenced behaviour, and why the matter was often inches away from causing death.

Information

Studio
DMAX
Released
2012
Rated
12

Languages

Audio

English (United States)

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  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Botswana
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Cape Verde
  • Egypt
  • Eswatini
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • India
  • Israel
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • Mauritius
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Niger (English)
  • Oman
  • Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia
  • South Africa
  • Sri Lanka
  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan
  • Uganda
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Zimbabwe

Asia Pacific

  • Australia
  • Cambodia
  • Fiji
  • 香港 (廣東話–繁體)
  • Indonesia (English)
  • 日本
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • 澳門 (廣東話–繁體)
  • Malaysia (English)
  • Micronesia, Federated States of
  • Mongolia
  • New Zealand
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  • Singapore
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  • Costa Rica (Español)
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