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Jesse James is a Dead Man is an American TV series features motorcycle customizer Jesse James doing ostensibly death-defying stunts. The title is a play on the name of the outlaw Jesse James. The show premiered on Spike on May 31, 2009. "Quest for 200 MPH", the last episode to be aired as of August 2010, ran in September 2009.
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May 31, 2009 • 60m
In preparation of his upcoming Nitro Bike ride, Jesse takes a spin in a dragster, a flight in an F-15 and sets himself on fire.
June 7, 2009 • 60m
Over the years, Jesse James has had dozens of run-ins with the law. Now he gets to settle the score with his long-time rivals by running from them in the ultimate high-speed police chase. Can Jesse outrun six police cruisers and a helicopter in his souped-up, nitrous oxide-rigged ride?
June 14, 2009 • 60m
Jesse James prepares to ride 125 miles across Arctic ice in the dead of winter to a remote village on a motorcycle, something which no man has ever tried before. He readies himself for the ride by freezing himself inside of a meat locker towards the point of hypothermia.
June 28, 2009 • 60m
Jesse shoots off a machine gun and crashes himself into parked cars to prepare for the deadliest form of racing...competing in the Figure 8 World Championships where racers speed across a killer intersection at 100 MPH!
July 5, 2009 • 60m
Jesse James takes on the deadliest off-road race in the world - the Baja 500. To prepare for the race, he tests his reflexes by driving through a minefield, and tests his truck in a killer flip. Will it be enough to prepare him for this brutal desert race?
July 12, 2009 • 60m
Jesse James attempts to conquer the most extreme challenges submitted by his fans over the internet. Can Jesse catch a rattlesnake with his bare hands? Off-road through treacherous desert to go where no pizza-delivery man has dared go before? How about demolishing a house with his monster truck?
July 19, 2009 • 60m
Super Sidecar is motorcycle racing unlike anything you have ever seen! Jesse James and his co-driver race at speeds in excess of 120 MPH in one of these three-wheeled machines. Jesse will prepare by drifting with Rhys Millen and working alongside firefighters to battle a blaze. Will he be ready come race day?
July 26, 2009 • 60m
Jesse James attempts the toughest off-road motorcycle race in the world. To prepare, Jesse will become a human shock absorber and hydroplane his bike across 60 feet of water. However, a severe training accident threatens to keep him out of the race, and may even keep him from riding ever again.
August 2, 2009 • 60m
Air Racing WWII-era fighter planes is the fastest motor sport in the world. Jesse James is going to take the controls of one of these beasts, and attempt to break its record of over 300 MPH. The only problem is that Jesse doesn't know how to fly a plane.
August 8, 2009 • 60m
Jesse James attempts to set a personal land speed record of 200 MPH in the Mojave Desert. First, he has to build a vehicle capable of handling such dangerous speeds; then he has to prepare for the worst-case scenario by escaping from a burning vehicle before it explodes.
