Mission Survival: The Animated Series

Mission Survival: The Animated Series, often shortened to Mission Survival, is an American action-adventure animated web-exclusive series. It is based off the Mission Survival books by Bear Grylls and it aired on May 9, 2015 on Netflix.

Plot
Teenager Beck Granger is raised by his uncle after the deaths of his parents. He travels the world with his friends and they often find themselves in survival situations, facing up to dangerous animals, vicious enemies and the most extreme environments on earth.

Characters
Protagonists

Beck Granger (Daryl Sabara)-The main character. After losing his parents at a young age, he was raised by his uncle, Sir Alan Granger. Years of travelling around the world with his parents have honed his survival skills and he often ends up in life-threatening situations.

Alan Granger (Patrick Stewart)-Beck's uncle, originally born in London, England. He is trained in zoology, anthropology and survival.

David and Mel Granger (voiced respectively by Michael Madsen and Christina Hendricks)-Beck's parents who died when he was young.

Peter Samson (Will Friedle)-Beck's childhood friend. He knows little to nothing about survival, often preferring the comforts of the modern world.

Bryony Harrison (Tara Strong)-Beck's childhood friend. Raised in the back country of Wyoming, she has knowledge of survival passed down from her maternal grandfather who is a Cheyenne shaman.

Minor and recurring characters

Professor Alberto Cruz (Andy Garcia)-An anthropologist from the University of Mexico City. He is close friends with Beck's uncle and it is revealed he is descended from Maya Indians.

Francesca Cruz (Tara Strong)-Alberto's sassy but kind 15 year old daughter.

John Mukele (Phil LaMarr)-A wildlife biologist and park ranger in Kenya.

Christopher Sharpeyes (Rob Paulsen)-A biologist and member of a Pueblo tribe in New Mexico.

Frank Two Rivers (Gil Birmingham)-A Shoshone biologist in Wyoming.

Amanda Two Rivers (Grey Delisle)-A teenage Shoshone girl and Frank's niece.

Dr. Han (George Takei)-A Chinese biologist and a friend of Beck's father.

Professor Dimitrius Marinos (Jeff Bennett)-An archaeologist from the University of Athens.

Olav Bergen (Maurice LaMarche)-The mayor of a small town at the edge of the Norwegian arctic.

Raju (Brian George)-A wildlife conservationist and biologist from the University of Mumbai.

Machahuka (Jeff Bennett)-The leader of an indigenous tribe in the Ecuadorean Amazon.

Professor Luis Alvarez (Jess Harnell)-A wildlife biologist from the University of Quito.

Mr and Mrs. Samson (voiced respectively by John Schneider and Virginia Madsen)-Peter's mother and father. While they are loving, they tend to be unadventurous, homebody-type individuals, with Peter going as far to say that his and Beck's adventures make his family vacations "look like The Odyssey".