Louis attempts to become a presenter on Florida's Home Shopping Network TV channel and meets Anthony Sullivan and Billy Mays.
Louis invites someone from each of the four episodes of series 1 to his home for Christmas. That several self-proclaimed survivalists were also hippies and environmentalists is a recurring theme. The episode focuses on the survivalism movement and communities formed around it. Louis also visits the Aryan Nation Church and helps to build a straw-bale home. In Idaho, Louis meets military enthusiasts and right-wing patriots (such as Bo Gritz) who are preparing for a global catastrophe, including trips to survivalists' store Safetrek and a mountain refuge for conspiracy theorists called Almost Heaven. He reveals the problems a lot of porn actors face, be it not getting a job in straight porn and therefore having to do gay porn, or not getting an erection when it is needed. This episode offers a look at very different sides of the porn industry, as Louis interviews both male and female porn stars. He claims to have killed more than twenty aliens. One of these is a man called Thor Templar, the self-titled "Lord Commander of the Earth Protectorate". This episode follows several people who believe in UFOs. In Dallas, Louis meets TV evangelists Marcus and Joni Lamb, and joins a group of hardline Christians called " The Family" as they visit the Deep Ellum entertainment district.
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The show is laughing at me, adrift in their world, as much as at them. To me, it's almost a privilege to be welcomed into these communities and to shine a light on them and, maybe, through my enthusiasm, to get people to reveal more of themselves than they may have intended. Weird Weekends sets out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting. In 2001, Theroux was awarded the Richard Dimbleby Award as well as the Best Presenter BAFTA for his work on the series. It was first shown in the United Kingdom on BBC2. In most cases this means interviewing people with extreme beliefs of some kind, or just generally belonging to subcultures not known to exist by most or just frowned upon. Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends is a television documentary series, in which Louis Theroux gives viewers the chance to get brief glimpses into the worlds of individuals and groups that they would not normally come into contact with or experience up close.