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Filmed in San Francisco, MythBusters aired 296 episodes before cancellation at the end of the 2016 season.
The pre-2016 Adam Savage/Jamie Hyneman run did not end after 296 episodes; Discovery’s own profile says that version ended in March 2016 after 279 episodes.
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Discovery’s official Adam Savage profile says the original Adam Savage/Jamie Hyneman version of MythBusters ended in March 2016 after 279 episodes. That means the claim that the show had already aired 296 episodes before cancellation at the end of the 2016 season is too high.
The likely source of the error is that later MythBusters franchise episodes were folded into the larger count. But as written, this sentence specifically ties the 296 figure to the pre-cancellation 2016 endpoint, and Discovery’s own official summary contradicts that.
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- Get to Know Adam Savage, Host of Savage Builds and MythBusters Jr. | Discovery
A decade later, Adam was chosen along with Jamie Hyneman to produce and host MythBusters, which premiered on Discovery Channel in January 2003. Fourteen years, 279 episodes ... later, that version of the series ended in March 2016.