Surviving the first episode last week, Dan Foley of Gorham returned on March 4 as a contestant on “Survivor” in its second week of a new series on CBS.

Foley, a postal technician at the Scarborough plant, is a member of the reality show’s blue collar Escameca Tribe that is competing against the white collar Masaya Tribe and the “no collar” Nagarote Tribe. Each tribe kicked off the series with six members last week.

In the 90-minute premiere, Foley was chosen as leader of his tribe, but appeared to alienate other tribal members while setting up camp.

“He made me a little nervous,” said Bob Crowley, who won $1 million as the 2008 “Survivor” winner. “You never want to be bossy on ‘Survivor.’”

The second episode of the show, which was filmed in Nicaragua last summer, was televised after this week’s American Journal deadline.

The strategy is to outwit and outplay others with an objective of not being voted off to eventually become the sole survivor.

Foley is the show’s third contestant with ties to Gorham. Crowley was a Gorham High School physics teacher, and Julie Berry, now a Los Angeles resident who had been one of Crowley’s students in Gorham, was a cast member narrowly missing the show’s final four in 2004.

In one scene in the premiere, Foley was shown on the beach in a bathing suit, holding his pants and displaying a less-than-athletic physique.

Crowley said he would have advised Foley not to have “taken his pants off.”

In last week’s action, So Kim, 31, of the Masaya Tribe, which trailed the other two tribes in the show’s first challenge in the series, was the first voted off in a tribal council.

Finishing second in the challenge, Foley’s tribe avoided having to decide who would be voted off.

“He could have been in trouble if his tribe went to tribal council,” said Crowley, a Durham resident who the American Journal contacted in Arizona on Tuesday.

Age could become a factor as to how long Foley, 47, the senior member of the blue-collar tribe, lasts on the show. His younger fellow tribe members average 31.4 years of age. But Crowley was 57 when he won it all.

Friendly and smart is how Crowley described Foley this week.

“I think all he has to do is act like the Dan Foley I know,” Crowley said.

The CBS network reported that last week’s premiere attracted 9.88 million viewers, up 460,000 from 9.42 million for the 2014 premiere. This year marked the largest premiere audience since 2012.

The next “Survivor,” a 60-minute episode, will be aired at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11, on WGME TV 13.

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