This Old House - Season 18
Run Time: 30 mins
Air Date: Sat, 28 Sept 1996
Average Rating: ⭐ 5.6 (35 votes)
PBSThe Nantucket House; The Tuscon House
26 Episodes
The Nantucket House - 1
Season 18 - Episode 1
This Old House sets out for Nantucket the classic way, aboard a Streamship Authority vessel. On island, they tour one of our master carpente...
The Nantucket House - 2
Season 18 - Episode 2
The crew starts the work day surf casting with local expert David Goodman (and full-time tile contractor) - and even catch a striped bass an...
The Nantucket House - 3
Season 18 - Episode 3
The show starts with a visit to Nantucket's Unitarian Universalist church, a beautiful showcase of restrained New England architecture and t...
The Nantucket House - 4
Season 18 - Episode 4
Our master carpenter goes lobstering with contractor/lobsterman Pierre Garneau, who has a family license to put out 10 traps. At the house, ...
The Nantucket House - 5
Season 18 - Episode 5
The show starts with a visit to Sankaty Head Light, a Coast Guard property of the exposed Eastern edge of the island. Built in 1850, it like...
The Nantucket House - 6
Season 18 - Episode 6
The show opens with a little clamming, looking for quahogs at a secret location. At the site, we meet designer Jock Gifford, who uses the mo...
The Nantucket House - 7
Season 18 - Episode 7
The show begins at Nantucket's Old North Wharf, much of which dates from the early 18th century and site of several small cottages available...
The Nantucket House - 8
Season 18 - Episode 8
The show opens at Nantucket's Whaling Museum with curator Mike Jehle. At the site, we see the first of two wells being drilled for the Bentl...
The Nantucket House - 9
Season 18 - Episode 9
Before heading over to the job site, we visit the 1827 African Meeting House, a former school, church, and meeting house used by Nantucket's...
The Nantucket House - 10
Season 18 - Episode 10
A visit to Nantucket's Life-Saving Museum teaches viewers about a key part of the island's maritime past. Meanwhile, the site is a flurry of...
The Nantucket House - 11
Season 18 - Episode 11
The show begins with a visit to the Wharf Rat Club, a collection of old-timers who gather to chat each morning in a former quahog-sorting sh...
The Nantucket House - 12
Season 18 - Episode 12
Dr. Tim Lepore, the island's leading specialist in tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease and babeosis, tells us more about their prevalence ...
The Nantucket House - 13
Season 18 - Episode 13
Realtor Hammie Heard shows us around the Dreamland Theatre, a downtown Nantucket landmark. First a Quaker meeting house, then a straw hat fa...
The Nantucket House - 14
Season 18 - Episode 14
After a ride out to the beach reservation known as Coatue with with Nantucket Conservation Foundation director Jim Lentowski to see both the...
The Nantucket House - 15
Season 18 - Episode 15
We visit the Nantucket Marine Lab and its director, Rob Garrison, to see efforts of augment the islande's scallop population. At the house, ...
The Nantucket House - 16
Season 18 - Episode 16
Our master carpenter boards the fishing boat of Capt. Tom Mleczko in search of the mighty striped bass and hooks one on his first cast. Fres...
The Nantucket House - 17
Season 18 - Episode 17
After a visit to the Milestone Cranberry Bog in time for the October harvest, viewers meet up with Bruce Killen who discusses the punch list...
The Nantucket House - 18
Season 18 - Episode 18
The crew starts off the last Nantucket show up to their chest in water, harvesting the succulent bay scallop. At the house, the final rush i...
The Tucson House - 1
Season 18 - Episode 19
This Old House hits Tucson, Arizona, for an eight-part winter project: the renovation and and expansion of Jim and Colleen Meigs' 1930 Puebl...
The Tucson House - 2
Season 18 - Episode 20
The show opens at Casa Cordova, one of the last remaining pieces of early Tucson. Built in 1848 within the original presido (""walled fort""...
The Tucson House - 3
Season 18 - Episode 21
The show opens with a hike in the natural splendor of Sabino Canyon, in the northern foothills of Tucson. At the house, a crew prepares and ...
The Tucson House - 4
Season 18 - Episode 22
An early moring breakfast at a tradtional Mexican restaurant prepares the crew for a job site abuzz with traditional handwork and products, ...
The Tucson House - 5
Season 18 - Episode 23
The show opens with a visit to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, where the natural-looking environments are the result of painstaking human ...
The Tucson House - 6
Season 18 - Episode 24
Before heading to the job site, we pay a visit to the Air Force's AMARC, a vast collection of mothballed aircraft preserved in the Tucson de...
The Tucson House - 7
Season 18 - Episode 25
After a trip downtown to Tucson's Hotel Congress, built in 1919 and the site of John Dillinger's hideout back in 1934, we return to the Meig...
The Tucson House - 8
Season 18 - Episode 26
As the Tucson project enters its final days, our host takes viewers to Biosphere 2 in nearby Oracle. Site of two experiments in self-sustain...