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The Victory Garden (TV program)

American public television program

Summary

American public television program

Field	Value
native_name
genre	Gardening
creator	Russell Morash
based_on
starring	James Underwood Crockett (1975-1979)
Bob Thomson (1979-1991)
Roger Swain (1991-2002)
Michael Weishan (2002-2007)
Jamie Durie (2007-2010)
voices
theme_music_composer	Bill Spence
Bell & Shapiro
open_theme	"Gaspe Reel" (The Hammered Dulcimer)
"The Victory Garden Theme"
end_theme	"The Victory Garden Theme"
composer	Bell & Shapiro
country	United States
language	English
num_seasons	36
num_episodes
news_editor
editor
runtime	30 minutes
company	WGBH-TV
network	PBS
released
first_aired
last_aired
related

Bob Thomson (1979-1991) Roger Swain (1991-2002) Michael Weishan (2002-2007) Jamie Durie (2007-2010) Bell & Shapiro "The Victory Garden Theme"

The Victory Garden is an American public television program about gardening and other outdoor activities, which was produced by station WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, and distributed by PBS. It was the oldest gardening program produced for television in the United States, premiering on April 16, 1975.

History

The show was originally called Crockett's Victory Garden for its first host, James Underwood Crockett. On each episode, Crockett demonstrates and cares for a vegetable, fruit, and flower garden, shows you how to build a cold frame, and why salt marsh hay was useful as a mulch. At the end of each episode, Crockett was in the greenhouse, as he answered viewer questions about gardening, which were sent in by viewers. Following Crockett's death at the age of 63, Bob Thomson hosted the program from 1979 to 1991 and the show was renamed The Victory Garden. With Thomson at the helm, The Victory Garden began to broaden its scope. In addition to the regular gardening demonstrations, the show began to make room for more guests and travel features. Marian Morash, wife of series producer Russell Morash, appeared on the air to do her recipes on the program from 1979 to 2001.

Roger Swain hosted the program from 1991 to 2002, Michael Weishan hosted the program from 2002 to 2007. Jamie Durie hosted the program from 2007 to 2010. In 2013, the show was relaunched in partnership with Edible Communities, and it became The Victory Garden's EdibleFeast. It was produced for two seasons.

Major publications

Crockett, James Underwood. (1977). Crockett's Victory Garden. New York: Little, Brown. .
Crockett, James Underwood. (1978). Crockett's Indoor Garden. New York: Little, Brown. .
Crockett, James Underwood. (1981). Crockett's Flower Garden. New York: Little, Brown. .
Morash, Marian. (1982). The Victory Garden Cookbook. New York: Knopf. .
Wirth, Thomas. (1984). The Victory Garden Landscape Guide. New York: Little, Brown. .
Thomson, Bob. (1987). The New Victory Garden. New York: Little, Brown. .
Wilson, Jim. (1990). Masters of the Victory Garden. New York: Little, Brown. .
Weishan, Michael and Laurie Donnelly. (2006). The Victory Garden Companion. New York: William Morrow. .

References

(December 2016). "LGTV~1989~The Victory Garden~01x12~Container Box Contestants 1 and 2".
(9 October 2003). "Robert Thomson, 74 Longtime host of 'The Victory Garden' on TV". Boston Globe.

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