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Moonshiners
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Episode 142 min2012-04-18
Cannonball Run
Winter means the ‘shine has gone cold and the stills aren’t in operation. But, that doesn’t mean Tim and Tickle stop doing their thing. Curious to see what they are up to? Then this is your lucky day because Moonshiners returns on Wednesday, April 18th with Moonshiners: Cannonball Run. Tim and Tickle are back and this time it’s not about making ‘shine but about making the rounds. On the go and not taking it slow Moonshiners: Cannonball Run welcomes the boys back in a big way.
Episode 242 min2013-02-06
Secret Summit, Part 1
At a secluded location, the moonshiners meet with executive producer Matthew Ostrom to talk about their encounters with law enforcement, the reasons why they let cameras film them, how they make dynamite, and time-tested proofing methods.
Episode 342 min2013-02-13
Secret Summit, Part 2
As executive producer Matthew Ostrom continues to interview the guys, they discuss the code of illicit alcohol manufacturers, what it is like to lead a double life, fanatical fans, and the dangers of running a still site.
Episode 442 min2013-02-14
Tickle's Guide To Love
No episode overview available.
Episode 542 min2013-10-29
The Road to the Shine: Outlaw Cuts
The off season from moonshining provides the moonshiners some relief from the long hours of work and constant fear of getting caught. The moonshiners set aside their craft and carry on the other parts of their lives.
Episode 642 min2013-11-05
Kick-Off Summit (Season 3)
The moonshiners gather in a secluded cabin to kick off the new season. The episode features new-season highlights and clues to what lies ahead. Josh and Bill go on an adventure to Kentucky, and fans get answers to their questions.
Episode 742 min2013-11-26
Secret Summit: The State Of Shine
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Episode 842 min2013-12-10
A Moonshiners Christmas
Visit Tickle at his cabin while he sips on candycane 'shine and trims his Christmas tree in this special episode loaded with Christmas Tickle's Takes and high action, as still site intruders, toxic mold, and mountainside chases plague our shiners.
Episode 942 min2014-01-07
The Ballad Of Jim Tom
Jim Tom tells his story in song as he begins attempting to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a country music star.
Episode 1042 min2014-01-14
Secret Summit: The Struggles
Josh and Bill suffer the consequences of bootlegging. Darlene goes against her best instinct and lights up her still indoors. Jeff, Mark, and Lance find their competition is still out there. Tim takes final measures to protect his legal moonshine business.
Episode 1142 min2014-02-04
Secret Summit: Secrets Of The Shine
Jeff and Mark reach the ultimate roadblock. Deputy Chuck is hot on a trail. Josh and Bill might finally be back in the game. Mike takes a trip to finish off his biggest sale of the season. Tickle and crew attract unwanted attention.
Episode 1242 min2014-10-28
The Off Season
No episode overview available.
Episode 1342 min2014-11-04
Secret Summit Kickoff (Season 4)
Tim, Tickle, Josh, Bill, Jeff and Mark gather at a secret location to count down the minutes to the new season premiere. Jim Tom surprises producers by making his debut at the roundtable. Then the guys let Tim be the judge of a moonshine taste test.
Episode 1442 min2014-11-25
Thanksgiving Summit
The moonshiners gather at a secret location to discuss the season, Thanksgiving table etiquette, and how to bag a turkey Moonshiners-style, and share their favorite family recipes. Shiner Josh and sidekick Cutie Pie visit a legendary moonshiner.
Episode 1542 min2014-12-09
Christmas Shine
The Shiners share they Christmas recipes.
Episode 1642 min2014-12-30
Jim Tom's Road To Nashville Volume 1
Jim Tom embarks on an adventure, ending up in Music City, U.S.A.
Episode 1742 min2015-01-06
Jim Toms Road To Nashville Volume 2
No episode overview available.
Episode 1842 min2015-01-13
Secret Summit: Outlaw Confessions
No episode overview available.
Episode 1942 min2015-01-27
One Shot
Tim and Tickle sit back and comment while the first episode of Moonshiners is rerun.
Episode 2042 min2015-02-03
Two Shots
Tim and Tickle sit back and comment while the first episode of Moonshiners is rerun.
Episode 2142 min2015-02-03
Secret Summit: Final Countdown
The moonshiners gather to discuss their most dangerous season yet. Chico and Tyler talk about their split with Tickle.
Episode 2242 min2016-03-15
The Need For Speed
Josh aims to take his dirt track skills to the next level with the help of a speedway pro. Tyler searches for the perfect bootlegging car. Mark & Huck take their haul off-road to deliver across state lines. Mark & Digger aim to revive a heritage car.
Episode 2342 min2016-11-15
Moonshiners On Moonshiners
Before season six of Moonshiners begins, the cast is reminiscing about classic moments of seasons past. The shiners are taking a look back at some of the most memorable moments in moonshiner's history.
Episode 2442 min2017-03-14
The Legend Of Tim Smith
Tim Smith, who delivered his father's illegal shine recipe from the backwoods of Virginia to America's store shelves, takes us back in time to his humble beginnings. Accompanying him to locations of his memories, we glance into his life as a moonshiner.
Episode 2542 min2017-03-21
Mark Rogers Last Of The Mountain Men
Mark Rogers has lived off the land, surviving in today's world by hunting, fishing and making liquor. Mark heads into the mountains of Appalachia to track a black bear and also to dig ginseng, a rare medicinal root that he wants to infuse with moonshine.
Episode 2642 min2017-03-28
The Tale Of Tickle
Pittsylvania County's most wanted, Steven Ray Tickle, takes a trip down memory lane remembering the people and events that shaped his life and led him to become the model backwoods shiner and outlaw he is today.
Episode 2742 min2017-03-28
The Fast And The Fearless
While tinkering on a 1950 Packard, Mark and Digger reminisce about the automobile's effect on the moonshining business. Their conversation is a walk down Moonshiners memory lane as we revisit some of the series' greatest hits related to the automobile.
Episode 2842 min2017-11-07
Codes of the Craft
Moonshining is a dog eat dog business, where the players play for keeps and the weak are quickly culled from the herd. These are the six guiding principles of the trade that no moonshiner can live without at least not for very long.
Episode 2942 min2017-12-05
Moonshiners xXxmas
Oh by gosh by golly it's time mistletoe and holly... and America's original liquor. Tim and JT team up with Tickle's mother and daughter to create a Christmas surprise, while Chico and Sondra head out to shoot the Christmas turkey.
Episode 3042 min2017-12-19
Shiners on Shine: Bootlegging
Master shiners Tim, Tickle & Mark & Digger sit down to discuss bootlegging; a tradition as old as the moonshining craft itself. They're reminiscing about their biggest hauls, closest brushes with the law & revealing their favorite tactics of evasion
Episode 3142 min2018-01-02
Shiners on Shine: Close Calls
No strangers to risking their lives and freedom for one of the country's most dangerous traditions, Tim, Tickle, Mark and Digger look back on their closest calls while braving the harsh wilds and the law to keep the shine flowing.
Episode 3242 min2018-01-09
Shiners On Shine: Fails
Tim, Tickle, Mark and Digger relive their greatest muck ups from rookie mistakes to season sinking disasters--every shiner has a memorable moment they just want to forget.
Episode 3342 min2018-01-16
Shiners On Shine: Innovate or Die
Master moonshiners, Tim, Tickle, Mark and Digger are taking a look back at their greatest feats of backwoods engineering and the innovations that have furthered the craft while keeping their operations clandestine and productive.
Episode 3442 min2018-01-23
Shiners on Shine: It Ain't Easy to Shine
There's no rest for the weary when it comes to making moonshine. Tim, Tickle, Mark and Digger reveal the challenges every shiner must face to keep the heritage spirit flowing.
Episode 3542 min2018-01-30
Shiners on Shine: Friends and Foes
Master moonshiners Tim, Tickle, Mark and Digger take a look at the friendships, families and rivalries that have defined the craft of moonshining through the years.
Episode 3642 min2018-02-06
Shiners On Shine: Moonshiner Heritage
In the hills of Appalachia, making moonshine is more than just a way of making a living...it's a tradition. Masters Tim, Tickle, Mark and Digger take a look at the moonshine traditions that have stood the test of time and pay homage to legends.
Episode 3742 min2018-03-06
Mark and Digger: Legends and Legacy
Mark and Digger give exclusive insight on the early days of their partnership, lessons from legendary old-timer Popcorn Sutton, and how they continue to honor their heritage with innovative still designs and recipes.
Episode 3842 min2018-03-13
Whiskey Business
Each year, dozens of U.S. craft distilleries fail and Tim Smith thinks he knows why. In this episode, Tim and his team of experts help struggling owners of Missouri Ridge Distillery to "put the woods back in the whiskey", in hopes of helping the producer turn a profit
Episode 3942 min2018-03-20
Mark Rogers: The Will to Survive
Mark Rogers, the last American mountain man and Appalachian moonshiner is heading back out into the wilderness with only with the clothes on his back, a very sharp knife, and his cousin Chuck who wants a crash course in how to make moonshine.
Episode 4042 min2019-01-02
Secret Summit Season Kickoff
America's top 'shiners gather at an undisclosed location to discuss unsettled business for Moonshiners' new season. They reveal backwoods secrets that keep them ahead of the law, and put their skills to the test in a first-ever moonshiner showdown.
Episode 4142 min2019-01-16
Shiners on Shine: Secrets of Backwoods Engineering
From devising elaborate stills to make high proof liquor, to constructing insane bootleg contraptions to sell it, backwoods ingenuity drives moonshiners to invent new solutions to the centuries old problem of avoiding the long arm of the law.
Episode 4242 min2019-01-23
The Legend of Jim Tom
Across Appalachia, the name Jim Tom has meant moonshine. Between run-ins with the law and time serving hard labor, he spent 60 years making illegal shine. A mentor to Josh, Mark and Digger, his secrets define the next generation of outlaw shiners.
Episode 4342 min2019-02-20
Secret Backwoods Recipes
Across centuries of tradition, only a handful of moonshine recipes are considered among the best. In the right hands, local ingredients and backwoods ingenuity create magic in a mason jar. But the path to perfection is always paved with spills.
Episode 4442 min2019-11-19
Tickle Runs For His Life
Moonshine's prodigal son, Tickle, returns from jail to the Appalachian backwoods. With longtime partner, Tim, determined to stay legal, Tickle recruits an old friend to make an inaugural run of shine and re-stake his claim as an outlaw shiner.
Episode 4542 min2019-11-26
Outracing The Law
With a secret family recipe and a rich legacy in Carolina moonshine, Josh Owens races headlong into a new season. What's a few broken bones when you're building underground stills and selling shine at $200 a gallon, just one step ahead of the law?
Episode 6742 min2022-02-16
Born to Shine
Moonshiners is back and the backwoods is booming. For Appalachia's liquor makers, it's like the Roaring Twenties again. But a boom time for moonshine also comes with a lot more risk. America's favorite outlaws reveal secrets from the booming new season.
Episode 702022-11-02
Season 12 Kickoff Summit
Facing high prices, moonshiners kickoff a new season of innovation. Mark and Digger discover a police captain determined to catch them in the act. Josh goes on Iam when a fire marshal investigates his charred rental house. Richard invades Mike’s turf.
Episode 7542 min2022-12-21
Overhaul in Overalls
With tons of shine to sell, Josh and Tickle attempt to buy a car from an off-duty cop and turn it into a bootlegging vehicle. As sparks fly, Tickle's challenge turns to keeping Josh from setting it on fire. Mark Ramsey hits the gas in his own shiner car.
Episode 7642 min2023-01-18
Tickle-Down Economics
America's favorite outlaws reveal secrets to making profitable liquor amid skyrocketing prices. A police captain deploys new tactics against Mark and Digger, a feud erupts between shiners in NC and Tickle reveals his tool of choice for cutting prices.
Episode 7742 min2023-03-29
Ultimate Summit Showdown
America's favorite outlaws join forces to reveal secrets of the season; Mark Ramsey emerges from the shadows, and shiners deliver a verdict on Mike and Richard's top jars of the season.
Episode 782023-05-10
True Crime & Shine
Mark, Digger and Tim explore the 1970s-era Tennessee-Mississippi border where famed lawman Buford Pusser battled a crime mob fueled by illegal liquor money and ignited a lasting mystery about the disappearance of his would-be assassins.
Episode 7941 min2023-12-26
Ozark Outlaws To The Rescue
Arkansas moonshiners Big Chuk and his double cousin Joe Boy enlist Josh Owens' help with their outlaw operation -- but when Josh gets injured in a racing accident, they team up with legendary shiners Henry and Kenny Law in a daring bootleg to help Josh.
Episode 8045 min2024-01-09
Moonshiners And True Crime: Pappygate Conspiracy
Moonshiners Mark, Digger, Tim, and Tickle delve deep into bourbon country’s darkest secret. When 200 bottles of the coveted Pappy Van Winkle vanish, the theft of the world’s most expensive bourbon is just the tip of a staggering criminal conspiracy.
Episode 11842 min2018-03-20
Foraging for a Long Winter Ahead
In Tennessee, Mike sets himself up for a career high with a run of specialty liquor but faces a devastating setback. In the last run of the season, Sondra takes the reigns and Rodgers tampers with his final run in an attempt to cash out.
Episode 14042 min2018-12-11
High Proof Holidays
It's Christmas in Appalachia and Tim Smith is 4000 miles away in Alaska making a special delivery to his northernmost customer. In Tennessee, Mark and Digger cook up a plan to make a holiday run of liquor for two legendary shiners from a bygone era.
Episode 14442 min2019-02-13
Midseason Secret Summit
The shiners gather to deal with unfinished business. Mike tells his side of the Mark and Digger feud. Josh reveals scars from his checkered past, and the shiners put their skills to the test in a whiskey showdown.
Episode 14642 min2019-03-06
The Legend Of Popcorn Sutton
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Episode 14742 min2019-03-13
Secret Summit: Unfinished Business
Moonshiners share their tricks for running shine and how they avoid the long arm of the law. Tim reveals a visit with Tickle behind bars, and Mark & Digger reveal an unexpected twist in their search for Popcorn Sutton's shine, stashed a decade ago.
Episode 14842 min2019-04-03
Secret Summit: Tickle Unshackled
Tickle's back and funnier than ever after a year in jail. Josh, in stitches, reveals an unexpected twist to his season. Mark and Digger uncover how Popcorn's shine-hoarding ways will pay off for Pam, and Tim gets a rematch on a proofing challenge.
Episode 14942 min2019-07-09
Master Distiller
A subculture of distillers across America carries on the backwoods tradition of moonshining. Now, judged by legends Mark, Digger and Tim, America's top legal and outlaw shiners go head to head to see who has what it takes to be called Master Distiller.
Episode 15042 min2021-04-13
Code and Conflict
With no recourse to official law enforcement, outlaw shiners must resolve conflicts through a centuries-old code; Tim, Digger, Mike and Josh reveal secrets of how the unwritten rules of the backwoods play out in real life.
Episode 15142 min2021-10-21
New Season Kickoff Summit
Moonshiners is back and the backwoods is booming. For Appalachia’s liquor makers, it’s like the Roaring Twenties again. But a boom time for moonshine also comes with a lot more risk.
Episode 15242 min2021-12-28
Rebel Rye
Tim and Howard go to Pennsylvania in search of the spirit that sparked the Whiskey Rebellion; as they track down pre-prohibition rye and a Colonial-era grist mill, Tickle builds a one-of-a-kind still to help re-create America’s lost rye whiskey.
Episode 15345 min2021-02-13
The Real McCoy
Moonshiners Mark, Digger, and Tim delve deep into the case of the most prolific and elusive bootlegger of the Prohibition era. Declared Public Enemy Number One by the government, Bill McCoy's outlaw mission was about a lot more than just fame and fortune.
Episode 15445 min2024-11-05
Murder On Thunder Road
Moonshiners Mark, Tim, and Josh drive the notorious Thunder Road in Dawson County, Georgia, to investigate the murder of Lightning Lloyd Seay, a notorious bootlegger turned pioneering stock car racer who was killed over a few bags of sugar.
Episode 15542 min2025-01-07
A Raid That Changed Moonshine
Moonshiners Henry Law, Tickle, and Tim revisit Operation Lightning Strike -- a massive federal anti-moonshine action. Targeting Franklin County, Virginia, the so-called "Moonshine Capital of the World," its aftermath left deep scars in the community.
Episode 15644 min2025-03-18
Crime and Shine: Crimes Against Popcorn Sutton
For legendary outlaw Popcorn Sutton, freedom means answering to a higher law, making tax-free liquor as his forefathers did. But now that Popcorn's in the government's crosshairs, no moonshiner in history has ever felt more persecuted by the law.
Episode 15744 min2025-03-25
Caught in the Act
Tim, Tickle, Mark and Digger deploy hard-won lessons from backwoods tradition to get away with making and bootlegging illegal moonshine. However, on the other side of the fence, law enforcement uses their own tactics and tech to catch them in the act.