The Victory Garden: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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 April 16, 1975. 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.

Series details

• Title: The Victory Garden
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 1975-04-16
• Final broadcast date listed: 2009-10-31
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: PBS
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 65142
• TVDB ID: 260772

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1975-04-16; final listed air date 1975-04-16.
• Season 2007: premiered 2007-08-31; final listed air date 2007-10-26.
• Season 2008: premiered 2008-09-06; final listed air date 2008-10-11.
• Season 2009: premiered 2009-10-03; final listed air date 2009-10-31.

Source and licence

Adapted from The Victory Garden on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.