Season 18
(1996)
Overview
The Nantucket House; The Tuscon House
Cast
as Self - Plumbing and Heating Expert
as Self - Master Carpenter
as Self - General Contractor
as Host
as Self - Landscape Contractor
Episodes
The Nantucket House - 1 0.0
September 28, 1996
This Old House sets out for Nantucket the classic way, aboard a Streamship Authority vessel. On island, they tour one o…
The Nantucket House - 2 0.0
October 5, 1996
The crew starts the work day surf casting with local expert David Goodman (and full-time tile contractor) - and even ca…
The Nantucket House - 3 0.0
October 12, 1996
The show starts with a visit to Nantucket's Unitarian Universalist church, a beautiful showcase of restrained New Engla…
The Nantucket House - 4 0.0
October 19, 1996
Our master carpenter goes lobstering with contractor/lobsterman Pierre Garneau, who has a family license to put out 10 …
The Nantucket House - 5 0.0
October 26, 1996
The show starts with a visit to Sankaty Head Light, a Coast Guard property of the exposed Eastern edge of the island. B…
The Nantucket House - 6 0.0
November 2, 1996
The show opens with a little clamming, looking for quahogs at a secret location. At the site, we meet designer Jock Gif…
The Nantucket House - 7 0.0
November 9, 1996
The show begins at Nantucket's Old North Wharf, much of which dates from the early 18th century and site of several sma…
The Nantucket House - 8 0.0
November 16, 1996
The show opens at Nantucket's Whaling Museum with curator Mike Jehle. At the site, we see the first of two wells being …
The Nantucket House - 9 0.0
November 23, 1996
Before heading over to the job site, we visit the 1827 African Meeting House, a former school, church, and meeting hous…
The Nantucket House - 10 0.0
November 30, 1996
A visit to Nantucket's Life-Saving Museum teaches viewers about a key part of the island's maritime past. Meanwhile, th…
The Nantucket House - 11 0.0
December 7, 1996
The show begins with a visit to the Wharf Rat Club, a collection of old-timers who gather to chat each morning in a for…
The Nantucket House - 12 0.0
December 14, 1996
Dr. Tim Lepore, the island's leading specialist in tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease and babeosis, tells us more ab…
The Nantucket House - 13 0.0
December 21, 1996
Realtor Hammie Heard shows us around the Dreamland Theatre, a downtown Nantucket landmark. First a Quaker meeting house…
The Nantucket House - 14 0.0
December 28, 1996
After a ride out to the beach reservation known as Coatue with with Nantucket Conservation Foundation director Jim Lent…
The Nantucket House - 15 0.0
January 4, 1997
We visit the Nantucket Marine Lab and its director, Rob Garrison, to see efforts of augment the islande's scallop popul…
The Nantucket House - 16 0.0
January 11, 1997
Our master carpenter boards the fishing boat of Capt. Tom Mleczko in search of the mighty striped bass and hooks one on…
The Nantucket House - 17 0.0
January 18, 1997
After a visit to the Milestone Cranberry Bog in time for the October harvest, viewers meet up with Bruce Killen who dis…
The Nantucket House - 18 0.0
January 25, 1997
The crew starts off the last Nantucket show up to their chest in water, harvesting the succulent bay scallop. At the ho…
The Tucson House - 1 0.0
February 1, 1997
This Old House hits Tucson, Arizona, for an eight-part winter project: the renovation and and expansion of Jim and Coll…
The Tucson House - 2 0.0
February 8, 1997
The show opens at Casa Cordova, one of the last remaining pieces of early Tucson. Built in 1848 within the original pre…
The Tucson House - 3 0.0
February 15, 1997
The show opens with a hike in the natural splendor of Sabino Canyon, in the northern foothills of Tucson. At the house,…
The Tucson House - 4 0.0
February 22, 1997
An early moring breakfast at a tradtional Mexican restaurant prepares the crew for a job site abuzz with traditional ha…
The Tucson House - 5 0.0
March 1, 1997
The show opens with a visit to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, where the natural-looking environments are the result …
The Tucson House - 6 0.0
March 8, 1997
Before heading to the job site, we pay a visit to the Air Force's AMARC, a vast collection of mothballed aircraft prese…
The Tucson House - 7 0.0
March 15, 1997
After a trip downtown to Tucson's Hotel Congress, built in 1919 and the site of John Dillinger's hideout back in 1934, …
The Tucson House - 8 0.0
March 22, 1997
As the Tucson project enters its final days, our host takes viewers to Biosphere 2 in nearby Oracle. Site of two experi…