Series Description:

The Deadliest Catch TV show was a 60 minute reality series on the Discovery Channel about the dangers that the Captains and crews aboard fishing boats face while crab fishing in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska. The dangers that these brave men face include freezing temperatures, waves so large that they totally engulf the ships, ice jams that can hold a ship prisoner and serious accidents that can leave a crew member critically injured and days from a hospital!

Deadliest Catch Cast:

Deadliest Catch Theme Song Lyrics:

Title: "Wanted Dead or Alive"

By: "Bon Jovi"

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted ... dead or alive

Deadliest Catch Trivia:

Deadliest Catch is produced by "Original Productions". That company also produces many other reality series including "Ice Road Truckers", "America's Toughest Jobs" and "Monster Garage".

The crabbing vessels on Deadliest Catch are based in Unalaska, Alaska's Dutch Harbor located in the Aleutian Islands.

The Captains fish for King Crab on the first half of each season's episodes and then move on to Opilio crab (commonly called snow crab) fishing for the remainder of each season's episodes. The crews only get a few months to rest up between fishing the two as King Crab fishing takes place in October and Opilio Crab in January.

While the Cornelia Marie, the Wizard, the Northwestern, and the Time Bandit are the four vessels highlighted on the show, another vessel or two often appear in each season. These appearances often result due to a serious injury or even a death on another ship.

The U.S. Coast Guard station based in Kodiak, Alaska occasionally sends a rescue crew when a vessel sinks or a crew member needs medical attention. The Deadliest Catch crew has a full time camera crew assigned to the Coast Guard so they don't miss any of the action when such an emergency takes place.

The men who work on crabbing vessels are a hardy lot and, as one might expect, their language often becomes profane. Unlike most reality series that "bleep" out the vulgarities, the Deadliest Catch uses more inventive methods such as an eruption of static from the radio or a blast from the ship's horn to keep the censors happy.

Many TV shows use one narrator for English speaking audiences and others to accomodate foreign language broadcasts but Deadliest Catch takes this one step further than most. Mike Rowe narrates the series for viewers in North America and Bill Petrie narrates the show for European fans who appreciate his more familiar British accent and his use of British Idioms and expressions.

The amazing shots caught by the cameramen are no accident! Two cameramen are stationed on each vessel, one on the bridge and one on deck. Four addition cameras are mounted around each ship for a view of virtually all of the action on board. Other cameras are often used on crab pots, chase vessels, mounted underwater on the vessels, in helicopters and even in a mini submarine vessel!

Deadliest Catch is the only episodic documentary/reality series filmed nearly exclusively at sea!

Episodes List With Original Air Dates

The First Season

1. Greenhorns (4/12/2005)
2. Long Sleepless Nights (4/19/2005)
3. Lady Luck (4/26/2005)
4. Beat the Clock (5/3/2005)
5. Dead of Winter (5/10/2005)
6. Man Overboard (5/17/2005)
7. High Hopes (5/24/2005)
8. Good Fishing (5/31/2005)
9. The Clock is Ticking (6/7/2005)
10. The Final Run (6/14/2005)

The Second Season

11. Best of Season 1 (Special) (3/26/2006)
12. Heading Out to Sea (3/28/2006)
13. Batten Down the Hatches (4/4/2006)
14. On the Crab (4/11/2006)
15. The Finish Line (4/18/2006)
16. Friends and Rivals (4/25/2006)
17. A New Hunt Begins (5/2/2006)
18. Smoke on the Water (5/9/2006)
19. Man vs. Ice (5/16/2006)
20. On the Edge (5/23/2006)
21. Pribilof Stare (5/30/2006)
22. Race Against the Ice (6/6/2006)
23. Cashing In (6/13/2006)

The Third Season

24. The Best of Season 2 (Special) (3/27/2007)
25. A Tragic Beginning (4/3/2007)
26. The Unforgiving Sea (4/10/2007)
27. Pain and Paybacks (4/17/2007)
28. Cheating Death (4/24/2007)
29. Bering Sea Salvation (5/1/2007)
30. The Last Lap (5/8/2007)
31. New Beginnings (5/15/2007)
32. Caught in the Storm (5/22/2007)
33. Crossing the Line (5/29/2007)
34. Trials of the Greenhorns (6/5/2007)
35. Ice and Open Water (6/12/2007)
36. A Frozen Finish (6/19/2007)
37. Behind The Scenes (Special) (6/23/2007)

The Fourth Season

37. Best of Season 3 - Part 1 (Special) (4/8/2008)
38. Best of Season 3 - Part 2 (Special) (4/8/2008)
39. Get 'Em Back Safe! (4/15/2008)
40. Striking Out (4/15/2008)
41. A Numbers Game (4/22/2008)
42. Unsafe and Unsound (4/29/2008)
43. No Mercy (5/6/2008)
44. Racing the Clock (5/13/2008)
45. Seeking the Catch (5/20/2008)
46. No Season for Old Men (5/27/2008)
47. Storm Season (6/3/2008)
48. Blow Up (6/10/2008)
49. Big Weather, Big Trouble (6/17/2008)
50. Mortal Men (6/24/2008)
51. Fresh Blood (7/1/2008)
52. Changing Tides (7/8/2008)
53. Catch as Catch Can (7/15/2008)
54. The Final Hour (7/22/2008)
55. Behind the Scenes (Special) (7/22/2008)

The Fifth Season

56. Best of Season 4 (120 Minutes)(Special) (4/7/2009)
57. Everything on the Line (4/14/2009)
58. Red Skies in the Morning (4/21/2009)
59. Stay Focused or Die (4/28/2009)
60. Put up or Shut up (5/5/2009)
61. Long Haul, Short Fuses (5/12/2009)
62. Deadline (5/19/2009)
63. Down to the Wire (5/26/2009)
64. Payback Time (6/2/2009)
65. No Second Chances (6/9/2009)
66. Sea of Misery (6/16/2009)
67. Lockout (6/23/2009)
68. A Slap in the Face or Kick in the Butt (6/30/2009)
69. Ends of the Earth (7/7/2009)
70. Bitter Tears (7/14/2009)
71. Roughest and Toughest Moments (Special) (7/19/2009)
72. Day of Reckoning (7/21/2009)
73. Behind the Scenes: Season 5 (Special) (7/26/2009)
74. Shipwrecked (7/28/2009)

The Sixth Season

75. Best of Season 5 - King Crab (Special) (4/4/2010)
76. Best of Season 5 - Opilio Crab (Special) (4/11/2010)
77. Slow Burn (4/13/2010)
78. Breaking 'Em In (4/20/2010)
79. Sea Tested (4/27/2010)
80. Bering Sea Swim Club (5/4/2010)
81. Arctic Quest (5/11/2010)
82. False Pass (5/18/2010)
83. When Hell Freezes Over (5/25/2010)
84. We're Not In Kansas Anymore (6/1/2010)
85. Glory Days (6/8/2010)
86. The Darkened Seas (6/15/2010)
87. Blown Off Course (6/22/2010)
88. Empty Throne (6/29/2010)
89. Cain and Abel (7/6/2010)
90. Redemption Day (7/13/2010)
91. Valhalla (7/20/2010)
92. Capt. Phil Harris Remembered (7/20/2010)
93. Behind the Scenes: Season 6 (Special) (7/25/2010)
94. Endless (7/27/2010)

The Seventh Season

95. Best of Season 6 (Special) (4/5/2011)
96. New Blood (4/12/2011)
97. Proving Grounds (4/19/2011)
98. Old Age and Treachery (4/26/2011)
99. Breaking Point (5/3/2011)
100. A Wing and a Prayer (5/10/2011)
101. Exit Wounds (5/17/2011)
102. Thick as Thieves (5/24/2011)
103. Graduation Day (5/31/2011)
104. Sea Change (6/7/2011)
105. 100th Episode - Greenhorns (Special) (6/7/2011)
106. Frontier Medicine (6/14/2011)
107. Birds, Bones and Blood (6/21/2011)
108. It's Not All Mai Tais and Yahtzee (6/28/2011)
109. Pirate School (7/5/2011)
110. The Island (7/12/2011)
111. I Smell a Nightmare (7/19/2011)
112. Mohawks and Madness, Goodness and Gladness (7/26/2011)
113. Behind the Scenes: Season 7 (Special) (7/26/2011)

The Eighth Season

114. Best of Season 7 (Special) (4/3/2012)
115. The Gamble (4/10/2012)
116. Inside the Catch: Deckhands (Special) (4/10/2012)
117. Turf War (4/17/2012)
118. Inside the Catch: Best Brawls (Special) (4/17/2012)
119. Weak Links (4/24/2012)
120. Inside the Catch: Near Death (Special) (4/24/2012)
121. The Hook (5/1/2012)
122. Alien Abduction (5/8/2012)
123. Vital Signs (5/15/2012)
124. I Don't Wanna Die (5/22/2012)
125. Deadliest Catch Social Reload: Vital Signs/I Don't Wanna Die (120 Minutes) (Special) (5/25/2012)
126. The Aftermath (120 Minutes) (5/29/2012)
127. Nowhere to Go But Down (6/5/2012)
128. Rise and Fall (6/12/2012)
129. No Exit (6/19/2012)
130. Behind the Scenes (Special) (6/22/2012)
131. Collision Course (6/26/2012)
132. Landlocked (7/3/2012)
133. Fearless Leaders (7/10/2012)
134. Release the Beast (7/17/2012)
135. The Bitter, Bloody End (120 Minutes) (7/24/2012)
136. Deadliest Catch Revelations (90 Minutes)(Special) (7/31/2012)

The Ninth Season

137. The Beginning (4/9/2013)
138. An Epic Season (Special) (120 Minutes) (4/9/2013)
139. The Bait - Opening Day: King Crab (Special) (4/16/2013)
140. Mutiny on the Bering Sea (4/16/2013)
141. The Bait - Opening Day: King Crab (Special) (4/16/2013)
142. Legend of the Time Bandit (Special) (4/16/2013)
143. Dagger in the Back (4/23/2013)
144. On Deck - Episode 1 (Special) (4/23/2013)
145. Blood in the Morning (4/30/2013)
146. On Deck - Dagger in the Back (Special) (4/30/2013)
147. The Crooke & The Tangler (5/7/2013)
148. On Deck (Special) (5/7/2013)