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Moonshiners
Think the days of bootleggers, backwoods stills and "white lightning" are over? Not a chance! It's a multi-million dollar industry. But perhaps more importantly to the moonshiners, it's a tradition dating back hundreds of years, passed down to them from their forefathers. It's part of their history and culture. While this practice is surprisingly alive and well, it's not always legal. Moonshiners tells the story of those who brew their shine - often in the woods near their homes using camouflaged equipment - and the local authorities who try to keep them honest. Viewers will witness practices rarely, if ever, seen on television including the sacred rite of passage for a moonshiner - firing up the still for the first time. They will also meet legends, including notorious moonshiner Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton.
- Cast:
- Tim Smith, Jeremy Schwartz
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- Discovery
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Episode 1
Cannonball Run
2012-04-18 · 42mWinter 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.
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Secret Summit, Part 1
2013-02-06 · 42mAt 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.
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Secret Summit, Part 2
2013-02-13 · 42mAs 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.
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Tickle's Guide To Love
2013-02-14 · 42mEpisode overview is not available yet.
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The Road to the Shine: Outlaw Cuts
2013-10-29 · 42mThe 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.
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Kick-Off Summit (Season 3)
2013-11-05 · 42mThe 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.
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Secret Summit: The State Of Shine
2013-11-26 · 42mEpisode overview is not available yet.
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A Moonshiners Christmas
2013-12-10 · 42mVisit 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.
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The Ballad Of Jim Tom
2014-01-07 · 42mJim Tom tells his story in song as he begins attempting to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a country music star.
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Secret Summit: The Struggles
2014-01-14 · 42mJosh 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.
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Secret Summit: Secrets Of The Shine
2014-02-04 · 42mJeff 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.
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The Off Season
2014-10-28 · 42mEpisode overview is not available yet.
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Secret Summit Kickoff (Season 4)
2014-11-04 · 42mTim, 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.
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Thanksgiving Summit
2014-11-25 · 42mThe 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.
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Christmas Shine
2014-12-09 · 42mThe Shiners share they Christmas recipes.
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Jim Tom's Road To Nashville Volume 1
2014-12-30 · 42mJim Tom embarks on an adventure, ending up in Music City, U.S.A.
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Jim Toms Road To Nashville Volume 2
2015-01-06 · 42mEpisode overview is not available yet.
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Secret Summit: Outlaw Confessions
2015-01-13 · 42mEpisode overview is not available yet.
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One Shot
2015-01-27 · 42mTim and Tickle sit back and comment while the first episode of Moonshiners is rerun.
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Two Shots
2015-02-03 · 42mTim and Tickle sit back and comment while the first episode of Moonshiners is rerun.
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Secret Summit: Final Countdown
2015-02-03 · 42mThe moonshiners gather to discuss their most dangerous season yet. Chico and Tyler talk about their split with Tickle.
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The Need For Speed
2016-03-15 · 42mJosh 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.
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Moonshiners On Moonshiners
2016-11-15 · 42mBefore 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.
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The Legend Of Tim Smith
2017-03-14 · 42mTim 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.
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Mark Rogers Last Of The Mountain Men
2017-03-21 · 42mMark 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.
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The Tale Of Tickle
2017-03-28 · 42mPittsylvania 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.
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The Fast And The Fearless
2017-03-28 · 42mWhile 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.
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Codes of the Craft
2017-11-07 · 42mMoonshining 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.
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Moonshiners xXxmas
2017-12-05 · 42mOh 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.
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Shiners on Shine: Bootlegging
2017-12-19 · 42mMaster 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
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Shiners on Shine: Close Calls
2018-01-02 · 42mNo 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.
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Shiners On Shine: Fails
2018-01-09 · 42mTim, 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.
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Shiners On Shine: Innovate or Die
2018-01-16 · 42mMaster 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.
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Shiners on Shine: It Ain't Easy to Shine
2018-01-23 · 42mThere'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.
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Shiners on Shine: Friends and Foes
2018-01-30 · 42mMaster 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.
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Shiners On Shine: Moonshiner Heritage
2018-02-06 · 42mIn 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.
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Mark and Digger: Legends and Legacy
2018-03-06 · 42mMark 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.
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Whiskey Business
2018-03-13 · 42mEach 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
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Mark Rogers: The Will to Survive
2018-03-20 · 42mMark 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.
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Episode 40
Secret Summit Season Kickoff
2019-01-02 · 42mAmerica'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.
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Shiners on Shine: Secrets of Backwoods Engineering
2019-01-16 · 42mFrom 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.
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The Legend of Jim Tom
2019-01-23 · 42mAcross 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.
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Secret Backwoods Recipes
2019-02-20 · 42mAcross 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.
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Episode 44
Tickle Runs For His Life
2019-11-19 · 42mMoonshine'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.
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Episode 45
Outracing The Law
2019-11-26 · 42mWith 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?
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Born to Shine
2022-02-16 · 42mMoonshiners 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 70
Season 12 Kickoff Summit
2022-11-02Facing 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 75
Overhaul in Overalls
2022-12-21 · 42mWith 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 76
Tickle-Down Economics
2023-01-18 · 42mAmerica'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.
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Ultimate Summit Showdown
2023-03-29 · 42mAmerica'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.
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True Crime & Shine
2023-05-10Mark, 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.
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Ozark Outlaws To The Rescue
2023-12-26 · 41mArkansas 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.
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Moonshiners And True Crime: Pappygate Conspiracy
2024-01-09 · 45mMoonshiners 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.
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Moonshiners True Crime & Shine: The Real McCoy
2024-02-14 · 45mMoonshiners 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 82
Moonshiners True Crime & Shine: Murder on Thunder Road
2024-11-06 · 45mMoonshiners 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.
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Moonshiners True Crime & Shine: The Raid That Changed Moonshine
2025-01-08 · 45mMoonshiners 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.
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Moonshiners True Crime & Shine: Crimes Against Popcorn Sutton
2035-03-19 · 25mFor 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 85
Moonshiners True Crime & Shine: Caught in the Act
2025-03-26 · 45mTim, 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.
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Moonshiners True Crime & Shine: Rogue Sheriff
2025-03-26 · 45mMark, 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.
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Moonshiners True Crime & Shine: Sin City, Alabama
2026-01-07 · 45mMark, Digger and Tim uncover a moonshine-soaked conspiracy in Phenix City, Alabama, where corrupt power brokers prey on young soldiers. When one man dares to fight back, his back-alley murder sparks a reckoning that would finally break the mob's grip.
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Moonshiners True Crime & Shine: Brooklyn Whiskey Wars
2026-01-14 · 45mMark, Digger and Tim investigate the bloody battles of Civil War-era Brooklyn, when the government sent Marines to enforce liquor taxes and urban moonshiners fought back, setting the tone for centuries of conflict between the revenuers and distillers.
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Moonshiners True Crime & Shine: Seaside Speakeasy Conspiracy
2026-01-21 · 45mMark, Digger and Tim investigate a Prohibition-era speakeasy in Connecticut that served bootleg liquor to the hottest celebrities of the day. But when New York's mobsters came calling, glamour gave way to gunplay -- federal agents closed in for the kill.
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Moonshiners True Crime & Shine: Texas Bootleg Betrayal
2026-03-11 · 45mMark, Digger and Tim investigate a small TX town that became a moonshine capital during Prohibition. When the Texas Rangers flip a local bootlegger, his knowledge of the outlaw liquor trade leads to raids, arrests and the turncoat's own unsolved murder.
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Moonshiners True Crime & Shine: Moonshine, Marijuana and Murder
2026-03-18 · 45mMark, Digger and Tim uncover a backcountry murder mystery tied to Kentucky moonshiners who swapped cannabis for corn liquor. What had been, for decades, a cat-and-mouse game between bootleggers and revenuers erupts into a life-or-death fight for survival.
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Moonshiners True Crime & Shine: Bones in the Backwoods
2026-03-25 · 45mWhen a moonshine kingpin murdered a rogue bootlegger in 1948, fear kept witnesses silent. But when forensic evidence led the investigating sheriff across county lines, two tenant farmers and a local psychic helped bring justice to a rural town in Georgia.
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Foraging for a Long Winter Ahead
2018-03-20 · 42mIn 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.
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High Proof Holidays
2018-12-11 · 42mIt'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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 144
Midseason Secret Summit
2019-02-13 · 42mThe 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.
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The Legend Of Popcorn Sutton
2019-03-06 · 42mEpisode overview is not available yet.
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Secret Summit: Unfinished Business
2019-03-13 · 42mMoonshiners 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.
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Secret Summit: Tickle Unshackled
2019-04-03 · 42mTickle'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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 149
Master Distiller
2019-07-09 · 42mA 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.
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Code and Conflict
2021-04-13 · 42mWith 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 151
New Season Kickoff Summit
2021-10-21 · 42mMoonshiners 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 152
Rebel Rye
2021-12-28 · 42mTim 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 153
The Real McCoy
2021-02-13 · 45mMoonshiners 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 154
Murder On Thunder Road
2024-11-05 · 45mMoonshiners 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 155
A Raid That Changed Moonshine
2025-01-07 · 42mMoonshiners 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 156
Crime and Shine: Crimes Against Popcorn Sutton
2025-03-18 · 44mFor 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.
Watch progress · Not trackedEpisode 157
Caught in the Act
2025-03-25 · 44mTim, 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.
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Jeremy Schwartz
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