Deadliest Catch
Man Overboard
TV Flash files “Man Overboard” as hour 6 of 380 in the TV Flash guide — Deadliest Catch (2005–present) on Discovery, season 1, episode 6, aired 2005-05-17, 47 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E06: listed hour 6 of 380 in the Deadliest Catch guide, hour 6 of 10 in season 1. It aired 2005-05-17 (47 min). The listed hour before it is “Dead of Winter” (S01E05). Next is “High Hopes” (S01E07).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Big Valley has sunk, her crew is still missing and all anyone can do is pray. But the Bering Sea soon claims another victim when a deckhand falls overboard.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Man Overboard sit in the Deadliest Catch guide?
S01E06 is listed hour 6 of 380 — hour 6 of 10 in season 1, season 1 episode 6.
When did Deadliest Catch S01E06 air?
Man Overboard aired 2005-05-17 and is listed at 47 minutes.
Is Deadliest Catch produced danger?
Weather is the antagonist. Reality television where the danger is survived on camera more than invented for it — crab boats, sleep debt, the Bering Sea.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Alaskan crab boats, weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Deadliest Catch is Discovery labor documentary as flagship — Captain Phil Harris lore, memorial episodes, reality television where the danger is not produced so much as survived on camera.
Deadliest Catch does not need a writers' room for weather. Thom Beers's Discovery series premiered in 2005 and became a long-running flagship: cameras riding with Alaskan crab fishermen through brutal seasons, nature and labor and mortality without a studio audience. Captains Phil Harris, Sig Hansen, Keith Colburn, Johnathan Hillstrand. A deck that does not care about your edit. Danger not so much produced as survived on camera. Workplace documentary-reality elevated into high-stakes seasonal event television.…
Filed against
- Phil Harris as Captain
Phil Harris was the captain on Deadliest Catch, Discovery’s 2000s Alaskan crab-boat flagship — weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Labor documentary as series, memorial episodes, reality television where…
- Sig Hansen as Captain
Sig Hansen captains Deadliest Catch as himself — Alaskan crab boats, weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Discovery labor documentary as flagship, danger survived on camera rather than produced. TV Flash…
- Keith Colburn as Captain
Keith Colburn captains through Deadliest Catch as Discovery labor documentary, not a produced dare — Alaskan crab boats, weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Reality television survived on camera. TV Flash…
- Johnathan Hillstrand as Captain
Johnathan Hillstrand captained Deadliest Catch as Alaskan crab-boat weather — Discovery labor documentary as flagship, a deck that does not care about your edit, danger not so much produced as survived on camera. Captain Phil Harris lore,…