Deadliest Catch
The Finish Line
TV Flash files “The Finish Line” as hour 14 of 380 in the TV Flash guide — Deadliest Catch (2005–present) on Discovery, season 2, episode 4, aired 2006-04-18, 46 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E04: listed hour 14 of 380 in the Deadliest Catch guide, hour 4 of 12 in season 2. It aired 2006-04-18 (46 min). The listed hour before it is “On the Crab” (S02E03). Next is “Friends and Rivals” (S02E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After a profitable off-load on Akutan Island, Captain Sig Hansen and the Northwestern crew are back on the trail of the Alaskan King Crab.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Finish Line sit in the Deadliest Catch guide?
S02E04 is listed hour 14 of 380 — hour 4 of 12 in season 2, season 2 episode 4.
When did Deadliest Catch S02E04 air?
The Finish Line aired 2006-04-18 and is listed at 46 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,…