Deadliest Catch
Uncharted Territory
TV Flash files “Uncharted Territory” as the first listed hour of season 13 — Deadliest Catch (2005–present) on Discovery, season 13, episode 1, aired 2017-04-11, 89 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S13E01: listed hour 183 of 380 in the Deadliest Catch guide, first listed hour of season 13. It aired 2017-04-11 (89 min). The listed hour before it is “The Widowmaker, Part 2” (S12E18). Next is “Seismic Shift” (S13E02).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The crabs have vanished, igniting a grueling hunt to save the fleet's way of life. Captain Sig resumes the helm after a major heart attack. Wild Bill debuts his own brand new boat in a crisis season. A rescue is attempted for a heart attack victim.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Uncharted Territory sit in the Deadliest Catch guide?
S13E01 is listed hour 183 of 380 — first listed hour of season 13, season 13 episode 1.
When did Deadliest Catch S13E01 air?
Uncharted Territory aired 2017-04-11 and is listed at 89 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,…