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TELEVISION

Weird Homes - Season 1

Series: Weird Homes

3.8

(48)

Episodes

Rating

TVG

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Syndicado

About

Weird Homes is a television series about some of most unusual and bizarre homes and the fascinating and inspiring people who built and live in them. Eccentric yet elegant, batty but beautiful, these homes and yards salute the creative spirit in us all, the spirit that defies trends, the neighbors and the local building code. Weird Homes, the highest rated Canadian produced show on the Life Network, is also the winner of the international Gold World Medal for Documentary Profiles Series at the New York International Festivals and the winner of the Gemini Award for Best Lifestyle Series.

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Episodes

1. Retired, Still Working

22m

Some people just can't relax when they retire. A retired engineer builds a full size operating rail road in his backyard. In a rural area near Oakland, California artist Karen Wyse works non-stop expanding her home and yard with her creations. And then there is the crusty old sea captain who lives in his own pirate's den.

2. Folk Artists

22m

Folk artists seem naturally to use their homes and yards as a canvas for art. 'Dick and Jane's Spot' in Ellensburg, Washington is a delightful world filled with this couple's unique folk art. In the backwoods near Seale, Alabama, Butch Anthony treats us to his folk artist hideaway complete with decorated hearse and bottle trees.

3. Recycled Wonders

22m

An amazing undertaker's home built out of 600,000 embalming fluid bottles. A beer can house in Houston, Texas and Moore's Junk Castle in Pullman, Washington. Wonders created from trash.

4. Inspired By Pain

22m

Unique homes created as a result of personal suffering. The Button King in South Carolina has insomnia so he has taken to glue hundreds of thousands of buttons to his home, clothes and car. Ex-alcoholic, The Flowerman uses recycled junk to decorate his home and in Toronto, an injured mason has covered every square inch of his home with wooden screws.

5. Funny Farm

22m

In Bend, Oregon two delightful men have created a fantasy farm bursting with humour including a bowling ball garden and a love pond. And 'Andy's Dummy Farm' in rural New Brunswick is littered with hundreds of life size dummies that all have a story to tell.

6. Something To Say

22m

A decoration of homes to make a point. Pearl Fryar's topiary garden in Bishopville, South Carolina brings a message of love. 'Richart's Ruins', in downtown Centralia, Washington takes teaching art to the outer limits and in Alabama, a religious fanatic litters his acreage with crosses and old refrigerators painted with surreal messages.

7. Yards Of Fun

22m

For some, pink flamingoes is just the start. A visit to the famous home of Violis Simpson whose place is surrounded by his amazing towering whirligigs. In Rosedale, Alberta we meet the charming folks who call their home 'Rainbow Acres'.

8. Fantasy Gardens

22m

Life-sized scarecrows, huge boulders and thousands of flowers. In Nova Scotia, the place is known as 'Angela's Scarecrows' and Angela talks to each and every one of these backyard creatures who have all become her friends.

9. Strange Yet Wonderful

22m

An elderly farmer in Alberta enjoys life at his place he calls the 'Nuthouse', and for good reason. A black couple in Mississippi show us around 'Margaret's Grocery' and sing us a gospel song. 'The House of Exotica' in San Francisco contains a lifetime collection of weird things from around the world.

10. The Collectors

22m

Collecting is an obsession for some. 'The House of Toys' in Oakland, California is bursting with thousands of every toy you can imagine. Another California home contains a grotto where the walls are completely covered with stuff collected from garage sales.

Extended Details

SeriesWeird Homes

Closed CaptionsEnglish

Artists

Moyra RodgerDirector

Moyra RodgerWriter

Arthur BlackWriter

Michael CollierProducer

John CummingProducer

Moyra RodgerActor