In 1975 producer Russell Morash hired the Silva Brothers to build a garden for his PBS show, The Victory Garden. Seeing their work and meeting the Silvas, Morash was inspired to create a show about home renovations. Today there are numerous such shows, but then the idea was very new and very risky. In 1979 the production company purchased, renovated and resold a small home for their first series, and the show's enormous popularity drew in viewers, and has ever since. / Each year, the show typically takes on a larger contracting product in the spring and summer, somewhere near Boston, and a smaller project in a friendly clime during the winter months, for these smaller projects, the show often recruits local help, bringing in its well-known experts for just a few episodes to introduce the locals and explain what they're doing. / Several shows, such as and , owe their existence to this groundbreaking effort. Currently 10/10