Most episodes have involved a field trip. I have researched the episodes and included a “Field Trip” notation and link in each episode page where applicable. I’ve also put together aField Trip pagewhich includes all the links.
Episode numbers are based on the year the show ran, although they’ve changed the particular way they indicate it a time or two and it varied throughout the run of the show. You can read theexplanationhere. I’ve put a year column on the table to make things easy. In any event, I gave up trying to follow the episode guide which used to be on The New Yankee Workshop webpage. It doesn’t matter, anyway. The project names are really the most important indexing feature.
HGTV once carried The New Yankee Workshop's older episodes but hasn’t for several years. I will leave the following information about their episode numbering here for archival purposes, and I will also continue to show their program numbers ( color coded thusly ) alongside the episodes, if for no other reason than that I won’t have to do a lot of editing to take them off the page. Note that HGTV’s episode numbering system is not the same as NYW’s. I believe they assigned their episode numbers in numerical order based on the batch of shows they contracted to air. Apparently they bought four batches.
DIY Network (a partner with HGTV) then aired NYW episodes, taking up where the HGTV series left off—beginning with the 13th season ( color coded thusly ). They called the first season the “1300 Series” echoing the official season number. Their initial package was for just that season, but they later aired the 14th through 16th seasons, as well.
Another added feature: I've color coded the episode numnber on the left to indicate whether the episode is the original, full length PBS version, or an edited HGTV version (I already had full PBS versions of the episodes DIY aired, so none of them will be noted). All episodes after Season 8 are PBS. Thank Season 21 and its reprising all of Seasons 9 & 10 for providing essentially the full version of each of those 26 episodes. A generous fan of this site provided PBS versions of several episodes, including the whole first season. PBS versions have the same background as the other fields in the table.
I have notes and video on each of the 260 original episodes—through the end of the 20th season. Even though Season 21 consists of repeats of Seasons 9 & 10, I've added entries for each of those projects which may include fresher data than my originals (which also have been updated). The titles of the projects are clickable links to my notes on the tools I’ve identified from viewing the tapes of each episode.
To my knowledge, The New Yankee Workshop is not airing on any broadcast TV any longer. It literally hasn’t been seen in years. The NYW website still streams a repeat episode every week, and I do get periodic messages, so someone is out there still watching. I’ll continue to maintain (and update) this site so long as I can, as I’m proud of its value as a resource.
Without sounding selfish or unhelpful, please don’t ask for copies of episodes. For one thing, it’s a copyright violation to do so. For another, think of the workload I would have to undertake to accommodate requests. I’m retired—I’d like to keep it that way.
Last updated: 04 November 2017