Talk:The Victory Garden (TV series)
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On this site Jim Crockett is called the original producer but according to http://www.bu.edu/alumni/bostonia/2001/summer/morash/morash-02.html, Russell Morash was creator. He was also most likely director/producer.
"But it was with The Victory Garden, which premiered in 1975, that Morash really began to get his hands dirty in a satisfying way. Liberated from the stuffy studio, following long-term projects from inception to completion, he felt he had truly found his format. PBS executives weren't optimistic about the program, but Morash had a hunch. He hired a host with no television experience, author and practical gardener Jim Crockett, and set him to work in a half-acre plot right next to the WGBH studio. "In 1975, we'd just been hammered by the oil crisis," Morash says, "and people were thinking, jeez, we don't know how to do anything for ourselves. Kids think that milk comes from a box on the supermarket shelf. And suddenly we were showing this wonderful grandfatherly guy, and things were coming up out of the ground, and you could eat 'em. Tomatoes! It was a miracle, right in our backyard."
Morash's wife, "Chef Marian" Morash (CFA'57), has been the show's culinary curator for most of its twenty-six seasons. The Victory Garden's perennial popularity has given Morash latitude to dream up other programs with the Yankee ethos — This Old House, Last Chance Garage, and The New Yankee Workshop. PBS executives make it clear they're interested in hearing about any other hunches he might have."
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydon/2004/08/16 indicates that he, Morash, started Julia Child as well as many others in the business of "reality" TV.
"Julia ignited Morash's genius for how-to television, as in Crockett's Victory Garden and This Old House, which in spirit are part of Julia's legacy, too. Morash, if he did not exactly invent the Julia Child persona, was present at the creation."
http://www.umass.edu/umassmag/archives/1998/spring_98/spg98_f_norm.html speaking of Norm Abram, the master carpenter:
"His new firm's first project was a general store on Nantucket, a success that led to referrals and to building a barn for Russell Morash, the Emmy Award-winning creator, director, and executive producer of The Victory Garden, This Old House, and Julia Child's four cooking series. When Abram finished the barn in 1979, Morash invited him to be the carpenter for a new "how-to" show: the nascent . . ."
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0412/nbf.html talking about Tom Silva getting started on This Old House:
"Silva described his long association with the program and public television in general; Silva Brothers Construction built the original set of the WGBH production, “Crockett’s Victory Garden,” in the 1970s. Russell Morash, creator of the program, had also started a home renovation program and liked Silva’s work. After some initial skepticism, Silva signed on, and he has served as general contractor on “This Old House” for 18 of its 25 years."
There are various internet sources calling him the original HOST but none, other than this site, as near as I can tell, that called him producer. (Moved to Talk page by JRP)
