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 a Field Trip page which 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 varies, even today, with whether you're looking at their episode guide, their current season guide, or ordering a plan. You can read the explanation here. 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 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. For now 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) is now airing 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've since aired the 14th through 16th seasons, as well.
I have notes and video on each of the 260 original episodes to date—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.
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: 28 June 2009