Do It for Yourself

Do It for Yourself (aka Do It for Yourself with Mary Bellows) was a CBC show featuring Mary Bellows and Jon Reeves showing the viewer how to fix things for themselves.
==Season 1==
Premiere Date 	Ep No.	Episode Description
UNAIRED 	1 	Sep 13, 1982 - Debut. The first episode shows how to replace a damaged wall-plug unit and re-pot a large cactus.
UNAIRED 	2 	Sep 14, 1982 - How to assemble a component stereo and replace a damaged electrical plug. Also: a look at proper drainage for plants.
UNAIRED 	3 	Sep 15, 1982 - How to replace a pane of glass in a window and install a pegboard.
UNAIRED 	4 	Sep 16, 1982 - How to replace a tumbler in a door lock, and how to repair china. Also: a look at plant fertilizers.
UNAIRED 	5 	Sep 17, 1982 - How to install a thermostat, and how to replace a screen in a door. Also: how to plant a fern in an urn.
UNAIRED 	6 	Sep 20, 1982 - How to replace washers in kitchen faucets and install a light fixture. Also: a look at potting soil.
UNAIRED 	7 	Sep 21, 1982 - How to install a new lamp socket, and how to replace a damaged bathroom tile. Also: how to modify potting soil.
UNAIRED 	8 	Sep 22, 1982 - Today Mary Bellows shows how to put up shelves, how to cut caulking around a door and Ken Reeves plants herbs in a Strawberry jar.
UNAIRED 	9 	Sep 23, 1982 - Today, Mary lays a rug, installs a fluorescent light in the kitchen and Ken Reeves talks about wintering over geraniums.
UNAIRED 	10 	Sep 24, 1982 - Today, Mary Bellows tells us all about the fuses in the basement; installs a knife rack and demonstrates how to sharpen knives.
UNAIRED 	11 	Sep 27, 1982 - Today, Mary strips paint off an old table and she installs screws for hanging a plant. Ken talks about repotting large plants.
UNAIRED 	12 	Sep 28, 1982 - Today, Mary strips old wallpaper off the wall and hangs a picture and Ken shows how to train ivy over a coat hanger.
UNAIRED 	13 	Sep 29, 1982 - How to wallpaper a bedroom, and repotting cuttings from hanging plants.
UNAIRED 	14 	Sep 30, 1982 - How to replace a flapper valve in a toilet and refurbish an old barbecue. Also: how to braid plant stems.
UNAIRED 	15 	Oct 1, 1982 - How to install a door's peephole and pull-down blinds. Also: a demonstration of plant moisture meters.
UNAIRED 	16 	Oct 4, 1982 - How to repair a bathroom floor tile, and refurbishing a wooden chair. Also: a discussion of cornstalk plants.
UNAIRED 	17 	Oct 5, 1982 - How to install a smoke detector, and put new curtain track over a window. Also: a look at slow-release fertilizer.
UNAIRED 	18 	Oct 8, 1982 - Mary sands a wooden lawn chair, wraps pipe in the basement and show how to clean paint brushes, John shows how to plant ivys in mossed wire-hanging baskets.
UNAIRED 	19 	Oct 11, 1982 - Refinishing a table, and a discussion of pet health. Also: wrapping moss around a pipe for climbing plants.
UNAIRED 	20 	Oct 12, 1982 - How to repair a garden hose, maintain a child's bike and plant moss.
UNAIRED 	21 	Oct 13, 1982 - How to steam clean a carpet and replace a light switch. Also: planting ferns in a jar.
UNAIRED 	22 	Oct 14, 1982 - How to install a padlock on a cabinet, polish silver and drill holes in plant containers.
UNAIRED 	23 	Oct 15, 1982 - Mary installs a night look on the back door and puts up a spice rack in the kitchen. She also installs a shower massage in the bathroom. John demonstrates bending plant sterns for character.
UNAIRED 	24 	Oct 18, 1982 - Today Mary installs a new shower rod in the bathroom and installs a belcro blind in the bedroom. John shows how to air layer a Diefenbachia.
UNAIRED 	25 	Oct 19, 1982 -Today Mary fixes a plugged kitchen sink and removes stick-on safety patterns in the bathroom as well as installing a towel rack. John plants some greenery in a copper container.
UNAIRED 	26 	Oct 20, 1982 - Today Mary installs weather stripping around a door and a dimmer switch in the dining room. John demonstrates the cleaning, shining and misting of plants.
UNAIRED 	27 	Oct 21, 1982 - Today Mary installs a door stopper and repairs a hole in the bathroom wall. She also restores cast iron cookware. John shows how to water your plants properly.
UNAIRED 	28 	Oct 22, 1982 - How to refinish a wooden table and rid a dog of fleas.
UNAIRED 	29 	Oct 25, 1983 - Mary demonstrates how to clean brass articles and she and John Reeves build a light table.
UNAIRED 	30 	Oct 26, 1983 - Host Mary Bellows replaces the element in her coffee percolator. She also sets thermostat on hot water tank, lights pilot and discusses thermostat settings. John Reeves forces hyacinth and tulip bulbs in soil.
UNAIRED 	31 	Oct 27, 1983 - Mary spray-paints a wicker chair and gives Zeke, the dog, a bath. And John re-pots a Peace lily.
UNAIRED 	32 	Oct 28, 1983 - Repairing a bathroom plug and replacing an electric cord. Also: preparing dahlia and begonia bulbs for winter.
UNAIRED 	33 	Oct 29, 1983 - Mary installs a generator and light kit on a bicycle and changes the filter in the furnace. John grows nasturtiums as house plant and salad ingredient.
UNAIRED 	34 	Nov 1, 1982 - How to make a log carrier and install a cassette deck and stereo tuner. Also: a look at reflowering techniques.
UNAIRED 	35 	Nov 2, 1982 - How to build a sawhorse and sand a door and reupholster a sofa cushion. Also: a look at planting techniques.
UNAIRED 	36 	Nov 3, 1982 - How to replace an element in a hot plate. Also: building a garden in an old barbecue.
UNAIRED 	37 	Nov 4, 1982 - How to caulk a bathtub and replace a damaged area of carpeting. Also: how to plant a terrahum.
UNAIRED 	38 	Nov 5, 1982 - How to make cushions for a wicker chair and install draft enders behind light-switch plates and replace a window screen. Also: how to grow an orange tree.
UNAIRED 	39 	Nov 8, 1982 - How to frame a picture, and grow herbs under lights.
UNAIRED 	40 	Nov 10, 1982 - How to shorten shelf standards, and repair a door's hinges. Also: how to repot an asparagus fern.
UNAIRED 	41 	Nov 11, 1982 - Today, host Mary Bellows repairs rubber boots and patches an inner tube, as well as installing a shelf in the living room. John Reeves explains how to control spider mites.
UNAIRED 	42 	Nov 12, 1982 - Today, Mary finishes patching and sanding a hole in the bathroom wall and prepares the wall for painting by masking fixtures, tile, etc. John shows how to propagate begonias.
UNAIRED 	43 	Nov 15, 1982 - Today, Mary describes the use and safety of tools in her tool box and installs mirrors in a wooden window frame. John shows how to air layer a Dracaena.
UNAIRED 	44 	Nov 16, 1982 - Today, Mary describes several kitchen gadgets and caramelizes apple pie with a propane torch. She also installs an aquarium. John describes types of plants to put in an aquarium.
UNAIRED 	45 	Nov 17, 1982 - Today, Mary makes a heavy duty extension cord and replaces spark plug and sharpens the blade on her lawn mower. John shows how to keep small plants from drying out.
UNAIRED 	46 	Nov 18, 1982 - Installing a home-security system, and propagating a dieffenbachia plant.
UNAIRED 	47 	Nov 19, 1982 - Restoring an old chopping board and cleaning a barbecue. Also: repotting and dividing a sansevieria.
UNAIRED 	48 	Nov 22, 1982 - Today, Mary Bellows spray paints her son's dirt bike and childproofs her children's toy chest. John Reeves shows us how to use the dipstick method of checking water in a container with no drainage holes.
UNAIRED 	49 	Nov 23, 1982 - Today, Mary installs an insulated threshold on the back door and makes a plug for the fireplace. John shows us how to relayer a Reiger Begonia.
UNAIRED 	50 	Nov 24, 1982 - Today Mary Bellows wallpapers a bathroom wall and John Reeves shows how to propagate African violets.
UNAIRED 	51 	Nov 25, 1982 - Host Mary Bellows installs a gas detector and shows how to hang louvred doors. John Reeves layers a Pothos and a String of Pearls.
UNAIRED 	52 	Nov 26, 1982 - Today, Mary replaces the glass in an aluminum window frame and insulates the bedroom window with a new type of insulator kit.
UNAIRED 	53 	Nov 30, 1982 - Mary Bellows installs a humidifier on the furnace and hooks up the water supply for the humidifier. John Reeves shows how to control mealy bug with an insecticide formula.
UNAIRED 	54 	Dec 1, 1982 - Today, Mary installs a humidistat on the furnace and hooks up the power for it, while John shows how to propagate Jade plants.
UNAIRED 	55 	Dec 2, 1982 - Today Mary makes a trash can lid lock and shows how to clean copper. John demonstrates the propagation of Burrow's Tails and Panda plants.
UNAIRED 	56 	Dec 3, 1982 - Today, Mary installs a wallmounted fluorescent light and also explains how to eliminate roaches.
UNAIRED 	57 	Dec 6, 1982 - Mary Bellows installs a full-length mirror without a frame and repairs a mortise lock on a door. John Reeves explains how ground egg shells in potting soil can help prevent fluorine damage on plants.
UNAIRED 	58 	Dec 7, 1982 - Host Mary Bellows replaces the pedal, seat and tire on a dirt bike and talks about care and maintenance of gerbils. John Reeves forces bulbs in water and gravel.
UNAIRED 	59 	Dec 8, 1982 - Mary Bellows installs a pulley curtain track and also builds a towel rack. John Reeves propagates Sansevieria by head cuttings, producing a new, all-white plant.
UNAIRED 	60 	Dec 9, 1982 - Mary Bellows shows us how to pack stemware and fixes some broken wine glasses. She then demonstrates staining an unfinished desk. John Reeves plants a wine jar.
UNAIRED 	61 	Dec 10, 1982 - How to change a light fixture in the bathroom.
September 7, 1992	62 	Dec 13, 1982 - How to maintain stereo equipment, and make a pizza omelette. Also: how to make organic insecticide.
UNAIRED 	63 	Dec 15, 1982 - How to install and use a fire extinguisher. Also; a look at fertilization of house plants.
UNAIRED 	64 	Dec 16, 1982 - How to childproof kitchen cupboards and set traps and poisons for mice. Also: how to leach plants.
==Season 2==
Premiere Date 	Ep No.	Episode Description
September 9, 1992 	65 	Jan 3, 1983 - How to caulk a bedroom window and install a ground fault interrupter. Also: how to repot an asparagus fern.
UNAIRED 	66 	Jan 4, 1983 - How to handle home emergencies. Also: treating burns with the aloe vera plant.
September 14, 1992	67 	Jan 5, 1983 - How to install a quartz heater and make a dolly out of old roller skates. Also: how to repot a cornstalk plant.
September 16, 1992	68 	Jan 6, 1983 - How to caulk the inside of a window and repair a pneumatic door-damper. Also: how to propagate a spider plant.
September 19, 1992	69 	Jan 7, 1983 - Framing a picture with a metal frame, and painting a window. Also: growing geraniums.
September 21, 1992	70 	Jan 10, 1983 - How to change a flat tire, and making a soil mixture for a bird's nest fern.
September 23, 1992	71 	Jan 11, 1983 - How to be prepared for power blackouts, and repairing a cane chair.
September 26, 1992	72 	Jan 12, 1983 - How to put accessories on a bicycle and replace the wiper blades on a car. Also: growing the Christmas cactus
September 28, 1992	73 	Jan 13, 1983 - How to repair a table leg, and using a snow blower properly. Also: how to keep plants from drying out.
September 30, 1992	74 	Jan 14, 1983 - How to replace an element in a toaster, and eliminating drafts in the house, Also: how to prune a hibiscus plant.
October 3, 1992 	75 	Jan 17, 1983 - Mary Bellows installs a flood light on the garage John Reeves explains uses for various kinds of scented geraniums
UNAIRED 	76 	Jan 18, 1983 - Mary Bellows scotchguards the living room sofa and installs a shelf in the garage. John Reeves explains the safe storage of insecticides.
October 5, 1992 	77 	Jan 19, 1983 - Mary Bellows completes installation of the floodlight on the garage and installs a rod in a bedroom closet. John Reeves shows us maintenance of pressure spray pump.
October 10, 1992 	78 	Jan 20, 1983 - Repairing plastic items, and replacing the cord on a drapery track. Also: pruning potted mums.
October 12, 1992 	79 	Jan 21, 1983 - Repairing a hair dryer and installing handle bars on a bike. Also: the air layering of a pothos plant.
October 14, 1992 	80 	Jan 24, 1983 - Installing a door lock. Also: planting the white nerve plant.
October 17, 1992 	81 	Jan 25, 1983 - Weatherstripping the bottom and inside of a door. Also: how to T-bud an apple tree.
October 21, 1992 	82 	Jan 26, 1983 - How to maintain a humidifier. Also: preparations for re-potting a rubber tree.
October 19, 1992 	83 	Jan 27, 1983 - Installing ceramic tiles around a fireplace, and patching wallpaper. Also: planting a staghorn fern on cork bark.
October 24, 1992 	84 	Jan 28, 1983 - How to operate power tools safely. Also: finishing the re-potting of a rubber tree.
October 26, 1992 	85 	Jan 31, 1983 - Mary shows how to install wood. paneling and John treats fungus disease on a waxed begonia.
October 28, 1992 	86 	Feb 1, 1983 - Mary changes a headlamp on a car and shows how to change the oil filter and check car fluid levels. John shows the right soil mixture for a Boston Fern.
October 31, 1992 	87 	Feb 2, 1983 - Mary puts a new water filter on a kitchen tap and replaces an element in a space heater. John and Mary discuss various kinds of insecticides.
November 2, 1992 	88 	Feb 3, 1983 - Mary sets up a road-racing set and changes the motor brushes in one of the cars. Then John shows how to make a planter for a creeping fig out of an old pot and chicken wire.
November 4, 1992 	89 	Feb 4, 1983 - Today, Mary repairs shingles on the roof and installs a photo cell on a floodlight. John demonstrates capillary watering.
UNAIRED 	90 	Feb 7, 1983 - Mary undertakes some plumbing work when she installs a new faucet in the kitchen sink. John and Mary discuss germinating seeds.
UNAIRED 	91 	Feb 8, 1983 - Today Mary continues her plumbing work by installing shut-off valves and changing her water filter. John shows how to wrap plants to retain moisture while you are away on vacation.
UNAIRED 	92 	Feb 9, 1983 - Today Mary shows how to grout ceramic tiles and John grafts a cactus. Mary also has a hint on how to get rid of painting smells.
UNAIRED 	93 	Feb 10, 1983 - How to install automobile spark plugs and how to use booster cables and a battery charger
UNAIRED 	94 	Feb 11, 1983 - Mary shows a different and colorful way to stain furniture and completes a bicycle assembly. John discusses the soil content and care of orchirds.
UNAIRED 	95 	Feb 14, 1983 - Today, Mary repairs ceramic tile and shows two ways to repair a screen. John makes gravel trays to improve plant humidity.
UNAIRED 	96 	Feb 15, 1983 - How to install a car mirror, and repair an old electric fan.
UNAIRED 	97 	Feb 16, 1983 - How to use different kitchen gadgets, and install ceiling pipe insulation. Also: demonstrating healthy growth for a dieffenbachia.
UNAIRED 	98 	Feb 17, 1983 - Host Mary Bellows installs a garage door seal and shows how to repair scratches and gouges in your skis. John Reeves discusses and demonstrates indoor planting and growing of leaf lettuce. Mary has a tip for care of ski boot liners.
UNAIRED 	99 	Feb 18, 1983 - Today. Mary installs a new light fixture in the kids' room. John demonstrates propagating various kinds of pepperonia plants. Mary has a great device for taking light bulbs out of ceiling fixtures.
UNAIRED 	100 	Feb 21, 1983 - Today, Mary installs an underground aquarium filter and puts up a new shower rod in the bathroom. John discusses and demonstrates propagating and flowering of Kalanchoe.
UNAIRED 	101 	Feb 22, 1983 - Today, Mary installs a child car seat John shows what happens when you touch a Mimosa. And, Mary has some helpful hints for rubber jar rings.
UNAIRED 	102 	Feb 23, 1983 - Today, Mary installs some insulation and a moisture barrier in the basement. John shows how you can grow your own grapefruit tree or your own orchard.
UNAIRED 	103 	Feb 24, 1983 - Today, host Mary Bellows installs a child guard on a kitchen cabinet John Reeves and Mary re-pot a Yucca tree.
UNAIRED 	104 	Feb 25, 1983 - Today, Mary shows how to get rid of squeaks in the floor and demonstrates some home security measures. John shows how to propagate English Ivy to make it fill out.
UNAIRED 	105 	Feb 28, 1983 - Today Mary starts a plumbing project in the downstairs bathroom and John re-pots a root-bound Ficus Benjamina
UNAIRED 	106 	Mar 1, 1983 - Today, Mary completes the plumbing for the downstairs bathroom and shows how to shorten a door John discusses geraniums grown from seed.
UNAIRED 	107 	Mar 2, 1983 - Today, Mary converts an old lamp to a new swag lamp and puts it up. John shows how to grow vegetables from vegetables. And, Mary has an important safety hint for knife racks
UNAIRED 	108 	Mar 3, 1983 - How to stain wood panels, and decorating a child's room.
UNAIRED 	109 	Mar 4, 1983 - How to make wood filler, and installing wood panels in the basement.
UNAIRED 	110 	Mar 7, 1983 - Today Mary installs a new faucet in the bathroom. She also has some helpful bahroom hints. John shows how to grow impatiens plants from seed.
UNAIRED 	111 	Mar 8, 1983 - Today Mary installs a new pop-up drain in the bathroom and completes her plumbing project. Watch for an easy way to make holders for screws, nuts and bolts, or buttons. John tells how to improve flowering on regal geraniums.
UNAIRED 	112 	Mar 10, 1983 - Paneling a recreation room and installing a vent in a clothes dryer. Also: planting a dish garden.
UNAIRED 	113 	Mar 11, 1983 - Constructing a bulletin board. Also: growing a New Guinean patience plant from clippings.
UNAIRED 	114 	Mar 14, 1983 - How to prepare a fireplace for tiling, and improving flowering on lipstick plants and vines.
UNAIRED 	115 	Mar 15, 1983 - How to install casters on a sofa, and tips for using leftover teabags. Also: how to make a planter for a moss palm.
UNAIRED 	116 	Mar 16, 1983 - How to install a fluorescent lamp switch, and hot-waxing skis.
UNAIRED 	117 	Mar 17, 1983 - How to install hangers for a suspended ceiling in a recreation room. Also: improving flowering on a wax plant.
UNAIRED 	118 	Mar 18, 1983 - Host Mary Bellows installs tne tiles in her new rec room ceiling and puts a drip pan in the upstairs bathroom. John Reeves has tips about fertilizing plants.
UNAIRED 	119 	Mar 21, 1983 - Host Mary Bellows cuts tiles for fireplace in rec room and installs them. John Reeves discusses fungus diseases on seedlings.
UNAIRED 	120 	Mar 22, 1983 - Host Mary Bellows installs an eavestrough on the garage. John Reeves uses a funnel to water plants with rain water.
UNAIRED 	121 	Mar 23, 1983 - Host Mary Bellows installs a water filter in the basement. John Reeves demonstrates a hanger for clay pot.
UNAIRED 	122 	Mar 31, 1983 - Installing a toilet bowl and tank; and air-layering a rubber tree plant.
UNAIRED 	123 	Apr 1, 1983 - Included: installing a clothes rod and the plumbing for a toilet. Also: growing gloxinias.
==Season 3==
Premiere Date	Ep No.	Episode Description
UNAIRED 	124 	Sep 19, 1983 - How to build a bird cage. Also: planting a celosia in a window box.
UNAIRED 	125 	Sep 20, 1983 - How to unplug a toilet and clean a car. Also: how to build a wall planter.
UNAIRED 	126 	Sep 21, 1983 - How to install a mail slot in a door. Also: finishing a wall planter.
UNAIRED 	127 	Sep 22, 1983 - Hooking up a VCR to cable and operating a video camera. Also: caring for the diplandenia plant.
UNAIRED 	128 	Sep 23, 1983 - How to repair a garden hose. Also: planting an Impatiens.
UNAIRED 	129 	Sep 26, 1983 - Installing a children's swing and slide set, and a bicycle rack for the garage.
UNAIRED 	130 	Sep 27, 1983 - Making a mobile. Also: how to use bags of soil as gardens.
UNAIRED 	131 	Sep 28, 1983 - Installing a kitchen door, and some hints for the workshop. Also: how to plant hens and chickens plants.
UNAIRED 	132 	Sep 29, 1983 - Weather stripping, and how to install a dead bolt. Also: uprooting a Mexican fan palm and repotting it in a clay pot.
UNAIRED 	133 	Sep 30, 1983 - How to install a phone jack, and hints for children's birthday parties. Also: demonstrating a soil-testing kit.
UNAIRED 	134 	Oct 3, 1983 - Connecting bathroom plumbing and installing a smoke detector. Also: preparing a barrel for use as a planter.
UNAIRED 	135 	Oct 4, 1983 - Taping dry wall and painting hard-to-reach areas. Also: how to make a hanging planter from a basket.
UNAIRED 	136 	Oct 5, 1983 - Sealing and insulating basement ducts, and making a bread slicer.
UNAIRED 	137 	Oct 6, 1983 - Assembling closet organizers. Also: properties of the aloe vera plant.
UNAIRED 	138 	Oct 7, 1983 - Changing a car's oil and oil filter, and preparing plant fertilizer.
UNAIRED 	139 	Oct 10, 1983 - Assembling closet organizers, and a look at the aloe vera plant.
UNAIRED 	140 	Oct 11, 1983 - Installing a shelf and a bar for hanging clotfies. Also: preparing cut flowers for water.
UNAIRED 	141 	Oct 12, 1983 - Stripping paint, taping dry wall and fixing small dents in a car. Also: sowing oats for pet food.
UNAIRED 	142 	Oct 13, 1983 - Canng for birds, and using a coconut as a planter.
UNAIRED 	143 	Oct 14, 1983 - Installing an intake valve in a toilet, and fitting a door handle.
UNAIRED 	144 	Oct 17, 1983 - Tiling the fireplace and staining the mantelpiece. Also: a report on miniature roses and insecticides.
UNAIRED 	145 	Oct 18, 1983 - Mary builds some unique shelves and replaces a car battery. If you don't I have a lot of room for a garden, John Reeves has an alternative.
UNAIRED 	146 	Oct 19, 1983 - Today, Mary glazes an old toilet seat that she has previously stripped. She also does some more drywall taping. John has some good advice for the care of tomato plants
UNAIRED 	147 	Oct 20, 1983 - Mary installs track lighting in the rec room. John plants a Norfolk Pine in a Chinese egg container for Mary's sewing room.
UNAIRED 	148 	Oct 21, 1983 - Mary replaces the brushes in her electric knife and then installs insulating pads in the toilet tank. John shows how to trim and get more flowering from your poinsettia plant.
UNAIRED 	149 	Oct 24, 1983 - Host Mary Bellows starts to redecorate her sewing room and installs some stick-on wood panelling. She also installs a kitchen towel slider. John Reeves finishes a water pipe planter.
UNAIRED 	150 	Oct 25, 1983 - Mary sews some retro-reflective stripping on her son's jacket and works on her son's bicycle brakes. Even John can't help Mary's dead cactus plant.
UNAIRED 	151 	Oct 26, 1983 -Today. Mary installs a new spring and chain on the kitchen door. She also puts a new radiator hose and cap in the car. John plants an evergreen tree in the barrel he has been preparing.
UNAIRED 	152 	Oct 27, 1983 - Today, Mary installs a hinge on her new toilet seat and shows how to re-web old lawn chairs. John shows how to improve the flowering of African violets.
UNAIRED 	153 	Oct 28, 1983 - How to attach handles to a fireplace plug and some uses for old candles. Also: repotting a sago palm.
UNAIRED 	154 	Oct 31, 1983 - Installing molding around a door, and making a beanbag doll. Also: disinfecting a pot before planting.
UNAIRED 	155 	Nov 1, 1983 - Weatherstripping windows, and spray painting the garage door. Also: building a tent for a young spruce tree.
UNAIRED 	156 	Nov 2, 1983 - Constructing a frame to protect plants from the cold.
UNAIRED 	157 	Nov 3, 1983 - Attaching a safety flag on a bicycle, and applying stucco to a wall. Also: planting a coconut.
UNAIRED 	158 	Nov 4, 1983 - Installing a water softener. Also: planting and maintaining a century palm.
UNAIRED 	159 	Nov 7, 1983 - Making a shower curtain and a window-shutter planter.
UNAIRED 	160 	Nov 8, 1983 - Installing a closet door and propagating vines.
UNAIRED 	161 	Nov 9, 1983 - A demonstration of an emergency lighting system.
UNAIRED 	162 	Nov 11, 1983 - Attaching bicycle horns. Also; separating German inses.
UNAIRED 	163 	Nov 14, 1983 - Replacing a kitchen sink.
UNAIRED 	164 	Nov 15, 1983 - Installing closet organizers and organizing a broom closet.
UNAIRED 	165 	Nov 16, 1983 - Installing molding and organizing a garage. Also: advice on weed and vegetation killers.
UNAIRED 	166 	Nov 17, 1983 - Installing a slider on a drawer. Also: converting an old wok into a terrarium.
UNAIRED 	167 	Nov 18, 1983 - Installing a bathroorn cabinet. Also: caring for Easter lilies.
UNAIRED 	168 	Nov 21, 1983 - Installing a timer for a light switch and repairing a cooler.
UNAIRED 	169 	Nov 22, 1983 - Installing a pneumatic door closer. Also: planting English ivy.
UNAIRED 	170 	Nov 23, 1983 - Installing a window lock and caring for a barbecue. Also: erecting a moss pole.
UNAIRED 	171 	Nov 24, 1983 - Patching dry wall. Also: moving a large plant.
UNAIRED 	172 	Nov 25, 1983 - Replacing a handle on a hammer; grouting tiles on a fireplace.
UNAIRED 	173 	Nov 28, 1983 - Installing a garbage disposal. Also: planting a rabbit's foot fern in a piece of driftwood.
UNAIRED 	174 	Nov 29, 1983 - Preparing a car for emergency situations; caring for a humidifier.
UNAIRED 	175 	Nov 30, 1983 - Installing a digital thermostat. Also: planting bulbs in a cold frame.
UNAIRED 	176 	Dec 1, 1983 - Mary Bellows shows how to install a car warmer and she also assembles a new bike. John Reeves tells how to ripen green tomatoes.
UNAIRED 	177 	Dec 2, 1983 - Today, Mary installs a ceiling fan and John repots a Mum and shows how to clip a flower to improve blooming
UNAIRED 	178 	Dec 5, 1983 - Today, Mary puts the finishing touches to the ceiling fan, and puts a new handle on a pot lid. John makes a flower planter in a basket.
UNAIRED 	179 	Dec 6, 1983 - Mary installs a non-freezing tap for the backyard and John talks about Bonsai trees and pruning roots.
UNAIRED 	180 	Dec 7, 1983 - Today, Mary installs a clock in the car and she also puts a speedometer on a bike. John repots a Bonsai tree.
UNAIRED 	181 	Dec 15, 1983 - Installing spark plugs in a car and attaching a new handle to a screen door.
UNAIRED 	182 	Dec 16, 1983 - Planning the overhaul of a bicycle and discussing cross-country ski maintenance. Also: constructing a "scare" snake to keep birds out of the garden.
UNAIRED 	183 	Dec 19, 1983 - Today. Mary Bellows installs shutters in the bedroom. She also puts a new magnetic catch on a door John Reeves discusses the Yucca plant.
UNAIRED 	184 	Dec 20, 1983 - Caulking the outside of a window, and installing a circuit breaker. Also: repotting an asparagus fern.
UNAIRED 	185 	Dec 21, 1983 - Home emergencies. Also: making use of the Aloe Vera plant to treat burns.
UNAIRED 	186 	Dec 22, 1983 - Installing a quartz heater, and making a dolly out of roller skates. Also: repotting a cornstalk.
UNAIRED 	187 	Dec 23, 1983 - Repairing a pneumatic door damper, and caulking the inside of a window. Also: propagating a spider plant.
==Season 4==
Premiere Date	Ep No.	Episode Description
UNAIRED 	188 	Apr 23, 1984 - Taking care of a puppy. Also: saving an underpotted cactus plant.
UNAIRED 	189 	Apr 24, 1984 - Setting up an aquarium and caring for a rubber plant.
UNAIRED 	190 	Apr 25, 1984 - Carpeting basement stairs and treating a military cactus for bugs.
UNAIRED 	191 	Apr 26, 1984 - Constructing a tunnel for a model train and propagating an ivory plant.
UNAIRED 	192 	May 1, 1984 - Mary shows how to install a car stereo and John demonstrates how to get bulbs to flower after being in a cold frame.
UNAIRED 	193 	May 2, 1984 - Mary continues to install a car stereo and then installs a cup holder. John demonstrates propogation of a Riger Begonia.
UNAIRED 	194 	May 4, 1984 - Mary demonstrates how to install a switcher and light boxes and wires the basement bathroom. John talks about Hyacinth bulbs.
UNAIRED 	195 	May 7, 1984 - Advice on assembling bicycle handle bars. Also: propagating and planting hyacinth bulbs.
UNAIRED 	196 	May 8, 1984 - Included: replacing ceiling tiles in the kitchen and preparing the living-room wall for painting. Also: caring for a rabbit's foot fern.
UNAIRED 	197 	May 9, 1984 - Making hooks for a shower curtain and constructing a bulb protector. Also: growing avocado plants from pits.
UNAIRED 	198 	May 10, 1984 - Mary Bellows stencils a jacket and discusses maintaining a camping lantern.
UNAIRED 	199 	May 11, 1984 - Included: cleaning and replacing the parts of an aquarium filter and recycling old potting soil.
UNAIRED 	200 	May 14, 1984 - Constructing a papier-mache tunnel for an electric train set and replacing a car's reflector.
UNAIRED 	201 	May 15, 1984 - Wiring a basement bathroom and using beans in art.
UNAIRED 	202 	May 16, 1984 - Soldering a jack onto headphones and repotting a philodendron.
UNAIRED 	203 	May 17, 1984 - Tips on home insulation—installing windows and magnetic door catches. Also: problems associated with high organic soil are discussed.
UNAIRED 	204 	May 18, 1984 - Installing seamless vinyl flooring and mending a plant's broken branch.
UNAIRED 	205 	May 21, 1984 - Installing sink taps and a bicycle seat. Also: protecting plants when moving.
UNAIRED 	206 	May 22, 1984 - Refinishing a table; plastering and painting a toy train tunnel.
UNAIRED 	207 	May 23, 1984 - Installing a new doorbell and caring for an amaryllis plant.
UNAIRED 	208 	May 24, 1984 - Installing molding around a window and sealing drywall before wallpapering; caring for a Mexican fan palm.
UNAIRED 	209 	May 25, 1984 - Painting trim on a bathroom door and building a plant grid.
==Season 5==
Premiere Date	Ep No.	Episode Description
UNAIRED 	210 	Oct 15, 1984 - Host Mary Bellows installs a false front drawer tray and John Reeves continues making the bromeliad tree.
UNAIRED 	211 	Oct 16, 1984 - Today, Mary installs track lights. She also landscapes the train tunnel for the electric train set, with help from John.
UNAIRED 	212 	Oct 17, 1984 - Today, Mary makes both a workbench and a kite. John makes a cactus plant holder.
UNAIRED 	213 	Oct 18, 1984 - Today, Mary continues installing track lights and stains a banister. John builds a planter using a large clay pot and chicken wire.
UNAIRED 	214 	Oct 19, 1984 - Today, Mary and John demonstrate the care and maintenance of garden tools. Mary installs a new soap dish and brings out a new table and cleans up the patio.
UNAIRED 	215 	Oct 29, 1984 - Making a window blind and wallpapering a bathroom.
UNAIRED 	216 	Oct 30, 1984 - Upholstering a chair, oiling wood paneling and germinating cactus.
UNAIRED 	217 	Oct 31, 1984 - Renovating, bathrooms and germinating cactus.
UNAIRED 	218 	Nov 1, 1984- General car maintenance, and closing up the underside of a workbench.
UNAIRED 	219 	Nov 2, 1984 - Applying a wall mural and replacing the spokes of a bike. Also: propagating kalanchoe.
UNAIRED 	220 	Nov 19, 1984 - Host Mary Bellows gives tips on camping and back packing. John Reeves demonstrates growth and care of orchids.
UNAIRED 	221 	Feb 18, 1985 - Installing bicycle pedals and making a compost heap.
UNAIRED 	222 	Feb 19, 1985 - Installing a stair banister and removing slow-release fertilizer.
UNAIRED 	223 	Feb 20, 1985 - Today, Mary Bellows continued the installation of a banister on stairs while giving saw tips. John Reeves demonstrates cactus grafting.
UNAIRED 	224 	Feb 21, 1985 - Today. Mary installs plumbing for a basement sink. John Reeves plants a Tillandsia Bromeliad and identifies a kind of tree parasite.
UNAIRED 	225 	Feb 22, 1985 - Trimming wallpaper and tending camellia plants.
UNAIRED 	226 	Feb 25, 1985 - Today, Mary refinishes a table and makes a canopy for a girl's bed. John Reeves puts chains on the canopy and discusses bark repair on an apple tree.
UNAIRED 	227 	Feb 26, 1985 - Today, Mary repairs a hole in a basement pipe and paints the trim on a bathroom door. John Reeves makes a planter for a bromeliad.
UNAIRED 	228 	Feb 27, 1985 - Spray painting papier-mache, repairing a wicker table and propagating dormant plants.
UNAIRED 	229 	Feb 28, 1985 - Installing a screen door and grafting two plants together.
UNAIRED 	230 	Mar 1, 1985 - Installing a screen door and moving a toy-train tunnel.
UNAIRED 	231 	Mar 4, 1985 - Installing door-slip catches, putting a sink in a vanity and propagating spreading juniper.
UNAIRED 	232 	Mar 5, 1985 - Changing the blade in a tape measure, greasing bike-pedal bearings and tending a bromeliad tree.
UNAIRED 	233 	Mar 6, 1985 - Installing mirrored tiles, repairing an electric train set and tending a bromeliad tree.
UNAIRED 	234 	Mar 7, 1985 - Repairing a chair with wooden doweling, and making a hanging planter from a vinegar bottle.
UNAIRED 	235 	Mar 18, 1985 - Installing a doorstop, applying decals to a wall and propagating and watering African violets.
UNAIRED 	236 	Mar 19, 1985 - Replacing a wheel on a wheelbarrow and propagating and repotting orchids.
UNAIRED 	237 	Mar 20, 1985 - Maintaining hockey equipment and installing a trip lever on a toilet.
UNAIRED 	238 	Mar 21, 1985 - Airbrushing a mural and planting a bonsai tree.
UNAIRED 	239 	Mar 22, 1985 - Making a window blind and wallpapering the bathroom.
UNAIRED 	240 	Mar 25, 1985 - Upholstering a chair; oiling wood paneling and germinating cacti.
UNAIRED 	241 	Mar 26, 1985 - Renovating a bathroom wall and propagating cacti.
UNAIRED 	242 	Mar 27, 1985 - Maintaining a car and propagating plants.
UNAIRED 	243 	Mar 28, 1985 - Applying a wall mural; replacing the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
UNAIRED 	244 	Mar 29, 1985 - Installing a swag lamp and flowering a cactus.
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