"American Chopper: The Series" (2003) TV series 2003-????

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | unknown

Release Date:

7 January 2006 (Finland)

Genre:

Comedy | Reality-TV | Sport

Plot:

Documentary series about the goings-on behind the scenes at Orange County Choppers, a custom motorcycle fabrication company located in Montgomery...

Plot Keywords:

Motorcycle | Chopper | Custom Motorcycle | Motor | Bleeped Dialogue

Awards:

2 wins

US TV Schedule:

Sat. July 25	11:00 PM	MyNetwork	Billy Joel Bike	#3.31
Sat. Aug. 1	11:00 PM	MyNetwork	Junior's Dream Bike 1	#3.1

Cast

Mike Rowe	...	Announcer (62 episodes, 2003-2007)
Paul Teutul Sr.	...	Himself (33 episodes, 2003-2007)
Paul Teutul Jr.	...	Himself (33 episodes, 2003-2007)
Michael Teutul	...	Himself (32 episodes, 2003-2007)

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Series Produced by
David M. Barsky	....	producer (10 episodes, 2004)
Rob Hammersley	....	co-executive producer (8 episodes, 2005-2006)
Amanda Ross	....	associate producer (8 episodes, 2008)
Steve Nigg	....	co-executive producer (7 episodes, 2005-2006)
Holly Hines	....	network executive (7 episodes, 2008)
Craig Piligian	....	executive producer (5 episodes, 2003)
Rod C. Spence	....	producer (5 episodes, 2007)
Vaughn Halyard	....	consulting producer (3 episodes, 2007)
Ian Mallahan	....	story producer (unknown episodes, 2008)
Jennifer Bastable	....	associate producer (unknown episodes)
Brett Boydstun	....	line producer (unknown episodes)
Hank Capshaw	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)
Alex Eastburg	....	producer (unknown episodes)
Scott Feeley	....	supervising producer (unknown episodes)
Chad Greulach	....	supervising producer (unknown episodes)
C. Russell Muth	....	co-executive producer (unknown episodes)
Scott Popjes	....	supervising producer (unknown episodes)
Sara Reddy	....	supervising producer (unknown episodes)

Series Original Music by
Jason Brandt		(133 episodes, 2003-2007)
Matt Koskenmaki		(3 episodes, 2003)

Series Cinematography by
Zac McFarlane		(14 episodes, 2003)
Jack Gorton		(unknown episodes)
Adam Moyer		(unknown episodes)

Series Film Editing by
Ron Romberger		(34 episodes, 2003-2007)
Brian Funck		(17 episodes, 2004-2006)
Eric Wise		(11 episodes, 2003-2004)
Rod C. Spence		(9 episodes, 2006-2007)
Jonathan J. Budd		(5 episodes, 2005-2008)
Matthew Barbato		(2 episodes, 2008)
Jay Conklin		(unknown episodes)
Patrick Murphy		(unknown episodes)
Scott Popjes		(unknown episodes)
Chris Povall		(unknown episodes)
Keith Shea		(unknown episodes)

Series Production Management
Eric Towler	....	post production supervisor (96 episodes, 2005-2008)
Heath Banks	....	executive in charge of production (17 episodes, 2008)
Andy Geisel	....	post-production supervisor (unknown episodes)
Kathleen Burns Rohr	....	executive in charge of production (unknown episodes)

Series Sound Department
Martin Kelly	....	sound mixer (83 episodes, 2004-2008)
Justin Wikke	....	dialogue editor (13 episodes, 2008)
Danika Benton	....	dialogue editor / prelay audio (6 episodes, 2008)
Daniel S. McCoy	....	production sound mixer (unknown episodes, 2008)
Lisa Baro	....	sound re-recording mixer (unknown episodes)
Kevin Burke	....	sound re-recording mixer (unknown episodes)
Rik Elliott	....	sound recordist (unknown episodes)
Nathan Meyers	....	utility sound (unknown episodes)

Series Visual Effects by
Charles L. Owens	....	digital artist (4 episodes, 2003)

Series Camera and Electrical Department
John Rotan	....	camera operator (34 episodes, 2005-2006)
Trevor Adams	....	camera operator (10 episodes, 2006-2007)
Omar Saleem	....	camera operator (10 episodes, 2008)
Nicholas Giancola	....	camera operator / camera operator: "b" camera (3 episodes, 2007)
David Miller	....	camera operator (2 episodes, 2008)
Liz Rubin	....	camera operator (2 episodes, 2008)
Mark Combellick	....	camera operator (unknown episodes)
Scott Jason Farr	....	additional photographer (unknown episodes)
Rob Koch	....	camera operator (unknown episodes)
Steve Purcell	....	camera operator (unknown episodes)

Series Editorial Department
William Safian	....	assistant editor (99 episodes, 2003-2006)
Jennifer Bastable	....	post-production coordinator (26 episodes, 2008)
Rod Decker	....	finishing editor: HD (unknown episodes, 2007)
David Broadbent	....	on-line editor (unknown episodes)
Patrick DeLuca	....	post-production consultant (unknown episodes)
Sam Eskandari	....	assistant editor (unknown episodes)
Robert LeMaire	....	assistant editor (unknown episodes)
Joel Salazar	....	assistant editor (unknown episodes)
Julia Sir	....	post-production assistant (unknown episodes)

Series Music Department
John Nooney	....	composer: additional music (100 episodes, 2004-2008)
Jeff Edwards	....	composer: main title theme (unknown episodes, 2006)
Jeff Tropeano	....	musician: guitars (unknown episodes)

Series Other crew
Colleen Kelly	....	production coordinator / assistant to producers (105 episodes, 2003-2007)
Cindy Anne Deaver	....	production staff (12 episodes, 2007)
Michael Bleakley	....	production assistant (3 episodes, 2007)
Crystal Foos	....	clearance coordinator (unknown episodes)
Jeff Smith	....	production assistant (unknown episodes)

Production Companies

• Pilgrim Films & Television
• Discovery Channel

Distributors

• Artisan Entertainment (USA) (DVD)
• Artist House Entertainment (2006) (Japan) (DVD)
• Discovery Channel (200?) (Netherlands) (TV)
• Discovery HD (????) (Japan) (TV)
• Family Home Entertainment (FHE) (USA) (DVD)
• Polyband (2005) (Germany) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Orange County Choppers  thanks

Also Known As:

"American Chopper" (Australia)

Runtime:

USA:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:M (some episodes) | Australia:PG | USA:TV-PG

Filming Locations:

Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Pilgrim Films & Television

Quotes:

Paul Sr.: I've got a size 12 that will inspire!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Free Rainer (2007)

This belongs somewhere else, NOT on the Discovery Channel

I agree with Darthhatchman's comment "What ever happened to Discovery airing educational programming?" The Discovery Channel used to be made up of a wide array of interesting and informative shows, but now it's nothing but the same dumb shows all day, every day. They don't even show anything special on holidays. Normally, holidays have specials all over the place. Anymore, on the Discovery Channel and TLC all they show is marathons of things like American Chopper and Trading Spaces, which are already all over the normal programming.

The Discovery Channel has basically been turned into a car and home improvement network. Their shows like American Chopper, Monster Garage, and Surprise by Design have basically smothered the Discovery Channel. After all this started happening, Tuesday used to be the only night with their traditional Discovery programming, when they showed their law shows like The New Detectives. But now Tuesday has gone down with the rest of the programming, and now they apparently don't even make new episodes of their good law shows, and they just show old re-runs of them between 2PM-4PM on weekday afternoons.

American Chopper has absolutely no educational value and ironically is about the same basic concept of the show that killed TLC, "Trading Spaces", only on American Chopper, instead of people turning rooms into abstract art and wasted space, they're doing this to bikes and cars instead of homes.

Other than their law shows in the afternoon, about the only show with traditional Discovery Channel programming is their Assignment Discovery program (which is only shown at 5AM) and that's only because it's made up of the good, old Discovery programming. Programming that was actually interesting and worth watching. If they were going to air all of these car and biker shows, why didn't they just create a new channel for it? Not replace the original Discovery Channel programming, because it was so much better than all of this.

It was bad enough when things like this first happened to TLC, and shows like Trading Spaces took over TLC, but now the Discovery Channel has gone down the same path. It seems like all of the TV shows meant for intelligent people are being smothered by idiots. I really hope the Discovery Channel seriously considers changing the programming on both of these channels before they're completely ruined.