Bar Rescue | |
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Season 1 | |
![]() promotional poster for Season 1 | |
No. of episodes | 10 |
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Original network | Spike |
Original release | July 17 September 25, 2011 | –
Season chronology | |
The first season of the American reality series Bar Rescue premiered on Spike on July 17, 2011 and concluded on September 18, 2011 with a total of 10 episodes. The series stars renowned nightlife consultant Jon Taffer who offers his professional expertise plus renovations and equipment to desperately failing bars in order to save them from closing.
Spike originally picked the series up for 10 episodes in January 2011 but was reduced to 8 episodes. The show began shooting in April 2011.[1]
Main article: List of Bar Rescue episodes |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Bar name | Location | Original air date | Prod. code [2] | Viewers (millions) |
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1 | 1 | "Fallen Angels" | Angels Sports Bar | Corona, California | July 17, 2011 | 102 | 0.74[3] |
Jon heads to California to help a bar whose general manager has been so hands off, he's caused so many problems that badly affected the owner's reputation. New Name: Racks Billiards & Bourbon[Note 1] | |||||||
2 | 2 | "Downey's and Out" | Downey's Irish Pub | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | July 24, 2011 | 105 | 1.00[4] |
3 | 3 | "Shabby Abbey" | The Abbey Pub | Chicago, Illinois | July 31, 2011 | 104 | 0.99[5] |
4 | 4 | "Beach Bummer" | Kilkenny's Irish Pub | Redondo Beach, California | August 7, 2011[6] | 101 | 1.19[7] |
A pub in California, with a tough and rude manager and owners who won't do anything about it, gets help from Jon. New Name: Breakwall[Note 1] | |||||||
5 | 5 | "Swanky Troubles" | Swanky Bubbles | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | August 14, 2011 | 106 | 1.26[8] |
When a once successful bar suffers from an owner blindsiding his partner by offering free drinks and harassing women, Jon must get the partner to set him straight before the bar shuts down. Note: This is the first episode where the bar reverted to its old name at the end of the episode. New Name: Sheer[Note 4][Note 1] | |||||||
6 | 6 | "The Blue Frog Sings The Blues" | The Blue Frog 22 | Chicago, Illinois | August 21, 2011 | 103 | 1.06[9] |
7 | 7 | "Bad To The Bone" | The Chicken Bone | Framingham, Massachusetts | August 28, 2011 | 109 | 1.05[10] |
8 | 8 | "Chumps" | Champs Sports Pub | Burbank, California | September 11, 2011 | 107 | 1.31[11] |
Jon helps a once iconic bar that suffers from the owner being neglectful and blaming his inexperienced staff for the problems. New Name: N/A[Note 2] | |||||||
9 | 9 | "Bar Fight" | The Canyon Inn | Yorba Linda, California | September 18, 2011 | 108 | 1.04[12] |
Jon helps a baseball player turned owner update his dive bar, but not without some opposition. Note: This is the first bar to not have either a stress test or a soft opening. It is also the second bar to revert to its old name during the epilogue, when the owner changed the name of "Canyon Saloon" back to the "Canyon Inn". New Name: The Canyon Saloon (modernized version of old name)[Note 4] | |||||||
10 | 10 | "Hogtied Ham's" | Angry Ham's Garage | Framingham, Massachusetts | September 25, 2011 | 110 | 1.10[13] |