Bar Rescue

Thursday, December 19

Swanky Troubles

Season 1 • Episode 5

Swanky Bubbles is a failing champagne bar in Philadelphia.

Thursday, December 19

Bug Bite

Season 4 • Episode 1

A nightclub resorts to an 18-and-over night to get a crowd and ends up liable for unruly teenagers.

Thursday, December 19

Rock 'N Roaches

Season 3 • Episode 2

A cockroach infestation plagues a grotesque rock bar in Austin, Texas.

Thursday, December 19

Anything You Can Yell, I Can Yell Louder

Season 4 • Episode 5

Three loud-mouthed firefighting brothers struggle to keep their Queens bar afloat.

Thursday, December 19

Crazy Little Thing Called Selman

Season 6 • Episode 9

Taffer tries to tame the rocket-like owner of the famed Cooper Rocket before he does himself in.

Thursday, December 19

Liv'n on a Prayer

Season 6 • Episode 34

Liv can't find her business identity in order to survive in the highly competitive Vegas market.

Thursday, December 19

Outta Touch, Outta Time

Season 8 • Episode 25

Jon encounters an unruly husband of an owner who is on the brink of closing her bar in Arvada, Colo.

Thursday, December 19

The Mother of All Failures

Season 7 • Episode 16

Jon heads to Phoenix to help a veteran bar owner who borrowed money from her family.

Thursday, December 19

Quick-Sandtown Rescue

Season 8 • Episode 18

In the heart of Atlanta, Jon helps an owner seize her second chance in life by saving her bar.

Friday, December 20

Tiki Curse

Season 2 • Episode 2

Jon tries to get a bevy of beautiful barmaids to stop The Bamboo Beach Tiki Bar from failing.

Friday, December 20

Blowing Royal Smoke

Season 4 • Episode 34

Feuding brothers drive away customers at the oldest bar and BBQ joint in Youngstown, Ohio.

Friday, December 20

Barely Above Water

Season 3 • Episode 20

Taffer tries to save a marriage and a bar by splitting one bar into two.

Friday, December 20

Storming the Castle

Season 4 • Episode 16

A castle-shaped bar with an owner whose attitude is pushing staff to their breaking points.

Friday, December 20

Rickety Rockin' Rhonda's

Season 5 • Episode 28

It's a race against the clock as Jon Taffer tries to rescue a failing bar with a crumbling floor.

Friday, December 20

John and Bert Bought a Bar

Season 6 • Episode 40

Inexperienced bar owners have one shot with Jon Taffer to save their failing business.

Friday, December 20

In the Rough

Season 7 • Episode 11

Two absentee owners refuse to engage with the staff or customers until Jon Taffer intervenes.

Friday, December 20

Put This Fire Out

Season 8 • Episode 36

Jon tries to save a firehouse-themed bar outside of Boise, Idaho.

Friday, December 20

Till the Wagon Wheels Fall Off

Season 9 • Episode 21

Jon Taffer sends Phil Wills and Danny Trejo to Texas to help a pair of friends save their bar.

Saturday, December 21

To Protect and to (Over) Serve

Season 4 • Episode 6

Straightening out a former Philly detective who now owns a bar and hits the bottle hard.

Sunday, December 22

Taffer's Top 10: Worst Owners

Counting down the ten worst owners encountered during the first three seasons.

Sunday, December 22

Land of the Beer and Home of the Misbehaved

Season 4 • Episode 47

A restaurant owner could lose everything as her nephew and manager run her bar into the ground.

Sunday, December 22

Whipped Into Shape

Season 5 • Episode 3

After gambling away his savings, a desperate owner tries out a fetish night to whip up new business.

Sunday, December 22

Stix and Stones May Break Your Bar

Season 6 • Episode 43

After a decade of success, a drag racing bar owner sees his profits go up in smoke.

Sunday, December 22

Hideaway From Reality

Season 8 • Episode 26

Jon faces an owner unwilling to own up to his mistakes and failures.

Friday, December 27

Low Five Dive

Season 9 • Episode 5

Jon Taffer attempts to rescue a bar in Arizona whose owner has let the bar fall into disrepair.

Friday, December 27

A Drunk, a Fruit Fly, and a Knight Walk into a Bar

Season 9 • Episode 4

Mixologist Phil Wills rescues a filthy bar in Oxnard, Calif.; helping a newlywed couple.

Saturday, December 28

I Smell a Rat

Season 3 • Episode 38

Overwhelming odors and frat house behavior at this hookah bar are causing profits to go up in smoke.

Monday, December 30

Jon of the Dead

Season 3 • Episode 22

A bar run by two burned-out rockers is failing.

Monday, December 30

Penalty on the Bar

Season 8 • Episode 13

Jon Taffer tries to help a former hospitality professional regain his passion for the industry.

Tuesday, December 31

All Twerk & No Pay

Season 4 • Episode 14

Out-of-control bartenders are too busy dancing on the bar to pour drinks.

Tuesday, December 31

Friends Without Benefits

Season 9 • Episode 10

Phil Wills helps an iconic live music venue get back on its feet, after years of mismanagement.

Wednesday, January 1

Feels Bad at Philgoods

Season 9 • Episode 18

Jon Taffer heads to Florida, to help a bar veteran fix his family issues.

Wednesday, January 1

Working to Death

Season 8 • Episode 19

Jon heads to Tampa, Fla., to help save an owner who has suffered personal loss and health scares.

Wednesday, January 1

El Moronte!!

Season 4 • Episode 4

Deflating the ego of a passionate Puerto Rican bar owner who berates his staff and sons.

Wednesday, January 1

Don't Cry for Me Jon Taffer

Season 6 • Episode 27

On the verge of tears and closing his bar, the owner can't seem to get either together.

Thursday, January 2

Hogtied Ham's

Season 1 • Episode 10

Jon tries to save automotive-themed Angry Ham's Garage.

Thursday, January 2

Scoreboard to Death

Season 3 • Episode 34

Wrangling with an incompetent owner and undertrained staff; actress Maria Menounos guest stars.

Thursday, January 2

A Dash of Bitters

Season 4 • Episode 7

Taffer uses the help of an owner's ex-wife and former manager to help turn a bar around.

Thursday, January 2

Beach Rats

Season 4 • Episode 13

Taffer is brought to tears after finding out what the owners of a beachfront bar have endured.

Thursday, January 2

Daddy Dearest

Season 5 • Episode 27

A family run bar is on the brink of ruin with an aggressive father at its helm.

Thursday, January 2

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Fatballs

Season 6 • Episode 20

Jon tries to rescue a Jacksonville sports bar with a horrible reputation and an even worse name.

Thursday, January 2

Bottoms Up, Going Down

Season 7 • Episode 12

Jon arrives at Bottoms Up to discover a staff running wild and an owner ready to sell her bar.

Thursday, January 2

Magically Atrocious

Season 8 • Episode 20

In Ybor City, Fla., Jon helps rescue a bar owner who made some questionable choices.

Thursday, January 2

Midtown Slump

Season 9 • Episode 22

Jon Taffer needs to rescue a failing bar in Houston, TX, whose owner turned his life upside down.

Friday, January 3

When Life Doesn't Hand You Lemons

Season 3 • Episode 37

A manager treats his bar like a romantic playground; Taffer demands inside help from the bartenders.

Friday, January 3

Grow Some Meatballs!

Season 3 • Episode 35

Disaster ignites in the kitchen; inexperienced staff; siblings conflict with an explosive father.

Friday, January 3

Bar Over Troubled Water

Season 5 • Episode 19

Taffer rescues a successful bar, and the beacon of a community, that was destroyed by flooding.

Friday, January 3

Vulgar Vixens

Season 4 • Episode 38

Jon confronts a foul-mouthed owner in a failing Michigan bar with a confusing theme.

Friday, January 3

Big Trouble in Little China Grove

Season 6 • Episode 35

A Texas couple on the brink of retirement can't stop enabling their belligerent daughter.

Friday, January 3

The Gaslamp Redemption

Season 7 • Episode 15

An owner who is fighting cancer and his manager try to work together to save their failing bar.

Friday, January 3

Every Rosé Has Its Thorn

Season 8 • Episode 4

Owner Randi thought she could parlay the success of her floral business into a budding new bar.

Friday, January 3

Loveless in Loveland

Season 8 • Episode 29

Jon attempts to rescue a bar owner on the verge of losing his business and his marriage.

Friday, January 3

From Camo to Cocktail

Season 9 • Episode 13

Jon comes to the rescue of a nearly 100 year old VFW Post that was decimated from Covid.

Saturday, January 4

The Lost Episode

Taking on a hot-tempered New Jersey bar owner who can't stop kicking people out of his bar.

Sunday, January 5

Don't Judge a Booze by its Bottle

Season 3 • Episode 12

Jon learns that a North Carolina nightclub is refilling premium liquor bottles with cheap alcohol.

Sunday, January 5

How to Train Your Goldfish

Season 5 • Episode 5

A staffing crisis hits a sports pub, leaving the owners without any employees.

Sunday, January 5

Not Cleared for Takeoff

Season 6 • Episode 16

Jon must help reignite a bar owner's passion for his notorious East LA music venue.

Sunday, January 5

Doreen's Dilemma

Season 6 • Episode 42

The daughter of a longtime bar owner must learn her father's business after he abruptly passes away.

Sunday, January 5

3rd Pocket's a Charm

Season 8 • Episode 31

Jon finds a bar with an absent owner, an untrained staff, and an infestation of pests.