Moonshiners: True Crime & Shine
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Moonshiners: True Crime & Shine: With insider access only true outlaws can boast, Tim, Tickle, Mark and Digger investigate the crimes at the fringes of America's backwoods tradition.
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Next Air Time: Wed, Mar 11 2026 1:00 AM GMT+0000
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
7 episodes
E01
Rogue Sheriff
Wed, Mar 26 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000
41 min
Mark, Digger and Tim explore the 1970s-era Tennessee-Mississippi border where famed lawman Buford Pusser battled a crime mob fueled by illegal liquor money and ignited a lasting mystery about the disappearance of his would-be assassins.
E02
Pappygate Conspiracy
Wed, Mar 26 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000
41 min
Moonshiners Mark, Digger, Tim, and Tickle delve deep into bourbon country's darkest secret. When 200 bottles of the coveted Pappy Van Winkle vanish, the theft of the world's most expensive bourbon is just the tip of a staggering criminal conspiracy.
E03
The Real McCoy
Wed, Mar 26 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000
41 min
Moonshiners Mark, Digger, and Tim delve deep into the case of the most prolific and elusive bootlegger of the Prohibition era. Declared Public Enemy Number One by the government, Bill McCoy's outlaw mission was about a lot more than just fame and fortune.
E04
Murder on Thunder Road
Wed, Mar 26 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000
41 min
Moonshiners Mark, Tim, and Josh drive the notorious Thunder Road in Dawson County, Georgia, to investigate the murder of "Lightning" Lloyd Seay, a notorious bootlegger turned pioneering stock car racer who was killed over a few bags of sugar.
E05
A Raid That Changed Moonshine
Wed, Mar 26 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000
41 min
Moonshiners Henry Law, Tickle, and Tim revisit Operation Lightning Strike -- a massive federal anti-moonshine action. Targeting Franklin County, Virginia, the so-called "Moonshine Capital of the World," its aftermath left deep scars in the community.
E06
Crimes Against Popcorn Sutton
Wed, Mar 26 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000
41 min
For legendary outlaw Popcorn Sutton, freedom means answering to a higher law, making tax-free liquor as his forefathers did. But now that Popcorn's in the government's crosshairs, no moonshiner in history has ever felt more persecuted by the law.
E07
Caught in the Act
Wed, Mar 26 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000
41 min
Tim, Tickle, Mark and Digger deploy hard-won lessons from backwoods tradition to get away with making and bootlegging illegal moonshine. However, on the other side of the fence, law enforcement uses their own tactics and tech to catch them in the act.
Season 2
5 episodes
E01
Sin City, Alabama
Wed, Jan 7 2026 2:01 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Mark, Digger and Tim uncover a moonshine-soaked conspiracy in Phenix City, Alabama, where corrupt power brokers prey on young soldiers. When one man dares to fight back, his back-alley murder sparks a reckoning that would finally break the mob's grip.
E02
Brooklyn Whiskey Wars
Wed, Jan 14 2026 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Mark, Digger and Tim investigate the bloody battles of Civil War-era Brooklyn, when the government sent Marines to enforce liquor taxes -- and urban moonshiners fought back, setting the tone for centuries of conflict between the revenuers and distillers.
E03
Seaside Speakeasy Conspiracy
Wed, Jan 21 2026 2:01 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Mark, Digger and Tim investigate a Prohibition-era speakeasy in Connecticut that served bootleg liquor to the hottest celebrities of the day. But when New York's mobsters came calling, glamour gave way to gunplay -- federal agents closed in for the kill.
E04
Texas Bootleg Betrayal
Wed, Mar 11 2026 1:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Mark, Digger and Tim investigate a small TX town that became a moonshine capital during Prohibition. When the Texas Rangers flip a local bootlegger, his knowledge of the outlaw liquor trade leads to raids, arrests and the turncoat's own unsolved murder.
E05
Moonshine, Marijuana, and Murder
Wed, Mar 18 2026 1:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Mark, Digger and Tim uncover a backcountry murder mystery tied to Kentucky moonshiners who swapped cannabis for corn liquor. What had been, for decades, a cat-and-mouse game between bootleggers and revenuers erupts into a life-or-death fight for survival.