Hoarders
Hoarders now takes an even deeper look at what goes into dealing with a hoarding crisis of epic magnitude. With hoards in Florida, Washington, Indiana, Massachusetts and Alaska, Hoarders’ team of experts come together to help families understand the impact of this devastating mental disorder while racing against the clock to help clean the hoards and avert crisis.
- 2009-2024
- 16 seasons
- A+E Networks
- Documentary, Reality
- TV-14
Hoarders now takes an even deeper look at what goes into dealing with a hoarding crisis of epic magnitude. With hoards in Florida, Washington, Indiana, Massachusetts and Alaska, Hoarders’ team of experts come together to help families understand the impact of this devastating mental disorder while racing against the clock to help clean the hoards and avert crisis.
Season 4 Episode Guide
17 Episodes 2011
Episode 1
Phyllis/Janet
Mon, Jun 20, 2011 44 mins
Every room in Phyllis' house is packed with dolls. Her obsession has manifested itself into a floor to ceiling collection of bags stuffed with dolls, and a doll hospital in a spare bedroom where she "amputates" the limbs of one doll to make another complete. Now, her son is threatening to call Adult Protective Services if she doesn't get a handle on her compulsion.
Episode 2
Billy Bob/Jean
Mon, Jun 27, 2011 44 mins
Billy Bob's house is so filled with toys and games, puzzles, cars, dolls and stuffed animals that he can no longer maneuver through the paths. The hoard has strained relationships with his children and his wife. In declining health, Billy Bob must now part with his collections or become a prisoner in his own home.
Episode 3
Season #2 Follow-Up: Augustine, Judi, Dennis/Nadene, Bob & Deborah
Mon, Jul 4, 2011 44 mins
In this special Hoarders follow-up episode we check in on the progress of Augustine, Deborah, Dennis and Nadene, Bob and Judi from Season Two.
Episode 4
Roy/Loretta
Mon, Jul 11, 2011 44 mins
Roy is facing $20 million in fines from the county for hoarding hundreds of vehicles on his property. Loretta and her husband were robbed at gunpoint and later had their home looted by thieves. They started over in a different neighborhood but the trauma and loss triggered Loretta's compulsion to hoard everything in their new home.
Episode 5
Randy/Vicki
Mon, Jul 18, 2011 44 mins
Randy's boardwalk memorabilia collection fills a 20,000 sqare foot building and numerous tractor trailers. He's spent millions on his fantasy world known as Randyland--but it's never been open to the public. Vicki's hoarding is breaking up her family. Not only is her husband ready to walk away from their marriage, but their 15-year-old son wants to move out as well.
Episode 6
Ron/Carol
Mon, Jul 25, 2011 44 mins
Ron's home is filled from top to bottom with paper--books, thousands of pages of sheet music, old newspapers, magazines and assorted trash.Ron must clean his home now or quite possibly die in it. Vivian's husband used to commute between his business in Detroit, Michigan and their home in California. But eventually his wife's hoard pushed him out of the home and into a hotel.
Episode 7
Beverly/Megan
Mon, Aug 1, 2011 43 mins
Beverly has been obsessively recording thousands and thousands of hours of audio and video for decades. Her home is filled with TV's and recorders, her yard piled high with boxes of tapes and her walls hidden behind floor to ceiling stacks of video cassettes. One of Beverly's daughters is threatening to report her to social services if she doesn't get help. Megan's home is hoarded and mouse-infested. Family Services has made several visits, but so far, Megan has managed to avoid letting them in the house. With the birth of a brand new baby, the house is currently unsafe to live in, so Megan, her husband Steven and their three kids are living in a motel. In order to get back into their home and avoid the risk of losing custody of all three of her children, Megan must now clean up.
Episode 8
Becky/Clare
Mon, Aug 8, 2011 44 mins
Becky's hoard fills 16 separate storage units and the monthly fees have driven her into debt. Currently living with her son and his fiancé, she has also started to hoard in their house. Fed up, they have given her until the end of the month to get rid of her hoard and move out. Because of her hoarding, Clare was forced by the Sheriff's Department to undergo involuntary mental examination and then banned from her own property until it is cleaned. She is staying with a friend while her son and his girlfriend have been living in a storage shed in the backyard with no running water. If Clare doesn't clean up her home, she risks losing her house and leaving her son homeless.
Episode 9
Stacey/Roi
Mon, Aug 15, 2011 44 mins
Stacey has two days to get rid of the 47 dogs and cats that have taken over her house. They have ripped everything to shreds and forced her 14-year-old daughter to move into her brother's home. Roi has already been in jail twice due to his hoard. And now the fire department has kicked him out of his house because of a gas leak buried deep in piles and piles of belongings.
Episode 10
Lisa/Bertha
Mon, Aug 22, 2011 44 mins
Lisa is an active chef, a member of various cooking groups, an expert on historical cooking gadgets--and a compulsive food hoarder. Even though she lives in an affluent DC neighborhood in a million-dollar home, her kitchen mirrors a slum. Bertha delivers newspapers for a living, stopping along the way to pick through her client's trash looking for "treasures" to bring home.
Episode 11
Season #3 Follow-Up: Vula, Al, Jim, Arline & Glen
Mon, Aug 29, 2011 44 mins
This one hour special updates viewers on what has happened to 5 of our hoarders 1 year after they received crisis assistance from the Hoarders Team. The stories include: Vula who was about to lose her cat hoard and her hoarded home to the city and animal protective services; Dumpster diving Al, whose 3 year old son had been removed from the hoarded home by child protective services; Jim whose exterior and interior hoard was so extreme, the city had condemned the property and his family was no longer allowed to return home without a clean up; Arline whose hoard was so bad her ailing husband was forced to sleep in a car: and Glen, the man with 2500 rat hoard running through his house.
Episode 12
Kevin/Mary
Mon, Oct 24, 2011 43 mins
Kevin is the youngest son of renowned political strategist and a silver screen star--both of whom have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He grew up in a huge mansion living a charmed life. But now Kevin has hoarded himself out of this Upper East Side Manhattan apartment and sleeps on a bench in front of the building.
Episode 13
John/Vivian
Mon, Oct 31, 2011 43 mins
John is a retired corrections officer living in a house with more than 30 cats hiding in the walls and ceilings. They run wild through most of the home and all surfaces are covered with cat feces and urine.
Episode 14
Judy/Jerry
Mon, Nov 7, 2011 43 mins
Judy hoarded herself out of her house and used cancer surgery as an excuse to stay with her friend Linda. A few weeks turned into a ten months nightmare of Judy hoarding and squatting in Linda's home. Now Linda and her family are ready to kick Judy out--cancer or no cancer. Judy needs to clean up before she ends up homeless.
Episode 15
Eileen/Judy
Mon, Nov 14, 2011 42 mins
Ronald is a fire-fighter who is legally mandated to report hoarded homes. In this case the hoarder is his wife, Eileen, and the house is his own. Eileen has destroyed not only her 3,200 sq. ft. home, but her relationships with her husband and six sons. Her son Steven has threatened to turn Eileen in to the health department if the living conditions are not improved for his four younger brothers.
Episode 16
Wilma/Nora
Mon, Nov 21, 2011 43 mins
Wilma's hoard has done so much damage to her home that the city has deemed the structure uninhabitable. Regardless, she is illegally squatting there and if she doesn't clean up, her property will be condemned. She takes no responsibility for her hoarding and the impact it has had on her three grown children
Episode 17
Mike/Bonnie
Mon, Nov 28, 2011 43 mins
Mike's house is so toxic that a virus she contracted in the home caused her kidneys to fail and almost killed her. Her doctor advised her not to return to the home until it was thoroughly cleaned. Bonnie is a 46-year-old single mother of two teenage daughters, neither of whom can remember ever having a clean house.
