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This sixth edition of the Best of Discovery series includes 4 DVDs featuring top picks from Dirty Jobs, Man vs. Wild, Wreckreation Nation, Treasure Quest, Cake Boss, 18 Kids & Counting, American Chopper, River Monsters, Jockeys, and Whale Wars.

Dirty Jobs: Season 4 - An unflinching look at the unsung American worker, and the unusual but vital vocations that must be done. There's a lot to learn as host Mike Rowe introduces us to an elite assortment of men and women who make their living doing the most unthinkable jobs. Eps. 1: Animal Rendering - Mike takes a trip to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles to find out about the important work being done in Pit 91. He climbs down into the pit to shore up the walls to prevent the pit from being filled in with the surrounding dirt. He then pulls out the old rotten boards and learns why it's important to study fossils. Mike installs new boards and heads over to the glopping area where he uses his hands to remove the asphalt from the trench that carries the water in the pit to the sump pump. The sump can also get clogged with asphalt so Mike climbs into the sump pump pit and removes buckets full of asphalt to clear it out. When the mission is complete, he dumps the buckets of asphalt into a pit that is currently not being excavated. After cleaning up, Mike heads into the fishbowl where he puts on a lab coat and opens a casing containing a fossil. Mike then journeys to Northern California to discover what happens to animals when they die of natural causes on farms. He begins his day on a farm where he loads the animals onto the truck and takes them to North State Rendering. He uses compressed air to separate the hide from the animal before he skins it. Next, he takes the hide and drops it down a hole in the floor to the cellar and then sends the animal into the grinder. Mike learns the definition of rendering and about the by- products of the rendering process. He sends the grounds to the cookers so they can be reduced into yellow grease and protein. After cooking the meat, Mike separates the grease from the protein and presses the meat. He then heads to the cellar and spreads the hides to salt them. Finally, Mike shovels grease and fixes the skimmer before saying goodbye and heading home.

Man Vs Wild: Season 3 - Bear Grylls has served with the British Special forces, climbed Everest and explored the Arctic. In this exciting series he shows us how to survive the toughest and most visited environments on the planet by putting himself in the position of a stranded tourist. He parachutes into rainforests, abseils into deserts and lakes, and onto the highest, most inhospitable peaks in America. Using his specialist survival techniques to find his way out of these wildernesses he climbs sheer cliffs, navigates white water and icy crevasses, encounters snakes, spiders and predators and forages for food, from maggots and raw fish, to roots and berries. Eps 1: Baja Desert - Bear Grylls is back in a new season of Man vs. Wild. He parachutes into the boulder strewn desert canyons on the Baja Peninsula of Mexico. In temperatures soaring into the 120s he tackles dehydration, heatstroke, and overwhelming odds to show how you can survive the challenges of the desert. Bear traps a skunk, makes an ingenious water trap from his bootlaces, and scales 500ft high cliffs. Yet the biggest threat to him comes from a tiny bee sting which swells his eyes shut and half blinds him. In this terrible condition he has to battle a deadly diamond-back rattlesnake.

Wreckreation Nation Host Dave Mordal takes us on a guided tour of America's backyard adventurers and free-time fanatics: people who take their hobbies seriously - and to the extreme! Whether it's Punkin' Chunkin' in Delaware, Barstool Sledding in Wisconsin, or Alligator Wrestling in Colorado, Dave leaves no corner of the country unexplored in his quest for people who aren't afraid to make their own fun. "Adventure Man" highlights instances of American ingenuity including home-town traditions, competitions and downright quirky pastimes that make this country so unique. It's an inside look at what people do when they have too much free time on their hands, as well as the length they will go to just to have a little fun! Eps 1: Lawn Mower Racing - Host Dave Mordal takes us on a guided tour of America's backyard adventurers and free-time fanatics: people who take their hobbies seriously - and to the extreme! Whether it's Punkin' Chunkin' in Delaware, Barstool Sledding in Wisconsin, or Alligator Wrestling in Colorado, Dave leaves no corner of the country unexplored in his quest for people who aren't afraid to make their own fun. "Adventure Man" highlights instances of American ingenuity including home-town traditions, competitions and downright quirky pastimes that make this country so unique. It's an inside look at what people do when they have too much free time on their hands, as well as the length they will go to just to have a little fun!

Treasure Quest: Season 1 - Odyssey Marine Exploration, a world leader in private deepwater exploration and recovery, is gearing up for its most ambitious season of treasure hunting yet. Its goal for the 2008 season is extraordinary: to find and recover two of the greatest shipwreck treasures ever lost at sea. Their value: well in excess of one billion dollars. Yet the stakes of this adventure aren't limited to riches. Odyssey Marine Exploration is setting itself another challenge: to penetrate the mysteries of dozens of never-before-seen shipwrecks -- and to bring to light their stories of untold riches, courageous men and women, tragic endings, and remarkable rescues. Eps 1: The Merchant Royal - Odyssey Marine Exploration is a company dedicated to finding and recovering sunken treasure. The 2008 search season is just beginning in the English Channel, where they have a fleet of ships focused on finding the richest shipwreck treasure of all time -- the billion-dollar cargo of the Merchant Royal. With company CEO Greg Stemm onboard to supervise the search, the 251-foot Odyssey Explorer heads out to a secret location in the mouth of the Channel. Using a multi-million dollar, eight-ton robot, Odyssey dives on a shipwreck that has all the characteristics of the Merchant Royal. But bad underwater visibility and an unexpected visit from the French Navy chase them from the site and onto a secondary target. But this could turn out to be a blessing in disguise -- at the second location they immediately find "white gold", precious raw ivory. Can the Merchant Royal's motherlode of gold, silver, and jewels still be found -- and will the ivory tusk they recover prove to be the vital clue?

Cake Boss: Season 1 - Buddy Valastro is one of the most successful and renowned cake artists in the United States. Master baker of Carlo's City Hall Bake Shop in Hoboken, New Jersey, Buddy is the cake boss. He supervises a team that includes his mother, four older sisters and three brothers-in-law. And when you're working with family on a daily basis, there is bound to be a lot of drama. The Valastros know drama but at the end of the day they also know love. Cake Boss is the half-hour series that chronicles Buddy's over-arching desire to achieve his late father's dream of making Carlo's Bake Shop a household name with or without the help of his family Eps. 1: A Bride, A Boat, and Bamboozled - Meet award-winning pastry chef and cake decorator Buddy Valastro and his over-the-top family at Carlo?s Bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey. After beginning a week completely jam-packed with cake orders, Buddy gets a call from a customer he cannot possibly turn down. Brides Magazine is offering Buddy an inside cover photo spread but he?s going to have to create a cake unlike any he?s ever done before. Between arguing with his family, producing the standard 300-plus cakes the bakery makes in any given week and running out of sugar, is there any way Buddy and Company are going to get this opportunity of a lifetime cake done in time? All the while Buddy?s sisters are planning their brother a surprise birthday party.

18 Kids & Counting The Duggar family may well be the best-known large family in history. Famous the world around for having 17 children all from one intrepid mother, this brood draws attention and questions wherever they go. And, with mom Michelle and father Jim Bob barely in their forties, there's a good chance the family will grow even larger before their baby birthing days are done! With 10 boys and 7 girls ranging in ages from less than a year up to age 20, there's never a shortage of interesting events around this place. In fact, even the simplest things are complex when your family's this big- laundry, dinner, home schooling, any trip out in public -- it all takes brilliant organization and every individual pitching in for the good of the whole. Follows the lives of the Duggar family as they look forward to their 18th baby.Eps 1: Bringing Home Baby Duggar - She's ready for her close up! Jordyn-Grace Makiya Duggar comes home to join her brothers and sisters just in time for a photo shoot! People magazine takes a special interest in the Duggars and gathers them all for an upcoming issue.

American Chopper: Season 6 - OCC lands an important international client as they are hired to build a bike for the Abu Dhabi police department. The bike is intricate and the guys are forced to make many changes before it's complete. Meanwhile, Jr. continues to work on his boutique as well as his newly formed design company. Seeing a good business opportunity Sr. travels to the Middle East in an attempt to expand OCC's international reach. Mikey isn't invited on the trip and begins to wonder about his future with the company. Eps 1: NHL Bike/B-2 Bomber Bike - The guys of OCC have their work cut out for them with two new projects: a B-2 Bomber bike for Northrop Grumman and one for the NHL. The company's foundation is rocked as Paul Sr. and Paul Jr. go head to head in a no hold's barred argument.

River Monsters: Season 1 - Extreme angler, Jeremy Wade, is on the hunt for freshwater fish with a taste for human flesh. This rip-roaring ride through the dark side of nature mixes action and adventure with mysteries, edge of the seat chase and a battle of wills between man and almost supernatural beasts who lurk in the serpentine waterways of the planet, mooching murderously underwater, growing to truly awesome sizes. Watch as Jeremy Wade deconstructs exactly how these river monsters are constructed to kill. Eps 1: Alligator Gar n the deep South is a river monster with the reputation of a Devil. Blamed for a series of violent attacks on humans, this creature is said to be as vicious as a shark and as big as a gator. The authorities said it should be annihilated. But not all are so quick to condemn it. Extreme angler Jeremy Wade heads to Texas on its trail in an attempt to uncover the facts behind this animal's notoriety. Helped by local expertise and with his own wits honed sharp, he finds new ways to reveal the truth about the monster Alligator Gar.

Jockeys: Season 1 - Animal Planet brings viewers into a world dominated by ferocious rivalries, fierce bonds and extraordinary risk as it documents the behind-the-scenes lives of jockeys and their magnificent racehorses. It is a world ruled by 112 lb. men (or less) on 1,200 lb. Thoroughbreds - equipped with oversized personalities and big dreams. JOCKEYS follows numerous athletes as they compete amongst each other during the course of a 30-day racing season. This is the only pro sport where if you don't win, the pay is meager. The pressure is high. Months of preparation go into each one-to-two-minute race, and jockeys ride as many as 10 races a day with an ambulance traveling at high speeds right behind the field of horses. They risk life and limb knowing that virtually every year, an average of two jockeys die while riding races in North America. Meet the superstars whose success depends on knocking out the competition. Big winners, who have won horse racing's richest purses, live beside jockeys who have never won a race and struggle to make next month's rent. It is cut-throat competition, and cameras follow the action from pre-race jitters to the finish line - and everything in between. Eps 1: At The Starting Gate - We are introduced to the treacherous world of thoroughbred horse racing-and to a fierce rivalry between jockeys Joe Talamo and Aaron Gryder-at one of the most dangerous tracks in the country. Meanwhile, top Canadian jockey Chantal Sutherland makes the big move to southern California to boost her career and to save her fragile relationship with Hall of Fame jock Mike Smith. At Opening Day of the prestigious Oak Tree Meet at Santa Anita, there is a crash. Friends and loved-ones look on from the stands as we're left to wonder: Is it Mike? Joe??

Whale Wars: Season 1 - Highlighting both the controversial whaling trade and the tactics that Sea Shepherd and its staff and volunteers use to attempt to cripple it, Whale Wars documents the group's three-month sojourn across the icy Antarctic waters at the far end of the globe. Each week, viewers will embark on a powerful and adrenaline-fueled adventure and spotlight how Sea Shepherd take action against alleged illegal whaling operations. The Society's fight to eradicate Japanese whaling on the high seas - where international laws are interpreted by different countries and organizations in different ways - utilizes some aggressive techniques, including ramming and disabling whaling ships; disrupting whale carcass processing; engaging in physical entanglement; and boarding and dispersing fleets of whaling vessels. Eps 1: The Sound of Ice - Paul Watson and the volunteer Sea Shepherds head back down to Antarctica for what promises to be their most intense anti-whaling campaign yet. However, no sooner does the Steve Irwin leave port than the ship's Gyro breaks, and they hit a massive storm the size of Australia. Despite these setbacks, the Sea Shepherds manage to locate the Japanese Whaling fleet in record time - only to lose them in an ice field. As the Sea Shepherds steer through the dangerous ice to try and reach their target, Peter Brown takes the helm.