Episode
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: The Nickless Family
Overview
A respected nurse, a gifted craftsman and an environmentalist—Tim Nickless was all of these, on top of being a loving husband and father to three young boys. Ty and the gang roll into Holt, Michigan, where Tim, a true Renaissance man with a lust for life, passed away in early 2008 after a painful seven-year battle with Hepatitis C.
Details
- Series
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 2008-11-30
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
The Nickless Family is Episode 9 in Season 6 of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. It aired on 2008-11-30. The runtime is 42 min.
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Episode 8: The Frisch Family
Ty and his crew set to work on restoring a house that is home to 13 family members, but it can no longer cope with so many people.
Episode 10: The DeVries Family
Ty heads to Minnesota for a family who has transformed the lives of people in education through different creative methods. Their lives will change once Ty and the team have finished working on their home. This weeks hero is Susan DeVries. She suffers from Ventricular Tachycardia, and the arrhythmia is becoming more life threatening and could lead to her sudden death. Despite this Susan still happily works as a music teacher, band director and 1st grade reading specialist. Plus she shares the school bus driving job with her husband, Dirk, who lost one of his arms in a farming accident. When her school had no money for musical instruments Susan made them some out of anything she could find to recycle, including flutes made from plastic pipes.
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