Take flight with the Pawn Stars when a letter recovered from the United Flight 736 crash gets delivered to the shop. Will Corey get the message or will it be returned to sender? Then, Rick examines some nozzles from the Queen Mary ocean liner. Can Rick float the deal or will he go down with a sinking ship? And later, when traffic is driving away business, Rick lets Chum take the wheel by finally making him a manager... of the parking lot. Will Chum clear the jam or is he heading for a crash?.
Pawn Stars is filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it chronicles the daily activities at the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, a 24-hour family business operated by patriarch Richard Harrison (or "The Old Man"), his son Rick Harrison (who opened the shop with his father in 1988), Rick's son Corey (who has worked there since childhood), and Corey's childhood friend, Austin "Chumlee" Russell.
The series depicts the staff's interactions with customers, who bring in a variety of artifacts to sell or pawn and who are shown haggling over the price and discussing its historical background, with narration provided by the Harrisons and occasionally Chumlee. The series also follows the interpersonal conflicts among the cast.
Numerous local experts in a variety of areas also regularly appear to appraise the items being sold or pawned.