The Chamber of Commerce, the City of Kingfisher, some of its early 1900s homes and even the high school baseball coach have played a part in a major television production taking place here this week.

Impact Productions recently toured sites in Kingfisher and agreed to film parts of the third season of “The Story Behind the Story,” which is based on Mike Rowe’s podcast series, “The Way I Heard It.”

Rowe will be a part of the filming here, which is set to take place Thursday and Friday, according to Jonathan Coussens, director of the series.

Rowe is the popular host of TV shows such as “Dirty Jobs” and “Deadliest Catch.”

In “The Story Behind the Story,” Rowe provides different takes on a variety of topics ranging from pop culture to politics to history to Hollywood.

“Each episode contains true stories you don’t know about some famous people you probably do,” Coussens said.

The film crew spent last week in Bartlesville and will spend the first part of this week in Guthrie before coming to Kingfisher.

Coussens told The Times & Free Press they’ll be shooting stories about Gerald Ford, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gene Simmons.

Impact Productions shot scenes at historic Homier Field in Kingfisher Park about 10 years ago.

That led to them inquiring in early June about returning for this series.

“When they called, they initially asked if we had any possible locations of old, historic homes dating in the period of 1910 to 1930,” said Shauna Rupp, Kingfisher Chamber of Commerce director.

“I told him (Coussens) we had plenty of those and he asked if it was worth his time to come look. I said, ‘Absolutely!”

Part of the production crew later visited Kingfisher and Rupp helped them scout seven potential homes.

Three of them were selected for filming, including the home of Kingfisher Mayor Roxie Alexander.

The crew will also once again film scenes at Homier Field, which is meticulously cared for by KHS head baseball coach Stan Blundell and his staff.

“They complimented the field, the shape it’s in and how iconic it looks,” Rupp said. “They told us how blessed we are to have it and said to not ever let anyone change it because you just don’t find places like that anymore.”

A cast and crew of 40 to 50 people will be in town multiple days.

Rupp said they’ll be staying at Kingfisher’s Holiday Inn during production.

Kingfisher First Christian Church will provide parking space for all of the larger production equipment as well as a cast room indoors.

The city did its part to make Kingfisher more appealing by completing the application process for the Oklahoma Film Friendly Community Program, which falls under the Oklahoma Film & Music Office.

The program is designed to help communities develop the necessary permits and protocols to address film and television production in their area.

City Manager Dave Slezickey said the application process was completed earlier this year and expects to have the actual certification by the end of this month.

“We love Kingfisher, so why shouldn’t the rest of the world get the opportunity to see it on the big screen?” Slezickey said.

Rupp agreed. “It’s just very exciting to have everyone working together,” Rupp said. “We’ve got the chamber, the city, businesses, homeowners, churches and more doing their part to keep Kingfisher on the map.”

The film and television production industry has seen its share of growth in Oklahoma in recent years.

Impact Productions is based in Tulsa.

“For a long time the coasts have discounted the middle of the country, but not anymore,” Coussens said. “We are consistently proving Oklahoma and Oklahomans know how to make feature and episodic content. I’m especially proud to be working in my home state on a show like this.”

Rupp feels Kingfisher is a great spot.

“They’re coming from Guthrie and they’ve had all kinds of films shot there over the years,” Rupp said.

“I think we’re on the right track to see that grow for Kingfisher as well.”