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Twelve hard-working Americans take on navigating a wheelbarrow and testing their brick-laying skills to win the opportunity to choose their teams, on part one of the two-hour series premiere.

Redefining Toughness

The crew takes on three additional challenges: they get down and dirty in their first team competition as they work to complete the missing part of a railroad track; they "punch in" for their initial individual test, and the last two standing face off in a railroad overtime challenge, on part two of the two-hour series premiere.

Get the Job Done

The crew competes in a series of challenges at a junk yard, where they must take apart a car and retrieve auto parts. Next, the last two standing need all the strength they can spare in an overtime challenge removing tires from the rims.

Heavy Metal

Tensions run high during the team challenge when one crew has issues with communication while building a large fence on a farm.

Release the Bull!

It's no day at the beach for teams Savage Crew and Dirty Hands as they compete to fill and seal giant bags of sand.

Mind Over Matter

Teams are challenged mentally and physically when tasked with pushing 24 heavy barrels uphill and arranging them in a specific order at an oil field, and one crew member must conquer a fear of heights to climb a telephone pole.

Game of Telephone

The two crews each look for an important win in the team competition when tasked with packing a moving van, and competitors look to avoid elimination during the individual competition by collecting and loading trash into a moving garbage truck.

Trash Day

Competitors take on a series of "Five alarm" challenges at a firefighter training facility, where they must clear a 60-foot-long section of brush, save a victim from a simulated disaster zone and extinguish a fire before rappelling down from the top of a four-story building.

Trust Your Gear

Teams "Savage Crew" and "Dirty Hands" compete in the final competition to win the overall team prize.

Cut It Up

The final five competitors battle to be crowned the champion of TOUGH AS NAILS and win the $200,000 prize! Plus, the finalists get a much-needed boost when their loved ones cheer them on.

Finish the Job

The 12 new contenders who are everyday heroes take on their first job - making concrete - with the first two to complete the individual task named crew bosses who get to select their own crews for the team competitions.

Just Another Day on the Job

Things get slippery when the 12 everyday heroes punch in for their first individual challenge of transporting 250 pounds of slime eels into a container.

Keep on Baitin

The crew members dig deep in the individual competition as they maneuver a bulldozer through a course in order to avoid "punching out."

The Roller

Crew members get down on the farm in a series of jobs that require stacking 100 bales of hay, herding sheep and making horseshoes.

It's Gonna Be a Sheep Show

Crew members look to score a win in the team competition when they must convert a stadium from a concert venue to a soccer field.

Pour Your Heart Out

Crew members head into the city where they must complete a detailed paint job and clean the outside windows of a downtown skyscraper.

True Colors

The Dirty Hands and Savage Crew teams dig deep in order to sow the seeds of victory as they compete to landscape the front yard of a new house during the team competition.

Orange You Glad You're Tough

Dirty Hands looks to clench the $60,000 bonus in the team competition by being the first crew to restore a wreck into a working car.

Running on Empty

Fan favorites from season one stop by to lead the crew in the final team challenge hanging sheet rock, and in the individual challenge laying shingles.

Nothing Personal, It's Business

The final four crew members, Scott, Sarah, Zeus and Swifty, put it all on the line and compete in a series of challenges to be crowned the champion and win the $200,000 prize.

Everything Is on the Line

Twelve new contestants arrive and their first challenge is to race to receive cargo dropped from a C-130 plane.

Ready for Battle

Crew members punch in for their first individual challenge, repairing snow fences on Mt. Baldy, the highest peak in Los Angeles.

Fight Tooth and Nail

Season two crew member "Freight Train" returns to lead the competitors through their individual challenge of delivering boxes.

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Freight Train

Crew members visit the U.S. Coast Guard, where it's time to sink or swim in a search and rescue individual challenge.

Facing Fear

Savage Crew and Dirty Hands race to the Irwindale Speedway in Los Angeles, where they must work together to be the fastest team to complete a race car pit stop.

Pressure Don't Scare Me

The crews must install a crop field irrigation system.

Mud and Mayhem

Savage Crew and Dirty Hands take center stage when they must set up a lighting grid at the iconic Los Angeles theater The Wiltern.

Mic Drop

Savage Crew and Dirty Hands "pound the pavement" in the team competition where they must reseal a massive parking lot.

Battle Lines

Bull in a China Shop

Dreams Never Die

Host Phil Keoghan welcomes 12 new crew members to Catalina Island, off the coast of Southern California; competitors must build a concrete retaining wall for their first individual competition.

Welcome to Catalina Island

Part two of a special two hour season four premiere.

Perfect Symphony

Crew members visit a plant nursery where attention to detail is key when building a complex planter box in the individual challenge.

I Look Like Curious George

Diesel mechanic Quincey Walker guides the crews through a series of challenges that involve servicing automobiles.

That's a Safety Hazard

Savage Crew and Dirty Hands get tangled up in the team challenge when they must organize and load a 15,000-pound fishing net onto a boat.

Crush It!

Crew members compete in pairs to shrink wrap a large container, with the last couple to finish facing the overtime challenge where one person will be eliminated from the individual competition.

Rise and Grind

Season three competitor and carpenter Lamar Hanger returns to guide the crews through a series of construction challenges.

Skills to Pay the Bills

Pressure Is On

This Is Not a Sprint, It’s a Marathon

Keep Battling ‘til the End

Competitors cut, grind and torch 500 pounds of scrap metal; the first to finish the job earn the privilege of choosing their teammates.

First Dance

In the individual challenge, crew members are tasked with designing and welding a structure that can withstand the crushing force of 1 ton of weight.

Zink About It

Teams are tasked with completing a muddy motocross track to the exact standards of professional riders.

Man Made It, These Hands Can Fix It

Season 3 winner Lia Mort returns to guide the crews through a series of challenges at a local apple orchard; teams race to gather as many bushels of apples as quickly as possible.

How Do You Like Them Apples?

Working-class Americans are tested for their strength, endurance, agility and mental toughness in challenges that take place in the real world.

Just Trying to Be Me

The crews take a trip to the quarry where the contestants face the most explosive individual challenge ever when they must install 20 detonators.

Boom or Bust

Crew members compete in a series of challenges that give back to the local community

You Can't Always Be the Hammer

Dirty Hands and Savage Crew compete in the final team competition when they battle it out in a series of head-to-head matches inspired by the trades.

The Best Seasons of Tough As Nails

The Best Seasons of Tough As Nails

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