The WORST episodes of Tough As Nails

#1 - Get the Job Done

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/8/2020

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.

#2 - Mind Over Matter

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/29/2020

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.

#3 - Heavy Metal

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/15/2020

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.

#4 - You Can't Always Be the Hammer

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/23/2023

#5 - Fight, Tooth, and Nail

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/2021

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

#6 - Ready for Battle

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2021

Phil Keoghan welcomes the 12 new crew members to Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in Southern California, where season one winner Marine Veteran Kelly "Murph" Murphy returns to kick off the new season and guide the crew through their first challenge: race to receive cargo dropped from a C-130 plane.

#7 - Winning's Not Everything, But Losing Sucks

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/28/2023

#8 - Just Trying to Be Me

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/16/2023

Dirty Hands and Savage Crew race to locate and purchase a long list of heavy, bulky items from a large home improvement store during the team competition. Meanwhile, one crew member faces an extremely difficult decision.

#9 - The Roller

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/24/2021

Crew members manoeuvre a bulldozer through a course in order to avoid "punching out.”

#10 - Running on Empty

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/31/2021

Dirty Hands look set to secure a cash bonus in the team competition by restoring a wreck into a working car.

#11 - Boom or Bust

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/21/2023

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

#12 - Man Made It, These Hands Can Fix It

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/9/2023

In the team challenge, Dirty Hands and Savage Crew are tasked with completing a muddy motocross track to the exact standards of professional riders.

#13 - Ready For Take Off

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/30/2023

The individual finalists race to demo, smash, cut and stack their way over shipping containers, with the first to finish the job crowned the winner.

#14 - Everything Is On the Line

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/14/2021

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.

#15 - Redefining Toughness

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/8/2020

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.

#16 - First Dance

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/2/2023

Meet the 12 new crew members ready to test their strength, endurance, life skills and mental toughness on the new season of TOUGH AS NAILS. In the first individual challenge of the season, competitors will cut, grind and torch 500 pounds of scrap metal. The first to finish the job earn the privilege of choosing their teammates for Dirty Hands and Savage Crew.

#17 - Release the Bull!

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/22/2020

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

#18 - Pour Your Heart Out

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/10/2021

Crew members must convert a stadium from a concert venue to a soccer field.

#19 - Trash Day

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/12/2020

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.

#20 - Nothing Personal, It's Business

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/7/2021

Fan favorites from Season 1 stop by to lead the crew in hanging sheet rock for the final team challenge and laying shingles for the individual challenge.

#21 - It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Freight Train

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2021

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

#22 - Game of Telephone

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/5/2020

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.

#23 - It's Gonna Be a Sheep Show

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/3/2021

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

#24 - I Look Like Curious George

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/11/2023

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

#25 - Pressure Is On

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/15/2023

With the $60,000 cash bonus prize on the line, Savage Crew and Dirty Hands face off in the team competition where they must clean up trash in an alleyway.