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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
