Tough As Nails (2020)

Name: Tough As Nails
Rating: 8.8

Rating: 8.8

Synopsis

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

First Air Date: 2020-07-08

Last Air Date: 2023-07-28

Number of Seasons: 5

Number of Episodes: 50

Created By: Phil Keoghan

Networks: CBS

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Top Cast

Phil Keoghan as Self - Host
Martin Short as Self

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Episodes:

Ep. 1: Redefining Toughness (2020-07-08)

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.
Ep. 2: Get the Job Done (2020-07-08)

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.
Ep. 3: Heavy Metal (2020-07-15)

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.
Ep. 4: Release the Bull! (2020-07-22)

Tensions run high during the team challenge when one crew has issues with communication while building a large fence on a farm.
Ep. 5: Mind Over Matter (2020-07-29)

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.
Ep. 6: Game of Telephone (2020-08-05)

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.
Ep. 7: Trash Day (2020-08-12)

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.
Ep. 8: Trust Your Gear (2020-08-19)

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.
Ep. 9: Cut It Up (2020-08-26)

Teams "Savage Crew" and "Dirty Hands" compete in the final competition to win the overall team prize.
Ep. 10: Finish the Job (2020-09-02)

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.