Backyard Oil – Season 1
Episodes
Barons of the Backyard
The Bird Man Cometh
Mountain Man John Rascal’s only got one more shot to hit oil on his land, while high Roller Jimmy Reliford gambles that a rooster can find black gold.
Kentucky Fried Church
With a wildcat drill up for lease on Amish land, Rascal finds kinship in his bearded Amish buddy, but will an oil strike lead him astray? Jimmy and his right-hand man Mad Dog plan to drill a Kentucky Fried vision that could prove totally water-logged.
A Big Oil Man Witch
Father/son oilmen Dan and Ken Page employ a twin-toed warlock to hunt oil for a female squat thrust champion and her dentist husband, while Wildcat Coomer digs in to what could be a $20 million well.
Pump Jack'ed
Father/son oilmen Dan and Ken Page spar over how to strike oil, and Dan’s gloating could cost them $60,000. Meanwhile, hard-drillin’ Mad Dog looks to unclog a blockage that might be stopping up the oil...
Science Comes to Town
Coomer has some fun with an overeager "city slicker" client as they attempt to strike oil. Mad Dog and his roughneck crew team up with scientist Jereal Brown to put his oil-finding technology to the test - and to the tune of millions.
The Mayor, the Myth, and the Mad Dog
The small town of Willis Creek (population 8) has enlisted the Pages to help them strike oil, and hopefully entice some people to move back to town. But with Dan and Ken at odds over their drilling approach, and potential sabotage from a neighboring rival.
Game of Possum
Coomer tests out his patented possum bait during a drill. Mad Dog must guard the drill rig by surviving the night in a haunted house that may hide Jesse James’ lost gold.
Ms. Kentucky Oil
Adair County Oil Men court a new drilling client - the ravishing Miss Kentucky 2010, Mallory Ervin! Dan Page wrassles with a decidedly less appealing landowner - an irascible chainsaw-wielding hermit named Bear Man.
Milkshakin'
Two of kentucky's biggest oil barons, Jimmy and Rascal, are going head-to-head in a winner-take-all drilling competition. On the line are two properties and a whole 'lotta black gold!