Hillbilly Blood

2012 • Destination America

4.7

107 reviews

TV-14

Rating

Eligible

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Season 2 episodes (12)

1 Moonshining Secrets

4/13/13

Eugene and Spencer go on a mission to track down a mystery moonshiner who has overtaken Eugene's spot as top bootlegger in the holler and learn his secrets to a better brew. In the process, they'll have to brave freezing rivers and disarm a deadfall trap.

2 Church and Snake

4/13/13

Doing their part to keep mountain traditions alive, Spencer and Eugene help a local preacher in need of snakes for a Pentecostal church service. A dangerous assignment, especially in winter, they need to devise gadgets to protect themselves and any snake

3 Sucken Treasure

4/20/13

Spencer and Eugene concoct a home made pontoon barge and diving gear to retrieve submerged old growth logs. They'll risk life and limb diving into the frigid lake.

4 Hillbilly Tow

4/27/13

Spencer and Eugene go out on a limb to extract a rare 1940s Willys jeep abandoned in the forest. They'll cut down a two-ton tree to help free the jeep from its precarious perch. If the tree falls the wrong way, it could destroy the jeep and kill the boys

5 Mine Full of Gems

5/4/13

If the boys can repair a decrepit garnet mine, they stand to uncover a treasure trove of gems. But nothing comes easy for these mountain men. They trek across dangerously muddy roads and risk being buried alive if their hillbilly engineering can't hold.

6 Apple Jack

5/11/13

Making Apple Jack liquor turns out to be almost more than Spencer and Eugene bargained for. Everything from turning a shed into a root cellar, freak storms and faulty equipment could stop them in their tracks. Their hillbilly gumption sees them through.

7 A Fishy Trade

5/18/13

Eugene and Spencer trade fish for a fridge to make a smoker. While the fish smokes, they look for specific holly leaves to make Black Drink, a coffee substitute. Similar leaves are poisonous, so it's imperative they pick the right plant.

8 Tom-A-Hawg

5/25/13

The local blacksmith enlists Spencer and Eugene to fix his broken pigpen in exchange for lard and pork.Their challenge is to concoct a battery-powered welder, but even with this helpful contraption Spencer breaks his precious tomahawk axe.

9 Survival of the Fittest

6/8/13

Spencer and Eugene are forced off a blocked road into the woods while delivering medicine. With no provisions, Spencer plants a fish trap, but falls into a freezing stream. Eugene quickly makes an insulated coat for him out of grass.

10 Hillbilly Prepper

6/8/13

Eugene decides to build a "gassifer," which will create electricity when other power systems fail. But building a sophisticated machine like this out of scrapyard parts is not easy and could cause a serious explosion.

11 Waste Not, Want Not

6/15/13

It's winter and firewood is scarce. Spencer and Eugene need firewood fast, but without a serious log splitter, it will take the boys forever to chop it up. Eugene devises a wild contraption he makes at the blacksmith's shop.

12 Hillbilly BBQ

6/15/13

Eugene and Spencer are enlisted into taking over the holler's annual hoedown. The boys have only two days to concoct a giant grill large enough to feed the entire community, make homemade wood charcoal, plus a stage for the band out of shipping pallets.

About this show

Follow two mountain men who demonstrate backwoods ingenuity deep in the mountains of Appalachia.

Ratings and reviews

4.7

107 reviews

Rod Cullins

June 14, 2015

When I was a kid, living in Virginia, and again after I got out of the Marine Corps, my friends and I used to spends weekends and vacations up in the Appalachians, either hiking the trail, or living off the land. We'd take a K-bar knife, fishing line, and compass (the ones on the knife weren't reliable), and spend days out there. Spencer and Eugene remind me of those days back in the hills: People we'd meet, the way they lived, and the kindness they showed me when I broke my ankle (wasn't crazy about the home remedy). Eugene could work for NASA, and Spencer is the personality of the show, and no slouch himself. Together, they make the best team on TV. This show is a must see for those who enjoy the simpler life, where phones, bills, traffic, and bosses don't exist. In short, it's Nirvana.

J. Wade

March 3, 2015

These guys are full of great ideas. My fav eposide is when they worked on bartering some walnuts..trading and creating things to work up to a chainsaw

WritersBlock TV

May 31, 2017

Awesome show. Great to see that people are still interested in learning these types of things. Glad that my dad (Eugene) got to be a part of the show. Thanks so much to everyone who has watched and supported the show over the years - it is greatly appreciated!

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