Name: Backyard Oil
Released: 2013-04-23T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: John Rascal, Jimmy Reliford, Brent "Mad Dog" Yates

TV Show · Reality

Some folks in the backwoods of Kentucky will drill for oil just about anywhere they can and using just about anything you can think of: divining rods, witches, warlocks – even a chicken. The payoff can mean millions to those lucky enough to strike it rich.

2013 · 21m

Starring John Rascal, Jimmy Reliford, Brent "Mad Dog" Yates

EPISODE 1

Barons of the Backyard

Kentucky oil drillers hunt for black gold at a psychic Gospel Singer’s ranch, and in their own backyard!

21m
EPISODE 2

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.

21m
EPISODE 3

Kentucky Fried Chicken

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.

21m
EPISODE 4

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.

21m
EPISODE 5

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... or bossman Jimmy's bow-wow-els!

21m
EPISODE 6

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.

21m