8.7/1035 votesLoading...#1 - Interrogation
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/16/2015
The remaining recruits each face the final, notoriously gruelling stage of selection alone: 24 hours of interrogation. Do any of them have what it takes to succeed in the Special Forces?
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8.5/1031 votesLoading...#2 - Fear
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/2/2015
The directing staff test the remaining recruits' resistance to fear, with mind games and an intimidating challenge to dive backwards from a cliff into the freezing sea 12 metres below.
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8.5/1021 votesLoading...#3 - Interrogation
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/14/2016
In the final episode, the remaining recruits undergo the most psychologically demanding 24 hours of the course: the resistance to interrogation phase, as they are abducted and intensively interrogated
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8.4/105 votesLoading...#4 - Composure
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 2/6/2023
In the Vietnamese jungle, the group are tasked with a 200-foot abseil into a dark bat-infested cave. In a bustling market, the recruits must take down an armed gunman in a crowd of civilians. And then they take on each other in a game of murderball.
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8.3/1033 votesLoading...#5 - Weakness
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/26/2015
The remaining recruits must choose their weakest colleagues, who then lead the next exercise. And there's the 'Sickener': a series of physical challenges that won't end until five recruits give up.
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8.3/1028 votesLoading...#6 - Mavericks
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/17/2016
The recruits face a terrifying bridge leap before they can find their base. The jungle environment, altitude and insects take their toll, and the DS give special attention to two volatile individuals.
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8.3/1033 votesLoading...#7 - Pressure
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2018
From the start, the recruits face a series of extreme, high-pressure tasks, including jumping from a moving helicopter into a lake and crawling across a vast canyon on a tightrope
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8.2/1024 votesLoading...#8 - Aggression
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/24/2016
Chief Instructor Ant and his elite team test whether the remaining recruits can control their aggression, with a brutal game of murderball and the fearsome non-stop 'sickener' exercises
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8.1/1040 votesLoading...#9 - Character
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/19/2015
The recruits' first task is an unexpected one: writing an essay about themselves. Then they face an eight-mile combat fitness test while their essays are dissected for an insight into their character.
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8.1/1020 votesLoading...#10 - Control
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/7/2016
The directing staff apply pressure to the last eight recruits, exposing hidden personality traits before sending them into a gruelling 12-hour jungle mission high in the Andes
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8.1/1022 votesLoading...#11 - Betrayal
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/2018
The recruits must dive 10 metres into a reservoir - backwards, and blindfolded. And then they're captured and intensely interrogated in an extreme test of mental resilience, trust and moral judgement.
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8.1/1023 votesLoading...#12 - Survival
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2018
Eighteen recruits down, seven to go... and it's the most demanding final phase the instructors have ever designed. Some recruits have to give up, others are culled. Will any of them pass the course?
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- 8.1/1022 votesLoading...
#13 - Reckoning
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 2/9/2020
The last six recruits face deep interrogation and a day of sickeners, including `drownproofing' - simulated drowning. Only the physically and mentally elite will make it through.
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8.0/1030 votesLoading...#14 - Survival
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/9/2015
The directing staff have to whittle the group down to the six they think may have what it takes to complete the final stage: a punishing 72-hour cat-and-mouse chase across challenging terrain.
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7.8/1031 votesLoading...#15 - Weakness
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/2018
The recruits must abseil 200 feet off a dam and climb a mountain in blistering heat with 40lbs on their backs
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7.8/1026 votesLoading...#16 - Brotherhood
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/2018
The recruits race each other across sand dunes in the Sahara and must cross a valley at night while avoiding hunter teams who are tracking them with dogs
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- 7.8/1025 votesLoading...
#17 - Trust
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/2019
This episode is about trust. The recruits are teamed up in pairs, then take a free-falling abseil into a rocky gorge and plunge into freezing water, with their partners responsible for saving them.
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7.7/1023 votesLoading...#18 - Trust
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/31/2016
The remaining recruits' trustworthiness is tested, as the directing staff sow distrust among them and ask them to identify their least trustworthy teammates, before a forward abseil trust exercise
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- 7.6/1034 votesLoading...
#19 - Equals
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2019
For the first time, female recruits join the selection process. In a dramatic opening episode, the women fall behind the men; how many will make it through to the end of the first stage?
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- 7.6/109 votesLoading...
#20 - Mindset
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 1/30/2023
The recruits take part in extreme hand-to-hand combat. A breach of camp discipline leads to a 'beasting'. And a recruit gets stranded up a huge waterfall.
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- 7.5/1028 votesLoading...
#21 - Mindset
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/2019
With the conditions deteriorating, the recruits must negotiate beastings in the snow and a night out in a blizzard 3000 metres above sea level, while the DS increase the psychological pressure on them.
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- 7.5/1021 votesLoading...
#22 - Pressure
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/2020
The recruits are stalked across the Scottish Highlands by a military-trained hunter force, before facing extreme interrogation on limited sleep and rations. Who will crack?
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- 7.5/1012 votesLoading...
#23 - Fear
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/2023
Twenty recruits prepare to enter `Jungle Hell', the toughest phase of SAS selection. First they are tasked with traversing the 'trainasium', suspended 50 feet above the ground. Then they must complete a 200-foot abseil headlong into a waterfall.
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- 7.4/1032 votesLoading...
#24 - Strength
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/2019
The remaining male and female recruits face gruelling challenges designed to test their mental and physical strength, including a 200-foot forward abseil and an infamous boxing task
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- 7.4/1023 votesLoading...
#25 - Aggression
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/2020
The recruits are pushed to control their aggression, as they're trained with guns and take part in hand-to-hand combat, in an episode exploring loss, loyalty and self-control.
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The Best Episodes of SAS: Who Dares Wins
Every episode of SAS: Who Dares Wins ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of SAS: Who Dares Wins!
Selection for the SAS is one of the world's toughest job interviews and physical fitness is only the starting point. What's really being tested is...
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Best Episodes Summary
"Interrogation" is the best rated episode of "SAS: Who Dares Wins". It scored 8.7/10 based on 35 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/16/2015. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Fear".