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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 3 Episode 10 - Capture
    7.2/10(34 votes)

    #1 - Capture

    S3:E10

    As the recruits experience the most challenging part of their journey, they must try their best to conceal that they have been working with the Special Forces in order to successfully pass selection.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 4 Episode 1 - Behind Enemy Lines
    7.3/10(40 votes)

    #2 - Behind Enemy Lines

    S4:E1

    As the recruits make their way to base, they are faced with initiation and their first brutal challenge: repelling out of a military-grade helicopter. Later, the recruits get a taste of what it's like operating behind enemy lines as they carry supplies weighing 800 pounds in sweltering 100-degree heat.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 4 Episode 2 - Survival
    7.3/10(33 votes)

    #3 - Survival

    S4:E2

    The recruits are strapped inside an old cargo plane then lowered into a dam 215 feet below them, forced to escape underwater. Then, the recruits go head-to-head in an intense military-style boxing match.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 1 Episode 10 - Interrogation
    7.4/10(45 votes)

    #4 - Interrogation

    S1:E10

    The last remaining recruits face their final phase -- enduring the mental duress of enemy interrogation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 3 Episode 2 - Survival
    7.4/10(40 votes)

    #5 - Survival

    S3:E2

    Challenges include treading water as a group and bungee jumping off a 12-story viaduct.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 2 Episode 2 - Exposure
    7.5/10(44 votes)

    #6 - Exposure

    S2:E2

    The remaining recruits are tasked with submerging themselves in icy water and then simulate infiltrating enemy infrastructure by racing each other down a 330 foot dam.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 3 Episode 1 - Ocean Warfare
    7.5/10(46 votes)

    #7 - Ocean Warfare

    S3:E1

    FOX's ultimate celebrity social experiment, Special Forces: World's Toughest Test, returns for a third season, enlisting a troop of household names to endure some of the harshest, most grueling challenges from the playbook of the actual Special Forces selection process. This time around, the recruits will be training in Wales, the home of British Special Forces Selection, and will endure the harsh reality of ocean warfare. On their way to base, and with hardly any time to get acquainted, the new recruits are faced with their first challenges which include taking a mighty leap out of a moving boat onto a helicopter, testing their endurance by treading water as a group and bungee-jumping off a 12-story viaduct.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 3 Episode 4 - Brotherhood
    7.5/10(33 votes)

    #8 - Brotherhood

    S3:E4

    The recruits face new challenges including escaping a boat crash and intense combat exercises

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 4 Episode 4 - Mind Set
    7.5/10(29 votes)

    #9 - Mind Set

    S4:E4

    The recruits must focus as they plummet down a 330-foot drop, then at the bottom, they are asked to recite a set of coordinates which they were asked to memorize prior to the drop. Then, the recruits are split into teams and challenged to navigate through tight tunnels and trenches.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 4 Episode 6 - Grit
    7.5/10(28 votes)

    #10 - Grit

    S4:E6

    The recruits are split into teams and face a high-stakes physical challenge: they must sidestep along a 165-foot rope suspended above a canyon floor, testing balance, coordination, and nerves. Once on the rope, the teams must fight to get a ball over the opposition’s goal line — turning the rope traverse into a competitive “murder-ball” style exercise under extreme conditions. The episode is described as pushing the recruits’ grit: physically, mentally, and as a team.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 4 Episode 3 - Warzone
    7.6/10(30 votes)

    #11 - Warzone

    S4:E3

    With nothing more than a radio kit and each other, the recruits must communicate effectively and move quickly as they work together to identify fallen comrades in a casualty evacuation test behind enemy lines. Then, when their team's mission is compromised, they must cross rooftops to make it to extraction.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 2 Episode 7 - Grit
    7.7/10(33 votes)

    #12 - Grit

    S2:E7

    The recruits are taken to a remote mountain range where they are tasked with pulling sleds through two miles of dangerous terrain, then later escaping invasion from enemy hunters, before they take on their last 24 hours of selection.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 2 Episode 8 - Capture
    7.7/10(35 votes)

    #13 - Capture

    S2:E8

    The recruits are captured and taken into their final stage of selection: 12 hours of military-grade interrogation; resistance and the will to survive are key, and only the strongest recruits pass the course.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 3 Episode 8 - Resilience
    7.7/10(34 votes)

    #14 - Resilience

    S3:E8

    The recruits undergo a search-and-rescue course, crawl along a rope suspended over a canyon, face a grueling three-stage endurance test in the mountainous terrain, and a brakeman rope challenge.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 1 Episode 2 - Weakness
    7.8/10(59 votes)

    #15 - Weakness

    S1:E2

    Celebrities endure some of the harshest, most grueling challenges from the playbook of the actual special forces selection process; their goal is not to win votes and face eliminations -- for them it is just about survival.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 3 Episode 7 - Duty
    7.8/10(34 votes)

    #16 - Duty

    S3:E7

    Contestants take on a search-and-rescue course, crawl over a rope spanning a canyon and face a brutal three-stage endurance test

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 4 Episode 5 - Trust
    7.8/10(28 votes)

    #17 - Trust

    S4:E5

    The recruits were split into teams and competed in a grueling race under the scorching heat, aiming to be the first to complete the course. This task tested their physical limits and ability to work together under extreme conditions.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 4 Episode 7 - Composure
    7.8/10(30 votes)

    #18 - Composure

    S4:E7

    The recruits must perform under stress, but also learn from failure (as some pairs did) and improve their mindset. The staff keep pushing the notion that attitude matters as much as skill.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 1 Episode 3 - Mindset
    7.9/10(62 votes)

    #19 - Mindset

    S1:E3

    The recruits are faced with an emergency escape drill; tensions begin to arise as the recruits confront each other over disagreements and the pressure of the selection process becomes too much to handle for some.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 1 Episode 4 - Trust
    7.9/10(58 votes)

    #20 - Trust

    S1:E4

    The celebrity recruits must have trust in each other and in their leaders in order to survive; each recruit must rely on another to break their fall from a skyscraping cliff.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 2 Episode 4 - Character
    7.9/10(38 votes)

    #21 - Character

    S2:E4

    As a test of their character, they are tasked with a 2-mile race, navigating treacherous terrain, while carrying a 220-pound boat.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 4 Episode 9 - Interrogation
    7.9/10(23 votes)

    #22 - Interrogation

    S4:E9

    In the final week of selection, the recruits are subjected to a multi-stage process of interrogation and are placed under gradually increasing duress.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 1 Episode 6 - Fear
    8.0/10(51 votes)

    #23 - Fear

    S1:E6

    The celebrity recruits learn a valuable lesson in using fear to inform and help.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 2 Episode 1 - Far from Home
    8.0/10(56 votes)

    #24 - Far from Home

    S2:E1

    A new troop of 14 household names face the harsh reality of winter warfare training.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 2 Episode 3 - Panic
    8.0/10(40 votes)

    #25 - Panic

    S2:E3

    The celebrity recruits are put to the test of safely protecting a convoy under a surprise attack.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Capture" is the worst rated episode of "Special Forces: World's Toughest Test". It scored 7.2/10 based on 34 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/5/2025. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Behind Enemy Lines".