8.0/1010 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/20/1996
Tom, the swimmer who never loses, has to come to terms with the fact that over-confidence lost him the race. He learns his lesson, but it damages his relationship with his girlfriend Tats.
Director: Steve Jodrell
Writer: John Rapsey
- NaN/100 votes
#2 - Episode 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/20/1996
Tom challenges new boy Noodle to a race. He wins and his confidence and honour is restored. What Tom doesn't realise is that Noodle deliberately threw the race, knowing that Tom needed to win more than he did. In need of money for new equipment, Danny and Steve take on a series of risque jobs
Director: Steve Jodrell
Writer: Gary Heary
- 8.3/1016 votes
#3 - Episode 3
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/27/1996
Monique's temporary coach allows her to believe that he is in love with her and her diving improves radically. When she realises that it was all a ploy she is heartbroken.
Director: Dan Burstall
Writer: Matt Ford
- 8.0/1011 votes
#4 - Episode 4
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/27/1996
The kids are holding a secret party to celebrate Stewie's birthday. Noodle covers up for everyone when their curfew-breaking party is nearly discovered — and is welcomed as one of the gang at last. Monique makes a decision about her future at the academy.
Director: Dan Burstall
Writer: Rick Maier
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - Episode 5
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/4/1996
Sandy's old school friend, Robyn, now a major soap star, turns up at the Academy to film an episode. Sandy is forced to come to terms with the fact that Robyn cares for no-one but herself, and turns the tables on her. Tats is afraid of the direction her relationship with Tom is headed.
Director: Dan Burstall
Writer: Chris McCourt
- NaN/100 votes
#6 - Episode 6
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/4/1996
Stewie's dad Ted, an ex-professional footballer, is enlisted to help persuade him to specialise. But Ted has his own agenda and Stewie finds himself having to decide whether he wants to stay at the Academy at all.
Director: Malcolm McDonald
Writer: Peter Gawler
- NaN/100 votes
#7 - Episode 7
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/11/1996
Danny is forced to confront the fact that he and his parents have neglected his younger brother Raph when Raph starts stealing from the Academy. In the process, he learns that Snowy is, truly, his best friend.
Director: Malcolm McDonald
Writer: John Chamberlain
- NaN/100 votes
#8 - Episode 8
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/11/1996
Tom and Jenny are teamed up for the Academy's orienteering exercise. Disaster strikes when the two compete rather than cooperate and Jenny falls and sprains her ankle.
Director: Dan Burstall
Writer: Pim Hendrix
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - Episode 9
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/18/1996
Snowy goes on a disastrous date with Sandy. Not only has he jeopardised his friendship with her, but when Danny finds out his best friend is gay he is totally unable to accept it.
Director: Malcolm McDonald
Writer: May Harrison
- NaN/100 votes
#10 - Episode 10
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/19/1996
When Danny tells the other kids Snowy's gay, Snowy thinks his life at the Academy is over. It's a painful experience, but he discovers that things are not as black and white as he thought.
Director: Malcolm McDonald
Writer: Matt Ford
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - Episode 11
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/25/1996
When 10-year-old Leila is tricked into revealing Tats' most intimate secrets on television she comes to the painful realisation that a top-class athlete isn't entitled to a childhood.
Director: Malcolm McDonald
Writer: Robyn Sinclair
- NaN/100 votes
#12 - Episode 12
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/25/1996
When Sandy's father is arrested for defrauding a children's charity Sandy feels that, somehow, she's to blame. In learning to come to terms with her father's guilt, Sandy realises an inner strength.
Director: Malcolm McDonald
Writer: Karin Altmann
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - Episode 13
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/1/1996
After receiving a suspension for cheating on an exam, Evie's future at the academy is in doubt when she contemplates leaving school entirely. Without her scholarship, Evie gets a job with the local newspaper so she can continue her training. When the school thugs decide to beat up Snowy at the combined school Academy dance, Danny finally realises where his true loyalties lie. He and Snowy clean up, a team again.
Director: Karl Zwicky
Writer: Gina Roncoli
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - Episode 14
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 6/8/1996
Tom performs brilliantly when he stands in for an injured member of the elite Aussie swim team. The Academy kids are thrilled for him — until Tom starts to believe his own publicity and becomes a pain.
Director: Karl Zwicky
Writer: John Rapsey
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - Episode 15
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 6/15/1996
Sandy makes a stand against sexploitation on the track by refusing to wear the sexy new running gear the Academy sponsors have supplied.
Director: Ross Hutchens
Writer: Robyn Sinclair
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - Episode 16
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 6/22/1996
It's coming up to a crucial meet and Snowy is behaving totally out of character. Neither Chris, his coach, nor Danny can understand it. Tom anticipates an invitation to join the national swim team. Alex asks Sandy out on a date. Noodle and Evie realise they may be better suited to just being friends.
Director: Ross Hutchens
Writer: Grant Fraser
- NaN/100 votes
#17 - Episode 17
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 6/29/1996
Don is very smug about his latest coup. He's managed to secure the services of a former Russian Olympic track and field coach.
Director: Malcolm McDonald
Writer: David Phillips
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - Episode 18
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 7/6/1996
Danny and Snowy are competing in a prestigious amateur bike race. Riding in a tightly-packed bunch, Danny pulls ahead of his main rival, Brett Pier, to the finish line but is unaware Brett has fallen and is seriously injured.
Director: Malcolm McDonald
Writer: Daniel Krige
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - Episode 19
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 7/13/1996
Tom has hit a plateau — the dreaded 'wall'. His times are constant but they're not improving. Tom lets off steam to his friend Jake who offers Tom a solution to his problems.
Director: Steve Jodrell
Writer: David Phillips
- NaN/100 votes
#20 - Episode 20
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 7/20/1996
Tats and Tom are having problems again. Tom is acting weird and incredibly nervy and Tat can't understand it. Danny and Stewie's new girlfriends don't turn out to be as they hoped.
Director: Steve Jodrell
Writer: Robyn Sinclair
- NaN/100 votes
#21 - Episode 21
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 7/27/1996
Evie's unable to hide the fact that she's been fired from the Advocate. But her failure as a journalist is more than compensated for by a brilliant win at the state swim meet.
Director: Karl Zwicky
Writer: Robyn Sinclair
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - Episode 22
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 11/12/1996
Tats is devastated when Leila beats her in the state open-age competition — an event Tats has dominated for years. Tats is forced to face the fact that her career is over.
Director: Karl Zwicky
Writer: Jo Merle
- NaN/100 votes
#23 - Episode 23
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 11/13/1996
Danny is over the moon when his hero, Australian two-time Tour de France stage winner Mark Novac, arrives to coach them — until Danny's beaten in a road race by Snowy and forced to accept that he's a sprinter and will never be Yellow Jersey material.
Director: Malcolm McDonald
Writer: Pim Hendrix
- NaN/100 votes
#24 - Episode 24
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 11/14/1996
Noodle meets a beautiful art student and decides art school has a lot more to recommend it than a sporting career — until Sid proves to him that he really does want to win after all.
Director: Malcolm McDonald
Writer: Jo Horsburgh
- NaN/100 votes
#25 - Episode 25
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 11/18/1996
Sandy is sure she's pregnant and has to decide whether she wants to have the baby and give up her career or have an abortion. Tats is offered a job as Jenny's assistant. But does she really want to stay on at the Academy?
Director: Karl Zwicky
Writer: Neville Brown
The Best Episodes of Sweat Season 1
Every episode of Sweat Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Sweat Season 1!
Sweat is an Australian drama series created by John Rapsey and produced by Barron Entertainment in Perth. The show aired on Network Ten in 1996...
Genre:Drama
Network:Network Ten
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Sweat" season 1. It scored 8/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by Steve Jodrell and written by John Rapsey, it aired on 4/20/1996. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Episode 2".