The BEST episodes of SAS: Who Dares Wins
Every episode of SAS: Who Dares Wins ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. 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 psychological resilience and character as candidates undergo sleep deprivation, interrogation and a series of increasingly complex mind games. In this programme, five ex-special forces soldiers re-create tasks from the SAS's secret selection process, putting 30 civilian men through the ultimate test of their physical and - more importantly - their psychological resilience.
#1 - Episode 2
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/17/2022
The recruits pair up for a 50-foot freefall off a cliff. They take a brutal beasting in the desert and face a split-second call on whether to shoot in a combat scenario.
#2 - Unity
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/2020
The remaining recruits are split into teams before taking on the intense close-combat murderball and surf immersion - a notorious water beasting that simulates water torture. After six days, the first cull takes place.
#3 - Grit
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/26/2020
The recruits' grit is tested much further as Jay's undercover status is revealed. He launches a brutal beasting to expose the weakest in the group, who will be culled.
#4 - 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, designed to grind down recruits.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Resilience
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/9/2021
21 new recruits embark upon a recreation of the brutal SAS selection process, starting with an ambush, a hijack and a 100-foot abseil, which proves to be the toughest course to date.
#7 - Fear
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/16/2021
The recruits face a forward abseil and an arduous beasting by the DS. There's also an extreme water immersion exercise and a team event in a dark network of disused tunnels.
#8 - Control
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/23/2021
The recruits must master their emotions under extreme pressure - from a scary backwards dive at night to an illusion jump. There is a further shock as the mole in their midst is revealed.
#9 - Oppos
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/30/2021
The recruits work in pairs as they tackle the threat of chemical warfare and execute a fast-paced extraction in near-freezing water. Then, it's time for brutal hand-to-hand combat.
#10 - Leadership
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/6/2021
The recruits are on the run across the punishing landscape, pursued by a military-trained hunter force, in a game of cat and mouse where only the strongest will make it through
#11 - Interrogation
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/13/2021
The remaining recruits face the final stages which consist of an interrogation and a brutal sickener. They must prove that they have both the mental and physical strength to complete the process.
#12 - Episode 1
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/10/2022
The reality show returns with its toughest training course yet, against the backdrop of the Jordanian desert. The initial 21 recruits are sent on an intense journey to their base through searing heat.
#13 - Aggression
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/2020
The recruits must control their aggression, as they're trained with guns and take part in hand-to-hand combat, exploring loss, loyalty and self-control. The instructors are looking for those who have can turn personal adversity into strength.
#14 - Episode 3
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/24/2022
It's a busy day, as the recruits take on a seven-metre backwards dive and face an elimination sickener on a major sand dune. After hand-to-hand combat in murderball, they're ambushed driving back.
#15 - Episode 4
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/1/2022
The remaining recruits are tested on their ability to trust each other through a series of tasks ranging from hand to hand combat to a terrifying 200 metre abseil.
#16 - Episode 5
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/8/2022
Sarah and stripper Reece lead teams into a beasting and then a brutal race under fire. Calls from home unsettle some, opening old wounds around bullying, infidelity, and self-esteem.
#17 - Episode 6
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/15/2022
In the series finale, the last recruits are subjected to different kinds of punishing interrogation techniques. In the most feared phase of the course, who is tough enough to pass?
#18 - Episode 1
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/2023
The recruits scale the 'Trainasium' then tackle a 200-foot abseil headlong into a waterfall. And a disciplinary matter means everyone has to pay.
#19 - Episode 2
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/30/2023
The recruits compete in extreme hand-to-hand combat. A breach of camp discipline leads to a group 'beasting'. And a recruit gets seriously stranded at the top of a huge waterfall.
#20 - Episode 3
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/6/2023
The recruits must take down an armed gunman in a market place crowded with civilians. There's a brutal game of murderball. And a descent into a dark bat-infested jungle cave.
#21 - Episode 4
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/13/2023
In the jungle, the recruits face a fierce test with a hostage rescue mission and a punishing head-to-head ammunition race. Do any of them have what it takes to be a leader?
#22 - Episode 5
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/20/2023
The recruits take on an extraction mission used in the Vietnam War. On a survival task, they're up against it as they're chased by hunters behind enemy lines.
#23 - Episode 6
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/21/2023
In the series finale, the recruits face extreme interrogation after being ambushed by a hunter team. Do the last seven stay strong and prove magnificent, or not?
#24 - Weakness
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/2018
The remaining recruits are put through rounds of gruelling training by special forces instructors in Morocco's Atlas Mountains. They must abseil more than 200 feet from the top of the El Mansour Dam, and undertake a gruelling mountain climb in high temperatures while each carrying 40 pounds on their back. They are also forced to accept their own personal weaknesses and find ways to turn them to their advantage, as the instructors will be looking for those who are able to find strength in adversity.
#25 - Weakness
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/26/2015
Following a brutal first stage, only 20 of the original 30 civilians remain and the directing staff ratchet the intensity up a notch, applying pressure to isolate and expose individuals who they think are not up to it. 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.