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.

Last Updated: 11/9/2024Network: Channel 4Status: Continuing
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Interrogation
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8.38
79 votes

#1 - 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 intensely interrogated.

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Interrogation
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8.37
84 votes

#2 - 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 intense interrogation without losing composure or revealing details of their mission. Between interrogations, they are locked in a cell and hooded in stress positions and are subjected to repetitive music at random intervals to maintain a state of severe fatigue. Less than 10 per cent of candidates make it through this process in the real world. Will any of the civilians make it to the end and prove they have the characteristics needed to succeed in the special forces?

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Mavericks
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8.07
114 votes

#3 - 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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Weakness
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8.06
54 votes

#4 - 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.

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Brotherhood
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8.02
48 votes

#5 - Brotherhood

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/2018

The recruits are divided into two teams for a series of challenges designed to test both their ability to bond as a group and their drive to compete against each other. They must undertake a time trial run across the Sahara Desert, transport equipment across treacherous sand dunes, and cross a remote river valley at night while being tracked by guards with dogs.

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Control
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8.01
89 votes

#6 - 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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Fear
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8.01
91 votes

#7 - Fear

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/2/2015

Chief instructor Ant and his team play mind games on the 12 remaining recruits to see if they have the mental strength to keep going, or if anyone will voluntarily withdraw from the process. They speak to each recruit individually, giving them negative feedback on their performance so far and questioning whether they have what it takes to make it to the end. Those who can keep their resolve face one of the most intimidating tasks on Special Forces selection, diving backwards off a cliff into the freezing sea 12 metres below.

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Oppos
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8.00
24 votes

#8 - 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.

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Trust
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7.95
81 votes

#9 - 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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Survival
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7.91
88 votes

#10 - Survival

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/9/2015

The directing staff have to whittle the group down to six from 11 and have a surprising trick up their sleeve that they think will cause some participants to instantly withdraw before the final stage. Those who make it through the cull are faced with their biggest challenge so far - an escape and evasion mission designed to prepare recruits for avoiding capture behind enemy lines. They are divided into two teams and dropped off at dusk, having to cover miles of rough terrain overnight in order to hit their first rendezvous point in nine hours.

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Aggression
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7.90
100 votes

#11 - 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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Interrogation
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7.90
39 votes

#12 - Interrogation

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/10/2019

The four men and four women who have made it to the final stage face their most gruelling challenge yet - a test of their ability to resist interrogation. They are subjected to stress positions, white noise, and relentless grilling, and must prove they have the mental and physical resilience to be worthy of SAS selection. Last in the series.

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Resilience
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7.86
29 votes

#13 - 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.

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Leadership
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7.85
26 votes

#14 - 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

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Pressure
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7.84
49 votes

#15 - Pressure

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/2019

Four men and five women remain in the competition, but the training staff are determined to throw everything at them in a final effort to expose any weaknesses before next week's final challenge. The recruits must cross a 200-metre gorge and swim beneath the ice on a frozen lake, before they are pursued by hunters with dogs through a perilous valley at night.

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star
7.83
30 votes

#16 - 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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Fear
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7.83
29 votes

#17 - 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.

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Interrogation
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7.82
28 votes

#18 - 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.

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Pressure
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7.82
66 votes

#19 - Pressure

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2018

Reality show in which people are put through SAS recruitment tests to see whether they can match up to the pressures the elite regiment faces. This time, the show comes from Morocco's Atlas Mountains, and chief Instructor Ant Middleton and his Directing Staff have comes up with an intensified course for the 25 volunteers.

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Equals
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7.81
48 votes

#20 - Equals

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2019

25 men and women are sent to the spectacular and punishing Andes mountains in central Chile to see if they have what it takes to make it in the SAS.

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Exposure
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7.81
42 votes

#21 - Exposure

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/2020

Led by Ant Middleton, 25 men and women - including an ex-SAS operator working as a mole - face the latest intense course, beginning with a swim to a remote Scottish island.

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Trust
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7.75
44 votes

#22 - Trust

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/2019

The recruits must put all their trust in the hands of a partner, as they are teamed up in pairs. The recruits face a fee-falling abseil into a rocky gorge, with their partner responsible for breaking their fall, and a plunge into freezing water.

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Survival
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7.75
44 votes

#23 - Survival

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2018

The SAS training challenge reaches its final stage, with only seven of the 25 recruits still standing. Those who have made it this far face the most gruelling test of their physical and mental resilience so far, with the instructors pitting them against each other until only one remains.

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Weakness
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7.71
97 votes

#24 - 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.

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Control
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7.70
30 votes

#25 - 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.

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