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.
Genre: Reality
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Type: tv
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Duration: 0h 47m
Release: 2015
Rating: 6.3
Season 1 - SAS: Who Dares Wins
2015-10-19
"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."
2015-10-26
"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."
2015-11-02
"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."
2015-11-09
"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."
2015-11-16
"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?"
Season 2 - SAS: Who Dares Wins
2016-10-17
"Twenty-five new recruits undergo a unique version of SAS Selection in the Amazon rainforest. Before they can find their base, they must tackle a terrifying bridge leap."
2016-11-14
"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."
Season 3 - SAS: Who Dares Wins
2018-01-07
"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."
2018-01-21
"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."
2018-01-28
"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."
2018-02-04
"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."
Season 4 - SAS: Who Dares Wins
2019-01-06
"25 man 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?"
2019-01-13
"The remaining recruits face gruelling challenges designed to test their mental and physical strength, from a 200 foot forward abseil to the infamous boxing task, where female recruits will have the opportunity to fight their male counterparts."
2019-01-20
"The remaining recruits endure the fifth and sixth days of their training, which involve trekking through heavy snow and camping out in a blizzard 3000 metres above sea level. All the time, the instructors are piling on the psychological pressure to expose weaknesses that will prevent trainees from completing the course."
2019-01-27
"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."
2019-02-03
"The remaining recruits must cross a 200-metre gorge, swim beneath the ice on a frozen lake and navigate a perilous valley at night, while trying to avoid capture by a local hunter force and their dogs."
2019-02-10
"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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