Special Forces: World's Toughest Test

1. Test of Character

Jan 4, 2023 · 42 min

Sixteen household names arrive in the desert, about to endure some of the harshest, most grueling challenges from the playbook of the actual Special Forces selection process.

2. Weakness

Jan 4, 2023 · 42 min

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.

3. Mindset

Jan 11, 2023 · 42 min

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.

4. Trust

Jan 18, 2023 · 42 min

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.

5. Pressure

Jan 25, 2023 · 42 min

The recruits face a skyscraping tactical repel and a high-pressure simulation.

6. Fear

Feb 1, 2023 · 42 min

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

7. Resilience

Feb 8, 2023 · 42 min

The DS test the remaining recruits with a chemical warfare challenge; celebrity contestants reveal their personal stories that led them to signing up for the show.

8. Courage

Feb 15, 2023 · 42 min

The recruits find themselves back in the water with one of the most physically challenging tests thus far; as the group forms a deep emotional bond with one another, one recruit has a shocking exit.

9. Survival

Feb 22, 2023 · 42 min

The final group of remaining recruits attempt to go behind enemy lines without being captured, and face tough lessons of survival, leadership and how to decipher a map.

10. Interrogation

Mar 1, 2023 · 42 min

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

1. Far from Home

Sep 25, 2023 · 44 min

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

2. Exposure

Oct 2, 2023 · 44 min

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.

3. Panic

Oct 9, 2023 · 44 min

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

4. Character

Oct 16, 2023 · 32 min

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

5. Pressure

Nov 6, 2023 · 44 min

The remaining recruits are taken to the top of a mountain range to face the most demanding exercise of selection so far using a single rope to crawl across a deadly ravine.

6. Survival

Nov 13, 2023 · 43 min

The recruits face the most dangerous task yet, a helicopter survival drill, as a test of their ability to mentally handle a life-or-death situation.

7. Grit

Nov 20, 2023 · 43 min

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.

8. Capture

Nov 27, 2023 · 43 min

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.

1. Ocean Warfare

Jan 8, 2025 · 43 min

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.

2. Survival

Jan 8, 2025 · 43 min

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

3. Terror

Jan 15, 2025 · 43 min

The recruits face new challenges including escaping a boat crash and an intense combat exercise.

4. Brotherhood

Jan 15, 2025 · 43 min

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

5. Panic

Jan 22, 2025 · 43 min

Recruits must unlock a safe in a gas-filled room, perform a helicopter insertion into the blistering cold sea, and select recruits are forced to bury their teammates into coffins after cheating in a previous challenge.

6. Trust

Jan 22, 2025 · 43 min

The recruits must trust each other in order to survive.

7. Duty

Jan 29, 2025 · 43 min

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

8. Resilience

Jan 29, 2025 · 43 min

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.

9. On the Run

Feb 5, 2025 · 43 min

Entering their final week of Selection, the remaining recruits are challenged mentally to harness their vulnerability and shift their mindsets to overcome the final tasks. The recruits fight the "Redman," escape an ambush and evade an enemy hunter base, and approach the most terrifying phase of the course, resistance to interrogation. 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.

10. Capture

Feb 5, 2025 · 43 min

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.

9. Interrogation

Nov 20, 2025

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

1. Jungle Warfare

Sep 24, 2026

FOX's ultimate celebrity social experiment returns, enlisting fifteen new recruits to endure some of the harshest, most grueling challenges from the playbook of the actual Special Forces selection process. This season, the recruits will be deployed deep in the Malaysian jungle. Upon arrival, they must plunge backwards from a hovering helicopter into the water below or risk failing.