Special Forces: World's Toughest Test
Season 4
20259 episodes
FOX's ultimate celebrity social experiment, Special Forces: World's Toughest Test, returns for a fourth season, enlisting a new 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 Morocco and will endure the extreme circumstances of urban warfare. New this season, some recruits arrive in pairs consisting of spouses and family members but will compete individually.
Episode 1
Behind Enemy Lines
Sep 25, 202543m
TMDB rating 3.4TMDB
As the recruits make their way to base, they are faced with initiation and their first brutal challenge: repelling out of a military-grade helicopter. Later, the recruits get a taste of what it's like operating behind enemy lines as they carry supplies weighing 800 pounds in sweltering 100-degree heat.
Episode 2
Survival
Oct 2, 202543m
TMDB rating 4.0TMDB
The recruits are strapped inside an old cargo plane then lowered into a dam 215 feet below them, forced to escape underwater. Then, the recruits go head-to-head in an intense military-style boxing match.
Episode 3
Warzone
Oct 9, 202543m
TMDB rating 3.2TMDB
With nothing more than a radio kit and each other, the recruits must communicate effectively and move quickly as they work together to identify fallen comrades in a casualty evacuation test behind enemy lines. Then, when their team's mission is compromised, they must cross rooftops to make it to extraction.
Episode 4
Mind Set
Oct 16, 202543m
TMDB rating 4.2TMDB
The recruits must focus as they plummet down a 330-foot drop, then at the bottom, they are asked to recite a set of coordinates which they were asked to memorize prior to the drop. Then, the recruits are split into teams and challenged to navigate through tight tunnels and trenches.
Episode 5
Trust
Oct 23, 202543m
TMDB rating 4.2TMDB
The recruits were split into teams and competed in a grueling race under the scorching heat, aiming to be the first to complete the course. This task tested their physical limits and ability to work together under extreme conditions.
Episode 6
Grit
Oct 30, 202543m
TMDB rating 4.2TMDB
The recruits are split into teams and face a high-stakes physical challenge: they must sidestep along a 165-foot rope suspended above a canyon floor, testing balance, coordination, and nerves. Once on the rope, the teams must fight to get a ball over the opposition’s goal line — turning the rope traverse into a competitive “murder-ball” style exercise under extreme conditions. The episode is described as pushing the recruits’ grit: physically, mentally, and as a team.
Episode 7
Composure
Nov 6, 2025
TMDB rating 3.0TMDB
The recruits must perform under stress, but also learn from failure (as some pairs did) and improve their mindset. The staff keep pushing the notion that attitude matters as much as skill.
Episode 8
Evasion
Nov 13, 2025
TMDB rating 6.0TMDB
In one of the most intense physical challenges yet, the remaining recruits are split into two teams to attempt an extraction operation and are uplifted by heartwarming messages from home.
Episode 9
Interrogation
Nov 20, 2025
TMDB rating 5.0TMDB
In the final week of selection, the recruits are subjected to a multi-stage process of interrogation and are placed under gradually increasing duress.