The Apprentice· Season 1
The Apprentice — Season 1
All 13 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 01
Fourteen young entrepreneurs face a battery of challenges as they compete to win a job with multi-millionaire Sir Alan Sugar. The winner takes all and losers walk away empty-handed.
- 02
In his search for an apprentice, Sir Alan Sugar sets his candidates the challenge of designing a new product for the most difficult of consumers - kids aged five to nine.
- 03
Twelve candidates are left in the running to become the apprentice. There's a change in the sexual chemistry as Sugar orders a re-shuffle to enable girls and boys to work together for the first time.
- 04
It's week four and three contenders have already been sacked. At Harrods, the task for each team is to persuade people to shop at their stall.
- 05
The two teams are given the task of selling modern art.
- 06
This week the task is a creative one: each team has to come up with an advertising campaign for a new hi-fi product, and the item is one of Sugar's own, a prototype he wants to launch in America.
- 07
Eight contestants remain and Sir Alan Sugar has had to separate two of them following a bust-up. The task tests their negotiating skills as they have to convince celebrities to donate something personal for auction.
- 08
The candidates travel to find an agricultural product that can be transformed into a commodity and sold for profit at a City farmers' market. One team picks fruit from the hedgerows of Berkshire to make jam, while the other buys blue cheese and venison to make soup.
- 09
Sir Alan Sugar invites the remaining candidates to Tottenham Hotspur for one of the club's biggest fixtures. They must market a text messaging service delivering team news to fans' phones.
- 10
The five remaining candidates try to sell wares on a TV shopping channel.
- 11
With a place in the final at stake, the candidates must compete as individuals.
- 12
The two remaining candidates have their final project, a party each on a Thames riverboat.
- 13
Adrian Chiles talks to the winner of The Apprentice, his new boss, Sir Alan Sugar, and the losing candidates to discover the lessons they learned along the way.