Episodes
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Feb 16, 2005
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.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Feb 23, 2005
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.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Mar 2, 2005
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.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Mar 9, 2005
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.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Mar 16, 2005
The two teams are given the task of selling modern art.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Mar 23, 2005
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.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Mar 30, 2005
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.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Apr 6, 2005
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.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Apr 13, 2005
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.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Apr 20, 2005
The five remaining candidates try to sell wares on a TV shopping channel.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Apr 27, 2005
With a place in the final at stake, the candidates must compete as individuals.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: May 4, 2005
The two remaining candidates have their final project, a party each on a Thames riverboat.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: May 3, 2005
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.
