The Apprentice Series 3

Episode 2

The contestants need to display a dog eat dog attitude to make it through this week’s task. Both teams must design an innovative product for pet dogs, and successfully pitch it to three pet stores.

Episode 3

The two teams, Eclipse and Stealth, are once more battling it out for Alan Sugar’s approval. Starting with just £200, the candidates have to find a way to generate the maximum possible profit – by whatever means necessary.

Episode 4

London Zoo is the scene of this week’s episode, and the candidates must put their heads together in their respective team to manufacture sweets with a view to generating maximum profit. The team with the most money at the end of the day will win. One lucky candidate however will be sent packing by Alan.

Episode 5

A task featured in the first series of The Apprentice returns. Each team must choose two different photographs from different artists and then showcase them in a fashionable eat London gallery, with a view to generating maximum profit.

Episode 6

Who will Alan choose to send packing this week? The task that the teams must prove themselves with this week involves selecting British produce and selling it at a French farmers’ market, resulting in an international challenge. Will language barriers slow them down, or perhaps poor decision-making may be the real danger?

Episode 7

Negotiating is the order of the day in this episode as the constants are asked to purchase of a set list of ten specific items, ranging from leather trousers and a wetsuit, with a view to securing prices lower than those asked by the vendors.

Episode 8

The candidates have to create a new brand of trainer. Alan has laid on one of the country's top advertising agencies for them to work with, but the creativity is all theirs. They have to come up with a name and logo for their brand, and then produce a poster and TV ad with which to launch it. In the boardroom, Alan has to decide which team has best fulfilled his brief and who to fire.

Episode 9

The candidates have to select groundbreaking and unusual products from around the world to introduce into the UK market. The teams have three products each to sell to London retailers and only a day in which to do it, and the team with the most money in orders will win.

Episode 10

The teams are set a very public challenge – they have to sell live on TV. But before they can sell, they first have to choose the products they think will bring in the cash. One team goes for safe mid-price items, while the other decides to take a risk on some higher priced products. On the sales floor, they have an hour per team to sell, sell, sell.

Episode 11

With only five remaining, the candidates that are left face a different kind of challenge. Instead of being split into teams and having a task to complete, they have to face a gruelling interview process as individuals. Each of them is to be grilled by three of Sir Alan’s trusted business colleagues, and they are not in for an easy ride.

Episode 12

It's the final week, and the most important task of the interview process. Alan wants the finalists to come up with a hypothetical idea for what might go in place of a building on the South Bank he owns and is thinking of flattening, and then present that idea to an audience of 100 property, finance and architectural experts.