Z Special: Australia's Secret Heroes
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Z Special: Australia's Secret Heroes

Season 1
After years of secrecy, veterans of the legendary Z Special reveal their extraordinary WW2 exploits as six of their descendants recreate the training.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Tough Training

    May 4, 2014
    51min
    TV-14
    A blood-soaked birth: Z Special Unit is created and, in Operation Jaywick, the unit undertakes one of the most daring covert missions ever attempted.
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  2. S1 E2 - Operation Rimau

    May 4, 2014
    54min
    TV-14
    Z Special comes crashing down to Earth as its troops are captured and tortured, and its mission with submersible canoes fails with devastating effect.
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  3. S1 E3 - Borneo

    May 4, 2014
    54min
    TV-14
    The Z Special Unit heads to Borneo, where headhunting is reintroduced, and one Z man’s determination to stay alive helps liberate New Guinea.
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