A young mum, alone at home with her three-year-old daughter, has a life-threatening asthma attack. Elsewhere, a coastguard helicopter lowers a winch to a swimmer who has clambered 50 feet up a crumbling cliff face, but the aircraft’s downdraft makes the rescue hazardous.
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Series 11: Episode 20
An injured lone walker is lost for two nights during a storm on the Isle of Skye. And travels are cut short in Bolivia for a young woman when she has a terrifying encounter with ...
25-07-2023
BBC 1
Series 11: Episode 19
Brave rescuers risk their lives evacuating residents from a burning high-rise. And a woman comes to the aid of her best friend when she unexpectedly goes into cardiac arrest.
24-07-2023
BBC 1
Series 11: Episode 18
A man is severely injured and trapped under a tree that’s fallen during a storm. And a toddler is rushed to hospital after a deadly adder bite.
19-07-2023
BBC 1
Series 11: Episode 17
A family hike on Dartmoor sparks a helicopter rescue mission when a father of three is injured. And a huge lorry terrifies a young girl and her horse when it fails to slow down ...
18-07-2023
BBC 1
Series 11: Episode 16
An adrenaline-fuelled base jump goes terrifyingly wrong when a parachute opens the wrong way, a freak lightning strike sets fire to an annexe with a young girl inside, and a ter ...
17-07-2023
BBC 1
Series 11: Episode 15
A horse ride on the beach ends in disaster, a paraglider loses control during high winds, and a farmer is airlifted to hospital after two huge hay bales fall on him.
14-07-2023
BBC 1
Series 11: Episode 13
A father battles to save his young son’s life when he chokes on a hot dog. And a fun horse ride with friends takes a dramatic turn when a young girl crashes to the ground.
14-07-2023
BBC 1
Series 11: Episode 14
A tree surgeon's day nearly ends in tragedy after they plummet from an oak tree. And a cave adventure risks calamity when flash flooding causes an influx of water into a network ...
13-07-2023
BBC 1
Series 11: Episode 12
A solo climber risks his life when things go wrong on a remote snowy peak. And a dog walk in idyllic rural countryside threatens one woman’s life when she is trampled by c ...
13-07-2023
BBC 1
Series 11: Episode 11
A tranquil paddleboarding trip in Gibraltar takes a deadly turn. And a woman risks her life to save her beloved dog from a burning building.
12-07-2023
BBC 1
Series 10: Episode 7
The fiancée of a young man in cardiac arrest fights to keep him alive after finding him unconscious in his sleep, and a stunned driver narrowly escapes from his burning v ...
19-04-2022
BBC 1
Series 10: Episode 1
A young woman and her friends are pulled out to sea in a freak rip current. A lifeguard and the coastguard are scrambled as they battle to stay afloat, and a mum is driving home ...
11-04-2022
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 1
Nick Knowles presents stories of people who have survived extraordinary near misses, with real-time CCTV and phone recordings and the dramatic accounts of both the rescuers and ...
20-07-2020
BBC 1
Series 2: Episode 8
A jockey leading a race suddenly falls unconscious from his horse, right into the path of the oncoming field. A five-month-old baby is completely unresponsive - the petrified pa ...
29-07-2015
BBC 1
Series 11: Episode 20
An injured lone walker is lost for two nights during a storm on the Isle of Skye. And travels are cut short in Bolivia for a young woman when she has a terrifying encounter with ...
25-07-2023
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 11
Nick Knowles tells the moving story of a police motorcyclist, responding to help at an accident, who crashed and became the patient himself. Plus a conservationist describes wha ...
12-06-2018
BBC 1
Series 10: Episode 9
A Christmas day walk in the Peaks takes a dramatic turn when an injured hiker becomes stranded in the freezing cold temperature, and two young siblings bravely call 999 after he ...
21-04-2022
BBC 1
Series 11: Episode 10
A passion for mountain biking turns perilous as a jump goes terribly wrong. And there's a lucky escape for a family when an ancient oak tree comes crashing into their home.
10-07-2023
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 1
A supermarket manager and his girlfriend risk their own lives to save a pensioner from a burning car, a teenage adventurer has a near miss with an iceberg, and a family in Wales ...
28-09-2018
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 9
A group of hikers are enjoying a day on Dartmoor when one falls, landing on rocks below, and a young couple and their baby flee a hotel fire after a fellow guest alerts them.
30-07-2020
BBC 1