A British student is lost and starving in the remote Turkish mountains. His parents desperately wait to discover if he's alive for eight agonising days. An amateur racing driver loses control at high speed during a competition, sending his car hurtling down a ditch.
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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 18
A father of eight capsizes his kayak during his first time out at sea. He struggles to get back on, but fails. Elsewhere, a young couple have a narrow escape after a car pulls o ...
01-08-2022
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 15
Featuring the story of two close friends bodyboarding off an Australian beach, one of whom has to go to the aid of the other when a great white shark attacks. A motorist risks h ...
18-09-2018
BBC 1
Series 2: Episode 7
Five fishermen are swept off their sinking ship into the vast Atlantic Ocean as a helicopter winch man desperately tries to pluck them from the sea. A 999 call records the momen ...
28-07-2015
BBC 1
Episode 7
When a farmer is speared by his own tractor, the scale of the drama is captured in his neighbour's 999 call to the ambulance. Elsewhere, a free solo climber films his own fright ...
29-10-2014
BBC 1
Series 11: Episode 7
Every parent's worst nightmare – a toddler stops breathing and dad has to perform CPR with help from a 999 call handler. And emergency services rush to the aid of a retire ...
04-07-2023
BBC 1
Series 9: Episode 13
Emergency services search for a dad who swerved to avoid another car and plunged down an embankment at night on a remote road, and a coastguard crew come to the rescue of a mum ...
08-09-2021
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 6
A frantic mum calls 999 when her seven-year-old daughter suffers a cardiac arrest, a microlight pilot loses power at 4,000ft and must dodge power cables to land, and two pals on ...
05-06-2018
BBC 1
Series 9: Episode 1
A surfing dad is found unconscious in the sea; fellow surfers battle to pull him to shore and give him CPR, as lifeboat and coastguard services join in the rescue. Also, a fathe ...
20-09-2021
BBC 1
Series 8: Episode 4
Stories of near misses when life hangs in the balance, presented by Nick Knowles. Today, a terrified family calls 999 when their baby becomes unresponsive, and paramedics must s ...
02-06-2021
BBC 1
Series 7: Episode 1
Today, a driver opens his car door, sending a young motorcyclist into the path of a bus, and a mum-to-be calls 999 after suffering massive blood loss.
14-10-2019
BBC 1