A six-year-old girl awakes to find her mum unconscious and bleeding from the mouth - the frightened youngster dials 999. A fisherman is swept from a pier by a ferocious wave into the turbulent sea - his horrified family look on.
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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 14
A farmer finds his 14-year-old son lying severely injured in a field after having been run over by his tractor and trailer. Elsewhere, a pregnant woman in labour, waiting for a ...
21-07-2022
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
Episode 1
Nick Knowles presents close calls caught on film. A young man disappears down a huge crack in the ice thousands of feet up a mountain.
20-10-2014
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 8: Episode 19
Neighbours call the emergency services when a young mum rushes into the street in panic. Her baby has cut his throat on a glass. Also, a woman is knocked to the ground and tramp ...
27-05-2021
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 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 8: Episode 16
A climber plunges hundreds of feet down a mountain in the Lake District, coming to rest above a precipice, and a driver ploughs into a car blocking the fast lane of a motorway a ...
24-05-2021
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