First of a new ten-part series recreating dramatic real-life rescues, presented by Michael Buerk and Donna Bernard. Including one man's bravery in helping firefighters to bring a blaze at a gasworks under control, and the first of ten films looking at firefighter training.

Tonight, how a man was saved after being buried under tons of concrete. Plus advice on how to save a baby drowning in the bath and another look behind the scenes of firefighter training.

Tonight, how a young man helped a friend trapped underwater by giving him continual mouth to mouth, and a 77-year-old man who found the strength to lift a car off a neighbour.

Tonight, the tale of a lone yachtsman who braved an Antarctic storm to rescue a fellow sailor, and the story of a young bomb-disposal officer who endured a 36-hour test of nerves defusing an unexploded wartime device.

Tonight, the race to save a British naturalist stung by a deadly scorpion, an occupied Morris Minor crushed by a lorry, and a man who fell on a live railway track during an epileptic seizure.

Tonight, a novice canoeist swept into a very dangerous river gorge, a baby choking on a wood screw, and a bridegroom whose leg is saved by a medical breakthrough developed behind the old Iron Curtain.

Tonight, a family that were stranded by the tide, and a man who was nearly strangled by the toggles of his coat that were caught in an escalator.

Tonight, how a mother and her ten-year-old daughter rescued horses after their riding stables caught fire on Guy Fawkes' night, and how a quick-thinking nightclub bouncer used a pipe from a beer pump to save the life of a man whose neck had been slashed.

Tonight, a diver who was rescued after plunging 200 feet to the sea bed, and a 77-year-old man who found the strength to lift a car and save a neighbour's life.

Tonight, a paraglider pilot in the Italian alps who lost control and plunged 5,000 feet, and footage of the rescue of a teenager trapped under a lorry in icy water.