Tonight's programme includes: a gas explosion that buries a woman under a block of flats, and a runaway motorboat off the coast of Devon.

Tonight: a 4-month-old baby who's nearly washed out to sea; a trainee pilot who has to be "talked down" after the sudden death of his instructor; and a woman who jumps from her burning home carrying a baby in her arms.

Featured tonight are a 5-year-old girl who was trapped in a crushed car with just her hand poking from the wreckage; an ambulanceman who has to overcome his own fear of heights to save a casualty 100 feet up a radio mast; and a young man who survived underground for four hours in a 22-inch sewer pipe.

Featured tonight are a father and son who nearly drown when their car lands upside down in a river, a helicopter that goes out of control leaving a mountain rescuer dangling helplessly on the end of a winch, and a young man in Edinburgh who is buried alive after a gas explosion.

Featured tonight is a 5-year-old boy who fell down a narrow fissure on Cannock Chase that led to disused mine workings. His rescue lasted five hours and involved the Coal Mines Rescue Team.

Featured tonight is a rescue in freezing mud flats on the banks of the River Medway in Kent; how a jogger saved a young boy from a 100-foot deep ravine in Co Durham; and a man who against all odds survived a broken back after an air crash in Shropshire.

Tonight: a terrible lorry crash requiring a long and difficult rescue that many thought no one could possibly survive; and practical tips on what to do if you are first at the scene of an accident. Also a rescue bid by helicopter pilots battling against hurricane force winds and 40 foot waves to rescue 51 workers marooned on a sinking oil rig in the North Sea.

Tonight: a rescue deep underwater. Exploring the waters where First World War battleships were scuttled at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys, two experienced divers got into trouble when one of them became pinned to the seabed by a huge metal door. With no time to go for help, it was up to his friend to save him, struggling to free him as their air supply streamed away. Plus, a reconstruction of a house fire in Nottingham highlights the dangers of making hoax calls, and an off-duty fireman plucks three children from the grip of quicksand-like coal slurry in South Shields.

Tonight: a home video of how a canoeist became trapped under tons of freezing white water, and how a series of extraordinary coincidences helped save the life of a man injured on a Lake District mountainside.

Tonight: the story of a 9-year-old boy who spent five hours trapped in a tiny air bubble deep underground, a man whose life was saved by his briefcase after a bizarre train accident, and an extraordinary rescue in Bristol's city docks when a man in a wheelchair plunged into freezing water.

Tonight: a bizarre mid-air collision; how a man spent hours trapped by a huge tree stump; and flying paramedics rescue a fallen climber.