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  • BBC One
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  • Documentary Reality

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5x1
Episode 1
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08, 1994
When a crane driver collapses 180 feet above the ground, the ambulanceman attempting to rescue him must grapple not just with the obvious dangers of the situation but with his own fear .. show full overview
5x1
Episode 1
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12, 1996
Tonight's stories include the capsizing accident that left a young sailor trapped underwater; and the two cavers entombed by a rockfall who used smoke signals to help their rescuers find them.
5x2
Episode 2
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19, 1996
This week's stories include the fire-fighters who were thrown through the air like rag dolls when a barn exploded in a freak flash fire.
5x3
Episode 3
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26, 1996
Tonight's reconstructions of real-life rescues include a man who was overcome by fumes in an underground petrol tank, and a little boy plunges through a hole whilst sledging, into a freezing, fast-running stream.
5x4
Episode 4
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10, 1996
Tonight, the catalogue of errors that led to disaster on a sandbank 12 miles off the Essex coast; the husband and wife who exhibited completely different symptoms of poisoning at the .. show full overview
5x5
Episode 5
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17, 1996
Tonight, the mystery of the diver who went missing at midnight in a Scottish loch, only to be found miles away on dry land; the car crash which left a man bleeding badly and unable to .. show full overview
5x6
Episode 6
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24, 1996
Tonight, the school diving trip to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands that almost ended in disaster; the airship on a test flight which crashed into the top of a tree and ended up resting .. show full overview
5x7
Episode 7
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31, 1996
Tonight, the British nurse airlifted out of Sierra Leone after contracting a highly contagious killer virus; and the pilot who swooped from the skies to throw a life raft to a drowning man. Plus, advice on staying healthy abroad.
5x8
Episode 8
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07, 1996
More reconstructions of dramatic real-life rescues, including the skills of a lifeboat crew being tested to the limits, the story of a soldier who, with a wooden stake lodged in his .. show full overview
5x9
Episode 9
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14, 1996
Tonight: how rescuers risked their lives on the sands off Southend to save a trapped teenager before the tide engulfed him; the detective work required to locate a lorry driver who has a .. show full overview

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