999

Řada 5

Recreations of dramatic rescues, where people cheat death through either sheer luck or outstanding bravery.

Kde se dívat na 999 • Řada 5

9 dílů

  • Díl 1
    D1
    Díl 1Tonight'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.
  • Díl 2
    D2
    Díl 2This 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.
  • Díl 3
    D3
    Díl 3Tonight'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.
  • Díl 4
    D4
    Díl 4Tonight, 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 same time; and the woman who came to the rescue of footballer Steve Nicol after he fell through the ice of a frozen lake trying to rescue his dog.
  • Díl 5
    D5
    Díl 5Tonight, 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 tell his rescuers about the hidden medical conditions which could kill him; and the chimney pot which crashed through a Brighton roof during a storm, trapping a man on his bed beneath.
  • Díl 6
    D6
    Díl 6Tonight, 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 on branches not strong enough to bear its weight; and the inspired use of a fork-lift truck to release a cyclist pinned under a 38-tonne lorry.
  • Díl 7
    D7
    Díl 7Tonight, 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.
  • Díl 8
    D8
    Díl 8More 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 chest after a car crash, scrambled 30 feet up a motorway embankment to try to get help, and how the number 1471 saved the life of a shop assistant.
  • Díl 9
    D9
    Díl 9Tonight: 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 mobile phone but can't use it to make anyone aware of his plight; and the chain of people who refused to allow a man to die after a crash broke bones in every limb of his body, injuries that later required 10 metal plates, 32 pins, 50 screws and six grams of gold.

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