999
Season 5
Recreations of dramatic rescues, where people cheat death through either sheer luck or outstanding bravery.
Where to Watch 999 • Season 5
9 Episodes
- Episode 4E4
Episode 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. - Episode 5E5
Episode 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. - Episode 6E6
Episode 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. - Episode 8E8
Episode 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. - Episode 9E9
Episode 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.