Real Rescues

Real Rescues is a British documentary broadcast on BBC One exploring the daily work of the emergency services aired from 2007 to 2013. Real Rescues was at the heart of the action with the emergency services of Hampshire including the police, fire, ambulance, coastguard and lifeboat crews. The majority of the footage was shot around Portsmouth and Fareham. In the later series, other counties from across the UK began to be featured. Other emergency services, such as mountain rescue and animal rescue, were also featured. The show was axed in 2013.

Real Rescues
Genre	Documentary
Presented by	Chris Hollins (2012) Louise Minchin (2009–2012) Nick Knowles (2007-2011, 2013)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	10
No. of episodes	228 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Kate Roberts Chris Riley
Running time	28–58 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	15 October 2007 (2007-10-15) – 25 October 2013 (2013-10-25)

The programme reran on W and CBS Reality until 2017.

Episodes

Series	Start Date	End Date	Total Episodes	Presenters
1	15 Oct 2007	9 Nov 2007	20 x 58m	Nick Knowles and Louise Minchin
2A	29 Sep 2008	24 Oct 2008	20 x 44m	Nick Knowles and Louise Minchin
2B*	29 Apr 2008	9 Dec 2008	20 x 29m	Nick Knowles and Louise Minchin
3	20 Apr 2009	15 May 2009	20 x 44m	Nick Knowles and Louise Minchin
4	2 Nov 2009	27 Nov 2009	20 x 28m	Nick Knowles and Louise Minchin
5A	5 Jul 2010	16 Jul 2010	20 x 44m	Nick Knowles and Louise Minchin
5B	1 Jul 2009	22 Oct 2010	8 x 29m	Nick Knowles and Louise Minchin
6	22 Nov 2010	17 Dec 2010	20 x 44m	Nick Knowles and Louise Minchin
7	30 May 2011	24 Jun 2011	20 x 44m	Nick Knowles and Louise Minchin
8	11 Jun 2012	6 Jul 2012	20 x 44m	Chris Hollins and Louise Minchin
9	11 Mar 2013	5 Apr 2013	20 x 44m	Nick Knowles
10	30 Sep 2013	25 Oct 2013	20 x 44m	Nick Knowles

Series 2B contained edited versions of series 1 content.

Series 5B contained edited versions of series 3 content.