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
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	Episodes		Presenters	Originally released (UK)
				First released	Last released
1	20		Nick Knowles and Louise Minchin	15 October 2007 (2007-10-15)	9 November 2007 (2007-11-09)
2[a]	40	20		29 September 2008 (2008-09-29)	24 October 2008 (2008-10-24)
		20		29 April 2008 (2008-04-29)	9 December 2008 (2008-12-09)
3	20			20 April 2009 (2009-04-20)	15 May 2009 (2009-05-15)
4	20			2 November 2009 (2009-11-02)	27 November 2009 (2009-11-27)
5[b]	28	20		5 July 2010 (2010-07-05)	16 July 2010 (2010-07-16)
		8		1 July 2009 (2009-07-01)	22 October 2010 (2010-10-22)
6	20			22 November 2010 (2010-11-22)	10 December 2010 (2010-12-10)
7	20			30 May 2011 (2011-05-30)	24 June 2011 (2011-06-24)
8	20		Chris Hollins and Louise Minchin	11 June 2012 (2012-06-11)	6 July 2012 (2012-07-06)
9	20		Nick Knowles	11 March 2013 (2013-03-11)	5 April 2013 (2013-04-05)
10	20			30 September 2013 (2013-09-30)	25 October 2013 (2013-10-25)

Notes

1. The last 20 episodes of series 2 contained edited versions of series 1 content.
2. The last 8 episodes of series 5 contained edited versions of series 3 content.