Countryside 999 Season 1, Episode 8: Episode 8

Episode 1

Rural paramedics and an A&E team join forces to respond to a serious road accident. A routine speed check leads to a more suspicious scenario for the police, and the Royal Navy search and rescue helicopter crew race to find two fishermen adrift in the Atlantic Ocean.

45 min

Episode 2

Today Dumfries Police deal with a serious road collision between a car and a horsedrawn carriage carrying a bridal party; The Royal Navy search and rescue helicopter crew undertake a dangerous flying manoeuvre beneath electricity pylons to reach a man in the Firth of Forth; and the Cairngorm Ski Patrol come to the aid of a badly injured skier.

45 min

Episode 3

Today, the Royal Navy Search and Rescue helicopter crew race to transfer a teenage girl with suspected meningitis from a rural hospital in Lochgilphead to urgent specialist care; the Dumfriesshire police stopcheck suspicious drivers; and in the Cairngorms, the ski patrol attend to casualties on the slopes.

45 min

Episode 4

The Royal Navy search and rescue helicopter crew are scrambled to one of Glencoe's highest peaks to search for three stranded climbers in the pitch black; rural traffic cops stop a van crammed full of suspect counterfeit goods; and chimney fires in country cottages are causing havoc for the fire service.

45 min

Episode 5

The Royal Navy search and rescue helicopter crew race to rescue a critically injured walker in the Lake District; severe weather causes chaos on the roads for the police; and rural paramedics contend with icy country roads to reach and treat their patient.

45 min

Episode 6

In this episode, the Royal Navy search and rescue helicopter crew rush to transfer a heart attack patient in a remote location to specialist cardiac care. Dumfries traffic cops attend two road traffic collisions on icy country roads; and the Cairngorm ski patrollers deal with a flood of injuries on one of the busiest days of the season.

45 min

Episode 7

In this episode, the Royal Navy search and rescue helicopter crew rescue a badly injured lumberjack from remote woodland. Dumfries Police investigate an isolated farmhouse ripped apart by metal thieves, and a rural A&E team treat an injured sheep farmer after a nasty quadbike accident.

45 min

Episode 9

In this episode, Lockerbie paramedics blue-light to a rural village to treat a woman struggling to breathe. Traffic cops and paramedics work together after three cars collide on the motorway bridging England and Scotland, and the Royal Navy search and rescue helicopter crew negotiate 100-foot trees and a giant mast to get to an injured lumberjack in remote woodland.

45 min

Episode 10

In this episode, the Royal Navy Search and Rescue helicopter team join forces with other emergency services to respond to a serious road traffic accident on a remote country road; police patrol the town of Dumfries on one of the busiest nights of the year; and a rural Accident and Emergency Department deal with some pre-Christmas casualties.

45 min

Episode 11

45 min

Episode 12

The Royal Navy Search and Rescue helicopter team transfer a seriously ill patient from a remote island hospital to specialist care on the mainland. Guy Fawkes weekend means malicious fires on farmland for the fire service, and a rural A&E treats a boy badly injured after a firework explodes in his hand.

45 min

Episode 13

The traffic police's own human sniffer dog has a successful drugs bust after a motorway spot check. The Royal Navy Search and Rescue fly to a seriously ill man at sea, and the rural paramedics race to attend to a coal man in agonising pain.

45 min

Episode 14

Traffic cops sniff out drugs and an illegal driver during a motorway spotcheck on the border; it all kicks off on the slopes for the first aid trained ski patrollers in the Cairngorms; and rural paramedics respond to a 999 call when an elderly woman has a suspected stroke.

45 min

Episode 15

Country cops confiscate firearms after a serious allegation of threatening behaviour is made; the Royal Navy helicopter crew airlift a bomb disposal squad after an unexploded device is found on a remote island and placed next to a diesel truck; and a rural A&E department treat a man who has accidently shot himself in the arm with a BB gun

45 min