Life at Stake
1978 · 1 season · 8 episodes · Ended · BBC One
Drama
A series of eight dramatic reconstructions of stories which made the headlines.
Episodes
- S01E01Are You Dr. Herrema?1978-02-17
A Dutch factory manager working in Ireland is kidnapped by the IRA.
- S01E02Mayday for Pisces III1978-02-24
A small submersible sinks off the coast of Ireland, leading to the deepest sub rescue in history.
- S01E03The Train That Never Arrived1978-03-03
In 1975, South Moluccan terrorists hijack a train in the Netherlands.
- S01E04So, Who's Sick?1978-03-10
The story of the 1975 siege of the West German embassy in Stockholm by members of the Baader-Meinhof Gang.
- S01E05The Million Dollar Children1978-03-17
The story of the Faraday School kidnapping in 1972, when two plasterers kidnapped six female pupils and their teacher from a school in rural Australia and demanded a million-dollar ransom.
- S01E06Houston... We've Got a Problem1978-03-31
The story of the Apollo 13 mission and how disaster was narrowly averted.
- S01E07Somewhere Between Cambridge Bay and Yellowknife1978-04-07
When a light aircraft crashes in the Canadian Arctic in 1972, the pilot finds himself forced to extremes to survive.
- S01E08James Cross Will Be Executed1978-04-14
In 1970, a British diplomat is kidnapped in Montreal by the Quebec Liberation Front.
