The BEST episodes of Ambulance

Every episode of Ambulance ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Ambulance!

Life and death decisions on the frontline. From control rooms to the crews on the street, meet the people making sure every second counts.

Last Updated: 12/15/2024Network: BBC OneStatus: Continuing
Manchester - Episode 1
star
9.06
16 votes

#1 - Manchester - Episode 1

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/30/2019

Call handler Laura offers life saving advice to a panicked 999 caller, the call makes such a deep impact that she decides on the spot to change the direction of her life.

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Liverpool - Episode 1
star
8.92
13 votes

#2 - Liverpool - Episode 1

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/4/2020

Filmed in Spring 2019. Following ambulance teams attending to the 1.4 million people of Merseyside on St Patrick's Day weekend.

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Episode 5
star
8.87
15 votes

#3 - Episode 5

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/2020

It is Halloween and in the control room, B watch are on duty and expecting a busy night. A call from the London Fire Brigade requesting assistance at a fire in a block of flats immediately puts the team under pressure. Crewmates Sarah and David are dispatched, joining 106 other emergency services personnel at the scene. Mother-and-daughter team Nicola and Maisie have just finished with their first patient of the night but are immediately dispatched to a 12-year-old boy who has had an unfortunate accident. As the night shift continues, multiple 999 calls flood in reporting a devastating scene after two buses and a car have collided. With multiple casualties, the situation is declared a significant incident. This is rare occurrence - London Ambulance Service have only declared this twice in the last year. On this busy Halloween night, the service must somehow make ten more ambulances available at the incident. Nicola and Maisie are amongst those sent to help.

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Manchester - Episode 5
star
8.85
13 votes

#4 - Manchester - Episode 5

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/4/2019

Resource manager Saj is forced to make a split-second decision over where to send his limited resources when he is confronted with the choice between a patient who could be in cardiac arrest at a house fire or a child who is choking. Advanced paramedic Luke puts his specialist training to use when he is dispatched to a life-threatening motorcycle accident that has created multiple 999 calls.

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Episode 6
star
8.80
25 votes

#5 - Episode 6

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/31/2018

The last Saturday before Christmas is a busy, with controller Sui having to prioritise stabbing victims and reports of drowning over patient's like Betty, whose daughter says she's fine but needs help getting up having fallen to the floor.

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Episode 8
star
8.75
4 votes

#6 - Episode 8

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/2018

West Midlands Ambulance Service crews pay a heavy emotional toll after attending troubling cases of addiction and attempted suicide.

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Episode 8
star
8.69
13 votes

#7 - Episode 8

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/16/2019

While most enjoy a hot May bank holiday weekend in Manchester, North West Ambulance Service paramedics Gary and Claire need face matters of life and death.

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Liverpool - Episode 3
star
8.69
13 votes

#8 - Liverpool - Episode 3

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/18/2020

North West Ambulance Service mobilises extra resources as thousands of visitors arrive in Liverpool for the Grand National.

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Manchester - Episode 6
star
8.69
16 votes

#9 - Manchester - Episode 6

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/11/2019

Multiple 999 calls come in for a patient who has been struck by a car so a decision is made to send the helicopter crew. Unfortunately the chopper is grounded by freezing conditions and the scene is 45 minutes away by car. Paramedics Cassie and Ray to a patient who is short of breath, only to face a dilemma, and advanced paramedic Jon responds to an urgent call to a homeless man who no discernible pulse after spending the night in a van.

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Episode 5
star
8.64
11 votes

#10 - Episode 5

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/25/2019

A Friday night shift takes an unexpected turn for paramedic Jon. A panicked caller needs help for a friend who has given birth in a hotel room despite not knowing she was pregnant.

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Liverpool - Episode 2
star
8.62
13 votes

#11 - Liverpool - Episode 2

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/11/2020

The control room team feel the pressure on a busy night as they receive calls concerning a cocaine binge, a traffic collision and an accident involving a cherry picker.

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star
8.60
5 votes

#12 - Episode 2

Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/18/2022

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Episode 6
star
8.59
17 votes

#13 - Episode 6

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/2/2019

Joining North West Ambulance Service for a twelve-hour night shift. Call handler Elly tackles an increasing volume of calls, and there are surprises for paramedics April and Clare.

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Episode 2
star
8.56
16 votes

#14 - Episode 2

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/2020

Advanced Paramedic Kev is dispatched to a cardiac arrest. There is brief hope when they get a pulse back, but the patient needs to be urgently transferred to hospital, and a van is blocking the ambulance’s path and refusing to move. Gary and Fabio are dispatched to a patient who has fainted at Oxford Circus underground station, but whilst on scene, Extinction Rebellion protesters flood the area and block the roads. The next day, as MPs sit during the weekend for an important vote in Parliament, the team in control is taken by surprise when there's a problem nobody had foreseen - the entire computer system used to respond to 999 calls crashes. The team is forced to make an urgent switch from computers to pen, paper and map books, answering calls and taking down the information by hand before dispatchers radio the crews and direct them to the most serious cases.

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Episode 3
star
8.55
20 votes

#15 - Episode 3

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/2020

Amy, who is less than a year into the job, tries to get help to a patient who has been assaulted by her partner. The woman is unable to tell Amy her proper address, which means the team on the ground have difficulty locating her. A 999 call for a baby having a fit is a priority call, and crewmates Kate and Terry are immediately dispatched. They are 2.5 miles from the Category One emergency, but the traffic jams lead to a fraught journey for the crew. Amy takes a 999 call for a patient threatening to set fire to a building, and trainee call handler Mackenzie, who is on her final shift of training, is put to the test when she takes a call from a woman in late-stage labour with twins. Reports of a 15-year-old boy in school uniform has been stabbed come in to the control room. The news is not good and knowing they can not save him from his fate has a profound effect on the team on shift

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star
8.50
8 votes

#16 - Episode 1

Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/13/2022

A night shift takes a turn for the worse as multiple Darlington crews respond to a category-1 call for a patient in cardiac arrest.

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Manchester - Episode 2
star
8.47
19 votes

#17 - Manchester - Episode 2

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/6/2019

As senior paramedic Rich waits for his first job, he comments on the increase in homelessness in Greater Manchester. A category one response is needed for a man lying unconscious on the street because it is believed he has taken synthetic cannabis.

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star
8.43
7 votes

#18 - Episode 3

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/26/2021

A crew attend to a woman who has contracted Covid-19 while 20 weeks pregnant. But they must join a queue of 56 ambulances waiting to transfer patients into the local hospital.

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star
8.43
7 votes

#19 - Episode 6

Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/2021

As society opens up, the Easter bank holiday has consequences for North West Ambulance Service. A call for a patient stuck in a forest in Cumbria takes priority.

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Episode 1
star
8.39
18 votes

#20 - Episode 1

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/18/2018

The staff of North West Ambulance service deal with 11,000 calls over the weekend when 80,000 festival goers descend on Manchester for the Parklife festival. Also, Glynn and Andrea are dispatched to a 94 year old woman who has had a fall.

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star
8.38
16 votes

#21 - Episode 1

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/12/2021

Cameras follow crews from the North West Ambulance Service as they respond to the impacts of the Covid-19 epidemic and Storm Christoph.

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Liverpool - Episode 6
star
8.36
11 votes

#22 - Liverpool - Episode 6

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/16/2020

Call handler Brogan has to guide one caller through the process of performing lifesaving CPR while they wait for an ambulance to arrive.

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Manchester - Episode 3
star
8.35
20 votes

#23 - Manchester - Episode 3

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/13/2019

Doctor Ian and paramedic Nikki see the human consequences of youth violence when they attend a 13-year-old who has been stabbed and two young men who’ve been shot.

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Episode 7
star
8.33
3 votes

#24 - Episode 7

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/22/2018

A Friday night nightshift on a pay weekend in winter proves to be busy for the specialist trauma team.

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star
8.33
15 votes

#25 - Episode 8

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/2020

It's 10pm on Friday night, and Abbie and Ben, and Kieran and Mick, are amongst the 320 crews on duty in the capital. Reports are coming in of an armed male on the loose, but it's a call for a reported stabbing seven miles away which takes priority.

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