Saved (ITV, 9pm)

NONE but the brave were expected to apply, when ITV set out to find people who had saved a s life, had their own saved, or had a life-saving story to share.

There was also the chance to reunite those involved in the tales of daring with the production company using dramatic reconstructions with emotional recollections from the protagonists as they relive the heart-stopping moments their lives hung in the balance. This first episode centres on a routine parachute jump that went wrong for a group of six people when one of them got his foot tangled in a chord as he leapt from the aircraft. He was left hanging upside down from the plane as it flew thousands of feet up. Garth Grayling, the pilot, was unaware that Jeremy Denning, the last person to jump, was trapped underneath the vehicle.

"I could see the parachutists leave the aircraft in my rear view mirror, there was no delay at the door, it was normal. Jeremy looked at me and gave me the thumbs up in the rear view mirror, he was very happy, things had gone well and fairly quickly Jeremy jumped out of the airplane," he says.

However, the ground crew became worried when five parachutes could be seen, though Garth confimed via radio that all six jumpers had left the plane. While Garth began his descent, he became aware of a static line leading from the exit door, stopping it from shutting.

As the aircraft got closer to the runway, the ground crew were stunned to see Jeremy hanging from the bottom. Garth received the urgent radio call to pull up a mere 100-feet from the runway.

"In one moment everything is normal, and then the next moment...you are in a situation which is life or death," he explains. "What scared me immensely was the realisation that Jeremy's parachute could potentially become dislodged or it could deploy, and with him still being tied to the bottom of the aircraft...it would have killed him immediately."

Next comes a fact-based drama reminiscent of Robert Redford's movie All is Lost.

While enjoying their retirement on a catamaran holiday around the Greek islands, Norma and Clive Probert's life was literally turned upside down when an unexpected freak storm swamped their boat as it was anchored for the night. Clive fell into the sea and wife Norma was trapped inside a small air pocket deep underneath.

Thankfully help came in the form of local ex-pat Northern Irishman Ruairi Bradley who had lived in the area for two decades. With the ship sinking and a panic-stricken Norma, who couldn't swim, adding to the proceedings, you may have to remind yourself to breathe as this drama-documentary unfolds.

Victorian Bakers (BBC2, 8pm)

IF you're suffering withdrawal symptoms from The Great British Bake Off, then this series should help tide you over. Four bakers leave their businesses behind to experience what their profession was like during the Victorian era, working from a rural bake house has been kitted out exactly as it would have been in the 1830s, while historians Alex Langlands and Annie Gray fill in the background story. In this edition the bakers must get to grips with centuries-old methods of bread making, and that means doing everything by hand.

Big Fat Quiz of Everything (Channel 4, 9pm)

NOT content with asking question about what happened in a given year, Jimmy Carr is now testing famous faces' knowledge of art, literature, television, music, geography, politics, science and celebrity from the past 100,000 years of human history. Jonathan Ross, Chelsea Peretti, Jack Whitehall, Mel Giedroyc, Richard Ayoade and Noel Fielding try to carry off the title by proving they know how witch hunters determined if someone was a witch, which is the largest muscle in the human body and which 1970s board game was accused of selling sex in a box.