999 - The Great Storm (BBC, Michael Buerk)

[@safcforever1]

I used to love this programme. Why do they stop making programmes like these that are so brilliant??? Thanks so much for uploading this, really loved watching it again.

[@paddlingmatlockmichaeldavi1839]

9 years ago this comment was written lol 😂 time flies 🤣

[@MarkRailton]

Loved 999 when I was young. Hearing the theme takes me back to the mid/late 90s, large at night on a Friday at my grans

[@KayleighNatasha]

To this day the theme tune, still scares the living daylights out of me

[@mikematthews7018]

Same!

[@katemissfilanpurrmcdevitt]

You and me both it sends chills down me Xx

[@TheeMrAbz]

Omg same, as a kid when I used to watch this with my dad , the opening theme would just creep me out and scare me

[@joewhite3882]

Really used to LOVE 999 when I was around 8-10 yrs old or so. GREAT to see it again as a child the intro music gave me goosebumps and did so as this did am far from a child now and was 3 in the ''great storm'' in Brighton East Sussex

[@djemmay]

I just had to hear the end of the theme tune again as it reminded me of watching this with my family when I was very young. Strange how memories like this just pop into your head.

[@TimeBunny]

I was 6 years old when this happened. I remember not being scared at all by the high winds. It wasn’t until years later, thanks to KZbin (and the Internet in general) that I’ve been able to go back and appreciate just how bad it was for some people.

[@MUFC1933]

I was 14 😱

[@neniaemm6127]

I was 5, I hadn't ever experienced something like that before so I really didn't know what to make of it. I remember my mum making us all sleep in the downstairs bathroom because it was the only room in the house that didn't have windows, she was afraid the windows in all the other rooms were going to shatter. You could hear the air being sucked in and out of them around the frames. To me it was just an adventure, so to see the destruction the next morning was surreal. My neighbours roof had mostly been torn off, ours was missing quite a few tiles and our garage had collapsed.

[@angelacooper2661]

I was 17 at the time and remember it very well; as a YTS trainee I recall Michael Fish's famous words were unforgettable and came back to haunt him. The date also happened to be my brother Anthony's 20th birthday!

[@pagrant]

We need to bring back programmes like 999, those lifesaver videos were useful in the 90s

[@rachaelboakes329]

pagrant I grew up in 90s I was born in May 87 so I do remember October the 15 1987 I do remember this program to I am 33 I live in Gloucestershire south West

[@jameskvo]

Few would watch it, unfortunately. The days of millions tuning into such programmes are over. Digital TV, gaming and streaming have taken people's attention away from linear TV.

[@Gecko....]

There are so many emergency programmes on BBC and itv, just search for them.

[@jasonharford2032]

Anyone else keep coming back to this and is also scared of the tune as a kid lol

[@StuAnderson90]

"The caravan was rocking" Me "When the caravan's rocking don't come knocking" :D ahem i'm here all week... available for parties, weddings ect... :D i know a crap joke

[@SJD9987]

Thanks for uploading this episode. This storm happened one month before I was born.

[@ukguy]

I remember walking home from school in this storm and seeing the trees blown down. thanks for uploading.

[@angelapay3718]

Sevenoaks in Kent became Oneoak but were replaced over time.

[@AtheistBrit]

I absolutely LOVED this show as a child! Thank you SO MUCH for posting! As many as you can upload, I will watch :D

[@indy_go_blue6048]

I believe it's mandatory that every true disaster story must have an early labor/delivery story before it can be aired! (Actually the low atmospheric pressure during a weather event does bring on an early onset to labor.)

[@katemissfilanpurrmcdevitt]

I was a year old when the great storm happened don’t remember anything about it so it was great 999 Lifesavers did a documentary on it many hero’s and brave people. I felt so sorry guy having to witness his Mum fall from the balcony must’ve been really frightening as were the other stories Xx

[@ViveSemelBeneVivere]

Caravans should be constructed with integrated roll cages, so that they don't just collapse flat if they roll over.

[@Arsenal-81]

use to love this, thanks for the upload. good old 90s

[@coolcattigger]

i remember 999 - it came on tv when i was 6 or 7 years old - considering what time it was broadcasted, i was supposed to be in bed, but luckily after persuading my parents, they let me stay up to watch it

[@uhegbu]

Used to watch this programme.

[@renaultlover1]

Can't thank you enough for this!!!!

[@ChaosHusky]

I loved this as a kid, really really wish it were available to download, torrent or something (legal, ideally!) or even a proper DVD release, or Blu-Ray, that would be sweet. C'mon BBC!

[@51WCDodge]

I was in New Forest, I woke at about 4am. There was a sound like a car slowing down, then it just sort of acellerated and I heard a series of loud cracks. When daylight came I looked out and saw a copse of mature Poplar trees, owned by Bryant May the match company, to make match sticks. They had snapped in half! We were about a mile from the main road, no power, it took 18 hours to cut the way back to the main road.

[@mrkipling2201]

Michael fish and the met office had a lot to answer for !!! And there's a hurricane yet still the milkman leaves bottles of milk on doorsteps !! He was very lucky as well !!

[@DavidStruveDesigns]

I was 3 years old when this storm hit. Although our town wasn't exposed to the highest wind speeds in that storm, they were strong enough to take off some of the roof tiles on our house - including one that fell from the roof through the attic and managed to smash through my bedroom ceiling and strike me on the head whilst I slept. Apart from a minor cut I was fine thankfully, but it gave my father quite the scare!

[@katekm32]

I was the same a year old I admire all the people,&'their bravery Xx

[@KnightZ1987]

You are a legend! I missed this when it was on years ago! How funny i should finally get a chance to see it! I was only a few months old when this happened!

[@GAC1984]

I remember seeing this first time it was shown. Thanks for Uploading.

[@jakamneziak]

A whole episode and i STILL did not know who made the theme tune. Well worth watching though and thanks for the memory bank recollection.

[@johnking5174]

This was the British version of Rescue 911 which began in 1989 and hosted by William Shatner on CBS.

[@rachaelboakes329]

John King this program is called 999 not 911

[@johnking5174]

@@rachaelboakes329 Yes, that is why this said this was the British version, as in Britain their emergency number is 999

[@rachaelboakes329]

John King I was born in May 87 so I do remember this hurricane in October 15 87 . I understand u live in America

[@johnking5174]

@@rachaelboakes329 But love British programs - very different and similar in many ways

[@sarahhart7404]

I remember the storm in 87 I was 7 at the time

[@64bakes]

I had this episode on VHS somewhere, but I think my Mother taped over it :( Thanks for posting it up!

[@cantliff9]

I didn't expect to here the music from Oblivion at Alton Towers at around 20:06

[@MUFC1933]

That night was a fight between Good and Evil.

[@BugByte100]

I remember being a 11yr old not taking this storm seriously trying to be a "man" amd thinking it's not all that. Then as I was walking past one of the neighbours tall wooden fences opposite the road and it's just tore off. Imagine you tear a A4 paper in half lengthways. Right opposite me and it flew off into the wind. Then I realised this storm is deadly and can kill people. Luckily home was 50 yards away but I should never have gone out on an errand. Must have been about 8pm.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Late British actor Gorden Kaye was injured in the great storm.

[@51WCDodge]

Yes he had a stake of wood driven into his forehead. In his own words 'My God ! I thought I was a Unicorn!'

[@simonzinc-trumpetharris852]

There were several news reports saying that he was killed,

[@torquilmacleod2577]

Sure that was the Burns Day storm in 1990 not this one

[@danielwilliamson6180]

@@torquilmacleod2577 Wait a minute. What year was this great storm?

[@torquilmacleod2577]

@@danielwilliamson6180 1987

[@KayleighNatasha]

me and my little sister grew up watching this

[@vectorbrony3473]

I was only a. Few months old at the time. My grandmothers house was cut in two by a fallen tree.

[@Knightoftheorient]

I remember watching this the 1st time it was shown, I was only 10 at the time this was shown remember watching it almost like it's yesterday so weird!

[@rogerboltoncomposer]

Wow! So good to see some interest in the program which carries the signature tune that I composed and played! I am thinking about doing a re-mix as I have all the 'stems' / components including the original .wav file of Michael's intro voiceover - that is if anyone is interested?? Happy New Year. roger bolton

[@GooseMcSwan]

I've often wondered. Did you do the theme tune to sound like a two tone siren?

[@rachaelboakes329]

I remember watching this to I was born in may 87 so I do remember the storm of October 87

[@KayleighNatasha]

I remember one episode when a young girl rolled down the hill into a wasps nest, her brother and sister saw what happened and helped her home and got her into the bath tub and washed all the wasps of her body and she was literally covered in wasp stings, that episode has scared the hell out of me and has ever since

[@adamknight7041]

There was also an episode when a father, son and their pet dog disturbed a wasp nest in their converted Loft from what I recall. The dog nearly died from all the stings ☹

[@fergaloneill3668]

Poor people the scary things they went through

[@peaps]

What a great programme. I just watched it all at work. You just don't get stuff like this anymore! And the great storm of October 16th 1987, I remember well as I lived in South East London at the time. Something I think none of us who remember will ever forget!

[@RedPanda91]

I was pretty young when I used to watch it and the only episode I clearly remember is a girl rolling down a hill and being stung by a whole nest of bees... then her teacher tried to help and got stung loads too.

[@rachaelboakes329]

I remember the program to and I do remember the hurricane to I was born in may 87 so I do remember October the 15 87 I grew up in Gloucestershire south West and I am 33 now

[@Agent_Jack]

I remember watching this show...I was fairly young I was about 8 years old when it started, I use to get nightmares from it, I think I found the music worst!

[@ed40lew]

i'm currently after seeing 1992/93/94 episodes

[@Tinbopaloobop]

still to this day my favourite show ever, its amazing how many people say that aswell......so how did you find this? was it converted from an old vhs or something? im going to trawl through all my old VHS's to see if i can find any coz i remember recording alot of the episodes. i dont have the facilities to upload vhs to YT though, can anyone help?

[@sjm2726]

Hi sorry a few years since you posted your comment, but I was featured in the programme as my colleague and I (Police) found a surfer stranded out in the bay that no one had reported missing and then the resuce efforts by all the emergency services to resuce him as he was caught up in the swell/surf out in on of the small bays. Incident occured on the 1st January 1994. If anyone has the episode please share/let me know. All happened in Jersey, filmed in the early Autumn of 1994 but can't remember when the epsiode was broadcast. Would love to share with my son. Thank you.

[@BossySwan]

Buerky McBuerkface

[@tipthetube3219]

Yes, well t'was a tad windy!! Was living in mobile home at time, Barton on sea south coast Hants and the van was juddering horribly all around banging sounds of metal crashing about... As for our New Forest.. trees??

[@51WCDodge]

Yeah mate , was a bit of a wild night .

[@Birdieupon]

Great upload! And I agree, there's not enough 999 on youtube! Do you have 999's "Speed Kills"? That one was haunting...

[@RussWWFC]

@Birdieupon No, unfortuantly this is the only one I have. I do remember the episode you were talking about though, a Mini getting smashed to bits by a lorry(?) sticks in my mind

[@Kousaburo]

I remember this. The show not the storm.

[@MUFC1933]

7:46 Kids no mobiles, internet never invented yet, no pagers nothing! Also if this kid isn’t called Storm I wanna know why 😂

[@shelllavin6988]

Rip lan

[@jeremysmith54565]

Do you have the special called Operation Coathanger, a special of this tv show on the 12 January 1996? Would really love to see that again if you have it :)

[@lethalman3000]

awesome thank you im from dorset 2 firemen was killed i remember bonfire night a few weeks after it best bonfire night ever so much rubish everyone had bonfires best bonfire night ever never be one like that again. before the storm i was on my ZX Spectrum.then went two bed woke up 2am thare was Everthink Even Thunder and lighting the night after friday night we had lighting storms. sorry for all the deaths R.I.P NICK DORSET...

[@mhopkinshome]

Who remembers the one where the farmer got a huge metal spike in the arse?

[@Landie_Man]

It was a truck driver who had dropped something off on a farm and got a temporary fence post in his hip

[@andyhanrahan]

***** ha, close enough

[@LynchLuke]

Your man Steve Webb looks like Jim Mc Donnald from Coronation Street that appeared in the past.

[@LynchLuke]

Where is there an episode of the oen with the builder covered in concrete, the guy who plummeted from a hang glider on to the Italian Mountains and the football team been struck by thunder and lightning in the 1998 series?

[@panutalus]

Could you upload the original video (without youtube compression) into dropbox or somewhere that I could download it please?

[@RussWWFC]

@Tinbopaloobop Hi. I found it randomly as a torrent about 5 years ago. If you do have any videos, let me know as I am able to convert them for you and will add the results to KZbin

[@Damnblastify]

@RussWWFC Remember the heroic helicopter pilot that lifted workers from a stricken oil rig?

[@nicemandan]

One of the best comedy shows of the 90s

[@theyes647]

Not comedy, based on real events

[@RedPanda91]

The guy with the chimney on his legs sounds like Ron Weasleywhen he panics!

[@stuartmmcfc01]

Rachel Pannell , I know Warren and he was a right stud in those days!

[@LynchLuke]

Whats the story with the 1992 1993 and 1994 episodes of 999 will they be uploaded on you tube eventually?

[@davidhood8598]

why not rope the stack and pull it down away from victim? or tie it off to hold it still.

[@RedPanda91]

I agree! Interestingly enough it is Morse Code for SOS :)

[@slyfoxyandalifesaver]

at 39:25 i just couldn't help but shout NOOOO! THE MIIIILK!! lol i don't know why but what a waste of some so much freash milk...

[@thatsgorg]

why did they get rid of this?

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Does the # 999 have a significance? Is it the same as the USA's 911?

[@RussWWFC]

Yes

[@user-dp6cw9po5k]

It is But 999 has a More educational Side to it.

[@Andi090386]

Hi you don't have the 999 Selsey Tornado Special form 1998/ 1999 do you??

[@elwolf8536]

Patrick moor was in that one having a curry.

[@WRCSeb]

North west unaffected

[@RussWWFC]

@ChucklevisionmanII That would be great, if you need help, just ask :)

[@Chrisindapurplehouse]

Manwell is real 22:25

[@javiergomez9970]

In your username do the letters WWFC stand for Wolverhampton or Wycombe Wanderers football club?

[@tarnyaattwell4841]

How the world has changed. U can see the British stiff upper lip. Compare that to today’s behaviour. Perhaps our connection to the rest of the world via the internet, means behaviours have developed to what they are today. Such a huge change social media has made.

[@Chrisindapurplehouse]

Typical man theres a hurricane outside and he says to his wife its fine always trust women they know best

[@iangoldsworthy5307]

Not tigers fault. Should not be in a zoo

[@lesleypanton8204]

Honestly this show is the reason an entire generation of millennials have such bad anxiety 🙂‍↕️🤣🤦🏻‍♀️

[@gordoncampbell100]

Mr GangWar was`nt expecting that .