Special Forces: Most Daring Missions — Season 1
About this season
Follow UK's SAS operations during incidents such as 'Operation Nimrod', the Iranian Embassy siege in London in 1980. Each episode of Most Daring Missions will celebrate a real life assignment undertaken by an elite military force.
Episodes (3)
1. Operation Nimrod
Aired 24 November 2024 • 45 min
Across six days in 1980 the eyes of the world fix upon London's Iranian Embassy, where terrorists hold over 20 hostages. Next door a squadron of SAS soldiers sit quietly, primed and ready to raid and rescue those held.
2. Operation Barras
Aired 24 November 2024 • 45 min
A regiment of British soldiers find themselves held hostage by Sierra Leone's notorious West Side Boys. It is up to British Special Forces to conduct a rescue of a scale not seen since the Second World War.
3. The Gambian Coup
Aired 24 November 2024 • 45 min
With Africa's smallest country, Gambia, in the midst of a coup, a select group of British Special Forces are sent in to covertly rescue the absent President's wife and children.