Helicopter Heroes is a British daytime television series, following the lifesaving work of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
He agreed to front the show to thank the Yorkshire Air Ambulance crew which flew him to hospital in after his near-fatal jet engine powered car crash, while filming for Top Gear, at Elvington airfield near York, in September 2006.
Helicopter Heroes is edited in a hangar at Leeds Bradford Airport and shot by a small team from BBC English Regions using Sony EX3 and PMW200 HD cameras.
The team also filmed footage of a patient – air ambulance dispatcher Chris Solomons – actually suffering a heart attack, going into cardiac arrest and being revived with CPR and a defibrillator.
Helicopter Heroes has aired in Australia (series 1–2 on LifeStyle Channel), New Zealand and Scandinavia.