5STAR TV Guide — Tuesday, 21 July 2026

The story of how Merseyside resident Christopher Strettle spun a web of lies to the police after murdering his friend by shooting him in the chest

Dr Amir Khan meets James who is very frank about his heart failure diagnosis and two prior heart attacks. He also meets Andrea, who is dealing with the aftermath of a hysterectomy, and Dr Eleanor Beecraft reassures Anne, who is suffering with back pain and is worried it may have something to do with her kidneys

Emergency nurse practitioner Jo Birkenshaw assesses 78-year-old Paul who has come to casualty after being bitten on the nose by a dog and may need reconstructive surgery. Meanwhile, registrar doctor Rob Cornford treats 73-year-old John, who is struggling to breathe, and consultant doctor Bharath Reddy and junior doctor Jake Mullen treat 52-year-old Steve, who is losing a lot of blood from his arm

Dr Natalia Spierings tackles one of the biggest lipomas of her career and Dr Emma McMullen helps a bride who's six weeks away from her wedding. Plus, Dr Adil Sheraz treats a patient with a face cyst

David wants to go home, Richie's world collapses, and Mali's surf class takes an unexpected turn

A chance to buy goods from the comfort of home

A chance to buy goods from the comfort of home

A chance to buy award winning eFOLDi lightweight electric folding mobility scooters

Wedding planner Louise is working hard to dress a church for a couple's big day, and Fiona is busy baking cakes for a fundraising event for a local dog charity

Following expat Keith and his family, who run a busy butcher's shop catering to Brits in a picturesque village near the holiday hotspot of Alicante

A young mum locked out of her home by the young couple she allowed to stay there for free while the wife had a baby. Plus, an east London landlord who found half a dozen strangers living in his house, after his original tenant had run off and sublet the property. Meanwhile, Harrow Council raid a small two-bedroom flat in unsafe conditions

Officers clamp down on repeat offenders in North Yorkshire, arresting a woman in Selby with a history of drink driving who claims a relative was at the wheel after she smashed into two parked cars on her way back from a drinking session. A tip-off about a truck driver seen snorting cocaine while behind the wheel of a car transporter leads to the man's arrest twice in the quick succession

Near York, a young man who's stolen his grandfather's car leads the police on a bizarre and dangerous pursuit that ends in a trip to hospital for the driver. A car speeds by police at 140 mph but, despite testing positive for drugs at the roadside, the young driver denies any wrongdoing and protests his innocence. To the north of the county, two suspected fuel thieves are tracked by police cameras and arrested

In Harrogate, a reckless motorcyclist with a long history of violence puts lives in danger as he desperately tries to outrun the cops, while a trap is set on the A1 by police targetting more county line drug dealers. A night-time sting leads to the arrest of another drugs suspect after a roadside test finds cocaine in his system and a large bag of suspicious white powder inside a shopping bag. Jamie Theakston presents

Rob and Spence respond to a reported knife attack, arriving to find the victim is on her way to hospital while the suspect is locked in a property and making threats against police. Negotiations take a turn when the slurring suspect topples out of an upstairs window, crashing to the patio below. Out on the roads, Lisa and Lewis assist Lenny with the arrest of a tricky trio who are suspected of stealing an elderly man's car

Officers Gav Hall and Dan Mottishaw are in hot pursuit of a suspected drug dealer, but the two-wheeled tearaway runs out of road, flips his bike over and crashes into a hedge. Elsewhere, a man wanted for ABH gives interceptors Lewis Marshall and Darren Chalk the runaround, and Jen Ellse pulls over a suspected uninsured driver, who struggles to explain the fake plates in his boot

The firearms team are deployed to the address of a man allegedly armed with a gun who is threatening to harm himself or provoke a police shooting. In Mansfield, Spencer and Rob tackle a man in the street who is suspected of carrying a knife and making threats to stab his own mother, and officers deal with a driver who struggles to remember his own name

Late one night in Manchester, a shop owner suffers a shocking experience when five men armed with baseball bats burst into his store