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'''''You Saved My Life''''' is an Australian factual television series that screened on the Nine Network in 2009. It was hosted by ''60 Minutes'' reporter Tara Brown and the doctor Andrew Rochford.<ref name="Tracy2009-04-19">{{cite news |last=Tracy |first=Jackie |date=2009-04-19 |title=TV Guide |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/127A74A07AA1D788&f=basic |newspaper=Sunday Mail |accessdate=2025-12-31 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20251231063425/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/127A74A07AA1D788&f=basic |archivedate=2025-12-31 }}</ref>
''You Saved My Life'' follows the stories of people who have been rescued in an emergency and reunited with their rescuers.<ref name="Cronin2009-04-16">{{cite magazine |last=Cronin |first=Seanna |date=2009-04-16 |title=Tara to the rescue |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/1279AD6484439938&f=basic |magazine=Play Magazine |accessdate=2025-12-31 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20251231063408/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/1279AD6484439938&f=basic |archivedate=2025-12-31 }}</ref> It has a similar premise to the successful Seven Network factual television series Triple Zero Heroes.<ref name="Vickery2009-04-15">{{cite news |last=Vickery |first=Colin |date=2009-04-15 |title=Hero worshipper |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/12792328520DF6A8&f=basic |newspaper=Herald Sun |accessdate=2025-12-31 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20251231063344/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/12792328520DF6A8&f=basic |archivedate=2025-12-31 }}</ref> Two weeks after it started airing and six episodes in, the show was cancelled for the final time after having been taken off air and reinstated.<ref name="Meade2009-07-27">{{cite news |last=Meade |first=Amanda |date=2009-07-27 |title=The Diary |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/129B1A45B37D7520&f=basic |newspaper=The Australian |accessdate=2025-12-31 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20251231063459/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/129B1A45B37D7520&f=basic |archivedate=2025-12-31 }}</ref><ref name="Simmons2009-08-22">{{cite news |last=Simmons |first=Lisa |date=2009-08-22 |title=McAvoy takes bit - of time to reflect |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/12A4357A02D22B00&f=basic |newspaper=Gold Coast Bulletin |accessdate=2025-12-31 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20251231063511/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/12A4357A02D22B00&f=basic |archivedate=2025-12-31 }}</ref>
In one episode, a plane crash survivor, Allana Arnott, meets with Hugh Russell, who had rescued her in the Blue Mountains 18 years prior.<ref name="Orr2009-04-20">{{cite news |last=Orr |first=Jasmin |date=2009-04-20 |title=Television |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/127AC34355AD60A0&f=basic |newspaper=The Courier-Mail |accessdate=2025-12-31 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20251231063433/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/127AC34355AD60A0&f=basic |archivedate=2025-12-31 }}</ref> In another episode, a toddler who is now 26 meets with the train conductor who lept from a speeding train to rescue the child from the tracks moments ahead of an oncoming express train between Newcastle and Sydney.<ref name="Brown2009-04-20">{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Jessie |date=2009-04-20 |title=highlights - TV & Stars |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/127AF394B696F5D8&f=basic |newspaper=Newcastle Herald |accessdate=2025-12-31 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20251231063450/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/127AF394B696F5D8&f=basic |archivedate=2025-12-31 }}</ref>
==Reception== Colin Vickery of the ''Herald Sun'' found the show to be a "a three-hanky job" and compared it to the Seven Network show ''Triple Zero Heroes'' where every installment also closed by bringing together the rescuer and rescuee.<ref name="Vickery2009-04-15"/> In a mixed review, ''The Daily Telegraph'' reviewer Erin McWhirter called it a show that like ''Find My Family'' was "capable of producing tears in even the most hardened of viewers". McWhirter concluded, "Re-enactments might not be this program's strong point, but viewers will be so caught up in the real-life moments that the clunky moments fail to detract from the overall effect."<ref name="McWhirter2009-04-15">{{cite news |last=McWhirter |first=Erin |date=2009-04-15 |title=Picks of the Week |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/127928B5F023EDC8&f=basic |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |accessdate=2025-12-31 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20251231063357/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/127928B5F023EDC8&f=basic |archivedate=2025-12-31 }}</ref> Anita Beaumont of ''Newcastle Herald'' also had a mixed review of the "heartstring-plucking" show, stating, "The emotions are real and touching, although there is a huge element of cheesiness — thanks to the soundtrack — that will hinder one's enthralment."<ref name="Beaumont2009-04-17">{{cite news |last=Beaumont |first=Anita |date=2009-04-17 |title=Channel Surf |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/1279F8DB20A36C48&f=basic |newspaper=Newcastle Herald |accessdate=2025-12-31 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20251231063400/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/1279F8DB20A36C48&f=basic |archivedate=2025-12-31 }}</ref>
''The Daily Telegraph'' reviewer Ellen Rigney stated, "While the featured people are inspiring and their stories are moving, repeated close-ups of the rescuer and rescuee hugging in slow motion tends to grate after a while."<ref name="Rigney2009-04-19">{{cite news |last=Rigney |first=Ellen |date=2009-04-19 |title=What's On |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/127A77B016E269E8&f=basic |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |accessdate=2025-12-31 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20251231063419/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/127A77B016E269E8&f=basic |archivedate=2025-12-31 }}</ref> Jackie Tracy of the ''Sunday Mail'' praised the show for having "well-researched stories" and "pacy re-enactments".<ref name="Tracy2009-05-10">{{cite news |last=Tracy |first=Jackie |date=2009-05-10 |title=TV Guide |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/12815F6FE5FF10E8&f=basic |newspaper=Sunday Mail |accessdate=2025-12-31 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20251231063453/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/12815F6FE5FF10E8&f=basic |archivedate=2025-12-31 }}</ref> ''The Australian'' journalist Amanda Meade attributed the show's cancellation after six episodes to being a "cheap copycat program" that attempted to capitalise on the popularity of Seven Network's ''Find My Family''.<ref name="Meade2009-07-27"/>
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