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Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: Emergency! the Wedsworth-Townsend Act

Original Air Date—15 January 1972
Roy convinces John to join the paramedic program. They must deal with the opposition from both medical and civil authorities, including one of their staunchest opponents: Dr. Brackett. Eventually seeing the advantages of the program, his testimony proves the key to getting paramedic legislation passed. The paramedics assist the victims of a car accident (including Dixie, who is injured at the scene) and rescue workers from a tunnel cave-in.

Season 1, Episode 2: Mascot

Original Air Date—22 January 1972
A woman involved in a car accident is concerned about her dog so John agrees to take care it, which complicates his life. At the hospital, doctors treat a girl who has difficulty breathing and a man who appears to be drunk. When a man has chest pains at a party, his guests think he is joking. The paramedics rescue an injured hunter.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 1: Episode 3 -- Dr. Brackett risks his reputation when he diagnoses an illness before tests are completed.

Season 1, Episode 3: Botulism

Original Air Date—29 January 1972
Johnny plots his revenge after being the repeated target of practical jokes. A man breaks his back falling off a tower. A woman fakes an illness. Dr. Early's stethoscope becomes lodged in his ear. A man brought into the hospital from a movie set is the first indication of an outbreak of botulism. A boy is trapped in a condemned building.

Cook's Tour: Season 1: Episode 4 -- The paramedics deliver a baby despite the father's protests.

Season 1, Episode 4: Cook's Tour

Original Air Date—12 February 1972
John delivers a cyanotic baby. The firemen give Roy a bad time about his cooking. A boy gets his hand stuck in a vase; Johnny rescues a kid in handcuffs. A man repairing a washer gets an electric shock. The paramedics rescue a man trapped on a crane.

Season 1, Episode 5: Brushfire

Original Air Date—19 February 1972
Station 51 is called up to fight a wildfire. John and Roy rescue an elderly woman and her sister, treat an injured fireman, deliver a baby, catch a looter, and find a boy's lost dog.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 1: Episode 6 -- The paramedics talk a plane down after the pilot suffers a heart attack.

Season 1, Episode 6: Dealer's Wild

Original Air Date—26 February 1972
John keeps losing at cards and being stuck with doing the dishes at the station, so he creates his own card game. Roy talks down a boy in a plane after the pilot (his father) has a heart attack. The paramedics respond to an attempted suicide, an overturned truck and a teenage overdose victim.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 1: Episode 7 -- Sparks fly between Johnny and a nurse. Dr. Morton assumes an unconscious hippie is on drugs.

Season 1, Episode 7: Nurses' Wild

Original Air Date—4 March 1972
A store owner shoots an armed robber and is filled with remorse. Sparks fly between Johnny and a nurse. Dr. Early treats an alcoholic. A dog delays the rescue of an unconscious woman. Dr. Morton assumes an unconscious hippie is on drugs. The firemen rescue a man trapped at a chemical plant.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 1: Episode 8 -- A paramedic from another station steals the limelight, with a newsman's help, from Gage and DeSoto.

Season 1, Episode 8: Publicity Hound

Original Air Date—11 March 1972
John is envious of the publicity given to another paramedic. After Roy and John rescue a man trapped in ship's rigging, John gets seasick. Dr. Brackett clashes with a tycoon over a diagnosis. The paramedics rescue a horse from a ditch and a child stuck in a well.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 1: Episode 9 -- A stubborn 80-year-old woman and a hiccuping executive provide problems.

Season 1, Episode 9: Weird Wednesday

Original Air Date—18 March 1972
John is convinced that weird things will happen on their shift: a parachutist lands in a tree, an obese man collapses while jogging, an 80-year old woman breaks her ankle while dancing, a man can't stop the hiccups, a boy tries to cryogenically freeze himself, an golfer is bitten by a snake, a prostitute brings in a customer suffering from chest pains, and John is injured during the rescue of a drunk driver.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 1: Episode 10 -- The paramedics rescue a couple from an elevator crash and Dr. Brackett clashes with a student nurse.

Season 1, Episode 10: Dilemma

Original Air Date—25 March 1972
An elevator gets stuck between floors, and then the brake drum fails; inside, a woman has a heart attack. A nursing student is in awe of Dr. Brackett; a fireman buff develops a crush on John, who tries to get rid of her. A man is injured in his junkyard. An industrial accident takes place at a railroad yard.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 1: Episode 11 -- Paramedic Gage gets hung up watching Adam-12 on TV and begins to think it's for real.

Season 1, Episode 11: Hang-Up

Original Air Date—8 April 1972
Johnny misses the end of an Adam-12 episode. A jewel thief is trapped in an air-conditioning duct. Two battered men continue their brawl in the hospital. A man ruins his cast by going surfing. Dr. Brackett treats a woman with a neurological disorder. Radioactivity impedes the rescue of a lab worker.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 1: Episode 12 -- A plane disaster, the near-death of a four-year-old and a heart attack victim challenge the crew's skills.

Season 1, Episode 12: Crash

Original Air Date—15 April 1972
John and Roy bring in a football player who was tackled too hard. A burglar has a heart attack. Johnny wants Roy to apologize for calling him "some kind of nut." Dr. Early treats a hypochondriac. A babysitter brings in a child who has swallowed some pills. Roy and John rescue the occupants of a light plane that crashed in a tree.

Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1: Decision

Original Air Date—16 September 1972
Roy and John rescue a man whose engine has fallen on him during his car repair work.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 2 -- Dr. Brackett is warned that his diagnosis of an injured boy as an abused child could jeopardize his career.

Season 2, Episode 2: Kids

Original Air Date—23 September 1972
The station adopts a stray dog, which they name Boot. The firemen rescue a boy from a hole; he turns out to be an abused child. Roy and Johnny rescue another boy whose head is stuck in a basement window. Dr. Early extracts a child's arm from a steering wheel. At a brush fire, Boot helps locate an injured hiker, then leaves with a hook and ladder truck.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 3 -- Gage almost makes it as a model but loses out to DeSoto.

Season 2, Episode 3: Show Biz

Original Air Date—30 September 1972
A photo shoot at the station gets John excited. A country doctor helps Roy and John when they can't reach Rampart on a call. The paramedics rescue a man drowning in a swimming pool and two stunt men trapped on a waterfall at a movie studio.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 4 -- Following a distress call to a sick girl, four more persons are afflicted with a mysterious illness.

Season 2, Episode 4: Virus

Original Air Date—7 October 1972
A sick lady with a monkey provides the key to a mysterious, highly contagious, and deadly virus that strikes both Dr. Brackett and John Gage. Meanwhile, the firemen rescue a boy from a treehouse and a man from a scaffold.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 5 -- A drunken driver crashes his car and imperils a 7-year-old girl.

Season 2, Episode 5: Peace Pipe

Original Air Date—14 October 1972
A drunk driver rams a parked car, trapping a child inside. Chet pesters John about his Native American heritage. A kid gets his finger stuck in a gum ball machine. A woman's new girdle causes breathing difficulties. A worker's error leads to fuel being mixed with the water supply, causing explosive results. A sniper makes a scaffold rescue dangerous.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 6 -- Paramedic Gage's (Randolph Mantooth) efforts to become a rodeo star pay off in a surprising way.

Season 2, Episode 6: Saddled

Original Air Date—21 October 1972
Dixie injures her toe. John decides he can make a lot of money by riding in rodeos. The squad goes to a hole-in-the-wall restaurant when a soda bottle explodes in a girl's face; later, they return for a gas explosion. After falling from a tree, a young boy lapses into a coma. The firemen rescue several children and a nun from a bus crash.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 7 -- Johnny Gage (Randolph Mantooth) has woman trouble and Rampart Emergency is besieged by a rash of burglaries.

Season 2, Episode 7: Fuzz Lady

Original Air Date—4 November 1972
John falls for a lady deputy when called to treat a mugger. Items are stolen from Rampart. The firemen rescue an elderly man from a house fire. Boot returns to Station 51. A grandfather is injured by a model rocket. The paramedics rescue a boat thief trapped on a crane.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 8 -- A former medic in Vietnam volunteers for paramedic training and his actions nearly cause three tragic mistakes.

Season 2, Episode 8: Trainee

Original Air Date—11 November 1972
A former Vietnam medic is now a paramedic trainee and constantly thinks he knows more than the doctors at Rampart. Roy, John, and the trainee interrupt a purse-snatching, rescue a man who fell down a cliff, help a woman overdosed on prescription drugs, and save a man with an insulin reaction.

Women: Season 2: Episode 9 -- A new doctor at Rampart suddenly disappears.

Season 2, Episode 9: Women

Original Air Date—25 November 1972
A woman journalist covers the Squad's rescues. A man trapped is in a truck under live power lines. Doctors treat a boy poisoned by wild hemlock and a girl addicted to drugs. The paramedics rescue a man trapped in a sofa bed, a man with his arm is stuck in a garbage disposal, and a man trapped in a bombed building.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 10 -- Paramedic DeSoto (Kevin Tighe) engineers a blind date for Gage (Randolph Mantooth) and it's something less than a success.

Season 2, Episode 10: Dinner Date

Original Air Date—2 December 1972
A woman almost hits a kid on a bike, who starts choking; she later has an epileptic fit. A man is shot by his father-in-law when he learns his daughter is married and pregnant. Roy tries to set John up with his wife's cousin. Three drug addicts are treated in the hospital: a woman with a gangrenous hand, a poison victim and a man showing signs of tetanus. In the field: an alcoholic, an obese man with a pacemaker, and a child whose arm is caught in a swimming pool drain.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 11 -- Paramedic Gage (Randolph Mantooth) drives the crew up the wall with his attempts to become a musician.

Season 2, Episode 11: Musical Mania

Original Air Date—9 December 1972
After Chet cracks a joke about John playing the Squad horn, John takes up the bagpipes, trombone, and guitar. Paramedics help a gardener suffering from tetanus. The father of a boy suffering from lead poisoning is reluctant to have it treated. The firemen rescue the driver of an ice cream truck. A schoolgirl dies from an overdose. A glider pilot crash lands. A man working under his house is trapped.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 12 -- A new doctor at Rampart suddenly disappears.

Season 2, Episode 12: Helpful

Original Air Date—16 December 1972
Roy has an argument with his wife and Johnny tries to help. The firemen rescue a man from precarious auto wreck. A brilliant doctor's erratic behavior causes concern at the hospital. Doctors diagnose a woman's heart condition. Paramedics rescue a dog from a roof and two children lost in a rapidly flooding storm drain.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 13 -- A star quarterback collapses for unknown reasons.

Season 2, Episode 13: Drivers

Original Air Date—6 January 1973
John gets bugged by other people's bad driving habits. A college quarterback experiences back pain. Roy and John's former paramedic instructor dies, while Roy and John themselves teach a CPR class. A boy gets stuck inside a tree. A structure fire at a hotel is complicated by a cardiac victim on the third floor.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 14 -- A paramedic trainee loses his confidence on his first call.

Season 2, Episode 14: School Days

Original Air Date—13 January 1973
A new trainee appears to be lacking in confidence; a bookcase falls on an elderly gentleman searching for a book; a baseball player is injured; an ambulance is hit by a car; a boy's chemistry set explodes in his face; students play a practical joke on a sleeping man; a man is injured at a junkyard.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 15 -- When a foreign dignitary becomes ill, Dr. Brackett (Robert Fuller) is asked to cure him.

Season 2, Episode 15: The Professor

Original Air Date—3 February 1973
A man shows signs of schizophrenia for no apparent reason and the Secret Service won't give any clues. Roy has an admirer, yet John accuses him of having no charisma. The paramedics respond to a false alarm on a fireboat, and end up saving the victim of a plane crash; they also deliver a premature baby and rescue a man threatening to jump off a tall building.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 16 -- When TV star Raymond Boyd (Robert Alda) is brought to Rampart, Dr. Brackett (Robert Fuller) suspects that he and Nurse McCall (Julie London) knew each other before.

Season 2, Episode 16: Syndrome

Original Air Date—10 February 1973
John tries to convince Roy he has tonsillitis. An old flame of Dixie's, who is now a famous actor, is admitted to Rampart. Two kids are trapped on top of a gas tank; a girl's college lacrosse game turns violent; Boot has surgery to remove a tick; Dr. Early deals with a hypochondriac. Chet is injured during a rescue and is roomed with Roy, who has had his tonsils removed.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 17 -- Paramedics Gage (Randolph Mantooth) and DeSoto (Kevin Tighe) feud over whether the truth should always be told.

Season 2, Episode 17: Honest

Original Air Date—17 February 1973
A gas explosion results from a white lie, prompting Johnny to go on an honesty kick. At the hospital, doctors work to save a boy who is inexplicably choking to death. In the field, the paramedics rescue a teenage boy injured in a dive off a roof, and a baby and his blind grandfather trapped in a burning house.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 18 -- The paramedics respond to a series of unusual emergencies after treating an injured woman at a seance.

Season 2, Episode 18: Seance

Original Air Date—24 February 1973
A woman keeps calling the Squad because she's convinced the bad things that happen to her husband are the result of her recently deceased sister. A youth suffering side effects from tranquilizers is treated in the ER. The paramedics rescue a man pinned under a stack of heavy cartons and a driver trapped underwater in his car.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 19 -- The Paramedics and men of Station 51 become concerned when their mascot becomes listless and refuses to eat.

Season 2, Episode 19: Boot

Original Air Date—3 March 1973
The firemen are puzzled by Boot's strange behavior. Meanwhile, paramedics rescue a woman whose sports car is pinned under a gas truck and investigate a series of unusual incidents in the home of a woman attempting to cook a meal for her boyfriend and his mother. An unconscious man is brought in to the hospital suffering from internal bleeding. Dr. Early deals with the victim of a curse. An explosion in a hospital lab endangers a number of workers and important records.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 20 -- Paramedics DeSoto (Kevin Tighe) and Gage (Randolph Mantooth) are accused of stealing $500 from a heart attack victim.

Season 2, Episode 20: Rip-Off

Original Air Date—10 March 1973
Roy and John are accused of stealing money from a victim. A premature delivery and a blinded man result from a car crash. A perilous rescue involves a plane that might explode.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 2: Episode 21 -- Paramedic DeSoto (Kevin Tighe) must decide whether or not to do an amputation on a trapped man.

Season 2, Episode 21: Audit

Original Air Date—7 April 1973
John is audited by the IRS. A man hit on the head wants to be treated by a doctor, not the paramedics. A child is rescued from a locked car. A pregnant girl has difficulty breathing. A professional medical con man shows up at Rampart. A construction worker is trapped when part of the building his crew is working on collapses, and he wants Roy to remove his leg before the rest of the building falls.

Season 3

Season 3, Episode 1: Frequency

Original Air Date—22 September 1973
When Johnny's policeman friend is injured in a car crash, the paramedics can't reach the hospital because another squad is using the biophone. A child with a mysterious malady turns out to be drunk. Roy and John assist at the hospital when the victims of a motorcycle gang war are brought in for treatment. An artist becomes trapped in his own sculpture. A father and son are trapped in a collapse at a construction site.

Season 3, Episode 2: The Old Engine

Original Air Date—29 September 1973
Roy and John buy an old fire engine, and Station 51 gets a new engine. A woman overdoses on LSD and Roy tries to talk her down, leading the two paramedics on a chase to the top of a building. Brackett treats a resilient gunshot victim. A politician suffers a heart attack and the station responds to a warehouse fire.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 3 -- Paramedic Gage is chosen as "father'' to a litter of kittens.

Season 3, Episode 3: Alley Cat

Original Air Date—6 October 1973
A stray cat decides to have her kittens on John's bed at the station. A family is trapped in a downed airplane; an old man gets his foot caught in a bear trap; a stage actress suffers an anxiety attack; a school develops a gas leak; Roy and John rescue the victim of a boating accident.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 4 -- A visiting fireman causes jealousy when the paramedics take him on the rounds.

Season 3, Episode 4: An English Visitor

Original Air Date—13 October 1973
A paramedic from England has a stint with Station 51 observing Roy and John, whose rescues include: a structure fire; a knife thrower; a car accident; and a man trapped in heavy machinery, where the visitor saves John's life. At the hospital, Dr. Brackett treats a rock singer in a diabetic coma and Dr. Early has problems with a defiant nurse.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 5 -- Dr. Brackett tries to persuade a mother to keep her deformed baby.

Season 3, Episode 5: Heavyweight

Original Air Date—20 October 1973
At a structure fire, the paramedics rescue a pregnant woman and Johnny injures his shoulder. After going into labor, the guilt-ridden mother is determined to abandon her deformed baby. Dr. Morton treats Johnny and gives him a bad time about his physical condition, sending Johnny on a fitness kick. Dr. Early treats an electrocuted child whose mother is on drugs. The son of a stabbing victim is more determined to shoot the assailant than get his father to the hospital. Roy and Johnny rescue a hanglider pilot trapped in a tree.

Season 3, Episode 6: Snakebite

Original Air Date—27 October 1973
Returning from a fishing trip, Roy, John, and Chet help the victims of a car accident. On duty, after rescuing some joyriders whose car went over a cliff, John is bitten by a rattlesnake.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 7 -- A major traffic pile-up on a fogbound freeway during rush hour causes problems.

Season 3, Episode 7: Promotion

Original Air Date—3 November 1973
Roy passes the Engineer's test, but accepting the promotion will mean leaving the paramedics. A bad fog leads to a multi-car accident on the San Diego Freeway. A young crash victim has a heart murmur. The paramedics have difficulty responding to an attempted suicide. At a structure fire, Johnny is injured and Roy must rescue both him and a security guard.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 8 -- Paramedic Gage, despite the help of his friends, just can't get to sleep.

Season 3, Episode 8: Insomnia

Original Air Date—10 November 1973
A boat has an explosion aboard en route to the marina. John obsesses about the lack of night runs and can't sleep. A man and his son are injured when they swerve to avoid a dog. Doctors race against time to save a marijuana smoker dying of an unidentifiable malady. A worker is pinned in a loading dock by a semi. A man and child fall into a gravel pit.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 9 -- The paramedics become heirs to $1,000,000.

Season 3, Episode 9: Inheritance Tax

Original Air Date—17 November 1973
A child is trapped in a car under downed power lines. A stockbroker with heart problems is reluctant to be treated. An elderly woman that Roy and John treated the previous year dies and remembers them in her will. Dr. Early administers first aid to two young boys. A teenager loses a hamburger eating contest. The paramedics treat a burn victim at an explosive structure fire.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 10 -- Paramedic Gage finds it takes a different kind of courage to face television cameras and DeSoto has to save him.

Season 3, Episode 10: Zero

Original Air Date—24 November 1973
A woman screams for therapeutic reasons. When the paramedics are interviewed on a TV program, Johnny freezes in front of the camera and Roy must bail him out. A young boy attempts suicide by leaping off an apartment ledge; at the hospital, the doctors suspect he may be an abused child. The paramedics rescue a man trapped in a dough nut machine and a child from a structure fire.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 11 -- A grateful girl gifts Gage with a dog.

Season 3, Episode 11: The Promise

Original Air Date—1 December 1973
Responding to a vehicle fire, the firemen discover a catatonic mechanic; at Rampart the doctors are mystified by his condition. Roy lectures a woman who keeps calling the paramedics because she is lonely. A woman mixes ammonia with bleach and inhales poisonous gas. The woman who owns the dog John took care of in 'Mascot' [episode 1.1] returns and presents John with a pup. An elderly couple is trapped in their house by a bunch of tumbleweeds. A friend of the catatonic patient gives him an injection, causing him to jump out of a window onto a sixth story ledge.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 12 -- A teen-age girl trips out after eating daffodil bulbs.

Season 3, Episode 12: Body Language

Original Air Date—8 December 1973
A crop-duster makes a rough landing in a field; the pilot suffers a punctured lung, and a bystander is poisoned with pesticide. A young boy with a broken leg wants to use crutches instead of a walker. A patient reports to Rampart with an ear infection caused by mothballs. A couple overdoses on daffodil bulbs. A weekend cowboy refuses treatment after falling from his horse. Two victims of a traffic accident get friendly. John's current girlfriend thinks he has proposed to her. The lead singer of a rock band goes into cardiac arrest.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 13 -- Gage and DeSoto rescue a horse from a burning stable.

Season 3, Episode 13: Understanding

Original Air Date—15 December 1973
John gives Chet his guitar. At an explosive structure fire, a girl's horse is trapped in a burning barn. Dr. Brackett and Nurse McCall lecture a man who keeps forgetting his insulin shots. A girl calls the hospital, threatening suicide; firemen stand by while hospital workers attempt to trace the call. A hostage in a bank robbery has heart problems; the paramedics must treat him at gunpoint.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 14 -- The computer makes a mistake and paramedic Gage's dinner costs $842.

Season 3, Episode 14: Computer Error

Original Air Date—22 December 1973
John tries to get a credit card mistake corrected. A young couple is rescued from a car wreck; the boy has a spinal cord injury and Dr. Early suspects the girl is pregnant. Roy and John rescue a woman trapped at the bottom of a well and an amateur magician from a safe. A rescue at a junkyard fire turns hazardous when phosphorus materials explode.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 15 -- In between serious calls, paramedic Gage is attacked by a fireman's water bombs.

Season 3, Episode 15: Messin' Around

Original Air Date—12 January 1974
Chet ("The Phantom Bomber") starts a series of practical jokes against John, who eventually retaliates. A child is trapped in a tree house - and the tree is on fire; the girl's mother later shows a romantic interest in Johnny. A retiree ("Old Bill") pretends to be ill so he can amuse the children in the emergency department. A woman feeds her sick husband Dieffenbachia sap to keep him quiet. At a trash fire, a gas station worker shows signs of a perforated ulcer. Responding to a call of a man down, the paramedics find Old Bill collapsed in his home. A young boy swallows ant poison. The firemen extricate three workers from a bulldozer accident.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 16 -- A young Rampart doctor gains respect for the work of paramedics.

Season 3, Episode 16: Fools

Original Air Date—19 January 1974
A man is injured when his chimney explodes. A brash young intern at Rampart thinks he knows more than the paramedics and makes a near-fatal diagnosis of a heart patient; Dr. Brackett send him on a ride-along with Squad 51. A girl gets her hand stuck in a mailbox. Johnny and Roy must rescue a heart attack victim trapped on an oil refinery tower - in the midst of an explosive structure fire.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 17 -- DeSoto turns gardener to help an injured widow.

Season 3, Episode 17: How Green Was My Thumb?

Original Air Date—26 January 1974
Roy and John rescue a man who has problems breathing because he has swallowed his partial dental plate. Roy takes care of a young victim's plants while she is in the hospital, but John thinks the victim is an old woman. A young girl's religious parents prevent necessary treatment. The station responds to a fire in a winery, and Dr. Brackett and the paramedics perform backyard surgery on a man with an unexploded grenade in his abdomen.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 18 -- Dr. Early undergoes open heart surgery.

Season 3, Episode 18: The Hard Hours

Original Air Date—2 February 1974
Dr. Early is diagnosed with a heart condition and undergoes a bypass. A pro football player is embarrassed to admit that his son tackled him too hard. The firemen rescue a boy trapped in his homemade rocket, a woman with her toe stuck in a bathtub faucet, and an electrocution victim.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 19 -- After an elderly hermit fails to show up for his weekly visit to the supermarket, a search is set off.

Season 3, Episode 19: Floor Brigade

Original Air Date—9 February 1974
John and Roy think about going into the floor cleaning business on the side. A hermit is trapped in his cave home. Dr. Morton treats a famous singer. John is injured on a high rescue, and the station battles a chemical warehouse fire.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 20 -- Paramedic Gage has to finish a heart attack victim's poker game.

Season 3, Episode 20: Propinquity

Original Air Date—16 February 1974
Roy spends the night at John's place while his house is being fumigated, which is one night too many. A woman is trapped inside a car while it burns around her; the ambulance carrying Roy and the victim is hit by a car. A man having a heart attack refuses to leave a poker game unless John agrees to play out the man's hand. An explosion at an abandoned refinery injures several workers.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 21 -- The paramedics are trapped in a raging fire.

Season 3, Episode 21: Inferno

Original Air Date—23 February 1974
John and Roy are disappointed when they are the only squad not called to a major brushfire. Dixie gets her hand caught in a vending machine. A lawyer collapses in the courtroom with an apparent heart attack. Roy and John finally make it to the brushfire and become trapped while rescuing another firefighter.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 3: Episode 22 -- The paramedics have a wild day with possible radiation poisoning and sulphuric acid fumes.

Season 3, Episode 22: Inventions

Original Air Date—23 March 1974
The firemen enter a contest to invent new firefighting tools. The paramedics handle victims of possible radiation poisoning. A comatose man is suffering from a mysterious ailment. A woman's overweight son is wedged in her living room ceiling. The firemen respond to a leak at a chemical plant.

Season 4

Season 4, Episode 1: The Screenwriter

Original Air Date—14 September 1974
A screenwriter spends a day observing Squad 51 at work, including a motorcycle accident, a worker suffering from exposure to chemicals, the delivery of a baby, and a structure fire at a toy factory.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 2 -- An ''inactive'' oil well under a suburban home erupts.

Season 4, Episode 2: I'll Fix It

Original Air Date—21 September 1974
A woman's husband is trapped under their house where a natural oil well has erupted. John tries to fix a boy's bike. A boy who wants to become a doctor is admitted to Rampart. The firemen rescue a child stuck in a pipe. Roy and John remove a ring from a young man's finger. Roy and Capt. Stanley struggle with a shutoff valve at a structure fire.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 3 -- A nurse sets Rampart Hospital abuzz with rumors.

Season 4, Episode 3: Gossip

Original Air Date—28 September 1974
Roy encourages John to represent the station in the Fireman's Olympics track events. An armored car sideswipes a motorist and Station 51 must break into the van. A nurse spreads the rumor that Dr. Morton is having financial problems. Doctors treat a child with cyanide poisoning from peach pits. Dr. Brackett treats a bigamist with a skull fracture. The firemen rescue an electrocution victim hanging in mid-air and a man trapped in a warehouse fire.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 4 -- A lion bites a girl, a go-go dancer collapses and a man's ego is punctured by a cactus.

Season 4, Episode 4: Nagging Suspicion

Original Air Date—5 October 1974
Roy picks winning horses from the newspaper and Johnny wants to know how he does it. The paramedics rescue a woman who has fallen into a lion's cage, a dancer in a bar, an adult skateboarder who landed in a cactus patch, and save a bleeding policeman from a sniper.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 5 -- A policeman interferes with the paramedics when he demands immediate attention for his wounded partner.

Season 4, Episode 5: Communication Gaffe

Original Air Date—12 October 1974
Roy and Joanne go on a TV quiz show. Roy and John respond to a holdup where both a policeman and a suspect have been shot, and another officer gives them a hard time over treating the suspect. A woman brings in her abused son for treatment. A man inhales too much nitrous oxide. The paramedics treat a boy suffering an allergic reaction to a bee sting. A pickup carrying kerosene collides with a station wagon and starts a brushfire.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 6 -- Nurse McCall's birthday is marred by a broken ankle.

Season 4, Episode 6: Surprise

Original Air Date—19 October 1974
A woman is thrown from a motorcycle into a cactus patch. A surprise birthday party is planned for Dixie, who breaks her ankle while shopping, and the ER falls apart without her. Gage and DeSoto rescue two workers trapped on the side of a building next to a 1000-pound sign. A man is trapped in his new sauna. When an old woman refuses to leave her apartment during a gas leak, the building explodes with John inside.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 7 -- The beautiful new nurse at Rampart has her choice of the bachelor members of Squad 51.

Season 4, Episode 7: Daisy's Pick Blind Date

Original Air Date—2 November 1974
Johnny competes for a date with a new nurse. The paramedics rescue an engineer frozen to refrigeration equipment, a man whose hands are glued to his model ship, a comatose child, and an injured man trapped in a theater fire.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 8 -- A gun discharges by accident and injures a pregnant wife.

Season 4, Episode 8: Quicker Than the Eye

Original Air Date—9 November 1974
A pregnant woman accidentally shoots herself. Tired of Chet's antics, the station gets their revenge by playing a practical joke of their own. A construction worker caught under a boat refuses an IV, and a man in an accident communicates through the use of his thumb.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 9 -- An old lady trapped in her car on the edge of an open drawbridge gives the crew some bad moments.

Season 4, Episode 9: Foreign Trade

Original Air Date—16 November 1974
John and Roy consider trading cars. A frat pledge chokes during initiation. Dixie takes on hospital management after budget cuts affect her nursing staff. A young patient cures Dr. Early's hiccups. A basketball player gets stuck in his car. A vehicle teeters on the edge of a drawbridge.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 10 -- Paramedic Gage goes camera-crazy and drives the crew wild.

Season 4, Episode 10: Camera Bug

Original Air Date—23 November 1974
John thinks he can be a photographer and pesters Roy for candid shots. A teenager suffers smoke inhalation at an elementary school structure fire. A fireman thinks he's having a heart attack, but it's really just his chili. A woman is bitten by a scorpion. Dixie has 'one of those days' as she and Dr. Brackett deliver a baby in a restaurant on their lunch hour. The driver of a truck full of dynamite is pinned behind the wheel of his vehicle as it catches fire.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 11 -- A crash diet sends a man into three accidents.

Season 4, Episode 11: The Firehouse Four

Original Air Date—30 November 1974
The station (sans Roy) enters the fireman's barber shop quartet contest. A man keeps having to be rescued while trying various ways to exercise. A woman overdoses on sleeping pills.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 12 -- A dog-bite case sheds a new light on Gage's current love interest; an aging stripper collapses in a nightclub.

Season 4, Episode 12: Details

Original Air Date—7 December 1974
While responding to a call, Roy and John witness a pedestrian being struck by a car. A woman is badly burnt in a fire. John thinks about settling down. A belly dancer overdoses on diet pills. A child bites a dog and the dog bites back. At a structure fire, Roy and John must jump to safety.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 13 -- En route to a firemen's parade in their 1920 fire engine, the paramedics are embarrassed by a real fire.

Season 4, Episode 13: Parade

Original Air Date—21 December 1974
Roy and John finally restore their old fire engine to ride in the California Fire Fighters Parade. A man with heart problems insists on driving, and causes an accident for which the other driver blames herself. Dr. Early treats a patient who has a seizure in the waiting room. A man on a date passes out and has difficulty breathing; the doctors search for the cause. A child's medical condition causes an argument between his divorced parents. Driving to the parade in the old engine, the paramedics respond to an actual emergency.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 14 -- The paramedics are invited to a Hollywood party as thanks for helping a movie star.

Season 4, Episode 14: The Bash

Original Air Date—28 December 1974
A man is trapped on a film set with a bear. When Roy and John rescue him, they are invited to a 'thing' that the man is giving later that week. John talks Roy into getting overdressed for the event. Dr. Brackett treats a man suffering from trichinosis. A bomb blast injures two men. The paramedics resuscitate a musician at the party.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 15 -- A former gridiron hero finds the real-life emergencies of a paramedic more frightening than a football game.

Season 4, Episode 15: Transition

Original Air Date—4 January 1975
A high school classmate of John's is assigned as Squad 51's new paramedic trainee. The firemen rescue a man trapped in his kitchen after a hydrogen sulfide explosion. The paramedics help treat accident victims at the hospital and tend to child at an amusement park. When an intoxicated man turns out to be a snakebite victim, Roy is hit in the eyes with cobra venom. Back at the amusement park, a heart attack victim is trapped high in the air.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 16 -- A senior fire captain sneers at the new methods used by Squad 51's skilled paramedics.

Season 4, Episode 16: Smoke Eater

Original Air Date—11 January 1975
A temporary captain from 'the old school' doesn't feel Gage and DeSoto should be practicing 'medicine', and has no problem in expressing his opinion. An elderly man sets his chair on fire. Dr. Early keeps coming up with oranges when all he wants is an apple. The paramedics struggle to save a heart attack victim. A boy with asthma gets trapped in a storm drain. Dr. Brackett uses an old-fashioned sedative on a biker. Chemicals complicate a structure fire.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 17 -- Paramedic Gage is assigned to conduct a school tour of Rampart Hospital, to his regret.

Season 4, Episode 17: Kidding

Original Air Date—18 January 1975
Johnny is assigned to conduct a school tour of Rampart hospital; the youngsters are highly inquisitive. A veteran mentally reliving a battle is subdued by the paramedics; he turns out to have a brain tumor. A woman gets stuck in a dog door. A famous novelist attempts suicide. A cargo plane crashes in a residential area, hitting a school bus.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 18 -- Dr. Brackett's father needs surgery.

Season 4, Episode 18: Prestidigitation

Original Air Date—25 January 1975
The paramedics rescue a magician trapped in his trunk. Dr. Brackett's father is treated at the hospital for phlebitis. A fireplace explodes and falls on top of the homeowner. An auto accident sends a power transformer flying into a man's bedroom. Roy and John are puzzled by a gift from the magician. A fuel truck collides with a car and a gas main, trapping a woman and starting a fire.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 19 -- A man with a slipped disc is trapped on a waterbed.

Season 4, Episode 19: It's How You Play the Game

Original Air Date—1 February 1975
John agrees that the losing baseball team at the fireman's picnic will pay for the picnic. Chet becomes Station 51's only hope when their pitcher breaks his arm. A drunk driver becomes violent after crashing his car; another man is trapped in a car with a tiger. A man with a back problem must be extricated from his water bed. A structure fire is complicated by moonshine.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 20 -- The crash of a light plane into an apartment house provides the fire department with highly dangerous duty.

Season 4, Episode 20: The Mouse

Original Air Date—8 February 1975
An elderly man is trapped in his burning house. Chet becomes obsessed with ridding the station of an uninvited guest. Paramedics and doctors treat a man who suffers repeated cardiac arrests. Dixie comforts the husband of an elderly patient. Roy and John help break up a fight. Several crises occur at an apartment house hit by a jet fighter.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 21 -- A lonely old cowboy gets attention by faking injuries.

Season 4, Episode 21: Back-Up

Original Air Date—15 February 1975
A young OD victim is brought into the ER. A man fakes back pain to get a free ride to the hospital. John gets peeved at all the frivolous calls the squad goes on while real emergency victims need help. A man is shocked after kicking in his TV screen. The ambulance carrying the paramedics and a heart attack victim is involved in a traffic accident.

"Emergency!" (1972): Season 4: Episode 22 -- The L.A. County Animal Control Department appeals for help from the Rampart Hospital.

Season 4, Episode 22: 905-Wild

Original Air Date—1 March 1975
The title refers to the code word for "wild animal loose, threatening". The show opens with Johnny and Roy on a pre-dawn call to a small grocery store for a man down, bleeding. Searching the back of the store, Johnny is confronted with a Bengal tiger! A big brush fire threatens a suburban canyon area with lots of domesticated animals and things get dicey all around for the fire department and the Animal Control guys. Rampart becomes a veterinary surgical center for a while.

Season 5

Season 5, Episode 1: The Stewardess

Original Air Date—13 September 1975
John falls for a stewardess and shows his stuff when a passenger has a heart attack; later, he tries to date her. The firefighters respond to a motorcycle accident and a chemical fire.

Season 5, Episode 2: The Old Engine Cram

Original Air Date—20 September 1975
A fireman is injured in a practice drill. Roy and John think they have a buyer for the old fire engine. A man suffers a back injury while riding a motorcycle. A mother pressures Dr. Morton to give her son a prescription. A man having a heart attack comes to the station. DeSoto and Gage rescue a man who has fallen off a cliff on Catalina Island.

Season 5, Episode 3: Election

Original Air Date—27 September 1975
Roy and John become candidates for a welfare committee. A man gets his arm stuck in an appliance drain while his brother aspirates on a can tab. A delirious child causes problems at the hospital. A sculptress' model is stuck inside a plaster cast. A construction worker is trapped on a crane.

Season 5, Episode 4: Equipment

Original Air Date—4 October 1974
John overtimes at Station 8 where an unavailable squad costs a heart attack victim his life. A boy falls from a tree. Chet is injured by an explosion. Doctors treat a tree surgeon. Roy is injured in a fireworks warehouse fire.

Season 5, Episode 5: The Inspection

Original Air Date—11 October 1975
The station becomes aware of the Battalion Chief's impending inspection. A wife is convinced that her husband's heart transplant means he no longer loves her. Paramedics aid a parachutist snagged on a radio tower. Dr. Brackett treats a veterinarian. An accident victim goes into shock.

Season 5, Episode 6: The Indirect Method

Original Air Date—18 October 1975
A hard-nosed female trainee is assigned to Roy and John. Freeway construction threatens an old couple's house. A man tries to commit suicide by gas, then changes his mind. A man suffers a heart attack and the paramedics are unable to revive him. Roy is electrocuted trying to save an invalid at a structure fire.

Season 5, Episode 7: Pressure 165

Original Air Date—25 October 1975
John gets ribbed about his cooking. The paramedics go to Catalina to help a diver, where John and a doctor treat the patient in a hyperbaric chamber. Roy and John help a famous chef with a kitchen fire. A youth suffers a serious gunshot wound. The firemen deal with a dust explosion at a structure fire.

Season 5, Episode 8: The Lighter-Than-Air Man

Original Air Date—1 November 1975
En route to a rescue, Roy and John supposedly sideswipe an elderly crossing guard. A couple en route to a wedding hits a fire hydrant. A camper on fire drives up to the station house. A truck carrying insecticide overturns.

Season 5, Episode 9: One of Those Days

Original Air Date—8 November 1975
An elderly woman's stomach problems lead to a family brawl. Roy and John treat a drunk in a hotel with a broken elevator. Doctors treat a boy with meningitis. Paramedics respond to a two-car accident with no victims, treat a man who fell in the bathtub, and rescue a child trapped in a burning building.

Season 5, Episode 10: Simple Adjustment

Original Air Date—15 November 1975
Swamped with paperwork, the paramedics are continually distracted by emergencies: a girl trapped in an overturned car, a beautician who has taken too many diet pills, an elderly man, and workers stuck on a blazing ship.

Season 5, Episode 11: Tee Vee

Original Air Date—29 November 1975
The paramedics rescue a man from a manhole fire. Chet and John blow up the station's TV. Dr. Morton treats a man with a bleeding peptic ulcer. An aquarium is delivered to Dr. Brackett, who suffers a toxic reaction to a catfish bite. A man accidentally glues his eyes shut. A gas explosion and a mudslide trap a man in his house.

Season 5, Episode 12: On Camera

Original Air Date—6 December 1975
A camera crew follows Squad 51 while a teenager is bitten by a snake, a would-be stuntman dangles from an I-beam, a boy falls off a cliff and a man is trapped under a burning fuel truck.

Season 5, Episode 13: Communications

Original Air Date—13 December 1975
A young worker gets his arm caught in a machine. A communication snafu occurs between Squad 51 and the hospital. Dr. Morton treats a young violinist. Two boys get a car trapped on the roof of a house. A woman tries to commit suicide by overdosing and won't let the paramedics treat her, making them wait until she passes out. Chet sets a pair of skis on fire -- literally. A man is trapped underneath a car.

Season 5, Episode 14: To Buy or Not to Buy

Original Air Date—20 December 1975
Roy thinks about buying a house, but delays too long. Responding to a structure fire, the firemen find two children trapped on the second floor. Two driving students are involved in a minor collision. Another traffic accident results in two injuries and a missing dog. A teenage epileptic is stranded on a concrete beam under a bridge.

Season 5, Episode 15: Emergency! the Wedsworth-Townsend Act: Part 1

Original Air Date—27 December 1975
Part One of a flashback episode: Roy convinces John to join the paramedic program. They must deal with the opposition from both medical and civil authorities, including one of their staunchest opponents: Dr. Brackett. Eventually seeing the advantages of the program, his testimony proves the key to getting paramedic legislation passed. The paramedics assist the victims of a car accident (including Dixie, who is injured at the scene) and rescue workers from a tunnel cave-in.

Season 5, Episode 16: Emergency! the Wedsworth-Townsend Act: Part 2

Original Air Date—3 January 1976
Part Two of a flashback episode: Roy convinces John to join the paramedic program. They must deal with the opposition from both medical and civil authorities, including one of their staunchest opponents: Dr. Brackett. Eventually seeing the advantages of the program, his testimony proves the key to getting paramedic legislation passed. The paramedics assist the victims of a car accident (including Dixie, who is injured at the scene) and rescue workers from a tunnel cave-in.

Season 5, Episode 17: Right at Home

Original Air Date—10 January 1976
Dr. Brackett rides along with a fire department helicopter crew. A boy causes trouble for the paramedics when he and his father are rescued after their camper has overturned in a canyon. Dr. Early treats a boy with spinal meningitis. The firemen rescue a man from a structure fire.

Season 5, Episode 18: The Girl on the Balance Beam

Original Air Date—17 January 1976
A young girl is in a rush to go to the Olympics. The firemen rescue an actress trapped on a high wire at a studio, extricate a drunk driver from his car, and battle a train fire with ammonium nitrate on board.

Season 5, Episode 19: Involvement

Original Air Date—24 January 1976
Rampart's former emergency department head nurse tries to commit suicide; she is brought to Rampart, where she befriends a paraplegic child who almost drowned in a swimming pool. Also: a woman wrapped in plastic, a family suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning and a man pinned under a tank truck containing volatile fuel.

Season 5, Episode 20: Above and Beyond... Nearly

Original Air Date—31 January 1976
Roy and John receive commendations for bravery, but they can't remember the incident. A 94-year old man breaks his ankle while dancing. Dr. Brackett treats a man who passed out in a dentist's chair. An injured mountaineer is stranded on a cliff.

Season 5, Episode 21: Grateful

Original Air Date—7 February 1976
After a couple is rescued from under a car, they hang about the station house, helping out. An elderly man tries to perform CPR on his friend, but does more harm than good. A child is struck in the eye with a BB gun. While returning from a false alarm on Copter 10, Roy and John rescue the victims of a boat fire.

Season 5, Episode 22: The Great Crash Diet

Original Air Date—21 February 1976
Conducting a fire inspection, Roy and John rescue a diver in a fish tank. A birthday boy eats raw dough and gets a stomachache. An experiment in firefighter nutrition becomes an obsession for Chet. A woman goes into labor while her mother experiences chest pains. Capt. Stanley is severely injured when he gets an electric shock from a fallen power line.

Season 5, Episode 23: The Tycoons

Original Air Date—28 February 1976
John gets everyone but Roy excited about buying into a nearby hot dog stand. By the time Roy gets interested, the stand burns down. A man is injured in an accident with a power lawn mower.

Season 5, Episode 24: The Nuisance

Original Air Date—6 March 1976
After the squad helps a non-responsive lady on a barstool, John is hit by a car, leaving Roy stuck with a very annoying replacement. Together, they respond to a victim with chest pain. At a structure fire, Roy and Marco are injured but Brice escapes unscathed.

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 1: The Game

Original Air Date—25 September 1976
Roy and John are assigned to work the big football game at the Coliseum. A woman accidentally pulls her husband off the roof into a tree. At the game, the paramedics treat a choking victim, a man with breathing difficulties, an injured photographer, and a TV announcer with heart trouble.

Season 6, Episode 2: Not Available

Original Air Date—2 October 1976
The paramedics complain when a rule forbidding squads to cross each other's territories causes them to come late to an accident scene. An elderly woman is treated at the hospital. While transporting a non-vital patient, the paramedics respond to an auto accident. A prisoner breaks out of jail and gets trapped on a ledge.

Season 6, Episode 3: The Unlikely Heirs

Original Air Date—9 October 1976
After John and Roy rescue an elderly transient from a structure fire, Chet and Marco discover $80,000 in the man's mattress. A bride faints while walking down the aisle. Dixie administers a tetanus shot to a young boy. The transient tries to give the firemen a reward. An elderly woman loses her cat. A plane crashes into a warehouse.

Season 6, Episode 4: That Time of Year

Original Air Date—23 October 1976
Everyone gives Roy advice on where to go on vacation. Roy gets dizzy during a fire at a singles club. An instructor is injured during a self-defense class. A man with stomach pains is brought into Rampart. The firemen rescue two hang glider pilots from the face of a cliff.

Season 6, Episode 5: Fair Fight

Original Air Date—30 October 1976
The crew finds a droopy-eyed hound dog in the station; at an industrial fire, Gage and DeSoto check a secret room for victims; a "therapeutic" argument between a husband and wife keeps getting out of hand; while attempting to rescue two injured workers, Johnny is trapped in a tunnel cave-in.

Season 6, Episode 6: Rules of Order

Original Air Date—6 November 1976
A driver crashes into a pole, injuring two workers. John and Roy are asked to be on a paramedic advisory committee, but they have to put up with everyone's favorite paramedic - Brice. The firemen rescue a stunt climber from the side of a building.

Season 6, Episode 7: The Exam

Original Air Date—13 November 1976
John and Roy worry about their recertification exams. A fireman's widow keeps calling the station for assistance in minor matters. A TV sports fan experiences shortness of breath. The daughter of the fireman's widow suffers a serious fall. An accident on a movie set turns deadly.

Season 6, Episode 8: Captain Hook

Original Air Date—20 November 1976
The firemen plan to celebrate the imminent retirement of a martinet captain with a party, under the guise of throwing a farewell dinner. A model in a bear suit suffers from heat stroke during a promotion stunt. A bizarre family believes their sleeping mother is dead. The firemen rescue CHP officers from a helicopter.

Season 6, Episode 9: Computer Terror

Original Air Date—4 December 1976
The computer fouls up and Gage gets a check for thousands instead of for hundreds. A transient is injured in a car at a junkyard. A victim's dog causes problems. Two workers are trapped on a scaffold.

Season 6, Episode 10: Welcome to Santa Rosa County

Original Air Date—25 December 1976
Roy and John try to go fishing in Santa Rosa County, but are delayed when they rescue climbers from a cliff face and a fishing boat blows up. They help the sheriff come up with ideas for implementing emergency medical services in his county.

Season 6, Episode 11: Paper Work

Original Air Date—8 January 1977
Chet and Marco are drafted to sort out a filing dilemma caused by computer error. A kid falls in a storm drain and nearly drowns. The paramedics experience problems with a new supply nurse. A janitor drinks samples of an archeologists' Mesopotamian wine. The firemen respond to a warehouse fire.

Season 6, Episode 12: Loose Ends

Original Air Date—15 January 1977
Johnny tries to win a ticket-selling contest. Dr. Brackett blames himself when he is involved in a car accident that leaves the other driver dead and the driver's daughter refuses to speak. While repairing the squad, the paramedics find themselves in the middle of a shootout and treat a policeman with heart trouble. A boxcar full of ammonia complicates a fire on a pier.

Season 6, Episode 13: An Ounce of Prevention

Original Air Date—22 January 1977
A man with chest pains is trapped on a ferris wheel. A child ingests an illegal pesticide. While making a TV appearance to discuss fire prevention, Gage and DeSoto become stars of a real-life emergency.

Season 6, Episode 14: Insanity Epidemic

Original Air Date—5 February 1977
Captain Stanley freaks out when he learns one of his past captains is now his Battalion Chief, causing the others to worry about their his increased paranoia. Two men's carelessness starts a fire at a gas station. A new hospital administrator causes problems. A woman accidentally shoots her husband with a nail gun. Two clowns start a fight at an ice rink. A car leaves an overpass and crashes into a transfer truck filled with pesticides.

Season 6, Episode 15: Breakdown

Original Air Date—12 February 1977
A sporadic electrical short plagues the squad but Roy and John are convinced they can fix it. A back-to-nature couple is ordered to cut back on their shrubbery; the wife is discovered to have a variant of anthrax. The paramedics rescue a man trapped at the top of a tower.

Season 6, Episode 16: Family Ties

Original Air Date—19 February 1977
Roy's mother-in-law is scheduled for her annual visit. A car runs into the back of a truck. Drs. Brackett and Early argue over attending a convention in Acapulco. An elderly man becomes ill from drinking a quack's remedy. When a fire breaks out in a hospital room, the occupant goes into cardiac arrest. A boy's model rocket sparks a house fire.

Season 6, Episode 17: Bottom Line

Original Air Date—26 February 1977
Paramedics out in the field begin to question the judgment of overcautious Dr. Morton who believes in acting strictly by the book. The firemen respond to a complaint of severe back pain. A man with phosphorous burns on his arm and a boy hit in the head with a baseball are treated at the hospital. While the firemen respond to a case of difficult breathing, the victim's neighbor drowns in a hot tub. Vince is involved in a traffic accident and goes crazy due to a head injury, pulling his gun on Johnny.

Season 6, Episode 18: Firehouse Quintet

Original Air Date—5 March 1977
The Station 51 basketball team qualifies for the semi-finals. The paramedics rescue victims at a gas explosion. While at basketball practice, the firemen treat an injured gymnast. The night before the big game the firemen get very little sleep: they respond to a number of emergencies, including a workman trapped at a studio.

Season 6, Episode 19: The Boat

Original Air Date—12 March 1977

Season 6, Episode 20: Isolation

Original Air Date—19 March 1977
Roy and John are trapped at Station 86 when a rain storm washes out the bridge, and they become the only medical treatment in the area. They assist two victims of an auto accident and a child with bronchitis. Doctors at the hospital treat a policeman hit by lightning. With the aid of a female psychiatrist, the paramedics treat an elderly woman with a hip injury and a man with heart trouble. Copter 15 transports the victims to the hospital, where a power failure complicates matters. Dr. Morton accompanies the paramedics back to Station 86, where they respond to an auto accident with multiple injuries.

Season 6, Episode 21: All Night Long

Original Air Date—26 March 1977
Gage tries to create his own television game show. An elderly musician experiences heart trouble. When a car runs a stop sign, three injuries result. A tightrope walker gets stuck between two buildings.

Season 6, Episode 22: Upward and Onward

Original Air Date—2 April 1977
Captain Stanley worries that the Chief will sabotage his attempt to pass the Chief's exam because of an incident in their past; a soap opera doctor with mono causes havoc on the set and in the hospital; John, Roy, and a retired doctor with a self-diagnosed heart aneurysm get stuck in an elevator.

Season 6, Episode 23: Hypochondri-Cap

Original Air Date—16 April 1977
Captain Stanley convinces himself he has arthritis. A man gets his hand caught in his garage door opener; a woman passes out and has an auto accident; the doctors treat a woman infected from plastic surgery gone awry; Johnny tests a new type of rope; the station responds to a two-alarm fire at an oil refinery.

Season 6, Episode 24: Limelight

Original Air Date—23 April 1977
A man with a history of heart trouble becomes agitated when his daughter is trapped under a backhoe. A boy shoots himself with a pellet gun. Another paramedic appears on the news and in the paper, making John jealous. A babysitter has an anxiety attack. Gage and DeSoto rescue Brice from a structure fire.

Season 7

Season 7, Episode 1: The Steel Inferno

Original Air Date—7 January 1978
A careless worker sparks an explosive fire in a high-rise building. Station 110 leads a full alarm response, assisted by Squad 51. A triage team from Rampart Hospital, led by Dr. Brackett, sets up in a nearby garage. Several workmen and two women - including the fiancée of a paramedic - remain trapped on the 16th floor. A Coast Guard helicopter assists in rooftop evacuation; Dixie and Dr. Early take charge of the many patients at Rampart. A paramedic is injured attempting a rescue, while Gage and DeSoto extricate themselves from a broken elevator. An explosion on the 21st floor injures a fire captain, necessitating a dangerous rescue down an elevator shaft.

Season 7, Episode 2: The Most Deadly Passage

Original Air Date—4 April 1978
Roy and Johnny are sent to Seattle to study the techniques used there. A skydiver jumps off the Space Needle, a worker is trapped at the top of the Kingdome, and a fuel pumper loads a ferry with gasoline instead of diesel fuel, which sets the ferry on fire in the middle of the Elliot Bay.

Season 7, Episode 3: Survival on Charter #220: Part 1

Original Air Date—25 March 1978
Squad 51 C-shift paramedics rescue a stuntman from a tower. Gage and Desoto respond to treat the injured child of a fireman's widow. A small plane and a chartered jetliner collide in midair, landing in a residential neighborhood, trapping Johnny and Roy. Station 18 leads a massive response from Battalion 14 and the Compton city fire department. Dr. Morton heads up a triage team from Rampart. Multiple rescues include passengers from both planes and people in the subdivision. Dr. Early performs brain surgery on the injured child. An elderly man's dog leads Chief McConnike to its owner.

Season 7, Episode 4: Survival on Charter #220: Part 2

Original Air Date—9 April 1977
Squad 51 C-shift paramedics rescue a stuntman from a tower. Gage and Desoto respond to treat the injured child of a fireman's widow. A small plane and a chartered jetliner collide in midair, landing in a residential neighborhood, trapping Johnny and Roy. Station 18 leads a massive response from Battalion 14 and the Compton city fire department. Dr. Morton heads up a triage team from Rampart. Multiple rescues include passengers from both planes and people in the subdivision. Dr. Early performs brain surgery on the injured child. An elderly man's dog leads Chief McConnike to its owner.

Season 7, Episode 5: Medic I: Seattle - Most Deadly Passage

Original Air Date—3 July 1979

Season 7, Episode 6: The Convention

Original Air Date—3 July 1979
San Francisco firefighters and paramedics rescue a man trapped on the rigging of a schooner. A paramedic convention brings Gage and DeSoto back to San Francisco, where they assist a choking victim in a restaurant, then deliver a baby while two female paramedics treat a sniper's shooting victims. While attending a picnic, SF firefighters and paramedics are called back to work for a mutual aid response in Marin County; Gage and DeSoto tag along and rescue the victims of a lab explosion.

Season 7, Episode 7: Greatest Rescues of Emergency

Original Air Date—31 December 1978
When Johnny and Roy are promoted to Captain, they reminisce about their years working together. Flash-back sequences include the rescue of airplane passengers after a crash-landing, a potential suicide threatening to leap from a crane tower, and a girl whose toe is stuck in a faucet.

Season 7, Episode 8: Episode #7.8

Original Air Date—????

Season 7, Episode 9: What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing...?: Part 1

Original Air Date—26 June 1978
Gage and DeSoto travel to San Francisco, where they observe some topnotch women paramedics in action during major rescue missions. An injured worker is stranded on the Golden Gate bridge. Ambulance squads treat a heart attack victim at a dance bar and an epileptic at a coffee shop. A bad driver causes a traffic accident involving an ambulance carrying the heart patient, resulting in his death and five other injuries. Johnny dates a nurse interested in a long-term relationship. Careless workers and deadly chemicals combine to spark an explosive fire at a pier on the Embarcadero.

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