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''NOTE: In the final season, Drs. Brackett and Early now have the additional certification of "[[American College of Emergency Physicians|A.C.E.P.]] |
''NOTE: In the final season, Drs. Brackett and Early now have the additional certification of "[[American College of Emergency Physicians|A.C.E.P.]]." Nurse McCall now exchanges her occasional nurse's dress for a uniform and no longer wears a nurse's cap. Gage and DeSoto now have the designation "Firefighter [[Paramedic|PM]]" after their name. The intro now includes the radio transmissions between Rampart and the paramedics and no music.<ref>The transmissions, transcribed, read as follows: |
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# '''Dispatcher Sam Lanier.''' "Fifty-One, informant reports toxic chemicals are stored in tanker. Use caution." An explosion follows. |
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# '''Brackett.''' "Squad Fifty-One, this is Rampart; can you send me some [[EKG]]?" |
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# '''Gage.''' "10-4; transmitting EKG--we're sending you a strip, vitals to follow. (Pause.) Pulse is one-sixty; the--victim is in extreme pain, Rampart." (Beeping, as though to alert a doctor.) |
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# '''DeSoto.''' "Patient is in [[V-fib]]! Rampart, we have lost the victim's pulse! Beginning [[CPR]]! (A series of beeps.) We're defibrillating victim, Rampart! (Pause.) Rampart, we've defibrillated victim; he's in sinus rhythm." |
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# '''Early.''' "Administer two amps sodium bicarb and insert an airway. (Pause.) Start an IV, Fifty-One--lactated Ringer's." |
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# '''McCall.''' "Squad Fifty-One, continue monitoring vitals and transport immediately." |
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# '''Gage.''' "We're on our way, Rampart!"</ref> Dr. Brackett also reduces his on-screen appearances, for the last several episodes of the final season.'' |
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|ShortSummary=Squad 51 is assigned to work the game at the [[Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum]] between the [[USC Trojans football|USC Trojans]] and the visiting [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford Cardinals]], where they deal with a choking victim, a man with breathing difficulties, an injured photographer, and a TV announcer with heart trouble. |
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Revision as of 18:54, 17 August 2015
This is a list of episodes of the television series Emergency! which originally aired from January 15, 1972 to September 23, 1977, followed by six television films during the following two years.
Pilot movie
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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"The Wedsworth-Townsend Act" | Jack Webb | Harold Jack Bloom & R.A. Cinader | January 15, 1972 | |
Seeing a dire need in the community for on-the spot medical assistance, LA County Firefighters Roy DeSoto (Kevin Tighe) and Johnny Gage (Randolph Mantooth) attempt to convince their staunchest opponent, Rampart's Chief of Emergency Services, Dr. Kelly Brackett (Robert Fuller), to support paramedic legislation that means getting help to where it is needed most. While running two separate calls with Gage and DeSoto, their mentor, Rampart's Chief Nurse of the Emergency Room, Dixie McCall (Julie London), is injured and knocked unconscious. Martin Milner and Kent McCord of Adam-12 guest star. Note: Robert Fuller had been friends with Julie London and Bobby Troup, long before the series started, London guest-starred with Fuller on an episode of Laramie. Julie London was married to Bobby Troup, in real-life, long before the series started, and were also friends with London's ex-husband Jack Webb. Both London and Troup guest-starred in episodes of both series: Rawhide and The Big Valley. |
Season One (1972)
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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1 | 1 | "Mascot" | Lawrence Dobkin | Preston Wood | January 22, 1972 | |
A woman involved in a car accident is concerned about her dog so Johnny agrees to take care of it. Johnny and Roy treat a man with chest pains and deal with his drunk party guests. They later fly out to a remote area to rescue an injured hunter who fell off a cliff. Before Dixie talks to the lady, who's a dear friend, whose man has diabetes, she encourages both the orderly and the security to find her. | ||||||
2 | 2 | "Botulism" | Herschel Daugherty | Michael Donovan | January 29, 1972 | |
John plots his revenge after being the repeated target of practical jokes. Dixie is worried about a student nurse, whose performances are affected by Dr. Brackett's personality. 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. Roy and Johnny rescue a boy trapped in a collapsed building. | ||||||
3 | 3 | "Cook's Tour" | Christian Nyby | Daryl Henry | February 12, 1972 | |
Roy worries that the guys won’t like his cooking. Dixie congratulates Johnny, who delivers a cyanotic baby. A boy gets his hand stuck in a vase, while a student nurse finds a pack of ice to give to Dr. Early, for the boy to use it, Dixie cautions her about running in the hospital, prior to taking an errand. Also, a man repairing a washer gets an electric shock, and a man is trapped on a crane. | ||||||
4 | 4 | "Brushfire" | Hollingsworth Morse | Robert C. Dennis | February 19, 1972 | |
Station 51 is called up to fight an out-of-control brushfire. An elderly woman breaks her ankle, a man injured by a horse stampede, a looter is injured in a motorcycle accident, a boy breaks his arm and loses his dog, and a fireman is trapped and injured under a fallen tree. The fire also threatens the house of a pregnant woman in labor who can’t be moved. Guest Stars: Tony Dow & Bob Hastings | ||||||
5 | 5 | "Dealer's Wild" | Lawrence Dobkin | Carey Wilber | February 26, 1972 | |
John keeps losing at cards and being stuck with doing the dishes at the station, so he creates his own card game. Off-duty, Dr. Brackett and Dixie spend time to unwind, who both also meditate on the people that want to die, rather than to live, and the people that want to live, rather than dying. 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. Drs. Brackett, Early and Morton takes care of a husband who's suffering from a severe hemorrhage. | ||||||
6 | 6 | "Nurse's Wild" | Herschel Daugherty | Fred Freiberger | March 4, 1972 | |
Sparks fly between Johnny and a student nurse. A store owner shoots an armed robber and is filled with remorse, a dog delays the rescue of an unconscious woman, a man is bitten by a Black Widow spider, Dr. Early deals with a man suffering from the DT’s, and a man is injured at a chemical plant and trapped on some pipes. Dr. Brackett and Dixie deal with a tough man suffering from chest pains. Dixie and Dr. Morton assume an unconscious hippie is on drugs. | ||||||
7 | 7 | "Publicity Hound" | Christian Nyby | Michael Donovan | March 11, 1972 | |
John is envious of the publicity given to another paramedic (Gary Crosby). John gets seasick, after he and Roy rescued a man in ship's rigging. A powerful tycoon (Gene Raymond) threatens to take Dr. Brackett to court, because of the tycoon's son's diagnosis, therefore, with the help of Dr. Early, he successfully calm him down. Dixie takes care of an already taken lady (Edith Diaz) whom John was going to see. The paramedics rescue a horse from a ditch and a child stuck in a well. | ||||||
8 | 8 | "Weird Wednesday" | Lawrence Dobkin | Daryl Henry | March 18, 1972 | |
John comments on how weird things were going to happen on his shift, and he is proven right as they have to rescue a parachutist stuck in a tree, an obese man collapses while jogging, an 80 year old woman sprains her ankle while dancing at her birthday party--so the guests go to the hospital to resume the fun--a man who cannot stop hiccuping, a boy who tries to freeze himself to preserve his body, a female golfer bitten by a rattlesnake, a prostitute bringing her john in after he suffers a heart attack, and finally rescuing a drunk driver, during which John is injured. A seaman in pain shows up at Rampart but doesn't speak English. Guest Star: Bob Hastings | ||||||
9 | 9 | "Dilemma" | Christian Nyby | Michael Donovan | March 25, 1972 | |
An elevator gets stuck between floors, and then the brake drum fails; inside, a woman has a heart attack. Despite Sharon Walters's admiration for Dr. Brackett, he sets her off, whenever he's around to see her please him, therefore, Dixie diagnoses her nursing student with Bracketitis. Later, 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. With the help of Dixie, and before Nurse Walters smiles in front of both Dixie and Dr. Brackett, they all take care of a man with a pulmonary embolism. Note: Final appearance of Dick Hammer as the first Station 51 Captain. | ||||||
10 | 10 | "Hang-Up" | Lawrence Dobkin | Preston Wood | April 8, 1972 | |
Johnny tells Dixie he 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. Dixie's tired of all the nonsense happening in the hospital or taking advantage of anybody's emergencies, someplace else. Radioactivity impedes the rescue of a lab worker. Note: The hot room and laboratory featured in the final rescue of this episode is a re-dress of the "Wildfire" set from The Andromeda Strain which was then still standing on the Universal lot at the time. Robert Fuller previously worked with John Smith on Laramie. Smith played the Station's Captain. | ||||||
11 | 11 | "Crash" | Christian Nyby | Gerald Sanford | April 15, 1972 | |
John and Roy bring in a football player who was tackled too hard. A burglar has a heart attack. John wants Roy to apologize for calling him "some kind of nut." Dixie and Dr. Early treats a hypochondriac. A babysitter brings in a child who has swallowed some pills, Dixie talks to her about this. Roy and John rescue the occupants of a light plane that crashed in a tree. |
Season Two (1972-73)
Note: One episode titled "Richter Six" where Gage and DeSoto tell a story to a group of paramedic students about an earthquake in Alameda and how they helped save lives was scripted but never aired, parts of the script were instead written into other episodes.[1]
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12 | 1 | "Decision" "Problem" | Christian Nyby | Preston Wood | September 16, 1972 | |
Roy and John rescue a trapped man whose engine fell on him, en route to the hospital Roy's link to Rampart malfunctions, and he treats the injured man without supervision; when the patient later dies from his injuries (and not from Roy's actions) his doctor (Lloyd Bochner) excoriates Roy and the whole Paramedic program, which angers the doctors and Dixie, especially after a doctor dies from a heart attack despite all their efforts, and Roy considers resigning from the program. Dixie chokes down of Roy's decision. Other rescues include a motorcyclist gored by a bull and a boy and his dog from a burning house. Note: Jack Dodson guest stars as a drunk who drinks his IV bottle when he's "thristy" and Kevin Dobson ("Kojak" and "Knots Landing") guest stars as the deputy rescuing a guy, who was trapped in the car. Michael Norrell debuts as Captain Henry "Hank" Stanley....Station 51's second Captain who remains for the remainder of the series. | ||||||
13 | 2 | "Kids" | Georg Fenady | Michael Donovan | September 23, 1972 | |
A stray dog wanders into the station, and the firemen name him Boot, who promptly takes a dislike to John. Later Roy & John rescue a boy trapped in a hole, examination of the boy leads the doctors to determine the boy has a history of child abuse. A girl runs to Dixie telling her she's giving the airplane to a boy, then Dixie also asks the girl if her best friend fell simply by running away from home, to recognize the boy found his best friend to be a liar. Brackett's efforts to save the boy from his abusive life fails in the legal system and leads to tragic results. Other rescues include a boy whose head was stuck in a basement window, Dr. Early frees a boy's hand from his father's sport steering wheel, and the firemen rescue an injured hiker (John Travolta) from a rapidly spreading brush fire with help from Boot, who "adopts" a different fire station. | ||||||
14 | 3 | "Show Biz" | Sam C. Freedle | Daryl Henry | September 30, 1972 | |
John is excited about a photo shoot involving female models. A country doctor helps aid a man trapped under a tractor when Rampart is out of radio range, then himself becomes a patient when he suffers a heart attack. Rescues include a man drowning in a swimming pool and two stuntmen trapped in a waterfall at a movie studio. A woman is distraught about running over and killing a young girl, when her father shows up bullying Dixie's nurses demanding to see the woman, Dr. Early informs him the woman died of a brain hemorrhage. | ||||||
15 | 4 | "Virus" | Lawrence Dobkin | Daryl Henry | October 7, 1972 | |
A woman (Cathy Lee Crosby) returning from Asia with a monkey also brought back a highly contagious virus that kills a fireman and sickens Dr. Brackett, later John during a rescue of a man having a heart attack on a scaffold, but the woman is not as sickened and her travelling partner appears to have immunity to the disease. As two professionals are fighting, Dixie talks to the wife, whose husband is (of course) dying. While Dixie, Dr. Early and Roy treat John, Nurse Walters and Dr. Early treat Dr. Brackett; who heard they found the solution to the virus. The firemen also rescue a boy from a treehouse. | ||||||
16 | 5 | "Peace Pipe" | Christian Nyby | Michael Donovan | October 14, 1972 | |
A drunk driver (William Campbell) rams into a car, trapping a little girl inside, and the doctors are concerned the girl may have brain damage, which leads Dixie (before Dr. Brackett), into explaining her parents about that disability, as well as paralysis, if surgery is successful. Kelly pesters John about his Native American heritage. The fireman have to rescue a man on a scaffold while being pinned down by a sniper. Other rescues include a boy getting his hand stuck in a gumball machine, a woman whose extremely tight girdle is causing breathing problems, and a fire caused by a workman mixing fuel into the water lines. | ||||||
17 | 6 | "Saddled" | Georg Fenady | Herb Purdum | October 21, 1972 | |
Dixie injures her toe, which brings on teasing from Brackett and Early. John decides to do some saddle shopping in preparation for trying for the rodeo. Roy & John aid a girl injured by an exploding soda bottle, when DeSoto cites the owner for an improperly installed gas heater, the owner scoffs at the fireman until they have to return when the heater explodes, injuring the owner. Other rescues include a boy lapsing into a coma after falling from a tree--later found to be suffering from the ITP blood disorder, and saving several children and nun from a bus crash. | ||||||
18 | 7 | "Fuzz Lady" | Christian I. Nyby II | Michael Donovan | November 4, 1972 | |
Johnny and Roy treat a mugger with a broken leg, given at the hands of a female sheriff (Sharon Gless) whom Gage falls for. Dixie reports several items, including Gage's jacket, have been disappearing from Rampart. Dixie, Johnny and Roy, were all responsible for Dr. Morton's cocky attitude, as Dr. Brackett has a conversation with Dr. Morton, regarding this. The firemen rescue an elderly man from his burning house, assist a grandfather who was injured by a model rocket, and rescue a boat thief trapped on a crane. Boot the dog returns to Station 51, with the same negative attitude toward John. | ||||||
19 | 8 | "Trainee" | Dennis Donnelly | Jim Owens | November 11, 1972 | |
A paramedic trainee (and a Vietnam Vet) rides with Gage and DeSoto and help stop a purse-snatching, aid in an injured man who fell down a cliff, assist with an overdose victim, and a man who had a insulin reaction, all the while dealing with the trainee's attitude--thinking he knows more than the veteran paramedics, the head nurse, and the ER doctors at Rampart, until Dixie dresses him down. Note: Robert Pratt guest stars as trainee Ed Marlowe. (He later guest starred on Emergency on episodes 5/14 and 6/14, although not as a paramedic; he also guest starred in Adam 12 7/15 as a rookie policeman.) | ||||||
20 | 9 | "Women" | Georg Fenady | Daryl Henry | November 25, 1972 | |
Journalist Christy Todd (Leslie Charleson) is assigned to cover Squad 51's rescues, and has an immediate dislike to John's (and many of the other firemen/male doctors') chauvinistic demeanor toward her, after Dixie recognizes most of John's rude personality. The journalist also observes the team save a trapped man under stuck under live power lines, a man trapped in a sofabed, another man (Dick Van Patten) whose arm is stuck in a garbage disposal, and another man trapped in a bombed building, during which Roy has to rescue an injured John before the building explodes. The doctors treat a boy poisoned by wild hemlock and a girl addicted to drugs. After a nurse who failed to follow Dr. Brackett's instructions, he vehemently fired her, who himself brought that on to Dixie, hearing mistakes that kill people, which led her into calming Brackett down. | ||||||
21 | 10 | "Dinner Date" | Dennis Donnelly | Dick Morgan | December 2, 1972 | |
Roy tries to set John up with his wife's cousin. An epileptic woman nearly hits a child when he rides out between two parked cars; the ensuing emotional trauma throws her into a mild seizure. A man shoots his son-in-law when he discovers his daughter (Laurette Spang) was married and pregnant without his knowledge. Drug and alcohol addiction rears its head in four cases: A woman suffering from gangrene in her hand, an alcoholic who collapsed at his home in a hepatic coma, a girl poisoned by taking pills laced with sodium hydroxide, and a man suffering from tetanus. Other rescues include an obese man whose pacemaker failed and freeing a asthmatic child whose arm got stuck in a swimming pool drain, with the help of Dixie, Dr. Early, John and Roy, while in the hospital. Note: Dawn Lyn guest stars as Kathy Thelen. (She later guest starred on Emergency! on episode 5/19, as a patient; she also guest starred in Adam 12, for 2 episodes - 1/23; as a neglected child and 6/24; as a young diabetic, suffering from a brain tumor that led to blindness. Lyn, previously co-starred on My Three Sons, which also featured Julie London's best friend, Beverly Garland.) | ||||||
22 | 11 | "Musical Mania" | Christian I. Nyby II | Kenneth Dorward | December 9, 1972 | |
John takes up bagpipes after Chet jokes with him about playing the squad's horn. John and Roy treat a gardener suffering from tetanus, a driver of an ice cream truck trapped after a wreck, a girl who overdosed on barbiturates who later dies, a pilot of a glider who crashed, and free a man trapped under his house. Dixie and Dr. Early talk to a couple whose son is suffering from lead poisoning, later found to be also suffering from deprivation dwarfism, and the father refuses to treat his son with experimental growth hormones. | ||||||
23 | 12 | "Helpful" | Lawrence Dobkin | Preston Wood | December 16, 1972 | |
Roy and his wife have a fight, and John offers his assistance, which makes the situation worse. During the rescue of a man whose car is hanging over a bridge a new doctor, Dr. Varner's, erratic instructions and behavior concerns Dixie. Dr. Varner later catches a atrial myxoma that Drs. Early and Brackett miss, but then is found asleep in her car and Dixie finds the reason for her behavior. The firemen assist a man who fell off a roof trying to get his dog down (then they rescue the dog), and two children lost in a rapidly flooding storm drain. Note: Jamie Farr is listed in the credits as a guest star but doesn't appear in this episode, his appearance was moved to the episode "Boot" later in the season. | ||||||
24 | 13 | "Drivers" | Samuel Freedle | Jim Owens | January 5, 1973 | |
John complains about drivers failing to yield to the Squad when their lights are on, so he writes the Chief who employs a deputy to monitor driver behavior. A college quarterback suffers from muscle cramps affecting his back which sidelines him from a big weekend game, Roy & John teach a CPR class to a group of senior citizens, then learn their former paramedic instructor has died from cardiac arrest. The firemen rescue a boy stuck upside down in a tree, and assist people trapped in a large fire at a hotel, complicated by a cardiac victim on the third floor. | ||||||
25 | 14 | "School Days" | Christian Nyby | Kenneth Dorward | January 13, 1973 | |
John & Roy are breaking in a new trainee who lacks self-confidence in tight situations, including assisting an elderly man who was injured by a falling bookcase, an ambulance broadsided by a car, a boy injured in a chemistry lab accident at his home, a sleeping man with a "snake" on his chest, and a man injured and trapped in a junkyard. A man says to Dixie that the boy's mother was separating, she asks them to find his mother. Dixie talks to the mother, whose own son is suffering from brain hemorrhage. Doctors treat a baseball player beaned in a game while not wearing a batting helmet. | ||||||
26 | 15 | "The Professor" | Christian I. Nyby II | Michael Donovan | February 3, 1973 | |
A professor (Hedley Mattingly) working with the Secret Service is experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia and Dr. Brackett resents the interference of the government agents in the professor's care, where the professor's wife (Jane Merrow) talks to Dixie, whose husband was brought over to the hospital, for a physical examination. Roy has an admirer calling him everywhere, despite Johnny saying to both Dixie and Dr. Early, his partner has no "charisma", and needles him relentlessly about it. Between the phone calls, the firemen assist a plane crash victim, deliver a premature baby, and help prevent a suicidal man from jumping off a building under construction. | ||||||
27 | 16 | "Syndrome" | Dennis Donnelly | Michael Donovan | February 10, 1973 | |
Roy complains of a "tickle" in his throat, which John suspects is tonsillitis. A famous actor (Robert Alda), and former flame of Dixie's, is admitted to Rampart with chest pain (later suspected to be related to excessive MSG consumption), while his producer (Jack Carter) clamors for him to be released to finish filming his TV show. While Dr. Early deals with a hypochondriac. Boot the Dog has surgery to remove a tick. The firemen assist two kids stuck on top of a gas tank, several girls injured in a rough lacrosse game, and a fire at Olive View Hospital (damaged in the 1971 San Fernando earthquake) set by an arsonist that trapped four people results in Chet being injured and taken to the hospital where he is roomed with Roy, who has his tonsils removed. | ||||||
28 | 17 | "Honest" | Christian I. Nyby II | Daryl Henry | February 17, 1973 | |
A gas explosion injures a newlywed couple, because the wife lied to the husband about his cigars, and this leads Johnny on a crusade to be honest in any situation. A boy is brought into Rampart choking to death for no apparent reason; Dr. Morton's brutal honesty about the situation sends the boy's mother into hysterics, which leads Dixie and Johnny into calming her, a boy is critically injured diving off a roof, Johnny and Roy rescue a family of three (mother, child, and grandfather who lied to John about being blind) from a burning house, and Dixie and Dr. Early treat a man who "might" be having a heart attack because his father died from one at the same age. Chet lies to John about a woman that keeps calling for him. | ||||||
29 | 18 | "Seance" | Georg Fenady | Preston Wood | February 24, 1973 | |
A woman attends a seance for her recently deceased sister and suffers a seizure, after which she constantly calls the Squad because she's convinced the bad things happening after that were a result of her sister. Dr. Brackett and Dixie treat a young man who took unprescribed tranquilizers, while the firemen rescue a man pinned under a load of cartons and a driver trapped underwater in his car. | ||||||
30 | 19 | "Boot" | Christian I. Nyby II | Preston Wood | March 3, 1973 | |
Boot the Dog isn't eating and the firemen are concerned, even consulting with Rampart's staff, about their mascot, the cause turned out to be Chet yelling at Boot, who receives the temperature from Drs. Brackett and Morton, from Dixie. The Squad treats a woman who got her hair caught in a mixer, her hand stuck in a bowl, and catches her stove on fire while making dinner, a woman trapped in her car under a gas truck, and an explosion at a Rampart Hospital lab endangers the workers and important records stored there. The doctors treat an unconscious man suffering from internal bleeding caused by taking aspirin with Coumadin, and a man (Jamie Farr) who is suffering from a curse. Vic Tayback guest stars as the gas truck driver. Note: Jamie Farr's appearance was moved here from his previously credited appearance in "Helpful", but was not credited here. | ||||||
31 | 20 | "Rip-Off" | Christian I. Nyby II | Michael Donovan | March 10, 1973 | |
Roy and John are accused of stealing $500 from a prominent TV personality they were treating for a cardiac condition and the ensuing police investigation really unnerves the paramedics. A car crash results in the delivery of a premature baby and the baby's father being blinded; his wife tries to give him hope his blindness is only temporary, and the firemen rescue two men involved an airport accident involving liquid oxygen which could cause an explosion. | ||||||
32 | 21 | "Audit" | Georg Fenady | Preston Wood | April 7, 1973 | |
John is worried about a pending IRS audit. The paramedics attempt to help a man hit on the head but refuses their assistance and demands to see a doctor, who turns out to be a professional medical con man. When the patient disappears, Dr. Brackett admittingly tells Dixie, he didn't move him. John & Roy get a baby out of a hot and locked car, then encounter an angry mother upset at their interference. A pregnant hippie woman is having trouble breathing and is brought into Rampart, where Dr. Brackett and Dixie finds she has a damaged heart valve from untreated rheumatic fever. The firemen save a man trapped in a collapsed building under construction, and the man wants Roy to amputate his leg before the rest of the building falls. |
Season Three (1973-74)
NOTE: R.A. Cinader moves to executive producer, and Edwin Self becomes producer. Also, to add realism to the ER, other paramedic squads are communicating with Rampart at the same time as Squad 51, causing occasional conflict issues depicted throughout the season.
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33 | 1 | "Frequency" | Dennis Donnelly | Kenneth Dorward | September 12, 1973 | |
Johnny's policeman friend is injured and later dies from a car accident; the delay in treatment due to another Squad tying up the bio phone frequency with a heart case leads Roy to speculate if the delay may make a difference later. The doctors treat a child (Ike Eisenmann) who turns out to be drunk. Thanks to Dr. Brackett and Dixie, Johnny and Roy assist in treating opposing members of a bike gang after a bloody rumble, and it spills over into the ER. Other rescues include a man that welded himself inside his own kinetic art sculpture, and a father and son trapped in a building collapse at a construction site. Linda Kelsey ("Billie Newman" from "Lou Grant") guest stars as the policeman's widow. | ||||||
34 | 2 | "The Old Engine" | Christian I. Nyby II | Preston Wood | September 29, 1973 | |
Station 51 gets their new fire engine, which gets put to use during a junkyard fire, while there Roy and John buy an older engine they found there. The paramedics try to help a woman strung out on LSD and have to chase her down to the top of a building when she flees. The base station at Rampart is upgraded with a new transmitter and radio to better manage the Squad traffic. Dr. Brackett, along with Dixie, both treat a gunshot victim (Michael Conrad), who later undergoes surgery, and wants to walk out immediately afterwards, meanwhile the paramedics treat a politician suffering from a heart attack, and the station responds to a warehouse fire. | ||||||
35 | 3 | "Alley Cat" | Alan Crosland | Charlene Sukins | October 6, 1973 | |
John discovers he's going to be a father...to kittens...when a pregnant stray cat appears on his bed, and Boot the Dog is not happy about the cat being there. The paramedics rescue a family involved in a plane crash; the father dies, the mother and young daughter are injured, and a grizzled junk dealer who got his foot stuck in a bear trap. A stage actress is suffering from tachycardia after getting a bad review of her performance, Dr. Brackett takes care of her, while Dixie talks to her husband. The firemen assist a child sickened by a gas leak at a school and rescue a man involved in a boating accident. | ||||||
36 | 4 | "An English Visitor" | Alan Crosland | Michael Donovan | October 13, 1973 | |
A paramedic from England rides with Roy & John to observe the paramedic program at work, and is present during a fire caused by a molotov cocktail thrown at a policeman, helping a wild-west performer with an injured finger, a traffic accident involving a car loaded with marijuana, and a man trapped in a construction site; during the rescue John nearly falls off a scaffold and the visitor saves his life. A rock singer, who is brought into the ER in a diabetic coma complicated by pneumonia, and her manager is more concerned with the money lost than her well being, complicated by a nurse with a bad attitude impacting the patients, as well as Dixie and Dr. Early. | ||||||
37 | 5 | "Heavyweight" | Dennis Donnelly | Kenneth Dorward | October 20, 1973 | |
Johnny injures his shoulder during a rescue of a pregnant woman in labor, when her baby is born with a cleft palate, she is determined to give him up for adoption (feeling the deformity is due to her defying her parents by getting married), until Dixie and Dr. Brackett speak with her. Dixie, then locates the woman's parents, who also had family. Dr. Morton reads Johnny the riot act about his physical condition, which starts the paramedic on a fitness regimen. Dr. Early treats the son of a drug-addicted mother who suffered an electric shock putting a screwdriver into a TV. The paramedics treat a stabbing victim and the man he shot; then the police have to talk the son out of shooting the man who shot his father. Johnny & Roy rescue a hang glider pilot stuck in a tree. | ||||||
38 | 6 | "Snakebite" | Georg Fenady | Carroll Christensen | October 27, 1973 | |
John, Roy and Chet are returning from a "boring" fishing trip in a rural area when they come across a traffic accident, one man is dead, a mother and son are injured; and they have to find a local doctor to assist them. The firemen help rescue the victims of a rollover accident off a cliff; after the victims are medivac'd to Rampart. Dixie offers the assistant nurse to take on the patient's case, suffering from heart trouble, with Dr. Early, from Squad 45. John is bitten by a rattlesnake and is rushed to Rampart atop Engine 51. | ||||||
39 | 7 | "The Promotion" | Christian I. Nyby II | Preston Wood | November 3, 1973 | |
Roy passes the Engineer's exam, but accepting the promotion means leaving the paramedics--and John--and talks over his decision with Drs. Brackett and Early. The firemen handle a fog-caused multi-vehicle accident on the San Diego Freeway, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries, including one man with a heart murmur which Dixie and Dr. Early help in treating. The paramedics attempt to assist an attempted suicide (by taking six aspirins) but are sent to a vacant lot instead; when they find the right location they end up in the middle of a domestic dispute. John and a security guard are injured in a fire and Roy has to rescue both of them. | ||||||
40 | 8 | "Insomnia" | Dennis Donnelly | Robert Hamner | November 10, 1973 | |
John is suffering from insomnia due to the lack of night runs, but during their day runs the firemen respond to an accident aboard a boat where a butane tank exploded en route to the marina, Dixie, Drs. Brackett and Early treat a boy (Stephen Manley) who suffered a skull fracture when his father swerved to avoid a dog in the road, then a home-grown marijuana smoker who is dying from an unknown ailment until his friend (Ronnie Schell) reveals his plants was grown with parathion). Later the firemen rescue a worker pinned under a semi truck at the loading dock and a man and boy who fell into a gravel pit. | ||||||
41 | 9 | "Inheritance Tax" | Dennis Donnelly | Arnold Somkin | November 17, 1973 | |
Roy and John receive a letter from the estate of an elderly woman they rescued 18 months previously that they received an inheritance from her will. The firemen rescue a child trapped in a car under downed power lines, then attempt to treat a stockbroker with heart issues despite his insistence that his absence will cost him thousands of dollars. Dr. Early helps two young boys needing a bandage. The paramedics treat a teenager who ate 19 hamburgers in a failed attempt to win a competitive eating contest (the winner ate 20), and a burn victim after an explosive fire at a paint factory. Marion Ross guest stars as the stockbroker's loyal secretary. | ||||||
42 | 10 | "Zero" | Christian I. Nyby II | Brian Taggert | November 24, 1973 | |
John and Roy are guests on a local talk show about their job, but John suffers from stage fright and Roy has to "fill in the blanks". The paramedics check on a woman (Jo Anne Worley) who screams for therapeutic reasons at a construction site, then rescues a boy who attempts suicide by jumping off a ledge. After being brought in, Drs. Brackett and Early suspect his mother (Mariette Hartley) has been abusing him, while Dixie offers the boy milk, and protecting him, at the same time. Back in the field, the paramedics assist a teenager whose hand was stuck in a doughnut machine, and rescue a boy trapped in a fire. Emmy-winning sportscaster Dick Enberg guest stars as the talk show host. | ||||||
43 | 11 | "The Promise" | Alan Crosland | Dee Murphey | December 1, 1973 | |
The paramedics find a mechanic in a catatonic state injured in a vehicle fire at a garage, and the Rampart doctors are unable to determine the cause of his condition. While Dixie reaches a college graduate from San Francisco, Roy and John lecture a frequent caller on the dangers of constantly calling them because she's lonely, then respond to a woman who mixed ammonia with bleach and inhaled poisonous chloramine vapor. Paula Slayton (from season 1's "Mascot") returns to give John a Yorkie pup, keeping a promise made to him for caring for her dog while she was hospitalized; Boot and the pup engage in a wild chase around the fire station, resulting in Captain Stanley deciding the station can only have one mascot. The firemen assist an elderly couple trapped in their home...by tumbleweeds. The catatonic patient receives an injection from his friend and he responds...by jumping out a window onto a ledge...and nearly kicks Roy off onto the parking lot until he is tranquilized. | ||||||
44 | 12 | "Body Language" | Dennis Donnelly | Arthur Weiss | December 8, 1973 | |
John's current girlfriend misinterprets a discussion for a wedding proposal. The firemen assist a pilot of a crop-duster spraying parathion that crashed and punctured his lung, and poisons a bystander with the pesticide. An injured boy using a walker wants to use crutches instead, Dixie provides him with crutches. A man gets treated for an ear infection caused by mothballs, and Drs. Brackett, Early, and Morton unanimously agree the man doesn't need a hospital stay. The paramedics treat a couple who OD'd on daffodil bulbs mixed with alcohol, a weekend cowboy who fell off a horse who refused treatment until he collapsed again with a possible skull fracture, a traffic accident on U.S. Route 101 results in two victims starting a relationship, and a lead singer of a rock band in cardiac arrest due to drugs. Ron Feinberg, Randy Boone, Kenneth Tobey, and Ronne Troup (stepdaughter of Julie London & daughter of Bobby Troup) guest star. | ||||||
45 | 13 | "Understanding" | Georg Fenady | Preston Wood | December 15, 1973 | |
Chet takes to playing John's guitar, so John gives it to him. The firemen rescue a man and a girl's horse from a fire caused by moonshine. Dixie gives a man a stern lecture about forgetting his insulin shots. When a woman calls the hospital threatening suicide, Dr. Brackett and Dixie keep her talking while the firemen track her down, later John & Roy find themselves hostages when they are called to aid a heart patient--the manager of a bank being held up by two armed men. John Russell ("Rio Bravo" and "Lawman") and Kathleen Quinlan ("Apollo 13") guest star. | ||||||
46 | 14 | "Computer Error" | Joel Oliansky | John Groves | December 22, 1973 | |
John gets a credit card bill for $842 (should have been $8.42) after taking a girl on a date, and the station (and Dixie) hear all about it. The firemen rescue a young couple from a traffic accident; the boy (Donny Most) has a spinal cord injury and the girl (Audrey Landers) may be pregnant and Dr. Early is reluctant to take x-rays until her condition is determined. Later the paramedics help a woman that fell into an old well, a magician trapped in a safe, and a man trapped in an junkyard fire that turns explosive when stored ammunition starts going off. Bonnie Bartlett guest stars. | ||||||
47 | 15 | "Inferno" | Christian I. Nyby II | Brian Taggert | January 5, 1974 | |
A large brush fire sends out several fire stations, except Squad 51, who is returned to quarters, disappointing John and Roy, who monitor the fire events on the radio and TV. Dixie gets her hand caught in the coffee machine; John and Roy help free it, then save a lawyer who suffered a heart attack in the courtroom. Roy comforts the wife of a fireman injured in the brush fire, then the paramedics are called to assist in the fire and get trapped by the flames rescuing another fireman. | ||||||
48 | 16 | "Messin' Around" | Richard Newton | Dennis Landa | January 12, 1974 | |
Chet (aka "The Phantom Bomber") nails Johnny with a number of practical jokes, for which Johnny later gets his revenge. A child is stuck in a tree house (with the tree burning underneath) and is rescued by Johnny; the girl's widowed mother takes an interest in him, all the while, Dixie takes care of her, who also has slight burns. An elderly man and frequent visitor to Rampart, "Old Bill" (J. Pat O'Malley), visits the girl. Dixie, Drs. Brackett and Early think "Old Bill" is a hypochondriac until Roy and John find him unconscious in his home with septic shock. Johnny and Roy help a moaning man after his wife gives him Dieffenbachia sap to shut him up, a gas station attendant with a perforated ulcer, a young boy who swallows ant poison and later dies--his mother thought he was just trying to "get attention"--and three men stuck after a bulldozer accident. | ||||||
49 | 17 | "Fools" | Joseph Pevney | Eric Kaldor | January 19, 1974 | |
A young intern (Bobby Sherman) and son of one of Rampart's administrators has an attitude toward the paramedics; he refuses to allow an IV to a man injured when his chimney explodes after using gasoline to clean it, and when a man is nearly killed when he orders defib on a heart patient that was not necessary, Dr. Brackett sends him into the field to ride along with Squad 51, where he assists the paramedics in freeing a girl's hand from a mailbox and a heart attack victim trapped on an explosive oil refinery tower. | ||||||
50 | 18 | "How Green Was My Thumb?" | Christian I. Nyby II | John Groves | January 26, 1974 | |
Roy and John save a man who had his partial dental plate stuck in his trachea and stopped his breathing, this leads Dixie, Drs. Early and Morton, to discover the problem. Roy takes care of a young woman's (Leigh Christian) plants while she is hospitalized while John tries to woo a young nurse (Pamela Hensley). A young girl who had a fall injury (Kim Richards) suffers a dog bite, and when her religious parents prevent Dr. Brackett from treating it, Dixie calls in the hospital chaplain. The station rescue two men (one trapped in a vat of wine) in a winery fire, The station responds to a fire in a winery, and a gun collector who has an unexploded grenade round in his abdomen undergoes emergency backyard field surgery by Drs. Brackett and Morton. Will Hutchins, Don Chastain and Randolph Mantooth's brother Don Mantooth also guest star. | ||||||
51 | 19 | "The Hard Hours" | Christian I. Nyby II | Arnold Somkin | February 2, 1974 | |
Dr. Brackett becomes patient as Dr. Early is diagnosed with a heart condition and undergoes a bypass, after fixing Station 51's truck. Dixie becomes more concerned about Early's operation, after Roy and John exchange words with her. A professional football player (NFL Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus) is hit hard by his son and suffers a broken ankle, much to his embarrassment. The firemen rescue a boy trapped in his homemade rocket, a woman whose toe is stuck in a bathtub faucet, and worker electrocuted when the basket he's working in slips onto live wires. Dr. Early's operation was a success, and the boys gave their colleague, a thermos of Roy's favorite, clam chowder soup. Nick Nolte guest stars as one of the heart surgeons. | ||||||
52 | 20 | "Floor Brigade" | Dennis Donnelly | Roland Wolpert | February 9, 1974 | |
Roy tries to convince John about starting a side floor cleaning business and Dixie offers to help. The firemen rescue "The Hermit" (Pat Buttram) from a collapse in his cave home, who befriends Dr. Brackett and Dixie. Dr. Morton treats a diabetic singer who took a mixture of alcohol and pills and becomes ill. John is injured during a rescue of a trapped man that turned out to be a dummy put there by two juveniles, later he rescues a chemist trapped in an explosion and fire at a chemical warehouse. | ||||||
53 | 21 | "Propinquity" | Georg Fenady | Preston Wood | February 16, 1974 | |
Roy's house is being fumigated and John offers to host his partner, a decision both soon regret. John also calls Dixie at the hospital for a calibrator, which looks good. The paramedics rescue a woman trapped inside a burning car; later the ambulance transporting the woman and Roy is involved in a traffic accident caused by a drunk driver, and John doubles back to assist. Dixie, Drs. Early and Morton treat Roy and John with their separate bodily abrasions. A poker player suffering a heart attack refuses to be transported until John plays out his hand, and the firemen rescue several men injured in an explosion at an abandoned refinery. Jack Garner (brother of James Garner), guest stars as one of the poker players. | ||||||
54 | 22 | "Inventions" | Kevin Tighe | John Groves | March 23, 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. John gives Dr. Early the booze to pass to Dixie. A woman’s overweight son is wedged in her living room ceiling. The firemen respond to a leak at a chemical plant. Aneta Corsaut ("Helen Crump" from "The Andy Griffith Show") guest stars. |
Season Four (1974-75)
NOTE: Starting with this season John & Roy's uniforms have the yellow "LACoFD Paramedic" patch on their left sleeve.
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Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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55 | 1 | "The Screenwriter" | Georg Fenady | Eric Brown | September 14, 1974 | |
A screenwriter (Shelley Berman) follows Squad 51 during a typical day, which includes a motorcycle accident caused by a drunk driver named Gene (Roger Perry); the wives of the victim and the drunk driver deal with both their husbands' issues, a construction worker (NFL Hall of Fame fullback Larry Csonka) exposed to tetraethyl lead and becomes combative (to the point it takes five firemen to restrain him), assist in the birth of a baby to a deaf-mute couple at a supermarket, and rescue three men trapped in a toy factory fire that turns explosive. Carol Wayne ("The Tonight Show" starring Johnny Carson) guest stars as "Miss October". | ||||||
56 | 2 | "I'll Fix It" | Georg Fenady | John Groves | September 21, 1974 | |
A man is trapped under their house when it begins collapsing into itself due to the house being built on a natural oil well. Dixie asks Johnny to fix the bike for the fire victim. Chet & Johnny try (and fail) to repair a bike for a fire victim, prior to Dixie's visitation at Station 51. A bookworm teenager who wants to be a doctor is admitted with abdominal pain and speaks to Drs. Brackett and Morton using medical terminology. The firemen rescue a child stuck in a pipe, remove a ring from a young man's finger that belongs to a woman with a jealous husband (Richard Kiel), later Roy & Capt. Stanley work on a stuck shut-off valve at a chemical plant fire. | ||||||
57 | 3 | "Gossip" | Kevin Tighe | Preston Wood | September 28, 1974 | |
Roy & John have to break into an armored car involved in an accident to rescue a trapped passenger. The victim driving the car that hit it has a skull fracture that needs consent from his wife, whom Dixie discusses to, but it turns out he has two wives. One of the Rampart nurses starts spreading rumors about Dr. Morton's financial situation, and Dixie dresses her down about spreading gossip. A child is brought in with cyanide poisoning from eating peach pits. Roy tries to get John to enter the Fireman's Olympics track events. The firemen rescue an man hanging in mid-air from live power lines, electrocution victim hanging in mid-air and a man trapped in an explosive warehouse fire. Annette Charles ("Cha Cha" from "Grease") and Yvonne Craig ("Batman") guest star. | ||||||
58 | 4 | "Nagging Suspicion" | Christian I. Nyby II | Joseph Polizzi | October 5, 1974 | |
John is trying to get Roy to give up his "system" for picking winning horses out of the newspaper. The firemen rescue a woman who fell into the lion's cage at the zoo and was bitten, help an exotic dancer (Lindsay Bloom) who became ill from mono at a strip club, whom Dr. Brackett and Dixie takes care of, then, the paramedics assist an adult (Robert Q. Lewis) who fell off a skateboard into a cactus patch on his rump (then John does the exact same thing), and save a wounded policeman from a sniper. | ||||||
59 | 5 | "Communication Gaffe" | Georg Fenady | Charlene Bralver & Robert Bralver | October 12, 1974 | |
Roy and Joanne appear on a TV quiz show. The firemen then respond to a liquor store shooting involving a policeman; another officer objects to the paramedics (before Dixie) treating the suspect. Dr. Brackett treats an abused child brought into Rampart, later the paramedics assist a man who inhaled too much nitrous oxide, treat a boy in anaphylactic shock from a bee sting, and aid the victims of a collision between a station wagon and a pickup truck carrying kerosene, causing a brush fire. | ||||||
60 | 6 | "Surprise" | Joseph Pevney | Preston Wood | October 19, 1974 | |
The firemen assist a woman thrown from her motorcycle onto a cactus patch. John & Roy (along with the Rampart doctors) plan a surprise birthday party for Dixie; when she breaks her ankle while shopping the party plans and the ER begin to fall apart. Dixie then tells an incompetent nurse (Dena Dietrich), she has to work the entire shift, for the rest of week; when she's been ordered to get some foot therapy. Rescues include two men trapped on the side of a building with a 1/2 ton sign hanging near them, a man trapped in his new sauna after passing out, and the doctors find he's suffering from Addison's Disease, and an old woman whose apartment building explodes during a gas leak--with John inside, he then suffers a broken foot. While recovering, Dr. Brackett brought along his first surprise for John, the recuperated Dixie, who brought John a cake, while Dr. Early gave John a tape recorder, in honor of his (and Roy's) teacher's birthday. | ||||||
61 | 7 | "Daisy's Pick" | Don Richardson | John Groves | November 2, 1974 | |
Dixie hears so much about a new nurse, Daisy, who's at Rampart, and the firemen are all competing for a date with her, especially Johnny. Later the firemen find an engineer literally frozen in refrigeration equipment, an old-time sailor (John Carradine) who got both hands stuck in Cyanoacrylate glue used on his model ship, a boy who may be suffering from Tay-Sachs disease is found comatose, who gets support from Dr. Brackett, Dixie and Johnny, in the hospital, and rescue a man trapped in a theater fire. | ||||||
62 | 8 | "Quicker Than the Eye" | Don Richardson | Arthur Weiss | November 9, 1974 | |
A pregnant woman (Suzy Spitz) is accidentally shot through the abdomen and her husband (seven-time Olympic Gold Medal swimmer Mark Spitz) is incoherent and unable to advise how far along she is, when Dr. Brackett seriously asks him. The firemen decide to get even with Chet for his recent antics. The paramedics assist a construction worker caught under a boat at a filming location, but refuses any IVs or needles, and a man in a motorbike accident can only move his left thumb, and he uses that to help the paramedics find his son, who's in a trailer a half-mile away in a diabetic coma, before Dixie, Dr. Early, Johnny and Roy, all treat them. | ||||||
63 | 9 | "Foreign Trade" | James Gavin | Rick Mittleman | November 16, 1974 | |
John wants to trade his vehicle for Roy's convertible. The paramedics help a fraternity pledge choking on raw liver as a hazing stunt. Dixie declares war on the new hospital administrator for reducing staff due to budget cuts, then is offered a promotion to Nursing Supervisor, who later turns down the job. Dr. Early's young patient cures his hiccups with soda pop. The firemen assist a basketball player (NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) when he is stuck in his luxury car, and a hot rod Chevrolet El Camino crashes through a drawbridge gate and teeters on the edge of the structure. | ||||||
64 | 10 | "Camera Bug" | Richard Bennett | Rick Mittleman | November 23, 1974 | |
John takes up photography and constantly pesters Roy for candid shots. The firemen assist a teenager suffering from smoke inhalation during a fire at a school he doesn't attend; he then becomes violent and attacks Dr. Brackett until Dr. Morton and the boy's mother calm him down, a woman bitten by a scorpion, a fellow fireman who mistakes a heart attack for stomach problems brought on by his chili, and a truck driver hauling dynamite is pinned in his vehicle when it catches fire. Dixie and Dr. Brackett assist in the delivery of a baby at a restaurant during their lunch hour. | ||||||
65 | 11 | "The Firehouse Four" | Joseph Pevney | John Groves | November 30, 1974 | |
The station (except Roy) is entering the fireman's barber shop quartet contest. Johnny explains his dilemma to Dixie, but his problem is with Roy, who says it takes a lot of work, whom they'll all side with him. In between practices the firemen have to constantly assist a man who is trying various ways to exercise while on a crash diet, and a woman OD's on sleeping pills. | ||||||
66 | 12 | "Details" | Georg Fenady | Michael Norell | December 7, 1974 | |
John talks about settling down after another date goes wrong. Station 51 is responding to a traffic accident; en route another accident occurs and Squad 51 has to handle it before responding to the other accident; one dead, two injured, and the injured man (Erik Estrada) asks about his wife, who was badly burned. The woman hit in the first accident takes a shine to John. A man is suffering from watching too many medical TV shows instead of stomach cancer. A belly dancer overdoses on diet pills, then flirts with Dr. Early, until Dixie catches her and offers a career change. The paramedics assist a child (who turns out to be one of three children John's love interest has) who has a dog bite after the child bit the dog first, and a victim in a fire that gets so intense John & Roy have to jump to safety. Note: Julie London previously worked with Barbara Nichols on The George Raft Story. | ||||||
67 | 13 | "Parade" | Georg Fenady | Preston Wood | December 21, 1974 | |
Roy and John finally get their old fire engine restored (from Season 3's "The Old Engine") to ride in the California Firefighters Parade. The paramedics try to stop a man (Stanley Adams) from driving with heart problems and causes an accident which kills him, the woman he hit blames herself for his death. Dixie and Dr. Early assists a man having a seizure resulting from hypertension in the ER, while Roy & John help a man having trouble breathing while on a date; he accidentally drank a Mickey meant for his date, two divorced parents fight over their child's medical condition, this leads Dr. Brackett into seeking help from them. Dixie takes care of the child's wrist. En route to the parade, John & Roy notice a fire and are the first responders, in the old fire engine. | ||||||
68 | 14 | "The Bash" | Christian I. Nyby II | Preston Wood | December 28, 1974 | |
An actor (Adam West) is trapped on a film set by a bear, after John & Roy save him, he invites them to a bash, and John goes about trying to get Roy to "dress to the nines" for it; while there the paramedics resuscitate a musician who received an electric shock on his microphone. Dr. Brackett treats a man suffering from trichinosis linked to bear meat. A bomb blast injures two men. | ||||||
69 | 15 | "Transition" | Georg Fenady | John Groves | January 4, 1975 | |
John's high school classmate is assigned as Squad 51's new trainee, and Dixie escorts John to him. The firemen rescue a man trapped in his kitchen by a hydrogen sulfide explosion. An accident near Rampart brings three victims into the ER; with limited capacity the paramedics jump in to help and the trainee's inexperience shows. A child has an injured nose at an amusement park go-kart track; later at the same park a man having a heart attack is trapped on the Sky Ride, later a man thought to be intoxicated was actually bitten by a cobra; Roy is later sprayed in the eyes with the cobra's venom. | ||||||
70 | 16 | "Smoke Eater" | Joseph Pevney | Edwin Self | January 11, 1975 | |
An "old school" captain (John Anderson) replaces a vacationing Capt. Stanley and immediately runs into a conflict with the paramedics, as he does not feel they should be practicing medicine. An elderly man falls asleep smoking and sets his chair on fire. Dr. Early and Roy want an apple out of the vending machine and keeps getting oranges, as did Johnny (like he wanted), Dixie bopped her hips unto the vending machine and got an apple. The paramedics fight to keep alive a heart attack victim. A boy with asthma gets trapped in a storm drain. A biker screams at Dixie to get a bandage for a head injury, and Dr. Brackett knocks him out after getting punched by the biker. The firemen encounter ethyl bromide fumes when working a fire in a lab. | ||||||
71 | 17 | "Kidding" | Wesley J. McAfee | Roland Wolpert | January 18, 1975 | |
John is assigned to conduct a tour of Rampart with several very inquisitive fifth-graders. A Vietnam War veteran thought to be suffering from PTSD is holding his wife at knifepoint; after the paramedics subdue him the ER doctors determine he has a brain tumor. A woman gets stuck in a dog door. A famous novelist (Paul Fix) attempts suicide because he feels the new generation doesn't know him; he's surprised when John's tour encounters the author. Dixie tells John she used to watch a movie based on one of the books. A cargo plane crashes in a residential area, hitting a school bus. | ||||||
72 | 18 | "Prestidigitation" | Christian I. Nyby II | Robert Hamner | January 25, 1975 | |
After the paramedics rescue a magician trapped in his trunk, he gives Roy & John a magic orb. Dr. Brackett’s father (James Gregory) is treated at the hospital for phlebitis. Later the paramedics assist a man injured when his home fireplace explodes on him, the firemen help when an auto accident causes a power transformer to land in a man's bed, and rescue a woman trapped when her car collides with a fuel truck and sparks a fire. | ||||||
73 | 19 | "It's How You Play the Game" | Joseph Pevney | Jim Carlson | February 1, 1975 | |
John makes a bet with Squad 36 that the loser of their baseball game at the firemen's picnic pays for the entire picnic, which angers the firehouse until Chet becomes their pitcher after their regular pitcher breaks his arm. In rescuing a drunk man from a car accident, the man punches John in the nose; who then threw a witty remark to Dixie, whom herself reveals, she threw one at an unruly man. When two more people come into the ER with the same symptoms, the cause is traced to lead poisoning from moonshine; later the man making the illegal brew sets fire to the place and the firemen have to rescue him. The firemen also save a famous car dealer trapped inside one of his cars with a tiger while filming a commercial and a man with back problems stuck in his waterbed. | ||||||
74 | 20 | "The Mouse" | Christian I. Nyby II | Edwin Self | February 8, 1975 | |
The firemen rescue an elderly man from his burning house. Chet is determined to exterminate an uninvited guest in the station. A man is continually going into cardiac arrest and the doctors try to find a reason. An elderly woman is brought in with breathing problems, and Dixie comforts her worried husband. Roy and John help break up a barfight, then join several fire companies in putting out a blaze caused by a jet fighter crashing into an apartment house; John is injured in an explosion and one of the Pasadena firemen goes in to save him. | ||||||
75 | 21 | "Back-Up" | Georg Fenady | John Groves | February 15, 1975 | |
Two young men dump off a female OD victim at the ER, then run away; further examination showed she was injected with milk. John gets upset at all the non-emergency calls they get, then see a man (Keenan Wynn) faking a back injury for a free ride to the hospital. The paramedics help an ex-Los Angeles Rams player who kicked his TV screen when his old team blew a close game and received an electrical shock. The ER is being visited by administrators, during which time Dixie is swamped with so many issues, including a woman who complains about waiting two hours with a cigarette burn. Roy & John respond to a non-emergency while another squad 15 minutes away is called to a cardiac victim from which Squad 51 is only two minutes away--after responding to the cardiac case the paramedics are involved in a traffic accident in the ambulance en route to Rampart. With no replacement ambulance available for 15 minutes, Engine 51 comes to the rescue to transport the patient who then goes into full cardiac arrest. He is brought into Rampart and with it's hospital administrators looking on, doctors frantically try to save the patient's life. | ||||||
76 | 22 | "905-Wild" | Jack Webb | Buddy Atkinson & Dick Conway | March 1, 1975 | |
John & Roy find a surprise--a bengal tiger--when assisting a man down in a grocery store, and Animal Control is called in on a 905-Wild (Wild Animal Loose-Threatening) and the officers (Mark Harmon and Albert Popwell) to help get the tiger out. The officers later check an animal preserve and find several animals dead and missing. A family pet goat having heart problems is brought into Rampart over Dr. Brackett's objections. Later 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. David Huddleston and Gary Crosby guest star and Mark Harmon's father Tom Harmon appears in an uncredited role as a news broadcaster. NOTE: This was a backdoor pilot for a series based on the LA County Animal Control officers that didn't sell. |
Season Five (1975-76)
NOTE: Starting with this season the opening sequence is altered to begin with both the Engine and Squad 51 leaving the station, then Roy & John are working with explosions behind them, but no radio transmissions like is shown in some episodes of Season 4. Also, the base station at Rampart is in a separate room from the rest of the ER, and the episode length decreases from 50 to 48 minutes to allow for additional commercials.
No. in series |
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Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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77 | 1 | "The Stewardess" | Christian I. Nyby II | Preston Wood | September 13, 1975 | |
Roy and John are on a return flight to Los Angeles when John meets and falls for a stewardess (Gretchen Corbett), during the flight one of the passengers suffers from a heart attack, and the paramedics retrieve their equipment from the cargo bay (while speaking with Rampart from 30,000 feet) to help the victim, after landing John tries to get a date with the stewardess. The firemen assist a victim of a motorcycle accident and of a chemical fire, while Dixie and Dr. Early treats a young man with broken ribs, who later has epilepsy. NOTE: This is the first episode where the LACoFD dispatcher is shown on-screen. | ||||||
78 | 2 | "The Old Engine Cram" | Dennis Donnelly | Preston Wood | September 20, 1975 | |
During a drill using sulfur trioxide, a fireman is injured and Roy is exposed to the toxic fumes. Dixie shows an ad to John and Roy about someone wanting to buy an old fire engine just like theirs, later they help a man who injures his back doing stunts on his motorcycle. Dixie and Dr. Morton treat a boy with a sore throat while his mother begs for an antibiotic--turns out the boy has something even more serious than either thought. The firemen help a man who has a heart attack at the station, and the Coast Guard (CG 1442) medivac's the paramedics to rescue a man who fell off a cliff on Catalina Island. Note: CG 1442 is coming out of Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles used in Seasons 5 and 6. | ||||||
79 | 3 | "Election" | Bruce Bilson | John Groves | September 27, 1975 | |
Roy and John become candidates to represent Station 51 on the welfare committee. The firemen save first a man who got his arm stuck in a drainpipe, then his brother swallows a pull tab and aspirates. A woman seems more concerned with making a plane flight than her son, admitted with Reye's Syndrome, where Dixie and Dr. Morton encourages Dr. Brackett to ask the parents in making that decision for their son. A sculptress (Sharon Gless) calls the Squad to get her model out of a plaster cast, then the firemen save a construction worker trapped on a crane. | ||||||
80 | 4 | "Equipment" | Kevin Tighe | Robert Hamilton | October 4, 1975 | |
John works overtime at Squad 8 and is reunited with his old training partner Stone (Lloyd Haynes), who is now Captain of Station 8. A construction worker dies from a heart attack due to the Squad being unavailable for 10 minutes. Back at Station 51, the firemen check a water flow alarm and an explosion occurs, injuring Chet. At Rampart, Dixie calls and asks the X-Ray lab regarding Dr. Early admitting Chet, who needs evaluation. A tree surgeon is hit by a tree and suffers a collapsed lung. The Squad then assists a boy who fell from a tree due to being exposed to Rocky Mountain spotted fever from a tick, and a fire at a fireworks warehouse injures Roy. | ||||||
81 | 5 | "The Inspection" | Georg Fenady | Bruce Johnson | October 11, 1975 | |
Capt. Stanley makes the station aware of an impending inspection by the Battalion Chief and the County Supervisor. A heart transplant patient is having pains and his wife (Jeanne Cooper) thinks her husband no longer loves her. A parachutist gets stuck on a electric tower during a stunt being filmed by a radio disc jockey (Wolfman Jack), Dr. Brackett and Dixie treat a veterinarian bitten by a boxer, while the firemen, in the field, help a traffic accident victim that goes into shock due to internal bleeding caused by a broken hip and pelvis, before being helped by Dixie, Drs. Brackett and Early, in the hospital. NOTE: This is the last episode to feature Boot, the station mascot. Boot died in late 1975. | ||||||
82 | 6 | "The Indirect Method" | Joel Oliansky | Michael Norell | October 18, 1975 | |
Roy and John have a new, hard-nosed, female paramedic trainee, she rides with them to help a man whose wife is holed up in a house scheduled for demolition due to freeway construction, a man who tries to commit suicide by gas, then changes his mind and suffers a head injury, another man suffering a heart attack that they try (and fail) to revive; and the trainee expressed her inability to function to Dixie, but she redeems herself after Roy is electrocuted trying to save an invalid at a structure fire and she is the only one to assist with reviving him. | ||||||
83 | 7 | "Pressure 165" | Georg Fenady | Edwin Self | October 25, 1975 | |
The paramedics are medi-vac'd to Catalina Island via Coast Guard helicopter to assist in a diving accident, where the patient is treated in a hyperbaric chamber, and coordinates with Dr. Early at Rampart, when the diver suffers a heart attack. After Chet gives John a hard time about his cooking skills, the Squad investigates a kitchen fire at a famous chef's home. A youth suffers a serious gunshot wound that may leave him paralyzed, who gets very hostile with Drs. Brackett and Early, that may end his days as a dancer. The firemen assist with victims of a structure fire that resulted in a dust explosion. | ||||||
84 | 8 | "One of Those Days" | Wes McAfee | Claire Whitaker | November 1, 1975 | |
It really is "one of those days" when Roy & John walk into a family brawl when the mother-in-law feigns a sick stomach to stay at her son's home, then assist a drunk in a hotel with a broken elevator. A young boy suffers a seizure in the ER; as Dixie and Dr. Early suspects meningitis, Dr. Brackett asks the mother (Marla Adams) about the boy's medical history, but she's more interested in petition drives than her son. The firemen reach a two-car accident but the victims disappeared, Roy & John treat a man who fell in the bathtub, but they find something more serious, and rescue a child trapped in a burning building. Lara Parker guest stars. Note: Marla Adams would later have a recurring role with Robert Fuller on Walker, Texas Ranger, as Wade's wife, Betsy Harper. | ||||||
85 | 9 | "The Lighter-Than-Air Man" | Joseph Pevney | Preston Wood | November 15, 1975 | |
A crossing guard (Arthur O'Connell, in his final role) is run down, allegedly by Squad 51 en route to an emergency labor, and is investigated by the police. A couple en route to a wedding hits a fire hydrant. A camper on fire arrives at Station 51 with a boy trapped inside, and is taken to Rampart with smoke inhalation and burns, with the help of Dixie, Drs. Early and Morton. The firemen rescue the driver of a semi truck hauling insecticide that overturned and caught fire on the freeway, sending toxic fumes into the air. | ||||||
86 | 10 | "Simple Adjustment" | Dennis Donnelly | Robert Hamilton | November 22, 1975 | |
The paramedics are swamped with paperwork, and have to deal with emergencies such as a girl (Elisabeth Brooks) trapped in an overturned car, a beautician who OD'd on diet pills, whom Dixie, Drs. Early and Morton, all take care of, an elderly man who has taken ill, and workers stuck on a ship while on fire. | ||||||
87 | 11 | "Tee Vee" | Christian I. Nyby II | John Groves | November 29, 1975 | |
When the station tries to watch a news report on the firemen, John and Chet blow up the TV, after attempting a repair which Dixie inadvertently suggests to John and Roy. The firemen rescue a man from a burning manhole, Dr. Brackett gets an aquarium he didn't order, and later he has a toxic reaction to a catfish bite. Dr. Morton treats a man with a bleeding peptic ulcer. The paramedics later help a man who glued his eyes shut and rescue a man trapped in his home from a mudslide caused by a gas explosion. | ||||||
88 | 12 | "On Camera" | Christian I. Nyby II | Claire Whitaker & Rod Peterson | December 6, 1975 | |
A camera crew follows Squad 51 around as a teenager is bitten by a baby Mojave rattlesnake, a would-be stuntman dangles from an I-beam, a brush fire turns out to be a barbeque fire (while the picnickers are playing chess in a van), a boy who fell off a cliff, and a man trapped under a truck while tar burns all around him. | ||||||
89 | 13 | "Communications" | Dennis Donnelly | Mark Saha | December 13, 1975 | |
A young worker (Craig Huxley) gets his arm caught in a record machine; Dr. Brackett and Dixie go on-site to aid the boy. A communication snafu between Squad 51 and Rampart revealed issues with transmissions between two squads and a discrepancy in how a patient was treated. Dixie and Dr. Morton treats a young violinist, who injured his arm and has a fear of needles. Two underage boys get a car trapped on the roof of a house. In the field, a woman attempts suicide by OD'g on sleeping pills but refuses aid until she passes out, in the hospital, Roy and John were both informed by Dixie from Dr. Early, she dies. Chet sets a pair of skis on fire – literally. A man is trapped underneath a car, which then explodes in their garage with Roy and John inside. Cynthia Sikes guest stars as the suicide victim's roommate. | ||||||
90 | 14 | "To Buy or Not to Buy" | Georg Fenady | Keith A. Walker | December 20, 1975 | |
Roy thinks about buying a house, but delays too long, therefore, one of Dixie's nursing staff bought his house. Responding to a structure fire, the firemen find two children trapped on the second floor, one of whom is in a diabetic coma; Roy is injured during the rescue. Two female student drivers are involved in a minor collision, one is more concerned with Roy cutting her cashmere sweater than her health. Another traffic accident results in two injuries and a missing dog, whom Roy found for the boy, in the hospital, prior to Dixie and Dr. Early putting a cast for the boy's arm. A teenage epileptic is stranded on a concrete beam under a bridge. | ||||||
91 | 15 | "Right at Home" | Georg Fenady | Preston Wood | January 10, 1976 | |
Dr. Brackett rides along with Copter 10, where he, along with the paramedics, to rescue a boy and his father from their overturned camper--Dixie encourages Roy to take the boy in as a foster parent, since the boy's mother is out of state, and causes trouble both at home and at the station. Another young boy is brought into the ER and is diagnosed with spinal meningitis, Dr. Early talks to the mother (Peggy Stewart) if surgery is needed. The firemen rescue a man from a structure fire with bad burns on both legs. | ||||||
92 | 16 | "The Girl on the Balance Beam" | Christian I. Nyby II | Robert Hamilton | January 17, 1976 | |
A teen-aged Olympic hopeful is injured when she fell off the balance beam. The firemen rescue a woman trapped on a wire at a movie studio, victims of a traffic accident, and people trapped in a fire at a rail yard which involves ammonia nitrate. | ||||||
93 | 17 | "Involvement" | Dennis Donnelly | John Groves | January 24, 1976 | |
Dixie's predecessor, old friend and a former Rampart head nurse (Anne Seymour) tries to commit suicide by OD'g on antidepressants and caught her house on fire, where she befriends a paraplegic child (Dawn Lyn) who almost drowned in a swimming pool. The paramedics help a woman who fainted after wrapping her body in plastic to treat her cellulite, a family suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning from a new furnace installation, and a man pinned under a truck loaded with leaking liquid hydrogen. | ||||||
94 | 18 | "Above and Beyond...Nearly" | Christian I. Nyby II | Preston Wood | January 31, 1976 | |
Roy and John receive commendations for bravery, also receive congratulations from Dixie and Dr. Early, as well as her nursing staff, but neither John nor Roy remember the rescue that resulted in the commendations. Dr. Early makes a comment to John, about his undetailed letter. They the paramedics assist a 94-year-old man (Liam Dunn) with a broken ankle from dancing, and join Copter 10 in rescuing an injured mountain man stranded on a cliff. Dixie, Drs. Brackett and Early treat a man who passed out in a dentist's chair. Grant Goodeve ("Eight is Enough") guest stars. | ||||||
95 | 19 | "Grateful" | Georg Fenady | Michael Norell | February 7, 1976 | |
John and Roy rescue a couple (Dick Van Patten and Ruth Buzzi) from under a car; they then proceed to hang around Station 51. An elderly man performs CPR on his friend, before being done by Dixie and Dr. Early, but causes more harm than good. The paramedics assist a boy struck in the eye by a BB gun, then rescue victims of a boat fire after returning from a false alarm with Copter 10. | ||||||
96 | 20 | "The Great Crash Diet" | Joseph Pevney | Timothy Burns | February 21, 1976 | |
Roy and John rescue a man stuck in a fish tank at an aquarium. Dr. Morton conducts an experiment on firefighter nutrition, but it turns into an obsession with Chet. A teenager celebrated his birthday by eating two loaves of raw dough and suffers a painful stomach ache. John reveals to Dixie a picture of a baby, weighing 8 ounces. The station responds to a woman having chest pains when her pregnant daughter suddenly goes into labor. The station responds to a traffic accident, during which Capt. Stanley is severely injured when he gets an electric shock from a fallen power line. | ||||||
97 | 21 | "The Tycoons" | Georg Fenady | Robert Hamilton, Mark Massari and John Groves | February 28, 1976 | |
The station responds to a fire that turns out be in a trash dumpster. John gets everyone but Roy excited about buying into a nearby hot dog stand, which burns down just as Roy shows interest. A man suffers a heart wound from a nail shot from a power lawn mower, before undergoing surgery, Dr. Brackett tells the man to save all of his reactions for the judge. John and Roy rush a baby who stops breathing to Rampart in the Squad, and Dixie and Dr. Early rush to save her. The firemen save people trapped in a chemical fire that turns explosive. | ||||||
98 | 22 | "The Nuisance" | Randolph Mantooth | Robert Hamilton | March 6, 1976 | |
Johnny is the victim of a hit and run driver, while in the hospital, he flirts with his physical therapist (Gretchen Corbett), whom Dixie hires, when Johnny really has a nurse (Carole Cook), who is "out to get him". The station gets a replacement who is difficult to work with. Dr. Early says to Roy, his partner is a good paramedic at Station 51, who also needs to be a good patient at Rampart. Ruth Gordon guest stars. Note: Robert Fuller does not appear in this episode. |
Season Six (1976-77)
NOTE: In the final season, Drs. Brackett and Early now have the additional certification of "A.C.E.P.." Nurse McCall now exchanges her occasional nurse's dress for a uniform and no longer wears a nurse's cap. Gage and DeSoto now have the designation "Firefighter PM" after their name. The intro now includes the radio transmissions between Rampart and the paramedics and no music.[2] Dr. Brackett also reduces his on-screen appearances, for the last several episodes of the final season.
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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99 | 1 | "The Game" | Christian I. Nyby II | Christian I. Nyby II | September 25, 1976 | |
Squad 51 is assigned to work the game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum between the USC Trojans and the visiting Stanford Cardinals, where they deal with a choking victim, a man with breathing difficulties, an injured photographer, and a TV announcer with heart trouble. After Johnny and Roy haven't been watching the game enough, Dr. Brackett and Dixie cut them out of Rampart. Meanwhile, a woman accidentally pulls her husband off the roof into a tree. | ||||||
100 | 2 | "Not Available" | Cliff Bole | Preston Wood | October 2, 1976 | |
Roy & John complain about the rule that forbids squads from crossing each other's territories, which delayed their arrival, at a heart patient almost to the point of death while the squad assigned to that area dealt with a hypocondriac, after John was speaking to Dr. Brackett, about this. Later, they respond to a traffic accident while transporting a non-emergency patient due to the responding Squad being 20 minutes away. An elderly woman demands a "older doctor" to see her; later when Dr. Brackett visits, assigning with Dixie, who asks that she needs to lay back quietly and rest, her daughter has a heart attack. An escaped prisoner gets trapped on a ledge. | ||||||
101 | 3 | "The Unlikely Heirs" | Georg Fenady | Timothy Burns | October 9, 1976 | |
Chet and Marco find $80,000 in a transient's mattress after rescuing him from a fire, who later tries to give the firemen a reward. A bride faints while walking down the aisle after suffering from Labyrinthitis, which postpones a honeymoon to Africa, but Dixie proposes they marry in the hospital. Dixie later administers a tetanus shot to a young boy. The firemen help an elderly woman find her lost cat, then assist victims when a plane crashes into a warehouse. | ||||||
102 | 4 | "That Time of Year" | Dennis Donnelly | Edward Robak & Mort Thaw | October 23, 1976 | |
Roy can't decide where to go on vacation, so Dixie finds the perfect vacation made especially for his family. During a fire at a singles club, Roy gets dizzy going in to find someone who may have been inside, but was outside with his date (Linda Gray). A self-defense instructor is injured by one of his elderly students, a man who developed sudden abdominal pains after proposing to his girlfriend is brought into Rampart, whom Dixie, Drs. Early and Morton are all taking care of. The firemen rescue two hang glider pilots from the face of a cliff. | ||||||
103 | 5 | "Fair Fight" | Kevin Tighe | Preston Wood | October 30, 1976 | |
The firemen walk in to a guest--a droopy-eyed dog--and he becomes the new mascot named "Henry" (replacing Boot, who died in 1975) The firemen respond to an industrial fire and check a Top Secret room for victims--and a lot of questions from the employees about the contents of the room. "Therapeutic arguing" between a married couple leads to escalating violence and worsening injuries to both parties, and John is trapped in a cave-in trying to rescue two injured workers. | ||||||
104 | 6 | "Rules of Order" | Georg Fenady | James G. Richardson | November 6, 1976 | |
Roy and John are asked to be part of a paramedic advisory committee, which also includes their favorite paramedic, Brice, who proceeds to conduct the meeting formally under parliamentary procedures, a conversation in which Dixie observes from Roy and John, who tells them to learn more. A vehicle accident injures two line workers, one severe enough to require a tracheotomy, performing by Dixie, Drs. Brackett and Early. The firemen rescue a stunt climber from the side of a building. Larry Manetti ("Magnum, P.I.") guest stars. | ||||||
105 | 7 | "The Exam" | Richard Bennett | Tom Egan | November 13, 1976 | |
Roy and John are concerned about their Paramedic re-certification exam, Dixie asks Dr. Brackett to put together the exam, part-way. Molly (Bridget Hanley), a fireman's widow, calls for help for her daughter, Jeanine, who got her head stuck in a table, and John is concerned about her calling them for minor things, until Jeanine has a really bad fall. An accident on a movie set turns deadly. | ||||||
106 | 8 | "Captain Hook" | Christian I. Nyby II | Susan J. Alenick | November 20, 1976 | |
The firemen plan to celebrate the retirement of the "C" shift captain with a party disguised as a farewell dinner, later they help a model wearing a bear suit for a promotional stunt suffering from heat stroke, convince a family their mother is actually sleeping instead of dead, and rescue CHP officers from a downed helicopter on the rocks at the ocean's edge. at the bottom of a cliff. | ||||||
107 | 9 | "Computer Terror" | Georg Fenady | Bruce Shelly | December 4, 1976 | |
The county payroll computer erroneously sends John a paycheck for $5900 instead of $590, and vows to return his incorrect check only when the county sends him a correct check, he then asks Dixie to use the hospital's phone to justify his situation. The firemen aid a homeless person who is accidentally crushed in a car at a junkyard, a man injured by the family dog (who gives Roy & John fits, including sending one of them into the pool), and two workers caught on a scaffold. | ||||||
108 | 10 | "Welcome to Santa Rosa County" | Christian I. Nyby II | Preston Wood | December 25, 1976 | |
Roy and John spend a fishing vacation in rural Santa Rosa County, but their recreation time is interrupted when they rescue two climbers who fell onto a cliff face and victims of a fishing boat explosion, then help the sheriff develop a paramedic program in the county. Note: In this episode, John and Roy traveled to Santa Rosa, California, which was the actual birthplace of series star Julie London. | ||||||
109 | 11 | "Paperwork" | Georg Fenady | John Groves | January 8, 1977 | |
Capt. Stanley assigns Chet and Marco to fix numerous incident reports rejected by the computer. A man runs his car into a fire hydrant; when leaves his son alone to call for help (because the son wanted to "watch the water") the son nearly drowns by falling into a storm drain. After the hospital puts in place new supply rules and hires a supply nurse, which makes it harder for the squads to get supplies, Dixie sabotages the new procedures. The paramedics help a college janitor with stomach pains after drinking Mesoptamia-era wine and two people trapped in a warehouse fire. | ||||||
110 | 12 | "Loose Ends" | Dennis Donnelly | Dee Murphey | January 15, 1977 | |
Dixie stops by Station 51 and John is unable to sell her tickets to the Firemen's Picnic, where the top seller gets a trip to Las Vegas. The firemen respond to a traffic accident that Dr. Brackett is involved in which resulted in one death, for which Brackett blames himself, and he refuses Dixie's requests to rest. When the squad breaks down in an alley, they find themselves in an undercover operation with the police and aid a detective suffering from an angina attack. Later the firemen rescue two victims of a dock fire complicated by a box car full of flammable ammonia. | ||||||
111 | 13 | "An Ounce of Prevention" | Christian I. Nyby II | Edward Robak & Mort Thaw | January 22, 1977 | |
The firemen assist a man with chest pains (and a young man who gets trapped trying to help him) while stuck on a ferris wheel. Roy & John are scheduled to appear on TV to discuss fire prevention, then help a child who swallowed parathion, and Dr. Brackett speaks with both parents about how their son got into the illegal pesticide, while Dixie treats a woman. During their TV appearance Roy and John become stars of a real-life emergency when a stagehand gets a electric shock from a live wire. | ||||||
112 | 14 | "Insanity Epidemic" | Randolph Mantooth | Robert Hamilton | February 5, 1977 | |
Capt. Stanley is unnerved that his former captain is now his Battalion Chief, and the station is concerned about his increasing paranoia. Chet tries to get Henry off the station couch into a doghouse. The carelessness of a gas station owner and attendant, as well as an angry driver leads to a fire. Dr. Brackett becomes increasingly angry at a new hospital administrator, constantly moving meetings around. A young wife accidentally shoots her older husband in the chest with a nail gun, while the doctors are treating him, Dixie prevents his young wife from seeing him. The firemen have to break up two clowns fighting at an ice rink and rescue two young girls whose car slid off the freeway and crashed into a truck loaded with pesticides. | ||||||
113 | 15 | "Breakdown" | Georg Fenady | John Groves | February 12, 1977 | |
Squad 51 experiences sporadic electrical problems which delays responses, and the fire department mechanic is not happy that he was not consulted before John & Roy try to fix it. Two weavers living without modern amenities are told to cut back their shrubbery, later the wife becomes ill with Woolsorter's Disease. The paramedics rescue a man trapped at the top of a tower. | ||||||
114 | 16 | "Family Ties" | Cliff Bole | Michael Raschella & Carole Raschella | February 19, 1977 | |
Roy is not looking forward to the annual visit from his mother-in-law. The paramedics assist two victims of an auto accident. Drs. Early and Brackett both argue about attending a convention in Acapulco; Dixie must encourage Dr. Brackett to go there with Dr. Early. An elderly man suffers stomach pains from drinking an elixir made from 50% alcohol. A candy striper carelessly places a bottle of alcohol above a clock radio which spills out, and the ensuing fire sends the patient in the room into respiratory arrest. A boy’s model rocket sparks a house fire. | ||||||
115 | 17 | "Bottom Line" | Dennis Donnelly | Robert Bralver & Charlene Bralver | February 26, 1977 | |
Responding to a man with back pain, Roy and Johnny questions Dixie about the over-cautious Dr. Morton's judgment in handling patients. A man comes into Rampart with phosphorus burns on his arm, later a young boy is brought in after being hit in the head by a baseball, before Dixie and Dr. Brackett talk to the boy's coach. The paramedics help a man with trouble breathing, then his neighbor nearly drowns in a hot tub while the paramedics do an IV on the first victim. LASD officer Vince is involved in a traffic accident which leaves one man dead and two injured, including Vince, who begins pointing his loaded gun at John. | ||||||
116 | 18 | "Firehouse Quintet" | Georg Fenady | Christian I. Nyby II | March 5, 1977 | |
The Station 51 basketball team makes the semi-finals, during practice for the big game they treat an injured gymnast, then have numerous emergencies before the game, include rescuing victims at a gas explosion, and a workman trapped at a studio. Joanna Kerns ("Growing Pains") guest stars as a gymnast. | ||||||
117 | 19 | "The Boat" | Georg Fenady | Hannah Shearer | March 12, 1977 | |
Charlie (the mechanic from "Breakdown") stores his speedboat he's trying to sell at the station; the firemen decide to chip in to buy it. Roy & John are medi-vac'd via Coast Guard helicopter to rescue two boaters from Catalina Island. The firemen help a bookie who is having a heart attack trying to answer multiple ringing phones, before Dr. Brackett and Dixie treat him, later a lab explosion of Sodium azide starts a fire at Rampart, injuring several people, including Dixie, who burns herself. | ||||||
118 | 20 | "Isolation" | Georg Fenady | John Groves | March 19, 1977 | |
Roy and John are trapped at Station 86 due to the only bridge in and out being washed away due to continuous rain storms, which ruins John's date plans, after Dixie got him to call his girlfriend. Since they are the only Squad in the vicinity, they help two victims of an auto accident, then a child suffering from asthmatic bronchitis, an elderly woman with a hip injury and a man with cardiac problems. A psychiatrist aids the paramedics until Copter 15 transports the victims to the hospital, but a power failure causes issues. Dr. Morton accompanies the paramedics back to Station 86, where they respond to an auto accident with multiple injuries. | ||||||
119 | 21 | "Limelight" | Christian I. Nyby II | James G. Richardson | March 26, 1977 | |
John gets jealous when Brice is on the news, then their "favorite paramedic" leads another paramedic meeting in his own parliamentary way; later they Squad has to rescue Brice from a fire. The firemen rescue a man's daughter from under a backhoe--then the father goes into cardiac arrest. Drs. Brackett and Morton treat a boy who accidentally shot himself with a BB gun and required a tracheotomy. | ||||||
120 | 22 | "Upward and Onward" | Dennis Donnelly | Michael Norell | April 2, 1977 | |
Capt. Stanley is worried his Chief's exam will be sabotaged by the current Chief, who has a past beef with Stanley. A soap opera doctor (Leon Ames) has real mono and causes drama both on-set with John and Roy, and at Rampart with Dixie and Dr. Early. Also, Dr. Brackett observes from Dixie that the producer (Dabbs Greer) is filming a hospital room with an ill patient, Brackett dresses down with the producer, before he seriously asks everyone to leave. John and Roy are stuck in an elevator with a retired doctor who has a self-diagnosed (and correct, as it turned out) aortic aneurysm. | ||||||
121 | 23 | "Hypochondri-Cap" | Dennis Donnelly | Bruce Shelly | April 16, 1977 | |
Capt. Stanley is in a foul mood and thinks he has arthritis, it takes Roy to talk to Dr. Brackett for information on his captain's arthritis. Roy and John help a man whose fingers are caught in a garage door opener, then a woman who passes out from inhaling contents from an aerosol can and has an auto accident. Dixie, Drs. Brackett and Early treat a woman, who underwent botched plastic surgery. John tests a new type of rope, which fails, and assist victims of a two-alarm fire at an oil refinery. | ||||||
122 | 24 | "All Night Long" | Georg Fenady | Kevin Tighe | May 28, 1977 | |
John tries to create his own TV game show. The firemen (in the field) assist an elderly musician (Bill Walker) experiencing heart trouble, Dixie (in the hospital) explains to Lt. Crockett about the patient's diagnosis. Then, an auto accident with three injuries caused by running a stop sign, and a tightrope walker gets stuck between two buildings. Carmen Zapata guest stars. |
Two-hour TV movies
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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1 | "The Steel Inferno" | Georg Fenady | Preston Wood and R.A. Cinader | January 7, 1978 | |
In a plot derived from "The Towering Inferno", a high-rise building fire sparked by a carelessly thrown cigarette brings a multi-alarm response from Station 110, assisted by Squad 51. The fire traps several employees, including an office manager (Linda Gray) and her assistant (Anne Lockhart), who is engaged to one of the Squad 110 paramedics. Dr. Brackett leads a triage team from Rampart in a nearby garage. The Coast Guard helicopter is brought in to evacuate the trapped individuals. Dixie and Dr. Early handle the influx of patients at Rampart, while Roy & John gets themselves out of a broken elevator, they have to rescue an injured firefighter captain from an elevator shaft. | |||||
2 | "Survival on Charter #220" | Christian I. Nyby II | Christian I. Nyby II, Hannah L. Shearer and R.A. Cinader | March 28, 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 Fire Department. Dr. Morton heads up a triage team from Rampart. Multiple rescues include passengers from both planes and people in the subdivision. Dixie and Dr. Early performs brain surgery on the injured child. An elderly man’s dog leads Chief McConnike to its owner. This movie marks the last appearance of Squad 51 (the vehicle) as it is apparently buried in and destroyed by debris from the plane crash. | |||||
3 | "Most Deadly Passage" | Christian I. Nyby II | Michael Donovan | April 4, 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 Elliott Bay. | |||||
4 | "Greatest Rescues of Emergency" | R.A. Cinader | R.A. Cinader | December 31, 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. | |||||
5 | "What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing" | Georg Fenady | Teleplay: Michael Donovan Story: Hannah L. Shearer | June 26, 1979 | |
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. Guest Star: Patty McCormack | |||||
6 | "The Convention" | Georg Fenady | R.A. Cinader & Hannah L. Shearer | July 3, 1979 | |
San Francisco firefighters and paramedics rescue a man. A paramedic convention brings Gage and DeSoto back to San Francisco. 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 on a rescue. Note: In this made for TV Movie a special thanks to the San Francisco Fire Department for its cooperation during the production. |
References
- ^ "Richter Six". emergencyfans.com. 2004. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
- ^ The transmissions, transcribed, read as follows:
- Dispatcher Sam Lanier. "Fifty-One, informant reports toxic chemicals are stored in tanker. Use caution." An explosion follows.
- Brackett. "Squad Fifty-One, this is Rampart; can you send me some EKG?"
- Gage. "10-4; transmitting EKG--we're sending you a strip, vitals to follow. (Pause.) Pulse is one-sixty; the--victim is in extreme pain, Rampart." (Beeping, as though to alert a doctor.)
- DeSoto. "Patient is in V-fib! Rampart, we have lost the victim's pulse! Beginning CPR! (A series of beeps.) We're defibrillating victim, Rampart! (Pause.) Rampart, we've defibrillated victim; he's in sinus rhythm."
- Early. "Administer two amps sodium bicarb and insert an airway. (Pause.) Start an IV, Fifty-One--lactated Ringer's."
- McCall. "Squad Fifty-One, continue monitoring vitals and transport immediately."
- Gage. "We're on our way, Rampart!"