Emergency! Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Emergency!: Season 7 (1978 - 1979)

Emergency!: Season 6 (1976 - 1977)

Emergency!: Season 5 (1975 - 1976)

Emergency!: Season 4 (1974 - 1975)

  • Season 4 Episode 22: 905-Wild

    Various crises faced by animal-control officers (Mark Harmon, Albert Popwell) bring them to Rampart General; guest David Huddleston.

  • Season 4 Episode 21: Back-Up

    A lonely elderly cowboy (Keenan Wynn) seeks attention by faking injuries; hospital inspectors arrive a day early at Rampart General.

  • Season 4 Episode 20: The Mouse

    Firefighters and paramedics respond when a light plane crashes into an apartment house; a man goes into cardiac arrest four times.

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

    Strange seizures result from bad moonshine; a man with an injured back is trapped in his waterbed; a tiger assaults a used-car dealer.

  • Season 4 Episode 18: Prestidigitation

    Brackett's father undergoes surgery; the paramedics deal with a trapped magician and an invalid endangered by a fallen power pole.

  • Season 4 Episode 17: Kidding

    A day of serious incidents is broken by Gage's assignment to conduct a group of inquisitive schoolchildren on a tour of the hospital.

  • Season 4 Episode 16: The Smoke Eater

    A temporary fire captain (John Anderson) is disdainful of the paramedics' rescue methods; Brackett subdues a violent motorcyclist.

  • Season 4 Episode 15: Transition

    Real-life emergencies, including a man burned by acid and an auto accident, unnerve a former football hero working as a paramedic.

  • Season 4 Episode 14: The Bash

    De Soto and Gage save a movie star (Adam West) from a vicious trained bear and in return are invited to a party at the actor's house.

  • Season 4 Episode 13: The Parade

    Gage and DeSoto unexpectedly encounter a real blaze while en route to a firefighters' parade with their restored antique fire engine.

  • Season 4 Episode 12: Details

    A dog-bite case sheds a new light on Gage's current love interest; an aging stripper collapses in a nightclub; guest Erik Estrada.

  • Season 4 Episode 11: The Firehouse Four

    A man's disastrous attempts at exercise repeatedly disrupt the paramedics' barbershop-quartet rehearsals; guest Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

  • Season 4 Episode 10: The Camera Bug

    Gage annoys the squad with his attempts to snap a candid photo; Brackett and McCall deliver a baby in a restaurant; guest Ron Masak.

  • Season 4 Episode 9: Foreign Trade

    A woman is trapped in her car on the edge of an open drawbridge; a fraternity-party joke turns deadly; guest Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

  • Season 4 Episode 8: Quicker Than the Eye

    A man (Mark Spitz) summons paramedics when his pregnant wife (Suzy Spitz) is accidentally shot; a traffic accident paralyzes a victim.

  • Season 4 Episode 7: Daisy's Pick

    Station 51's bachelors compete for a date with a nurse; rescues include a man frozen to refrigeration equipment and an ailing baby.

  • Season 4 Episode 6: Surprise

    A series of emergency calls, along with the guest of honor's broken ankle, disrupt plans for McCall's surprise birthday celebration.

  • Season 4 Episode 5: Communication Gaffe

    A police officer (James McEachin) orders the paramedics to treat his wounded partner before they help a more seriously injured robber.

  • Season 4 Episode 4: Nagging Suspicion

    A hectic day for the paramedics includes a police officer shot by a sniper, a girl bitten by a lion and a man who landed on a cactus.

  • Season 4 Episode 3: Gossip

    The paramedics try to persuade a guard to open an armored truck so they can help a wounded man inside; gossip permeates the hospital.

  • Season 4 Episode 2: I'll Fix It

    A supposedly inactive oil well underneath a suburban home suddenly erupts; a 14-year-old hospital patient second-guesses his doctors.

  • Season 4 Episode 1: The Screenwriter

    An insensitive screenwriter dogs the paramedics' steps as they handle several different situations; guests Larry Csonka, Carol Wayne.

Emergency!: Season 3 (1973 - 1974)

  • Season 3 Episode 22: Inventions

    Bizarre incidents disrupt the paramedics' efforts to invent a call-answering device for the fire department. Directed by Kevin Tighe.

  • Season 3 Episode 21: Propinquity

    Gage must play a heart-attack victim's poker hand before the man will consent to treatment; an explosion rocks an abandoned refinery.

  • Season 3 Episode 20: The Floor Brigade

    Gage and DeSoto interrupt planning for their floor-polishing business to rescue an elderly hermit (Pat Buttram) trapped in a cave-in.

  • Season 3 Episode 19: The Hard House

    Early undergoes open-heart surgery; the paramedics save one man trapped by a live power line and another (Dick Butkus) hit by a car.

  • Season 3 Episode 18: How Green Was My Thumb?

    DeSoto is teased when he tends to an injured widow's houseplants; Brackett operates to remove a live grenade from a man's abdomen.

  • Season 3 Episode 17: Fools

    An arrogant intern (Bobby Sherman) learns respect for paramedics after helping them rescue an oil-refinery worker trapped by flames.

  • Season 3 Episode 16: Messin' Around

    Kelly assaults Gage with water bombs between rescue calls that include a child in a burning tree house and a boy who swallowed poison.

  • Season 3 Episode 15: Inferno

    DeSoto and Gage find themselves surrounded by a raging fire as they attempt to rescue a fellow firefighter trapped beneath a tractor.

  • Season 3 Episode 14: Computer Error

    Gage is vastly overcharged on a credit-card purchase; Early suspects that a teenage accident victim (Audrey Landers) may be pregnant.

  • Season 3 Episode 13: Understanding

    Gage and DeSoto rescue a horse from a stable fire and are held hostage by bank robbers; a woman calls Rampart after a suicide attempt.

  • Season 3 Episode 12: Body Language

    A girl falls ill from eating daffodil bulbs; a crop-duster is trapped in his wrecked plane; a man refuses treatment for a head injury.

  • Season 3 Episode 11: Promise

    A grateful woman, whose life Gage once saved, gives him a dog; a friend administers a dose of heroin to a comatose accident victim.

  • Season 3 Episode 10: Zero

    Gage faces television cameras; Early and Brackett suspect that a rescued boy attempted suicide; guests Dick Enberg, Mariette Hartley.

  • Season 3 Episode 9: Inheritance Tax

    Gage and DeSoto discover that they have inherited $1 million; a patient (Warren Berlinger) blames Brackett for a stock-market loss.

  • Season 3 Episode 8: Insomnia

    Gage suffers from insomnia; a man reports his friend is in critical condition after they both smoked marijuana; guest Ronnie Schell.

  • Season 3 Episode 7: The Promotion

    Fire, police and paramedic units respond to a major accident pileup snarling rush-hour traffic on a fog-shrouded stretch of freeway.

  • Season 3 Episode 6: Snake Bite

    A rattlesnake bites Gage during a mountain rescue; opposition greets the paramedics when they try to help victims in another state.

  • Season 3 Episode 5: Heavyweight

    Battling neighbors cause trouble for the paramedics; Brackett tries to convince a guilt-stricken mother to keep her deformed baby.

  • Season 3 Episode 4: An English Visitor

    Gage and DeSoto escort a visiting English firefighter; the Rampart staff treats an injured police officer and a singer with diabetes.

  • Season 3 Episode 3: Alley Cat

    Gage is chosen to take in a litter of kittens; a girl's father dies in an airplane crash that also injures his wife (Brooke Bundy).

  • Season 3 Episode 2: The Old Engine

    Gage and DeSoto buy a battered 1932 fire engine; the hospital staff deals with a gunshot victim and a bigamist; guest Yvonne Craig.

  • Season 3 Episode 1: Frequency

    The paramedics' medical efforts are hampered when they are forced to share a single radio frequency with three other rescue units.

Emergency!: Season 2 (1972 - 1973)

  • Season 2 Episode 21: Audit

    DeSoto must decide whether to amputate the leg of a trapped construction worker (James McEachin); nervous Gage faces an IRS tax audit.

  • Season 2 Episode 20: Rip-Off

    The paramedics conduct several rescues under a shadow of guilt after being accused of stealing from a patient; guest Jo Anne Worley.

  • Season 2 Episode 19: Boot

    Station 51's mascot, Boot, won't eat; accidents befall a woman attempting to cook a meal; a man nearly dies from an aspirin overdose.

  • Season 2 Episode 18: Seance

    A woman believes her dead sister is the cause of accidents in her home; a man is trapped underwater in his car with the doors jammed.

  • Season 2 Episode 17: Honest

    Gage's and DeSoto's stands on honesty are put to the test when people who withhold vital information experience different consequences.

  • Season 2 Episode 16: Syndrome

    Gage diagnoses tonsillitis for DeSoto, who claims to have had his tonsils removed; McCall is reunited with an old love (Robert Alda).

  • Season 2 Episode 15: The Professor

    Brackett cares for an ailing foreign dignitary; the paramedics rescue a helicopter pilot, deliver a baby and prevent a suicide jump.

  • Season 2 Episode 14: School Days

    The paramedics try to boost the confidence of a trainee who has doubts about his readiness to take on emergency duties in the field.

  • Season 2 Episode 13: Drivers

    An all-star college quarterback collapses suddenly; Gage wants to discipline motorists who fail to yield to fire department vehicles.

  • Season 2 Episode 12: Helpful

    An exhausted and emotionally upset woman doctor disappears from the hospital; Gage tries to help DeSoto with a marital difficulty.

  • Season 2 Episode 11: Musical Mania

    Gage's musical efforts irritate Station 51; rescue calls range from frostbite to a man trapped beneath his sliding canyon-home.

  • Season 2 Episode 10: Dinner Date

    DeSoto maneuvers Gage into a blind date with his wife's cousin; Brackett must operate on a newlywed husband felled by gunshot wounds.

  • Season 2 Episode 9: Women!

    An outspoken, feminist journalist covering the paramedics manages to alienate both the fire department and Rampart Emergency staff.

  • Season 2 Episode 8: Trainee

    A former Vietnam medic volunteers to train as a paramedic, but his quick diagnoses and independent medical efforts yield disaster.

  • Season 2 Episode 7: Fuzz Lady

    Gage falls for an overzealous, undercover police officer (Sharon Gless); a series of thefts of equipment plagues Rampart Emergency.

  • Season 2 Episode 6: Saddled

    The paramedics rescue the driver and passengers of a school bus that plunged over a cliff; Gage dreams of becoming a rich rodeo star.

  • Season 2 Episode 5: Peace Pipe

    The Rampart staff struggles to save a girl injured by a drunken driver; Gage's Indian heritage becomes the topic of a feud with Chet.

  • Season 2 Episode 4: Virus

    A mysterious virus strikes Brackett, Gage and a firefighter; the paramedics aid a teenage vertigo victim; guest Cathy Lee Crosby.

  • Season 2 Episode 3: Show Biz

    Gage is selected to be the model for an ideal firefighter; Brackett urges an aging doctor who has suffered a heart attack to retire.

  • Season 2 Episode 2: Kids

    Brackett insists an injured boy is a child-abuse victim; the paramedics aid a trapped boy and a fallen hiker; guest Richard Jaeckel.

  • Season 2 Episode 1: Problem

    DeSoto is forced to give medical treatment without authorization when the radio link to the hospital is broken; guest Lloyd Bochner.

Emergency!: Season 1 (1972)

  • Season 1 Episode 11: Crash

    Gage and DeSoto rescue a family from the wreck of a private airplane; Early and McCall treat a 4-year-old boy who has swallowed pills.

  • Season 1 Episode 10: Hangup

    Gage begins to think a television police show is real; the emergency team at Rampart Hospital treats a doctor for radiation poisoning.

  • Season 1 Episode 9: Dilemma

    Gage and DeSoto rescue an elderly couple from an elevator crash; Brackett berates a forgetful student nurse; a girl irritates Gage.

  • Season 1 Episode 8: Weird Wednesday

    The paramedics and hospital staff deal with a stubborn elderly woman (Jeanette Nolan), a parachutist in a tree and other odd cases.

  • Season 1 Episode 7: Publicity Hound

    Gage resents media attention given to a paramedic (Gary Crosby) from another squad; Brackett clashes with a tycoon over a diagnosis.

  • Season 1 Episode 6: Nurses Wild

    The paramedics hold a demonstration for student nurses, one of whom interests Gage; the hospital staff saves a robber and his victim.

  • Season 1 Episode 5: Dealer's Wild

    DeSoto and Gage talk down an airplane flown by a teenage boy whose father, the pilot, suffered a heart attack while at the controls.

  • Season 1 Episode 4: Brushfire

    A canyon fire threatens the residents of a housing development and keeps the paramedics on round-the-clock duty; guest Tony Dow.

  • Season 1 Episode 3: Cook's Tour

    DeSoto and Gage deliver a baby over the father's protests; DeSoto worries about a dinner he is planning for the station-house crew.

  • Season 1 Episode 2: Botulism

    An injured cameraman proves to have more than a broken leg, leading Brackett to search for a botulism source; guest Susan Seaforth.

  • Season 1 Episode 1: Mascot

    Gage promises to care for an injured woman's dog; the paramedics save five lives including a diabetic and a man trapped on a ledge.

Emergency!:

  • The Wedworth Townsend Act

    An assembly bill to create a paramedic program meets opposition from doctors and firefighters; pilot for the series.