8.9/10191 votesLoading...#1 - Virus
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1972
A sick lady with a monkey provides the key to a mysterious, highly contagious, and deadly virus that strikes both Dr. Brackett and John. Meanwhile, the firemen rescue a boy from a treehouse and a man from a scaffold.
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: N/A
8.8/10178 votesLoading...#2 - Snakebite
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1973
Returning from a fishing trip, Roy, John, and Chet help the victims of a car accident. On duty, after rescuing some joyriders whose car went over a cliff, John is bitten by a rattlesnake.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
8.8/10167 votesLoading...#3 - The Hard Hours
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1974
Dr. Early is diagnosed with a heart condition and undergoes a bypass. A pro football player is embarrassed to admit that his son tackled him too hard. The firemen rescue a boy trapped in his homemade rocket, a woman with her toe stuck in a bathtub faucet, and an electrocution victim.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: N/A
8.8/1094 votesLoading...#4 - The Great Crash Diet
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/21/1976
Roy and Johnny rescue a diver. Rampart treats a boy who got a severe stomach ache from eating raw dough, while the paramedics rescue a diver from a tank, and treat a mother/daughter pair: the mother has a heart attack and the stress causes her daughter to go into labor. A fallen electrical wire nearly ends Captain Stanley's career.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: N/A
8.8/1086 votesLoading...#5 - The Tycoons
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/28/1976
Johnny's got another of his brilliant ideas - he wants Station 51 to buy a nearby hot dog stand. Roy, as usual, is the wet blanket - but this time his caution pays off. The paramedics help a man injured while mowing his lawn and rescue the victims of a fire at a chemical factory.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
8.8/10161 votesLoading...#6 - The Nuisance
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 3/6/1976
A woman passed out in a bar is suffering from more than drunkenness. Johnny becomes the victim of a hit and run accident and is a terrible patient. Worse, his replacement Brice annoys everyone at the station. The paramedics help a heart patient and fight a fire in an abandoned building where Roy, Brice, and Marko are trapped.
Director: Randolph Mantooth
Writer: Hannah Louise Shearer
8.8/1090 votesLoading...#7 - Not Available
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1976
The paramedics complain when a rule forbidding squads to cross each other's territories causes them to come late to an accident scene. An elderly woman is treated at the hospital. While transporting a non-vital patient, the paramedics respond to an auto accident. A prisoner breaks out of jail and gets trapped on a ledge
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
8.8/10135 votesLoading...#8 - Welcome to Santa Rosa County
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/25/1976
Roy and John try to go fishing in Santa Rosa County, but are delayed when they rescue climbers from a cliff face and a fishing boat blows up. They help the sheriff come up with ideas for implementing emergency medical services in his county
Director: Christian I. Nyby II, Christian Nyby
Writer: N/A
8.8/1095 votesLoading...#9 - Isolation
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 3/19/1977
Roy and John are trapped at Station 86 when a rain storm washes out the bridge, and they become the only medical treatment in the area. They assist two victims of an auto accident and a child with bronchitis. Doctors at the hospital treat a policeman hit by lightning. With the aid of a female psychiatrist, the paramedics treat an elderly woman with a hip injury and a man with heart trouble. Copter 15 transports the victims to the hospital, where a power failure complicates matters. Dr. Morton accompanies the paramedics back to Station 86, where they respond to an auto accident with multiple injuries.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
8.8/1088 votesLoading...#10 - All Night Long
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 5/28/1977
Gage tries to create his own television game show. An elderly musician experiences heart trouble. When a car runs a stop sign, three injuries result. A tightrope walker gets stuck between two buildings.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
8.7/10144 votesLoading...#11 - Frequency
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1973
When Johnny's policeman friend is injured in a car crash, the paramedics can't reach the hospital because another squad is using the biophone. A child with a mysterious malady turns out to be drunk. Roy and John assist at the hospital when the victims of a motorcycle gang war are brought in for treatment. An artist becomes trapped in his own sculpture. A father and son are trapped in a collapse at a construction site.
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: N/A
8.7/10122 votesLoading...#12 - Understanding
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1973
John gives Chet his guitar. At an explosive structure fire, a girl's horse is trapped in a burning barn. Dr. Brackett and Nurse McCall lecture a man who keeps forgetting his insulin shots. A girl calls the hospital, threatening suicide; firemen stand by while hospital workers attempt to trace the call. A hostage in a bank robbery has heart problems; the paramedics must treat him at gunpoint.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
8.7/10101 votesLoading...#13 - Equipment
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1975
It's bad news for the station as both Roy and Chet are injured - Chet by an explosion and Roy in a warehouse fire. The paramedics treat a boy who fell out of a tree, and Rampart General treats a tree surgeon. Johnny catches some overtime with Squad 8, where the lack of equipment proves fatal to a heart attack victim.
Director: Kevin Tighe
Writer: N/A
8.7/10101 votesLoading...#14 - Pressure 165
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1975
Once again, the others rib Johnny about his cooking, so he sets out to prove he can make a fine meal - and of course gets interrupted and the meal ruined. But he and a doctor treat a diver suffering pressure injuries using a decompression chamber. He and Roy also deal with a famous chef who refuses to admit he accidentally set his own kitchen on fire. A dust explosion and a gunshot wound finish out the story.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
8.7/1089 votesLoading...#15 - Tee Vee
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1975
Johnny and Chet manage to destroy the station's television, irking the other firefighters. Paramedics rescue a man from a manhole fire. At Rampart, Dr. Morton helps a man with a bleeding ulcer, while Dr. Brackett goes from physician to patient when he has a bad reaction to a catfish bite. A man carelessly glues his own eyes shut, and a mudslide traps Johnny and Roy with the man they came to rescue.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: N/A
8.7/1090 votesLoading...#16 - On Camera
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1975
A documentary crew follows the paramedics as they rescue a teen-aged snakebite victim, help a dangling stuntman, retrieve a boy who fell off a cliff and rescue a driver from a truck fire.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: N/A
8.7/1091 votesLoading...#17 - To Buy or Not To Buy
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/20/1975
Roy ponders whether to buy a house. The paramedics help a pair of kids trapped in a burning home, a pair of driving students involved in an accident and an epileptic boy trapped on a bridge. They also stay behind to look for a dog who belongs to a boy injuring in a car accident.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
8.7/10106 votesLoading...#18 - Involvement
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1976
Millie Eastman, once head nurse at Rampart but not retired, attempts suicide and finds herself at the hospital she once served. A paraplegic child nearly drowns in a swimming pool. At the hospital, she and Millie form a bond. The paramedics also help a family poisoned by carbon monoxide, a woman wrapped in plastic and a man pinned under a fuel tanker.
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: N/A
8.7/1093 votesLoading...#19 - Paperwork
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 1/8/1977
Chet and Marco are drafted to sort out a filing dilemma caused by computer error. A kid falls in a storm drain and nearly drowns. The paramedics experience problems with a new supply nurse. A janitor drinks samples of an archeologists' Mesopotamian wine. The firemen respond to a warehouse fire.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
8.7/10112 votesLoading...#20 - Loose Ends
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/1977
Johnny tries to win a ticket-selling contest. Dr. Backett blames himself when he is involved in a car accident that leaves the other driver dead and The driver's daughter refuses to speak. While repairing the squad, the paramedics find themselves in the middle of a shootout and treat a policeman with heart trouble. A boxcar full of ammonia complicates a fire on a pier.
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: N/A
8.7/1092 votesLoading...#21 - Family Ties
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/1977
Roy's mother-in-law is scheduled for her annual visit. A car runs into the back of a truck. Drs. Brackett and Early argue over attending a convention in Acapulco. An elderly man becomes ill from drinking a quack's remedy. When a fire breaks out in a hospital room, the occupant goes into cardiac arrest. A boy's model rocket sparks a house fire.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
8.6/10114 votesLoading...#22 - Inferno
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1974
John and Roy are disappointed when they are the only squad not called to a major brushfire. Dixie gets her hand caught in a vending machine. A lawyer collapses in the courtroom with an apparent heart attack. Roy and John finally make it to the brushfire and become trapped while rescuing another firefighter.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: N/A
8.6/10103 votesLoading...#23 - Surprise
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1974
A surprise birthday party is planned for Dixie. A woman is thrown from a motorcycle into a cactus patch. A man is trapped in his new sauna. Dixie breaks hear ankle and suffers a concussion from kicking a shopping cart. Two men are injured attempting to mount a sign on a building. An old woman refuses to leave her apartment during a gas leak and the building explodes with Johnny inside.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: N/A
8.6/10100 votesLoading...#24 - Parade
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/21/1974
Roy and John finally restore their old fire engine to ride in the California Fire Fighters Parade. A man with heart problems insists on driving, and causes an accident for which the other driver blames herself. Dr. Early treats a patient who has a seizure in the waiting room. A man on a date passes out and has difficulty breathing; the doctors search for the cause. A child's medical condition causes an argument between his divorced parents. Driving to the parade in the old engine, the paramedics respond to an actual emergency.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
8.6/10107 votesLoading...#25 - The Inspection
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1975
Station 51 learns that a battalion chief plans an inspection visit, and strives to makes sure he'll find nothing wrong. A parachutist manages to snare himself in power lines, and a wife fears her husband's love fled with the diseased heart surgeons replaced and must be reassured. A driver overturns his car in a water sluice.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Emergency!
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The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and Rampart Hospital respond to emergencies in their operating area.
Genres:Action & AdventureDrama
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"Virus" is the best rated episode of "Emergency!". It scored 8.9/10 based on 191 votes. Directed by Lawrence Dobkin and written by N/A, it aired on 10/7/1972. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Snakebite".