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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.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Emergency! Season 1 Episode 2 - Botulism
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Botulism

    S1:E2

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

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Michael Donovan

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  2. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 3 - Cook's Tour
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - Cook's Tour

    S1:E3

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

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 4 - Brushfire
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Brushfire

    S1:E4

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

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  4. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 5 - Dealer's Wild
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Dealer's Wild

    S1:E5

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

    Director:Lawrence Dobkin
    Writer:Carey Wilber

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  5. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 6 - Nurse's Wild
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Nurse's Wild

    S1:E6

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

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Fred Freiberger

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  6. Emergency! Season 6 Episode 23 - Hypochondri-Cap
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Hypochondri-Cap

    S6:E23

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

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Bruce Shelly

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  7. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 1 - Mascot
    9.4/10(5 votes)

    #7 - Mascot

    S1:E1

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

    Director:Lawrence Dobkin
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Emergency! Season 7 Episode 2 - Survival on Charter #220
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Survival on Charter #220

    S7:E2

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

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writers:Hannah Louise Shearer, Harold Jack Bloom, Michael Donovan

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  9. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 7 - Publicity Hound
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #9 - Publicity Hound

    S1:E7

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

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 8 - Weird Wednesday
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #10 - Weird Wednesday

    S1:E8

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

    Director:Lawrence Dobkin
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 9 - Dilemma
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - Dilemma

    S1:E9

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

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 10 - Hang-up
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - Hang-up

    S1:E10

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

    Director:Lawrence Dobkin
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 11 - Crash
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - Crash

    S1:E11

    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."" Dr. Early treats a hypochondriac. A babysitter brings in a child who has swallowed some pills. Roy and John rescue the occupants of a light plane that crashed in a tree.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 1 - Decision a.k.a. Problem
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - Decision a.k.a. Problem

    S2:E1

    Roy and John rescue a man whose engine has fallen on him during his car repair work. When their two-way radio is broken, Roy treats the man without proper medical supervision, causing the man's doctor to attack the paramedic program. Also: a bull gores a motorcyclist, a doctor on a consult at the hospital dies of a heart attack, Roy rescues a child from a house fire.

    Directors:Christian Nyby, Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 2 - Kids
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - Kids

    S2:E2

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

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 3 - Show Biz
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Show Biz

    S2:E3

    A photo shoot at the station gets John excited. A country doctor helps Roy and John when they can't reach Rampart on a call. The paramedics rescue a man drowning in a swimming pool and two stuntmen trapped on a waterfall at a movie studio.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 4 - Virus
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - Virus

    S2:E4

    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:Unknown

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  18. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 5 - Peace Pipe
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Peace Pipe

    S2:E5

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

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 6 - Saddled
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Saddled

    S2:E6

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

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 7 - Fuzz Lady
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Fuzz Lady

    S2:E7

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

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 8 - Trainee
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Trainee

    S2:E8

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

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 9 - Women
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Women

    S2:E9

    A woman journalist covers the Squad's rescues. A man trapped is in a truck under live power lines. Doctors treat a boy poisoned by wild hemlock and a girl addicted to drugs. The paramedics rescue a man trapped in a sofabed, a man wihose arm is stuck in a garbage disposal, and a man trapped in a bombed building.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 10 - Dinner Date
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Dinner Date

    S2:E10

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

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 11 - Musical Mania
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - Musical Mania

    S2:E11

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

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 12 - Helpful
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - Helpful

    S2:E12

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

    Director:Lawrence Dobkin
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Botulism" is the best rated episode of "Emergency!". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Herschel Daugherty and written by Michael Donovan, it aired on 1/29/1972. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Cook's Tour".