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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 2 Episode 4 - Virus
    9.0/10(252 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Emergency! Season 6 Episode 10 - Welcome to Santa Rosa County
    8.9/10(186 votes)

    #2 - Welcome to Santa Rosa County

    S6:E10

    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

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

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  3. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 1 - Frequency
    8.8/10(191 votes)

    #3 - Frequency

    S3:E1

    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:Unknown

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  4. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 6 - Snakebite
    8.8/10(224 votes)

    #4 - Snakebite

    S3:E6

    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:Unknown

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  5. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 19 - The Hard Hours
    8.8/10(218 votes)

    #5 - The Hard Hours

    S3:E19

    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:Unknown

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  6. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 1 - Decision a.k.a. Problem
    8.7/10(186 votes)

    #6 - 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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  7. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 17 - Involvement
    8.7/10(141 votes)

    #7 - Involvement

    S5:E17

    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:Unknown

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  8. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 22 - The Nuisance
    8.7/10(204 votes)

    #8 - The Nuisance

    S5:E22

    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

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  9. Emergency! Season 6 Episode 12 - Loose Ends
    8.7/10(143 votes)

    #9 - Loose Ends

    S6:E12

    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:Unknown

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  10. Emergency! Season 6 Episode 20 - Isolation
    8.7/10(129 votes)

    #10 - Isolation

    S6:E20

    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:Unknown

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  11. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 13 - Understanding
    8.6/10(162 votes)

    #11 - Understanding

    S3:E13

    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:Unknown

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  12. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 15 - Inferno
    8.6/10(160 votes)

    #12 - Inferno

    S3:E15

    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:Unknown

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  13. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 1 - The Stewardess
    8.6/10(160 votes)

    #13 - The Stewardess

    S5:E1

    Gage, flying back to Los Angeles, tries to chat up a stewardess. That's actually good news for another passenger who has a heart attack; she knows right where to find him help. Back at the station, the firefighters respond to a motorcycle accident and a chemical fire.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Emergency! Season 6 Episode 2 - Not Available
    8.6/10(119 votes)

    #14 - Not Available

    S6:E2

    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:Unknown

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  15. Emergency! Season 6 Episode 19 - The Boat
    8.6/10(107 votes)

    #15 - The Boat

    S6:E19

    Richard Bakalyan returns as Charlie, Squad 51's trouble-prone mechanic. The paramedics decide to purchase a boat from Charlie, intendig to sail it on their days off and rent it to others when they're on duty. Of course, things don't quite go as planned, thanks to a wide variety of emergency calls, including the rescue of two boaters from a particularly treacherous stretch of water off Catalina Island, a bookie suffering from a coronary in a locked office, and an explosion in the hospital lab.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Hannah Louise Shearer

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  16. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 4 - Brushfire
    8.5/10(223 votes)

    #16 - 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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  17. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 6 - Saddled
    8.5/10(217 votes)

    #17 - 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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  18. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 2 - The Old Engine
    8.5/10(168 votes)

    #18 - The Old Engine

    S3:E2

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

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 7 - The Promotion
    8.5/10(150 votes)

    #19 - The Promotion

    S3:E7

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

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Emergency! Season 4 Episode 2 - I'll Fix It
    8.5/10(166 votes)

    #20 - I'll Fix It

    S4:E2

    Johnny and Chet try to fix a boy's motorbike. A woman's husband is trapped under their house where an inactive oil well has erupted. Johnny and Roy must remove a ring from a man's finger before the wife's jealous husband returns. A child is trapped in a pipe.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Emergency! Season 4 Episode 4 - Nagging Suspicion
    8.5/10(160 votes)

    #21 - Nagging Suspicion

    S4:E4

    The men at the station find out that Roy picks winning racehorses and pester him to choose one for them to bet on. A lion bites a woman at the zoo, a go-go dancer collapses, a man's ego punctured by cactus, and the squad rescues a policeman shot during an exchange of gunfire with a sniper.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Emergency! Season 4 Episode 13 - Parade
    8.5/10(143 votes)

    #22 - Parade

    S4:E13

    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:Unknown

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  23. Emergency! Season 4 Episode 16 - Smoke Eater
    8.5/10(161 votes)

    #23 - Smoke Eater

    S4:E16

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

    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 4 - Equipment
    8.5/10(136 votes)

    #24 - Equipment

    S5:E4

    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:Unknown

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  25. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 20 - The Great Crash Diet
    8.5/10(126 votes)

    #25 - The Great Crash Diet

    S5:E20

    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:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Virus" is the best rated episode of "Emergency!". It scored 9/10 based on 252 votes. Directed by Lawrence Dobkin and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/7/1972. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Welcome to Santa Rosa County".