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The Best Episodes of Emergency!

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The Best Episodes of Emergency!

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. 9.0/10(202 votes)

    #1 - Virus

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    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.

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  2. 8.9/10(177 votes)

    #2 - The Nuisance

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    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.

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  3. 8.9/10(152 votes)

    #3 - Welcome to Santa Rosa County

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    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

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  4. 8.8/10(148 votes)

    #4 - Frequency

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    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.

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  5. 8.8/10(183 votes)

    #5 - Snakebite

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    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.

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    Director:Georg Fenady
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  6. 8.8/10(174 votes)

    #6 - The Hard Hours

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    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.

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  8. 8.8/10(103 votes)

    #7 - The Great Crash Diet

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    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.

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    Director:Joseph Pevney
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  9. 8.8/10(97 votes)

    #8 - The Tycoons

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    S5:E21

    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.

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    Director:Georg Fenady
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  10. 8.8/10(99 votes)

    #9 - Not Available

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    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

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    Director:Cliff Bole
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  11. 8.8/10(107 votes)

    #10 - Isolation

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    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.

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    Director:Georg Fenady
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  12. 8.8/10(99 votes)

    #11 - All Night Long

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    S6:E24

    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.

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    Director:Georg Fenady
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  13. 8.7/10(126 votes)

    #12 - Understanding

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    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.

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    Director:Georg Fenady
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  14. 8.7/10(99 votes)

    #13 - On Camera

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    S5:E12

    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.

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  15. 8.7/10(100 votes)

    #14 - To Buy or Not To Buy

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    S5:E14

    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.

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    Director:Georg Fenady
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  16. 8.7/10(117 votes)

    #15 - Involvement

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    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.

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  17. 8.7/10(103 votes)

    #16 - Paperwork

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    S6:E11

    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.

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    Director:Georg Fenady
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  18. 8.7/10(122 votes)

    #17 - Loose Ends

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    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.

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  19. 8.7/10(102 votes)

    #18 - Family Ties

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    S6:E16

    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.

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    Director:Cliff Bole
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  20. 8.6/10(143 votes)

    #19 - Decision a.k.a. Problem

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    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.

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  21. 8.6/10(120 votes)

    #20 - Inferno

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    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.

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  22. 8.6/10(105 votes)

    #21 - One of Those Days

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    S5:E8

    Paramedics respond to a two car accident, treat a man who fell while bathing, rescue a child trapped in a burning structure and help a drunk in a hotel without a working elevator. The doctors deal with a child who has meningitis. A woman's stomach problems nearly lead to mayhem in her family.

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    Director:Joseph Pevney
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  23. 8.6/10(98 votes)

    #22 - Tee Vee

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    S5:E11

    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.

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  24. 8.6/10(102 votes)

    #23 - Right at Home

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    S5:E15

    Johnny and Roy rescue a father and son from their overturned camper. The father's injuries will confine him to the hospital for longer than the boy's, so Roy takes the lad in. That's a mistake'; the child's a monster who tears up Roy's home and harms his neighborhood reputation. Brackett rides along in an air ambulance, and Early treats a boy with spinal meningitis.

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    Director:Georg Fenady
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  25. 8.6/10(102 votes)

    #24 - The Unlikely Heirs

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    S6:E3

    After John and Roy rescue an elderly transient from a structure fire, Chet and Marco discover $80,000 in the man's mattress. A bride faints while walking down the aisle. Dixie administers a tetanus shot to a young boy. The transient tries to give the firemen a reward. An elderly woman loses her cat. A plane crashes into a warehouse.T

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    Director:Georg Fenady
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  26. 8.6/10(87 votes)

    #25 - The Boat

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    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Virus" is the best rated episode of "Emergency!". It scored 9/10 based on 202 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, "The Nuisance".