8.5/10134 votes#1 - Decision a.k.a. Problem
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1972
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.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II, Christian Nyby
Writer: N/A
8.1/10154 votes#2 - Kids
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1972
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: N/A
8.2/10136 votes#3 - Show Biz
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1972
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.9/10188 votes#4 - 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
8.3/10136 votes#5 - Peace Pipe
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1972
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: N/A
8.4/10153 votes#6 - Saddled
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1972
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: N/A
8.2/10129 votes#7 - Fuzz Lady
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1972
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: N/A
8.3/10137 votes#8 - Trainee
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1972
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: N/A
7.9/10141 votes#9 - Women
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1972
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: N/A
8.1/10139 votes#10 - Dinner Date
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1972
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: N/A
8.1/10132 votes#11 - Musical Mania
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1972
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: N/A
7.9/10114 votes#12 - Helpful
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1972
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: N/A
8.4/10108 votes#13 - Drivers
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1973
John gets bugged by other people's bad driving habits. A college quarterback experiences back pain. Roy and John's former paramedic instructor dies, while Roy and John themselves teach a CPR class. A boy gets stuck inside a tree. A structure fire at a hotel is complicated by a cardiac victim on the third floor.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10114 votes#14 - School Days
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/13/1973
A new trainee appears to be lacking in confidence; a bookcase falls on an elderly gentleman searching for a book; a baseball player is injured; an ambulance is hit by a car; a boy's chemistry set explodes in his face; students play a practical joke on a sleeping man; a man is injured at a junkyard.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: N/A
7.8/10111 votes#15 - The Professor
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/1973
A man shows signs of schizophrenia for no apparent reason and the Secret Service won't give any clues. Roy has an admirer, yet John accuses him of having no charisma. The paramedics respond to a false alarm on a fireboat, and end up saving the victim of a plane crash; they also deliver a premature baby and rescue a man threatening to jump off a tall building.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: N/A
8.1/10122 votes#16 - Syndrome
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/1973
John tries to convince Roy he has tonsillitis. An old flame of Dixie's, who is now a famous actor, is admitted to Rampart. Two kids are trapped on top of a gas tank; a girl's college lacrosse game turns violent; Boot has surgery to remove a tick; Dr. Early deals with a hypochondriac. Chet is injured during a rescue and is roomed with Roy, who has had his tonsils removed.
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: N/A
8.0/10110 votes#17 - Honest
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/17/1973
A gas explosion results from a white lie, prompting Johnny to go on an honesty kick. At the hospital, doctors work to save a boy who is inexplicably choking to death. In the field, the paramedics rescue a teenage boy injured in a dive off a roof, and a baby and his blind grandfather trapped in a burning house.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: N/A
7.6/10114 votes#18 - Seance
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/24/1973
A woman keeps calling the Squad because she's convinced the bad things that happen to her husband are the result of her recently deceased sister. A youth suffering side effects from tranquilizers is treated in the ER. The paramedics rescue a man pinned under a stack of heavy cartons and a driver trapped underwater in his car.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
8.2/10115 votes#19 - Boot
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/3/1973
The firemen are puzzled by Boot's strange behavior. Meanwhile, paramedics rescue a woman whose sports car is pinned under a gas truck and investigate a series of unusual incidents in the home of a woman attempting to cook a meal for her boyfriend and his mother. An unconscious man is brought in to the hospital suffering from internal bleeding. Dr. Early deals with the victim of a curse. An explosion in a hospital lab endangers a number of workers and important records.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: N/A
8.1/10111 votes#20 - Rip-Off
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/10/1973
Roy and John are accused of stealing money from a victim. A premature delivery and a blinded man result from a car crash. A perilous rescue involves a plane that might explode.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
8.0/10117 votes#21 - Audit
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/7/1973
John is audited by the IRS. A man hit on the head wants to be treated by a doctor, not the paramedics. A child is rescued from a locked car. A pregnant girl has difficulty breathing. A professional medical con man shows up at Rampart. A construction worker is trapped when part of the building his crew is working on collapses, and he wants Roy to remove his leg before the rest of the building falls.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Emergency! Season 2
Every episode of Emergency! Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Emergency! Season 2!
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 & AdventureDramaDocumentary
Network:NBC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Decision a.k.a. Problem" is the best rated episode of "Emergency!" season 2. It scored 8.5/10 based on 134 votes. Directed by Christian I. Nyby II, Christian Nyby and written by N/A, it aired on 9/16/1972. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Kids".