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The Best Episodes of Emergency! Season 5

Every episode of Emergency! Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Emergency! Season 5!

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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
    Emergency! Season 5 Episode 1 - The Stewardess
    8.6/10(144 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 2 - The Old Engine Cram
    8.1/10(127 votes)

    #2 - The Old Engine Cram

    S5:E2

    John and Roy may finally have found someone to buy their antique fire engine. The squad helps a man who injures his back riding his motorcycle, a man who walks into the station and collapses, and a man who has fallen off a cliff. They also have to help one of their own when a firefighting practice session goes badly and volatile chemicals splash a trainee.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 3 - Election
    8.2/10(118 votes)

    #3 - Election

    S5:E3

    A construction worker trapped on a crane forces a perilous high rescue. A man finds himself trapped in an appliance drain, and his brother has an entirely different emergency. A sculptor cannot free her model from a full-body plaster mold. And Roy and Johnny stand for an election.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 4 - Equipment
    8.5/10(124 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 5 - The Inspection
    8.3/10(131 votes)

    #5 - The Inspection

    S5:E5

    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:Unknown

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  6. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 6 - The Indirect Method
    8.3/10(140 votes)

    #6 - The Indirect Method

    S5:E6

    Station 51 receives a new trainee: Karen Overstreet, who is determined to prove a woman can do the paramedic's job. A man tries to gas himself, and then changes his mind. During a house fire, Roy tries to save an invalid, and nearly dies when broken wires send electricity through his body. Fortunately for him, trainee Overstreet knows how to use a defibrillator!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 7 - Pressure 165
    8.4/10(124 votes)

    #7 - Pressure 165

    S5:E7

    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:Unknown

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  8. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 8 - One of Those Days
    8.4/10(121 votes)

    #8 - One of Those Days

    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.

    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 9 - The Lighter-Than-Air Man
    8.3/10(123 votes)

    #9 - The Lighter-Than-Air Man

    S5:E9

    The paramedics help a couple on their way to a wedding who meet a fire hydrant first, and rescue a child from the back of a burning camper whose driver brings it to them! A truck full of a dangerous insecticide overturns, and there's trouble for Roy, who may have struck a pedestrian en route to a rescue.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 10 - Simple Adjustment
    8.4/10(111 votes)

    #10 - Simple Adjustment

    S5:E10

    Johnny's got another of his "brilliant" ideas: this time he's sure he knows a better way to log the squad's calls than the mountains of paperwork presently required. A diet pill overdose causes a personality change, and the daughter of a man who has suffered a stroke demands a specific hospital - one farther away than Rampart. Firefighters battle an oil fire on a cargo ship.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 11 - Tee Vee
    8.7/10(110 votes)

    #11 - Tee Vee

    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.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 12 - On Camera
    8.8/10(111 votes)

    #12 - On Camera

    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.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 13 - Communications
    8.3/10(122 votes)

    #13 - Communications

    S5:E13

    Cross-talk between squad 51, another squad and Rampart makes it hard for anyone to understand what's going on, creating a hazard. An airline stewardess wishes to end her life; she won't allow the paramedics to treat her, forcing them to wait until she passes out. A boy gets his arm caught in a press and may lose it. Two joyriding kids manage to get their car on top of a house! Chet purchases a pair of skis and while trying to wax them, accidentally sets them on fire. Roy and Johnny must cope with an explosion while rescuing someone pinned under a car.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 14 - To Buy or Not To Buy
    8.4/10(114 votes)

    #14 - To Buy or Not To Buy

    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.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 15 - Right at Home
    8.4/10(116 votes)

    #15 - Right at Home

    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.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 16 - The Girl on the Balance Beam
    8.2/10(125 votes)

    #16 - The Girl on the Balance Beam

    S5:E16

    Fourteen year old Nancy Benedict's father pushes her hard, wanting her to achieve Olympic fame - but a bad fall from the balance beam might crush those hopes. Paramedics rescue a girl suspended by wires and free a drunk driver trapped in a car. A train fire involving explosive ammonium nitrate endangers the firefighters.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 17 - Involvement
    8.7/10(131 votes)

    #17 - 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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  18. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 18 - Above and Beyond ... Nearly
    8.3/10(115 votes)

    #18 - Above and Beyond ... Nearly

    S5:E18

    Johnny and Roy receive an award, but they cannot remember which specific incident earned it. A ninety-four year old man breaks his ankle dancing. A man passes out in the dentist's chair - is it his heart, or something else? Paramedics rescue a stranded mountaineer.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 19 - Grateful
    8.2/10(131 votes)

    #19 - Grateful

    S5:E19

    After paramedics rescue Grant and Robin Elder, they attach themselves to the station to help out, but soon wear out their welcome. A car goes right through a restaurant window, and in a scene straight out of A Christmas Story a BB injures a child's eye. While returning from a false alarm, Johnny and Roy rescue people endangered by a boat fire.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 20 - The Great Crash Diet
    8.6/10(116 votes)

    #20 - 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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  21. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 21 - The Tycoons
    8.8/10(109 votes)

    #21 - The Tycoons

    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.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 22 - The Nuisance
    8.8/10(191 votes)

    #22 - 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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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"The Stewardess" is the best rated episode of "Emergency!" season 5. It scored 8.6/10 based on 144 votes. Directed by Christian I. Nyby II and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/13/1975. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Old Engine Cram".