NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Survival on Charter #220
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 3/25/1978
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
Writer: Harold Jack Bloom, Hannah Louise Shearer, Michael Donovan
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#2 - The Most Deadly Passage
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 4/4/1978
Roy and Johnny are sent to Seattle to study the techniques used there. A skydiver jumps off the Space Needle, a worker is trapped at the top of the Kingdome, and a fuel pumper loads a ferry with gasoline instead of diesel fuel, which sets the ferry on fire in the middle of the Elliot Bay.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/10208 votesLoading...#3 - 905-Wild
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1975
The title refers to the code word for "wild animal loose, threatening". The show opens with Johnny and Roy on a pre-dawn call to a small grocery store for a man down, bleeding. Searching the back of the store, Johnny is confronted with a Bengal tiger! A big brush fire threatens a suburban canyon area with lots of domesticated animals and things get dicey all around for the fire department and the Animal Control guys. Rampart becomes a veterinary surgical center for a while.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10135 votesLoading...
#4 - The Convention
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 7/3/1979
San Francisco firefighters and paramedics rescue a man trapped on the rigging of a schooner. A paramedic convention brings Gage and DeSoto back to San Francisco, where they assist a choking victim in a restaurant, then deliver a baby while two female paramedics treat a sniper's shooting victims. While attending a picnic, SF firefighters and paramedics are called back to work for a mutual aid response in Marin County; Gage and DeSoto tag along and rescue the victims of a lab explosion.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: Robert A. Cinader, Hannah Louise Shearer
7.6/10114 votesLoading...#5 - 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
- 7.6/1059 votesLoading...
#6 - Greatest Rescues of Emergency
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 12/31/1978
When Johnny and Roy are promoted to Captain, they reminisce about their years working together. Flash-back sequences include the rescue of airplane passengers after a crash-landing, a potential suicide threatening to leap from a crane tower, and a girl whose toe is stuck in a faucet
Director: Robert A. Cinader, Randolph Mantooth
Writer: Harold Jack Bloom, Robert A. Cinader
7.7/10144 votesLoading...#7 - Dealer's Wild
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/26/1972
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
7.7/10139 votesLoading...#8 - Hang-up
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/8/1972
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: N/A
7.8/10164 votesLoading...#9 - Botulism
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/29/1972
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
7.8/10111 votesLoading...#10 - 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
7.8/10120 votesLoading...#11 - The Screenwriter
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1974
A screenwriter spends a day taping Roy and Johnny's work which includes a motorcycle accident, a chemical worker suffering from exposure to gasses, and an explosion and fire at a toy factory. Roy and Johnny also assist in the delivery of a deaf couple’s baby.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
7.9/10137 votesLoading...#12 - Mascot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/22/1972
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: N/A
7.9/10144 votesLoading...#13 - Cook's Tour
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/12/1972
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: N/A
7.9/10127 votesLoading...#14 - Nurse's Wild
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/4/1972
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
7.9/10114 votesLoading...#15 - Publicity Hound
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/11/1972
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: N/A
7.9/10141 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.9/10114 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.9/10109 votesLoading...#18 - Heavyweight
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1973
At a structure fire, the paramedics rescue a pregnant woman and Johnny injures his shoulder. After going into labor, the guilt-ridden mother is determined to abandon her deformed baby. Dr. Morton treats Johnny and gives him a bad time about his physical condition, sending Johnny on a fitness kick. Dr. Early treats an electrocuted child whose mother is on drugs. The son of a stabbing victim is more determined to shoot the assailant than get his father to the hospital. Roy and Johnny rescue a hanglider pilot trapped in a tree.
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: N/A
7.9/10120 votesLoading...#19 - Zero
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1973
A woman screams for therapeutic reasons. When the paramedics are interviewed on a TV program. Johnny freezes in front of the camera and Roy must bail him out. A young boy attempts suicide by leaping off an apartment ledge at the hospital, the doctors suspect he may be an abused child. The paramedics rescue a man trapped in a doughnut machine and a child from a structure fire.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: N/A
7.9/10114 votesLoading...#20 - Computer Error
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1973
John tries to get a credit card mistake corrected. A young couple is rescued from a car wreck; the boy has a spinal cord injury and Dr. Early suspects the girl is pregnant. Roy and John rescue a woman trapped at the bottom of a well and an amateur magician from a safe. A rescue at a junkyard fire turns hazardous when phosphorus materials explode.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10153 votesLoading...
#21 - The Steel Inferno
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1978
A careless worker sparks an explosive fire in a high-rise building. Station 110 leads a full alarm response, assisted by Squad 51. A triage team from Rampart Hospital, led by Dr. Brackett, sets up in a nearby garage. Several workmen and two women - including the fiancée of a paramedic - remain trapped on the 16th floor. A Coast Guard helicopter assists in rooftop evacuation; Dixie and Dr. Early take charge of the many patients at Rampart. A paramedic is injured attempting a rescue, while Gage and DeSoto extricate themselves from a broken elevator. An explosion on the 21st floor injures a fire captain, necessitating a dangerous rescue down an elevator shaft.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: Harold Jack Bloom
8.0/10114 votesLoading...#22 - 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
8.0/10110 votesLoading...#23 - 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
8.0/10117 votesLoading...#24 - 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
8.0/10111 votesLoading...#25 - Gossip
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1974
A nurse spreads the rumor that Dr. Morton is having financial problems. Roy encourages Johnny to represent the station in the Fireman's Olympics. An armored car sideswipes a motorist and Station 51 must break into the van. A man is electrocuted. The station responds to a chemical plant fire. A boy develops cyanide poisoning from eating peach seeds.
Director: Kevin Tighe
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Emergency!
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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.
Genres:Action & AdventureDramaDocumentary
Network:NBC
Worst Episodes Summary
"Survival on Charter #220" is the worst rated episode of "Emergency!". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Christian I. Nyby II and written by Harold Jack Bloom, Hannah Louise Shearer, Michael Donovan, it aired on 3/25/1978. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Most Deadly Passage".