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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 Worst Episode
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    Emergency! Season 7 Episode 1 - The Steel Inferno
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S7:E1

    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

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  2. Emergency! Season 7 Episode 3 - The Most Deadly Passage
    6.4/10(258 votes)

    S7:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Emergency! Season 4 Episode 22 - 905-Wild
    7.0/10(286 votes)

    S4:E22

    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:Unknown

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  4. Emergency! Season 7 Episode 4 - Greatest Rescues of Emergency
    7.2/10(98 votes)

    S7:E4

    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

    Directors:Randolph Mantooth, Robert A. Cinader
    Writers:Robert A. Cinader, Harold Jack Bloom

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  5. Emergency! Season 7 Episode 6 - The Convention
    7.3/10(173 votes)

    S7:E6

    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
    Writers:Hannah Louise Shearer, Robert A. Cinader

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  6. Emergency! Season 7 Episode 5 - What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing...?
    7.6/10(103 votes)

    S7:E5

    Gage and DeSoto travel to San Francisco, where they observe some topnotch women paramedics in action during major rescue missions. An injured worker is stranded on the Golden Gate bridge. Ambulance squads treat a heart attack victim at a dance bar and an epileptic at a coffee shop. A bad driver causes a traffic accident involving an ambulance carrying the heart patient, resulting in his death and five other injuries. Johnny dates a nurse interested in a long-term relationship. Careless workers and deadly chemicals combine to spark an explosive fire at a pier on the Embarcadero.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writers:Robert A. Cinader, Harold Jack Bloom

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  7. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 18 - Seance
    7.7/10(162 votes)

    S2:E18

    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:Unknown

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  8. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 5 - Dealer's Wild
    7.8/10(194 votes)

    S1:E5

    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

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  9. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 10 - Hang-up
    7.9/10(202 votes)

    S1:E10

    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:Unknown

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  10. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 1 - Mascot
    8.0/10(212 votes)

    S1:E1

    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:Unknown

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  11. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 2 - Botulism
    8.0/10(222 votes)

    S1:E2

    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

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  12. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 3 - Cook's Tour
    8.0/10(196 votes)

    S1:E3

    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:Unknown

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  13. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 6 - Nurse's Wild
    8.0/10(174 votes)

    S1:E6

    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

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  14. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 7 - Publicity Hound
    8.0/10(165 votes)

    S1:E7

    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:Unknown

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  15. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 9 - Women
    8.0/10(190 votes)

    S2:E9

    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:Unknown

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  16. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 12 - Helpful
    8.0/10(155 votes)

    S2:E12

    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:Unknown

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  17. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 15 - The Professor
    8.0/10(154 votes)

    S2:E15

    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:Unknown

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  18. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 5 - Heavyweight
    8.0/10(155 votes)

    S3:E5

    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:Unknown

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  19. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 8 - Insomnia
    8.0/10(136 votes)

    S3:E8

    A boat has an explosion aboard en route to the marina. John obsesses about the lack of night runs and can't sleep. A man and his son are injured when they swerve to avoid a dog. Doctors race against time to save a marijuana smoker dying of an unidentifiable malady. A worker is pinned in a loading dock by a semi. A man child fall into a gravel pit.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 11 - The Promise
    8.0/10(147 votes)

    S3:E11

    Responding to a vehicle fire, the firemen discover a catatonic mechanic; at Rampart the doctors are mystified by his condition. Roy lectures a woman who keeps calling the paramedics because she is lonely. A woman mixes ammonia with bleach and inhales poisonous gas. The woman who owns the dog John took care of in 'Mascot' [episode 1.1] returns and presents John with a pup. An elderly couple is trapped in their house by a bunch of tumbleweeds. A friend of the catatonic patient gives him an injection, causing him to jump out of a window onto a sixth story ledge.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 20 - Floor Brigade
    8.0/10(152 votes)

    S3:E20

    John and Roy think about going into the floor cleaning business on the side. A hermit is trapped in his cave home. Dr. Morton treats a famous singer. John is injured on a high rescue, and the station battles a chemical warehouse fire.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Emergency! Season 4 Episode 1 - The Screenwriter
    8.0/10(169 votes)

    S4:E1

    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:Unknown

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  23. Emergency! Season 6 Episode 6 - Rules of Order
    8.0/10(121 votes)

    S6:E6

    A driver crashes into a pole, injuring two workers. John and Roy are asked to be on a paramedic advisory committee, but they have to put up with everyone's favorite paramedic - Brice. The firemen rescue a stunt climber from the side of a building.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Emergency! Season 7 Episode 2 - Survival on Charter #220
    8.0/10(216 votes)

    S7:E2

    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
    Writers:Hannah Louise Shearer, Harold Jack Bloom, Michael Donovan

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  25. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 13 - Drivers
    8.1/10(151 votes)

    S2:E13

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Steel Inferno" is the worst rated episode of "Emergency!". It scored 5/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Georg Fenady and written by Harold Jack Bloom, it aired on 1/7/1978. This episode scored 1.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Most Deadly Passage".