Emergency!
Episode Listing/Guide
Version 1.1
December 10, 1996
Copyright 1996 Jean Curley and Judy Chien. This listing/guide
has been constructed on an amateur basis, is intended to help
private individuals determine which episodes of Emergency! they
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Initial information contained in this episode listing was
compiled from
information contained in:
Television Drama Series Programming Volume VI by Larry James
Gianakos;
The Complete Actors' Television Credits 1948-1988 Volume I by
James
Robert Parish and Vincent Terrace;
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows (first
edition)
by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh;
Harry and Wally's Favorite TV Shows by Harry Castleman and
Walter
Podrazik.
Changes and corrections from previous versions:
From 1.0 to 1.1: * Corrected title of episode 1.9
* Added in first episodes of seasons 2 and 4,
which had not been included in the original
list. This caused subsequent episodes in
each season to be re-numbered.
* Added information for numerous episodes.
* Note that the order of first season episodes
may be incorrect: I have different air dates
from different sources for Dealer's Wild,
Nurses' Wild, and Publicity Hound. The
current order is the Gianakos book.
From 0.1 to 1.0: * Added information for numerous episodes.
Episodes, episode descriptions and corrections have been supplied
by:
Donna Lynn Pleasants
Greg Halpin
Andy ??? (stratplr@aol.com)
Pete ??? (inetsupport@milwaukee.tec.wi.us)
Bob Summers
Nancy Durgin
Thanks, folks!
EMERGENCY!
Main Cast:
Kelly Brackett, M.D., F.A.C.S., A.C.E.P.: Robert Fuller
Dixie McCall, R.N.: Julie London
Joe Early, M.D., F.A.C.S., A.C.E.P.: Bobby Troup
Mike Morton, M.D.: Ron Pinkard
Roy DeSoto, Firefighter, Paramedic: Kevin Tighe
John Reilly Gage, Firefighter, Paramedic: Randolph Mantooth
Captain Hammer (first season): Dick Hammer
Captain Hank Stanley (second season and on): Michael Norell
Chester (Chet) B. Kelly, Firefighter: Tim Donnelly
Marco Lopez, Firefighter: Marco Lopez
Mike Stoker, Firefighter Specialist: Mike Stoker
Miscellaneous character notes:
1. In the pilot movie and the first season, Kelly Brackett and
Dixie McCall were dating. I'm not sure whether this
relationship disappeared suddenly or slowly over the
seasons; it was certainly downplayed later on.
2. Roy DeSoto almost got a small plane license sometime in his
past, and was also a G.I. (unknown service).
3. John Gage ran the 440 in high school, and was one of the
stars of his track team.
Emergency! (pilot movie) [aka: The Wedsworth-Townsend Act]
Airdate: 1/15/72
Writer: Harold Jack Bloom and R.A. Cinader
Director: Jack Webb
Guest Cast: Martin Milner, Kent McCord, Jack Kruschen. Ann
Morgan Guilbert, Lew Brown, Art Balinger,
Virginia Gregg, Herb Vigran, Colby Chester,
Kathryn Kelly Wiget, Don Ross.
[Note: this program may be shown in frame or non-frame
format.]
Frame: Returning from a run, John and Roy reminisce about
the start of the paramedic program and how far things have come.
Story: Roy convinces John to join the paramedic program.
They have to deal with the opposition from both medical and civil
authorities, including one of their staunchest opponents: Dr
Brackett. Eventually seeing the advantages of the program, Dr
Brackett's testimony proves the key to getting paramedic
legislation passed. Martin Milner (Officer Pete Malloy) and Kent
McCord (Officer Jim Reed) have cameos reprising their roles from
Adam-12 (another Jack Webb program).
Season 1. Associate Producer: William Stark
1. Mascot
Airdate: 1/22/72
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest Cast: Patricia McAneny, Linda Watkins, Jock Mahoney,
Beverly Powers, Jeff Davis, Roland Barton, Candace Howerton,
Susan O'Connell.
A woman involved in a car accident is concerned about her
dog so John agrees to take care it, which complicates his life
2. Botulism
Airdate: 1/29/72
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest Cast: Calvin Bartlett, Anne Whitfield, Paul Langton,
Virginia Vincent, William Stevens, Virginia Gregg, Susan
Seaforth, Joshua Albee, Harlan Carraher, Bruce Powers.
A man breaks his back falling off a tower; John plots his
revenge after being the repeated target of practical jokes. A
man brought into the hospital from a movie set is the first
indication of an outbreak of botulism.
3. Cook's Tour
Airdate: 2/12/72
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest Cast: Frank Aletter, Jacqueline Russell, Dennis Rucker,
Dorothy Green, Virginia Gregg, Lew Brown, Bill Henry, Scott
Smith, Barbara Sigel, Dorothy Konrad.
John delivers a cyanotic baby, a boy gets his hand stuck in
a vase, and a man repairing a washer gets an electric shock.
4. Brushfire
Airdate: 2/19/72
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Guest Cast: Gary Crosby, Ellen Moss, Bob Hastings, Tony Dow,
Trent Lehman, Edith Evanson, Lillian Bronson, Vince Howard, Art
Ballinger .
Station 51 is called up to fight a wildfire. John and Roy
help displaced citizens, catch a looter, and find a boy's lost
dog.
5. Dealer's Wild
Airdate: 3/4/72
Writer: Carey Wilbur
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest Cast: Lou Krugman, Coleen Gray, Marian Collier, Mitch
Carter, Buddy Foster, Sonja Dunson, Susan Madigan, Peggy Drier.
Roy talks down a boy in a plane after the pilot (his
father) has a heart attack. John keeps losing at cards and being
stuck with doing the dishes at the station, so he creates his own
card game.
6. Nurses' Wild
Airdate: 3/11/72
Writer: Fred Frieberger
Director: Herschel Daughtery
Guest Cast: Royal Dano, Kip Niven, Christine Dixon, Victor
Izzy, Chris Forbes, Patricia Mickey, Sarah Fankboner, Vince
Howard, Colby Chester.
A store owner shoots an armed robber and is filled with
remorse. A dog delays the rescue of an unconscious woman, while
sparks fly between Johnny and a nurse.
7. Weird Wednesday
Airdate: 3/18/72
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest Cast: Jeanette Nolan, Arnold Stang, Henny Backus,
Sherry Bain, Helen Baron, Anne Collins, Chris Forbes, Patricia
Mickey, Pam Peters, William Katt (uncredited).
John is convinced that weird things will happen on their
shift, and he's partially right: a parachutist lands in a tree, a
lady successfully predicts her own appendicitis attack, and a boy
tries to cryogenically freeze himself.
NOTE: William Katt is not listed in the credits of this
episode, but definitely appears. This may mean that other people
who I have removed from the credits of episodes actually belong
in the episode.
8. Dilemma
Airdate: 3/25/72
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest Cast: Seymour Cassel, Benny Rubin, Patricia Mickey,
Chris Forbes, Hal Baylor, Marilyn Hassett, Bill McLean, Scott
Allen, Robert E. Kline.
An elevator gets stuck between floors, and then the brake
drum fails; inside, a man has a heart attack. A fireman buff
develops a crush on John, who tries to get rid of her, and a
nursing student is in awe of Dr Brackett.
9. Publicity Hound
Airdate: 4/8/72
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest Cast: Gene Raymond, Gary Crosby, Sallie Shockley, Barry
Higgins, Bill Baldwin, Edith Diaz, Scott Allen, Ted Gehring,
William Bryant.
After Roy and John rescue a man trapped in ship's rigging,
John gets seasick. John is envious of the publicity given to
another paramedic. Roy and John rescue a horse in a pit and a
child in a well. [Note: In versions prior to and including 1.0,
this episode was incorrectly incorrectly titled Hang-Up.]
10. Crash
Airdate: 4/15/72
Writer: Gerald Sanford
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest Cast: Cicely Tyson, Gary Crosby, William Bramley, Don
Matheson, John Smith, John Smith, Francine York, Sandy deBruin,
Edmund Cambridge, Eric Laneuville, Patricia Mickey, Buddy Lester,
Ronne Troup, Chris Forbes.
John and Roy bring in a football player who was tackled too
hard. A burglar has a heart attack. Roy and John rescue the
occupants of a light plane that crashed in a tree.
Season 2. Associate Producer: William Stark.
1. Problem
Airdate: 9/16/72
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Lloyd Bochner
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.
2. Decision
Airdate: 9/16/72
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast: Jerry Summers, Jack DeLeon
3.
Airdate: 9/23/72
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast: Fred Gabourie, Jim Crowell, Christine Dixon
4. Show Biz
Airdate: 9/30/72
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: Sam C. Freedle
Guest Cast: Henry Jones, Christine Dixon, Lillian Lehman,
Joseph Kaufman, Ted Gehring, Monica Lewis, Deidre Hall, Joseph
Perry, Ezra Stone.
A country doctor helps Roy and John when they can't reach
Rampart on a call. A photo shoot at the station gets John
excited. Roy and John rescue a drowning man, and a man gets
trapped on a waterfall at a movie studio.
5. Virus
Airdate: 10/7/72
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest Cast: Skye Aubrey, Dennis Patrick, William Gray Espy,
Jean Allison, Patricia Mickey, Cathy Lee Crosby, Mitch Carter,
Vic Vallers, Philip Brown, Vince Howard, Deidre Hall.
A sick lady with a monkey provides the key to a mysterious,
highly contagious, and deadly virus that strikes both Dr Brackett
and John Gage.
6. Peace Pipe
Airdate: 10/14/72
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest Cast: Brooke Bundy, William Campbell, Kip Niven, Vince
Howard, Renee Lippin, Joe Pizzorusso, Tom Waters.
A drunk driver rams a parked car, trapping a child inside.
Chet pesters John about his Native American heritage, and a
sniper makes a scaffold rescue dangerous.
7. Saddled
Airdate: 10/21/72
Writer: Herb Purdum
Director: George Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Larry Storch. Elizabeth Baur, Ronne Troup,
Michael Rupert, Deidre Hall, Jay Hammer, Barbara Bosson,
Christopher Guardino, Kelly Troup, Edward Crawford.
The squad goes to a hall-in-the-wall restaurant when a soda
bottle explodes in a girl's face; later, they return for a gas
explosion. A bus with a bunch of kids and a nun goes down a hill.
John decides he can make a lot of money by riding in rodeos.
NOTE: This episode was cut off during the end credits, so not all
details are available.
8. Fuzz Lady
Airdate: 11/4/72
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Paul Fix, Sharon Gless, J. Pat O'Malley, Ellen
Moss, Nate Esformes, Drout Miller, Eric Server, William Durkin,
Vince Howard, Meg Wyllie, Scott Barrett.
John falls for a lady deputy when Squad 51 is called to
treat a mugger. Items are stolen from Rampart's Emergency
Department.
9. Trainee
Airdate: 11/11/72
Writer: Jim Owens (actually Technical Advisor Jim Page)
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Robert Pratt, Jackie Coogan, Charles H. Gray,
Vince Howard, Lillian Lehman, Ron Henriquez, Anthony Eldridge,
Iris Korn, Wynn Irwin.
A former Vietnam medic is now a paramedic trainee and
constantly thinks he knows more than Roy, John, or the doctors at
Rampart. Together, Roy, John, and the trainee interrupt a
purse-snatching, save a man who fell down a cliff, help a woman
overdosed on prescription drugs, and save a man with an insulin
reaction.
10. Dinner Date
Airdate: 11/25/72
Writer: Dick Morgan
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Lynn Carlin, Jean Alison, Emily Yancy, Michael C.
Gwynn, Dawn Lyn, Laurette Spang, Drout Miller, Judy Farrell,
Patty McCormack, Deidre Hall.
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 that his daughter is married and
pregnant. Roy tried to set John up with his wife Joanne's
cousin.
11. Helpful
Airdate: 12/2/72
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast: Melissa Gilbert, Alicia Bond
12. Women
Airdate: 12/9/72
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: George Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Leslie Charleston, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Dick Van
Patten, Joshua Bryant, Michael Richardson, Stacy Harris, Janie
Baldwin, Randall Carver, Susan Damonte, Lillian Lehman.
A woman journalist covers the Squad's rescues of a man
trapped in a truck under live power lines, a man trapped in a
sofabed, and a bombed building.
13. Musical Mania
Airdate: 12/16/72
Writer: Kenneth Dorward
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Russell Wiggins, Kathleen Cackle, Kathryn Kelly
Wiget, Scottie MacGregor, Lillian Lehman, Molli Benson, Deidre
Hall, Stephen Hudis, Alice Hunn.
The Squad helps a man suffering from tetnus. A boy is
brought in suffering from lead poisoning, but the father is
reluctant to have it treated. After Chet cracks a joke about
John playing the Squad horn, John takes up the bagpipes, then the
trombone, then the guitar.
14. Drivers
Airdate: 1/6/73
Writer: Jim Owens (actually Technical Advisor Jim Page)
Director: Samuel Freedle
Guest Cast: Dick Yarmy, Vic Mohica, Frank Maxwell, Lillian
Lehman, Molli Benson, Johnny Hartman, Jackie Russell, James
Beach.
John gets bugged about other people's bad driving habits;
Roy and John's former paramedic instructor dies, while Roy and
John themselves teach a paramedic class. A boy gets stuck inside
a tree.
15. School Days
Airdate: 1/13/73
Writer: Kenneth Dorward
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest Cast: Kip Niven, Ian Wolfe, Michael James Wixted, Ann
Doran, Sandy deBruin.
A ball player is injured; a new trainee appears to be
lacking in confidence; an ambulance is hit by a car; an elderly
gentleman has a bookcase fall on him while searching for a book.
16. The Professor
Airdate: 2/3/73
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Hedley Mattingly, Paul Picerni, Jane Merrow.
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. A man is rescued
while threatening to jump off a tall building.
17. Syndrome
Airdate: 2/10/73
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Robert Alda, Jack Carter, Casey MacDonald,
Barbara Brownell, Kres Mersky, Ta-Tanisha, Dub Taylor, Michael
Morgan, Perry Castellano.
John tries to convince Roy he has tonsilitis. 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 ball
game turns violent. Dr Brackett is injured during a rescue and
is roomed with Roy, who has had his tonsils removed.
18. Honest
Airdate: 2/17/73
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Michael Lerner, Ann Whitfield, Cheryl Miller,
Beverly Saunders, Doug Rowe, Heidi Wynn, Vincent Perry
19. Seance
Airdate: 2/24/73
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast: Fintan Meyler, Bruce Kirby Jr., Suzanne Charny,
Charles Aidman, Laurie Brighton
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.
20. Boot
Airdate: 3/3/73
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast: Vic Tayback, Ann Prentiss, Zack Taylor, Susan
Madigan, John Mahoney
21. Rip-Off
Airdate: 3/10/73
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Regis Cordic, Maria-Elena Cordero, Charles
McGraw, Morgan Paull, Harry Townes, Art Gilmore, Vince Howard,
Iris Korn, Borah Silver, Charles Lampkin.
Roy and John are accused of stealing money from a victim.
22. Audit
Airdate: 4/7/73
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: George Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: James McEachin, Kathy Cannon, Robert Porter, Ross
Elliorr, Kathleen King.
John is auditted by the IRS. A professional medical con
man shows up at Rampart, and a child is rescued from a locked
car. 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 of the building falls.
Season 3. Associate Producer: Gino Grimaldi.
1. Frequency
Airdate: 9/22/73
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast: Pamela McMyler, Don Kelly, Linda Kelsey, John
Dennis, Cedric Wolfe, Ron Townsend (of The Fifth Dimension)
2. The Old Engine
Airdate: 9/29/73
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Ross Elliott, Michael Conrad, Laurette Spang,
Regina Parton, Ann Doran, Raymond Man, Lorraine Baptist.
Roy and John buy an old fire engine, and Station 51 gets a
new engine. A woman overdoses on LSD and Roy tries to talk her
down, leading the two paramedics on a chase to the top of a
building. A politician suffers a heart attack and the station
responds to a warehouse fire.
3. Alley Cat
Airdate: 10/6/73
Writer: Charlene Sukins
Director: Alan Crosland
Guest Cast: Brooke Bundy, Virginia Gregg, Lee Bergere, Nelson
Olmstead, William Challee, George Ives, X Brands, Shirley
O'Hara.
A stray cat decides to have her kittens on John's bed at
the station. A family is trapped in a downed airplane; an old man
gets his foot caught in a bear trap. A school develops a gas
leak, and Roy and John rescue a man who's had a boating accident.
4. An English Visitor
Airdate: 10/13/73
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Alan Crosland
Guest Cast: Jaimie Ross, Lucille Benson, Craig Curtis, Judi
Meredith, Stanley Kamel, Mira L. Waters, Barbara Boles, Jack
Bailey, Art Balinger.
A paramedic from England has a stint with Station 51
observing Roy and John, who's rescues include a structure fire, a
car accident, a knife thrower, and a man trapped in heavy
machinery, where the visitor saves John's life. Dr. Early has
problems with a defiant nurse.
5. Heavyweight
Airdate: 10/20/73
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast:
6. Snake Bite
Airdate: 10/27/73
Writer: Carroll Christensen
Director: George Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Richard N. Slattery, Reta Shaw, Johnnie Collins
III, William Bryant, Tony Haig, Laurie Brighton, Don Carter, Jill
Chandler, Sarah Fankboner.
Returning from a fishing trip, Roy, John, and Chet help the
victims of a car accident. On duty, after rescuing some
joyriders who's car went over a cliff, John is bitten by a
rattlesnake.
7. The Promotion
Airdate: 11/3/73
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Guest Cast: Tom Simcox, Michael Maitland
Roy passes the Engineer's test, but accepting the promotion
will mean leaving the paramedics. A bad fog leads to a multi-car
accident on the San Diego Freeway.
8. Insomnia
Airdate: 11/10/73
Writer: Robert Hammer
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Bonnie Schell, Dick Yarmy, Hal Lynch, Stephen
Manley, Lee Farr, Joe Pizzorusso, Jim Nolan.
A boat has an explosion aboard en route to the marina. A
man and his son are injured when they swerve to avoid a dog.
John obsesses about the lack of night runs and can't sleep.
9. Inheritance Tax
Airdate: 11/17/73
Writer: Arnold Somkin
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Warren Berlinger, Michael Fox, Marion Ross
A child is trapped in a car under downed power lines. A
stock broker with heart problems is reluctant to be treated. An
elderly woman that Roy and John treated the previous year dies
and remembers them in her will.
10. Zero
Airdate: 11/24/73
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast:
11. The Promise
Airdate: 12/1/73
Writer: Dee Murphey
Director: Alan Crosland
Guest Cast: Kip Niven, Patricia Handy, Patricia Mattick, Reva
Rose, Russell Thorson, Ted Gehring, Jean E. London, Hal K.
Dawson, Gail Bonney.
A catatonic mechanic is brought to Rampart. The woman who
owns the dog John took care of in 'Mascot' [episode 1.1] returns
and presents John with a pup.
12. Body Language
Airdate: 12/8/73
Writer: Arthur Weiss
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Ronald Feinberg, Ronne Troup, Randy Boone,
Kenneth Tobey, Julie Rogers, Bill Williams, Frank Bonner, Hank
Jones, Joe Danova, Michael Campbell, Mary Angelo, Vince Howard,
Scott Gorlav, Joseph Albee, Michael Morgan.
A crop-duster makes a rough landing in a field. The pilot
suffers a punctured lung, and a bystander is poisoned with
pesticiders. A patient reports to Rampart with an ear infection
caused by mothballs. John's current girlfriend thinks he has
proposed to her.
13. Understanding
Airdate: 12/15/73
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Geroge Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Mills Watson, Phillip Pine, Kathleen Quinlan,
John Russell, Benye Gatteys, Michael Vandever, James Griffith,
Robert Patten, Ray Fine.
A girl's horse is trapped in a burning barn. John gives
Chet his guitar. A man keeps forgetting his insulin shots. A
girl calls the hospital, threatening suicide. A hostage has
heart problems.
14. Computer Error
Airdate: 12/22/73
Writer: John Groves
Director: Joel Oliansky
Guest Cast: Bonnie Bartlett, Mark Miller, Tami Guthrie,
Audrey Landers, Donny Most, Loren Jameson
John tries to get a credit card mistake corrected. A young
couple is rescued from a car wreck, a fire at a junkyard proves
hazardous due to phosphorus materials stored there, and Roy and
John rescue a pseudo-magician from a safe.
15. Messin' Around
Airdate: 1/12/74
Writer: Dennis Landa
Director: Richard Newton
Guest Cast: J. Pat O'Malley, Ann Prentiss, Karl Swenson,
Carol Lawson, John Shawlee, Paul Bryer, Vince Howard, Tammy
Harrington, Paul Sorenson, Lance Kerwin.
Chet starts a series of practical jokes against John, who
eventually retaliates. A child is trapped in a tree house, and
the tree is on fire. A retiree pretends to be ill so he can
amuse the children in the emergency department, but eventually
becomes ill himself.
16. Fools
Airdate: 1/19/74
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast: Bobby Sherman, Dennis Patrick, Carol Arthur,
William Campbell, John Harmon
17. How Green Was My Thumb?
Airdate: 1/26/74
Writer: John Groves
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Will Hutchins, Eric Shea, Don Chastain, Leigh
Christian, William Wintersole, Helen Clark, Donald Mantooth,
Pamela Hensley, George P. Wallace, Kim Richards, Vince Howard,
Jack Kosslyn.
Roy and John rescue a man who has problems breathing
because he has swallowed his partial dental plate. Roy takes
care of a young victim's plants while she is in the hospital, but
John thinks the victim is an old woman. A young girl's religious
parents prevent necessary treatment. The station responds to a
fire in a winery, and Dr. Brackett and the paramedics perform
backyard surgery on a man with an unexploded grenade in his
abdomen.
18. The Hard Hours
Airdate: 2/2/74
Writer: Arnold Somkin
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Dick Butkus, Nick Nolte, Eve Brent.
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.
19. Floor Brigade
Airdate: 2/9/74
Writer: Roland Wolpert
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Pat Buttram, Christopher Man, Don Diamond,
Stephen Colt
John and Roy think about going into the floor cleaning
business on the side. A hermit is trapped in his cave homee.
John is injured on a high resuce, and the station battles a
chemical warehouse fire.
20. Propinquity
Airdate: 2/16/74
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: George Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Brendan Boone, George Orrison, Gil Peterson, Don
Hanmer
Roy spends a few days at John's place while his house is
being fumigated, which is a few days too many. A woman is
trapped inside a car while it burns around her. Am ambulance
carrying Roy and a victim is hit by a car. A man having a heart
attack refuses to leave a poker game unless John agrees to play
out the man's hand.
21. Inferno
Airdate: 2/23/74
Writer: Brian Taggert
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Jack Hogan, Jack Manning, Beth Brickell, Bill
Welsh, Wes Parker, Richard Friend, Bill Andes, Angelo Gristanti,
Helen Page Camp, Art Ballinger, Buck Young.
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 court room with an
apparent heart attack. Roy and John finally make it to the
brushfire and become trapped while rescuing another firefighter.
Season 4. Associate Producer: Gino Grimaldi.
1. The Screenwriter
Airdate: 9/14/74
Writer: Eric Brown
Director: George Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Shelly Berman, Larry Csonka, Carol Wayne, Brendon
Boone, Roger Perry
A screenwriter spends a day taping Roy and John's work,
including a motorcucle accident, the delivery of a baby, and a
chemical worker suffering from exposure to gasses.
2. I'll Fix It
Airdate: 9/21/74
Writer: John Groves
Director: George Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Randall Carver, Bing Russell, Peggy Stewart,
Savannah Bentley.
A woman's husband is trapped under their house where a
natural oil well has erupted. John tries to fix a boy's bike. A
boy who wants to become a doctor is admitted to Rampart.
3. Gossip
Airdate: 9/28/74
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Kevin Tighe
Guest Cast: Catherine Burns, Ruth McDevitt. Ross Elliott.
Annette Cardona, Reb Brown, Lorraine Baptist, Vince Howard, Judd
Laurance.
Roy encourages John to represent the station in the
Fireman's Olympics track events. An armored car sideswipes a
motorist and Station 51 must break into the van. A nurse spreads
the rumor that Dr Morton is having financial problems.
4. Nagging Suspicion
Airdate: 9/28/74
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast:
5. Communication Gaffe
Airdate: 10/12/74
Writer: Charlene Bralver, Robert Bralver
Director: George Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: James McEachin, Denny Miller. Brook Bundy, John
Elerick, Paul Bryan, Jennifer King, William Bryant, Brian Cutler.
Roy and Joanne go on a tv quiz show. Roy and John respond
to a holdup where both a policeman and a suspect have been shot,
and another officer gives them a hard time over treating the
suspect. A woman brings in her abused son for treatment; a pickup
carrying kerosine collides with a station wagon and starts a
brushfire.
6. Surprise
Airdate: 10/29/74
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest Cast: Dena Dietrich, Joe Kapp, Anne Schedeen, Bill
Quinn, William Bryant, Christopher Mears, Robert Bernard, Holly
Irving, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Celia Lovsky, Dub Taylor, Aneta
Corsant.
A woman is thrown from a motorcycle into a cactus patch. A
surprise birthday party is planned for Dixie, who breaks her
ankle while shopping, and the Emergency Room falls apart without
her. A man is trapped in his new sauna. When an old woman
refuses to leave her apartment during a gas leak, the building
explodes with John inside.
7. Daisy's Rick
Airdate: 11/2/74
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast: Brit Lund, Dolores Mann, John Carter, Francisco
Ortego, Morgan Guilbert, Steve Franken
8. Quicker Than the Eye
Airdate: 11/9/74
Writer: Arthur Weiss
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Mark Spitz, Susy Spitz, Michael Conrad
A pregnant woman accidently shoots herself. Tired of
Chet's antics, the station gets their revenge by playing a
practical joke of their own. A construction worker caught under
a boat refuses an IV, and a man in an accident communicates
through his thumb.
9. Foreign Trade
Airdate: 11/16/74
Writer: Rick Mittleman
Director: James Gavin
Guest Cast: James Shigeta, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Reb Brown,
Christopher Stafford Nelson, Donald Mantooth, Anne Schedeen.
Than Wyenn, Anne Seymour, Joseph Perry
A frat pledge chokes during initiation. Dixie takes on
hospital management after budget cuts affect her nursing staff.
John and Roy consider trading cars.
10. Camera Bug
Airdate: 11/23/74
Writer: Rick Mittleman
Director: Richard Bennett
Guest Cast: Ron Masak, Dianne Harper, Peter Leeds, Tyler
Henderson, Adrian Ricard, Mary Rings
John thinks he can be a photographer and pesters Roy for
candid shots. A fireman thinks he's having a heart attack, but
it's really just his chili. A woman is bitten by a scorpion, and
Dixie has 'one of those days'.
11. The Firehouse Four
Airdate: 11/30/74
Writer: John Groves
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest Cast: Lennie Winrib, Charles Knox Robinson, Joanne
Meredith, Linda Dano, Peter Colt, James Kline.
A man keeps having to be rescued while trying various ways
to exercise, and the station (sans Roy) enters the fireman's
barber shop quartet.
12. Details
Airdate: 12/7/74
Writer: Michael Norell (Capt Stanley)
Director: George Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Barbara Nichols, Walter Brooke, Tom Reese,
Charles Quinlivin, Michele Noval, Erik Estrada (uncreditted).
While responding to a call, Roy and John witness a
pedestrian being struck by a car. A woman is badly burnt in a
fire. John thinks about settling down.
13. Parade
Airdate: 12/21/74
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Georg Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Phillip Pine, Stan Adams. Timothy Blake, Peggy
Mondo, Laurie Burton, Jan Arven.
Roy and John restore an old fire engine to ride in the
California Fire Fighters Parade. A man with heart problems
insists on driving, and causes an accident for which the other
driver blames herself.
14. The Bash
Airdate: 12/28/74
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Adam West, Karen Jenson. Larry Delaney, Paul
Smith, Marcus Smith, Morgan Jones, Jim B. Smith.
A man is trapped on a film set with a bear. When Roy and
John rescue him, they are invited to a 'thing' that the man is
giving later that week. John talks Roy into getting overdressed
for the event.
15. Transition
Airdate: 1/4/75
Writer: John Groves
Director: George Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Colby Chester. Elisabeth Brooks, Lora Kaye,
Joyce Davis, James Chandler
A guy John went to high school with is assigned as Squad
51's new paramedic trainee. Roy is hit in the eyes with cobra
venom, and the Squad responds to two calls at an amusement park.
16. Smoke Eater
Airdate: 1/11/75
Writer: Edwin Self
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest Cast: John Anderson, Lee Harcourt Montgomery, Sid Haig,
Sharon Faron, Anne Whitfield, Burt Mustin, Lin McCarthy.
A temporary captain from 'the old school' doesn't feel Gage
and DeSoto should be practicing 'medicine', and has no problem in
expressing his opinion. Dr. Brackett uses an old-fashioned
sedative on a biker, and Dr. Early keeps coming up with oranges
when all he wants is an apple.
17. Prestidigitation
Airdate: 1/25/75
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast:
18. It's How You Play the Game
Airdate: 2/1/75
Writer: Jim Carlson
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest Cast: Dennis Patrick, Cliff Osmond, Ryan MacDonald,
Maggie Sullivan, Hal Baylor.
John agrees that the losing baseball team at the fireman's
picnic will pay for the picnic. Chet becomes Station 51's only
hope when their pitcher breaks his arm. A drunk driver becomes
violent after crashing his car; another man is trapped in a car
with a tiger.
19. The Mouse
Airdate: 2/8/75
Writer: Edwin Self
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: William Zuckert, Ronnie Schell, J. Pat O'Malley
Chet becomes obsessed with ridding the station of an
uninvited guest.
20. Back-Up
Airdate: 2/15/75
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast: Kennan Wynn, Michael Conrad, Patch MacKenzie,
Bill Conklin, Frances Spinner
A man fakes back pain to get a free ride to the hospital.
A man is shocked after kicking in his TV screen. John gets
peeved at all the frivolous calls the squad goes on while real
emergency victims need help.
21. Fair Fight
Airdate: 2/22/75
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast: Terry Kiser, Anne Schedeen
22. 905--Wild
Airdate: 3/1/75
Writer: Buddy Atkinson & Dick Conway
Director: Jack Webb
Guest Cast: Mark Harmon, Albert Popwell, Laura Huddleston,
David Huddleston, Gary Crosby, Rose Ann Zecker
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 awhile.
23. Most Deadly Passage (2 hours)
Airdate: 3/8/75; also 7/3/79
Writer: Michael Donovan,
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Guest Cast: Jesse Vint, Anthony Herrera, George Wyner, Larry
Manetti. Ted Gehring, John Kauffman, Terence Burk, Kenneth Tobey,
Cecilia Hart, Joan Tompkins, Bill Zukert, Michael Feffer.
Roy and John are sent to Seattle to study the techniques
used there. In Seattle, a skydiver jumps off a tower, and a fuel
pumper loads a ferry with gasoline instead of diesel fuel, which
sets the ferry afire in the middle of the Sound.
[Note: Although I've no proof as yet, I've a strong
suspicion that this was later re-aired as 'Medic I: Seattle'.]
Season 5. Associate Producer: Gino Grimaldi.
1. Election
Airdate: 9/13/75
Writer: John Groves
Director:
Guest Cast: Maggie Malodly, Hank Brandt, Sharon Gless
Roy and John become candidates for a welfare committee. A
construction worker is trapped on a crane. A man gets his arm
stuck in an appliance drain while his brother aspirates on a can
tab.
2. The Stewardess
Airdate: 9/20/75
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Gretchen Corbett. William Wintersole, James
Ingersoll, John La Due.
John falls for a stewardess and shows his stuff when a
passenger has a heart attack. Later, he tries to date her.
3. <title unknown>
Airdate: 9/27/75
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast: Sharon Gless
4. Equipment
Airdate: 10/4/75
Writer: Robert Hamilton
Director: Kevin Tighe
Guest Cast: Lloyd Haynes, Jessica Rains, John Laurence, Hal
Bokar, Kristine Maire Greco, Vernon Weddle
John overtimes at Station 8 where an unavailable squad
costs a heart attack victim his life. Chet is injured during a
fire, and Roy is injured in a fireworks warehouse fire.
5. The Inspection
Airdate: 10/11/75
Writer: Bruce Johnson
Director: Georg Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Wolfman Jack, Jeanne Cooper, Warren Berlinger.
Roger Bowen, Gerald Michenaud
The station becomes aware of the Battalion Chief's
impending inspection. A wife is convinced that her husband's
heart transplant means he no longer loves her.
6. The Lighter-Than-Air Man
Airdate: 10/18/75
Writer: Claire Whitaker
Director: Wes McAfee
Guest Cast: James McEachin, Arthur O'Connell. Randall
Carver, Sue Casey, Vince Howard, Barbara Mallory, Chuck Winters.
En route to a rescue, Roy and John supposedly sideswipe an
elderly crossing guard. A couple en route to a wedding hit a
fire hydrant, and a camper on fire drives up to the stationhouse.
7. The Indirect Method
Airdate: 10/25/75
Writer: Michael Norell (Capt Stanley)
Director: Jan Oliansky
Guest Cast: Elayne Heilveil. Dick Bakalyan, Anne Loos
A hard-nosed new trainee is assigned to Roy and John.
Freeway construction threatens an old couple's house. A man
tries to commit suicide by gas, then changes his mind.
8. Pressure 165
Airdate: 11/1/75
Writer: Edwin Self
Director: Georg Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Michael Roy, Bing Russell, Del Monroe, Art
Balinger.
Roy and John go to Catalina to help a diver, where John and
a doctor treat the patient in a hyperbaric chamber. John gets
ribbed about his cooking.
9. One of Those Days
Airdate: 11/8/75
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest Cast: Lara Parker. Marla Adams, Penelope Windust,
Shirley Mitchell, Ross Elliott.
An elderly woman's stomach problems lead to a family brawl.
Roy and John respond to a hotel with a broken elevator, a two-car
accident with no victims, and rescue a child trapped in a burning
building.
10. Simple Adjustment
Airdate: 11/15/75
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast: John Crosby, Elizabeth Brohs
11. Tee Vee
Airdate: 11/22/75
Writer: John Groves
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Lin McCarthy, Laurie Burton, W.T. Zacha, Heath
Jones.
Roy and John rescue a man from a manhole fire. An aquarium
is delivered to Dr Brackett. Chet and John blow up the station's
tv.
12. On Camera
Airdate: 11/28/75
Writer: Rod Peterson, Claire Whitaker
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Peter Palmer, Leigh Christian. Helen Page Camp,
Paul Micale, Will MacIntyre Walker, Scott B. Wells.
A camera crew follows Squad 51 while a teenager is bitten
by a snake, a would-be stuntman dangles from an I-beam, and a boy
falls off a cliff.
13. Communications
Airdate: 12/6/75
Writer: Mark Saha
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Barbara George, Cynthia Sikes, Craig Hundley
A young worker gets his arm caught in a machine. A
communication snafu occurs between Squad 51 and Dr. Morton. Two
boys get a car trapped on the roof of a house. A woman tries to
commit suicide by overdosing and won't let the paramedics trart
her, making them wait until she passes out. A man is trapped
underneath a car; Chet sets a pair of skis on fire -- literally.
14. To Buy or Not To Buy
Airdate: 12/20/75
Writer: Keith A. Walker
Director: Georg Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Robert Pratt, Allan Vint, Susan Gay Powell. Fay
DeWitt, Nicholas Worth, Patch MacKenzie
Responding to a fire in an abandoned house, the Station
finds two children trapped inside. Roy thinks about buying a
house, but delays too long.
15. Right at Home
Airdate: 1/10/76
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast:
16. The Girl on the Balance Beam
Airdate: 1/17/76
Writer: Robert Hamilton
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Patti Cohoon, Charles Knox Robinson, Brian Baker,
Dorothy Schott, Andrea Bell, William Bryant, Patricia Morrow,
Ronnie Schell, Robert Hackman.
A young girl is in a rush to go to the Olympics.
17. Involvement
Airdate: 1/24/76
Writer: John Groves
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Anne Seymour, Dawn Lyn. Jean Allison, Milton
Frome, Del Monroe
Rampart's former emergency department head nurse tries to
commit suicide. She is brought to Rampart, where she befriends a
parapelegic child who almost drowned in a swimming pool.
18. Above and Beyond ... Nearly
Airdate: 1/31/76
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Guest Cast: Lucille Benson, Liam Dunn. Florence Lake,
Lucille Benson, Linda Danno, Kristin Larkin, Grant Goodeve.
Roy and John receive commendations for bravery, but they
can't remember the incident.
19. Grateful
Airdate: 2/7/76
Writer: Michael Norell
Director: Georg Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Dick Van Patten, Zina Bethune, Paul Brinegar,
Ruth Buzzi, Royal Dano, Thomas Bellin.
After a couple is rescued from under a car, they hang about
the stationhouse, helping out.
20. The Great Crash Diet
Airdate: 2/21/76
Writer: Timothy Burns
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest Cast: Michael Mullins, Holly Irving, Rick Podell.
Conducting a fire inspection, Roy and John rescue a diver
in a fish task. A birthday boy eats raw dough and gets a
stomachache. An experiment in firefighter nutrition becomes an
obsession for Chet.
21. The Tycoons
Airdate: 2/28/76
Writer: Mark Massari, Robert Hamilton, John Groves
Director: Georg Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Robin Clark, Sheila James, Ted Gehring, Mary
Moon, John Wyler.
John gets everyone but Roy excited about buying into a
nearby hot dog stand. By the time Roy gets interested, the stand
burns down.
22. The Nuisance
Airdate: 3/6/76
Writer: Robert Hamilton
Director: Randolph Mantooth
Guest Cast: Gretchen Corbett, Carole Cook, James G.
Richardson. Jean Shawlee, Coleen Gray, Joseph Perry.
After the squad helps a non-responsive lady on a barstool,
John is hit by a car, leaving Roy stuck with a very annoying
replacement.
23. The Old Engine Cram
Airdate: 3/13/76
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Bernard Fox, Christopher Nelson, Smith Evan, Kim
Hamilton, Dick Yarmy.
A fireman is injured in a practice drill. A man suffers a
back injury while motorcycle riding. A man having a heart attack
comes to the station. DeSoto and Gage rescue a man who has
fallen off a cliff. Roy and John think they have a buyer for the
old fire engine.
Season 6. Associate Producers: Gino Grimaldi and Hannah Shearer.
1. Not Available
Airdate: 10/2/76
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest Cast: Arnold Turner, Wayne Heffley, Scott Arthur Allen,
Bill Boyett, Kristen Banfield, Dorothy Love, Ivy Bethune, Burton
Cooper.
Roy and John feel there should be a better system for
assessing calls when they have to take a call for Squad 39 and it
takes them twenty minutes to reach the victim.
2. This Game
Airdate: 10/9/76 (postponed from 9/25/76)
Writer: Christian I. Nyby II
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Guest Cast: Larry Carroll, Jack Knight
A woman pulls her husband off the roof into a tree. Roy
and John are put on duty for the big football game at the
Coliseum, but have no time to watch the game.
3. That Time of Year
Airdate: 10/23/76
Writer: Mort Thaw, Ed Robak
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Ronnie Schell, Dave Pritchard, Pamela Shoop, Meg
Wyllie, Linda Gray
Everyone gives Roy advice on where to go on vacation. Roy
gets dizzy during a fire at a nightclib. An instructor collapses
during a self-defense class.
4. The Unlikely Heirs
Airdate: 10/30/76
Writer: Timothy Burns
Director: Georg Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Paul Brinegar, Bennye Gatteys, Jim Stathis
John and Roy rescue an old homeless man from a fire only to
discover the man's mattress had $80,000 in it. A bride faints as
she is walking down the aisle. A plane crashes into a warehouse.
5. Rules of Order
Airdate: 11/6/76
Writer: James G. Richardson
Director: Georg Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: James G. Richardson, Larry Manetti, Vince Howard,
Bert Holland.
John and Roy are asked to be on a paramedic advisory
committee, but they have to put up with everyone's favorite
paramedic -- Bryce.
6. The Exam
Airdate: 11/13/76
Writer: Tom Egan
Director: Richard Bennett
Guest Cast: Bridget Hanley. Jodean Russo, Allan Lurie.
John and Roy worry about their recertification exams; a
fireman's widow who has become dependent on the station house in
minor matters calls with a real emergency when her daughter
knocks herself unconscious.
7. Captain Hook
Airdate: 11/20/76
Writer: Susan J. Alenick.
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Joe Maross. Jim B. Smith, Chad States, Rick
Podell, Vince Howard, William Bryant, Bert Williams.
The firemen plan to celebrate the imminent retirement of a
martinet captain with a party, under the guise of throwing a
farewell dinner.
8. Paper Work
Airdate: 12/14/76
Writer: John Groves
Director: Geroge Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Peter Kastner. Laurie Kennedy, Peter Brocco,
William Bronder, Jeff Cotler.
A computer error causes extra paperwork, a kid falls in a
storm drain and nearly drowns, and a janitor drinks samples of
archeologists' Mesopotamian wine.
9. Welcome to Santa Rosa County
Airdate: 12/25/76
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: James Jeter, Carla Layton, Bill Watson
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 county sheriff come up with
ideas for implementing emergency medical services in his county.
10. Loose Ends
Airdate: 1/8/77
Writer: Dee Murphey
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Walters Mathews, William Boyett, William Bryant,
Vince Howard.
Dr Brackett blames himself when he is involved in a car
accident that leaves the other driver dead and the driver's
daughter refuses to speak. The station responds to a fire on a
pier.
11. An Ounce of Prevention
Airdate: 1/15/77
Writer: Mort Thaw and Ed Robak
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Peggy Webber, Chad States, Barbara Ellen Levene,
Maureen Lee, Frank Farmer, Dave Barry, Richard Charlyle.
A man and a woman are trapped on a ferris wheel. John gets
Roy and himself on a show to discuss fire prevention.
12. Insanity Epidemic
Airdate: 1/22/77
Writer: Robert Hamilton
Director: Randolph Mantooth
Guest Cast: Robert Pratt, Ellen Moss, Bill Zukert, Nancy Fox,
Vince Howard, Vincent St. Cyr, Betty Ann Carr.
Captain Stanley freaks out when he learns one of his past
captains is now his Battalion Chief, causing the others to worry
about their captain's increased paranoia. A car leaves an
overpass and crashes into a transfer truck filled with
pesticides.
13. Family Ties
Airdate: 1/29/77
Writer: Carole and Michael Rasdiella
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest Cast: Howard Honig, Susan Lawrence, Jimmy Van Patten,
Debbie Storm, Dirk Evans
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.
14. Breakdown
Airdate: 2/5/77
Writer: John Groves
Director: Georg Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Dick Bakalyan, Brian Byers, Joan Roberts, Jean
Allison
A sporadic electrical short plagues the squad but Roy and
John are convinced they can fix it. A back-to-nature couple is
ordered to cut back on their shrubbery; the wife is discovered to
have a variant of anthrax.
15. Bottom Line
Airdate: 2/12/77
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast:
16. The Boat
Airdate: 2/19/77
Writer: Hannah Shearer
Director: Georg Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Dick Bakalyan, Ted Gehring, Zitto Kazann, William
Boyett, Vince Howard.
Charlie, the station mechanic, stores the boat he wants to
sell at the station house, where the firemen decide that they
want to chip in and buy it.
17. Limelight
Airdate: 2/26/77
Writer: James G. Richardson
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Guest Cast: James G. Richardson. William Bryant, Walter
Barnes, Shannon Farnon, Jeannie FitzSimmons, William Boyett,
Vince Howard.
A man with a history of heart trouble becomes agitated when
his daughter is trapped under a backhoe. Another paramedic
appears on the news and in the paper, making John jealous.
18. Firehouse Quintet
Airdate: 3/5/77
Writer:
Director:
Guest Cast:
19. Isolation
Airdate: 3/12/77
Writer: John Groves
Director: Georg Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: William Bryant, Lyndel Stuart, Vince Howard, Glen
Sipes.
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.
20. Hypchondri-Cap
Airdate: 3/19/77
Writer: Bruce Shelly
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: William Bryant, George Brenlin, Bette Ford, Vince
Howard, William Boyett, Lani Gustavson, Abraham Alvarez.
Capt Stanley convinces himself he has arthritis. A man
gets his hand caught in his garage door opener; the station
responds to a two-alarm fire at an oil refinery.
21. All Night Long
Airdate: 3/26/77
Writer: Christian I. Nyby, II
Director: Georg Fenady [sic]
Guest Cast: Joanne DeVarona. Howard McGillin, Happy
Hariston, Herb Vigran, James Westmoreland.
The Fire Department basketball finals are hard on the guys
because they were out all night at a fire and got no sleep the
day before the game.
22. Upward and Onward
Airdate: 4/2/77
Writer: Michael Norell (Capt Stanley)
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Leon Ames. Dabbs Greer, Tom Williams, Tabi
Cooper, William Boyett.
Capt Stanley worries that the Chief will sabotage his
attempt to pass the Chief's exam because of an incident in their
past; a soap opera doctor with mono causes havoc on the set and
in the hospital; John, Roy, and a man with a self-diagnosed heart
aneurysm get stuck in an elevator.
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