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Emergency! Episode Guide

The Wedsworth-Townsend Act

First aired: Jan/15/1972
Writer: Harold Jack Bloom, Robert A. Cinader
Director: Jack Webb
Guest star: Sam Lanier (Dispatcher)

Roy and Johnny think back at how far they have come in their paramedic training since they started, reminiscing about the following: Roy trying to convince Johnny that he should try out for the paramedic program, having to face opposition from both civil and medical authority...including Dr. Brackett, and having Brackett realize the advantages and worth of the paramedic program and his testimony which helped get the legislation passed.



1 :01x01 - Mascot

First aired: Jan/22/1972
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest star: Patricia McAneny (Paula Slayton), Linda Watkins (Mrs. Esther Leeds), Jock Mahoney (Lee), Dick Hammer (Captain Hammer), Tim Donnelly (Chet Kelly), Mike Stoker (Fireman Stoker), Marco López (Fireman Lopez), Beverly Powers (Holly), Jeff Davis (Peter Ballard), Roland Barton (Pilot), Candace Howerton (Genevieve McCurtain), Susan O'Connell (Louise), Angelo De Meo (Ambulance Attendant), Scott Gourlay (Ambulance Attendant)

When Paula Slayton wrecks her car on the way to a dog show, Johnny agrees to take care of her dog "Bonnie" without realizing the animal will cause problems. A woman brings in her daughter, who cannot breathe, and Dr. Brackett treats her with a... paper bag! Apparently drunk Peter Ballard wanders into the hospital - but his real problem is quite different. At a party, Roy and Johnny must deal with rowdy party guests who believe their host Lee is pulling a prank, not having a heart attack. A hunter suffers a serious fall in a place from which the paramedics cannot reach Rampart, so they must employ a "radio relay."



2 :01x02 - Botulism

First aired: Jan/29/1972
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest star: Cal Bartlett (Jim Parker (as Calvin Bartlett)), Anne Whitfield (Pam Parker), Paul Langton (Myron Gilmore), Virginia Vincent (Martha Gilmore), Tim Donnelly (Chet Kelly), Marco López (Fireman Lopez), Mike Stoker (Fireman Stoker), Dick Hammer (Captain Hammer), William Stevens (Workman), Virginia Gregg (Wilma Jacobs), Susan Seaforth Hayes (Nancy Dickson (as Susan Seaforth)), Josh Albee (Tommy (as Joshua Albee)), Harlen Carraher (Jimmy), Bruce Powers (Paul Steele)

Paramedics and fireman rescue a man dangling from a broken bosun's chair, a hundred feet off the ground. Johnny and Roy return to the Gilmore home, where Martha may be having a heart attack - or may be faking again. Dr. Early gets part of his stethoscope stuck in his ear, and a strange case from a film studio has Dr. Brackett suspecting a very rare but very serious problem - a outbreak of botulism poisoning. Station 51 rescues a young orphan from a collapsing building, and Johnny plans revenge for practical jokes played on him.



3 :01x03 - Cook's Tour

First aired: Feb/12/1972
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Frank Aletter (Roger Mundell), Jackie Russell (Judy Mundell (as Jacqueline Russell)), Dennis Rucker (Jay Hooper), Dorothy Green (Mother), Tim Donnelly (Chet Kelly), Dick Hammer (Captain Hammer), Marco López (Fireman Lopez), Mike Stoker (Fireman Stoker), Virginia Gregg (3rd Nurse), Lew Brown (1st Sheriff), William Henry (2nd Captain (as Bill Henry)), Scott Smith (2nd Sheriff), Barbara Sigel (Checkout Girl), Dorothy Konrad (Beatrice Stover), Bobby Eilbacher (3rd Boy), Johnny Lee (1st Boy), Michael Raden (2nd Boy)

It's Roy's turn as company cook, and that has everyone else worried - especially when they learn he's going to make a French dish! Johnny delivers a cyanotic baby while at Rampart Dr. Early helps a boy whose hand is stuck inside an expensive Ming vase. A man trying to repair a washing machine accidentally electrocutes himself, and a sixteen year old may face permanent disability from a drug overdose. Finally, the whole company responds to a man who climbed a construction crane's boom intending to suicide, and then changed his mind.



4 :01x04 - Brushfire

First aired: Feb/19/1972
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Guest star: Gary Crosby (John Conway), Ellen Moss (Rhonda Hughes), Bob Hastings (Man (In Robe)), Tony Dow (Motorcycle Rider), Trent Lehman (Andy), Edith Evanson (Emma Lenover), Lillian Bronson (Winifred Lenover), Vince Howard (Deputy), Art Balinger (Battalion Chief), Dick Hammer (Captain Hammer), Tim Donnelly (Chet Kelly), Mike Stoker (Fireman Stoker), Marco López (Fireman Lopez)

An out of control brushfire threatens a large area in the valley; Station 51 is one of many called to respond. They meet 79 year old Winifred Lenover and her 80 year old sister, who hate each other. Winifred needs medical help but won't leave the house in her sister's care. A boy named Andy, whose arm is broken in three places, finds his way to the hospital but wants to leave to go find his missing dog Grover. Five runs in six hours and the paramedics still aren't done: they treat a fireman named Conway whose leg is pinned under a tree, a pregnant woman who cannot be moved until she gives birth, and whose house will shortly be engulfed, the victim of a stampede, and a motorcyclist who ran off the road while looting evacuated homes.



5 :01x05 - Dealer's Wild

First aired: Feb/26/1972
Writer: Carey Wilber
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest star: Lou Krugman (Dave Morgan), Coleen Gray (Mrs. Thompson), Marian Collier (Mother), Mitch Carter (Straley), Buddy Foster (Frankie Pierce), Sonja Dunson (Fran), Ron Pinkard (Mike Morton), Susan Madigan (Donna Melvin), Dick Hammer (Captain Hammer), Tim Donnelly (Chet Kelly), Mike Stoker (Fireman Stoker), Marco López (Fireman Lopez), Peggy Drier (Girl), Angelo De Meo (Ambulance Attendant), Marilyn Hassett (Nurse)

Roy tries to talk a boy down in a plane in which his father, the pilot, suffered an apparent heart attack while in flight. A man tries to commit suicide by drinking poison, slashing his wrists, and turning on the gas in his apartment. Station 51 responds to an overturned gasoline tanker truck. Roy and Johnny deal with disinterested bystanders while a teenager overdoses on LSD. At the hospital, Brackett and Early puzzle over what could have caused the tank truck driver to pass out behind the wheel - they know there's a problem in his brain, but not where. Brackett and McCall meditate on people who want to die, but live, and people who want to live, but die. At the station, Johnny keeps losing card games which leaves him with washing the dishes each night. Now he is determined to create his own card game.



6 :01x06 - Nurses Wild

First aired: Mar/04/1972
Writer: Fred Freiberger
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest star: Royal Dano (Hallucinanting Man), Ron Pinkard (Mike Morton), Kip Niven (Clive Jonas), Christine Dixon (Bitsey Jonas), Victor Izay (Arthur Grey), Chris Forbes (Ellen Bart), Patricia Mickey (Sharon), Sarah Fankboner (Grace Corbett), Vince Howard (2nd Deputy), Dick Hammer (Captain Hammer), Tim Donnelly (Chet Kelly), Marco López (Fireman Lopez), Mike Stoker (Fireman Stoker), Colby Chester (1st Deputy), Ray Ballard (Encyclopedia Salesman), Angelo De Meo (Ambulance Attendant), Henry Olek (Hippie), Art Gilmore (Battalion Chief), Scott Gourlay (Ambulance Attendant)

During a demo of the equipment in the squad, dispatch sends Roy and Johnny to a liquor store, where they must help the owner (heart attack) and the holdup man (gunshot in the stomach). The owner asks Roy to help "the boy" instead; he's sorry he had to shoot the young man. Joe Early treats a man with delirium tremens. Paramedics fend off an aggressive dog to help a woman who collapsed; Bracket discovers she has been abusing diuretics. A hippie brings his unconscious friend in, and Morton diagnosis a overdose despite the friend's protests that they don't use. Bracket eventually discovers the real problem - a spider bite. A crane accident leaves a worker pinned between a beam and several pipes, in a room slick with flammable butyl acetate. Johnny tries to chat up a new nurse, but is ultimately disappointed.



7 :01x07 - Publicity Hound

First aired: Mar/11/1972
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Gene Raymond (J.P. Dumont), Gary Crosby (Tom Wheeler), Sallie Shockley (Penny Fortas), Barry Higgins (Andy Jason), Ron Pinkard (Mike Morton), Bill Baldwin (Carl Evans), Edith Diaz (Mrs. Diaz), Scott Arthur Allen (Kirk), Ted Gehring (Construction Foreman), Dick Hammer (Captain Hammer), Tim Donnelly (Fireman Kelly), Mike Stoker (Fireman Stoker), Marco López (Fireman Lopez), William Bryant (Captain Curtis)

Johnny becomes increasingly jealous of Tom Wheeler, a paramedic with Squad 110 who has several times gotten himself in the newspapers. The paramedics rescue the captain of a boat struck unconscious during a mishap and dangling upside down from a spar. Brackett's sandpaper personality gets him - and maybe the hospital - into a lot of trouble with a powerful and rich man named Dumont. Returning from a false alarm, the paramedics discover a horse trapped in a new drainage ditch and help its owner free it. Finally, the entire station works for hours to rescue Elena Diaz, a child who has fallen into a hole at a construction site - and Wheeler winds up getting the press! But this time, Johnny doesn't care. He's just happy he got the child out alive.



8 :01x08 - Weird Wednesday

First aired: Mar/18/1972
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest star: Jeanette Nolan (Mrs. Berndette Spalding), Arnold Stang (Arthur Merkl), Ron Pinkard (Mike Morton), Henny Backus (Ginger Merkl), Anne Collings (Penny Finch), Sherry Bain (Kathy Paxton), Helen Baron (Mrs. Lytton), Chris Forbes (Ellen), Patricia Mickey (Sharon), Pamela Peters (Jackie), Dick Hammer (Captain Hammer), Tim Donnelly (Fireman Kelly), Mike Stoker (Fireman Stoker), Marco López (Fireman Lopez), William Katt (Wally Lytton), Vince Howard (Deputy), Irene Tedrow (Party Guest), Bob Hastings (Drunk Driver), Angelo De Meo (Ambulance Attendant), Craig Chudy (Deputy)

Johnny is sure that this day will be filled with strange occurrences. First the paramedics deal with a woman who fell into a tree - a parachuting accident. They help an obese jogger with chest pains, while at Rampart Dr. Brackett treats a man with persistent... hiccups... and Dr. Early helps eighty year old Bernadette Spalding, who broke her ankle dancing. A boy tries at home cryogenics by freezing himself (with instructions to open the freezer in 1992). Roy and Johnny treat a woman bitten by a rattlesnake, and a taxi brings a foreign sailor to Rampart who can't explain what's wrong because he can't speak English and no one can speak whatever language he does command. Mrs. Spalding's party finally finds her, as the paramedics climb a steep embankment to reach a driver who went over the edge. Johnny twists his knee, but the driver, a drunk, isn't hurt at all! Fortunately, the day will soon be over...



9 :01x09 - Dilemma

First aired: Mar/25/1972
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Seymour Cassel (Bluebell Hunter), Benny Rubin (Sam Cranks), Patricia Mickey (Sharon), Chris Forbes (Ellen), Hal Baylor (Foreman), Marilyn Hassett (Cynthia), Bill McLean (Elbert Krinkle), Scott Arthur Allen (Fireman Kirk), Robert Kline (Workman Jesse (as Robert E. Kline)), Dick Hammer (Captain Hammer), Tim Donnelly (Fireman Kelly), Mike Stoker (Fireman Stoker), Marco López (Fireman Lopez)

Johnny and Roy respond to a stuck elevator with a heart patient inside - but before they can rescue her, it slips and falls two stories to the floor, creating new injuries! Brackett intimidates a student nurse, causing her to make mistakes whenever he's around. Johnny tries to find someone to take out Cynthia, a girl who's chasing HIM - and he figures any girl chasing a guy must have something wrong with her. A man who buries all his garbage creates a methane hazard, and two rail yard workers start cleaning the wrong car, and the fumes in it overcome them.



10 :01x10 - Hang-up

First aired: Apr/08/1972
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest star: Mort Sahl (Burglar), John Smith (Captain Hammer), Shelly Novack (Vern Hammond), Marco López (Fireman Lopez), Mike Stoker (Fireman Stoker), Tim Donnelly (Fireman Kelly), Chris Forbes (Ellen), Art Balinger (Battalion Chief), Savannah Bentley (Karen Wilson), Vince Howard (1st Deputy), Don Ross (Guard), Lew Brown (Frank Conoyer)

While watching an episode of Adam-12 on TV, the station is sent out on a call, forcing Johnny to miss the ending. That call comes from the guard at a building - a thief has become stuck in the ductwork! On the way into the hospital he explains that crawling through the ducts earned him money and high living, and he literally ate his way out of that modus operandi! Brackett and Early separately patch up two men involved in a bar fight, and Brackett later deals with an obnoxious man who went surfing with a broken leg! The two fighters see each other and pick up where they left off, ruining their treatments, and a girl Dixie is sure came in seeking drugs actually has a serious problem. Finally, the entire station responds to a fire at a facility that handles radioactive material, complicating rescue and treatment of the victim.



11 :01x11 - Crash

First aired: Apr/15/1972
Writer: Gerald Sanford
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Cicely Tyson (Mrs. Johnson), Gary Crosby (Tom Wheeler), William Bramley (Sam), Don Matheson (Joseph Remson), John Smith (Captain), Jeff Donnell (Katie), Francine York (Betty Remson), Sandra De Bruin (Donna), Ed Cambridge (Paul), Eric Laneuville (Tim Johnson), Patricia Mickey (Sharon Walters), Buddy Lester (Reggie), Ronne Troup (Judy), Chris Forbes (Ellen Bart), Tim Donnelly (Fireman Kelly)

Dr. Brackett treats a high school football player tackled by three linemen and suffering from a concussion; his parents disagree about whether he should have even played football. The station is called out to rescue a family which is trapped inside a light plane up in a tree. A burglar suffers a heart attack during a heist. A man and woman ask Dr. Early for help, certain she is dying - but their real problem is north of the neck. A babysitter brings a child into Rampart after discovering he has swallowed pentobarbital.



12 :02x01 - Decision a.k.a. Problem

First aired: Sep/16/1972
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Victor Mohica (Husband), Willard Sage (Dr. Eccles), Jack Dodson (George), Lloyd Bochner (Dr. Sutherland), Kevin Dobson (1st Deputy), Annette Cardona (Wife), Michael Richardson (Doug), James Byrd (Second Deputy), Jessica Rains (Edna), Mike Stokey (Chuck), Candace Howerton (Virginia Phillips)

Roy and John rescue a man who is injured while repairing his car, But when the radio in the ambulance is broken, Roy treats him with out medical authorization. This act infuriates the man's personal physician and causes Dr. Brackett and nurse McCall to come to Roy's defense.



13 :02x02 - Kids

First aired: Sep/23/1972
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: William Bryant (Sgt Ed Pierce), Richard Jaeckel (Defense Attorney), Christian Juttner (Frankie Stewart), Roger Perry (Gentry), Don Carter (Tim West), John Travolta (Chuck Benson), Pamela Jones (Helen Parker), Anne Whitfield (Chirley Gentry), Gary Clarke (Mr. Peters), Victor Izay (Judge), Scott Sealey (Randy Peters), Lorie Busk (Jenny Andrews)

Dr. Early risks his career when he treats a young boy and then accuses the parents of abuse. John and Roy help a boy whose head is stuck in a window and the station adopts a stray dog they name boot. The dog helps with a rescue.



14 :02x03 - Show Biz

First aired: Sep/30/1972
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: Sam C. Freedle
Guest star: Lillian Lehman (Carol Williams), Joseph V. Perry (Evan Langford), Henry Jones (Dr. Alexander Knott), Ted Gehring (Peter Euben), Ezra Stone (Boris Miller), Christine Dickinson (Laura Crandall), Monica Lewis (Maury Peeyer), Joseph Kaufman (Joe Kellner)

Johnny is asked to be a model for a photo shoot involving the firefighters. A call for a man who is trapped under a tractor has Roy and Johnny in search for a doctor when their radio signal fails to reach Rampart. A country doctor stops by and assists the guys and soon becomes a victim himself when he suffers chest pains. The guys later help rescue a drowning man, and are called to a movie set where a man is trapped in a broken wagon over a waterfall.



15 :02x04 - Virus

First aired: Oct/07/1972
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest star: Dennis Patrick (Mr. Hollister), Jean Allison (Mrs. Brydon), Cathy Lee Crosby (Jenny Hollister), William Gray Espy (Tim Duntley), Philip Brown (Mickey Bryon), Mitch Carter (Danny Loring), Skye Aubrey (Mattie Duntley), Vic Vallaro (Deputy Pauling)

The key to a virus which has struck down a few citizens along with Johnny and Dr. Brackett maybe lie with a sick woman and her pet monkey. A boy feels vertigo while he is up in his tree house, due to an inner ear infection. The station responds to a call involving a man trapped on a scaffold.



16 :02x05 - Peace Pipe

First aired: Oct/14/1972
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Ken Lynch (Gumball Machine Owner), Kip Niven (Stan Taylor), Brooke Bundy (Nancy Taylor), William Campbell (Sam Jenks), Renee Lippin (Rosemary), Tom Waters (Foreman), Joe Pizzorusso (Mr. Morgan)

Chet teases Johnny about his Indian heritage. A child is left trapped inside a parked vehicle when it is rammed by another car. A kid gets his finger caught inside a gumball machine after he didn't get his gum he paid for. A woman can't breathe due to a very small girdle she is wearing. A sniper has shot a man on a scaffold, which causes the station to devise a way to get Johnny and Roy up there safely. A call finds a home which has fuel oil coming through the water pipes.



17 :02x06 - Saddled

First aired: Oct/21/1972
Writer: Herbert Purdom
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Ronne Troup (Lisa Hill), Michael Rupert (Mike Allen), Larry Storch (Ben Wesley), Edward Crawford (Ed Myers), Barbara Bosson (Mrs. Collins), Charles Guardino (Mr. Collins), Elizabeth Baur (Sister Barbara), Christopher Gardner (Timmy Collins), Jay Hammer (Ritchie), Kelly Troup (Debbi)

Johnny believes he can make extra money by working in a rodeo in his spare time. A girl receives a face full of glass after a soda bottle explodes. A call finds a child is injured after falling from a tree. The full crew is called to a accident involving a school bus which has driven over an embankment full of children and the driver, a nun. Dixie is injured when a portable x-ray machine runs over her toe.



18 :02x07 - Fuzz Lady

First aired: Nov/04/1972
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Drout Miller (First Suspect), Sharon Gless (Sheila), Paul Fix (Pop Williams), J. Pat O'Malley (Grandpaw George Ryerson), Eric Server (Bill Williams), Meg Wyllie (Mrs. Ryerson), Nate Esformes (Sgt McNamara), Scott Barrett (Paul), Billy Durkin (Tim Hutchins), Ellen Moss (Donna Williams)

Items are disappearing from Rampart, and Johnny has fallen for a police woman who helped catch a mugger. Roy and Johnny arrive at a fire where an elderly blind man is trapped in his room. A grandfather and his grandson receive minor injuries after an explosion of a model rocket. A man is injured while stealing a boat after the crane on a drilling platform he was using in the theft traps him. The station mascot Boot returns to the base.



19 :02x08 - Trainee

First aired: Nov/11/1972
Writer: Jim Owens
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Lillian Lehman (Carol Williams), Anthony Eldridge (Larry Gamble), Jackie Coogan (Junkyard Owner), Charles H. Gray (Chief Sorenson), Ron Henriquez (Sailor), Robert Pratt (Ed Marlowe), Wynn Irwin (George Robinson), Iris Korn (Old Lady)

A new paramedic trainee who was a former Vietnam medic, has trouble taking orders from both Roy and Johnny, and the doctors at Rampart. While on a run, the trainee runs after a purse snatcher. Other runs include a man who had fallen down the side of a cliff, a woman who OD'ed on prescription pills and help a man who was having an insulin reaction.



20 :02x09 - Women

First aired: Nov/25/1972
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Lillian Lehman (Carol Williams), Dick Van Patten (Man with hand stuck in sink), Ann Morgan Guilbert (Tilly Meers), Stacy Harris (Mr. Howarth), Randall Carver (Harvey Gibbs), Joshua Bryant (Bodine), Michael Richardson (Artie Howarth), Leslie Charleson (Christy - Journalist), Janit Baldwin (Monica Howarth), Susan Damante (Harvey's Friend)

A pretty female newspaper reporter is convinced that the fire department caters to male chauvinism. The squad gives the reporter a ride along where they help a man who is trapped in his car with live power lines across the hood. Later, a run finds an embarrassed man trapped naked in a folded up sofa bed, then a bombed building has two victims trapped inside. A man is found with his hand caught in a garbage disposal. Meanwhile at Rampart, Drs. Early and Brackett work on a young boy who has eaten poison hemlock.



21 :02x10 - Dinner Date

First aired: Dec/02/1972
Writer: Dick Morgan
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Melissa Gilbert (Jenny), Drout Miller (Himself), Michael C. Gwynne (Jerry), Laurette Spang (Betsy), Patricia McCormack (Janet Coldwell), Jean Allison (Herself), Emily Yancy (Mrs. Johnson), Dawn Lyn (Kelly Thelen), Lynn Carlin (Herself), Judy Farrell (Mrs. Thelen)

Johnny is set up for a date by Roy's wife, Joanne. A woman goes into an epileptic seizure after hitting a boy on a bicycle with her car. A man takes a bullet from his father-in-law. A young girl's arm is trapped inside a drain at the bottom of a draining pool. An obese man is suffering from chest pains. Rampart sees its share of drug related cases including a man who has tetanus, a woman who has gangrene, and a teen girl who has ingested pills laced with sodium hydroxide.



22 :02x11 - Musical Mania

First aired: Dec/09/1972
Writer: Kenneth Dorward
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Alice Nunn (Mrs. Lucille Rogers), Lillian Lehman (Carol Williams), Kathleen Lloyd (Mrs. Clemmins), Russell Wiggins (Clements), Scottie MacGregor (Myrna Snyder), Stephen R. Hudis (Larry Snyder), Barbara Benson (Herself), Kathryn Kelly Wiget (Betty Snyder)

A joke from Chet has Johnny determined to learn to play an instrument. A father refuses to have his son treated for lead poisoning believing it would be an act of charity. Meanwhile, a gardener is stricken with tetanus, a girl is found unconscious due to drug intake, an ice cream truck driver is trapped by live power lines, a man is caught inside a crashed glider, and a man is trapped under his own house which has slipped off the jacks.



23 :02x12 - Helpful

First aired: Dec/16/1972
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest star: Frank Maxwell (McGill), Victor Millan (Sergeant), Paul Ryan (George), Abigail Shelton (Mrs. Hale), Jamie Farr (Alan Austen), Alicia Bond (Dr. Varner), Barbara Benson (Nurse Gail), Margie Haber (Agnes)

Johnny stokes the flames when Roy and his wife have an argument. A tired young doctor makes mistakes in his diagnosis and with judgment. The station responds to a call when a man drives off the side of an on ramp. A dog on a roof causes a man to fall off a ladder and into a rose bush. The station is called to rescue two young boys who are lost in a storm drain during a rain burst.



24 :02x13 - Drivers

First aired: Jan/06/1973
Writer: Jim Owens
Director: Sam C. Freedle
Guest star: Lillian Lehman (Carol Williams), Art Balinger (Battalian Chief 14), Victor Mohica (Steve), Frank Maxwell (Captain Carter), Dick Yarmy (Coach), Jackie Russell (Mrs. Bond), James Beach (Policeman Charles), Virginia Paris (Herself), Barbara Benson (Molli Benson), Johnny Hartmann (Ambulance Attendant)

Johnny is annoyed as a driver cuts them off while they are on a run. The guys are informed that their paramedic trainer has died. Roy and Johnny are sent to rescue a boy who's leg is stuck inside a hollow portion of an old tree. A quarterback collapses on the field for unknown reasons. A crank call has sent the boys to a garbage dumpster. A major hotel fire proves a difficult challenge when a man is trapped inside who is suffering from a heart attack.



25 :02x14 - School Days

First aired: Jan/13/1973
Writer: Kenneth Dorward
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Ann Doran (Mrs. Perigrew), Bill McLean (Junkyard Man), Lew Brown (Archer Lewis), Kip Niven (Billy Hanks), Ian Wolfe (Dr. Temple), Michael-James Wixted (Brad Lewis), Terrence O'Connor (Kathy Tyler), Sandra De Bruin (Betty Lewis), Doria Cook (Aimie Louis)

Johnny and Roy are working with a new trainee, Billy, who has a big confidence problem. An elderly professor is injured when a bookshelf falls on top of him. Roy is involved in a accident while inside the ambulance delivering a patient to the hospital. A young boy is injured when his science experiment explodes. A man is trapped inside a car in the auto salvage yard, causing a dangerous extrication.



26 :02x15 - The Professor

First aired: Feb/03/1973
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Paul Picerni (Ed Duran), Jane Merrow (Lady Rossman), Frank Maxwell (Captain #113), Helen Page Camp (Mrs. Murphy), Joan Pringle (Shirley Edmonds), Hedley Mattingly (Professor Erik Rossman), Christopher Cain (Robert Bently), Timothy Callahan (Pilot), Alma Lawton (English Maid)

A man acting schizophrenic arrives at Rampart being escorted by the secret service who won't reveal any information about the patient. The station is called out to rescue a despondent young man who is threatening to jump off a building under construction. The guys take a boat ride to a remote island to rescue a man who's light plane crashed there. Johnny accuses Roy of having no charisma after a woman shows him some attention.



27 :02x16 - Syndrome

First aired: Feb/10/1973
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Art Balinger (Chief Battalion 14), Robert Alda (Raymond Boyd), Jack Carter (Sy Kleiner), Dub Taylor (Man at storage tank), Arnold Stang (Dick), Michael Morgan (Second Boy), Ezra Stone (Boris Miller), Ta-Tanisha (Rosie), Casey MacDonald (Jamie), Barbara Brownell (Sandy), Kres Mersky (Gloria)

Johnny diagnoses Roy's sore throat as tonsillitis. A famous actor is admitted to Rampart was once an old flame of Dixie McCall. Two children are trapped on top of a truck filled with gasoline. A fight erupts at a female college baseball game. A multiple alarm fire breaks out at an abandoned hospital.



28 :02x17 - Honest

First aired: Feb/17/1973
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Vincent Perry (Himself), Beverly Sanders (Leslie Noble), Michael Lerner (Martin Noble), Joe E. Tata (Neighbor), Cheryl Miller (Rochelle Kavner), Douglas Rowe (John Keef), Ondine Vaughn (Cheryl Olmstead), Anne Whitfield (Patricia Epps), Heidi Winston (Herself)

Roy and Johnny disagree over when the truth should be told and when it's okay to use a white lie. A young man is injured when he attempts to high dive in a pool from a roof of a house. An elderly blind man and his grandson are trapped inside a burning house. A boy is admitted to Rampart while conflicting diagnosis.



29 :02x18 - Seance

First aired: Feb/24/1973
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: William Bryant (Captain #110), Charles Aidman (Harry Teal), John Carter (Bernie), Fintan Meyler (Dorothy Teal), Steven Marlo (Pete), Bruno Kirby (Ken), Virginia Wing (Receptionist), Ty Henderson (Frank), Suzanne Charney (Mrs. Butler), Laurie Bartram (Jill)

A woman is convinced her dead sister's spirit wants to come back and harm her husband. A teenage kid is brought into Rampart having overdosed on tranquilizers. The station is called out to rescue an injured man who is trapped in a warehouse. Johnny and Roy are called to rescue a man trapped in his car underwater.



30 :02x19 - Boot

First aired: Mar/03/1973
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Lillian Lehman (Carol Williams), Vic Tayback (Tanker Driver), Jock Mahoney (Hoyt Herrold), Ann Prentiss (Fran Lillington), Jack Manning (Dr. Frye), Susan Madigan (Carol), Zack Taylor (Don Herrold)

No one can figure why the station mascot, Boot does not want to eat anything. A college woman is trapped inside her car which is pinned underneath a fuel truck. A woman who is anguished about cooking a meal for her prospective date, keeps on creating minor disasters. An explosion at Rampart lab finds a scientist trapped inside a burning building.



31 :02x20 - Rip-Off

First aired: Mar/10/1973
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Charles Lampkin (Airport Employee), Harry Townes (Barney Olsen), Charles McGraw (Himself), Morgan Paull (Himself), Regis Cordic (Norman Harrison), Borah Silver (Sgt Sommers), Iris Korn (Nora Hostetler), Maria Elena Cordero (Kathy Williams), Art Gilmore (Battalion Chief)

A heart attack victim claims Roy and Johnny stole money from his wallet during his rescue. the station is called out to rescue a pilot and his copilot who are trapped in a plane which is omitting liquid oxygen. A car accident finds a pregnant woman and her husband trapped inside.



32 :02x21 - Audit

First aired: Apr/07/1973
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Katherine Cannon (Mrs. Barton), Ray Ballard (John Wellman/Gilbert Wells), Bobby Porter (George Barton (as Robert Porter)), Ross Elliott (Foreman), Sally Carter-Ihnat (First Woman), James McEachin (Man trapped in cement), Dwan Smith (Second Woman), Mina Vasquez (Student Nurse), Kathleen King (Woman in House), Karen Philipp (Nurse), Adriana Shaw (Mother)

Johnny is upset when he finds out the IRS is planning to audit him. A con man shows up at Rampart as a patient. A pegnant woman with a heart defect is treated by Dr. Brackett. A child is locked in a car, alone in a parking lot. An injured construction worker begs Roy to amputate his leg before they are all killed by the collapsing building.



33 :03x01 - Frequency

First aired: Sep/22/1973
Writer: Kenneth Dorward
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: John Dennis (guest star), Don 'Red' Barry (Dave Grogan), Pamela McMyler (Dona Crim), Ike Eisenmann (Kevin Paxton), Linda Kelsey (Pam Burke), Mike Lane (guest star), Irene Gilbert (Edwina Paxton), Rob Townsend (1st Biker), Kedric Wolfe (guest star)

The squad has to share a biophone with other units which leads to problems when a policeman friend of Gage's gets injured in a car crash. Other cases include a drunk child, a motorcycle gang war, and an artist trapped in his own sculpture.



34 :03x02 - The Old Engine

First aired: Sep/29/1973
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Ann Doran (Hannah), Michael Conrad (Bob Hurley), Laurette Spang (Sally), Ross Elliott (Harvey), Raymond Mayo (Fred), Regina Parton (Harriet)

Gage and DeSoto buy an old fire engine just as the squad itself gets a new one. Cases include a woman overdosing on acid, a politico suffering a heart attack, and a warehouse fire.



35 :03x03 - Alley Cat

First aired: Oct/06/1973
Writer: Charlene Sukins
Director: Alan Crosland
Guest star: Virginia Gregg (Zelda Zack), William Challee (Ezekial Johnson), Shirley O'Hara (Ellie), X Brands (Captain Engine 31), Nelson Olmsted (George), George Ives (School Principal), Brooke Bundy (Ann), Lee Bergere (Milton Zack)

A stray cat wanders into the station and decides to give birth to her litter of kittens there. Cases include a boating accident, an actress suffering from a panic attack, an old man getting his foot stuck in a bear trap, and a gas leak at a school.



36 :03x04 - An English Visitor

First aired: Oct/13/1973
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Alan Crosland
Guest star: Stanley Kamel (Harry Rivers), Jack Bailey (Homer), Art Balinger (Battalion Chief), Craig Curtis (guest star), Lucille Benson (Martha), Judi Meredith (Sheila), Barbara Boles (Shirley), Jamie Ross (Jason Channing), Mira Waters (Patsy)

A British paramedic arrives in Los Angeles to observe the squad's routine and ends up saving Gage's life. At the hospital, Brackett treats a rock singer in a diabetic coma and Early clashes with a headstrong nurse.



37 :03x05 - Heavyweight

First aired: Oct/20/1973
Writer: Kenneth Dorward
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Wayne Heffley (Sam Wright), Dennis Rucker (Bill), Sean Kelly (Tommy Wright), Barbara Sigel (April Rawlins), Pamela Peters (Angie Harper), Dennis Redfield (Rab Rawlins), Rebecca Ray (Ruthie Gibbs)

The paramedics rescue a pregnant woman from a burning structure. Then she goes into labor and gives birth to a deformed baby. Other events include the rescue of a hanglider pilot and a child who got a severe electric shock while his mother was on drugs.



38 :03x06 - Snakebite

First aired: Oct/27/1973
Writer: Carol Christensen, Jim Owens
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: William Bryant (Captain Engine 85), Reta Shaw (Ozella Peterson), Richard X. Slattery (Hector), Don Carter (guest star), Laurie Bartram (Karen), Johnnie Collins III (Jake), Tony Haig (Dr. Frick), Jillian Sandler (Jill Chandler)

On their way home from a fishing trip, Gage and DeSoto come to the aid of car accident victims. Later, Gage gets bitten by a rattlesnake.



39 :03x07 - The Promotion

First aired: Nov/03/1973
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Tom Simcox (Brad), William Benedict (guest star), Nancy DeCarl (guest star), Dee Carroll (guest star), Tifni Twitchell (guest star), Grace Lenard (guest star), Michael Maitland (Joel)

DeSoto passes a test for advancement but it might mean leaving the squad. Other cases include a multi-car accident caused by a thick fog and an attempted suicide.



40 :03x08 - Insomnia

First aired: Nov/10/1973
Writer: Robert Hamner
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Ronnie Schell (Fred), James Nolan (Tony Malzone), Stephen Manley (Scotty), Dick Yarmy (Fred), Lee Farr (Bill Phillips), Hal Lynch (Fred), Joe Pizzorusso (Joe Wilson), Craig Chudy (guest star)

Gage finds himself unable to sleep. Cases include a boat explosion, an injured motorist who swerved to avoid a dog, and a worker pinned in a loading dock by a semi truck.



41 :03x09 - Inheritance Tax

First aired: Nov/17/1973
Writer: Arnold Somkin
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Art Balinger (Battalion Chief), Michael Fox (Marshall), Marion Ross (Margaret), Robert Clotworthy (guest star), Warren Berlinger (Winthrop), Jarrod Johnson (guest star), Mike McHenry (guest star)

Gage and DeSoto are remembered in the will of an elderly woman whom they aided the year before. Cases include a child trapped in a car underneath a downed power line.



42 :03x10 - Zero

First aired: Nov/24/1973
Writer: Brian Taggert
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Art Balinger (Fire Chief), Jan Arvan (Hotel Manager), William Bryant (Captain--Engine 52), Nora Marlowe (First Woman), Mariette Hartley (Mrs. Mannering), Jo Anne Worley (Screaming Woman), Bobby Eilbacher (Tommy Mannering), Vivian Bonnell (guest star), Anthony Eisley (Jake Mannering), Dick Enberg (Talk Show Host), Ginny Golden (guest star), Dick Whittinghill (Newspaper Man)

The paramedics are interviewed on television and Gage freezes up. Cases include a woman screaming for therapeutic reasons and an abused child who attempt suicide.



43 :03x11 - The Promise

First aired: Dec/01/1973
Writer: Dee Murphey
Director: Alan Crosland
Guest star: Hal K. Dawson (Old Man), Russell Thorson (George Burke), Gail Bonney (Martha Burke), Ted Gehring (Roy Nelson), Reva Rose (Edna Self), Kip Niven (Bo Jensen), Patricia Mattick (Kathy), Fred Brookfield (Himself), Patricia Hindy (Paula Slayton), Jean London (First Nurse)

The doctors are mystified by the condition of a catatonic mechanic. Other cases include a woman who keeps calling the paramedics because she is lonely and an elderly couple trapped by tumbleweeds.



44 :03x12 - Body Language

First aired: Dec/08/1973
Writer: Arthur Weiss
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Ronne Troup (Pam), Bill Williams (Pete), Kenneth Tobey (Doug Barton), Ronald Feinberg (Donald Lompoc), Julie Rogers (Betty Hall), Angelo De Meo (Ambulance Attendant), Michael Morgan (Kid), Randy Boone (Bill Stagg), Frank Bonner (Walt), Josh Albee (Boy), Michael Campbell (Charlie Dent), Harold 'Hal' Frizzell (Ambulance Attendant), Mary Margaret Amato (Herself), Joseph Donovan (Manager), Scott Gilmore (Himself), Scott Gourlay (Police Officer), Hank Jones (Stan Wilson), Mary Angela Shea (Nurse)

The crash landing of a crop dusting plane leads to the pilot getting a punctured lung and a bystander getting poisoned by the plane's pesticides. Other cases include a couple who overdosed on flower bulbs and a boy with an ear infection caused by mothballs.



45 :03x13 - Understanding

First aired: Dec/15/1973
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Phillip Pine (guest star), Mills Watson (Bank Robber), Robert Patten (Police Captain), John Russell (guest star), James Griffith (Joe), Michael Vandever (Ross), Ray Fine (Blaine), Kathleen Quinlan (Janet), Bennye Gatteys (Ann)

During a bank robbery, the paramedics are forced to treat a hostage with heart problems at gunpoint.



46 :03x14 - Computer Error

First aired: Dec/22/1973
Writer: John Groves
Director: Joel Oliansky
Guest star: Mark Miller (Charles Evans), Joyce Jameson (Harriet), Larry Storch (Frank, the Magician), Bonnie Bartlett (Eunice Evans), Audrey Landers (Marsha), Don Most (Fred Wilson), Bing Russell (Capt Wilson), Sandra De Bruin (Neighbor), Ellen Clark (Betty Wilson), Tami Guthrie (Woman in Well)

A computer error wrecks havoc with Gage's credit card. Cases include the rescue of a woman at the bottom of a well, an amateur magician from a safe, and a young couple from a car wreck.



47 :03x15 - Inferno

First aired: Jan/05/1974
Writer: Brian Taggert
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Jack Hogan (Don), Beth Brickell (Susan), Jack Manning (Judge), Wes Parker (Second Reporter), Bill Andes (Prosecutor)

At the hospital, Dixie gets her hand trapped in a vending machine while Gage and DeSoto become trapped while rescuing another firefighter from a brush fire.



48 :03x16 - Messin' Around

First aired: Jan/12/1974
Writer: Dennis Landa
Director: Richard Newton
Guest star: Carol Locatell (Mrs. Wheeler), Karl Swenson (Gus), J. Pat O'Malley (Old Bill), Paul Sorenson (Mike), Joan Shawlee (Wife), Lance Kerwin (Wheeler Boy), Ann Prentiss (Cindy's Mother)

After rescuing a girl from a tree house that was on fire, the lass's mother begins taking a romantic interest in Gage. Meanwhile, a war of practical jokes envelopes the station house.



49 :03x17 - Fools

First aired: Jan/19/1974
Writer: Eric Kaldor
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest star: Carol Arthur (Eloise Turner), Dennis Patrick (Dr Kent Donaldson Sr), William Campbell (Ned Turner), Bobby Sherman (Dr. Kent Donaldson Jr)

After a cocky young intern makes a rash diagnosis that nearly causes a death, Brackett sends him to ride with the paramedics. Other cases include a girl getting her head stuck in a mailbox and a heart attack victim trapped on an oil refinery tower.



50 :03x18 - How Green Was My Thumb?

First aired: Jan/26/1974
Writer: John Groves
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: William Wintersole (Julius), Eric Shea (Clyde), Jack Kosslyn (Harry), George D. Wallace (Sgt. Thomas), Kim Richards (Melissa), Will Hutchins (Chuck Miller), Pamela Hensley (Wanda), Donald Mantooth (Paramedic 95), Helen Clark (Emma)

Brackett and the paramedics are forced to perform emergency surgery on a man with an unexploded grenade in his abdomen. In other cases, De Soto takes care of a young girl's plants while she's hospitalized and a religious couple refuse to allow their daughter to receive necessary medical treatment.



51 :03x19 - The Hard Hours

First aired: Feb/02/1974
Writer: Arnold Somkin
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Eve Brent (Alice), Dick Butkus ('The Animal'), Nick Nolte (Fred)

Dr. Early undergoes bypass surgery while the paramedics deal with a football player whose son tackled him too hard while playing in the backyard.



52 :03x20 - Floor Brigade

First aired: Feb/09/1974
Writer: Roland Wolpert
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Milton Frome (Joe), Ray Ballard (Floor Cleaner), Pat Buttram (Hermit), Christopher Man (Jerry)

Gage and DeSoto contemplate going into the cleaning business. Cases include rescuing a hermit trapped in his cave home and battling a chemical warehouse fire.



53 :03x21 - Propinquity

First aired: Feb/16/1974
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Brendon Boone (Wayne Lyman), Don Hanmer (Unknown)

DeSoto is forced to spend the night at Gage's apartment while his house is being fumigated. Cases include a poker game player suffering a heart attack and an ambulance carrying an accident victim that gets hit by a car.



54 :03x22 - Inventions

First aired: Mar/23/1974
Writer: John Groves
Director: Kevin Tighe
Guest star: Lillian Bronson (Norma), Pepper Martin (Aubrey), Robert Miller Driscoll (James), Yvonne Craig (guest star), Hal Bokar (Driver), Aneta Corsaut (Helena Hartley), Michael Richardson (Cab Driver), Charles Macaulay (Ellis)

The boys at the fire station enter a contest to invent new and improved firefighting tools. Cases include an overweight child wedged in a living room ceiling, victims of radiation poisoning, and a leak at a chemical plant.



55 :04x01 - The Screenwriter

First aired: Sep/14/1974
Writer: Eric Brown
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Del Monroe (Policeman), Brendon Boone (Motorcyclist), Carol Wayne (Renee Miss October), Terrence O'Connor (Anne Porter), Harold 'Hal' Frizzell (Ambulance Attendant), Larry Csonka (Al), Scott Gourlay (Ambulance Attendant), Bennye Gatteys (Laurie Coleman), J.B. Friend (Unknown), Kyle Anderson (Admitting Nurse)

A screenwriter spends a day observing Squad 51 in performance of their duties. Cases include a motorcycle accident, overexposure to chemicals, a fire at a toy factor, and the delivery of a baby.



56 :04x02 - I'll Fix It

First aired: Sep/21/1974
Writer: John Groves
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Eric Shea (Danny Freeman), Peggy Stewart (Claire Freeman), Bing Russell (Richard Freeman), Richard Kiel (Carlo), Savannah Bentley (Claire Freeman)

The paramedics try to rescue a man trapped under his house where a natural oil well has erupted.



57 :04x03 - Gossip

First aired: Sep/28/1974
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Kevin Tighe
Guest star: Anne Schedeen (First Nurse), Reb Brown (Second victim), Yvonne Craig (Edna Johnson), Ruth McDevitt (Unknown), Ross Elliott (Supervisor), Annette Cardona (Mrs. Harrow), Judd Laurance (Truck Driver), Zina Bethune (Beth Johnson)

Cases include a man trapped in a warehouse fire, a child with cyanide poisoning, and a bigamist with a skull fracture.



58 :04x04 - Nagging Suspicion

First aired: Oct/05/1974
Writer: Joseph Polizzi
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Milton Frome (Jed Roland), John Wheeler (Felix), Robert Q. Lewis (Unknown), Jim B. Smith (Sergeant), W. T. Zacha (Bouncer), Lindsay Bloom (Suzy Clark), Pamela Morris (Mrs. Caldwell)

Gage wants to know DeSoto's system for picking winners at the horse races. Cases include a woman who has fallen into a lion's cage and a skateboarder who landed in a cactus patch.



59 :04x05 - Communication Gaffe

First aired: Oct/12/1974
Writer: Bob Bralver, Charlene Bralver
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: William Bryant (Captain, Engine 69), Paul Bryar (Unknown), Denny Miller (Unknown), Brooke Bundy (Unknown), Jennifer King (Marsha), Brian Cutler (Dwyer), James McEachin (Lt Crockett), John Elerick (Policeman Sterling)

When Gage and DeSoto arrive at a crime scene where a cop and a suspect have been shot another cop gives them a hard time because they treated the suspect.



60 :04x06 - Surprise

First aired: Oct/19/1974
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest star: Dena Dietrich (Nurse Betty), Ann Morgan Guilbert (Woman In Cactus), William Bryant (Captain #95), Anne Schedeen (Carol), Celia Lovsky (Old lady with bad hip), Kenneth Tobey (Crane Operator), Bill Quinn (Haley), Dub Taylor (George), Aneta Corsaut (Chuck's Wife), Holly Irving (First Woman), Bob Bernard (Harry)

Dixie breaks her ankle while shopping and the emergency room falls apart without her presence. Cases include a woman thrown from a motorcycle into a cactus patch and a man trapped in his sauna.



61 :04x07 - Daisy's Pick

First aired: Nov/02/1974
Writer: John Groves
Director: Don Richardson
Guest star: Ann Morgan Guilbert (Unknown), Steve Franken (Bernard Goldberg), Stack Pierce (Salvage Foreman), John Carter (Unknown), John Carradine (Jonas Larson), Francisco Ortega (Hernando), Brian Cutler (Paramedic Tom Dwyer), Harold 'Hal' Frizzell (Ambulance Attendant), Bill Couch (Victim), Dolores Mann (Ruth Goldberg), Brit Lind (Daisy), Tim O'Denning (Worker)

Gage is among the many competing for a date with a smokin' hot new nurse. Cases include a man who gets his hands glued to his model ship, a comatose child, and a theater fire.



62 :04x08 - Quicker Than the Eye

First aired: Nov/09/1974
Writer: Arthur Weiss
Director: Don Richardson
Guest star: Paul Brinegar (Tom), Michael Conrad (Unknown), Renee Tetro (Unknown), Bill Sorrells (Unknown), Mark Spitz (Pete Barlow), Suzy Spitz (Dora Barlow)

Cases include a pregnant woman accidentally shooting herself and an accident victim who communicates via using his thumb. Meanwhile, the station tries to give practical joker Chet his comeuppance.



63 :04x09 - Foreign Trade

First aired: Nov/16/1974
Writer: Rick Mittleman
Director: James Gavin
Guest star: James Shigeta (Mr. O'Brien), Anne Schedeen (Carol), Joseph V. Perry (Crane Operator), Reb Brown (Frat member), Anne Seymour (Mrs. Zimmerman), Than Wyenn (Mr. Zimmerman), Peter Halton (Unknown), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Man Stuck in Car), Donald Mantooth (Unknown), Christopher Stafford Nelson (Danny Zimmerman)

Dixie takes on the hospital administration after budget cuts reduce her nursing staff while Early suffers from a bad case of the hiccups. Meanwhile, the paramedics must rescue a basketball player who got stuck in his car.



64 :04x10 - Camera Bug

First aired: Nov/23/1974
Writer: Rick Mittleman
Director: Richard C. Bennett
Guest star: Adrian Ricard (Unknown), Olan Soule (Mr. Johnson), Peter Leeds (Restaurant Owner), Ron Masak (Bob), Ty Henderson (Unknown), Mary Rings (Unknown), Dianne Harper (Trudy Benson)

Gage buys a new camera and soon becomes an irritant with it. Cases include a woman bitten by a scorpion and a pregnant woman who goes into labor at a restaurant where Brackett and Dixie are having lunch.



65 :04x11 - The Firehouse Four

First aired: Nov/30/1974
Writer: John Groves
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest star: Charles Knox Robinson (Jack Michaels), Lennie Weinrib (Fred Gibson), James Kline (Foreman), Linda Dano (Lora Gibson), Jo Anne Meredith (Gloria Haroldson), Peter Colt (Motorist)

DeSoto enters his fellow firemen in a barbershop quartet singing contest. Cases include an assclown who keeps having to be rescued trying various ways to exercise and a woman who overdoses on sleeping pills.



66 :04x12 - Details

First aired: Dec/07/1974
Writer: Michael Norell
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Vince Howard (Officer no. 1), Erik Estrada (Man with eye injury), Walter Brooke (James Barnes), Tom Reese (Mr. Dando), Sean Frye (Boy), Charles Quinlivan (Driver), Michele Noirae (Unknown), Michele Noval (Valerie)

Gage and DeSoto witness a hit and run accident while responding to a call and a stripper overdoses on diet pills.



67 :04x13 - Parade

First aired: Dec/21/1974
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Stuart Nisbet (George), Phillip Pine (Dr. Bailey), Jan Arvan (Bert Martin), Timothy Blake (Unknown), Stanley Adams (Man having heart attack), Peggy Mondo (Pizza Place Owner), Laurie Burton (Harriet), Yvette Vickers (Unknown)

Gage and DeSoto finally finish restoring the old fire engine they purchased just in time for the California Firefighters Parade. Cases include a patient who has a seizure in the waiting room, a man who passed out on a date, and an automobile accident caused by a man with a heart condition who insisted on driving.



68 :04x14 - The Bash

First aired: Dec/28/1974
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Adam West (Vic Webster), Morgan Jones (Battalion Chief), Jim B. Smith (Police Sergeant), Marcus Smith (Trainer), Laird Stuart (Simon), Heath Jobes (Unknown), Paul L. Smith (Security Director), Larry Delaney (Ted MacReady), Karen Jensen (Monique Lawrence)

When the paramedics rescue a man who was trapped on a film set with a bear, he invites them to a party where they end up having to revive a musician who passed out. Meanwhile, Brackett treats a man suffering from trichinosis.



69 :04x15 - Transition

First aired: Jan/04/1975
Writer: John Groves
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Jan Arvan (Unknown), Colby Chester (Gil Robinson), Timothy Blake (Unknown), James Chandler (Second Victim), Reed Diamond (Unknown), Peggy Mondo (Unknown), Elisabeth Brooks (Betsy), Laurie Burton (Unknown), Joyce Davis (Roberta Davis), Lora Kaye (Cab Driver), Phil Altman (Unknown)

Cases at an amusement park include an injured child and a heart attack victim trapped high in the air. Meanwhile, an old high school classmate of Gage's becomes the squad's newest paramedic trainee.



70 :04x16 - Smoke Eater

First aired: Jan/11/1975
Writer: Edwin Self
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest star: John Anderson (Unknown), Burt Mustin (Old man with burning chair), Sharon Farrell (Catherine), Sid Haig (Spike), Lin McCarthy (Unknown), Anne Whitfield (Betty Johnson), Lee Montgomery (Billy)

Gage and DeSoto clash with an old-school temporary captain at the firehouse while at the hospital, Early searches in vain for an apple.



71 :04x17 - Kidding

First aired: Jan/18/1975
Writer: Roland Wolpert
Director: Wesley J. McAfee
Guest star: James Ingersoll (Jim Long), Adrian Ricard (Unknown), Norman Bartold (Harry), Paul Fix (Maxwell Hart), Joyce Jameson (Woman stuck in door), Laurette Spang (Mrs. Long)

Gage conducts a tour of Rampart hospital for a group of inquisitive students. Cases include a Vietnam vet suffering from a stress related flashback and a famous author who attempts to commit suicide.



72 :04x18 - Prestidigitation

First aired: Jan/25/1975
Writer: Robert Hamner
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Bernard Fox (Eldridge), Arthur Space (Jamison Walters), James Gregory (Brackett's Father), Dick Yarmy (Jamie), Tony Giorgio (Lorenzo), Gil Serna (Unknown), Madelyn Cain (Jan)

Brackett's father gets treated for phlebitis while the paramedics must rescue a magician who somehow got locked in his own trunk.



73 :04x19 - It's How You Play the Game

First aired: Feb/01/1975
Writer: Jim Carlson
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest star: Dennis Patrick (Trader Jack), Hal Baylor (Animal Trainer), Maggie Sullivan (Marion), Cliff Osmond (Gus), Ryan MacDonald (Walter)

The squad is set to play a softball game against another firehouse but things look bleak when their prospective pitcher breaks his arm. Cases include a violent drunk driver involved in a car crash and a man with a back spasm who has to be extricated from his waterbed.



74 :04x20 - The Mouse

First aired: Feb/08/1975
Writer: Edwin Self
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Ronnie Schell (Harold), Florence Lake (Martha Wilson), J. Pat O'Malley (Joe Wilson), Barry Cahill (City Captain), Bill Zuckert (Charley), Peter Palmer (Sam), W. T. Zacha (Unknown), Lee Paul (Pete)

Chet is determined to rid the station of a pesky mouse. Cases include an apartment house hit by a jet fighter and an elderly man trapped inside a burning house.



75 :04x21 - Back-Up

First aired: Feb/15/1975
Writer: John Groves
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Keenan Wynn (Wild Bill), Michael Conrad (Bob Stecker), Bill Conklin (Unknown), Patch MacKenzie (Unknown)

The ambulance carrying the paramedics and a heart attack victim gets involved in a traffic accident. Other cases include an OD victim and a man faking back pain to get a free ride to the hospital.



76 :04x22 - 905-Wild

First aired: Mar/01/1975
Writer: Dick Conway, Buddy Atkinson
Director: Jack Webb
Guest star: Gary Crosby (Walt Marsh), Virginia Gregg (Rose Bernardi), Burt Mustin (Grandpa), Lew Brown (Unknown), Ned Romero (Unknown), Ruth McDevitt (Mrs. Quincy), David Huddleston (Barney 'Doc' Coolidge), Mark Harmon (Officer Dave Gordon), Albert Popwell (Officer Les Taylor), Stephanie Steele (Sandy), Rose Ann Zecker (Patty Burns), Lindy Huddlesn (Little Girl)

Gage and DeSoto are confronted with a Bengal tiger on the loose and he ain't the friendly fellow who appears on a cereal box. Meanwhile, a brush fire in a suburban area causes injuries to lots of domesticated animals thus turning the hospital into a veterinary surgical center.



77 :05x01 - The Stewardess

First aired: Sep/13/1975
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: James Ingersoll (David Cort), William Wintersole (Kirk), Gretchen Corbett (Sue Hickman), Joe LaDue (Captain Dowell)

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.



78 :05x02 - The Old Engine Cram

First aired: Sep/20/1975
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Bernard Fox (Kerner), Art Balinger (Battalion Chief), Kim Hamilton (Estelle Lee Dickens), Dick Yarmy (Bailey), Christopher Stafford Nelson (Arnie), Smith Evans (Marilyn Dennis)

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.



79 :05x03 - Election

First aired: Sep/27/1975
Writer: John Groves
Director: Bruce Bilson
Guest star: David Morick (Unknown), Jack Kutcher (Unknown), Sharon Gless (Sculptor), Hank Brandt (Tom Lawson), Cliff Osmond (Clyde), Anne Whitfield (Mrs. Lawson), Maggie Malooly (Susan Murray (as Maggie Malody)), Harold 'Hal' Frizzell (Ambulance Attendant), George Orrison (Ambulance Attendant)

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.



80 :05x04 - Equipment

First aired: Oct/04/1975
Writer: Robert Hamilton
Director: Kevin Tighe
Guest star: Vernon Weddle (Charlie), Hal Bokar (McClain), Lloyd Haynes (Captain Stone), John Lawrence (Jacobson), Jessica Rains (Margaret), Kristine Greco (Nurse)

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.



81 :05x05 - The Inspection

First aired: Oct/11/1975
Writer: Bruce Johnson
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Jeanne Cooper (Evelyn Fennady), Warren Berlinger (Frank Fennady), Wolfman Jack (Himself), Jean-Michel Michenaud (Paul (as Gerald Michenaud)), Roger Bowen (Felix Schell)

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.



82 :05x06 - The Indirect Method

First aired: Oct/18/1975
Writer: Michael Norell
Director: Joel Oliansky
Guest star: Robert Patten (LAPD Sergeant), Richard Bakalyan (Dewey), Jim B. Smith (LAPD Captain), Macon McCalman (Unknown), Elayne Heilveil (Karen Overstreet), Bill Conklin (Unknown), Anne Loos (Mrs. Hurley), Joan Crosby (Unknown), Stephen Parr (Unknown), Scott Gourlay (Police Officer)

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!



83 :05x07 - Pressure 165

First aired: Oct/25/1975
Writer: Edwin Self
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), Del Monroe (Walt), Art Balinger (Battalion Chief #14), Bing Russell (David Winslow), Steven Marlo (Pete (Unknown)), William Harlow (Unknown), Derrel Maury (Unknown), Michael Roy (Chef Michel), Angelo De Meo (Worker), Harold 'Hal' Frizzell (Ambulance Attendant), Scott Gourlay (Anesthesiologist)

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.



84 :05x08 - One of Those Days

First aired: Nov/01/1975
Guest star: Charles Knox Robinson (Mike Larson), Bill McLean (Hotel Manager), Lara Parker (Betty Grinnell), Shirley Mitchell (Mrs. Larson), Jack Perkins (Joseph Healey), Marla Adams (Rita Hudson), Ross Elliott (Harry Grinnell), Penelope Windust (Jane Larson), Shannon Terhune (Lucy), Carol McEvoy (Iris)

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.



85 :05x09 - The Lighter-Than-Air Man

First aired: Nov/15/1975
Writer: Claire Whitaker
Director: Wesley J. McAfee
Guest star: Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), Sue Casey (Mother), Arthur O'Connell (Mr. Medford), Randall Carver (Groom), James McEachin (Lt. Ronald Crockett), Scott Gourlay (Police Officer), Charles Winters (Man (as Chuck Winters)), Barbara Mallory ((unknown))

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.



86 :05x10 - Simple Adjustment

First aired: Nov/22/1975
Writer: Robert Hamilton
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Gary Crosby ((unknown) (as John Crosby)), William Bryant (Captain Stoxe), Jane Dulo (Salon Manager), Elizabeth Rose ((unknown) (as Elizabeth Brohs)), Aneta Corsaut (Sheila), Elisabeth Brooks (Marla Ekberg), Joan Crosby ((unknown)), Robin Clarke (Chris)

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.



87 :05x11 - Tee Vee

First aired: Nov/29/1975
Writer: John Groves
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: William Bryant (Captain, Engine 73), Lin McCarthy (Unknown), Moosie Drier (Unknown), W. T. Zacha (Second Workman), Gil Serna (Unknown), Heath Jobes (John Whitaker), Laurie Burton (Jane Ellis)

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.



88 :05x12 - On Camera

First aired: Dec/06/1975
Guest star: Helen Page Camp (Mother), Will Walker (Gary), Paul Micale (Manager), Peter Palmer (Unknown), Scott Wells (Workman), Leigh Christian (Paula Hughes TV Reporter)

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.



89 :05x13 - Communications

First aired: Dec/13/1975
Writer: Mark Saha
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Craig Hundley (Gary Welton), Ted Gehring (Tom Blasmore), Cynthia Sikes (Karen Martin), Moosie Drier (Rick Jenkins), Dolores Mann (Marge Jenkins), Barbara George (Diane Kenner)

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.



90 :05x14 - To Buy or Not To Buy

First aired: Dec/20/1975
Writer: Keith Walker
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), Susan Powell (Unknown), Fay DeWitt (Mrs. White), Nicholas Worth (Charles), Alan Vint (Unknown), Robert Pratt (Alexander Smith), Patch MacKenzie (Martha)

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.



91 :05x15 - Right at Home

First aired: Jan/10/1976
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Sandy Balson (Joan Hanrahan), Peggy Stewart (Eddie Lapeer), Steven Marlo (Swede), Poindexter Yothers (Martha Felt), Larry Younkers (Firefighter/Spotter, Helicopter 10), Allan Macleod (Mac)

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.



92 :05x16 - The Girl on the Balance Beam

First aired: Jan/17/1976
Writer: Robert Hamilton
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Ronnie Schell (Jasper (the drunk)), Charles Knox Robinson (Alan Benedict), William Bryant (Captain Engine 14), Brian Baker (Truck Driver), Patti Cohoon (Nancy Benedict), Patricia Morrow (Coach Jenny Carter), Robert Hackman (Engineer), Andrea Bell (Karen)

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.



93 :05x17 - Involvement

First aired: Jan/24/1976
Writer: John Groves
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), Del Monroe (Steve Carson), Milton Frome (Salesman), Anne Seymour (Millie Eastman), Jean Allison (Dorothy Clark), Dawn Lyn (Jean Clark)

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.



94 :05x18 - Above and Beyond ... Nearly

First aired: Jan/31/1976
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Grant Goodeve (Larry), Florence Lake (Maggie), Lucille Benson (Annie), Hal Baylor (Frank), Linda Dano (Unknown), Liam Dunn (Amos), Kristin Larkin (Carol), David Mooney (Dentist), Richard Houts (Unknown), Dave Bowers (Helicopter Crewman, LACFD), Joe Kelly (Helicopter Pilot, LACFD), Johnny Miller (Victim)

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.



95 :05x19 - Grateful

First aired: Feb/07/1976
Writer: Michael Norell
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Ruth Buzzi (Amy Merkl), Dick Van Patten (Carter Merkle), Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), Jan Arvan (Restaurant Owner), Paul Brinegar (Grady), Royal Dano (Unknown), Thomas Bellin (Grant Elder), Zina Bethune (Robin Elder), Linda Stuart (Jean), Ted Hellmers (Helicopter 10 Pilot)

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.



96 :05x20 - The Great Crash Diet

First aired: Feb/21/1976
Writer: Timothy Burns
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest star: Bill Quinn (Nick), Holly Irving (Sarah), Michael Mullins (Bob Jensen), Harold 'Hal' Frizzell (Ambulance Attendant), Rick Podell (Frank), Ginger Mason (Unknown)

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.



97 :05x21 - The Tycoons

First aired: Feb/28/1976
Writer: Mark Massari, Robert Hamilton, John Groves
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Ted Gehring (Mr. Hobson), Sheila James Kuehl (Phyllis (as Shiela James)), Yale Summers (Manager), Mary Moon (Leigh), John Wyler (Roger)

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.



98 :05x22 - The Nuisance

First aired: Mar/06/1976
Writer: Robert Hamilton
Director: Randolph Mantooth
Guest star: Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), Joseph V. Perry (Mike), Coleen Gray (Clair Brightweiser), Joan Shawlee (Heather), Carole Cook (Nurse), Gretchen Corbett (Mary Lynn Smith), Ruth Gordon (Lenore), Matthew 'Stymie' Beard (Bar Owner), James G. Richardson (Craig Brice), Larry Carroll (Jeff Pitcher), Marla Adams (Soap Opera Patient), Morgan Jones (Captain, Engine 43), Howard McGillin (Dwyer), J.B. Friend (Fireman Dick Friend)

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.



The Steel Inferno

First aired: Jan/07/1978
Writer: Preston Wood, Robert A. Cinader
Director: Georg Fenady



Survival on Charter #220

First aired: Mar/25/1978
Writer: Robert A. Cinader, Hannah Louise Shearer
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II



Most Deadly Passage

First aired: Apr/04/1978
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II



Greatest Rescues of Emergency!

First aired: Dec/31/1978
Writer: Robert A. Cinader
Director: Robert A. Cinader



What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing...

First aired: Jun/26/1979
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Tom Williams (Frank Weber)



The Convention

First aired: Jul/03/1979
Writer: Hannah Louise Shearer, Robert A. Cinader
Director: Georg Fenady



99 :06x01 - The Game

First aired: Sep/25/1976
Writer: Christian I. Nyby, II
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Richard Paul (Tom Ellis), Jack Carter (Game Announcer), Larry Carroll (Walters), Jack Knight (Fan), Jesse Wayne (Photographer), Laurie Kennedy (Paramedic Coordinator), Steve Drexel ((unknown)), Polly Middleton ((unknown))

Roy and Johnny draw what might be an envious assignment: to provide medical coverage for a football game. But they're too busy with a choking victim, a man with breathing problems, an announcer who has a heart attack and a photographer. The also help a man trapped in a tree.



100 :06x02 - Not Available

First aired: Oct/02/1976
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: William Boyett (Captain, Engine 39), Wayne Heffley (Holt), Bever-Leigh Banfield (Second Woman (as Kristen Banfield)), Dorothy Love (Florence), Arnold F. Turner (Unknown), Ivy Bethune (May), Scott Arthur Allen (Unknown), Burt Cooper (Reed (as Burton Cooper)), Harold 'Hal' Frizzell (Ambulance Attendant), Scott Gourlay (LAPD Officer)

A rule forbidding squads from entering each others' jurisdiction causes a delayed response. Roy and Johnny treat a possible heart attack, a fainting victim, a man trapped in a car, and must rescue an escaped prisoner from a ledge when he flees out a window and his nerve fails.



101 :06x03 - The Unlikely Heirs

First aired: Oct/09/1976
Writer: Timothy Burns
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Paul Brinegar (Max), Robert Karnes (Cheryl's Dad), Elizabeth Kerr (Mrs. Evans), Jeannine Brown (Andy), Jim Stathis (Stuart), Bennye Gatteys (Cheryl), Poindexter Yothers (Andy), Duane Lewis (First Dispatcher, LACFD)

Firefighters rescue an elderly homeless man from a fire, and discover a small fortune in his mattress, a part of which he tries to donate to the station in gratitude, refusing to understand that they cannot take the money. A bride faints walking up the aisle and a plane crashes into a warehouse. At Rampart, Dixie must give a tetanus shot to a young boy.



102 :06x04 - That Time of Year

First aired: Oct/23/1976
Writer: Mort Thaw, Edward Robak
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Ronnie Schell (Allan Hendricks), Meg Wyllie (Mrs. Pastone), Pamela Susan Shoop (Marcia Emerson (as Pamela Shoop)), David Pritchard (Jack Grady (as Dave Pritchard)), Linda Gray (Judy), Don Fenwick (Larry), Amy Allen (Mrs. Grady)

Roy gets dizzy following a fire in a nightclub. Paramedics help an instructor injured while teaching self-defense and a pair of hang glider pilots following an unfortunate encounter with a cliff. As Roy's vacation draws near, the station becomes crowded with people offering destination advice.



103 :06x05 - Fair Fight

First aired: Oct/30/1976
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Kevin Tighe
Guest star: Terry Kiser (Lance), James Ingersoll (Guard Sergeant), Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), Anne Schedeen (Margo), Vernon Weddle (Dietrich), Jack Bender (Sills), Delos V. Smith, Jr. (Greg)

The laziest mascot in the long history of lazy mascots, Henry the Hound, joins Station 51, taking a place on the couch from which only great effort can dislodge him. At an industrial plant that does government work, plant security will not permit Roy and Johnny into a secret room to search for victims because they lack the needed clearance. A husband and wife who "therapeutically argue" keep allowing their arguments to escalate out of control. A tunnel cave-in traps Johnny when he tries to rescue as pair of injured workers.



104 :06x06 - Rules of Order

First aired: Nov/06/1976
Writer: James G. Richardson
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Beverly Johnson (Unknown), Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), Frank Aletter (Unknown), Ray Ballard (Press Agent), Sandy Balson (Unknown), Larry Manetti (Bert Dwyer), Bert Holland (Hoover), Scott Gourlay (Police Officer Scotty - LAPD), James G. Richardson (Craig Brice), Bob Belliveau (Bob (Brice´s Partner))

Johnny and Roy are called to serve on the paramedic advisory committee, and there encounter Johnny's temporary replacement, Craig Brice, a man with whom even easy-going Roy has difficulty working. A car hits a utility pole, injuring the lineman working atop it. Paramedics must make another climbing rescue: a pair of mountain climbers trapped on the side of a building.



105 :06x07 - The Exam

First aired: Nov/13/1976
Writer: Tom Egan
Director: Richard C. Bennett
Guest star: Jodean Lawrence (Mrs. Cooper), Bridget Hanley (Molly), Allan Lurie (Sam), Angelo De Meo (Ambulance Driver), Harold 'Hal' Frizzell (Ambulance Attendant)

Paramedics must from time to time prove they know their craft, and for Roy and Johnny that time has come: the dreaded recertification exams. While trying to cram, they must deal with a fireman's widow who has come to rely on the station just a little too much - to the point that when she actually needs help, they're not sure whether to believe her. Also, a stunt that goes wrong causes a fire.



106 :06x08 - Captain Hook

First aired: Nov/20/1976
Writer: Susan Alenick
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), William Bryant (Captain Engine 45), Joe Maross (Captain Hookrader), Jim B. Smith (Sergeant), Rick Podell (Mike Kandell), Bert Williams (Carter), Chad States (Terry), Joann Hicks (Polar Bear Model (as Joanne Hicks))

The firemen hold a retirement dinner - really a party - for a strict Captain they're happy to see the last of. Heat exhaustion overcomes a woman dressed as a bear. Firemen rescue a pair of CHP officers from a downed helicopter, and a family fears their mother has died.



107 :06x09 - Computer Terror

First aired: Dec/04/1976
Writer: Bruce Shelly
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), Ted Gehring (Unknown), Zitto Kazann (Unknown), Walt Davis (Unknown), Russ Grieve (Unknown), Duane Lewis (First Dispatcher, LACFD), Harold 'Hal' Frizzell (Ambulance Attendant)

Gage gets a windfall: a paycheck for thousands of dollars! It's a computer error, of course, but frustration mounts has he tries to put it right. A vagrant falls asleep in a junked car - and finds himself in a car crusher! Johnny and Roy face problems trying to help a man with back problems - from the man's dog! Firefighters must retrieve two injured men from a scaffold.



108 :06x10 - Welcome to Santa Rosa County

First aired: Dec/25/1976
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: James Jeter (Sheriff Bittner), Bill Watson (Tom), Carla Layton (Fisherman's Wife)

Johnny and Roy plan a fishing trip to Santa Rosa, but stranded climbers and a boat explosion delay them. Finally arriving, they offer their ideas to the local sheriff when he expresses interest in adding emergency medical services to his jurisdiction.



109 :06x11 - Paperwork

First aired: Jan/08/1977
Writer: John Groves
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Peter Brocco (Professor), William Bronder (Tree trimmer), Peter Kastner (Unknown), Laurie Kennedy (Nurse Patterson), Jeff Cotler (Mike), Angelo De Meo (Ambulance Attendant), Mary Angela Shea (Nurse), George Orrison (Ambulance Attendant)

Chet and Marko face the unpleasant task of correcting a filing problem caused by a computer error. A new supply system at Rampart still needs work, and the nurse in charge causes problems for the paramedics. A kid nearly drowns in a storm drain, a janitor drinks some *very old* wine and firemen respond to a warehouse blaze.



110 :06x12 - Loose Ends

First aired: Jan/15/1977
Writer: Dee Murphey
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), William Boyett (Chief McConnikee), William Bryant (Captain), Walter Mathews (Ed), Tara Talboy (Tina), John Zenda (LAPD Officer), Arnold F. Turner (Detective), Harold 'Hal' Frizzell (Ambulance Attendant), Michele Noval (Nurse Michele)

Doctor Brackett has a car accident that costs the other driver his life, and leaves that victim's daughter mute; the doctor's compassion leads him to blame himself. Later, the squad's fanbelt breaks, and when they pull over to repair it, Johnny and Roy become involved in a shootout, and eventually must treat a policeman with heart problems. Fire breaks out on a pier, and a boxcar full of ammonia makes fighting it far more dangerous.



111 :06x13 - An Ounce of Prevention

First aired: Jan/22/1977
Writer: Mort Thaw, Edward Robak
Guest star: Frank Farmer (Frank), Richard Carlyle (Bart Phillips), Dave Barry (Tom Jensen), Peggy Webber (Helen Phillips), Chad States (Unknown), Maureen Lee (Donna), Barbara Ellen Lyle (Unknown), Thomas Rosales, Jr. (Injured "Tom Jensen" Crewman)

Johnny volunteers himself and Roy to discuss fire prevention on a television show, and they become involved in a real emergency. A heart patient's treatment is complicated by the fact that he's trapped on a ferris wheel. A child eats a powerful pesticide. Chet tries to teach Henry tricks, not realizing he'd have more luck making the sun rise in the west!



112 :06x14 - Insanity Epidemic

First aired: Feb/05/1977
Writer: Robert Hamilton
Director: Randolph Mantooth
Guest star: Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), William Boyett (Battalion Chief), Branscombe Richmond (Ice Skating Clown), Bill Zuckert (Bill Nelson), Nancy Fox (Instructor), Betty Ann Carr (Lucy), Vince St. Cyr (Bruno), Angela May (Sandy Foster), Robert Pratt (Unknown), Ellen Moss (Thelma), Bob Shayne (Raymond Foster), Susan Alpern (Jody), Harold 'Hal' Frizzell (Ambulance Attendant)

Captain Stanley begins to worry when he learns one of his past captains is now his battalion chief, and his unfortunate mood proves contagious. Paramedics rescue a man whose car hits a truck carrying pesticides and a man shot in the chest by nail gun. The entire station tries to end a fight at an ice skating rink, and Marco is endangered by electricity and fire at a gas station.



113 :06x15 - Breakdown

First aired: Feb/12/1977
Writer: John Groves
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Joan Roberts (Jane), Richard Bakalyan (Charley (as Dick Bakalyan)), Brian Byers (Gerald), Jean Allison (Grace), Michele Noval (Nurse Michele)

An intermittent electrical problem periodically kills the power in the squad. Armed with a manual, Roy and Johnny set out to fix it, figuring it can't be that hard. A naturalist couple comes to Rampart with a version of anthrax. The paramedics rescue a man from an amusement part ride.



114 :06x16 - Family Ties

First aired: Feb/19/1977
Writer: Michael Raschella, Carole Raschella
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Howard Honig (Arthur Basye), Dirk Evans (Truck Driver), James Van Patten (Mark), Susan Lawrence (Susan Basye), Daniel Selby (Brandon), Debi Storm (Toni (as Debbie Storm)), Kyle Anderson (Admitting Nurse), Harold 'Hal' Frizzell (Ambulance Attendant), Michele Noval (Nurse Michele)

Roy dreads his mother-in-law's impending visit. Firemen must respond to a fire at... Rampart Emergency Hospital! A model rocket sets an attic on fire, endangering two kids and then Chet when he tries to rescue them. A quack nostrum gives a man lead poisoning, and doctors Brackett and Early argue over a medical convention in a very nice spot!



115 :06x17 - Bottom Line

First aired: Feb/26/1977
Writer: Charlene Bralver, Bob Bralver
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), Nick Pellegrino (Coach), Johnny Timko (Randy), Kedric Wolfe (Duke), Belle Ellig (Unknown), Harold 'Hal' Frizzell (Ambulance Attendant), Scott Gourlay (LAPD Officer), Mary Angela Shea (Nurse), George Orrison (Ambulance Attendant)

Roy and Johnny feel Dr. Morton is too cautious, keeping them at scenes too long and limiting their availability for other rescues. Dr. Morton, of course, believes his caution is appropriate, and all three of them end up arguing it out with Dr. Brackett as the unhappy referee. Paramedics help a drowning man they discover when responding to another call, and rescue Vince from a traffic accident, except that Vince's head injury changes his reality, and he nearly shoots Johnny! Rampart treats a child beaned by an errant baseball and a man injured by a phosphorus grenade.



116 :06x18 - Firehouse Quintet

First aired: Mar/05/1977
Writer: Christian I. Nyby, II
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Herb Vigran (Lou), Joanna Kerns (Unknown), Howard McGillin (Dwyer), James Westmoreland (Unknown), Harold 'Happy' Hairston (Unknown), George Orrison (Ambulance Attendant), John Price (Player for Station 16)

Station 51 reaches the semi-finals of the fire department basketball league, but exhaustion from a rough shift the night before may scuttle their chances to go farther. Rescues include a cafeteria fire, a gymnast's fall, and a workman trapped at a studio.



117 :06x19 - The Boat

First aired: Mar/12/1977
Writer: Hannah Louise Shearer
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), William Boyett (Chief Battalion 14), Ted Gehring (Clinton), Zitto Kazann (Alvie), Richard Bakalyan (Charley (as Dick Bakalyan)), Michele Noval (Nurse Michele)

Charlie, the man who keeps the station's equipment in good working order, stores a boat that he wants to sell in the back parking lot. The firemen decide they want to buy it as a kind of "time share" fishing boat. A bookie has a heart attack and the station has to break into his locked and barricaded office to reach him. A fire forces Rampart to evaculate, always a difficult task in a hospital.



118 :06x20 - Isolation

First aired: Mar/19/1977
Writer: John Groves
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), William Bryant (Unknown), Glenn Sipes (Third Officer), Linda Stuart (Dr. Slade (as Lyndel Stuart)), Angelo De Meo (Accident Victim)

When a storm washes out a bridge, Johnny and Roy find themselves trapped at Station 86. They're the only medical help in the area at first, and they treat victims of an auto accident, a kid with bronchitis, a woman with a possibly broken hip and a man with heart problems. When Copter 15 transports victims to Rampart, Doctor Morton returns, and just in time to help the victims of another auto accident. Rampart also treats the victim of a lighting strike.



119 :06x21 - Upward and Onward

First aired: Apr/02/1977
Writer: Michael Norell
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Leon Ames (Dr. Ned Tuttle), William Boyett (Chief McConn), Dabbs Greer (Dr. Hubert Nippert), Tom Williams (Arnold Williams), Tabi Cooper (Jody), Harold 'Hal' Frizzell (Ambulance Attendant), George Orrison (Ambulance Attendant), Michele Noval (Nurse Michele)

Captain Stanley wants to pass the battalion chief's exam, the first qualification for becoming a battalion chief. He's afraid an incident between him and the current battalion chief years earlier may derail his effort. A soap opera doctor with mononucleosis creates chaos all around him and a real doctor with a serious blood vessel disorder is stuck in an elevator. Luckily for him Johnny and Roy are stuck in it with him.



120 :06x22 - Hypochondri-Cap

First aired: Apr/16/1977
Writer: Bruce Shelly
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest star: Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), William Boyett (Battalion Chief), William Bryant (Unknown), George Brenlin (Mort), Abraham Alvarez (C-shift Foreman), Bette Ford (Juen Edwards), Charles Picerni (Worker), Michele Noval (Nurse Michele)

Captain Stanley thinks he has arthritis - but won't see a doctor, because if he's right, it's the end of his fire fighting career. Finally, his men set up an appointment for him. A man gets his hand caught in a garage door opener and the station works to extinguish a refinery fire.



121 :06x23 - Limelight

First aired: Apr/23/1977
Writer: James G. Richardson
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest star: Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), William Boyett (Chief McConnike), William Bryant (Captain, Engine 16), Walter Barnes (Mike Gold), Jeannie Fitzsimmons (Newswoman), Shannon Farnon (Mrs. Robinson), Steve Shaw (Earl Robinson), James G. Richardson (Craig Brice), Maud Strand (Erika), Harold 'Hal' Frizzell (Ambulance Attendant), George Orrison (Ambulance Attendant), Robert Hoff (Robert Bellingham), Michele Noval (Nurse Michele)

A man with heart problems becomes upset when his daughter is trapped under a backhoe, threatening his own health. A boy accidentally shoots himself with a pellet gun and a baby sitter can't catch her breath, requiring Dr. Brackett to treat her with a piece of equipment that costs about a penny. Everyone's favorite paramedic Craig Brice returns, having made the papers, and Johnny jealous. But Johnny has his chance to shine when he must rescue Craig from a fire. The aftermath of that earns Brice still more good press!



122 :06x24 - All Night Long

First aired: May/28/1977
Writer: Kevin Tighe
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest star: Vince Howard (Deputy Vince, LASD), James Griffith (Lester Bowles), Patti Jerome (Thelma Austin), Carmen Zapata (Woman Injured in Wreck), Ben Wright (Oscar Hubbs), Steven Marlo ((unknown)), Bill Walker (Mr. Jefferson), James McEachin (Julius Clark)

Roy and Johnny treat a singer suffering chest pains. The station responds to a night time auto accident and a daredevil attempting a tight walk between two buildings who has become trapped. Johnny tries to write a game show.