Emergency!

- Season 3

(1973)

The paramedics and Rampart Hospital face serious medical challenges with multiple simultaneous emergency cases both being radioed in and when two biker gangs arrive together as casualties of a major gang fight.

While Station 51 and Rampart Hospital break in their new equipment, Roy and John purchase a vintage fire engine from a junkyard.

John discovers he's going to be a father... to kittens... when a pregnant stray cat appears on his bed, and Boot the Dog is not happy about the cat being there. The paramedics rescue a family involved in a plane crash; the father dies, the mother and young daughter are injured, and a grizzled junk dealer who got his foot stuck in a bear trap. A stage actress is suffering from tachycardia after getting a bad review of her performance, where Dr. Brackett takes care of her, while Dixie talks to the husband. The firemen assist a child sickened by a gas leak at a school ...

A paramedic from England rides with Roy & John to observe the paramedic program at work, and is present during a fire caused by a molotov cocktail thrown at a policeman, helping a wild-west performer with an injured finger, a traffic accident involving a car loaded with marijuana, and a man trapped in a construction site; during the rescue John nearly falls off a scaffold and the visitor saves his life. A rock singer, who is brought into the ER in a diabetic coma complicated by pneumonia, and her manager is more concerned with the money lost than her well being, ...

Johnny injures his shoulder during a rescue of a pregnant woman in labor. When the baby's born with a cleft palate, she's determined to give him up for adoption, until Dixie and Dr. Brackett speak with her. Dr. Morton reads Johnny the riot act about his physical condition, which starts the paramedic on a fitness regimen. Dr. Early treats the son of a drug-addicted mother who suffered an electric shock putting a screwdriver into a TV. The paramedics treat a stabbing victim and the man he shot; then the police have to talk the son out of shooting the man who shot his ...

Returning from a fishing trip, Roy, John, and Chet help the victims of a car accident. On duty, after rescuing some joyriders whose car went over a cliff, John is bitten by a rattlesnake.

As Roy contemplates leaving the paramedics to accept a promotion to Engineer, Squad 51 is occupied with the usual work such a major fog caused multi-car pile-up.

John is suffering from insomnia due to the lack of night runs, but during their day runs the firemen respond to an accident aboard a boat where a butane tank exploded en route to the marina. Dixie, Drs. Brackett & Early treat a boy who suffered a skull fracture when his father swerved to avoid a dog in the road, then a home-grown marijuana smoker who is dying from an unknown ailment until his friend reveals his plants was grown with parathion). Later the firemen rescue a worker pinned under a semi truck at the loading dock and a man and boy who fell into a gravel pit.

A child is trapped in a car under downed power lines. A stockbroker 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. Dr. Early administers first aid to two young boys. A teenager loses a hamburger eating contest. The paramedics treat a burn victim at an explosive structure fire.

Johnny and Roy are guests on a local talk show about their job, and Dixie saw Johnny on the television interview & she noted that he appeared to suffer from stage fright where Roy had to "fill in the blanks." The paramedics check on a woman who screams for therapeutic reasons at a construction site, then rescue a boy who attempts suicide by jumping off a ledge. After being brought in, Drs. Brackett and Early suspect his mother has been abusing him, while Dixie offers the boy chocolate milk & protects him at the same time. Back in the field, the paramedics assist a ...

The paramedics find a mechanic in a catatonic state while responding to a vehicle fire at a garage, and the Rampart doctors are unable to determine the cause of his condition. Roy & John lecture a frequent caller on the dangers of constantly calling them because she's lonely, then respond to a woman who mixed ammonia with bleach and inhaled poisonous chloramine vapor. Paula Slayton returns to give John a Yorkie pup, keeping a promise made to him for caring for her dog while she was hospitalized; Boot and the pup engage in a wild chase around the fire station, ...

John's current girlfriend misinterprets a discussion for a wedding proposal. The firemen assist a pilot of a crop-duster spraying parathion that crashed and punctured his lung, and poisons a bystander with the pesticide. An injured boy using a walker wants to use crutches instead, Dixie provides him with crutches. A man gets treated for an ear infection caused by mothballs, and Drs. Brackett, Early, and Morton unanimously agree the man doesn't need a hospital stay. The paramedics treat a couple who OD'd on daffodil bulbs mixed with alcohol, a weekend cowboy who fell ...

John gives Chet his guitar. At an explosive structure fire, a girl's horse is trapped in a burning barn. Dr. Brackett and Nurse McCall lecture a man who keeps forgetting his insulin shots. A girl calls the hospital, threatening suicide; firemen stand by while hospital workers attempt to trace the call. A hostage in a bank robbery has heart problems; the paramedics must treat him at gunpoint.

John gets a credit card bill for $842 (should have been $8.42) after taking a girl on a date, and the station (and Dixie) hear all about it. The firemen rescue a young couple from a traffic accident; the boy has a spinal cord injury and the girl may be pregnant and Dr. Early is reluctant to take x-rays until her condition is determined. Later the paramedics help a woman that fell into an old well, a magician trapped in a safe, and a man trapped in an junkyard fire that turns explosive when stored ammunition starts going off.

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 courtroom with an apparent heart attack. Roy and John finally make it to the brushfire and become trapped while rescuing another firefighter.

Chet (aka "The Phantom Bomber") nails Johnny with a number of practical jokes, for which Johnny later gets his revenge. A child is stuck in a tree house (with the tree burning underneath) and is rescued by Johnny; the girl's widowed mother takes an interest in him, all the while, Dixie takes care of her, who also has slight burns. An elderly man and frequent visitor to Rampart, "Old Bill," visits the girl. Dixie, Drs. Brackett and Early think "Old Bill" is a hypochondriac until Roy and John find him unconscious in his home with septic shock. Johnny and Roy help a ...

Dissatisfied with a young intern's arrogant attitude towards paramedics and accident victims, Dr. Brackett orders him to ride with Squad 51 for a day.

Roy and John save a man who had his partial dental plate stuck in his trachea and stopped his breathing, this leads Dixie, Drs. Early and Morton, to discover the problem. Roy takes care of a young woman's plants while she is hospitalized while John tries to woo a young nurse. A young girl who had a fall injury (Kim Richards) suffers a dog bite, and when her religious parents prevent Dr. Brackett from treating it, Dixie calls in the hospital chaplain. The station rescue two men (one trapped in a vat of wine) in a winery fire, The station responds to a fire in a winery,...

Dr. Early becomes a patient as he is diagnosed with a heart condition and undergoes a bypass operation, after fixing Station 51's truck. Dixie becomes more concerned about Early's operation, after Roy and John exchange words with her. A professional football player is hit hard by his son and suffers a broken ankle, much to his embarrassment. The firemen rescue a boy trapped in his homemade rocket, a young woman whose toe is stuck in a bathtub faucet, and a worker electrocuted when the basket he's working in slips onto live wires. Dr. Early's operation is a success, ...

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

Roy's house is being fumigated & John offers to host his partner, which is a decision both soon regret. John also calls Dixie at the hospital for a radio check, which looks good. The paramedics rescue a woman trapped inside a burning car; later the ambulance transporting the woman & Roy is involved in a traffic accident caused by a drunk driver, and John doubles back to assist. Dixie, Drs. Early & Morton treat Roy & John with their separate bodily abrasions. A poker player suffering a heart attack refuses to be transported until John plays out his hand, and the ...

The firemen enter a contest to invent new firefighting tools. The paramedics handle victims of possible radiation poisoning. A comatose man is suffering from a mysterious ailment. John gives Dr. Early the booze to give to Dixie. A woman's overweight son is wedged in her living room ceiling. The firemen respond to a leak at a chemical plant.