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The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and Rampart Hospital respond to emergencies in their operating area.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Emergency! Season 2 Episode 4 - Virus
    9.0/10(235 votes)

    #1 - Virus

    S2:E4

    A sick lady with a monkey provides the key to a mysterious, highly contagious, and deadly virus that strikes both Dr. Brackett and John. Meanwhile, the firemen rescue a boy from a treehouse and a man from a scaffold.

    Director:Lawrence Dobkin
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Emergency! Season 6 Episode 10 - Welcome to Santa Rosa County
    8.9/10(171 votes)

    #2 - Welcome to Santa Rosa County

    S6:E10

    Roy and John try to go fishing in Santa Rosa County, but are delayed when they rescue climbers from a cliff face and a fishing boat blows up. They help the sheriff come up with ideas for implementing emergency medical services in his county

    Directors:Christian Nyby, Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 6 - Snakebite
    8.8/10(209 votes)

    #3 - Snakebite

    S3:E6

    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.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 19 - The Hard Hours
    8.8/10(200 votes)

    #4 - The Hard Hours

    S3:E19

    Dr. Early is diagnosed with a heart condition and undergoes a bypass. A pro football player is embarrassed to admit that his son tackled him too hard. The firemen rescue a boy trapped in his homemade rocket, a woman with her toe stuck in a bathtub faucet, and an electrocution victim.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 12 - On Camera
    8.8/10(111 votes)

    #5 - On Camera

    S5:E12

    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.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 21 - The Tycoons
    8.8/10(108 votes)

    #6 - The Tycoons

    S5:E21

    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.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 22 - The Nuisance
    8.8/10(191 votes)

    #7 - The Nuisance

    S5:E22

    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.

    Director:Randolph Mantooth
    Writer:Hannah Louise Shearer

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  8. Emergency! Season 6 Episode 20 - Isolation
    8.8/10(121 votes)

    #8 - Isolation

    S6:E20

    Roy and John are trapped at Station 86 when a rain storm washes out the bridge, and they become the only medical treatment in the area. They assist two victims of an auto accident and a child with bronchitis. Doctors at the hospital treat a policeman hit by lightning. With the aid of a female psychiatrist, the paramedics treat an elderly woman with a hip injury and a man with heart trouble. Copter 15 transports the victims to the hospital, where a power failure complicates matters. Dr. Morton accompanies the paramedics back to Station 86, where they respond to an auto accident with multiple injuries.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Emergency! Season 6 Episode 24 - All Night Long
    8.8/10(109 votes)

    #9 - All Night Long

    S6:E24

    Gage tries to create his own television game show. An elderly musician experiences heart trouble. When a car runs a stop sign, three injuries result. A tightrope walker gets stuck between two buildings.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 1 - Decision a.k.a. Problem
    8.7/10(171 votes)

    #10 - Decision a.k.a. Problem

    S2:E1

    Roy and John rescue a man whose engine has fallen on him during his car repair work. When their two-way radio is broken, Roy treats the man without proper medical supervision, causing the man's doctor to attack the paramedic program. Also: a bull gores a motorcyclist, a doctor on a consult at the hospital dies of a heart attack, Roy rescues a child from a house fire.

    Directors:Christian Nyby, Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 1 - Frequency
    8.7/10(174 votes)

    #11 - Frequency

    S3:E1

    When Johnny's policeman friend is injured in a car crash, the paramedics can't reach the hospital because another squad is using the biophone. A child with a mysterious malady turns out to be drunk. Roy and John assist at the hospital when the victims of a motorcycle gang war are brought in for treatment. An artist becomes trapped in his own sculpture. A father and son are trapped in a collapse at a construction site.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 13 - Understanding
    8.7/10(147 votes)

    #12 - Understanding

    S3:E13

    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.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 15 - Inferno
    8.7/10(143 votes)

    #13 - Inferno

    S3:E15

    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.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 11 - Tee Vee
    8.7/10(110 votes)

    #14 - Tee Vee

    S5:E11

    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.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 17 - Involvement
    8.7/10(132 votes)

    #15 - Involvement

    S5:E17

    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.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Emergency! Season 6 Episode 12 - Loose Ends
    8.7/10(133 votes)

    #16 - Loose Ends

    S6:E12

    Johnny tries to win a ticket-selling contest. Dr. Backett blames himself when he is involved in a car accident that leaves the other driver dead and The driver's daughter refuses to speak. While repairing the squad, the paramedics find themselves in the middle of a shootout and treat a policeman with heart trouble. A boxcar full of ammonia complicates a fire on a pier.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Emergency! Season 6 Episode 23 - Hypochondri-Cap
    8.7/10(107 votes)

    #17 - Hypochondri-Cap

    S6:E23

    Captain Stanley convinces himself he has arthritis. A man gets his hand caught in his garage door opener; a woman passes out and has an auto accident; the doctors treat a woman infected from plastic surgery gone awry; Johnny tests a new type of rope; the station responds to a two-alarm fire at an oil refinery.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Bruce Shelly

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  18. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 7 - The Promotion
    8.6/10(134 votes)

    #18 - The Promotion

    S3:E7

    Roy passes the Engineer's test, but accepting the promotion will mean leaving the paramedics. A bad fog leads to a multi-car accident on the San Diego Freeway. A young crash victim has a heart murmur. The paramedics have difficulty responding to an attempted suicide. At a structure fire, Johnny is injured and Roy must rescue both him and a security guard.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 1 - The Stewardess
    8.6/10(143 votes)

    #19 - The Stewardess

    S5:E1

    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.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Emergency! Season 5 Episode 20 - The Great Crash Diet
    8.6/10(116 votes)

    #20 - The Great Crash Diet

    S5:E20

    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.

    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Emergency! Season 6 Episode 2 - Not Available
    8.6/10(112 votes)

    #21 - Not Available

    S6:E2

    The paramedics complain when a rule forbidding squads to cross each other's territories causes them to come late to an accident scene. An elderly woman is treated at the hospital. While transporting a non-vital patient, the paramedics respond to an auto accident. A prisoner breaks out of jail and gets trapped on a ledge

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Emergency! Season 6 Episode 19 - The Boat
    8.6/10(98 votes)

    #22 - The Boat

    S6:E19

    Richard Bakalyan returns as Charlie, Squad 51's trouble-prone mechanic. The paramedics decide to purchase a boat from Charlie, intendig to sail it on their days off and rent it to others when they're on duty. Of course, things don't quite go as planned, thanks to a wide variety of emergency calls, including the rescue of two boaters from a particularly treacherous stretch of water off Catalina Island, a bookie suffering from a coronary in a locked office, and an explosion in the hospital lab.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Hannah Louise Shearer

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  23. Emergency! Season 1 Episode 4 - Brushfire
    8.5/10(210 votes)

    #23 - Brushfire

    S1:E4

    Station 51 is called up to fight a wildfire. John and Roy rescue an elderly woman and her sister, treat an injured fireman, deliver a baby, catch a looter, and find a boy's lost dog.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  24. Emergency! Season 2 Episode 6 - Saddled
    8.5/10(192 votes)

    #24 - Saddled

    S2:E6

    Dixie injures her toe. John decides he can make a lot of money by riding in rodeos. The squad goes to a hole-in-the-wall restaurant when a soda bottle explodes in a girl's face; later, they return for a gas explosion. After falling from a tree, a young boy lapses into a coma. The firemen rescue several children and a nun from a bus crash.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Emergency! Season 3 Episode 2 - The Old Engine
    8.5/10(157 votes)

    #25 - The Old Engine

    S3:E2

    Roy and John buy an old fire engine, and Station 51 gets a new engine. A woman overdoses on LSD and Roy tries to talk her down, leading the two paramedics on a chase to the top of a building. Brackett treats a resilient gunshot victim. A politician suffers a heart attack and the station responds to a warehouse fire.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Virus" is the best rated episode of "Emergency!". It scored 9/10 based on 235 votes. Directed by Lawrence Dobkin and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/7/1972. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Welcome to Santa Rosa County".