Emergency

Season 1

   
   

Frame (from Season 4) TVLand #077 / 078

        1. Non-Frame
        2. Script #42898 & 42899

Emergency! (pilot movie) [a.k.a.: The Wedsworth-Townsend Act] - Airdate: 1/15/72

Writers: Harold Jack Bloom and R.A. Cinader; Director: Jack Webb

Guest Cast: Martin Milner, Kent McCord, Jack Kruschen, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Lew Brown, Art Balinger, Virginia Gregg, Herb Vigran, Colby Chester, Kathryn Kelly Wiget, Don Ross.

[Note: this program may be shown in frame or non-frame format.]

THEME! [Frame Format: Returning from a run, Johnny and Roy reminisce about the start of the paramedic program and how far things have come.] Roy convinces Johnny to join the paramedic program. They have to deal with the opposition from both medical and civil authorities, including one of their staunchest opponents: Dr Brackett. Eventually seeing the advantages of the program, Dr Brackett's testimony proves the key to getting paramedic legislation passed.

 

TVLand #001

Script #34401

      1. Mascot – Airdate – 1/22/72
      2. Writer: Preston Wood: Director: Lawrence Dobkin

        Guest Cast: Patricia McAneny, Linda Watkins, Jock Mahoney, Beverly Powers, Jeff Davis, Roland Barton, Candace Howerton, Susan O'Connell.

        THEME! Johnny takes care of a woman’s dog.

        1-Woman involved in an accident is concerned about her dog so Johnny to takes care of it.

        2-Johnny and Roy treat a man with chest pains and deal with his drunk party guests.

        3-They later fly out to a remote area to rescue an injured hunter who fell off a cliff.

         

        TVLand #002

        Script #34409

        Botulism - Airdate – 1/29-72 Writer: Michael Donovan; Director: Herschel Daugherty

        Guest Cast: Calvin Bartlett, Anne Whitfield, Paul Langton, Virginia Vincent, William

        Stevens, Virginia Gregg, Susan Seaforth, Joshua Albee, Harlan Carraher, Bruce Powers.

        THEME! A man brought is brought in with botulism.

        1-Johnny plots his revenge after being the repeated target of practical jokes.

        2-A woman fakes an illness.

        3-Dr. Early’s stethoscope becomes lodged in his ear.

        4-A man breaks his back falling off a tower

        5-A man brought into the hospital from a movie set is the first indication of an outbreak of botulism.

        6-Roy and Johnny rescue a boy trapped in a collapsed building, with a Kennedy Probe.

         

        TVLand #003

        Script #34406

        Cook's Tour - Airdate – 2/12/72

        Writer: Daryl Henry; Director: Christian Nyby

        Guest Cast: Frank Aletter, Jacqueline Russell, Dennis Rucker, Dorothy Green, Virginia Gregg, Lew Brown, Bill Henry, Scott Smith, Barbara Sigel, Dorothy Konrad.

        THEME! Roy worries that the guys won’t like his cooking.

        1-Johnny delivers a cyanotic baby

        2-A boy gets his hand stuck in a vase

        3-A man repairing a washer gets an electric shock.

        4-A man is trapped on a crane.

        TVLand #004

        Script #34402

        Brushfire – Airdate – 1/29/72

        Writer: Robert C. Dennis; Director: Hollingsworth Morse

        Guest Cast: Gary Crosby, Ellen Moss, Bob Hastings, Tony Dow, Trent Lehman, Edith Evanson, Lillian Bronson, Vince Howard, Art Ballinger

        THEME! Station 51 is called up to fight an out-of-control brushfire.

        1-An elderly woman breaks her ankle, a fireman is trapped and injured and under a fallen tree, a man injured by a horse stampede, a looter is injured in a motorcycle accident, a boy breaks his arm and loses his dog,. The fire also threatens the house of a pregnant woman in labor who can’t be moved.

         

        TVLand #005

        Script #34404

        Dealer's Wild - Airdate – 2-26-72

        Writer: Carey Wilbur; Director: Lawrence Dobkin

        Guest Cast: Lou Krugman, Coleen Gray, Marian Collier, Mitch Carter, Buddy Foster, Sonja Dunson, Susan Madigan, Peggy Drier.

        THEME! Johnny keeps losing at cards and being stuck with doing the dishes at the station, so he creates his own card game.

        1-Roy talks down a boy in a plane after the pilot (his father) has a heart attack.

        2-A man attempts suicide three different ways.

        3-The station responds to an overturned gasoline tanker.

        4-A teenager overdoses and Roy and Johnny have to deal with disinterested bystanders.

         

        TVLand #006

        Script #34405

        Nurses' Wild – Airdate – 3/4/72

        Writer: Fred Frieberger; Director: Herschel Daughtery

        Guest Cast: Royal Dano, Kip Niven, Christine Dixon, Victor Izzy, Chris Forbes, Patricia Mickey, Sarah Fankboner, Vince Howard, Colby Chester.

        THEME! Sparks fly between Johnny and a student nurse.

        1-A store owner shoots an armed robber and is filled with remorse.

        2-Dr. Early deals with a man suffering from the DT’s.

        3-A dog delays the rescue of an unconscious woman.

        4-Dr. Morton assumes an unconscious hippie is on drugs, not drugs, Black Widow spider.

        5-The firemen rescue a man trapped on pipes at a chemical plant.

         

        TVLand #007

        Script #34407

        Publicity Hound - Airdate – 3/12/72

        Writer: Michael Donovan; Director: Christian Nyby

        Guest Cast: Gene Raymond, Gary Crosby, Sallie Shockley, Barry Higgins, Bill Baldwin, Edith Diaz, Scott Allen, Ted Gehring, William Bryant.

        THEME! Wheeler constantly makes news with simple rescues, thanks to a reporter's help.

        1-After Roy and John rescue a man trapped in ship's rigging, John gets seasick.

        2-Dr. Brackett's lack of diplomacy leads to a run-in with an affluent parent.

        3-The paramedics rescue a horse from a ditch and a child stuck in a well.

         

        TVLand #008

        Script #34410

      3. Weird Wednesday – Airdate – 3/18/72
      4. Writer: Daryl Henry; Director: Lawrenc t #e Dobkin
      5. Guest Cast: Jeanette Nolan, Arnold Stang, Henny Backus, Sherry Bain, Helen Baron, Anne Collins, Chris Forbes, Patricia Mickey, Pam Peters, William Katt (uncredited).

        THEME! Johnny is convinced that weird things will happen on their shift.

        1-A parachutist lands in a tree.

        2-A man collapses with chest pains while jogging.

        3-An 80-year-old woman breaks her ankle while celebrating her birthday, and the party moves to Rampart.

        4-A man can’t stop the hiccups.

        5-A boy tries to cryogenically freeze himself.

        6-A woman is bitten by a rattle snake.

        7-A seaman in pain shows up at Rampart but doesn't speak English.

        8-A drunk in a car goes over an embankment, which causes a problem for Johnny, injuring his knee.

         

      6. TVLand #009
      7. Script #34411
      8. Dilemma – Airdate – 3/25/72
      9. Writer: Michael Donovan; Director: Christian Nyby

Guest Cast: Seymour Cassel, Benny Rubin, Patricia Mickey, Chris Forbes, Hal Baylor, Marilyn Hassett, Bill McLean, Scott Allen, Robert E. Kline.

THEME! A fireman buff develops a crush on Johnny but Johnny isn't interested.

1-An elevator gets stuck between floors and the brake drum fails; inside a man suffers heart problems.

2-A nursing student is in awe of Dr. Brackett.

3-A man has a problem with methane gas.

4-Two men are overcome by solvent at a railyard.

 

TVLand #010

Script #34408

Hang-up - Airdate – 4/8/72

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: Lawrence Dobkin

Guest Cast: Mort Saul, Shelly Novak, Chris Forbes, Savannah Bentley, Lew Brown

THEME! Johnny gets "hung up" on an episode of Adam-12 that is interrupted by a call.

1-The station rescues a would-be burglar from an air duct.

2-A man is trapped and injured in a radioactive room, and Johnny and Roy are contaminated.

3-An interrupted bar-room brawl resumes at Rampart.

4-A surfer with a bad attitude makes an already difficult night at Rampart even worse.

5-Dr. Brackett treats a woman suffering from a migraine.

 

TVLand #011

Script #34403

Crash - Airdate – 4/15/72

Writer: Gerald Sanford; Director: Christian Nyby

Guest Cast: Cicely Tyson, Gary Crosby, William Bramley, Don Matheson, John Smith, Francine York, Sandy deBruin, Edmund Cambridge, Eric Laneuville, Patricia Mickey, Buddy Lester, Ronne Troup, Chris Forbes.

THEME! In a remote area, Roy and Johnny rescue the occupants of a light plane crash.

1-John and Roy bring in a football player who was tackled too hard.

2-A burglar has a heart attack.

3-Johnny wants Roy to apologize for calling him "some kind of nut."

4-Dr. Early treats a hypochondriac.

5-A babysitter brings in a child who has swallowed some pills.

6-Roy and John rescue the occupants of a light plane that crashed in a tree.

 

Season 2

 

TVLand #012

Script #35701

Problem - Airdate – 9/16/72

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II

Guest Cast: Lloyd Bochner

THEME! When their two-way radio is broken, Roy treats a victim without medical supervision, causing the man's doctor to attack the paramedic program.

1-Roy and Johnny rescue a man whose car engine has fallen on him while he was making repairs.

2-A doctor suffers a heart attack.

3-A boy is trapped in a fire.

 

TVLand #013

Script #35708

Kids - Airdate - 9/23/72 Writer: Michael Donovan; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Roger Perry, Jaeckel, Anne Whitfield, Christian Juttier, Gary Clarke, John Travolta

THEME! A number of kids get into trouble.

1-The station adopts a stray dog, which they name Boot.

2-A boy falls down a hole, though Dr. Brackett is sure his injuries are a result of abuse rather than the fall, and is warned that his pursuit of the matter could jeopardize his career.

3-Roy and Johnny rescue a boy trapped who's head is trapped in a crawlspace vent.

4-Dr. Early extracts a child’s arm from a steering wheel.

5-At a brush fire, Boot helps locate an injured hiker, then leaves with a hook and ladder truck.

 

TVLand #014

Script #35711

Show Biz - Airdate – 9/30/72

Writer: Daryl Henry; Director: Sam C. Freedle

Guest Cast: Henry Jones, Christine Dixon, Lillian Lehman, Joseph Kaufman, Ted Gehring, Monica Lewis, Deidre Hall, Joseph Perry, Ezra Stone

THEME! There’s a photography shoot at the station and Johnny gets picked to be in the pictures.

1-When Johnny and Roy can't reach Rampart, a country doctor assists them with an injured man pinned under a tractor, and then becomes a victim himself.

2-The paramedics rescue a man drowning in a swimming pool and two stuntmen trapped on a waterfall at a movie studio.

 

TVLand #015

Script #35702

Virus - Airdate – 10/7/72

Writer: Daryl Henry; Director: Lawrence Dobkin

Guest Cast: Skye Aubrey, Dennis Patrick, William Gray Espy, Jean Allison, Patricia Mickey, Cathy Lee Crosby, Mitch Carter, Vic Vallers, Philip Brown, Vince Howard, Deidre Hall

THEME! A Monkey Virus strikes Johnny, Brackett and another fireman.

1-Roy and Johnny rescue a boy with an inner ear problem from a tree house.

2-The station responds to a call where a man is injured on a scaffold.

3-A sick lady with a monkey provides the key to a mysterious, highly contagious, and deadly virus that strikes several people including Brackett and Johnny.

 

TVLand #016

Script #35706

Peace Pipe - Airdate – 10/14/72 Writer: Michael Donovan; Director: Christian Nyby

Guest Cast: Brooke Bundy, William Campbell, Kip Niven, Vince Howard, Renee Lippin, Joe Pizzorusso, Tom Waters

THEME! Chet pesters Johnny about his Native American heritage.

1-A drunk driver rams a parked car, trapping a child inside.

2-A youngster gets his hand stuck in a gumball machine.

3-A woman has a problem with her new girdle.

4-The station must discover how dangerous fuel oil got into the water system.

5-A sniper makes a scaffold rescue dangerous.

 

TVLand #017

Script #35707

Saddled - Airdate – 10/21/72

Writer: Herb Purdum; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Larry Storch, Elizabeth Baur, Kelly Troup, Michael Rupert, Deidre Hall, Jay Hammer, Barbara Bosson, Christopher Guardino, Edward Crawford

THEME! Johnny decides he can make extra money by riding in rodeos.

1-Dixie has a run-in with a portable x-ray machine.

2-A soda bottle explodes in a girl's face.

3-The squad goes to a hole-in-the-wall restaurant when a soda bottle explodes in a girl's face, they return later when a man is injured in a gas explosion.

4-A child falls out of a tree.

5-A bus, with school children and a nun, goes off an embankment

 

TVLand #018

Script #35712

Fuzz Lady - Airdate – 11/4/72 Writer: Michael Donovan; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II:

Guest Cast: Paul Fix, Sharon Gless, J. Pat O'Malley, Ellen Moss, Nate Esformes, Drout Miller, Eric Server, William Durkin, Vince Howard, Meg Wyllie, Scott Barrett.

THEME! Johnny falls for a lady deputy when the squad is called to treat a mugger.

1-Items are stolen from Rampart's Emergency Department.

2-Roy and Johnny rescue an elderly man with apparent senility from a fire.

3-Boot returns to the station.

4-A grandfather and grandson sustain minor injuries in a model rocket explosion.

5-A man is injured and trapped on a drilling platform crane when he tries to steal a boat.

 

TVLand #019

Script #35715

Trainee - Airdate – 11/11/72

Writer: Jim Owens; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: Robert Pratt, Jackie Coogan, Charles H. Gray, Vince Howard, Lillian Lehman, Ron Henriquez, Anthony Eldridge, Iris Korn, Wynn Irwin

THEME! A former Vietnam medic is now a paramedic trainee and constantly thinks he knows more than Roy, Johnny, or the doctors at Rampart.

1-Roy, Johnny, and the trainee interrupt a purse snatching.

2-Save a man who fell down a cliff

3-Help a woman overdosed on prescription drugs

4-Treat a man suffering from an insulin reaction.

 

TVLand #020

Script #35713

Women - Airdate – 11/25/72

Writer: Daryl Henry; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Leslie Charleston, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Dick Van Patten, Joshua Bryant, Michael Richardson, Stacy Harris, Janie Baldwin, Randall Carver, Susan Damonte, Lillian Lehman

THEME! An attractive female journalist accuses the crew of male chauvinism.

1-She covers the Squad's rescues of a man trapped in a truck under live power lines,

2-Doctors treat a boy poisoned by wild hemlock and a girl addicted to drugs.

3-The paramedics rescue a man trapped in a sofabed

4-A man gets his arm stuck in a garbage disposal.

5-Two victims in a bombed building, the bomber and a child. Johnny gets trapped in the same building.

 

TVLand #021

Script #35705

Dinner Date - Airdate - 12/2/72

Writer: Dick Morgan; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: Lynn Carlin, Jean Alison, Emily Yancy, Michael C. Gwynn, Dawn Lyn,

Laurette Spang, Drout Miller, Judy Farrell, Patty McCormack, Deidre Hall

THEME! Roy tries to set Johnny up with Joanne's cousin.

1-A woman almost hits a boy on a bike, who chokes, she later has an epileptic fit.

2-A man is shot by his father-in-law when he learns his daughter is married and pregnant.

3-Three drug addicts are treated in the hospital.

4-A woman with gangrene; a girl whose drugs were laced with sodium hydroxide; a man with tetanus.

5-An alcoholic, an obese man with a pacemaker, and a child whose arm is caught in a pool drain.

 

TVLand #022

Script #35717

Musical Mania - Airdate – 12/9/72

Writer: Kenneth Dorward; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II

Guest Cast: Russell Wiggins, Kathleen Cackle, Kathryn Kelly Wiget, Scottie MacGregor, Lillian Lehman, Molli Benson, Deidre Hall, Stephen Hudis, Alice Hunn

THEME! After Chet cracks a joke about Johnny playing the squad’s horn, Johnny takes up the bagpipes, trombone, and guitar.

1-Paramedics help a gardener suffering from tetanus.

2-The father of a boy suffering from lead poisoning is reluctant to have it treated.

3-The firemen rescue the driver of an ice cream truck.

4-A schoolgirl dies from an overdose.

5-A glider pilot crash lands.

6-A man working under his house is trapped.

 

TVLand #023

Script #35714

Helpful - Airdate – 12/16/72

Writer: Preston Woods; Director: Lawrence Dobkin

Guest Cast: Melissa Gilbert, Alicia Bond

THEME! Roy and his wife have a fight, and Johnny just makes things worse by trying to help.

1-The firemen rescue a man from precarious auto wreck.

2-A new doctor who is emotionally & physically exhausted makes some wrong judgments.

3-Doctors diagnose a woman’s heart condition.

4-Paramedics rescue a dog from a roof.

5-The station must find and rescue two children lost in a storm drain before it floods.

 

TVLand #024

Script #35709

Drivers - Airdate – 1/6/73

Writer: Jim Owens; Director: Samuel Freedle

Guest Cast: Dick Yarmy, Vic Mohica, Frank Maxwell, Lillian Lehman, Molli Benson, Johnny Hartman, Jackie Russell, James Beach

THEME! Johnny gets bugged about other people's bad driving habits.

1-A college quarterback experiences back pain.

2-Roy and Johnny's former paramedic instructor dies, while Roy and John themselves teach a CPR class.

3-A boy gets stuck inside a tree.

4-The station responds to a night call which turns out to be a dumpster, then responds to a hotel fire where a man is suffering from a heart-attack.

 

TVLand #025

Script #35703

School Days - Airdate - 1/13/73 Writer: Kenneth Dorward; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II

Guest Cast: Kip Niven, Ian Wolfe, Michael James Wixted, Ann Doran, Sandy deBruin

THEME! A new trainee appears to be lacking in confidence.

1-An elderly gentleman is trapped under a bookcase.

2-A baseball player is injured.

3-An ambulance is hit by a car.

4-A boy’s chemistry set explodes in his face.

5-Students play a practical joke on a sleeping man.

6-A man is trapped and injured at an auto salvage yard.

 

TVLand #026

Script #35721

The Professor - Airdate – 2/3/73

Writer: Michael Donovan; Director: Christian I Nyby II

Guest Cast: Hedley Mattingly, Paul Picerni, Jane Merrow

THEME! A man shows signs of schizophrenia and the Secret Service won't give any clues.

1-Roy has an admirer, yet Johnny accuses him of having no charisma.

2-The paramedics respond to a false alarm with Boat 10, and end up saving the victim of a plane crash.

3-They also deliver a premature baby,

4-and rescue a man threatening to jump off a tall building.

 

TVLand #027

Script #35719

Syndrome - Airdate – 2/10/73 Writer: Michael Donovan; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: Robert Alda, Jack Carter, Casey MacDonald, Barbara Brownell, Kres Mersky, Ta-Tanisha, Dub Taylor, Michael Morgan, Perry Castellano.

THEME! Johnny tries to convince Roy that he has tonsillitis.

1-An old flame of Dixie's, who is now a famous actor, is admitted to Rampart.

2-Two kids are trapped on top of a gas tank.

3-A girl's college ball-game turns violent.

4-Boot has surgery to remove a tick

5-Dr. Early deals with a hypochondriac.

6-Station 51, along with other engines is called to a fire in an abandoned hospital. Chet is injured during a rescue in an abandoned hospital.

 

TVLand #028

Script #35722

Honest - Airdate – 2/17/73

Writer: Daryl Henry; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II

Guest Cast: Michael Lerner, Ann Whitfield, Cheryl Miller, Beverly Saunders, Doug Rowe, Heidi Wynn, Vincent Perry.

THEME! Roy and Johnny argue over whether the truth should always be told.

1-A gas explosion results from a white lie, prompting Johnny to go on an honesty kick.

2-At the hospital, doctors work to save a boy who is inexplicably choking to death.

3- A young man attempts a high dive off a roof, into a pool, and misses.

4-and a baby and his blind grandfather trapped in a burning house.

 

TVLand #029

Script #35720

Seance - Airdate – 2/24/73

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Fintan Meyler, Bruce Kirby, Jr., Suzanne Charny, Charles Aidman, Laurie Brighton.

THEME! The squad responds to several calls at a house where the wife is convinced the bad things that happen to her husband are the result of her recently deceased sister.

1-An over-tranquilized teenager is brought to Rampart.

2-The paramedics rescue a man pinned under a stack of heavy cartons.

3-Johnny and Roy rescue a man trapped underwater in his car.

 

TVLand #030

Script #35718

Boot - Airdate - 3/3/73 (postponed from 1/27/73)

Writer: Preston Woods; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II

Guest Cast: Vic Tayback, Ann Prentiss, Zack Taylor, Susan Madigan, John Mahoney

THEME! The Station becomes concerned when their mascot becomes listless and refuses to eat.

1-The station must rescue a young woman whose sports car is pinned under a gasoline truck.

2-A woman keeps having to be rescued from her cooking disasters.

3-An unconscious man is brought in to the hospital suffering from internal bleeding.

4-Dr. Early cures a curse(?).

5-Explosion and fire at Rampart.

Note: Jamie Farr appears in this episode, but is not credited. (He was credited in episode 2.12, but did not appear.) This episode was originally schedule to air on 1/27/73, but was pre-empted due to NBC News coverage of the Vietnam cease fire. TVLand edited this part out completely...

 

TVLand #031

Script #35723

Rip-Off - Airdate – 3/10/73

Writer: Michael Donovan; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II

Guest Cast: Regis Cordic, Maria-Elena Cordero, Charles McGraw, Morgan Paul, Harry Townes, Art Gilmore, Vince Howard, Iris Korn, Borah Silver, Charles Lampkin.

THEME! Roy and Johnny are accused of stealing money from a heart-attack victim.

1-A pregnant woman and her husband are involved in a car accident.

2-The station rescues a pilot & co-pilot from a plane leaking dangerous liquid oxygen.

 

TVLand #032

Script #35725

Audit - Airdate – 4/7/73

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: James McEachin, Kathy Cannon, Robert Porter, Ross Elliott, Kathleen King

THEME! Johnny is audited by the IRS.

1- A man hit on the head wants to be treated by a doctor, not the paramedics.

2-A child is rescued from a locked car.

3- Dr. Brackett treats a pregnant woman with a heart defect.

4- A professional medical con man shows up at Rampart.

5-The station struggles to free a construction worker who is trapped and injured in a building collapse and wants Roy to amputate his leg before the rest of the building falls.

 

NEVER SHOWN

Script #35716

Richter Six - Airdate

Writer: Michael Donovan

NOTE: I only have the script for the episode.

Bits and pieces seemed to have been used in other episodes later.

THEME! This story opens with Johnny and Roy talking with a new group of paramedic students. One of the students asks what's the "hairiest" rescue Johnny and Roy had been on and Roy begins to talk about an earthquake that had happened sometime in the past (the script is written in flash-back format). The squad and engine respond to quake-damaged Alameda Hospital where they meet up with Dixie and Early who are

helping evacuate the hospital. Roy worries about his family, not having any information on that area of the county. Johnny and Roy attempt to rescue several trapped patients and hospital workers from the wreckage. Early lowers himself down on a rope at one point (sorry I missed that!) to finish an interrupted appendectomy on a little girl. Johnny and Roy get assistance from a blinded doctor when their patient goes into cardiac arrest, unbeknownst to the doctor, Brackett and Morton deliver his wife's premature baby. Chet breaks his shoulder trying to tunnel under some wreckage to find survivors (sound familiar?).

 

Season 3

 

TVLand #033

Script #37401

Frequency - Airdate – 9/22/73

Writer: Kenneth Dorward; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: Pamela McMyler, Don Kelly, Linda Kelsey, John Dennis, Cedric Wolfe, Ron Townsend

THEME! Four paramedic units have to share the same frequency for broadcasts to Rampart. Johnny must deal with the death of Drew.

1-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.

2-A child with a mysterious malady turns out to be drunk.

3-Roy and John assist at the hospital when the victims of a motorcycle gang war are brought in for treatment.

4-An artist becomes trapped in his own sculpture.

5-A father and son are trapped in a collapse at a construction site.

 

TVLand #034

Script #37402

The Old Engine - Airdate – 9/29/73

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: Christian I. Nyby,

Guest Cast: Ross Elloitt, Michael Conrad, Laurette Spang, Regina Parton, Ann Doran,

Raymond Man, Lorraine Baptist

THEME! Roy and Johnny buy a 1932 fire engine and Station 51 gets a new engine.

1-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.

2-Brackett treats a resilient gunshot victim.

3-A politician suffers a heart attack and

4-the station responds to a warehouse fire.

 

TVLand #035

Script #37407

Alley Cat - Airdate – 10/6/73

Writer: Charlene Sukins; Director: Alan Crosland

Guest Cast: Brooke Bundy, Virginia Gregg, Lee Bergere, Nelson Olmstead, William Challee, George Ives, X Brands, Shirley O'Hara

THEME! A stray cat decides to have her kittens on Johnny's bed at the station.

1-A family is trapped in a downed airplane

2-An old man gets his foot caught in a bear trap

3-A stage actress suffers an anxiety attack

4-A school develops a gas leak

5-Roy and John rescue the victim of a boating accident.

 

TVLand #036

Script #37416

An English Visitor - Airdate – 10/13/73

Writer: Michael Donovan; Director: Alan Crosland

Guest Cast: Jaimie Ross, Lucille Benson, Craig Curtis, Judi Meredith, Stanley Kamel, Mira L. Waters, Barbara Boles, Jack Bailey, Art Balinger.

THEME! A paramedic from England has a stint with Station 51.

1-5- Their rescues include: a badly burned policeman trapped in an elevator, a car accident and fire with intoxicating smoke, the wife of a former sharp shooter; and the rescue of a trapped man in large machinery where the visitor saves John's life.

6-At the hospital, Dr. Brackett treats a rock singer in a diabetic coma with no help from her manager and Dr. Early has problems with a defiant nurse.

 

TVLand #037

Script #37405

Heavyweight - Airdate – 10/20/73

Writer: Kenneth Dorward; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: Barbara Sigel, Dennis Redfield, Wayne Heffley

THEME! When Johnny pulls a muscle during a fire, he gets teased about being out of shape.

1-At a structure fire, the paramedics rescue a pregnant woman.

2-After going into labor, the guilt-ridden mother is determined to abandon her deformed baby.

3-Dr. Morton treats Johnny and gives him a bad time about his physical condition, sending Johnny on a fitness kick.

4-Dr. Early treats an electrocuted child whose mother is on drugs.

5-The son of a stabbing victim is more determined to shoot the assailant than get his father to the hospital.

6-Roy and Johnny rescue a handglider pilot trapped in a tree.

 

 

TVLand #038

Script #37410

Snakebite - Airdate – 10/27/73

Writer: Carroll Christensen; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Richard N. Slattery, Reta Shaw, Johnnie Collins III, William Bryant, Tony Haig, Laurie Brighton, Don Carter, Jill Chandler, Sarah Frankboner

THEME! Johnny is bitten by a rattlesnake.

1-Roy, Johnny, and Chet attempt help the victims of a car accident in a remote area.

2-Joyriders go over a cliff.

3-Johnny is bitten by the snake.

 

 

TVLand #039

Script #37413

Promotion - Airdate – 11/3/73

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II

Guest Cast: Tom Simcox, Michael Maitland

THEME! Roy passes the Engineer's test, but has second thoughts on accepting.

1-A bad fog leads to a multi-car accident on the San Diego Freeway.

2-While responding to an apparent suicide, Roy takes an unexpected swim.

3-Johnny attempts to rescue an injured guard during a fire, hurts his leg, then has to be rescued himself.

 

TVLand #040

Script #37417

Insomnia - Airdate – 11/10/73

Writer: Robert Hammer; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: Bonnie Schell, Dick Yarmy, Hal Lynch, Stephen Manley, Lee Farr, Joe

Pizzorusso, Jim Nolan.

THEME! Johnny obsesses about the lack of night runs and can't sleep.

1-A boat has an explosion aboard en route to the marina.

2-A man and his son are injured when they swerve to avoid a dog.

3-Doctors race against time to save a marijuana smoker dying of an unidentifiable malady.

4-A worker is pinned in a loading dock by a semi.

5-A man and child fall into a gravel pit.

 

 

TVLand #041

Script #37421

Inheritance Tax – Airdate – 11/17/73

Writer: Arnold Somkin; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: Warren Berlinger, Michael Fox, Marion Ross.

THEME! An elderly woman that Roy and Johnny treated the previous year dies and remembers them in her will.

1-A child is trapped in a car under downed power lines.

2-A stockbroker with heart problems is reluctant to be treated.

3-Dr. Early administers first aid to two young boys.

4-A teenager becomes ill after eating 19 hamburgers in a contest.

5-The paramedics treat a burn victim at a three-alarm paint factory fire.

 

 

TVLand #042

Script #37412

Zero - Airdate – 11/24/73

Writer: Brian Taggert; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II

Guest Cast: Mariette Hartley, Joanne Worley, Anthony Eisley

THEME! Johnny finds it takes a different kind of courage to face television cameras and Roy has to save him.

1-The squad responds to an early morning call where a woman is screaming for therapeutic reasons.

2-When the paramedics are interviewed on a TV program, Johnny freezes in front of the camera and Roy bails him out.

3-A young boy attempts suicide by leaping off an apartment ledge. At the hospital, the doctors suspect he may be an abused child.

4-The paramedics rescue a man trapped in a doughnut machine.

5-Johnny rescues a boy from a burning warehouse when he becomes trapped.

 

 

TVLand #43

Script #37424

The Promise - Airdate – 12/1/73

Writer: Dee Murphy; Director: Alan Crosland

Guest Cast: Kip Niven, Patricia Handy, Patricia Mattick, Reva Rose, Russell Thorson, Ted Gehring, Jean E. London, Hal K. Dawson, Gail Bonney.

THEME! The woman who owns the dog Johnny took care of in Mascot returns to keep her promise and presents Johnny with a pup.

1-A catatonic mechanic is brought to Rampart (who is later be rescued from a ledge by Johnny and Roy).

2-Roy lectures a woman who keeps calling the paramedics because she is lonely.

3-A woman mixes ammonia with bleach and inhales poisonous gas.

4-The woman who owns the dog John took care of in 'Mascot' [episode 1.1] returns and presents John with a pup.

5-An elderly couple is trapped in their house by a bunch of tumbleweeds.

6-A friend of the catatonic patient gives him an injection, causing him to jump out of a window onto a sixth story ledge.

 

TVLand#044

Script #37418

Body Language - Airdate – 12/8/73

Writer: Arthur Weiss; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: Ronald Feinberg, Ronne Troup, Randy Boone, Kenneth Tobey, Julie Rogers, Bill Williams, Frank Bonner, Hank Jones, Joe Danova, Michael Campbell, Mary Angelo, Vince Howard, Scott Gorlav, Joseph Albee, Michael Morgan.

THEME! Johnny's current girlfriend think he has proposed to her.

1-A crop-duster makes a rough landing in a field; the pilot suffers a punctured lung, and a bystander is poisoned with pesticide.

2-A young boy with a broken leg wants to use crutches instead of a walker.

3-A patient reports to Rampart with an ear infection caused by mothballs.

4-A teenage couple "trips out" after eating daffodil bulbs.

5-A weekend cowboy refuses treatment after falling from his horse.

6-Two victims of a traffic accident get friendly.

7-The lead singer of a rock band goes into cardiac arrest.

 

TVLand #045

Script #37425

Understanding - Airdate – 12/15/73

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Mills Watson, Phillip Pine, Kathleen Quinlin, John Russell, Benye Gatteys, Michael Vandever, James Griffith, Robert Patten, Ray Fine.

THEME! Johnny and Roy treat a hostage with chest pains, then become hostages themselves.

1-Johnny gives Chet his guitar.

2-A girl's horse is trapped in a burning barn.

3- Dr. Brackett and Nurse McCall lecture a man who keeps forgetting his insulin shots.

4-A girl calls the hospital, threatening suicide; firemen stand by while hospital workers attempt to trace the call.

5-A hostage in a bank robbery has heart problems; the paramedics must treat him at gunpoint.

 

TVLand #046

Script #37415

Computer Error – Airdate – 12/22/73

Writer: John Groves; Director: Joel Oliansky

Guest Cast: Bonnie Bartlett, Mark Miller, Tami Guthrie, Audrey Landers, Danny Most, Loren Jameson.

THEME! Johnny tries to get a credit card mistake corrected.

1-A young couple is rescued from a car wreck; the boy has a spinal cord injury and Dr. Early suspects the girl is pregnant.

2-Roy and Johnny respond to a call to rescue a pseudo-magician from a safe.

3-A fire at a junkyard proves hazardous due to phosphorus materials stored there.

 

TVLand #047

Script #37420

Inferno - Airdate – 1/5/74

Writer: Brian Taggert; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II

Guest Cast: Jack Hogan, Jack Manning, Beth Brickell, Bill Welsh, Wes Parker, Richard Friend, Bill Andes, Angelo Gristani, Helen Page Camp, Art Ballinger, Buck Young.

THEME! Johnny and Roy are disappointed when they are not called to a major brushfire.

1-Dixie gets her hand caught in a vending machine.

2-A lawyer collapses in the court room with an apparent heart attack.

3-Roy and Johnny finally make it to the brushfire and become trapped while rescuing another firefighter.

 

TVLand #048

Script #37422

Messin' Around - Airdate – 1/12/74

Writer: Dennis Landa; Director: Richard Newton

Guest Cast: J. Pat O'Malley, Ann Prentiss, Karl Swenson, Carol Lawson, John Shawlee, Paul Bryer, Vince Howard, Tammy Harrington, Paul Sorenson, Lance Kerwin.

THEME! Johnny is besieged by the phantom aka Chet.

1-Chet ("The Phantom Bomber") starts a series of practical jokes against John, who eventually retaliates.

2-A child is trapped in a tree house — and the tree is on fire; the girl’s mother later shows a romantic interest in Johnny.

3-A retiree ("Old Bill") pretends to be ill so he can amuse the children in the emergency department.

4-A woman feeds her sick husband Dieffenbachia sap to keep him quiet.

5-At a trash fire, a gas station worker shows signs of a perforated ulcer.

6-Responding to a call of a man down, the paramedics find Old Bill collapsed in his home.

7-Roy and Johnny need Vince's help to treat a child who has swallowed ant poison.

8-The firemen extricate three workers from a bulldozer accident.

 

 

TVLand #049

Script #37423

Fools – Airdate - 1/19/74

Writer: Eric Kaldor; Director: Joseph Pevney

Guest Cast: Bobby Sherman, Dennis Patrick, Carol Arthur, William Campbell, John Harmon.

THEME! A new obnoxious intern at Rampart lacks compassion for people’s ignorance and trust in the paramedic program, and nearly makes a near fatal diagnosis so Brackett has him ride-along with the squad.

1-A man is injured when his chimney explodes.

2-A girl gets her hand stuck in a mailbox.

3-Johnny and Roy must rescue a heart attack victim trapped on an oil refinery tower — in the midst of an explosive structure fire.

 

TVLand #050

Script #37426

Green Thumb /How Green was my Thumb – Airdate – 1/26/74

Writer: John Groves; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II

Guest Cast: Will Hutchins, Eric Shea, Don Chastain, Leigh Christian, William Wintersole, Helen Clark, Donald Mantooth, Pamela Hensley, George P. Wallace, Kim Richards, Vince Howard, Jack Kosslyn.

THEME! Roy takes care of a divorcee's plants while she is in the hospital.

1-Roy and John rescue a man who has problems breathing because he has swallowed his partial dental plate.

2-Roy takes care of a young victim's plants while she is in the hospital, but John thinks the victim is an old woman.

3-A young girl's religious parents prevent necessary treatment.

4-The station responds to a fire in a winery.

5-Dr. Brackett and the paramedics perform backyard surgery on a man with an unexploded grenade in his abdomen.

 

 

TVLand #051

Script #37414

The Hard Hours - Airdate – 2/2/74

Writer: Arnold Somkin; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II

Guest Cast: Dick Butkus, Nick Nolte, Eve Brent.

THEME! Dr. Early is diagnosed with a heart condition and undergoes a bypass.

1-A pro-football player is embarrassed to admit that his son tackled him too hard.

2-The firemen rescue a boy trapped in his homemade rocket

3-Roy rescues a girl stuck in a tub.

4-An electrocution victim.

 

TVLand #052

Script #37403

Floor Brigade - Airdate – 2/9/74

Writer: Roland Wolpert; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: Pat Buttram, Christopher Man, Don Diamond, Stephen Colt.

THEME! Johnny and Roy think about going into the floor cleaning business on the side.

1-A hermit is trapped in his cave home.

2-Dr. Morton treats a diabetic singer trying to make a comeback.

3-Johnny sustains minor injuries on a high rescue when he slips on a tower ladder.

4-The station battles a chemical warehouse fire.

 

 

TVLand #053

Script # 3742

Propinquity - Airdate - 2/16/74

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Brendan Boone, George Orrison, Gil Peterson, Don Hanmer

THEME! Roy stays at Johnny’s place while his house is being fumigated and it’s a little too much togetherness for Roy.

1-A woman is trapped inside a car while it burns around her; the ambulance carrying Roy and the victim is hit by a car.

2-A man having a heart attack refuses to leave a poker game unless John agrees to play out the man's hand.

3-The station responds to an explosion at an abandoned refinery and rescues several people.

 

TVLand #054

Script # 3742

Inventions - Airdate – 3/23/74

Writer: John Groves; Director: Kevin Tighe

Guest Cast: Ross Elliot, Annette Cardona, Yvonne Craig, Zina Bethune, Reb Brown, Lorraine Baptist, Judd Laurance

THEME! The men at the station get excited about a competition for new firefighting innovations.

1-The paramedics deal with crises involving possible radiation poisoning from radioactive waste in a wrecked truck and a cloud of sulfuric acid fumes, Johnny’s air tank becomes compromised.

2-A comatose man is suffering from a mysterious ailment after a taxi ride.

3-A woman’s overweight son is wedged in her living room ceiling.

4-The firemen respond to a leak at a chemical plant.

 

NEVER SHOWN

Script #37427

The Long Weekend - Airdate

Writer: Rick Mittleman

NOTE: I only have the script for the episode, I don't remember it airing, if someone out there remembers actually seeing this episode please drop me a note.

THEME! A three-day holiday weekend makes for a hectic time for everyone. Johnny tries to decide where to take his new girl out on a date. A young boy falls off his horse when it's spooked by trial bikes and breaks his leg. Johnny and Roy team up with fireboat 110 to rescue a teenager from an overturned sailboat. A short man is hit in the head by a turnstile. A Englishman causes a major accident when he forgets what side of the road he's driving on. A man is injured by an explosion, his house catches fire, and his father suffers a heart attack when his young daughter mistakes gasoline for lighter fluid.

 

Season 4

TVLand #055

Script #40607

The Screenwriter – Airdate – 9/14/74

Writer: Eric Brown; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Shelly Berman, Larry Csonka, Carol Wayne, Brendon Boone, Roger Perry

THEME! A screenwriter spends a day taping Roy and Johnny's work.

1-Which includes a motorcycle accident

2-A chemical worker suffering from exposure to gasses

3-Roy and Johnny also assist in the delivery of a deaf couple’s baby.

4-...And an explosion and fire at a toy factory.

 

TVLand #056

Script #40602

I'll Fix It – Airdate – 9/21/74

Writer: John Groves; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Randall Carver, Bing Russell, Peggy Stewart, Savannah Bently.

THEME! Johnny and Chet try to fix a boy's motorbike.

1-A woman's husband is trapped under their house where an inactive oil well has erupted.

2-A child who wants to become a doctor is admitted to Rampart.

3- A child is trapped in a pipe.

4-Johnny and Roy must remove a ring from a man's finger before the wife's jealous husband returns.

5-Roy and Cap struggle with a shut-off valve at a structure fire

 

TVLand #057

Script #40601

Gossip - Airdate –9/28/74

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: Kevin Tighe

Guest Cast: Catherine Burns, Ruth McDevitt, Ross Elliott, Annette Cardona, Reb Brown, Lorraine Baptist, Vince Howard, Judd Laurance

THEME! A nurse spreads the rumor that Dr. Morton is having financial problems.

1-Roy encourages Johnny to represent the station in the Fireman's Olympics.

2-An armored car sideswipes a motorist and Station 51 must break into the van.

3-Doctors treat a child with cyanide poisoning from peach pits.

4-Dr. Brackett treats a bigamist with a skull fracture.

5-The firemen rescue an electrocution victim hanging in mid-air

6- and a man trapped in a chemical warehouse fire.

 

TVLand #058

Script #40614

Nagging Suspicion – Airdate – 10/5/74

Writer: Joseph Polizzi; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II

Guest Cast: Robert Q. Lewis

THEME! The men at the station find out that Roy picks winning racehorses and pester him to choose one for them.

1-A lion bites a woman at the zoo and Johnny goes in after her.

2-A go-go dancer collapses

3-A man's ego punctured by cactus

4-and the squad rescues a policeman shot during an exchange of gunfire with a sniper.

 

TVLand #059

Script #40610

Fugitive / Communication’s Gaffe – Airdate – 10/12/74

Writer: Charlene & Robert Bralver; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: James McEachin, Denny Miller, Brooke Bundy, John Elerick, Paul Bryan, Jennifer King, William Bryant, Brian Cutler.

THEME! Roy and Joanne go on a TV quiz show.

1-Roy and Johnny respond to a call where both a policeman and a suspect have been shot, and another officer gives them a hard time over treating the suspect.

2-A woman brings in her abused son for treatment. 3-A man inhales too much nitrous oxide.

4-The paramedics treat a boy suffering an allergic reatcion to a bee sting.

5-A pickup carrying kerosene collides with a station wagon and starts a brushfire, requiring a waterdrop.

 

TVLand #060

Script #40606

Surprise - Airdate – 10/19/74

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: Joseph Pevney

Guest Cast: Dena Dietrich, Joe Kapp, Anne Schedeed, Bill Quinn, William Bryant,

Christopher Mears, Robert Bernard, Holly Irving, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Celia Lovsky, Dub Taylor, Aneta Corsant.

THEME! A surprise birthday party is planned for Dixie.

1-A woman is thrown from a motorcycle into a cactus patch.

2-Dixie breaks her ankle and suffers a concussion from kicking a shopping cart.

3-Gage and DeSoto rescue two workers trapped on the side of a building next to a 1000-pound sign.

4- man is trapped in his new sauna.

5-When an old woman refuses to leave her apartment during a gas leak and the building explodes with Johnny inside.

 

TVLand #061

Script #40617

Blind Date / Daisy's Pick – Airdate – 11/2/74

Writer: John Groves; Director: Don Richardson

Guest Cast: Brit Lund, Dolores Mann, John Carter, Francisco Ortego, Morgan Guilbert, Steve Franken.

THEME! The bachelor members of Station 51 are in competition for first date with the beautiful new nurse at Rampart.

1-The station rescues a man frozen to the floor of an ice house and a man from a theatre fire.

2-Roy and Johnny help a man whose hands are glued to a model boat.

3-A comatose child.

4-Man trapped in theater.

 

TVLand #062

Script #40604

Quicker Than the Eye – Airdate – 11/9/74

Writer: Arthur Weiss; Director: Don Richardson

Guest Cast: Mark Spitz, Susy Spitz, Michael Conrad

THEME! Tired of Chet's antics, the guys at the station get their revenge by playing practical jokes of their own.

1-A gun discharges by accident and injures a pregnant woman

2-A construction worker caught under a boat refuses an IV,

3-A man in a motorcycle accident communicates through his thumb.

 

TVLand #063

Script #40613

Foreign Trade – Airdate – 11/16/74

Writer: Rick Mittleman; Director: James Gavin

Guest Cast: James Shigeta, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Reb Brown, Christopher Stafford Nelson, Donald Mantooth, Anne Schedeen, Anne Seymour, Joseph Perry.

THEME! Johnny and Roy consider trading cars.

1-A frat pledge chokes during initiation.

2-Dixie takes on hospital management after budget cuts affect her nursing staff.

3- Dr. Early has the hiccups.

4-A famous basketball player is involved in a fender bender.

5-The station rescues a woman trapped in her car on the edge of an open drawbridge, and

 

TVLand #064

Script #40603

Camera Bug – Airdate – 11/23/74

Writer: Rick Mittleman; Director: Richard Bennett

Guest Cast: Ron Masak, Dianne Harper, Peter Leeds, Tyler Henderson, Adrian Ricard, Mary Rings.

THEME! Johnny thinks he can be a photographer and pesters the guys at the station for candid shots.

1-A teenage arsonist suffers from smoke inhalation at an elementary school fire.

2-The squad responds to a call at a firestation where a fireman is suffering from chest pains.

3-A woman is stung by a scorpion.

4- Dixie and Dr. Brackett delivery a baby at a restaurant.

5-The station must rescue a man trapped and injured in an overturned truck full of dynamite.

 

TVLand #065

Script #40618

Quartet/The Firehouse Four – Airdate – 11/30/74

Writer: John Groves; Director: Joseph Pevney

Guest Cast: Lennie Winrib, Charles Knox Robinson, Joanne Merideth, Linda Dano, Peter Colt, James Kline.

THEME! The station (sans Roy) enters the fireman's barber shop quartet.

1-A man keeps having to be rescued while trying various ways to exercise which include: falling off a cliff while riding his bike, falling in a ditch while jogging, and becoming trapped in his basement.

2-A woman overdoses on sleeping pills.

 

TVLand #066

Script #40615

Details – Airdate – 12/7/74

Writer: Michael Norell; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Barbara Nichols, Walter Brooke, Tom Reese, Charles Quinlivin, Michele Noval, Erik Estrada (uncredited).

THEME! Johnny gets engaged to a woman after only a few days, but she's left out a few important details.

1-While responding to a call, Johnny and Roy witness a pedestrian being struck by a car.

2-A woman is badly burned, and a man is killed, in a fire caused by improperly stored gasoline.

3-A belly-dancer overdoses on diet pills, and a boy is bitten by a dog.

4-Roy and Johnny become trapped on a ledge of a burning building and JUMP .

 

TVLand #067

Script #40611

The Parade – Airdate – 12/21/74

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Phillip Pine, Stan Adams, Timothy Blake, Peggy Mondo, Laurie Burton, Jan Arven.

THEME! Roy and John finally restore their old fire engine to ride in the California Fire Fighters Parade.

1-A man with heart problems insists on driving, and causes an accident for which the other driver blames herself.

2-Dr. Early treats a patient who has a seizure in the waiting room.

3-A man on a date passes out and has difficulty breathing; the doctors search for the cause.

4-A child’s medical condition causes an argument between his divorced parents.

5-Driving to the parade in the old engine, the paramedics respond to an actual emergency.

TVLand #068

Script #40620

The Bash – Airdate – 12/28/74

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II.

Guest Cast: Adam West, Karen Jenson, Larry Delaney, Paul Smith, Marcus Smith, Morgan Jones

THEME! Roy and Johnny are invited to a Hollywood party by a man they rescued, who was trapped on a set with a bear. John talks Roy into getting overdressed for the event.

1-Dr. Brackett treats a man suffering from trichinosis from undercooked bearmeat.

2-The station responds to a call where a man threatens to blow-up his house while in a shoot-out with police.

3-The paramedics resuscitate a musician at the party.

 

TVLand #069

Script #40621

Transition – Airdate – 1/4/75

Writer: John Groves; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Colby Chester, Elisabeth Brooks, Lora Kaye, Joyce Davis, James Chandler.

THEME! A former high school classmate of Johnny's is assigned as the squad's new paramedic trainee and finds the transition a little overwhelming.

1-The firemen rescue a man trapped in his kitchen after a hydrogen sulfide explosion.

2-The paramedics help treat accident victims at the hospital

3-and tend to child at an amusement park.

4-When an intoxicated man turns out to be a snakebite victim, Roy is hit in the eyes with cobra venom.

5-Back at the amusement park, a heart attack victim is trapped high in the air.

 

TVLand #070

Script #40619

Smoke Eater – Airdate – 1/11/75

Writer: Edwin Self; Director: Joseph Pevney

Guest Cast: John Anderson, Lee Harcourt Montgomery, Sid Haig, Sharon Faron, Anne Whitfield, Burt Mustin, Lin McCarthy.

THEME! A temporary captain from the "old school" doesn't feel Gage and DeSoto should be practicing medicine, and has no problem in expressing his opinion

1-An elderly man sets his chair on fire.

2-Dr. Early keeps coming up with oranges when all he wants is an apple.

3-The paramedics struggle to save a heart attack victim.

4-A boy with asthma gets trapped in a storm drain.

5-Dr. Brackett uses an old-fashioned sedative on a biker.

6-Chemicals complicate a structure fire.

 

TVLand #071

Script #40605

Kid Stuff / Kidding – Airdate – 1/18/75

Writer: Roland Wolpert; Director: Wes McAfee

Guest Cast: Paul Fix, Laurette Spang, James Ingersoll, Joyce Mameson, Norman Bartold

THEME! Johnny, assigned to conduct a school tour of Rampart Hospital, finds it takes more than balloons & bubble gum to satisfy the inquisitive youngsters.

1-A veteran mentally reliving a battle is subdued by the paramedics; he turns out to have a brain tumor.

2-A woman gets stuck in a dog door.

3-A famous novelist attempts suicide in his garaage.

4-A cargo plane crashes in a residential area, hitting a school bus.

 

TVLand #072

Script #40616

Magic / Prestidigitation – Airdate – 1/25/75

Writer: Robert Hamner; Director: Christian I Nyby, II

Guest Cast: James Gregory, Bernard Fox

THEME! Johnny and Roy respond to a call where a magician is locked in a trunk and suspended over water. Roy and John are puzzled by a gift from the magician.

1-Dr. Brackett’s father is treated at the hospital for phlebitis.

2-A fireplace explodes and falls on top of the homeowner.

3-An auto accident sends a power transformer flying into a man’s bedroom.

4-A fuel truck collides with a car and a gas main, trapping a woman and starting a fire.

 

TVLand #073

Script #40609

It's How You Play the Game – Airdate – 2/1/75

Writer: Jim Carlson; Director: Joseph Pevney

Guest Cast: Dennis Patrick, Cliff Osmond, Ryan MacDonald, Maggie Sullivan, Hal Baylor.

THEME! Johnny agrees that the losing baseball team at the Fireman's Picnic will pay for the picnic and Chet becomes the station's only hope when their pitcher breaks his arm.

1-A drunk driver becomes violent after a car accident and hits Johnny in the nose.

2-Another man is trapped in a car with a tiger

3-A man with a slipped disc is stuck in a waterbed.

4-A structure fire is complicated by moonshine.

 

TVLand #074

Script #40626

Mouse – Airdate – 2/8/75

Writer: Edwin Self; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II

Guest Cast: William Zuckert, Ronnie Schell, J. Pat O'Malley.

THEME! Chet becomes obsessed with ridding the station of an uninvited guest.

1-A man is trapped in a burning house with burglar bars on the window.

2-Paramedics and doctors treat a man who suffers repeated cardiac arrests.

3-Dixie comforts the husband of an elderly patient.

4-Roy and Johnny attempt to break up a bar fight.

5-The crash of a jet plane into an apartment complex provides the station with highly dangerous duty; Johnny gets thrown back by a blast and knocked out.

 

TVLand #075

Script #40623

Back-Up – Airdate – 2/15/75

Writer: John Groves; Director: Georg Fenady

Guest Cast: Kenan Wynn, Michael Conrad, Patch MacKenzie, Bill Conklin, Frances Spinner.

THEME! Johnny gets peeved at all the frivolous calls the squad goes on while real emergency victims need help.

1-A young OD victim is brought into the ER.

2-A man fakes back pain to get a free ride to the hospital.

3-A man is shocked after kicking in his TV screen.

4-A heart attack victim’s ambulance ride to the hospital is interrupted by a car crash. (Johnny gets ‘stuck’ with a needle in this one.)

 

TVLand #076

Script #40622

905-Wild – Airdate – 3/1/75

Writer: Buddy Atkinson, Dick Conway; Director: Jack Webb

Guest Cast: Mark Harmon, Albert Popwell, Laura Huddleston, David Huddleston, Gary Crosby, Rose Ann Zecker.

THEME! The title refers to the code word for "wild animal loose, threatening". The show opens with Johnny and Roy on a pre-dawn call to a small grocery store for a man down, bleeding. Searching the back of the store, Johnny is confronted with a Bengal tiger! A big brush fire threatens a suburban canyon area with lots of domesticated animals and things get dicey all around for the fire department and the Animal Control guys. Rampart becomes a veterinary surgical center for a while. BLEAH!

 

Season 5

 

TVLand #079

Script #42805

The Stewardess – Airdate - 9/13/75

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II.

Guest Cast: Gretchen Corbett, William Wintersole, James Ingersoll, John La Due

THEME! En route to LA following a paramedics convention, Johnny & Roy are called upon by a distraught stewardess to aid a heart attack victim on the plane.

1- The firefighters respond to a motorcycle accident and a chemical fire.

 

TVLand #080

Script #42802

The Old Engine Cram – Airdate – 9/20/75

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: Bernard Fox, Christopher Nelson, Smith Evan, Kim Hamilton, Dick Yarmy.

THEME! Johnny and Roy they think they have a buyer for the old fire engine.

1-A fireman is injured by a dangerous chemical in a practice drill.

2-A man suffers a back injury from a motorcycle accident.

3-A mother pressures Dr. Morton to give her son a prescription.

4-A man having a heart attack comes to the station.

5-DeSoto and Gage rescue a man who has fallen off a cliff on Catalina Island.

 

TVLand #081

Script #42803

Election – Airdate – 9/27/75

Writer: John Groves; Director: Bruce Bilson

Guest Cast: Maggie Malody, Hank Brandt, Sharon Gless

THEME! Roy and Johnny become candidates for a position on a welfare committee and both run for election.

1-A construction worker is trapped on a crane.

2-A man gets his arm stuck in an appliance drain while his brother aspirates on a can tab.

3-A delirious child causes problems at the hospital.

4-A sculptress’ model is stuck inside a plaster cast.

5-A construction worker is trapped on a crane.

 

TVLand #082

Script #42808

Equipment – Airdate – 10/4/75

Writer: Robert Hamilton; Director: Kevin Tighe

Guest Cast: Lloyd Haynes, Jessica Rains, John Laurence, Hal Bokar, Kristine MarieGreco, Vernon Weddle

THEME! Johnny overtimes at Station 8 where a lack of equipment costs a heart attack victim his life.

1-A boy falls from a tree.

2- Chet is injured in an explosion.

3- Doctors treat a tree surgeon.

4-Roy is injured in a fireworks warehouse fire.

 

TVLand #083

Script #42801

The Lighter-Than-Air Man – Airdate - 11/15/75

Writer: Claire Whitaker; Director: Wes McAfee

Guest Cast: James McEachin, Arthur O'Connell, Randall Carver, Sue Casey, Vince

Howard, Barbara Mallory, Chuck Winters.

THEME! Roy and Johnny are accused of hitting an elderly crossing guard while en route to a rescue.

1- Johnny delivers a baby and gets attached to it.

2- A couple, on the way to their wedding, hit a fire hydrant.

3-A camper on fire drives up to the station with a child trapped inside.

4-A truck carrying insecticide overturns.

 

TVLand #084

Script #42807

The Inspection – Airdate – 10/11/75

Writer: Bruce Johnson; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Wolfman Jack, Jeanne Cooper, Warren Berlinger, Roger Bowen, Gerald Michenaud.

THEME! The station becomes aware of the battalion chief's impending inspection.

1-A wife is convinced that her husband's heart transplant means he doesn't love her any more.

2-Paramedics aid a parachutist snagged on a radio tower.

3-Dr. Brackett treats a veterinarian.

4-The station attempts to free a man whose car has overturned in waterway, Johnny cuts his hand..

 

TVLand #085

Script #42804

The Indirect Method – Airdate – 10/18/75

Writer: Michael Norell; Director: Jan Oliansky

Guest Cast: Elayne Heilveil, Dick Bakalyan, Anne Loos.

THEME! A female paramedic trainee with a chip on her shoulder is assigned to Station 51.

1-Freeway construction threatens an old couple's house.

2-A man tries to commit suicide by gas, then changes his mind.

4-A man suffers a heart attack and the paramedics are unable to revive him.

3-Roy is electrocuted trying to save an invalid at a structure fire.

 

TVLand #086

Script #42810

Pressure 165 – Airdate – 10/25/75

Writer: Edwin Self; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Michael Roy, Bing Russell, Del Monroe, Art Balinger

THEME! Roy and Johnny go to Catalina to help a diver and Johnny and a doctor treat the patient in a hyperbaric chamber.

1-An embarrassed chef refuses to admit he set his kitchen on fire.

2-Johnny gets ribbed about his cooking, and tries his hand at cooking a nice French meal.

3-A youth suffers a serious gunshot wound.

4-The firemen deal with a dust explosion at a structure fire.

 

TVLand #087

Script #42817

One of Those Days – Airdate – 11/1/75

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: Joseph Pevney

Guest Cast: Lara Parker, Marla Adams, Penelope Windust, Shirley Mitchell, Ross Elliott.

THEME!

1-An elderly woman's stomach problems lead to a family brawl with Johnny (who gets knocked down) & Roy in the middle.

2-Roy and John treat a drunk in a hotel with a broken elevator.

2- Meanwhile, Dr. Brackett deals with a civic-minded mother with no concern for her sick child, with meningitis.

3-Paramedics respond to a two-car accident with no victims, treat a man who fell in the bathtub, and rescue a child trapped in a burning building.

 

TVLand #088

Script #42812

Simple Adjustment – Airdate - 11/22/75

Writer: Robert Hamilton; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: John Crosby, Elizabeth Brohs.

THEME! Johnny is convinced that with a simple adjustment, he can devise a better way to log the squad's calls and almost blows up the radio in the squad.

1-A girl trapped in an overturned car.

2-A beauty operator has a total personality change after an overdose of diet pills & she proceeds to make a play for Johnny & Roy, "Yeah, I'm cute!".

3-A man suffers a stroke and his daughter insists the squad transport him to a distant hospital even though Rampart is much closer.

4-The station responds to an oil fire aboard a ship.

 

TVLand #089

Script #42813

Tee-Vee – Airdate – 11/29/75

Writer: John Groves; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II.

Guest Cast: Lin McCarthy, Laurie Burton, W.T. Zacha, Heath Jones.

THEME! Chet and Johnny blow up the station's TV.

1-Johnny and Roy rescue a man from a fire in a storm drain.

2-Dr. Morton treats a man with a bleeding peptic ulcer.

3-An aquarium is delivered to Dr. Brackett, who suffers a toxic reaction to a catfish bite.

4-A man accidentally glues his eyes shut.

5-A mudslide traps the victim, Johnny & Roy in a house.

 

TVLand #090

Script #42815

On Camera – Airdate – 12/6/75

Writer: Rod Peterson, Claire Whitaker; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II

Guest Cast: Peter Palmer, Leigh Christian, Helen Page Camp, Paul Micale, Will MacIntyre Walker, Scott B. Wells.

THEME! A documentary camera crew follows Squad 51.

1-A teenager is bitten by a snake, a would-be stuntman dangles from an I-beam, a boy falls down a cliff, and a man is injured in a tar fire.

 

TVLand #091

Script #42809

Communications – Airdate – 12/15/75

Writer: Mark Saha; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: Cynthia Sikes, Craig Hundley, Ted Gehring, Barbara George

THEME! Squad 51 and Rampart cross-communicate with another squad on the same frequency.

1-Chet buys a pair of skis.

2-A teenager gets his arm caught in a pressing machine and Dr. Brackett may have to amputate to save the boy’s life.

3-The hospital. Dr. Morton treats a young violinist.

4- Two kids out for a joyride end up on the roof of a house.

5- The paramedics deal with an airline stewardess who refuses to allow them to treat her for an overdose of sleeping pills.

6-While rescuing a man trapped under a car, Johnny and Roy inadvertently cause an explosion in a garage.

 

TVLand #092

Script #42806

To Buy or Not to Buy – Airdate – 12/20/75

Writer: Keith A. Walker; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Robert Pratt, Allan Vint, Susan Gay Powell, Fay Dewitt, Nicholas Worth, Patch MacKenzie.

THEME! Roy thinks about buying a house (Johnny buys it instead.).

1-Responding to a fire in a house, the station finds two children trapped inside, the ceiling comes down on Roy and Johnny retrieving the older sister.

2-Two driving school students are involved in an accident.

3- A boy breaks his arm and loses his dog in a minor traffic accident and the guys stay behind to look for it.

4-An epileptic boy is rescued from a bridge.

 

TVLand #093

Script #42821

Right at Home – Airdate – 1/10/76

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: Georg Fenady

Guest Cast: Eddie Lapeer, Joan Hanrahan, Martha Felt, Suede

THEME! Roy agrees to take care of a child of an accident victim and is appalled when the child precedes to wreck his home & neighborhood reputation.

1-Brackett rides along with the Los Angeles County Fire Department Air Operations division. The Squad responds to a call with Brackett.

2-A babysitter brings a child in to Rampart and signs the forms in place of the mother.

3-The station responds to a residential fire and explosion at night.

 

TVLand #094

Script #42818

The Girl on the Balance Beam – Airdate – 1/17/76

Writer: Robert Hamilton; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II.

Guest Cast: Patti Cohoon, Charles Knox Robinson, Brian Baker, Dorothy Schott, Andrea Bell, William Bryant, Patricia Morrow, Ronnie Schell, Robert Hackman.

THEME! (Very little of Da' Boys!!!) A former athlete with dreams of Olympic glory for his motherless daughter, pushes the teenager beyond her capacity.

1-The station rescues a girl suspended by wires at a studio.

2-Johnny and Roy attempt to free a drunk driver trapped in his car.

3-The station responds to a train fire involving ammonium nitrate, Roy thrown by train explosion.

 

TVLand #095

Script #42820

Involvement – Airdate – 1/24/75

Writer: John Groves; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: Anne Seymour, Dawn Lyn, Jean Allison, Milton Frome, Del Monroe.

THEME! Rampart's former emergency department head nurse tries to commit suicide; she is brought to Rampart, where she befriends a paraplegic child who almost drowned in a swimming pool.

1-Johnny and Roy respond to a call where a woman has fainted and are bewildered to find her wrapped in plastic.

2-A family suffers from carbon-monoxide poisoning.

3-A car becomes trapped under a liquid hydrogen truck, Johnny's jacket on fire..

 

TVLand #096

Script #42823

Above and Beyond....Nearly – Airdate – 1/31/76

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II.

Guest Cast: Lucille Benson, Liam Dunn, Florence Lake, Linda Danno, Kristin Larkin, Grant Goodeve.

THEME! Roy and Johnny receive commendations for bravery, but they can't remember the incident.

1-Johnny and Roy treat an elderly man with a broken ankle who doesn't act his age.

2- A man has an apparent heart attack in his dentist's office.

3-Johnny and Roy perform a night rescue on a cliff.

 

TVLand #097

Script #42819

Grateful – Airdate – 2/7/76

Writer: Michael Norell; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Dick Van Patten, Zina Bethune, Paul Brinegar, Ruth Buzzi, Royal Dano, Thomas Bellin.

THEME! The station has a couple of over-zealous fans.

1-A couple is injured when a car goes through a restaurant window.

2-A child struck in the eye by a BB from a gun.

3-Johnny and Roy respond to a boat fire.

 

TVLand #098

Script #42822

The Great Crash Diet – Airdate – 2/21/76

Writer: Timothy Burns; Director: Joseph Pevney

Guest Cast: Michael Mullins, Holly Irving, Rick Podell.

THEME! An experiment in firefighter nutrition becomes an obsession for Chet.

1-While conducting a fire inspection, Roy and Johnny rescue a diver in a tank.

2-A birthday boy eats raw dough and gets a severe stomach ache

3-A pregnant woman suffers complications while her mother is treated for a possible heart attack.

4--Captain Stanley is nearly electrocuted by a high tension wire.

 

TVLand #099

Script #42816

The Tycoons – Airdate – 2/28/76

Writer: Mark Massari, Robert Hamilton, John Groves; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Robin Clark, Sheila James, Ted Gehring, Mary Moon, John Wyler.

THEME! Johnny gets everyone but Roy excited about buying a nearby hot dog stand.

1-The guys at the station respond to a fire and are embarrassed by the result.

2-A man is injured by debris from a lawnmower.

3-A baby quits breathing in the squad on the way to Rampart.

4-The station responds to a chemical plant fire, Johnny gets some of the chemicals on him, gets hosed down, Roy lends his coat. Aaah....

 

TVLand #100

Script #42824

The Nuisance – Airdate – 3/6/76

Writer: Robert Hamilton; Director: Randolph Mantooth

Guest Cast: Gretchen Corbett, Carole Cook, James G. Richardson, Jean Shawlee, Coleen Gray, Joseph Perry.

THEME! Roy is stuck with Brice after Johnny’s accident

1-The squad helps a non-responsive lady on a barstool

2-Johnny is the victim of a hit & run accident, leaving Roy with a very annoying replacement--Brice.

3-Roy and Brice help a man suffering from heart problems.

4-The station responds to a fire in an abandoned warehouse where Roy, Marco & Brice become trapped.

 

NEVER SHOWN

Script #42811

The High Rise - Airdate

NOTE: I only have the script for this episode. I suspect it was never aired as The High Rise but rewritten and retitled as The Steel Inferno, though the script for The High Rise has all the usual gang and the plot differs somewhat. THEME! A high rise office building is engulfed in flames.

 

 

Season 6

TVLand #101

Script #44906

The Game – Airdate – 9/25/76

Writer: Christian I. Nyby, II.; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II.

Guest Cast: Larry Carroll, Jack Knight

THEME! Roy and Johnny are put on duty for the big football game at the Coliseum, but have no time to watch the game when they are kept busy by:

1-A woman pulls her husband off the roof into a tree.

2-a man choking, a man with shortness of breath,

3-an injured photographer,

4-an announcer with a heart attack.

 

TVLand #102

Script #44912

Not Available – Airdate – 10/2/76

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: Cliff Bole

Guest Cast: Arnold Turner, Wayne Heffley, Scott Arthur Allen, Bill Boyett, Kristen

Banfield, Dorothy Love, Ivy Bethune, Burton Cooper.

THEME! Roy and Johnny feel there should be a better system for assessing calls when they have to take a call for Squad 39 and it takes them twenty minutes to reach the victim.

1-The squad responds to a man with a possible heart attack

2-An elderly woman is treated at the hospital.

3-A woman faints outside a grocery store

4-A man trapped and injured in a car.

5-Roy must rescue an escaped prisoner stranded on the side of a building.

 

TVLand #103

Script #44904

The Unlikely Heirs – Airdate – 10/9/76

Writer: Timothy Burns; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Paul Brinegar, Bennye Gatteys, Jim Stathis

THEME! A grateful victim tries to give the station a $20,000 reward.

1-Chet and Johnny get into an arm-wrestling match.

1-The station rescues an homeless man from a fire, only to discover the man's mattress had $80,000 in it.

2-A bride faints as she is walking down the aisle.

3-Dixie administers a tetanus shot to a young boy.

4-The transient tries to give the firemen a reward.

5-An elderly woman loses her cat.

6-A light plane crashes into a warehouse, exploding, sending Roy and Johnny flying off the dock.

 

TVLand #104

Script #44905

That Time of Year – Airdate – 10/26/76

Writer: Mort Thaw, Ed Robak; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: Ronnie Schell, Dave Pritchard, Pamela Shoop, Meg Wyllie, Linda Gray

THEME! Everyone gives Roy advice on where to go on vacation.

1-Roy gets dizzy during a fire at a nightclub.

2-An instructor is injured during a self-defense class.

3-A man with stomach pains is brought into Rampart.

4-The firemen rescue two hang glider pilots from the face of a cliff.

 

TVLand #105

Script #44903

Fair Fight - Airdate – 10/30/76

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: Kevin Tighe

Guest Cast: Terry Kiser, Anne Schedeen.

THEME! Claiming that it is therapeutic, a husband & wife become embroiled in several violent arguments.

1-The station gets a new mascot who turns out to be a real ball of fire, HENRY.

2-The station responds to a fire where Johnny and Roy have to break into a top secret lab (Director Kevin calls out to Randy, instead of "Johnny").

3-Johnny attempts to rescue two men from a cave-in but becomes trapped himself.

 

TVLand #106

Script #44907

Rules of Order – Airdate – 11/6/76

Writer: James G. Richardson; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: James G. Richardson, Larry Manetti, Vince Howard, Bert Holland.

THEME! Johnny and Roy are asked to be on a paramedic advisory committee, but they have to put up with everyone's favorite paramedic - Brice.

1-A power pole worker is injured when a car hits his pole.

2-The station must rescue two injured mountain climbers stranded on the side of a building.

 

TVLand #107

Script #44911

The Exam – Airdate – 11/13/75

Writer: Tom Egan; Director: Richard Bennett

Guest Cast: Bridget Hanley, Jodean Russo, Allan Lurie.

THEME! Johnny and Roy really worry about their re-certification exams.

1-A fireman's widow, who has become dependent on the stationhouse in minor matters, calls with a real emergency when her daughter knocks herself unconscious.

2-A TV sports fan experiences shortness of breath.

3-A stunt goes wrong and a deadly fire results.

 

TVLand #108

Script #44909

Captain Hook – Airdate – 11/20/76

Writer: Susan J. Alenick; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II.

Guest Cast: Joe Maross, Jim B. Smith, Chad States, Rick Podell, Vince Howard, William Bryant, Bert Williams.

THEME! The firemen plan to celebrate the imminent retirement of a strict captain with a party, under the guise of throwing a farewell dinner, but they overdo their enthusiasm.

1-Johnny and Roy treat a woman dressed in a bear costume when she is overcome by heat exhaustion.

2-A family becomes hysterical when they think their mother has died.

3-A young man is injured in a tire explosion and refuses pain medication.

4-The station rescues two policemen when their helicopter crashes.

 

TVLand #109

Script 44917

Computer Terror – Airdate – 12/4/76

Writer: Bruce Shelly; Director: Georg Fenady

Guest Cast: Ted Gehring, Zitto Kazann, Russ Grieve, Walt Davis

THEME! Johnny is bewildered & frustrated when his paycheck is in thousands instead of hundreds due to a computer foul-up.

1-A man is injured when he falls asleep in an auto salvage yard and ends up in a car crusher.

2-A dog causes Roy, Johnny, and a man with a bad back major problems.

3-Johnny rescues a man with an injured arm on a scaffold of a high-rise.

 

TVLand #110

Script #44916

Welcome to Santa Rosa County – Airdate – 12/25/76

Writer: Preston Wood; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II.

Guest Cast: James Jeter, Carla Layton, Bill Watson

THEME! Johnny and Roy take a fishing trip to Santa Rosa County, but are delayed when they must rescue climbers from a cliff face and a man injured in a boat explosion.

1-They also help the local sheriff with ideas for implementing EMS in his county. Guys in JEANS!

 

TVLand #111

Script #44913

Paper Work – Airdate – 1/8/77

Writer: John Groves; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Peter Kastner, Laurie Kennedy, Peter Brocco, William Bronder, Jeff Cotler.

THEME! A computer error and Rampart's new supply system, complete with supply nurse, causes the station extra paperwork.

1-A child falls in a storm drain and nearly drowns

2-A janitor drinks samples of archeologist's Mesopotamian wine.

3-The station responds to a warehouse fire.

 

TVLand #112

Script #44908

Loose Ends – Airdate – 1/15/77

Writer: Dee Murphy; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: Walter Mathews, William Boyett, William Bryant, Vince Howard.

THEME! Dr. Brackett blames himself when he is involved in a car accident that claims the life of the driver, and the driver's daughter refuses to speak.

1- Johnny tries to win a ticket-selling contest.

Roy and Johnny get caught in a police confrontation, while the squad needs servicing, and treat an undercover police officer suffering from chest pains.

3-A boxcar full of ammonia complicates a fire on a pier.

 

TVLand #113

Script #44914

An Ounce of Prevention – Airdate – 1/22/77

Writer: Mort Thaw and Ed Robak; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II.

Guest Cast: Peggy Webber, Chad States, Barbara Ellen Levene, Maureen Lee, Frank Farmer, Dave Barry, Richard Charlyle.

THEME! Johnny volunteers Roy and himself to discuss fire prevention on the Tom Jensen Show.

1-Several people are trapped on a ferris wheel.

2-A child injects pesticides.

3- The guy become the stars of a real-life emergency on the set.

 

TVLand #114

Script #44901

Insanity Epidemic – Airdate – 2/5/77

Writer: Robert Hamilton; Director: Randolph Mantooth

Guest Cast: Robert Pratt, Ellen Moss, Bill Zuckert, Nancy Fox, Vince Howard, Vincent St. Cyr, Betty Ann Carr.

THEME! Captain Stanley "freaks out" when he learns that one of his past captains is now his battalion chief, causing the others to worry about their captain's increased paranoia.

1-Two men’s carelessness starts a fire at a gas station where Marco is almost electrocuted.

2-A new hospital administrator causes problems.

3-A woman accidentally shoots her husband with a nail gun.

4-Two clowns start a fight at an ice rink.

5-A car leaves an overpass and crashes into a transfer truck filled with pesticides.

 

TVLand #115

Script #44902

Breakdown – Airdate – 2/12/77

Writer: John Groves; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Dick Bakalyan, Brian Byers, Joan Roberts, Jean Allison.

THEME! A sporadic electrical short plagues the squad, but Roy and Johnny are convinced they can fix it.

1-A back-to-nature couple is discovered to have a variant of anthrax.

2-The station rescues an injured man from an amusement park tower.

 

TVLand #116

Script #44910

Family Ties – Airdate – 2/19/77

Writer: Carole and Michael Rasdiella; Director: Cliff Bole

Guest Cast: Howard Honig, Susan Lawrence, Jimmy Van Patten, Debbie Storm, Dirk Evans.

THEME! Roy's mother-in-law is scheduled for her annual visit.

1-A car runs into the back of a truck.

2-Drs. Brackett and Early argue over attending a convention in Acapulco.

3-An elderly man becomes ill from drinking a quack’s remedy.

4-When a fire breaks out in a hospital room, the occupant goes into cardiac arrest.

5-A boy’s model rocket sparks a house fire.

 

TVLand #117

Script #44915

Bottom Line – Airdate – 2/26/77

Writer: Charlene & Robert Bcalver; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: Nick Pellegrino, Vince Howard, Belle Ellig, Kedric Wolfe, Johnny Timko

THEME! Concerned that their availability for emergencies is restricted due to the over-cautious Dr. Morton, Roy and Johnny make their feelings known.

1-The firemen respond to a complaint of severe back pain.

2-A man with phosphorous burns on his arm and a boy hit in the head with a baseball are treated at the hospital.

3-While the firemen respond to a case of difficult breathing, the victim’s neighbor drowns in a hot tub.

4-Vince is involved in a traffic accident and goes crazy due to a head injury, pulling his gun on Johnny.

 

TVLand #118

Script #44919

Firehouse Quintet – Airdate – 3/5/77

Writer: Christian I. Nyby, II.; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Joanne DeVarona, Howard McGillin, Happy Hariston, Herb Vigran, James Westmoreland.

THEME! The station makes it to the semi-finals of the fire department basketball league, but a heavy load of emergency calls the night before the game dims their hopes for a victory.

1-The paramedics rescue victims at a gas explosion.

2-While at basketball practice, the firemen treat an injured gymnast.

3-The night before the big game the firemen get very little sleep: they respond to a number of emergencies, including a workman trapped at a studio

 

TVLand #119

Script #44926

The Boat – Airdate – 3/12/77

Writer: Hannah Shearer; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: Dick Bakalyan, Ted Gehring, Zitto Kazann, William Boyett, Vince Howard.

THEME! Charlie, the station mechanic, stores the boat he wants to sell at the station house, where the firemen decide that they want to chip in and buy it.

1-The paramedics rescue two boaters from Catalina Island.

2-A bookie has a heart attack and the station has to break into his office.

3-Rampart has a basement fire and must be evacuated.

 

TVLand #120

Script #44921

Isolation – Airdate – 3/16/77

Writer: John Groves; Director: George Fenady

Guest Cast: William Bryant, Lyndel Stuart, Vince Howard, Glen Sipes.

THEME! Johnny and Roy are stranded at Station 86 when a rain storm washes out the bridge and they become the only medical treatment in the area.

1-They assist two victims of an auto accident and a child with bronchitis.

2-Doctors at the hospital treat a policeman hit by lightning.

3-With the aid of a female psychiatrist, the paramedics treat an elderly woman with a hip injury and a man with heart trouble.

4-Copter 15 transports the victims to the hospital, where a power failure complicates matters.

5-Dr. Morton accompanies the paramedics back to Station 86, where they respond to an auto accident with multiple injuries.

 

TVLand #121

Script #44923

Limelight – Airdate – 3/26/77

Writer: James G. Richardson; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II.

Guest Cast: James G. Richardson, William Bryant, Walter Barnes, Shannon Farnon, Jeannie Fitzsimmons, William Boyett, Vince Howard.

THEME! Brice becomes the focus of the media's attention.

1-A man with a history of heart trouble becomes agitated when his daughter is trapped under a backhoe.

2-A boy shoots himself with a pellet gun.

3-A babysitter has an anxiety attack.

4-Gage and DeSoto rescue Brice from a structure fire.

 

TVLand #122

Script #44922

Onward and Upward – Airdate – 4/2/77

Writer: Michael Norell; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: Leon Ames, Dabbs Greer, Tom Williams, Tabi Cooper, William Boyett.

THEME! Captain Stanley worries that the battalion chief will sabotage his attempt to pass the chief's exam because of an incident in their past.

1-A soap opera doctor with mono causes havoc on the set and in the hospital

2-John, Roy, and a retired doctor with a self-diagnosed heart aneurysm get stuck in an elevator.

 

TVLand #123

Script #44924

Hypochondri-Cap – Airdate – 4/16/77

Writer: Bruce Shelly; Director: Dennis Donnelly

Guest Cast: William Bryant, George Brenlin, Bette Ford, Vince Howard, William Boyett, Lani Gustavson, Abraham Alvarez.

THEME! Captain Stanley convinces himself he has arthritis but refuses to see a doctor until the crew sets up an appointment he can't refuse.

1-A man gets his hand caught in his garage door opener.

2-A woman passes out and has an auto accident

3-The doctors treat a woman infected from plastic surgery gone awry

4-Johnny tests a new type of rope

5-The station responds to a two-alarm fire at an oil refinery.

 

TVLand #124

Script #44925

All Night Long – Airdate – 5/28/77

Writer: Kevin Tighe; Director: Georg Fenady

Guest Cast: James McEachin, Carmen Zapata, Bill Walker

THEME! Johnny is inspired to write his own version of a TV game show.

1-Roy and Johnny treat a former jazz singer suffering from chest pains.

2- When a car runs a stop sign, three injuries result, and the station responds to a night-time auto accident.

3-A daredevil must be rescued from a rope strung between buildings.

 

Season 7 – The Movies

TVLand #127 / 128

The Steel Inferno - Airdate: 1/7/78

Writer: Preston Wood, R.A. Cinder; Director: Georg Fenady

Guest Cast: Linda Grey, Brendan Boone, John Furey, Anne Lockhart, John DeLancie, William Bryant, Curtis Credel, Erik Washington, Lyndel Stuart, William Bronder, Vice Howard, Joseph Della Sorte, Sidney Clute, Robert Karnes, Steven Marlo, Philip Baker Hall, T. Miratti, Buck Young

Life hangs in the balance as paramedics Gage and DeSoto and panic-stricken tenants are trapped on the 20th floor of a Los Angles high-rise building that becomes a holocaust of smoke and fire. Business executive Evelyn Davis and her secretary, Sue Adams, are overcome by smoke and remain unaccounted for. In their rescue attempt, Gage and DeSoto become trapped when all power in the building is cut off leaving only one avenue of escape – a perilous hand-over-hand descent in an elevator shaft.

*Notes: Da’ Boy’s are in this flick very little. Most of the attention focuses on the men at Station 8, one of whom is engaged to the secretary, Sue Adams. In addition, the rest of the crew of 51’s are missing-in (and out of) -action.

 

TVLand #125 / 126

Survival On Charter 220, 2 hours - Airdate: 3/25/78

Writer: Christian I Nyby II, Hannah Sherer, R.A. Cinder; Director: Christian I Nyby II

Guest Cast: David Ladd, Jay Hammer, Jason Evers, Barrie Youngfellow, Marla Adams, Rebecca York, James A. Watson, Jr.

Squad 51 C-shift paramedics rescue a stuntman from a tower. Gage and Desoto respond to treat the injured child of a fireman’s widow. A small plane and a chartered jetliner collide in midair, landing in a residential neighborhood, trapping Johnny and Roy. Station 18 leads a massive response from Battalion 14 and the Compton city fire department. Dr. Morton heads up a triage team from Rampart. Multiple rescues include passengers from both planes and people in the subdivision. Dr. Early performs brain surgery on the injured child. An elderly man’s dog leads Chief McConnike to its owner.

 

TVLand #129 / 130

Medic I: Seattle, 2 hours (also aired as Most Deadly Passage) - Airdate: 4/4/78

Writer: Michael Donovan; Director: Christian I. Nyby, II.

Guest Cast: Jesse Vint, Anthony Herrera, George Wyner, Larry Manetti, Ted Gehring, John Kauffman, Terence Burk, Kenneth Tobey, Cecilia Hart, Joan Tompkins, Bill Zukert, Michael Feffer.

Roy and Johnny are sent to Seattle to study the techniques used there. A skydiver jumps off the Space Needle, a worker is trapped at the top of the Kingdome, and a fuel pumper loads a ferry with gasoline instead of diesel fuel, which sets the ferry on fire in the middle of the Elliot Bay.

 

TVLand #131 / 132

Greatest Rescues of Emergency, 2 hours - Airdate: 12/31/78

Writer: R.A. Cinader; Director: R.A. Cinader

Guest Cast: N/A

Johnny & Roy, both promoted to Captain, reminisce about their past experiences as paramedics. Flash-back sequences include the rescue of airplane passengers after a crash-landing, a potential suicide threatening to leap from a crane tower, and a girl whose toe is stuck in a faucet.

 

TVLand #133 / 134

What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing…?, 2 hours - Airdate: 6/26/79

Teleplay: Michael Donovan; THEME! Hannah Shearer; Director: Georg Fenady

Guest Cast: Paul Sylvan, Patty McCormack, John DeLancie, Deirdre Lenihan, Jordon Suffin, Zack Murphy, James Whitworth, Chesley Uxbridge, Ed Peck, Bruce Neckels, Jon Buffington, John F. Lacues, Chris Combs, Carl Lumbly, John Hatfield

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

 

TVLand #135 / 136

The Convention, 2 hours – Airdate: 7/3/79

Writer: R.A. Cinder, Hannah Shearer; Director: Georg Fenady

Guest Cast: Paul Sylvan, Patty McCormack, John DeLancie, Dierdre Lenihan

San Francisco firefighters and paramedics rescue a man trapped on the rigging of a schooner. A paramedic convention brings Gage and DeSoto back to San Francisco, where they assist a choking victim in a restaurant, then deliver a baby while two female paramedics treat a sniper’s shooting victims. While attending a picnic, SF firefighters and paramedics are called back to work for a mutual aid response in Marin County; Gage and DeSoto tag along and rescue the victims of a lab explosion.