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1. Decision

Airdate: 9/16/72
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest Cast: Lloyd Bochner, Jessica Rains, Willard Sage, Michael Richardson, Michael W. Stokey, Vic Mohica, Annette Cardona, Keven Dobson, James Byrd, Candace Howerton, Jack Dodson.

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.

2. Kids

Airdate: 9/23/72
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: George Fenady
Guest Cast: Roger Perry, Richard Jaeckel, Anne Whitfield, Christian Juttner, Gary Clarke, Lori Busk, Pamela Jones, Tony Kelvin, Scott Sealey, William Bryant, Victor Izay, Don Carter, John Travolta.

The station adopts a stray dog, which they name Boot. The firemen rescue a boy from a hole; he turns out to be an abused child. Roy and Johnny rescue another boy whose head is stuck in a basement window. Dr. Early extracts a child’s arm from a steering wheel. At a brush fire, Boot helps locate an injured hiker, then leaves with a hook and ladder truck.

3. Show Biz

Airdate: 9/30/72
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: Sam C. Freedle
Guest Cast: Henry Jones, Monica Lewis, Joseph Perry, Ezra Stone, Lillian Lehman, Joseph Kaufman, Christine Dixon, Ted Gehring, Deidre Hall.

A photo shoot at the station gets John excited. A country doctor helps Roy and John when they can't reach Rampart on a call. The paramedics rescue a man drowning in a swimming pool and two stuntmen trapped on a waterfall at a movie studio.

Adam-12: Lost and Found

Airdate: 10/4/72
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Cast: Martin Milner, Kent McCord.
Special Appearances by: Robert Fuller, Julie London, Bobby Troup, Kevin Tighe, Randolph Mantooth.
Guest Cast: Elaine Giftos, Fred Holliday, Nancy King, Kirby Furlong, William Boyett, Chanin Hale, Diane Sherry, Milton Frome, Deidre Hall.

Officers Reed and Malloy transport a boy in a diabetic coma to Rampart Hospital, where he is treated by Dr. Brackett and Nurse McCall. Dr. Early is seen briefly, with paramedics Gage and DeSoto. Malloy visits his girlfriend, the head of a crisis center at Rampart, and they help locate a suicidal teen. When the diabetic boy runs away, from the hospital, the officers lead the search.

4. 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 Vallaro, Philip Brown, Vince Howard, Deidre Hall.

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

5. Peace Pipe

Airdate: 10/14/72
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest Cast: Brooke Bundy, William Campbell, Kip Niven, Vince Howard, Renee Lippin, Joe Pizzorusso, Tom Waters.

A drunk driver rams a parked car, trapping a child inside. Chet pesters John about his Native American heritage. A kid gets his finger stuck in a gumball machine. A woman’s new girdle causes breathing difficulties. A worker’s error leads to fuel being mixed with the water supply, causing explosive results. A sniper makes a scaffold rescue dangerous.

6. Saddled

Airdate: 10/21/72
Writer: Herb Purdum
Director: George Fenady
Guest Cast: Larry Storch, Elizabeth Baur, Ronne Troup, Michael Rupert, Deidre Hall, Jay Hammer, Barbara Bosson, Christopher Gardner, Kelly Troup, Edward Crawford.

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.

7. Fuzz Lady

Airdate: 11/4/72
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Paul Fix, Sharon Gless, J. Pat O'Malley, Ellen Moss, Nate Esformes, Drout Miller, Eric Server, William Durkin, Vince Howard, Meg Wyllie, Scott Barrett.

John falls for a lady deputy when called to treat a mugger. Items are stolen from Rampart. The firemen rescue an elderly man from a house fire. Boot returns to Station 51. A grandfather is injured by a model rocket. The paramedics rescue a boat thief trapped on a crane.

8. 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.

A former Vietnam medic is now a paramedic trainee and constantly thinks he knows more than the doctors at Rampart. Roy, John, and the trainee interrupt a purse-snatching, rescue a man who fell down a cliff, help a woman overdosed on prescription drugs, and save a man with an insulin reaction.

9. Women

Airdate: 11/25/72
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: George Fenady
Guest Cast: Leslie Charleson, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Dick Van Patten, Joshua Bryant, Michael Richardson, Stacy Harris, Janit Baldwin, Randall Carver, Susan Damonte, Lillian Lehman.

A woman journalist covers the Squad's rescues. A man trapped is in a truck under live power lines. Doctors treat a boy poisoned by wild hemlock and a girl addicted to drugs. The paramedics rescue a man trapped in a sofabed, a man wihose arm is stuck in a garbage disposal, and a man trapped in a bombed building.

10. Dinner Date

Airdate: 12/2/72
Writer: Dick Morgan
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Lynn Carlin, Jean Allison, Emily Yancy, Michael C. Gwynne, Dawn Lyn, Laurette Spang, Drout Miller, Judy Farrell, Patty McCormack, Deidre Hall, [Melissa Gilbert].

A woman almost hits a kid on a bike, who starts choking; she later has an epileptic fit. A man is shot by his father-in-law when he learns his daughter is married and pregnant. Roy tries to set John up with his wife's cousin. Three drug addicts are treated in the hospital: a woman with a gangrenous hand, a poison victim and a man showing signs of tetanus. In the field: an alcoholic, an obese man with a pacemaker, and a child whose arm is caught in a swimming pool drain.

11. 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 Nunn.

After Chet cracks a joke about John playing the Squad horn, John takes up the bagpipes, trombone, and guitar. Paramedics help a gardener suffering from tetanus. The father of a boy suffering from lead poisoning is reluctant to have it treated. The firemen rescue the driver of an ice cream truck. A schoolgirl dies from an overdose. A glider pilot crash lands. A man working under his house is trapped.

12. Helpful

Airdate: 12/16/72
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest Cast: Alicia Bond, Frank Maxwell, {Jamie Farr}, Vince Howard, Abigail Shelton, Victor Millan, Molli Benson, Margie Haber, Paul Ryan.

Roy has an argument with his wife and Johnny tries to help. The firemen rescue a man from precarious auto wreck. A brilliant doctor's erratic behavior causes concern at the hospital. Doctors diagnose a woman’s heart condition. Paramedics rescue a dog from a roof and two children lost in a rapidly flooding storm drain.

Note: Jamie Farr actually appears in episode 2.19.

13. 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, [Gina Alvarado, Ian Carrol, Solica].

John gets bugged by other people's bad driving habits. A college quarterback experiences back pain. Roy and John's former paramedic instructor dies, while Roy and John themselves teach a CPR class. A boy gets stuck inside a tree. A structure fire at a hotel is complicated by a cardiac victim on the third floor.

14. School Days

Airdate: 1/13/73
Writer: Kenneth Dorward
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest Cast: Kip Niven, Michael-James Wixted, Ian Wolfe, Ann Doran, Sandy deBruin, Terrence O’Connor, Doria Cook, Lew Brown, Deidre Hall, Molli Benson, [Bill McLean, Frank McCoy].

A new trainee appears to be lacking in confidence; a bookcase falls on an elderly gentleman searching for a book; a baseball player is injured; an ambulance is hit by a car; a boy’s chemistry set explodes in his face; students play a practical joke on a sleeping man; a man is injured at a junkyard.

15. The Professor

Airdate: 2/3/73
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Jane Merrow, Paul Picerni, Hedley Mattingly, Frank Maxwell, Helen Page Camp, Joan Pringle, Tim Callahan, Alma Lawton, Christopher Cain.

A man shows signs of schizophrenia for no apparent reason and the Secret Service won't give any clues. Roy has an admirer, yet John accuses him of having no charisma. The paramedics respond to a false alarm on a fireboat, and end up saving the victim of a plane crash; they also deliver a premature baby and rescue a man threatening to jump off a tall building.

16. Syndrome

Airdate: 2/10/73
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Jack Carter, Robert Alda, Dub Taylor, Ezra Stone, Perry Castellano, Michael Morgan, Kres Mersky, Casey MacDonald, Ta-Tanisha, Barbara Brownell.

John tries to convince Roy he has tonsillitis. An old flame of Dixie's, who is now a famous actor, is admitted to Rampart. Two kids are trapped on top of a gas tank; a girl's college lacrosse game turns violent; Boot has surgery to remove a tick; Dr. Early deals with a hypochondriac. Chet is injured during a rescue and is roomed with Roy, who has had his tonsils removed.

17. Honest

Airdate: 2/17/73
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Michael Lerner, Anne Whitfield, Ondine Vaughn, Cheryl Miller, Lillian Lehman, Beverly Sanders, Doug Rowe, Hilda Wynn, Joe E. Tata, [Vincent Perry].

A gas explosion results from a white lie, prompting Johnny to go on an honesty kick. At the hospital, doctors work to save a boy who is inexplicably choking to death. In the field, the paramedics rescue a teenage boy injured in a dive off a roof, and a baby and his blind grandfather trapped in a burning house.

18. Seance

Airdate: 2/24/73
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: George Fenady
Guest Cast: Charles Aidman, Fintan Meyler, B. [Bruno] Kirby Jr., Suzanne Charny, William Bryant, John Carter, Ty Henderson, Laurie Brighton, Steven Marlu, Virginia Wing.

A woman keeps calling the Squad because she's convinced the bad things that happen to her husband are the result of her recently deceased sister. A youth suffering side effects from tranquilizers is treated in the ER. The paramedics rescue a man pinned under a stack of heavy cartons and a driver trapped underwater in his car.

19. Boot

Airdate: 3/3/73 [postponed from 1/27/73]
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Ann Prentiss, Jock Mahoney, Vic Tayback, Lillian Lehman, Vince Howard, Zack Taylor, Jack Manning, Susan Madigan, [Jamie Farr].

The firemen are puzzled by Boot’s strange behavior. Meanwhile, paramedics rescue a woman whose sports car is pinned under a gas truck and investigate a series of unusual incidents in the home of a woman attempting to cook a meal for her boyfriend and his mother. An unconscious man is brought in to the hospital suffering from internal bleeding. Dr. Early deals with the victim of a curse. An explosion in a hospital lab endangers a number of workers and important records.

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.

20. Rip-Off

Airdate: 3/10/73
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Charles McGraw, Morgan Paull, Maria-Elena Cordero, Harry Townes, Regis J. Cordic, Art Gilmore, Vince Howard, Iris Korn, Borah Silver, Charles Lampkin.

Roy and John are accused of stealing money from a victim. A premature delivery and a blinded man result from a car crash. A perilous rescue involves a plane that might explode.

21. Audit

Airdate: 4/7/73
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: George Fenady
Guest Cast: James McEachin, Kathy Cannon, Robert Porter, Ross Elliott, Kathleen King, Ray Ballard.

John is audited by the IRS. A man hit on the head wants to be treated by a doctor, not the paramedics. A child is rescued from a locked car. A pregnant girl has difficulty breathing. A professional medical con man shows up at Rampart. A construction worker is trapped when part of the building his crew is working on collapses, and he wants Roy to remove his leg before the rest of the building falls.

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