EMERGENCY! Season 3

1. Frequency

Airdate: 9/22/73
Writer: Kenneth Dorward
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Michael Lane, Pamela McMyler, Donald Barry, Karen J. Philipp, Irene Gilbert, Ike Eisenmann, Linda Kelsey, Ron Townson.

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

2. The Old Engine

Airdate: 9/29/73
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Michael Conrad, Ross Elliott, Laurette Spang, Regina Parton, Ann Doran, Raymond Mayo, Lorraine Baptist, [Yvonne Craig, Don Ross].

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

3. Alley Cat

Airdate: 10/6/73
Writer: Charlene Sukins
Director: Alan Crosland
Guest Cast: Brooke Bundy, Lee Bergere, William Challee, Virginia Gregg, George Ives, X Brands, Nelson Olmstead, Shirley O'Hara.
A stray cat decides to have her kittens on John's bed at the station. A family is trapped in a downed airplane; an old man gets his foot caught in a bear trap; a stage actress suffers an anxiety attack; a school develops a gas leak; Roy and John rescue the victim of a boating accident.

4. An English Visitor

Airdate: 10/13/73
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Alan Crosland
Guest Cast: Jamie Ross, Judi Meredith, Stanley Kamel, Barbara Boles, Jack Bailey, Lucille Benson, Art Ballinger, Mira L. Waters, [Craig Curtis].
A paramedic from England has a stint with Station 51 observing Roy and John, whose rescues include: a structure fire; a knife thrower; a car accident; and a man trapped in heavy machinery, where the visitor saves John's life. At the hospital, Dr. Brackett treats a rock singer in a diabetic coma and Dr. Early has problems with a defiant nurse.

5. Heavyweight

Airdate: 10/20/73
Writer: Kenneth Dorward
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Baraba Sigel, Dennis Redfield, Dennis Rucker, Pamela Peters, Sean Kelly, Wayne Heffley, Rebecca Ray.
At a structure fire, the paramedics rescue a pregnant woman and Johnny injures his shoulder. After going into labor, the guilt-ridden mother is determined to abandon her deformed baby. Dr. Morton treats Johnny and gives him a bad time about his physical condition, sending Johnny on a fitness kick. Dr. Early treats an electrocuted child whose mother is on drugs. The son of a stabbing victim is more determined to shoot the assailant than get his father to the hospital. Roy and Johnny rescue a hanglider pilot trapped in a tree.

6. Snake Bite

Airdate: 10/27/73
Writer: Carroll Christensen
Director: George Fenady
Guest Cast: Richard X. Slattery, Reta Shaw, Johnnie Collins III, William Bryant, Tony Haig, Laurie Brighton, [Don Carter, Jill Chandler, Sarah Fankboner].
Returning from a fishing trip, Roy, John, and Chet help the victims of a car accident. On duty, after rescuing some joyriders whose car went over a cliff, John is bitten by a rattlesnake.

7. The Promotion

Airdate: 11/3/73
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Guest Cast: Tom Simcox, Michael Maitland, [Nancy DeCarl, Pamela Campbell, Dee Carroll, Grace Lenard, Tiffni Twitchell, William Benedict].
Roy passes the Engineer's test, but accepting the promotion will mean leaving the paramedics. A bad fog leads to a multi-car accident on the San Diego Freeway. A young crash victim has a heart murmur. The paramedics have difficulty responding to an attempted suicide. At a structure fire, Johnny is injured and Roy must rescue both him and a security guard.

8. Insomnia

Airdate: 11/10/73
Writer: Robert Hamner
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Ronnie Schell, Dick Yarmy, Hal Lynch, Stephen Manley, Lee Farr, Joe Pizzorusso, Jim Nolan, [Craig Chudy].
A boat has an explosion aboard en route to the marina. John obsesses about the lack of night runs and can't sleep. A man and his son are injured when they swerve to avoid a dog. Doctors race against time to save a marijuana smoker dying of an unidentifiable malady. A worker is pinned in a loading dock by a semi. A man and child fall into a gravel pit.

9. Inheritance Tax

Airdate: 11/17/73
Writer: Arnold Somkin
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Warren Berlinger, Michael Fox, Marion Ross, [Mike McHenry, Jerod Johnson, Robert Clotworthy].
A child is trapped in a car under downed power lines. A stockbroker with heart problems is reluctant to be treated. An elderly woman that Roy and John treated the previous year dies and remembers them in her will. Dr. Early administers first aid to two young boys. A teenager loses a hamburger eating contest. The paramedics treat a burn victim at an explosive structure fire.

10. Zero

Airdate: 11/24/73
Writer: Brian Taggert
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Guest Cast: Mariette Hartley, Joanne Worley, Anthony Eisley, Dick Whittinghill, Nora Marlowe, Jan Arvan, William Bryant, Bobby Eilbacher, [Vivian Bonnell, Dick Enberg, Ginny Golden].
A woman screams for therapeutic reasons. When the paramedics are interviewed on a TV program, Johnny freezes in front of the camera and Roy must bail him out. A young boy attempts suicide by leaping off an apartment ledge; at the hospital, the doctors suspect he may be an abused child. The paramedics rescue a man trapped in a doughnut machine and a child from a structure fire.

11. The Promise

Airdate: 12/1/73
Writer: Dee Murphey
Director: Alan Crosland
Guest Cast: Kip Niven, Patricia Hindy, Patricia Mattick, Reva Rose, Russell Thorson, Ted Gehring, Jean E. London, Hal K. Dawson, Gail Bonney, [Fred Brookfield].
Responding to a vehicle fire, the firemen discover a catatonic mechanic; at Rampart the doctors are mystified by his condition. Roy lectures a woman who keeps calling the paramedics because she is lonely. A woman mixes ammonia with bleach and inhales poisonous gas. The woman who owns the dog John took care of in 'Mascot' [episode 1.1] returns and presents John with a pup. An elderly couple is trapped in their house by a bunch of tumbleweeds. A friend of the catatonic patient gives him an injection, causing him to jump out of a window onto a sixth story ledge.

12. 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 Angela, Vince Howard, Scott Gourlav, Joshua Albee, Michael Morgan.
A crop-duster makes a rough landing in a field; the pilot suffers a punctured lung, and a bystander is poisoned with pesticide. A young boy with a broken leg wants to use crutches instead of a walker. A patient reports to Rampart with an ear infection caused by mothballs. A couple overdoses on daffodil bulbs. A weekend cowboy refuses treatment after falling from his horse. Two victims of a traffic accident get friendly. John's current girlfriend thinks he has proposed to her. The lead singer of a rock band goes into cardiac arrest.

13. Understanding

Airdate: 12/15/73
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: George Fenady
Guest Cast: John Russell, Mills Watson, Michael Vandever, James Griffith, Phillip Pine, Bennye Gatteys, Robert Patten, Kathleen Quinlan, Ray Fine.
John gives Chet his guitar. At an explosive structure fire, a girl's horse is trapped in a burning barn. Dr. Brackett and Nurse McCall lecture a man who keeps forgetting his insulin shots. A girl calls the hospital, threatening suicide; firemen stand by while hospital workers attempt to trace the call. A hostage in a bank robbery has heart problems; the paramedics must treat him at gunpoint.

14. Computer Error

Airdate: 12/22/73
Writer: John Groves
Director: Joel Oliansky
Guest Cast: Mark Miller, Larry Storch, Audrey Landers, Donny Most, Joyce Jameson, Bonnie Bartlett, Sandy deBruin, Tani Phelps Guthrie, Bing Russell, Ellen Clark, Marc L. Seaton.
John tries to get a credit card mistake corrected. A young couple is rescued from a car wreck; the boy has a spinal cord injury and Dr. Early suspects the girl is pregnant. Roy and John rescue a woman trapped at the bottom of a well and an amateur magician from a safe. A rescue at a junkyard fire turns hazardous when phosphorus materials explode.

15. Inferno

Airdate: 1/5/74
Writer: Brian Taggert
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Beth Brickell, Jack Hogan, Bill Andes, Jack Manning, Angelo Gristanti, Wes Parker, Bill Welsh, Helen Page Camp, Art Balinger, Buck Young, Richard A. Friend.
John and Roy are disappointed when they are the only squad not called to a major brushfire. Dixie gets her hand caught in a vending machine. A lawyer collapses in the courtroom with an apparent heart attack. Roy and John finally make it to the brushfire and become trapped while rescuing another firefighter.

16. 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.
Chet ("The Phantom Bomber") starts a series of practical jokes against John, who eventually retaliates. 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. A retiree ("Old Bill") pretends to be ill so he can amuse the children in the emergency department. A woman feeds her sick husband Dieffenbachia sap to keep him quiet. At a trash fire, a gas station worker shows signs of a perforated ulcer. Responding to a call of a man down, the paramedics find Old Bill collapsed in his home. A young boy swallows ant poison. The firemen extricate three workers from a bulldozer accident.

17. Fools

Airdate: 1/19/74
Writer: Eric Kaldor
Director: Jospeh Pevney
Guest Cast: Bobby Sherman, Dennis Patrick, Carol Arthur, William Campbell, [John Harmon, Michele Nichols].
A man is injured when his chimney explodes. A brash young intern at Rampart thinks he knows more than the paramedics and makes a near-fatal diagnosis of a heart patient; Dr. Brackett send him on a ride-along with Squad 51. A girl gets her hand stuck in a mailbox. Johnny and Roy must rescue a heart attack victim trapped on an oil refinery tower — in the midst of an explosive structure fire.

18. How Green Was My Thumb?

Airdate: 1/26/74
Writer: John Groves
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Will Hutchins, Don Chastain, Leigh Christian, George P. Wallace, Eric Shea, Pamela Hensley, Donald Mantooth, Helen Clark, Kim Richards, William Wintersole, Vince Howard, Jack Kosslyn.
Roy and John rescue a man who has problems breathing because he has swallowed his partial dental plate. Roy takes care of a young victim's plants while she is in the hospital, but John thinks the victim is an old woman. A young girl's religious parents prevent necessary treatment. The station responds to a fire in a winery, and Dr. Brackett and the paramedics perform backyard surgery on a man with an unexploded grenade in his abdomen.

19. The Hard Hours

Airdate: 2/2/74
Writer: Arnold Somkin
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Dick Butkus, Nick Nolte, Eve Brent, [Casey Morgan, Megan Landis].
Dr. Early is diagnosed with a heart condition and undergoes a bypass. A pro football player is embarrassed to admit that his son tackled him too hard. The firemen rescue a boy trapped in his homemade rocket, a woman with her toe stuck in a bathtub faucet, and an electrocution victim.

20. Floor Brigade

Airdate: 2/9/74
Writer: Roland Wolpert
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Pat Buttram, Christopher Man, [Don Diamond, Stephen Colt, Milton Frome, Ray Ballard].
John and Roy think about going into the floor cleaning business on the side. A hermit is trapped in his cave home. Dr. Morton treats a famous singer. John is injured on a high rescue, and the station battles a chemical warehouse fire.

21. Propinquity

Airdate: 2/16/74
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: George Fenady
Guest Cast: Brendon Boone, [George Orrison, Gil Peterson, Don Hammer, Eric Sarver].
Roy spends the night at John's place while his house is being fumigated, which is one night too many. A woman is trapped inside a car while it burns around her; the ambulance carrying Roy and the victim is hit by a car. A man having a heart attack refuses to leave a poker game unless John agrees to play out the man's hand. An explosion at an abandoned refinery injures several workers.

22. Inventions

Airdate: 3/23/74
Writer: John Groves
Director: Kevin Tighe
Guest Cast: Pepper Martin, Aneta Corsaut, Michael Richardson, Hal Bokar, Charles MacCauley, Lillian Bronson, Robert Miller Driscoll.
The firemen enter a contest to invent new firefighting tools. The paramedics handle victims of possible radiation poisoning. A comatose man is suffering from a mysterious ailment. A woman’s overweight son is wedged in her living room ceiling. The firemen respond to a leak at a chemical plant.

1.		Frequency Airdate: 9/22/73 Writer: Kenneth Dorward Director: Dennis Donnelly Guest Cast: Michael Lane, Pamela McMyler, Donald Barry, Karen J. Philipp, Irene Gilbert, Ike Eisenmann, Linda Kelsey, Ron Townson. When Johnny’s policeman friend is injured in a car crash, the paramedics can’t reach the hospital because another squad is using the biophone. A child with a mysterious malady turns out to be drunk. Roy and John assist at the hospital when the victims of a motorcycle gang war are brought in for treatment. An artist becomes trapped in his own sculpture. A father and son are trapped in a collapse at a construction site.
2.		The Old Engine Airdate: 9/29/73 Writer: Preston Wood Director: Christian I. Nyby, II Guest Cast: Michael Conrad, Ross Elliott, Laurette Spang, Regina Parton, Ann Doran, Raymond Mayo, Lorraine Baptist, [Yvonne Craig, Don Ross]. Roy and John buy an old fire engine, and Station 51 gets a new engine. A woman overdoses on LSD and Roy tries to talk her down, leading the two paramedics on a chase to the top of a building. Brackett treats a resilient gunshot victim. A politician suffers a heart attack and the station responds to a warehouse fire.
3.		Alley Cat Airdate: 10/6/73 Writer: Charlene Sukins Director: Alan Crosland Guest Cast: Brooke Bundy, Lee Bergere, William Challee, Virginia Gregg, George Ives, X Brands, Nelson Olmstead, Shirley O'Hara. A stray cat decides to have her kittens on John's bed at the station. A family is trapped in a downed airplane; an old man gets his foot caught in a bear trap; a stage actress suffers an anxiety attack; a school develops a gas leak; Roy and John rescue the victim of a boating accident.
4.		An English Visitor Airdate: 10/13/73 Writer: Michael Donovan Director: Alan Crosland Guest Cast: Jamie Ross, Judi Meredith, Stanley Kamel, Barbara Boles, Jack Bailey, Lucille Benson, Art Ballinger, Mira L. Waters, [Craig Curtis]. A paramedic from England has a stint with Station 51 observing Roy and John, whose rescues include: a structure fire; a knife thrower; a car accident; and a man trapped in heavy machinery, where the visitor saves John's life. At the hospital, Dr. Brackett treats a rock singer in a diabetic coma and Dr. Early has problems with a defiant nurse.
5.		Heavyweight Airdate: 10/20/73 Writer: Kenneth Dorward Director: Dennis Donnelly Guest Cast: Baraba Sigel, Dennis Redfield, Dennis Rucker, Pamela Peters, Sean Kelly, Wayne Heffley, Rebecca Ray. At a structure fire, the paramedics rescue a pregnant woman and Johnny injures his shoulder. After going into labor, the guilt-ridden mother is determined to abandon her deformed baby. Dr. Morton treats Johnny and gives him a bad time about his physical condition, sending Johnny on a fitness kick. Dr. Early treats an electrocuted child whose mother is on drugs. The son of a stabbing victim is more determined to shoot the assailant than get his father to the hospital. Roy and Johnny rescue a hanglider pilot trapped in a tree.
6.		Snake Bite Airdate: 10/27/73 Writer: Carroll Christensen Director: George Fenady Guest Cast: Richard X. Slattery, Reta Shaw, Johnnie Collins III, William Bryant, Tony Haig, Laurie Brighton, [Don Carter, Jill Chandler, Sarah Fankboner]. Returning from a fishing trip, Roy, John, and Chet help the victims of a car accident. On duty, after rescuing some joyriders whose car went over a cliff, John is bitten by a rattlesnake.
7.		The Promotion Airdate: 11/3/73 Writer: Preston Wood Director: Christian I. Nyby II Guest Cast: Tom Simcox, Michael Maitland, [Nancy DeCarl, Pamela Campbell, Dee Carroll, Grace Lenard, Tiffni Twitchell, William Benedict]. Roy passes the Engineer's test, but accepting the promotion will mean leaving the paramedics. A bad fog leads to a multi-car accident on the San Diego Freeway. A young crash victim has a heart murmur. The paramedics have difficulty responding to an attempted suicide. At a structure fire, Johnny is injured and Roy must rescue both him and a security guard.
8.		Insomnia Airdate: 11/10/73 Writer: Robert Hamner Director: Dennis Donnelly Guest Cast: Ronnie Schell, Dick Yarmy, Hal Lynch, Stephen Manley, Lee Farr, Joe Pizzorusso, Jim Nolan, [Craig Chudy]. A boat has an explosion aboard en route to the marina. John obsesses about the lack of night runs and can't sleep. A man and his son are injured when they swerve to avoid a dog. Doctors race against time to save a marijuana smoker dying of an unidentifiable malady. A worker is pinned in a loading dock by a semi. A man and child fall into a gravel pit.
9.		Inheritance Tax Airdate: 11/17/73 Writer: Arnold Somkin Director: Dennis Donnelly Guest Cast: Warren Berlinger, Michael Fox, Marion Ross, [Mike McHenry, Jerod Johnson, Robert Clotworthy]. A child is trapped in a car under downed power lines. A stockbroker with heart problems is reluctant to be treated. An elderly woman that Roy and John treated the previous year dies and remembers them in her will. Dr. Early administers first aid to two young boys. A teenager loses a hamburger eating contest. The paramedics treat a burn victim at an explosive structure fire.
10.		Zero Airdate: 11/24/73 Writer: Brian Taggert Director: Christian I. Nyby II Guest Cast: Mariette Hartley, Joanne Worley, Anthony Eisley, Dick Whittinghill, Nora Marlowe, Jan Arvan, William Bryant, Bobby Eilbacher, [Vivian Bonnell, Dick Enberg, Ginny Golden]. A woman screams for therapeutic reasons. When the paramedics are interviewed on a TV program, Johnny freezes in front of the camera and Roy must bail him out. A young boy attempts suicide by leaping off an apartment ledge; at the hospital, the doctors suspect he may be an abused child. The paramedics rescue a man trapped in a doughnut machine and a child from a structure fire.
11.		The Promise Airdate: 12/1/73 Writer: Dee Murphey Director: Alan Crosland Guest Cast: Kip Niven, Patricia Hindy, Patricia Mattick, Reva Rose, Russell Thorson, Ted Gehring, Jean E. London, Hal K. Dawson, Gail Bonney, [Fred Brookfield]. Responding to a vehicle fire, the firemen discover a catatonic mechanic; at Rampart the doctors are mystified by his condition. Roy lectures a woman who keeps calling the paramedics because she is lonely. A woman mixes ammonia with bleach and inhales poisonous gas. The woman who owns the dog John took care of in 'Mascot' [episode 1.1] returns and presents John with a pup. An elderly couple is trapped in their house by a bunch of tumbleweeds. A friend of the catatonic patient gives him an injection, causing him to jump out of a window onto a sixth story ledge.
12.		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 Angela, Vince Howard, Scott Gourlav, Joshua Albee, Michael Morgan. A crop-duster makes a rough landing in a field; the pilot suffers a punctured lung, and a bystander is poisoned with pesticide. A young boy with a broken leg wants to use crutches instead of a walker. A patient reports to Rampart with an ear infection caused by mothballs. A couple overdoses on daffodil bulbs. A weekend cowboy refuses treatment after falling from his horse. Two victims of a traffic accident get friendly. John's current girlfriend thinks he has proposed to her. The lead singer of a rock band goes into cardiac arrest.
13.		Understanding Airdate: 12/15/73 Writer: Preston Wood Director: George Fenady Guest Cast: John Russell, Mills Watson, Michael Vandever, James Griffith, Phillip Pine, Bennye Gatteys, Robert Patten, Kathleen Quinlan, Ray Fine. John gives Chet his guitar. At an explosive structure fire, a girl's horse is trapped in a burning barn. Dr. Brackett and Nurse McCall lecture a man who keeps forgetting his insulin shots. A girl calls the hospital, threatening suicide; firemen stand by while hospital workers attempt to trace the call. A hostage in a bank robbery has heart problems; the paramedics must treat him at gunpoint.
14.		Computer Error Airdate: 12/22/73 Writer: John Groves Director: Joel Oliansky Guest Cast: Mark Miller, Larry Storch, Audrey Landers, Donny Most, Joyce Jameson, Bonnie Bartlett, Sandy deBruin, Tani Phelps Guthrie, Bing Russell, Ellen Clark, Marc L. Seaton. John tries to get a credit card mistake corrected. A young couple is rescued from a car wreck; the boy has a spinal cord injury and Dr. Early suspects the girl is pregnant. Roy and John rescue a woman trapped at the bottom of a well and an amateur magician from a safe. A rescue at a junkyard fire turns hazardous when phosphorus materials explode.
15.		Inferno Airdate: 1/5/74 Writer: Brian Taggert Director: Christian I. Nyby, II Guest Cast: Beth Brickell, Jack Hogan, Bill Andes, Jack Manning, Angelo Gristanti, Wes Parker, Bill Welsh, Helen Page Camp, Art Balinger, Buck Young, Richard A. Friend. John and Roy are disappointed when they are the only squad not called to a major brushfire. Dixie gets her hand caught in a vending machine. A lawyer collapses in the courtroom with an apparent heart attack. Roy and John finally make it to the brushfire and become trapped while rescuing another firefighter.
16.		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. Chet ("The Phantom Bomber") starts a series of practical jokes against John, who eventually retaliates. 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. A retiree ("Old Bill") pretends to be ill so he can amuse the children in the emergency department. A woman feeds her sick husband Dieffenbachia sap to keep him quiet. At a trash fire, a gas station worker shows signs of a perforated ulcer. Responding to a call of a man down, the paramedics find Old Bill collapsed in his home. A young boy swallows ant poison. The firemen extricate three workers from a bulldozer accident.
17.		Fools Airdate: 1/19/74 Writer: Eric Kaldor Director: Jospeh Pevney Guest Cast: Bobby Sherman, Dennis Patrick, Carol Arthur, William Campbell, [John Harmon, Michele Nichols]. A man is injured when his chimney explodes. A brash young intern at Rampart thinks he knows more than the paramedics and makes a near-fatal diagnosis of a heart patient; Dr. Brackett send him on a ride-along with Squad 51. A girl gets her hand stuck in a mailbox. Johnny and Roy must rescue a heart attack victim trapped on an oil refinery tower — in the midst of an explosive structure fire.
18.		How Green Was My Thumb? Airdate: 1/26/74 Writer: John Groves Director: Christian I. Nyby, II Guest Cast: Will Hutchins, Don Chastain, Leigh Christian, George P. Wallace, Eric Shea, Pamela Hensley, Donald Mantooth, Helen Clark, Kim Richards, William Wintersole, Vince Howard, Jack Kosslyn. Roy and John rescue a man who has problems breathing because he has swallowed his partial dental plate. Roy takes care of a young victim's plants while she is in the hospital, but John thinks the victim is an old woman. A young girl's religious parents prevent necessary treatment. The station responds to a fire in a winery, and Dr. Brackett and the paramedics perform backyard surgery on a man with an unexploded grenade in his abdomen.

19.		The Hard Hours Airdate: 2/2/74 Writer: Arnold Somkin Director: Christian I. Nyby, II Guest Cast: Dick Butkus, Nick Nolte, Eve Brent, [Casey Morgan, Megan Landis]. Dr. Early is diagnosed with a heart condition and undergoes a bypass. A pro football player is embarrassed to admit that his son tackled him too hard. The firemen rescue a boy trapped in his homemade rocket, a woman with her toe stuck in a bathtub faucet, and an electrocution victim.
20.		Floor Brigade Airdate: 2/9/74 Writer: Roland Wolpert Director: Dennis Donnelly Guest Cast: Pat Buttram, Christopher Man, [Don Diamond, Stephen Colt, Milton Frome, Ray Ballard]. John and Roy think about going into the floor cleaning business on the side. A hermit is trapped in his cave home. Dr. Morton treats a famous singer. John is injured on a high rescue, and the station battles a chemical warehouse fire.
21.		Propinquity Airdate: 2/16/74 Writer: Preston Wood Director: George Fenady Guest Cast: Brendon Boone, [George Orrison, Gil Peterson, Don Hammer, Eric Sarver]. Roy spends the night at John's place while his house is being fumigated, which is one night too many. A woman is trapped inside a car while it burns around her; the ambulance carrying Roy and the victim is hit by a car. A man having a heart attack refuses to leave a poker game unless John agrees to play out the man's hand. An explosion at an abandoned refinery injures several workers.
22.		Inventions Airdate: 3/23/74 Writer: John Groves Director: Kevin Tighe Guest Cast: Pepper Martin, Aneta Corsaut, Michael Richardson, Hal Bokar, Charles MacCauley, Lillian Bronson, Robert Miller Driscoll. The firemen enter a contest to invent new firefighting tools. The paramedics handle victims of possible radiation poisoning. A comatose man is suffering from a mysterious ailment. A woman’s overweight son is wedged in her living room ceiling. The firemen respond to a leak at a chemical plant.