EMERGENCY! Season 5

1. 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.
John falls for a stewardess and shows his stuff when a passenger has a heart attack; later, he tries to date her. The firefighters respond to a motorcycle accident and a chemical fire.

2. The Old Engine Cram
Airdate: 9/20/75
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Bernard Fox. Christopher Nelson, Smith Evans, Kim Hamilton, Dick Yarmy.
A fireman is injured in a practice drill. Roy and John think they have a buyer for the old fire engine. A man suffers a back injury while riding a motorcycle. A mother pressures Dr. Morton to give her son a prescription. A man having a heart attack comes to the station. DeSoto and Gage rescue a man who has fallen off a cliff on Catalina Island.

3. Election
Airdate: 9/27/75
Writer: John Groves
Director: Bruce Bilson
Guest Cast: Sharon Gless, Cliff Osmond. Maggie Malooly, Hank Brandt, [Jack Kutcher, Dave Morick].
Roy and John become candidates for a welfare committee. A man gets his arm stuck in an appliance drain while his brother aspirates on a can tab. A delirious child causes problems at the hospital. A sculptress’ model is stuck inside a plaster cast. A construction worker is trapped on a crane.

4. Equipment
Airdate: 10/4/75
Writer: Robert Hamilton
Director: Kevin Tighe
Guest Cast: Lloyd Haynes. Jessica Rains, John Lawrence, Hal Bokar, Kristine Marie Greco, Vernon Weddle.
John overtimes at Station 8 where an unavailable squad costs a heart attack victim his life. A boy falls from a tree. Chet is injured by an explosion. Doctors treat a tree surgeon. Roy is injured in a fireworks warehouse fire.

5. The Inspection
Airdate: 10/11/75
Writer: Bruce Johnson
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest Cast: Wolfman Jack, Jeanne Cooper, Warren Berlinger. Roger Bowen, Gerald Michenaud.
The station becomes aware of the Battalion Chief's impending inspection. A wife is convinced that her husband's heart transplant means he no longer loves her. Paramedics aid a parachutist snagged on a radio tower. Dr. Brackett treats a veterinarian. An accident victim goes into shock.

6. The Indirect Method
Airdate: 10/18/75
Writer: Michael Norell
Director: Joel Oliansky
Guest Cast: Elayne Heilveil. Dick Bakalyan, Anne Loos, [Joan Crosby, Macon McCalman, Stephen Parr, Bill Conklin].
A hard-nosed female trainee is assigned to Roy and John. Freeway construction threatens an old couple's house. A man tries to commit suicide by gas, then changes his mind. A man suffers a heart attack and the paramedics are unable to revive him. Roy is electrocuted trying to save an invalid at a structure fire.

7. Pressure 165
Airdate: 10/25/75
Writer: Edwin Self
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest Cast: Michael Roy, Bing Russell, Del Monroe, Art Balinger, [Derrel Maury, Bill Harlow].
John gets ribbed about his cooking. The paramedics go to Catalina to help a diver, where John and a doctor treat the patient in a hyperbaric chamber. Roy and John help a famous chef with a kitchen fire. A youth suffers a serious gunshot wound. The firemen deal with a dust explosion at a structure fire.

8. 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, [Charles Robinson, Carol McEvoy, Sharon Jerhun].
An elderly woman's stomach problems lead to a family brawl. Roy and John treat a drunk in a hotel with a broken elevator. Doctors treat a boy with meningitis. 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.

9. 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.
En route to a rescue, Roy and John supposedly sideswipe an elderly crossing guard. A couple en route to a wedding hits a fire hydrant. A camper on fire drives up to the stationhouse. A truck carrying insecticide overturns.

10. Simple Adjustment
Airdate: 11/22/75
Writer: Robert Hamilton
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Elisabeth Brooks, Jane Dulo, Robin Clarke, Aneta Corsaut, [Joan Crosby].
Swamped with paperwork, the paramedics are continually distracted by emergencies: a girl trapped in an overturned car, a beautician who has taken too many diet pills, an elderly man, and workers stuck on a blazing ship.

11. Tee Vee
Airdate: 11/29/75
Writer: John Groves
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Lin McCarthy. Laurie Burton, W.T. Zacha, Heath Jobes, [Gil Serna, Moosie Drier, Deloney Mann].
The paramedics rescue a man from a manhole fire. Chet and John blow up the station's TV. Dr. Morton treats a man with a bleeding peptic ulcer. An aquarium is delivered to Dr. Brackett, who suffers a toxic reaction to a catfish bite. A man accidentally glues his eyes shut. A gas explosion and a mudslide trap a man in his house.

12. 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.
A camera crew follows Squad 51 while a teenager is bitten by a snake, a would-be stuntman dangles from an I-beam, a boy falls off a cliff and a man is trapped under a burning fuel truck.

13. Communications
Airdate: 12/13/75
Writer: Mark Saha
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Cynthia Sikes, Craig Hundley, Ted Gehring, Barbara George, Dolores Mann, Moosie Drier.
A young worker gets his arm caught in a machine. A communication snafu occurs between Squad 51 and the hospital. Dr. Morton treats a young violinist. Two boys get a car trapped on the roof of a house. A woman tries to commit suicide by overdosing and won't let the paramedics treat her, making them wait until she passes out. Chet sets a pair of skis on fire -- literally. A man is trapped underneath a car.

14. To Buy or Not To Buy
Airdate: 12/20/75
Writer: Keith A. Walker
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest Cast: Robert Pratt, Allan Vint, Susan Gay Powell. Fay DeWitt, Nicholas Worth, Patch MacKenzie, Vince Howard.
Roy thinks about buying a house, but delays too long. Responding to a structure fire, the firemen find two children trapped on the second floor. Two driving students are involved in a minor collision. Another traffic accident results in two injuries and a missing dog. A teenage epileptic is stranded on a concrete beam under a bridge.

15. Right at Home
Airdate: 1/10/76
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest Cast: Poindexter Yothers, Sandra Balson, Peggy Stewart, Steven Marlo.
Dr. Brackett rides along with a fire department helicopter crew. A boy causes trouble for the paramedics when he and his father are rescued after their camper has overturned in a canyon. Dr. Early treats a boy with spinal meningitis. The firemen rescue a man from a structure fire.

16. The Girl on the Balance Beam
Airdate: 1/17/76
Writer: Robert Hamilton
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Charles Knox Robinson, Patricia Morrow. Ronnie Schell, Patti Cohoon, Brian Baker, Dorothy Schott, Andrea Bell, William Bryant, Robert Hackman.
A young girl is in a rush to go to the Olympics. The firemen rescue an actress trapped on a high wire at a studio, extricate a drunk driver from his car, and battle a train fire with ammonium nitrate on board.

17. Involvement
Airdate: 1/24/76
Writer: John Groves
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Anne Seymour, Dawn Lyn. Jean Allison, Milton Frome, Del Monroe.
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. Also: a woman wrapped in plastic, a family suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning and a man pinned under a tank truck containing volatile fuel.

18. 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, [Richard A. Houtz].
Roy and John receive commendations for bravery, but they can't remember the incident. A 94-year old man breaks his ankle while dancing. Dr. Brackett treats a man who passed out in a dentist’s chair. An injured mountaineer is stranded on a cliff.

19. Grateful
Airdate: 2/7/76
Writer: Michael Norell
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest Cast: Dick Van Patten, Ruth Buzzi, Zina Bethune, Royal Dano. Paul Brinegar, Thomas Bellin.
After a couple is rescued from under a car, they hang about the stationhouse, helping out. An elderly man tries to perform CPR on his friend, but does more harm than good. A child is struck in the eye with a BB gun. While returning from a false alarm on Copter 10, Roy and John rescue the victims of a boat fire.

20. The Great Crash Diet
Airdate: 2/21/76
Writer: Timothy Burns
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest Cast: Michael Mullins, Holly Irving, Rick Podell, [Ginger Mason, Bill Quinn].
Conducting a fire inspection, Roy and John rescue a diver in a fish tank. A birthday boy eats raw dough and gets a stomachache. An experiment in firefighter nutrition becomes an obsession for Chet. A woman goes into labor while her mother experiences chest pains. Capt. Stanley is severely injured when he gets an electric shock from a fallen power line.

21. The Tycoons
Airdate: 2/28/76
Writer: Mark Massari, Robert Hamilton, John Groves
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest Cast: Robin Clark, Sheila James, Ted Gehring, Mary Moon, John Wyler, Yale Summers.
John gets everyone but Roy excited about buying into a nearby hot dog stand. By the time Roy gets interested, the stand burns down. A man is injured in an accident with a power lawn mower.

22. The Nuisance
Airdate: 3/6/76
Writer: Robert Hamilton
Director: Randolph Mantooth
Guest Cast: Gretchen Corbett, Carole Cook, James G. Richardson. Joan Shawlee, Coleen Gray, Joseph Perry.
After the squad helps a non-responsive lady on a barstool, John is hit by a car, leaving Roy stuck with a very annoying replacement. Together, they respond to a victim with chest pain. At a structure fire, Roy and Marco are injured but Brice escapes unscathed.

1.		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. John falls for a stewardess and shows his stuff when a passenger has a heart attack; later, he tries to date her. The firefighters respond to a motorcycle accident and a chemical fire.
2.		The Old Engine Cram Airdate: 9/20/75 Writer: Preston Wood Director: Dennis Donnelly Guest Cast: Bernard Fox. Christopher Nelson, Smith Evans, Kim Hamilton, Dick Yarmy. A fireman is injured in a practice drill. Roy and John think they have a buyer for the old fire engine. A man suffers a back injury while riding a motorcycle. A mother pressures Dr. Morton to give her son a prescription. A man having a heart attack comes to the station. DeSoto and Gage rescue a man who has fallen off a cliff on Catalina Island.
3.		Election Airdate: 9/27/75 Writer: John Groves Director: Bruce Bilson Guest Cast: Sharon Gless, Cliff Osmond. Maggie Malooly, Hank Brandt, [Jack Kutcher, Dave Morick]. Roy and John become candidates for a welfare committee. A man gets his arm stuck in an appliance drain while his brother aspirates on a can tab. A delirious child causes problems at the hospital. A sculptress’ model is stuck inside a plaster cast. A construction worker is trapped on a crane.
4.		Equipment Airdate: 10/4/75 Writer: Robert Hamilton Director: Kevin Tighe Guest Cast: Lloyd Haynes. Jessica Rains, John Lawrence, Hal Bokar, Kristine Marie Greco, Vernon Weddle. John overtimes at Station 8 where an unavailable squad costs a heart attack victim his life. A boy falls from a tree. Chet is injured by an explosion. Doctors treat a tree surgeon. Roy is injured in a fireworks warehouse fire.
5.		The Inspection Airdate: 10/11/75 Writer: Bruce Johnson Director: Georg Fenady Guest Cast: Wolfman Jack, Jeanne Cooper, Warren Berlinger. Roger Bowen, Gerald Michenaud. The station becomes aware of the Battalion Chief's impending inspection. A wife is convinced that her husband's heart transplant means he no longer loves her. Paramedics aid a parachutist snagged on a radio tower. Dr. Brackett treats a veterinarian. An accident victim goes into shock.
6.		The Indirect Method Airdate: 10/18/75 Writer: Michael Norell Director: Joel Oliansky Guest Cast: Elayne Heilveil. Dick Bakalyan, Anne Loos, [Joan Crosby, Macon McCalman, Stephen Parr, Bill Conklin]. A hard-nosed female trainee is assigned to Roy and John. Freeway construction threatens an old couple's house. A man tries to commit suicide by gas, then changes his mind. A man suffers a heart attack and the paramedics are unable to revive him. Roy is electrocuted trying to save an invalid at a structure fire.
7.		Pressure 165 Airdate: 10/25/75 Writer: Edwin Self Director: Georg Fenady Guest Cast: Michael Roy, Bing Russell, Del Monroe, Art Balinger, [Derrel Maury, Bill Harlow]. John gets ribbed about his cooking. The paramedics go to Catalina to help a diver, where John and a doctor treat the patient in a hyperbaric chamber. Roy and John help a famous chef with a kitchen fire. A youth suffers a serious gunshot wound. The firemen deal with a dust explosion at a structure fire.
8.		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, [Charles Robinson, Carol McEvoy, Sharon Jerhun]. An elderly woman's stomach problems lead to a family brawl. Roy and John treat a drunk in a hotel with a broken elevator. Doctors treat a boy with meningitis. 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.
9.		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. En route to a rescue, Roy and John supposedly sideswipe an elderly crossing guard. A couple en route to a wedding hits a fire hydrant. A camper on fire drives up to the stationhouse. A truck carrying insecticide overturns.
10.		Simple Adjustment Airdate: 11/22/75 Writer: Robert Hamilton Director: Dennis Donnelly Guest Cast: Elisabeth Brooks, Jane Dulo, Robin Clarke, Aneta Corsaut, [Joan Crosby]. Swamped with paperwork, the paramedics are continually distracted by emergencies: a girl trapped in an overturned car, a beautician who has taken too many diet pills, an elderly man, and workers stuck on a blazing ship.
11.		Tee Vee Airdate: 11/29/75 Writer: John Groves Director: Christian I. Nyby, II Guest Cast: Lin McCarthy. Laurie Burton, W.T. Zacha, Heath Jobes, [Gil Serna, Moosie Drier, Deloney Mann]. The paramedics rescue a man from a manhole fire. Chet and John blow up the station's TV. Dr. Morton treats a man with a bleeding peptic ulcer. An aquarium is delivered to Dr. Brackett, who suffers a toxic reaction to a catfish bite. A man accidentally glues his eyes shut. A gas explosion and a mudslide trap a man in his house.
12.		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. A camera crew follows Squad 51 while a teenager is bitten by a snake, a would-be stuntman dangles from an I-beam, a boy falls off a cliff and a man is trapped under a burning fuel truck.
13.		Communications Airdate: 12/13/75 Writer: Mark Saha Director: Dennis Donnelly Guest Cast: Cynthia Sikes, Craig Hundley, Ted Gehring, Barbara George, Dolores Mann, Moosie Drier. A young worker gets his arm caught in a machine. A communication snafu occurs between Squad 51 and the hospital. Dr. Morton treats a young violinist. Two boys get a car trapped on the roof of a house. A woman tries to commit suicide by overdosing and won't let the paramedics treat her, making them wait until she passes out. Chet sets a pair of skis on fire -- literally. A man is trapped underneath a car.
14.		To Buy or Not To Buy Airdate: 12/20/75 Writer: Keith A. Walker Director: Georg Fenady Guest Cast: Robert Pratt, Allan Vint, Susan Gay Powell. Fay DeWitt, Nicholas Worth, Patch MacKenzie, Vince Howard. Roy thinks about buying a house, but delays too long. Responding to a structure fire, the firemen find two children trapped on the second floor. Two driving students are involved in a minor collision. Another traffic accident results in two injuries and a missing dog. A teenage epileptic is stranded on a concrete beam under a bridge.
15.		Right at Home Airdate: 1/10/76 Writer: Preston Wood Director: Georg Fenady Guest Cast: Poindexter Yothers, Sandra Balson, Peggy Stewart, Steven Marlo. Dr. Brackett rides along with a fire department helicopter crew. A boy causes trouble for the paramedics when he and his father are rescued after their camper has overturned in a canyon. Dr. Early treats a boy with spinal meningitis. The firemen rescue a man from a structure fire.
16.		The Girl on the Balance Beam Airdate: 1/17/76 Writer: Robert Hamilton Director: Christian I. Nyby, II Guest Cast: Charles Knox Robinson, Patricia Morrow. Ronnie Schell, Patti Cohoon, Brian Baker, Dorothy Schott, Andrea Bell, William Bryant, Robert Hackman. A young girl is in a rush to go to the Olympics. The firemen rescue an actress trapped on a high wire at a studio, extricate a drunk driver from his car, and battle a train fire with ammonium nitrate on board.
17.		Involvement Airdate: 1/24/76 Writer: John Groves Director: Dennis Donnelly Guest Cast: Anne Seymour, Dawn Lyn. Jean Allison, Milton Frome, Del Monroe. 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. Also: a woman wrapped in plastic, a family suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning and a man pinned under a tank truck containing volatile fuel.
18.		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, [Richard A. Houtz]. Roy and John receive commendations for bravery, but they can't remember the incident. A 94-year old man breaks his ankle while dancing. Dr. Brackett treats a man who passed out in a dentist’s chair. An injured mountaineer is stranded on a cliff.
19.		Grateful Airdate: 2/7/76 Writer: Michael Norell Director: Georg Fenady Guest Cast: Dick Van Patten, Ruth Buzzi, Zina Bethune, Royal Dano. Paul Brinegar, Thomas Bellin. After a couple is rescued from under a car, they hang about the stationhouse, helping out. An elderly man tries to perform CPR on his friend, but does more harm than good. A child is struck in the eye with a BB gun. While returning from a false alarm on Copter 10, Roy and John rescue the victims of a boat fire.
20.		The Great Crash Diet Airdate: 2/21/76 Writer: Timothy Burns Director: Joseph Pevney Guest Cast: Michael Mullins, Holly Irving, Rick Podell, [Ginger Mason, Bill Quinn]. Conducting a fire inspection, Roy and John rescue a diver in a fish tank. A birthday boy eats raw dough and gets a stomachache. An experiment in firefighter nutrition becomes an obsession for Chet. A woman goes into labor while her mother experiences chest pains. Capt. Stanley is severely injured when he gets an electric shock from a fallen power line.
21.		The Tycoons Airdate: 2/28/76 Writer: Mark Massari, Robert Hamilton, John Groves Director: Georg Fenady Guest Cast: Robin Clark, Sheila James, Ted Gehring, Mary Moon, John Wyler, Yale Summers. John gets everyone but Roy excited about buying into a nearby hot dog stand. By the time Roy gets interested, the stand burns down. A man is injured in an accident with a power lawn mower.
22.		The Nuisance Airdate: 3/6/76 Writer: Robert Hamilton Director: Randolph Mantooth Guest Cast: Gretchen Corbett, Carole Cook, James G. Richardson. Joan Shawlee, Coleen Gray, Joseph Perry. After the squad helps a non-responsive lady on a barstool, John is hit by a car, leaving Roy stuck with a very annoying replacement. Together, they respond to a victim with chest pain. At a structure fire, Roy and Marco are injured but Brice escapes unscathed.