EMERGENCY! Season 6

1. The Game
Airdate: 9/25/76
Writer: Christian I. Nyby, II
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Jack Carter. Larry Carroll, Jack Knight, Steve Drexel, Polly Middleton, Laurie Kennedy, Jesse Wayne.
Roy and John are assigned to work the big football game at the Coliseum. A woman accidentally pulls her husband off the roof into a tree. At the game, the paramedics treat a choking victim, a man with breathing difficulties, an injured photographer, and a TV announcer with heart trouble.

2. Not Available
Airdate: 10/2/76
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest Cast: Kristen Banfield, Dorothy Love, Ivy Bethune, Bill Boyett, Wayne Heffley, Burton Cooper, [Arnold Turner, Scott Arthur Allen].
The paramedics complain when a rule forbidding squads to cross each other's territories causes them to come late to an accident scene. An elderly woman is treated at the hospital. While transporting a non-vital patient, the paramedics respond to an auto accident. A prisoner breaks out of jail and gets trapped on a ledge.

3. The Unlikely Heirs
Airdate: 10/9/76
Writer: Timothy Burns
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest Cast: Paul Brinegar, Bennye Gatteys, Jim Stathis, [Jeannine Brown, Poindexter Yothers].
After John and Roy rescue an elderly transient from a structure fire, Chet and Marco discover $80,000 in the man’s mattress. A bride faints while walking down the aisle. Dixie administers a tetanus shot to a young boy. The transient tries to give the firemen a reward. An elderly woman loses her cat. A plane crashes into a warehouse.

4. That Time of Year
Airdate: 10/23/76
Writer: Mort Thaw & Ed Robak
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Ronnie Schell, Dave Pritchard, Pamela Shoop, Meg Wyllie, Linda Gray, [Amy Allen].
Everyone gives Roy advice on where to go on vacation. Roy gets dizzy during a fire at a singles club. An instructor is injured during a self-defense class. A man with stomach pains is brought into Rampart. The firemen rescue two hang glider pilots from the face of a cliff.

5. Fair Fight
Airdate: 10/30/76
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Kevin Tighe
Guest Cast: Terry Kiser, Anne Schedeen. Delos V. Smith, Jr., Jack Bender, James Ingersoll, Vernon Weddle, Vince Howard, [Connie Lester].
The crew finds a droopy-eyed hound dog in the station; at an industrial fire, Gage and DeSoto check a secret room for victims; a "therapeutic" argument between a husband and wife keeps getting out of hand; while attempting to rescue two injured workers, Johnny is trapped in a tunnel cave-in.

6. Rules of Order
Airdate: 11/6/76
Writer: James G. Richardson
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest Cast: James G. Richardson. Larry Manetti, Vince Howard, Bert Holland, [Beverly Johnson, Frank Aletter, Sandy Balson, Bob Belliveau].
A driver crashes into a pole, injuring two workers. John and Roy are asked to be on a paramedic advisory committee, but they have to put up with everyone's favorite paramedic — Brice. The firemen rescue a stunt climber from the side of a building.

7. The Exam
Airdate: 11/13/76
Writer: Tom Egan
Director: Richard Bennett
Guest Cast: Bridget Hanley. Jodean Russo, Allan Lurie, [Laurie Lynn].
John and Roy worry about their recertification exams. A fireman's widow keeps calling the station for assistance in minor matters. A TV sports fan experiences shortness of breath. The daughter of the fireman’s widow suffers a serious fall. An accident on a movie set turns deadly.

8. 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.
The firemen plan to celebrate the imminent retirement of a martinet captain with a party, under the guise of throwing a farewell dinner. A model in a bear suit suffers from heat stroke during a promotion stunt. A bizarre family believes their sleeping mother is dead. The firemen rescue CHP officers from a helicopter.

9. Computer Terror
Airdate: 12/4/76
Writer: Bruce Shelly
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest Cast: Ted Gehring, Zitto Kazann, Vince Howard, Russ Grieve, Walt Davis.
The computer fouls up and Gage gets a check for thousands instead of for hundreds. A transient is injured in a car at a junkyard. A victim’s dog causes problems. Two workers are trapped on a scaffold.

10. 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.
Roy and John try to go fishing in Santa Rosa County, but are delayed when they rescue climbers from a cliff face and a fishing boat blows up. They help the sheriff come up with ideas for implementing emergency medical services in his county.

11. Paperwork
Airdate: 1/8/77
Writer: John Groves
Director: George Fenady
Guest Cast: Peter Kastner. Laurie Kennedy, Peter Brocco, William Bronder, Jeff Cotler.
Chet and Marco are drafted to sort out a filing dilemma caused by computer error. A kid falls in a storm drain and nearly drowns. The paramedics experience problems with a new supply nurse. A janitor drinks samples of an archeologists' Mesopotamian wine. The firemen respond to a warehouse fire.

12. Loose Ends
Airdate: 1/15/77
Writer: Dee Murphey
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Walter Mathews, William Boyett, William Bryant, Vince Howard, Tara Talboy.
Johnny tries to win a ticket-selling contest. Dr. Brackett blames himself when he is involved in a car accident that leaves the other driver dead and the driver's daughter refuses to speak. While repairing the squad, the paramedics find themselves in the middle of a shootout and treat a policeman with heart trouble. A boxcar full of ammonia complicates a fire on a pier.

13. An Ounce of Prevention
Airdate: 1/22/77
Writer: Mort Thaw and Ed Robak
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Dave Barry. Richard Carlyle, Peggy Webber, Chad States, Barbara Ellen Levene, Maureen Lee, Frank Farmer.
A man with chest pains is trapped on a ferris wheel. A child ingests an illegal pesticide. While making a TV appearance to discuss fire prevention, Gage and DeSoto become stars of a real-life emergency.

14. 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, [William Boyett].
Captain Stanley freaks out when he learns one of his past captains is now his Battalion Chief, causing the others to worry about their his increased paranoia. Two men’s carelessness starts a fire at a gas station. A new hospital administrator causes problems. A woman accidentally shoots her husband with a nail gun. Two clowns start a fight at an ice rink. A car leaves an overpass and crashes into a transfer truck filled with pesticides.

15. Breakdown
Airdate: 2/12/77
Writer: John Groves
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest Cast: Dick Bakalyan, Brian Byers, Joan Roberts, Jean Allison.
A sporadic electrical short plagues the squad but Roy and John are convinced they can fix it. A back-to-nature couple is ordered to cut back on their shrubbery; the wife is discovered to have a variant of anthrax. The paramedics rescue a man trapped at the top of a tower.

16. Family Ties
Airdate: 2/19/77
Writer: Carole and Michael Raschella
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest Cast: Howard Honig, Susan Lawrence, Jimmy Van Patten, Debbie Storm, Dirk Evans.
Roy's mother-in-law is scheduled for her annual visit. A car runs into the back of a truck. Drs. Brackett and Early argue over attending a convention in Acapulco. An elderly man becomes ill from drinking a quack’s remedy. When a fire breaks out in a hospital room, the occupant goes into cardiac arrest. A boy’s model rocket sparks a house fire.

17. Bottom Line
Airdate: 2/26/77
Writer: Charlene Bralver & Robert Bralver
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Nick Pellegrino, Vince Howard, Belle Ellig, Kedric Wolfe, Johnny Timko.
Paramedics out in the field begin to question the judgment of overcautious Dr. Morton who believes in acting strictly by the book. The firemen respond to a complaint of severe back pain. A man with phosphorous burns on his arm and a boy hit in the head with a baseball are treated at the hospital. While the firemen respond to a case of difficult breathing, the victim’s neighbor drowns in a hot tub. Vince is involved in a traffic accident and goes crazy due to a head injury, pulling his gun on Johnny.

18. Firehouse Quintet
Airdate: 3/5/77
Writer: Christian I. Nyby, II
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest Cast: Joanna DeVarona. Howard McGillin, Happy Hariston, Herb Vigran, James Westmoreland.
The Station 51 basketball team qualifies for the semi-finals. The paramedics rescue victims at a gas explosion. While at basketball practice, the firemen treat an injured gymnast. 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.

19. The Boat
Airdate: 3/12/77
Writer: Hannah Shearer
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest Cast: Dick Bakalyan, Ted Gehring, Zitto Kazann, William Boyett, Vince Howard.
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. The paramedics rescue two boaters from Catalina Island. A bookie has a heart attack. An explosion in a lab starts a fire at the hospital.

20. Isolation
Airdate: 3/19/77
Writer: John Groves
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest Cast: William Bryant. Vince Howard, Lyndel Stuart, Glen Sipes.
Roy and John are trapped at Station 86 when a rain storm washes out the bridge, and they become the only medical treatment in the area. They assist two victims of an auto accident and a child with bronchitis. Doctors at the hospital treat a policeman hit by lightning. With the aid of a female psychiatrist, the paramedics treat an elderly woman with a hip injury and a man with heart trouble. Copter 15 transports the victims to the hospital, where a power failure complicates matters. Dr. Morton accompanies the paramedics back to Station 86, where they respond to an auto accident with multiple injuries.

21. 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.
A man with a history of heart trouble becomes agitated when his daughter is trapped under a backhoe. A boy shoots himself with a pellet gun. Another paramedic appears on the news and in the paper, making John jealous. A babysitter has an anxiety attack. Gage and DeSoto rescue Brice from a structure fire.

22. Upward and Onward
Airdate: 4/2/77
Writer: Michael Norell
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Guest Cast: Leon Ames. Dabbs Greer, Tom Williams, Tabi Cooper, William Boyett.
Capt. Stanley worries that the Chief will sabotage his attempt to pass the Chief's exam because of an incident in their past; a soap opera doctor with mono causes havoc on the set and in the hospital; John, Roy, and a retired doctor with a self-diagnosed heart aneurysm get stuck in an elevator.

23. 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.
Capt. Stanley convinces himself he has arthritis. A man gets his hand caught in his garage door opener; a woman passes out and has an auto accident; the doctors treat a woman infected from plastic surgery gone awry; Johnny tests a new type of rope; the station responds to a two-alarm fire at an oil refinery.

24. All Night Long
Airdate: 5/28/77
Writer: Kevin Tighe
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest Cast: James McEachin, Kevin Zapata, Bill Walker. Ben Wright, James Griffith, Patti Jerome, Vince Howard.
Gage tries to create his own television game show. An elderly musician experiences heart trouble. When a car runs a stop sign, three injuries result. A tightrope walker gets stuck between two buildings.

1.		The Game Airdate: 9/25/76 Writer: Christian I. Nyby, II Director: Christian I. Nyby, II Guest Cast: Jack Carter. Larry Carroll, Jack Knight, Steve Drexel, Polly Middleton, Laurie Kennedy, Jesse Wayne. Roy and John are assigned to work the big football game at the Coliseum. A woman accidentally pulls her husband off the roof into a tree. At the game, the paramedics treat a choking victim, a man with breathing difficulties, an injured photographer, and a TV announcer with heart trouble.
2.		Not Available Airdate: 10/2/76 Writer: Preston Wood Director: Cliff Bole Guest Cast: Kristen Banfield, Dorothy Love, Ivy Bethune, Bill Boyett, Wayne Heffley, Burton Cooper, [Arnold Turner, Scott Arthur Allen]. The paramedics complain when a rule forbidding squads to cross each other's territories causes them to come late to an accident scene. An elderly woman is treated at the hospital. While transporting a non-vital patient, the paramedics respond to an auto accident. A prisoner breaks out of jail and gets trapped on a ledge.
3.		The Unlikely Heirs Airdate: 10/9/76 Writer: Timothy Burns Director: Georg Fenady Guest Cast: Paul Brinegar, Bennye Gatteys, Jim Stathis, [Jeannine Brown, Poindexter Yothers]. After John and Roy rescue an elderly transient from a structure fire, Chet and Marco discover $80,000 in the man’s mattress. A bride faints while walking down the aisle. Dixie administers a tetanus shot to a young boy. The transient tries to give the firemen a reward. An elderly woman loses her cat. A plane crashes into a warehouse.
4.		That Time of Year Airdate: 10/23/76 Writer: Mort Thaw & Ed Robak Director: Dennis Donnelly Guest Cast: Ronnie Schell, Dave Pritchard, Pamela Shoop, Meg Wyllie, Linda Gray, [Amy Allen]. Everyone gives Roy advice on where to go on vacation. Roy gets dizzy during a fire at a singles club. An instructor is injured during a self-defense class. A man with stomach pains is brought into Rampart. The firemen rescue two hang glider pilots from the face of a cliff.
5.		Fair Fight Airdate: 10/30/76 Writer: Preston Wood Director: Kevin Tighe Guest Cast: Terry Kiser, Anne Schedeen. Delos V. Smith, Jr., Jack Bender, James Ingersoll, Vernon Weddle, Vince Howard, [Connie Lester]. The crew finds a droopy-eyed hound dog in the station; at an industrial fire, Gage and DeSoto check a secret room for victims; a "therapeutic" argument between a husband and wife keeps getting out of hand; while attempting to rescue two injured workers, Johnny is trapped in a tunnel cave-in.
6.		Rules of Order Airdate: 11/6/76 Writer: James G. Richardson Director: Georg Fenady Guest Cast: James G. Richardson. Larry Manetti, Vince Howard, Bert Holland, [Beverly Johnson, Frank Aletter, Sandy Balson, Bob Belliveau]. A driver crashes into a pole, injuring two workers. John and Roy are asked to be on a paramedic advisory committee, but they have to put up with everyone's favorite paramedic — Brice. The firemen rescue a stunt climber from the side of a building.
7.		The Exam Airdate: 11/13/76 Writer: Tom Egan Director: Richard Bennett Guest Cast: Bridget Hanley. Jodean Russo, Allan Lurie, [Laurie Lynn]. John and Roy worry about their recertification exams. A fireman's widow keeps calling the station for assistance in minor matters. A TV sports fan experiences shortness of breath. The daughter of the fireman’s widow suffers a serious fall. An accident on a movie set turns deadly.
8.		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. The firemen plan to celebrate the imminent retirement of a martinet captain with a party, under the guise of throwing a farewell dinner. A model in a bear suit suffers from heat stroke during a promotion stunt. A bizarre family believes their sleeping mother is dead. The firemen rescue CHP officers from a helicopter.
9.		Computer Terror Airdate: 12/4/76 Writer: Bruce Shelly Director: Georg Fenady Guest Cast: Ted Gehring, Zitto Kazann, Vince Howard, Russ Grieve, Walt Davis. The computer fouls up and Gage gets a check for thousands instead of for hundreds. A transient is injured in a car at a junkyard. A victim’s dog causes problems. Two workers are trapped on a scaffold.
10.		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. Roy and John try to go fishing in Santa Rosa County, but are delayed when they rescue climbers from a cliff face and a fishing boat blows up. They help the sheriff come up with ideas for implementing emergency medical services in his county.
11.		Paperwork Airdate: 1/8/77 Writer: John Groves Director: George Fenady Guest Cast: Peter Kastner. Laurie Kennedy, Peter Brocco, William Bronder, Jeff Cotler. Chet and Marco are drafted to sort out a filing dilemma caused by computer error. A kid falls in a storm drain and nearly drowns. The paramedics experience problems with a new supply nurse. A janitor drinks samples of an archeologists' Mesopotamian wine. The firemen respond to a warehouse fire.
12.		Loose Ends Airdate: 1/15/77 Writer: Dee Murphey Director: Dennis Donnelly Guest Cast: Walter Mathews, William Boyett, William Bryant, Vince Howard, Tara Talboy. Johnny tries to win a ticket-selling contest. Dr. Brackett blames himself when he is involved in a car accident that leaves the other driver dead and the driver's daughter refuses to speak. While repairing the squad, the paramedics find themselves in the middle of a shootout and treat a policeman with heart trouble. A boxcar full of ammonia complicates a fire on a pier.
13.		An Ounce of Prevention Airdate: 1/22/77 Writer: Mort Thaw and Ed Robak Director: Christian I. Nyby, II Guest Cast: Dave Barry. Richard Carlyle, Peggy Webber, Chad States, Barbara Ellen Levene, Maureen Lee, Frank Farmer. A man with chest pains is trapped on a ferris wheel. A child ingests an illegal pesticide. While making a TV appearance to discuss fire prevention, Gage and DeSoto become stars of a real-life emergency.
14.		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, [William Boyett]. Captain Stanley freaks out when he learns one of his past captains is now his Battalion Chief, causing the others to worry about their his increased paranoia. Two men’s carelessness starts a fire at a gas station. A new hospital administrator causes problems. A woman accidentally shoots her husband with a nail gun. Two clowns start a fight at an ice rink. A car leaves an overpass and crashes into a transfer truck filled with pesticides.
15.		Breakdown Airdate: 2/12/77 Writer: John Groves Director: Georg Fenady Guest Cast: Dick Bakalyan, Brian Byers, Joan Roberts, Jean Allison. A sporadic electrical short plagues the squad but Roy and John are convinced they can fix it. A back-to-nature couple is ordered to cut back on their shrubbery; the wife is discovered to have a variant of anthrax. The paramedics rescue a man trapped at the top of a tower.
16.		Family Ties Airdate: 2/19/77 Writer: Carole and Michael Raschella Director: Cliff Bole Guest Cast: Howard Honig, Susan Lawrence, Jimmy Van Patten, Debbie Storm, Dirk Evans. Roy's mother-in-law is scheduled for her annual visit. A car runs into the back of a truck. Drs. Brackett and Early argue over attending a convention in Acapulco. An elderly man becomes ill from drinking a quack’s remedy. When a fire breaks out in a hospital room, the occupant goes into cardiac arrest. A boy’s model rocket sparks a house fire.
17.		Bottom Line Airdate: 2/26/77 Writer: Charlene Bralver & Robert Bralver Director: Dennis Donnelly Guest Cast: Nick Pellegrino, Vince Howard, Belle Ellig, Kedric Wolfe, Johnny Timko. Paramedics out in the field begin to question the judgment of overcautious Dr. Morton who believes in acting strictly by the book. The firemen respond to a complaint of severe back pain. A man with phosphorous burns on his arm and a boy hit in the head with a baseball are treated at the hospital. While the firemen respond to a case of difficult breathing, the victim’s neighbor drowns in a hot tub. Vince is involved in a traffic accident and goes crazy due to a head injury, pulling his gun on Johnny.
18.		Firehouse Quintet Airdate: 3/5/77 Writer: Christian I. Nyby, II Director: Georg Fenady Guest Cast: Joanna DeVarona. Howard McGillin, Happy Hariston, Herb Vigran, James Westmoreland. The Station 51 basketball team qualifies for the semi-finals. The paramedics rescue victims at a gas explosion. While at basketball practice, the firemen treat an injured gymnast. 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.
19.		The Boat Airdate: 3/12/77 Writer: Hannah Shearer Director: Georg Fenady Guest Cast: Dick Bakalyan, Ted Gehring, Zitto Kazann, William Boyett, Vince Howard. 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. The paramedics rescue two boaters from Catalina Island. A bookie has a heart attack. An explosion in a lab starts a fire at the hospital.
20.		Isolation Airdate: 3/19/77 Writer: John Groves Director: Georg Fenady Guest Cast: William Bryant. Vince Howard, Lyndel Stuart, Glen Sipes. Roy and John are trapped at Station 86 when a rain storm washes out the bridge, and they become the only medical treatment in the area. They assist two victims of an auto accident and a child with bronchitis. Doctors at the hospital treat a policeman hit by lightning. With the aid of a female psychiatrist, the paramedics treat an elderly woman with a hip injury and a man with heart trouble. Copter 15 transports the victims to the hospital, where a power failure complicates matters. Dr. Morton accompanies the paramedics back to Station 86, where they respond to an auto accident with multiple injuries.
21.		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. A man with a history of heart trouble becomes agitated when his daughter is trapped under a backhoe. A boy shoots himself with a pellet gun. Another paramedic appears on the news and in the paper, making John jealous. A babysitter has an anxiety attack. Gage and DeSoto rescue Brice from a structure fire.
22.		Upward and Onward Airdate: 4/2/77 Writer: Michael Norell Director: Dennis Donnelly Guest Cast: Leon Ames. Dabbs Greer, Tom Williams, Tabi Cooper, William Boyett. Capt. Stanley worries that the Chief will sabotage his attempt to pass the Chief's exam because of an incident in their past; a soap opera doctor with mono causes havoc on the set and in the hospital; John, Roy, and a retired doctor with a self-diagnosed heart aneurysm get stuck in an elevator.
23.		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. Capt. Stanley convinces himself he has arthritis. A man gets his hand caught in his garage door opener; a woman passes out and has an auto accident; the doctors treat a woman infected from plastic surgery gone awry; Johnny tests a new type of rope; the station responds to a two-alarm fire at an oil refinery.
24.		All Night Long Airdate: 5/28/77 Writer: Kevin Tighe Director: Georg Fenady Guest Cast: James McEachin, Kevin Zapata, Bill Walker. Ben Wright, James Griffith, Patti Jerome, Vince Howard. Gage tries to create his own television game show. An elderly musician experiences heart trouble. When a car runs a stop sign, three injuries result. A tightrope walker gets stuck between two buildings.