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Emergency! Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1973 - 1974
Episode 1
Frequency
Sat, Sep 22, 197360 mins
John's policeman friend is injured and later dies from a car accident; the delay in treatment due to another Squad tying up the bio phone frequency with a heart case leads Roy to speculate if the delay may make a difference later. The doctors treat a child who turns out to be drunk. Thanks to Dr. Brackett and Dixie, Johnny and Roy assist in treating opposing members of a bike gang after a bloody rumble, and it spills over into the ER. 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. Other rescues include a man that welded himself inside his own kinetic art sculpture, and a father and son trapped in a building collapse at a construction site.
Episode 2
The Old Engine
Sat, Sep 29, 197360 mins
Station 51 gets their new fire engine, which gets put to use during a junkyard fire, while there Roy and John buy an older engine they found there. The paramedics try to help a woman strung out on LSD and have to chase her down to the top of a building when she flees. The base station at Rampart is upgraded with a new transmitter and radio to better manage the Squad traffic. Dr. Brackett, along with Dixie, both treat a gunshot victim, who later undergoes surgery, and wants to walk out immediately afterwards, meanwhile the paramedics treat a politician suffering from a heart attack, and the station responds to a warehouse fire.
Episode 3
Alley Cat
Sat, Oct 6, 197360 mins
John discovers he's going to be a father... to kittens... when a pregnant stray cat appears on his bed, and Boot the Dog is not happy about the cat being there. The paramedics rescue a family involved in a plane crash; the father dies, the mother and young daughter are injured, and a grizzled junk dealer who got his foot stuck in a bear trap. A stage actress is suffering from tachycardia after getting a bad review of her performance, where Dr. Brackett takes care of her, while Dixie talks to the husband. The firemen assist a child sickened by a gas leak at a school and rescue a man involved in a boating accident.
Episode 4
An English Visitor
Sat, Oct 13, 197360 mins
A paramedic from England rides with Roy & John to observe the paramedic program at work, and is present during a fire caused by a molotov cocktail thrown at a policeman, helping a wild-west performer with an injured finger, a traffic accident involving a car loaded with marijuana, and a man trapped in a construction site; during the rescue John nearly falls off a scaffold and the visitor saves his life. A rock singer, who is brought into the ER in a diabetic coma complicated by pneumonia, and her manager is more concerned with the money lost than her well being, complicated by a nurse with a bad attitude impacting the patients, as well as Dixie and Dr. Early.
Episode 5
Heavyweight
Sat, Oct 20, 197360 mins
Johnny injures his shoulder during a rescue of a pregnant woman in labor. When the baby's born with a cleft palate, she's determined to give him up for adoption, until Dixie and Dr. Brackett speak with her. Dr. Morton reads Johnny the riot act about his physical condition, which starts the paramedic on a fitness regimen. Dr. Early treats the son of a drug-addicted mother who suffered an electric shock putting a screwdriver into a TV. The paramedics treat a stabbing victim and the man he shot; then the police have to talk the son out of shooting the man who shot his father. Johnny & Roy rescue a hang glider pilot stuck in a tree.
Episode 6
Snakebite
Sat, Oct 27, 197360 mins
John, Roy & Chet are returning from a "boring" fishing trip in a rural area when they come across a traffic accident, one man is dead, a mother and son are injured; and they have to find a local doctor to assist them. The firemen help rescue the victims of a rollover accident off a cliff; after the victims are medivac'd to Rampart. Dixie gets the assistant nurse to take on the patient's case, suffering from heart trouble, with Dr. Early, from Squad 45. John is bitten by a rattlesnake and is rushed to Rampart atop Engine 51.
Episode 7
Promotion
Sat, Nov 3, 197360 mins
Roy passes the Engineer's exam, but accepting the promotion means leaving the paramedics--and John--and talks over his decision with Drs. Brackett and Early. The firemen handle a fog-caused multi-vehicle accident on the San Diego Freeway, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries, including one man with a heart murmur which Dixie and Dr. Early help in treating. The paramedics attempt to assist an attempted suicide (by taking six aspirins) but are sent to a vacant lot instead; when they find the right location they end up in the middle of a domestic dispute. John and a security guard are injured in a fire and Roy has to rescue both of them.
Episode 8
Insomnia
Sat, Nov 10, 197360 mins
John is suffering from insomnia due to the lack of night runs, but during their day runs the firemen respond to an accident aboard a boat where a butane tank exploded en route to the marina. Dixie, Drs. Brackett & Early treat a boy who suffered a skull fracture when his father swerved to avoid a dog in the road, then a home-grown marijuana smoker who is dying from an unknown ailment until his friend reveals his plants was grown with parathion). Later the firemen rescue a worker pinned under a semi truck at the loading dock and a man and boy who fell into a gravel pit.
Episode 9
Inheritance Tax
Sat, Nov 17, 197360 mins
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.
Episode 10
Zero
Sat, Nov 24, 197360 mins
Johnny and Roy are guests on a local talk show about their job, and Dixie saw Johnny on the television interview & she noted that he appeared to suffer from stage fright where Roy had to "fill in the blanks." The paramedics check on a woman who screams for therapeutic reasons at a construction site, then rescue a boy who attempts suicide by jumping off a ledge. After being brought in, Drs. Brackett and Early suspect his mother has been abusing him, while Dixie offers the boy chocolate milk & protects him at the same time. Back in the field, the paramedics assist a teenager whose hand was stuck in a doughnut machine, and they rescue a boy trapped in a fire.
Episode 11
The Promise
Sat, Dec 1, 197360 mins
The paramedics find a mechanic in a catatonic state while responding to a vehicle fire at a garage, and the Rampart doctors are unable to determine the cause of his condition. Roy & John lecture a frequent caller on the dangers of constantly calling them because she's lonely, then respond to a woman who mixed ammonia with bleach and inhaled poisonous chloramine vapor. Paula Slayton returns to give John a Yorkie pup, keeping a promise made to him for caring for her dog while she was hospitalized; Boot and the pup engage in a wild chase around the fire station, resulting in Captain Stanley deciding the station can only have one mascot. Dr. Brackett asks for lab reports, when the lab is busy, and he has a violent temper when they aren't ready for him. The firemen assist an elderly couple trapped in their home...by tumbleweeds. The catatonic patient receives an injection from his friend, and he responds...by jumping out a window onto a ledge, nearly kicking Roy off into the parking lot until he is tranquilized.
Episode 12
Body Language
Sat, Dec 8, 197360 mins
John's current girlfriend misinterprets a discussion about a wedding proposal. The firemen assist a pilot of a crop-duster spraying parathion that crashed and punctured his lung, poisoning a bystander with the pesticide. An injured boy using a walker wants to use crutches instead, therefore, they were given to him by Dixie. A man gets treated for an ear infection caused by mothballs, and Drs. Brackett, Early and Morton unanimously agree the man doesn't need a hospital stay. The paramedics treat a couple who overdosed on daffodil bulbs mixed with alcohol, a weekend cowboy who fell off a horse who refused treatment until he collapsed again with a possible skull fracture, a traffic accident on U.S. Route 101 that results in two victims starting a relationship, and the lead singer of a rock band in cardiac arrest due to drugs.
Episode 13
Understanding
Sat, Dec 15, 197360 mins
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.
Episode 14
Computer Error
Sat, Dec 22, 197360 mins
John gets a credit card bill for $842 (should have been $8.42) after taking a girl on a date, and the station (and Dixie) hear all about it. The firemen rescue a young couple from a traffic accident; the boy has a spinal cord injury and the girl may be pregnant and Dr. Early is reluctant to take x-rays until her condition is determined. Later the paramedics help a woman that fell into an old well, a magician trapped in a safe, and a man trapped in an junkyard fire that turns explosive when stored ammunition starts going off.
Episode 15
Inferno
Sat, Jan 5, 197460 mins
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.
Episode 16
Messin' Around
Sat, Jan 12, 197460 mins
Chet (aka "The Phantom Bomber") nails Johnny with a number of practical jokes, for which Johnny later gets his revenge. A child is stuck in a tree house (with the tree burning underneath) and is rescued by Johnny; the girl's widowed mother takes an interest in him, and Dixie takes care of the girl, who also has slight burns, at the hospital. An elderly man and frequent visitor to Rampart, "Old Bill," visits the girl. Dixie, Drs. Brackett and Early think "Old Bill" is a hypochondriac until Roy and John find him unconscious in his home with septic shock. Johnny and Roy help a moaning man after his wife gives him Dieffenbachia sap to shut him up, a gas station attendant with a perforated ulcer, a young boy who swallows ant poison (who later dies - as his mother thought he was just trying to "get attention), and three men stuck after a bulldozer accident.
Episode 17
Fools
Sat, Jan 19, 197460 mins
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 sends 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.
Episode 18
How Green Was My Thumb?
Sat, Jan 26, 197460 mins
Roy and John save a man who had his partial dental plate stuck in his trachea and stopped his breathing, this leads Dixie, Drs. Early and Morton, to discover the problem. Roy takes care of a young woman's plants while she is hospitalized while John tries to woo a young nurse. A young girl who had a fall injury (Kim Richards) suffers a dog bite, and when her religious parents prevent Dr. Brackett from treating it, Dixie calls in the hospital chaplain. The station rescue two men (one trapped in a vat of wine) in a winery fire, The station responds to a fire in a winery, and a gun collector who has an unexploded grenade round in his abdomen undergoes backyard surgery by Drs. Brackett and Morton.
Episode 19
The Hard Hours
Sat, Feb 2, 197460 mins
Dr. Early becomes a patient as he is diagnosed with a heart condition and undergoes a bypass operation, after fixing Station 51's truck. Dixie becomes more concerned about Early's operation, after Roy and John exchange words with her. A professional football player is hit hard by his son and suffers a broken ankle, much to his embarrassment. The firemen rescue a boy trapped in his homemade rocket, a young woman whose toe is stuck in a bathtub faucet, and a worker electrocuted when the basket he's working in slips onto live wires. Dr. Early's operation is a success, and the boys give their colleague a thermos of his favorite, Captain Stanley's clam chowder.
Episode 20
Floor Brigade
Sat, Feb 9, 197460 mins
Roy tries to convince John about starting a side floor cleaning business and Dixie offers to help. The firemen rescue "The Hermit" from a collapse in his cave home, who befriends Dr. Brackett and Dixie. Dr. Morton treats a diabetic singer who took a mixture of alcohol and pills and becomes ill. John is injured during a rescue of a trapped man that turned out to be a dummy put there by two juveniles, later he rescues a chemist trapped in an explosion and fire at a chemical warehouse.
Episode 21
Propinquity
Sat, Feb 16, 197460 mins
Roy's house is being fumigated & John offers to host his partner, which is a decision both soon regret. John also calls Dixie at the hospital for a radio check, which looks good. The paramedics rescue a woman trapped inside a burning car; later the ambulance transporting the woman & Roy is involved in a traffic accident caused by a drunk driver, and John doubles back to assist. Dixie, Drs. Early & Morton treat Roy & John with their separate bodily abrasions. A poker player suffering a heart attack refuses to be transported until John plays out his hand, and the firemen rescue several men injured in an explosion at an abandoned refinery.
Episode 22
Inventions
Sat, Mar 23, 197460 mins
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. John gives Dr. Early the booze to give to Dixie. A woman's overweight son is wedged in her living room ceiling. The firemen respond to a leak at a chemical plant.
