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Emergency! Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1974 - 1975
Episode 1
The Screenwriter
Sat, Sep 14, 197460 mins
In preparation for Dixie to introduce Roy and John, to the screenwriter, Art follows Squad 51, during a typical day, which includes a motorcycle accident caused by a drunk driver named Gene, before Dr. Brackett has a conversation with Gene's wife, of both the victim and the drunk driver deal with both their husbands's issues. Other rescues include a construction worker is exposed to tetraethyl lead and becomes combative to the point that it takes five firefighters to restrain him; the paramedics assist in the birth of a baby to a deaf-mute couple at a supermarket and, later, rescue three men trapped in a toy factory fire that turns explosive.
Episode 2
I'll Fix It
Sat, Sep 21, 197460 mins
A man is trapped under their house when it begins collapsing into itself due to the house being built on a natural oil well. Dixie asks Johnny to fix the bike for the fire victim. Chet and Johnny try (and fail) to repair a bike for a fire victim, prior to Dixie's visitation at Station 51. A bookworm teenager who wants to be a doctor is admitted with abdominal pain and speaks to Drs. Brackett and Morton using medical terminology. The firemen rescue a child stuck in a pipe, remove a ring from a young man's finger that belongs to a woman with a jealous husband, later Roy & Capt. Stanley work on a stuck shut-off valve at a chemical plant fire.
Episode 3
Gossip
Sat, Sep 28, 197460 mins
Roy and John have to break into an armored car involved in an accident to rescue a trapped guard. A victim of an auto accident has a skull fracture that needs consent from his wife, whom Dixie discusses with, but it turns out that he has two wives. One of the Rampart nurses starts spreading rumors about Dr. Morton's financial situation, and Dixie confronts the nurse about spreading gossip. A child is brought in with cyanide poisoning from eating peach pits. Roy tries to get John to enter the Fireman's Olympics' track events. The firemen rescue an electrocution victim hanging in mid-air and a man trapped in an explosive warehouse fire.
Episode 4
Nagging Suspicion
Sat, Oct 5, 197460 mins
John is trying to get Roy to give up his "system" for picking winning horses out of the newspaper. The firemen rescue a woman who fell into the lion's cage at the zoo & was bitten, help an exotic dancer who became ill from mono at a strip club, whom Dr. Brackett and Dixie takes care of. The paramedics also assist an adult who fell off a skateboard into a cactus patch on his rump (then John does the exact same thing), and they save a wounded policeman from a sniper.
Episode 5
Communication Gaffe
Sat, Oct 12, 197460 mins
Roy and Joanne appear on a TV quiz show. The firemen then respond to a liquor store shooting involving a policeman; another officer objects to the paramedics (before Dixie) treating the suspect. Dr. Brackett treats an abused child brought into Rampart, later the paramedics assist a man who inhaled too much nitrous oxide, treat a boy in anaphylactic shock from a bee sting, and aid the victims of a collision between a station wagon and a pickup truck carrying kerosene, causing a brush fire.
Episode 6
Surprise
Sat, Oct 19, 197460 mins
The firemen assist a woman thrown from her motorcycle onto a cactus patch. John and Roy (along with the Rampart doctors) plan a surprise birthday party for Dixie; when she breaks her ankle while shopping the party plans and the ER begins to fall apart. Dixie is forced to turn over the run of the ER to an inexperienced nurse, while she recuperates from a concussion and broken ankle. Things do not run as smoothly without Dixie. Rescues include two men trapped on the side of a building with a 1/2 ton sign hanging near them, a man's life is saved when his wife finds him unconscious in his new sauna and the doctors discover he's suffering from Addison's Disease, and a terrified old woman whose apartment building explodes during a gas leak--with John inside, he then suffers a broken foot. While recovering, Dr. Brackett brought along his first surprise for John, the recuperating Dixie, who brought John a cake, while Dr. Early gave John a tape recorder, in honor of (and Roy's) Dixie's birthday.
Episode 7
Daisy's Pick Blind Date
Sat, Nov 2, 197460 mins
Dixie hears so much about a new nurse, Daisy, who's at Rampart, and the firemen are all competing for a date with her, especially Johnny. Later the firemen find an engineer literally frozen in refrigeration equipment, an old-time sailor, who got both hands stuck in Cyanoacrylate glue used on his model ship, a boy who may be suffering from Tay-Sachs disease is found comatose, who gets support from Dr. Brackett, Dixie and Johnny, in the hospital, and rescue a man trapped in a theater fire.
Episode 8
Quicker Than the Eye
Sat, Nov 9, 197460 mins
A pregnant woman is accidentally shot through the abdomen and her husband is initially incoherent and unable to advise how far along she is when asked. The firemen decide to get even with Chet for his recent antics. The paramedics assist a construction worker caught under a boat at a filming location, but he refuses any IVs or needles. A man in a motorbike accident can initially only move his right thumb, and he uses that to help the paramedics find his son, who's in a trailer a half-mile away in a diabetic coma, before Dixie, Dr. Early, Johnny and Roy, all treat them, in the hospital.
Episode 9
Foreign Trade
Sat, Nov 16, 197460 mins
John wants to trade his vehicle for Roy's convertible. The paramedics help a fraternity pledge choking on raw liver as a hazing stunt. Dixie declares war on the new hospital administrator for reducing staff due to budget cuts, then is offered a promotion to Nursing Supervisor, who later turns down the job. Dr. Early's young patient cures his hiccups with soda pop. The firemen assist a basketball player when he is stuck in his luxury car, and a hot rod Chevrolet El Camino crashes through a drawbridge gate and teeters on the edge of the structure.
Episode 10
Camera Bug
Sat, Nov 23, 197460 mins
John takes up photography and constantly pesters Roy for candid shots. The firemen assist a teenager suffering from smoke inhalation during a fire at a school he doesn't attend; he then becomes violent and attacks Dr. Brackett until Dr. Morton and the boy's mother calm him down. A woman is bitten by a scorpion, a fellow fireman mistakes a heart attack for stomach problems brought on by his chili, and a truck driver hauling dynamite is pinned in his vehicle when it catches fire. Dixie and Dr. Brackett assist in the delivery of a baby at a restaurant during their lunch hour.
Episode 11
The Firehouse Four
Sat, Nov 30, 197460 mins
The station (except Roy) is entering the fireman's barber shop quartet contest. Johnny explains his dilemma to Dixie, but the problem he has is with Roy, who says it takes a lot of work, whom they'll all side with him. In between practices the firemen have to constantly assist a man who is trying various ways to exercise while on a crash diet, and a woman OD's on sleeping pills.
Episode 12
Details
Sat, Dec 7, 197460 mins
John talks about settling down after another date goes wrong. Station 51 is responding to a traffic accident; en route another accident occurs and Squad 51 has to handle it before responding to the other accident; one dead, two injured, and the injured man asks about his wife, who was badly burned. The woman hit in the first accident takes a shine to John. A man is suffering from watching too many medical TV shows instead of stomach cancer. A belly dancer overdoses on diet pills, then flirts with Dr. Early until Dixie catches her and offers a career change. The paramedics assist a child (who turns out to be one of three children John's love interest has) who has a dog bite after the child bit the dog first, and a victim in a fire that gets so intense John & Roy have to jump to safety.
Episode 13
Parade
Sat, Dec 21, 197460 mins
Roy and John finally get their old fire engine restored (from Season 3's "The Old Engine") to ride in the California Firefighters Parade. The paramedics try to stop a man from driving with heart problems and causes an accident which kills him, the woman he hit blames herself for his death. Dixie and Dr. Early assists a man having a seizure resulting from hypertension in the ER, while Roy & John help a man having trouble breathing while on a date; he accidentally drank a Mickey meant for his date, two divorced parents fight over their child's medical condition, this leads Dr. Brackett into seeking help from them. Dixie takes care of the child's wrist. En route to the parade, John & Roy notice a fire and are the first responders, in the old fire engine.
Episode 14
The Bash
Sat, Dec 28, 197460 mins
A man is trapped on a film set with a bear. When Roy and John rescue him, they are invited to a 'thing' that the man is giving later that week. John talks Roy into getting overdressed for the event. Dr. Brackett treats a man suffering from trichinosis. A bomb blast injures two men. The paramedics resuscitate a musician at the party.
Episode 15
Transition
Sat, Jan 4, 197560 mins
John's high school classmate is assigned as Squad 51's new trainee, and Dixie escorts John to him. The firemen rescue a man trapped in his kitchen by a hydrogen sulfide explosion. An accident near Rampart brings three victims into the ER; with limited capacity the paramedics jump in to help and the trainee's inexperience shows. A child has an injured nose at an amusement park go-kart track; later at the same park a man having a heart attack is trapped on the Sky Ride, later a man thought to be intoxicated was actually bitten by a cobra; Roy is later sprayed in the eyes with the cobra's venom.
Episode 16
Smoke Eater
Sat, Jan 11, 197560 mins
An "old school" captain replaces a vacationing Capt. Stanley and immediately runs into a conflict with the paramedics, as he does not feel they should be practicing medicine. An elderly man falls asleep smoking and sets his chair on fire. Dr. Early and Roy want an apple out of the vending machine and keeps getting oranges, as did Johnny (like he wanted), Dixie bopped her hips unto the vending machine and got an apple. The paramedics fight to keep alive a heart attack victim. A boy with asthma gets trapped in a storm drain. A biker screams at and retaliates Dixie, when he wants a bandage for a head injury, and Dr. Brackett knocks him out after getting punched by the biker. The firemen encounter ethyl bromide fumes when working a fire in a lab.
Episode 17
Kidding
Sat, Jan 18, 197560 mins
Johnny is assigned to conduct a tour of Rampart with several very inquisitive fifth-graders. A Vietnam War veteran thought to be suffering from PTSD is holding his wife at knifepoint; after the paramedics subdue him the ER doctors determine he has a brain tumor. A woman gets stuck in a dog door. A famous novelist attempts suicide because he feels the new generation doesn't know him; he's surprised when John's tour encounters the author. Johnny tells Dixie he used to watch a movie based on one of the books. A cargo plane crashes in a residential area, hitting a school bus.
Episode 18
Prestidigitation
Sat, Jan 25, 197560 mins
After the paramedics rescue a magician trapped in his trunk, he gives Roy and John a magic orb. Dr. Brackett's father is treated at the hospital for phlebitis. Later the paramedics assist a man injured when his home fireplace explodes on him, the firemen help when an auto accident causes a power transformer to land in a man's bed, and rescue a woman trapped when her car collides with a fuel truck and sparks a fire.
Episode 19
It's How You Play the Game
Sat, Feb 1, 197560 mins
John makes a bet with Squad 36 that the loser of their baseball game at the firemen's picnic pays for the entire picnic, which angers the firehouse until Chet becomes their pitcher after their regular pitcher breaks his arm. While rescuing a drunk man in a car accident, the man punches John in the nose, and, at the hospital, after a witty remark to Dixie, they learn that she threw a punch at an unruly man at a party. When two more people come into the ER with the same symptoms as the injured driver, the cause is traced to lead poisoning from moonshine. Later, the man making the illegal brew sets fire to his own house and the firemen have to rescue him. The firemen also save a famous car dealer trapped inside one of his cars with a tiger while filming a commercial and a man with back problems stuck in his waterbed.
Episode 20
The Mouse
Sat, Feb 8, 197560 mins
The firemen rescue an elderly man from his burning house. Chet is determined to exterminate an uninvited guest in the station. A man is continually going into cardiac arrest and the doctors try to find a reason. An elderly woman is brought in with breathing problems, and Dixie comforts her worried husband. Roy and John help break up a barfight, then join several fire companies in putting out a blaze caused by a jet fighter crashing into an apartment house; John is injured in an explosion and one of the Pasadena firemen goes in to save him.
Episode 21
Back-Up
Sat, Feb 15, 197560 mins
Two young men dump off a female OD victim at the ER, then run away; further examination showed she was injected with milk. John and Roy gets upset at all the non-emergency calls they get, then see a man faking a back injury for a free ride to the hospital. The paramedics help an ex-Los Angeles Rams player who kicked his TV screen when his old team blew a close game and received an electrical shock. The ER is being visited by administrators, during which time Dixie is swamped with so many issues, including a woman who complains about waiting two hours with a cigarette burn. Roy & John respond to a non-emergency while another squad 15 minutes away is called to a cardiac victim from which Squad 51 is only two minutes away--after responding to the cardiac case the paramedics are involved in a traffic accident in the ambulance en route to Rampart.
Episode 22
905-Wild
Sat, Mar 1, 197560 mins
Roy and Johnny respond to Bernardi's Market, called by the owner's wife who believes her husband was attacked by a maniac with a knife. Johnny investigates and comes face to face with 500 pounds of mortality: a roaring tiger. Roy asks the dispatcher to call Animal Control. Officer Dave Gordon (Mark Harmon) recognizes a Bengal tiger when he sees one; and his partner, Les Taylor, recognizes she is 450 pounds. A local man is operating an unauthorized zoo and mistreating animals. LA Animal Control is concerned with the animals' health; they want to tranquilize, not neutralize. At County Animal Shelter 2, Supervisor Walt Marsh, works with one vet, Dr. Barney Coolidge, and an assistant, trying to "catch and release" various types of wildlife displaced by modern civilization; often, they must also treat wounded or sick animals. Gordon and Taylor meet the paramedics again, trying to help an old man and his little disabled granddaughter who lost her pet Pygmy goat, William, in the brushfire. When William is found nearby, he is having trouble breathing. Johnny sends an EKG to Brackett; Roy hears rales in the goat's lungs and Mike detects a patent ductus in the heart...but Kel does not want a four-legged patient. Animal Control is unable to transport to a vet in time to save William. Will Dixie put her foot down, in time to save a little girl's therapy pet? Criminal charges and hard time faces Emil Gower. Will LA County Animal Control be able to save all of the beautiful animals he so brutally neglected?
