Join or Sign In
Sign in to customize your TV listings
By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy.
Emergency! Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1976 - 1977
Episode 1
The Game
Sat, Sep 25, 197660 mins
Squad 51 is assigned to work the game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum between the USC Trojans and the visiting Stanford Cardinals, where they deal with a choking victim, a man with breathing difficulties, an injured photographer, and a TV announcer with heart trouble. After Johnny and Roy haven't been watching the game enough, Dr. Brackett and Dixie cut them out of Rampart. Meanwhile, a woman accidentally pulls her husband off the roof into a tree.
Episode 2
Not Available
Sat, Oct 2, 197660 mins
Roy and John complain about the rule that forbids squads from crossing each other's territories, which delayed their arrival, at a heart patient almost to the point of death while the squad assigned to that area dealt with a hypocondriac, after John was speaking to Dr. Brackett, about this. later they respond to a traffic accident while transporting a non-emergency patient due to the responding Squad being 20 minutes away. An elderly woman demands a "older doctor" to see her later; when Dr. Brackett visits, while Dixie is around, who asks that she needs to lay back quietly and rest, her daughter has a heart attack. An escaped prisoner gets trapped on a ledge.
Episode 3
The Unlikely Heirs
Sat, Oct 9, 197660 mins
Chet and Marco find $80,000 in a transient's mattress after rescuing him from a fire, and he later tries to give the firemen a reward. A bride faints while walking down the aisle after suffering from Labyrinthitis, which postpones their honeymoon to Africa, but Dixie proposes they marry in the hospital. Dixie later administers a tetanus shot to a young boy. The firemen help an elderly woman find her lost cat, then assist victims when a plane crashes into a warehouse.
Episode 4
That Time of Year
Sat, Oct 23, 197660 mins
Roy can't decide where to go on vacation, so Johnny finds the perfect vacation made especially for his family. During a fire at a singles club, Roy gets dizzy going in to find someone who may have been inside but was outside with his date. A self-defense instructor is injured by one of his elderly students. A man who developed sudden abdominal pains after proposing to his girlfriend is brought into Rampart, whom Dixie, Drs. Early & Morton are all taking care of. The firemen rescue two hang glider pilots from the face of a cliff.
Episode 5
Fair Fight
Sat, Oct 30, 197660 mins
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.
Episode 6
Rules of Order
Sat, Nov 6, 197660 mins
Roy and John are asked to be part of a paramedic advisory committee, which also includes their favorite paramedic, Brice, who proceeds to conduct the meeting formally under parliamentary procedures, a conversation in which Dixie observes from Roy and John, who tells them to learn more. A vehicle accident injures two line workers, one severe enough to require a tracheotomy, performing by Dixie, Drs. Brackett and Early. The firemen rescue a stunt climber from the side of a building.
Episode 7
The Exam
Sat, Nov 13, 197660 mins
Roy and John are concerned about their Paramedic re-certification exam, Dixie asks Dr. Brackett to put together the exam, part-way. Molly, a fireman's widow, calls for help for her daughter, Jeanine, who got her head stuck in a table, and John is concerned about her calling them for minor things, until Jeanine has a really bad fall. An accident on a movie set turns deadly.
Episode 8
Captain Hook
Sat, Nov 20, 197660 mins
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.
Episode 9
Computer Terror
Sat, Dec 4, 197660 mins
The county payroll computer erroneously sends John a paycheck for $5900 instead of $590, and vows to return his incorrect check only when the county sends him a correct check, he then asks Dixie to use the hospital's phone to justify his situation. The firemen aid a homeless person who is accidentally crushed in a car at a junkyard, a man injured by the family dog (who gives Roy & John fits, including sending one of them into the pool), and two workers caught on a scaffold.
Episode 10
Welcome to Santa Rosa County
Sat, Dec 25, 197660 mins
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.
Episode 11
Paper Work
Sat, Jan 8, 197760 mins
Capt. Stanley assigns Chet and Marco to fix numerous incident reports rejected by the computer. A man runs his car into a fire hydrant; when leaves his son alone to call for help (because the son wanted to "watch the water") the son nearly drowns by falling into a storm drain. Dixie hires a new supply nurse, which makes it harder for Roy and John to get supplies for Squad 51. The paramedics help a college janitor with stomach pains after drinking Mesoptamia-era wine and two people trapped in a warehouse fire.
Episode 12
Loose Ends
Sat, Jan 15, 197760 mins
Dixie stops by Station 51 and Johnny is unable to sell her tickets to the Firemen's Picnic, where the top seller gets a trip to Las Vegas. The firemen respond to a traffic accident that Dr. Brackett is involved in which resulted in one death, for which Brackett blames himself, and he refuses Dixie's requests to rest. When the squad breaks down in an alley, they find themselves in an undercover operation with the police and aid a detective suffering from an angina attack. Later the firemen rescue two victims of a dock fire complicated by a box car full of flammable ammonia.
Episode 13
An Ounce of Prevention
Sat, Jan 22, 197760 mins
The firemen assist a man with chest pains (and a young man who gets trapped trying to help him) while stuck on a ferris wheel. Roy & John are scheduled to appear on TV to discuss fire prevention, then help a child who swallowed parathion, and Dr. Brackett speaks with both parents about how their son got into the illegal pesticide, while Dixie treats a woman. During their TV appearance Roy and John become stars of a real-life emergency when a stagehand gets a electric shock from a live wire.
Episode 14
Insanity Epidemic
Sat, Feb 5, 197760 mins
Capt. Stanley is unnerved that his former captain is now his Battalion Chief, and the station is concerned about his increasing paranoia. Chet tries to get Henry off the station couch into a doghouse. The carelessness of a gas station owner and attendant, as well as an angry driver leads to a fire. Dr. Brackett becomes increasingly angry at a new hospital administrator, constantly moving meetings around. A young wife accidentally shoots her older husband in the chest with a nail gun, while the doctors are treating him, Dixie prevents his young wife from seeing him. The firemen have to break up two clowns fighting at a ice rink and rescue two young girls whose car slid off the freeway and crashed into a truck loaded with pesticides.
Episode 15
Breakdown
Sat, Feb 12, 197760 mins
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.
Episode 16
Family Ties
Sat, Feb 19, 197760 mins
Roy is not looking forward to the annual visit from his mother-in-law. The paramedics assist two victims of an auto accident. Drs. Early and Brackett both argue about attending a convention in Acapulco; Dixie must encourage Dr. Brackett to go there with Dr. Early. An elderly man suffers stomach pains from drinking an elixir made from 50% alcohol, wants to get his pants back, but not until both Dixie and Dr. Early had told him to do exactly as Early said. A candy striper carelessly places a bottle of alcohol above a clock radio which spills out, and the ensuing fire sends the patient in the room into respiratory arrest. A boy's model rocket sparks a house fire.
Episode 17
Bottom Line
Sat, Feb 26, 197760 mins
Responding to a man with back pain, Roy and Johnny question Dixie about the over-cautious Dr. Morton's judgment in handling patients. A man comes into Rampart with phosphorous burns on his arm, later a young boy is brought in after being hit in the head by a baseball, before Dixie and Dr. Brackett talk to the boy's coach. The paramedics help a man with trouble breathing, then his neighbor nearly drowns in a hot tub while the paramedics do an IV on the first victim. LASD officer Vince is involved in a traffic accident which leaves one man dead and two injured, including Vince, who begins pointing his loaded gun at John.
Episode 18
Firehouse Quintet
Sat, Mar 5, 197760 mins
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.
Episode 19
The Boat
Sat, Mar 12, 197760 mins
Charlie stores his speedboat he's trying to sell at the station; the firemen decide to chip in to buy it. Roy & John are medi-vac'd via Coast Guard helicopter to rescue two boaters from Catalina Island. The firemen help a bookie who is having a heart attack trying to answer dozens of ringing phones, before Dr. Brackett and Dixie treat him, later a lab explosion of Sodium azide starts a fire at Rampart, injuring several people, including Dixie, who burns herself.
Episode 20
Isolation
Sat, Mar 19, 197760 mins
Roy and John are trapped at Station 86 due to the only bridge in and out being washed away due to continuous rain storms, which ruins John's date plans, after Dixie got him to call his girlfriend. Since they are the only Squad in the area, they help two victims of an auto accident, then a child suffering from asthmatic bronchitis, an elderly woman with a hip injury and a man with cardiac problems. A psychiatrist aids the paramedics until Copter 15 transports the victims to the hospital, but a power failure causes issues. Dr. Morton accompanies the paramedics back to Station 86, where they respond to an auto accident with multiple injuries.
Episode 21
Limelight
Sat, Apr 23, 197760 mins
John gets jealous when Brice is on the news, then their "favorite paramedic" leads another paramedic meeting in his own parliamentary way; later they Squad has to rescue Brice from a fire. The firemen rescue a man's daughter from under a backhoe - then the father goes into cardiac arrest. Drs. Brackett and Morton treat a boy who accidentally shot himself with a BB gun and required a tracheotomy.
Episode 22
Upward and Onward
Sat, Apr 2, 197760 mins
Capt. Stanley is worried his Chief's exam will be sabotaged by a current Chief, who has a past beef with Stanley. A soap opera doctor has real mono and causes drama both on-set with John and Roy and at Rampart with Dixie and Dr. Early. Also, Dr. Brackett hears from Dixie that the producer is filming a hospital room with an ill patient, and Dr. Brackett angrily confronts with the producer, before he demands that everyone leave. John and Roy are stuck in an elevator with a retired doctor who has a self-diagnosed (and correct, as it turns out) aortic aneurysm.
Episode 23
Hypochondri-Cap
Sat, Apr 16, 197760 mins
Capt. Stanley is in a foul mood and thinks he has arthritis, it takes Roy to talk to Dr. Brackett for information on his captain's arthritis. Roy and John help a man whose fingers are caught in a garage door opener, then a woman who passes out from inhaling contents from an aerosol can and has an auto accident. Dixie, Drs. Brackett and Early treat a woman, who underwent botched plastic surgery. John tests a new type of rope, which fails, and assist victims of a two-alarm fire at an oil refinery.
Episode 24
All Night Long
Sat, May 28, 197760 mins
John tries to create his own TV game show. The firemen (in the field) assist an elderly musician experiencing heart trouble, Dixie explains to the man's best friend about the patient's diagnosis. Then, an auto accident with three injuries caused by running a stop sign, and a tightrope walker gets stuck between two buildings.
