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30 Episodes 1989 - 1990
Episode 1
Tue, Sep 5, 1989 60 mins
A teen swept up in a flash flood; a sky diver knocked unconscious during her fall; the New York City Fire Department on the Fourth of July; a youngster who called 911 when her mother went into labor; a gunman holding hostages in an Indiana grocery store.
Episode 2
Tue, Sep 12, 1989 60 mins
An accident on a new bridge involving construction inspectors; a New Jersey freight-train conductor who attempted to rescue two children playing on the tracks; a teen who fell unconscious into a swimming pool after coming in contact with a power line; a mother who called 911 to save her convulsing infant.
Episode 3
Tue, Sep 19, 1989 60 mins
A high-school football player who went into cardiac arrest during a game; two men who drove underneath a plane to try to manually release the jammed landing gear; a man pinned underwater by a fallen boulder in California; a call from an alleged burglar.
Episode 4
Tue, Sep 26, 1989 60 mins
Two men caught in an undertow near a dam-construction site in Ohio; a Michigan woman who called 911 after she was assaulted by a burglar; a Texas girl washed into a sewer by flood waters; a week at an organ-transplant center in Pittsburgh.
Episode 5
Tue, Oct 3, 1989 60 mins
Efforts to rescue a toddler from a 12-ft. hole; a search for a transplant candidate who was on a camping trip when a transplant organ became available; a truck driver who careened off a bridge and into a swamp in Louisiana during a rainstorm.
Episode 6
Tue, Oct 10, 1989 60 mins
Efforts to save a child caught in a swimming-pool drain. Also: the Baltimore Police Department's Quick Response Team; workers trapped in a burning building; a boy who called 911 as an intruder was breaking into his house.
Episode 7
Tue, Oct 17, 1989 60 mins
Two men trapped in a cave by a flash flood; a hospital unit for premature babies; firefighters battling a blaze in an apartment building; a Northern California girl assaulted at a bowling alley. Host: William Shatner.
Episode 8
Fri, Oct 20, 1989 60 mins
A toddler trapped in a feed bin; and plainclothes police on patrol in Miami. Host: William Shatner.
Episode 9
Fri, Oct 27, 1989 60 mins
A girl who was accidentally wounded by a rifle shot; a football hero who saved three persons from drowning; a toddler rescued from a burning apartment; a "sudden death" heart-attack patient revived by Houston paramedics.
Episode 10
Tue, Nov 7, 1989 60 mins
A funny-car driver whose vehicle crashed and burst into flames; a police helicopter in Texas that used an infrared viewing device to track an alleged burglar; an elderly couple who were lost at sea; a boy who fell more than 30 feet while riding his dirt bike.
Episode 11
Tue, Nov 14, 1989 60 mins
A teenager who called 911 as intruders where breaking into her home; a flying medical-assistance unit; a teenage rescue team that searched for two lost girls in the Colorado mountains; two men whose truck hit a utility pole and severed power lines.
Episode 12
Tue, Nov 28, 1989 60 mins
A 911 dispatcher who received a call that her husband was having a heart attack; New Jersey medical technicians who were held at gunpoint by a patient they were rushing to the hospital in an ambulance. Host: William Shatner.
Episode 13
Tue, Dec 12, 1989 60 mins
A woman whose daughter was shot during a conference call with a 911 operator; the hotel fire in Puerto Rico on New Year's Eve 1985; a 7-year-old who performed the Heimlich maneuver on his 2-year-old brother. Host: William Shatner.
Episode 14
Tue, Dec 19, 1989 60 mins
A cop who was shot during a routine traffic stop; an Illinois couple rendered unconscious by noxious fumes in their basement; a California scuba diver who lost consciousness in the water. Host: William Shatner.
Episode 15
Tue, Jan 2, 1990 30 mins
Three geologists who were involved in a dynamite explosion at a remote site; and a Connecticut man who was tied to a chair while intruders rifled his house. Host: William Shatner.
Episode 16
Tue, Jan 9, 1990 60 mins
A chemistry teacher who attempted to save his students by rushing outside with a vial that was about to explode in the classroom; the rescue of passengers involved in a train collision; a woman whose "med phone" activated when she went into cardiac arrest. Host: William Shatner.
Episode 17
Tue, Jan 23, 1990 60 mins
A sightless man and his guide dog, who alerted fellow tenants to a fire in their apartment building; a Virginia motel manager taken hostage by holdup men and forced to drive their getaway car. William Shatner is the series host.
Episode 18
Tue, Jan 30, 1990 60 mins
A woman who rescued a man from a burning car after a crash in Northern California; efforts to help a woman whose respirator was disconnected during Hurricane Hugo; a 20-year-old man kept alive after breaking his neck during a dive into shallow water.
Episode 19
Tue, Feb 13, 1990 60 mins
Paramedics who tried to revive victims of a building fire; two persons trapped in a car beneath derailed boxcars in Michigan; a Texas child who called 911 when his friend was abducted; a car on the loose in a Virginia supermarket parking lot.
Episode 20
Tue, Feb 27, 1990 60 mins
Footage of the 1989 Stuart murder case by a program crew at the scene in Boston, including interviews with emergency dispatchers, personnel on the scene and the doctor who operated on Charles Stuart. Also: a woman in Mississippi who helped another driver, an apparent heart-attack victim.
Episode 21
Wed, Feb 28, 1990 60 mins
A hunting accident that left a man wounded and his wife in critical condition; a Los Angeles 3-year-old who called 911 when his mother was choking; an Ohio senior who defended herself against an intruder; and domestic-violence calls in Albuquerque.
Episode 22
Tue, Mar 13, 1990 60 mins
A couple who discovered a 250-lb. python under their house; a man who was trapped for days in a truck that plummeted off a California highway; a volunteer medical-emergency team in Virginia; a Michigan woman whose boyfriend had an asthma attack.
Episode 23
Tue, Mar 20, 1990 60 mins
A search by a rescue team for a child who got lost during a family outing; a spotlight on paramedics from Denver General Hospital's shock-trauma center. William Shatner is the host.
Episode 24
Tue, Mar 27, 1990 60 mins
A deaf woman who awoke to find a stranger in her bed; a lumberjack who was pinned under a fallen log in Washington; a man trapped underwater after a competition speed-boat accident in Florida. Also: the New Orleans Police Department.
Episode 25
Tue, Apr 3, 1990 60 mins
A man shot by burglars who had disconnected the main phone in his house; attempts to revive a California toddler who had fallen into a swimming pool; rescuers who climbed Mount Whitney to save a hiker. Also: Pittsburgh's Emergency Medical Service.
Episode 26
Tue, Apr 10, 1990 60 mins
A Boston family whose parrot warned of toxic fumes in the home; a Texas youngster who used a safety tip he learned in school to help a friend who had caught on fire. Also: a Denver General Hospital paramedic team. Host: William Shatner.
Episode 27
Wed, Apr 25, 1990 60 mins
Heroes and victims of Hurricane Hugo; a helicopter rescue team in Dade County (Fla.); a telephone researcher in Iowa who alerted a 911 dispatcher in Phoenix when she reached a recording of an apparent suicide threat.
Episode 28
Tue, May 1, 1990 60 mins
A 911 operator in Utah who tried to hold a gunman on the line as he held two women captive; a man who saved two victims from a burning ambulance, then disappeared. Also: an attempt to tow six beached whales to the sea. Host: William Shatner.
Episode 29
Tue, May 8, 1990 60 mins
Included: two persons trapped in a car underneath boxcars in Michigan; a husband who called 911 when his wife went into labor; a woman who rescued a man from a burning car. Host: William Shatner.
Episode 30
Tue, May 15, 1990 60 mins
A Georgia girl who accidentally stabbed her brother; a Delaware boy who rescued his sister after she was run over by a school bus; paramedics in Tennessee who were taken hostage by two prisoners plotting to escape. Host: William Shatner.