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  • TV-14
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  • Jan 11, 1975
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  • NBC
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Summary Emergency! is a reality-based show that takes a good look at what goes on in the daily lives of the fire department and hospital work, and everyday life-and-happenings. The show was based on the paramedic program that started in Los Angeles, California in 1969. Senator Alan Cranston actually praised the show for informing the public ...

Directed By: Joseph Pevney

Written By: Harold Jack Bloom, Robert A. Cinader, Edwin Self

  • TV-14
  • NBC
  • Jan 11, 1975
  • 1 h
  • TV-14
  • NBC
  • Jan 11, 1975
  • 1 h
Emergency!
S4 • Episode 16
Smoke Eater
Air Date: Jan 11, 1975
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Summary Emergency! is a reality-based show that takes a good look at what goes on in the daily lives of the fire department and hospital work, and everyday life-and-happenings. The show was based on the paramedic program that started in Los Angeles, California in 1969. Senator Alan Cranston actually praised the show for informing the public ...

Created By: Robert A. Cinader, Harold Jack Bloom

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 14, 1974 • 1 h
The Screenwriter
A screenwriter spends a day observing Squad 51 at work, including a motorcycle accident, a worker suffering from exposure to chemicals, the delivery of a baby, and a structure fire at a toy factory.
Episode 2 • Sep 21, 1974 • 1 h
I'll Fix It
Episode 3 • Sep 28, 1974 • 1 h
Gossip
Episode 4 • Oct 5, 1974 • 1 h
Nagging Suspicion
Episode 5 • Oct 12, 1974 • 1 h
Communication Gaffe
Episode 6 • Oct 19, 1974 • 1 h
Surprise
Episode 7 • Nov 2, 1974 • 1 h
Daisy's Pick Blind Date
Johnny competes for a date with a new nurse. The paramedics rescue an engineer frozen to refrigeration equipment, a man whose hands are glued to his model ship, a comatose child, and an injured man trapped in a theater fire.
Episode 8 • Nov 9, 1974 • 1 h
Quicker Than the Eye
Episode 9 • Nov 16, 1974 • 1 h
Foreign Trade
Episode 10 • Nov 23, 1974 • 1 h
Camera Bug
Episode 11 • Nov 30, 1974 • 1 h
The Firehouse Four
The station (sans Roy) enters the fireman's barber shop quartet contest. A man keeps having to be rescued while trying various ways to exercise. A woman overdoses on sleeping pills.
Episode 12 • Dec 7, 1974 • 1 h
Details
Episode 13 • Dec 21, 1974 • 1 h
Parade
With their vintage fire engine fully restored between dispatches for a parade, John and Roy eventually find themselves using it more than they anticipated.
Episode 14 • Dec 28, 1974 • 1 h
The Bash
Episode 15 • Jan 4, 1975 • 1 h
Transition
Episode 16 • Jan 11, 1975 • 1 h
Smoke Eater
A veteran captain is in temporary command of Station 51 and has little regard for his younger subordinates' practices, especially the role of paramedics.
Episode 17 • Jan 18, 1975 • 1 h
Kidding
Episode 18 • Jan 25, 1975 • 1 h
Prestidigitation
Episode 19 • Feb 1, 1975 • 1 h
It's How You Play the Game
Episode 20 • Feb 8, 1975 • 1 h
The Mouse
Episode 21 • Feb 15, 1975 • 1 h
Back-Up
Episode 22 • Mar 1, 1975 • 1 h
905-Wild
The staff of the local Los Angeles Country Animal Control department office assist Fire Station 51 and Rampart Hospital on some animal related emergencies.
7 Seasons

Top Cast

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Randolph Mantooth

Paramedic John Gage

Kevin Tighe

Paramedic Roy DeSoto

Julie London

Dixie McCall, R.N.

Bobby Troup

Dr. Joe Early

Robert Fuller

Dr. Kelly Brackett

Marco Lopez

Fireman Marco Lopez

Mike Stoker

Fireman Mike Stoker

Tim Donnelly

Fireman Chet Kelly

Michael Norell

Captain Hank Stanley, Capt. Hank Stanley

Ron Pinkard

Dr. Mike Morton, Tom Gray, M.D.

Harold 'Hal' Frizzell

Ambulance Attendant, Orderly, Jim - Armored Truck Guard, Man with Heart Attack, Tully - Photographer

Sam Lanier

Radio Dispatcher

Vince Howard

Police Officer Vince, LASD, Police Officer Vince, Police Officer Vince - LASD, 1st Deputy, Deputy, Policeman, 1st Officer, 2nd Officer, Deputy Jenkins, 1st Policeman, 2nd Deputy, Officer Benson, Police Officer, Police Officer Vince, LAPD

Scott Gourlay

Police Officer, Orderly, Ambulance Attendant, Police Officer - LAPD, Police Officer, LAPD, 1st Officer, Anesthesiologist, Injured Factory Worker #2, Injured Police Officer, Police Officer #1, Police Officer #2, Police Officer Ross, Police Officer Scott, Police Officer Scotty, Police Officer Scotty - LAPD, Police Officer Scotty, LAPD

William Bryant

Captain - Engine #16, Captain, Captain - Engine #45, Captain - Engine #68, Captain Curtis, Captain Stoxe, Engine #236, Captain, Engine #10, Captain, Engine #14, Captain, Engine #2, Captain, Engine #33, Captain, Engine #52, Captain, Engine #69, Captain, Engine #73, Captain, Engine #85, Captain, Engine #95, Captain, Station #110, Sgt. Ed Pierce

Henry

Henry - Station Mascot

Art Balinger

Chief Conrad, Battalion 14

Michele Noval

Nurse Michele, Michele - Nurse, Blonde Woman, Valerie

Craig Chudy

Police Officer, Dan, Deputy, Helicopter Officer - LAPD, Injured Firefighter, Police Officer #1, Police Officer #2, Police Officer, LAPD

Dick Hammer

Captain Hammer

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