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Emergency! Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 1978 - 1979
Episode 1
The Steel Inferno
Sat, Jan 7, 1978120 mins
Part II of a two part Made for TV Movie. In a plot derived from The Towering Inferno, a high-rise building fire sparked by a carelessly thrown cigarette brings a multi-alarm response from Station 110, assisted by Squad 51. The fire traps several employees, including an office manager (Linda Gray) and her assistant (Anne Lockhart), who is engaged to one of the Squad 110 paramedics. Dr. Brackett leads a triage team from Rampart in a nearby garage. The Coast Guard helicopter is brought in to evacuate the trapped individuals. Dixie and Dr. Early handle the influx of patients at Rampart; while Roy and Johnny extricate themselves from a broken elevator, they also have to rescue an injured firefighter captain from an elevator shaft.
Episode 3
Survival on Charter #220
Sat, Mar 25, 197860 mins
One of a series of two-hour made-for-TV movies that feature most of the main cast (and some recurring cast members) of "Emergency!" after its run as a regular series. In this outing, an ill-fated DC-8 crashes down on a Los Angeles subdivision after a mid-air collision with a small plane (which lands in the LA River). Our heroes Gage and DeSoto are trapped while treating a young girl at her house; meanwhile, Squad 51 gets clobbered by one of the DC-8's engines!
Episode 4
Survival on Charter #220
Tue, Mar 28, 197860 mins
Part II of a two part Made for TV Movie. Squad 51 C-shift paramedics rescue a stuntman from a tower. Johnny and Roy respond to treat the injured child of a fireman's widow. A small plane and a chartered jetliner collide in midair, crashing in a residential neighborhood, trapping Johnny and Roy. Station 18 leads a massive response from Battalion 14 and the Compton Fire Department. Dr. Morton heads up a triage team from Rampart. Multiple rescues include passengers from both planes and people in the subdivision. Dixie and Dr. Early perform brain surgery on the injured child. An elderly man's dog leads Chief McConnike to its owner. This movie marks the last appearance of the Squad 51 vehicle, as it is apparently buried in, and destroyed by, debris from the plane crash.
Episode 5
Most Deadly Passage
Tue, Apr 4, 197860 mins
Part I of a two part Made for TV Movie. Johnny and Roy are sent to Seattle to study the techniques used there. A skydiver jumps off the Space Needle, a worker is trapped at the top of the Kingdome, and a fuel pumper mistakenly loads a ferry with gasoline instead of diesel fuel, which sets the ferry on fire in the middle of the Elliott Bay.
Episode 6
Most Deadly Passage
Tue, Apr 4, 197860 mins
Roy and Johnny are sent to Seattle to study the techniques used there. A skydiver jumps off the Space Needle, a worker is trapped at the top of the Kingdome, and a fuel pumper loads a ferry with gasoline instead of diesel fuel, which sets the ferry on fire in the middle of the Elliot Bay.
Episode 7
Greatest Rescues of Emergency!
Sun, Dec 31, 1978120 mins
Firefighter/Paramedics John Gage and Roy DeSoto are each promoted to the rank of Captain in the Los Angeles County Fire Department. After the ceremony, whereupon the reality that they'll no longer be partners hits them, they reminisce about their six years of working together on Squad 51. In flashbacks, they remember some of the most memorable rescues and milestones in their paramedic careers. Afterwards, they vow to remain close friends even if they aren't going to be working in the same station any longer.
Episode 8
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing...?
Tue, Jun 26, 1979120 mins
Gage and DeSoto travel to San Francisco, where they observe some topnotch women paramedics in action during major rescue missions. An injured worker is stranded on the Golden Gate bridge. Ambulance squads treat a heart attack victim at a dance bar and an epileptic at a coffee shop. A bad driver causes a traffic accident involving an ambulance carrying the heart patient, resulting in his death and five other injuries. Johnny dates a nurse interested in a long-term relationship. Careless workers and deadly chemicals combine to spark an explosive fire at a pier on the Embarcadero.
Episode 9
The Convention
Tue, Jul 3, 1979120 mins
San Francisco firefighters and paramedics rescue a man trapped on the rigging of a schooner. A paramedic convention brings Gage and DeSoto back to San Francisco, where they assist a choking victim in a restaurant, then deliver a baby while two female paramedics treat a sniper's shooting victims. While attending a picnic, SF firefighters and paramedics are called back to work for a mutual aid response in Marin County; Gage and DeSoto tag along and rescue the victims of a lab explosion.
