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1. The Screenwriter

Airdate: 9/14/74
Writer: Eric Brown
Director: George Fenady
Guest Cast: Shelley Berman, Larry Csonka, Carol Wayne, Brendon Boone, Roger Perry. Del Monroe, Bennye Gatteys, Kyle Andersen, Terrence O’Connor, [Richard A. Friend].

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.

2. I'll Fix It

Airdate: 9/21/74
Writer: John Groves
Director: George Fenady
Guest Cast: Randall Carver, Bing Russell, Peggy Stewart, Savannah Bentley, [Robert Bralver, Eric Shea, Toni Lawrence, Richard Kiel, Byron Nickleberry].

A woman's husband is trapped under their house where a natural oil well has erupted. John tries to fix a boy's bike. A boy who wants to become a doctor is admitted to Rampart. The firemen rescue a child stuck in a pipe. Roy and John remove a ring from a young man’s finger. Roy and Capt. Stanley struggle with a shutoff valve at a structure fire.

3. Gossip

Airdate: 9/28/74
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Kevin Tighe
Guest Cast: Catherine Burns, Ruth McDevitt. Ross Elliott, Annette Cardona, Yvonne Craig, Zina Bethune, Anne Schedeen, Reb Brown, Lorraine Baptist, Vince Howard, Judd Laurance.

Roy encourages John to represent the station in the Fireman's Olympics track events. An armored car sideswipes a motorist and Station 51 must break into the van. A nurse spreads the rumor that Dr. Morton is having financial problems. Doctors treat a child with cyanide poisoning from peach pits. Dr. Brackett treats a bigamist with a skull fracture. The firemen rescue an electrocution victim hanging in mid-air and a man trapped in a warehouse fire.

4. Nagging Suspicion

Airdate: 10/5/74
Writer: Joseph Polizzi
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Robert Q. Lewis. Milton Frome, Pamela Morris, Lindsay Bloom, W. T. Zacha, John Wheeler, Jim B. Smith.

Roy picks winning horses from the newspaper and Johnny wants to know how he does it. The paramedics rescue a woman who has fallen into a lion’s cage, a dancer in a bar, an adult skateboarder who landed in a cactus patch, and save a bleeding policeman from a sniper.

5. Communication Gaffe

Airdate: 10/12/74
Writer: Charlene Bralver & Robert Bralver
Director: George Fenady
Guest Cast: James McEachin, Denny Miller. Brooke Bundy, John Elerick, Paul Bryar, Jennifer King, William Bryant, Brian Cutler.

Roy and Joanne go on a TV quiz show. Roy and John respond to a holdup where both a policeman and a suspect have been shot, and another officer gives them a hard time over treating the suspect. A woman brings in her abused son for treatment. A man inhales too much nitrous oxide. The paramedics treat a boy suffering an allergic reatcion to a bee sting. A pickup carrying kerosene collides with a station wagon and starts a brushfire.

6. Surprise

Airdate: 10/19/74
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest Cast: Dena Dietrich, Herb Voland, Joe Kapp, Kenneth Tobey, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Celia Lovsky, Dub Taylor, Aneta Corsaut. Ann Schedeen, Bill Quinn, William Bryant, Christopher Mears, Robert Bernard, Holly Irving.

A woman is thrown from a motorcycle into a cactus patch. A surprise birthday party is planned for Dixie, who breaks her ankle while shopping, and the ER falls apart without her. Gage and DeSoto rescue two workers trapped on the side of a building next to a 1000-pound sign. A man is trapped in his new sauna. When an old woman refuses to leave her apartment during a gas leak, the building explodes with John inside.

7. Daisy's Pick

Airdate: 11/2/74
Writer: John Groves
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: John Carradine, Steve Franken. Dolores Mann, Stack Pierce, Tim O’Dening, Bill Couch, Francisco Ortega, Brit Lind, [John Carter, Brian Cutler].

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.

8. Quicker Than the Eye

Airdate: 11/9/74
Writer: Arthur Weiss
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Mark Spitz, Susy Spitz. Paul Brinegar, Vince Howard, [Michael Conrad, Renee Tetro, Bill Sorells].

A pregnant woman accidentally shoots herself. Tired of Chet's antics, the station gets their revenge by playing a practical joke of their own. A construction worker caught under a boat refuses an IV, and a man in an accident communicates through the use of his thumb.

9. Foreign Trade

Airdate: 11/16/74
Writer: Rick Mittleman
Director: James Gavin
Guest Cast: James Shigeta, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Reb Brown, Christopher Stafford Nelson, Donald Mantooth, Anne Schedeen. Than Wyenn, Anne Seymour, Joseph Perry, [Peter Halton].

John and Roy consider trading cars. A frat pledge chokes during initiation. Dixie takes on hospital management after budget cuts affect her nursing staff. A young patient cures Dr. Early’s hiccups. A basketball player gets stuck in his car. A vehicle teeters on the edge of a drawbridge.

10. Camera Bug

Airdate: 11/23/74
Writer: Rick Mittleman
Director: Richard Bennett
Guest Cast: Ron Masak, Dianne Harper, Peter Leeds, [Tyler Henderson, Adrian Ricard, Mary Rings].

John thinks he can be a photographer and pesters Roy for candid shots. A teenager suffers smoke inhalation at an elementary school structure fire. A fireman thinks he's having a heart attack, but it's really just his chili. A woman is bitten by a scorpion. Dixie has 'one of those days' as she and Dr. Brackett deliver a baby in a restaurant on their lunch hour. The driver of a truck full of dynamite is pinned behind the wheel of his vehicle as it catches fire.

11. The Firehouse Four

Airdate: 11/30/74
Writer: John Groves
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest Cast: Lennie Winerib, Charles Knox Robinson. Joanne Meredith, Linda Dano, Peter Colt, James Kline.

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.

12. Details

Airdate: 12/7/74
Writer: Michael Norell
Director: George Fenady
Guest Cast: Barbara Nichols. Walter Brooke, Tom Reese, Charles Quinlivin, Michele Noval, [Erik Estrada].

While responding to a call, Roy and John witness a pedestrian being struck by a car. A woman is badly burnt in a fire. John thinks about settling down. A belly dancer overdoses on diet pills. A child bites a dog and the dog bites back. At a structure fire, Roy and John must jump to safety.

13. Parade

Airdate: 12/21/74
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest Cast: Phillip Pine, Stan Adams. Timothy Blake, Peggy Mondo, Laurie Burton, Jan Arvan, [Stuart Nisbet, Yvette Vickers].

Roy and John finally restore their old fire engine to ride in the California Fire Fighters Parade. A man with heart problems insists on driving, and causes an accident for which the other driver blames herself. Dr. Early treats a patient who has a seizure in the waiting room. A man on a date passes out and has difficulty breathing; the doctors search for the cause. A child’s medical condition causes an argument between his divorced parents. Driving to the parade in the old engine, the paramedics respond to an actual emergency.

14. The Bash

Airdate: 12/28/74
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: Adam West, Karen Jensen. Larry Delaney, Paul Smith, Marcus Smith, Morgan Jones, Jim B. Smith, [Heath Jobes].

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.

15. Transition

Airdate: 1/4/75
Writer: John Groves
Director: George Fenady
Guest Cast: Colby Chester. Timothy Blake, Peggy Mondo, Laurie Burton, Jan Arvan [Elisabeth Brooks, Lora Kaye, Joyce Davis, James Chandler, Phillip Altman, James Kilmond, Reed Diamond].

A high school classmate of John’s is assigned as Squad 51's new paramedic trainee. The firemen rescue a man trapped in his kitchen after a hydrogen sulfide explosion. The paramedics help treat accident victims at the hospital and tend to child at an amusement park. When an intoxicated man turns out to be a snakebite victim, Roy is hit in the eyes with cobra venom. Back at the amusement park, a heart attack victim is trapped high in the air.

16. Smoke Eater

Airdate: 1/11/75
Writer: Edwin Self
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest Cast: John Anderson, Lee H. Montgomery, Lin McCarthy. Sharon Faron, Sid Haig, Anne Whitfield, Burt Mustin.

A temporary captain from 'the old school' doesn't feel Gage and DeSoto should be practicing 'medicine', and has no problem in expressing his opinion. An elderly man sets his chair on fire. Dr. Early keeps coming up with oranges when all he wants is an apple. The paramedics struggle to save a heart attack victim. A boy with asthma gets trapped in a storm drain. Dr. Brackett uses an old-fashioned sedative on a biker. Chemicals complicate a structure fire.

17. Kidding

Airdate: 1/18/75
Writer: Roland Wolpert
Director: Wes McAfee
Guest Cast: Paul Fix, Laurette Spang. James Ingersoll, Joyce Jameson, Norman Bartold, [Adrian Ricard].

Johnny is assigned to conduct a school tour of Rampart hospital; the youngsters are highly inquisitive. A veteran mentally reliving a battle is subdued by the paramedics; he turns out to have a brain tumor. A woman gets stuck in a dog door. A famous novelist attempts suicide. A cargo plane crashes in a residential area, hitting a school bus.

18. Prestidigitation

Airdate: 1/25/75
Writer: Robert Hamner
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: James Gregory, Bernard Fox. Dick Yarmy, Tony Giorgio, Arthur Space, Madelyn Cain, [Gil Serna].

The paramedics rescue a magician trapped in his trunk. Dr. Brackett’s father is treated at the hospital for phlebitis. A fireplace explodes and falls on top of the homeowner. An auto accident sends a power transformer flying into a man’s bedroom. Roy and John are puzzled by a gift from the magician. A fuel truck collides with a car and a gas main, trapping a woman and starting a fire.

19. It's How You Play the Game

Airdate: 2/1/75
Writer: Jim Carlson
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest Cast: Dennis Patrick, Cliff Osmond, Ryan MacDonald, Maggie Sullivan, Hal Baylor.

John agrees that the losing baseball team at the fireman's picnic will pay for the picnic. Chet becomes Station 51's only hope when their pitcher breaks his arm. A drunk driver becomes violent after crashing his car; another man is trapped in a car with a tiger. A man with a back problem must be extricated from his waterbed. A structure fire is complicated by moonshine.

20. The Mouse

Airdate: 2/8/75
Writer: Edwin Self
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Guest Cast: J. Pat O'Malley, Ronnie Schell. Bill Zuckert, Peter Palmer, Lee Paul, Florence Lake, Barry Cahill, [W. T. Zacha].

An elderly man is trapped in his burning house. Chet becomes obsessed with ridding the station of an uninvited guest. Paramedics and doctors treat a man who suffers repeated cardiac arrests. Dixie comforts the husband of an elderly patient. Roy and John help break up a fight. Several crises occur at an apartment house hit by a jet fighter.

21. Back-Up

Airdate: 2/15/75
Writer: John Groves
Director: Georg Fenady
Guest Cast: Kennan Wynn, Michael Conrad. Anne Schedeen, Kendall March, [Patch MacKenzie, Bill Conklin, Frances Spinner].

A young OD victim is brought into the ER. A man fakes back pain to get a free ride to the hospital. John gets peeved at all the frivolous calls the squad goes on while real emergency victims need help. A man is shocked after kicking in his TV screen. The ambulance carrying the paramedics and a heart attack victim is involved in a traffic accident.

22. 905-Wild

Airdate: 3/1/75
Writer: Buddy Atkinson & Dick Conway
Director: Jack Webb
Guest Cast: David Huddleston, Albert Popwell, Mark Harmon, Gary Crosby, Rose Ann Zecker. Ruth McDevitt, Virginia Gregg, Stephanie Steele, Ned Romero, Burt Mustin, [Laura Huddleston, Cerie Dee Barger].

The title refers to the code word for "wild animal loose, threatening". The show opens with Johnny and Roy on a pre-dawn call to a small grocery store for a man down, bleeding. Searching the back of the store, Johnny is confronted with a Bengal tiger! A big brush fire threatens a suburban canyon area with lots of domesticated animals and things get dicey all around for the fire department and the Animal Control guys. Rampart becomes a veterinary surgical center for a while.

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