Emergency!

The first paramedic program in Los Angeles is launched.

The Paramedical Rescue Service and the County Department of Hospitals combine forces to help serve the public.

Dr. Kelly Brackett (Robert Fuller) places his career in jeopardy when he diagnoses a dreaded illness before confirming tests are completed. Paramedics John Gage and Roy DeSoto (Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe) answer a call to a studio where a cameraman has broken his leg under unusual circumstances. Gage and DeSoto determine that the man has more than a broken leg and rush him to Rampart Hospital. Drs. Brackett and Joe Early (Bobby Troup) and nurse Dixie McCall (Julie London) learn that Parker’s fall was caused by symptoms which Brackett diagnoses as botulism. Search for the contaminated food leads to Nancy Dickson (Susan Seaforth).

Paramedics Gage and DeSoto (Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe), via radio assistance from Dr. Brackett and Nurse McCall (Robert Fuller and Julie London), deliver a baby, over protests of the father. In other emergencies, they save a badly beaten boy, who’s under the influence of drugs, and revive a man after severe electrical shock. Through all this, DeSoto broods over the dinner he plans to serve to the men of Station 51, who detest his cooking. Bobby Troup plays Dr. Early. Frank Aletter guest stars.

A spreading canyon fire threatens residents of a housing development.

Paramedics Gage and DeSoto (Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe) talk down a plane, piloted by 14 year-old Frankie Pierce, whose pilot-father has suffered a cardiac arrest and Dr. Brackett (Robert Fuller) becomes emotionally involved in the case. Dr. Brackett becomes irate when he realizes that the elder Pierce might die and that Dave Morgan, a psycho who attempted suicide in three different ways, will recover. Nurse McCall (Julie London) tries to temper Brackett’s anger. Gage and DeSoto rescue Jim Thompson from a gasoline tanker crash and back at Station 51, Gage wonders why he always loses at cards.