Sat, Jan 5, 1974
John and Roy are disappointed when they are the only squad not called to a major brushfire. Dixie gets her hand caught in a vending machine. A lawyer collapses in the courtroom with an apparent heart attack. Roy and John finally make it to the brushfire and become trapped while rescuing another firefighter.
Sat, Jan 12, 1974
Chet (aka "The Phantom Bomber") nails Johnny with a number of practical jokes, for which Johnny later gets his revenge. A child is stuck in a tree house (with the tree burning underneath) and is rescued by Johnny; the girl's widowed mother takes an interest in him, and Dixie takes care of the girl, who also has slight burns, at the hospital. An elderly man and frequent visitor to Rampart, "Old Bill," visits the girl. Dixie, Drs. Brackett and Early think "Old Bill" is a hypochondriac until Roy and John find him unconscious in his home with septic shock. Johnny and Roy help a moaning man after his wife gives him Dieffenbachia sap to shut him up, a gas station attendant with a perforated ulcer, a young boy who swallows ant poison (who later dies - as his mother thought he was just trying to "get attention), and three men stuck after a bulldozer accident.
Sat, Jan 26, 1974
Roy and John save a man who had his partial dental plate stuck in his trachea and stopped his breathing, this leads Dixie, Drs. Early and Morton, to discover the problem. Roy takes care of a young woman's plants while she is hospitalized while John tries to woo a young nurse. A young girl who had a fall injury (Kim Richards) suffers a dog bite, and when her religious parents prevent Dr. Brackett from treating it, Dixie calls in the hospital chaplain. The station rescue two men (one trapped in a vat of wine) in a winery fire, The station responds to a fire in a winery, and a gun collector who has an unexploded grenade round in his abdomen undergoes backyard surgery by Drs. Brackett and Morton.
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Sat, Feb 2, 1974
Dr. Early becomes a patient as he is diagnosed with a heart condition and undergoes a bypass operation, after fixing Station 51's truck. Dixie becomes more concerned about Early's operation, after Roy and John exchange words with her. A professional football player is hit hard by his son and suffers a broken ankle, much to his embarrassment. The firemen rescue a boy trapped in his homemade rocket, a young woman whose toe is stuck in a bathtub faucet, and a worker electrocuted when the basket he's working in slips onto live wires. Dr. Early's operation is a success, and the boys give their colleague a thermos of his favorite, Captain Stanley's clam chowder.
Sat, Feb 16, 1974
Roy's house is being fumigated & John offers to host his partner, which is a decision both soon regret. John also calls Dixie at the hospital for a radio check, which looks good. The paramedics rescue a woman trapped inside a burning car; later the ambulance transporting the woman & Roy is involved in a traffic accident caused by a drunk driver, and John doubles back to assist. Dixie, Drs. Early & Morton treat Roy & John with their separate bodily abrasions. A poker player suffering a heart attack refuses to be transported until John plays out his hand, and the firemen rescue several men injured in an explosion at an abandoned refinery.
Sat, Mar 23, 1974
The firemen enter a contest to invent new firefighting tools. The paramedics handle victims of possible radiation poisoning. A comatose man is suffering from a mysterious ailment. John gives Dr. Early the booze to give to Dixie. A woman's overweight son is wedged in her living room ceiling. The firemen respond to a leak at a chemical plant.
Sat, Sep 21, 1974
A man is trapped under their house when it begins collapsing into itself due to the house being built on a natural oil well. Dixie asks Johnny to fix the bike for the fire victim. Chet and Johnny try (and fail) to repair a bike for a fire victim, prior to Dixie's visitation at Station 51. A bookworm teenager who wants to be a doctor is admitted with abdominal pain and speaks to Drs. Brackett and Morton using medical terminology. The firemen rescue a child stuck in a pipe, remove a ring from a young man's finger that belongs to a woman with a jealous husband, later Roy & Capt. Stanley work on a stuck shut-off valve at a chemical plant fire.
Sat, Sep 28, 1974
Roy and John have to break into an armored car involved in an accident to rescue a trapped guard. A victim of an auto accident has a skull fracture that needs consent from his wife, whom Dixie discusses with, but it turns out that he has two wives. One of the Rampart nurses starts spreading rumors about Dr. Morton's financial situation, and Dixie confronts the nurse about spreading gossip. A child is brought in with cyanide poisoning from eating peach pits. Roy tries to get John to enter the Fireman's Olympics' track events. The firemen rescue an electrocution victim hanging in mid-air and a man trapped in an explosive warehouse fire.
Sat, Oct 5, 1974
John is trying to get Roy to give up his "system" for picking winning horses out of the newspaper. The firemen rescue a woman who fell into the lion's cage at the zoo & was bitten, help an exotic dancer who became ill from mono at a strip club, whom Dr. Brackett and Dixie takes care of. The paramedics also assist an adult who fell off a skateboard into a cactus patch on his rump (then John does the exact same thing), and they save a wounded policeman from a sniper.
Sat, Oct 12, 1974
Roy and Joanne appear on a TV quiz show. The firemen then respond to a liquor store shooting involving a policeman; another officer objects to the paramedics (before Dixie) treating the suspect. Dr. Brackett treats an abused child brought into Rampart, later the paramedics assist a man who inhaled too much nitrous oxide, treat a boy in anaphylactic shock from a bee sting, and aid the victims of a collision between a station wagon and a pickup truck carrying kerosene, causing a brush fire.
Sat, Oct 19, 1974
The firemen assist a woman thrown from her motorcycle onto a cactus patch. John and Roy (along with the Rampart doctors) plan a surprise birthday party for Dixie; when she breaks her ankle while shopping the party plans and the ER begins to fall apart. Dixie is forced to turn over the run of the ER to an inexperienced nurse, while she recuperates from a concussion and broken ankle. Things do not run as smoothly without Dixie. Rescues include two men trapped on the side of a building with a 1/2 ton sign hanging near them, a man's life is saved when his wife finds him unconscious in his new sauna and the doctors discover he's suffering from Addison's Disease, and a terrified old woman whose apartment building explodes during a gas leak--with John inside, he then suffers a broken foot. While recovering, Dr. Brackett brought along his first surprise for John, the recuperating Dixie, who brought John a cake, while Dr. Early gave John a tape recorder, in honor of (and Roy's) Dixie's birthday.
Sat, Nov 9, 1974
A pregnant woman is accidentally shot through the abdomen and her husband is initially incoherent and unable to advise how far along she is when asked. The firemen decide to get even with Chet for his recent antics. The paramedics assist a construction worker caught under a boat at a filming location, but he refuses any IVs or needles. A man in a motorbike accident can initially only move his right thumb, and he uses that to help the paramedics find his son, who's in a trailer a half-mile away in a diabetic coma, before Dixie, Dr. Early, Johnny and Roy, all treat them, in the hospital.
Sat, Nov 16, 1974
John wants to trade his vehicle for Roy's convertible. The paramedics help a fraternity pledge choking on raw liver as a hazing stunt. Dixie declares war on the new hospital administrator for reducing staff due to budget cuts, then is offered a promotion to Nursing Supervisor, who later turns down the job. Dr. Early's young patient cures his hiccups with soda pop. The firemen assist a basketball player when he is stuck in his luxury car, and a hot rod Chevrolet El Camino crashes through a drawbridge gate and teeters on the edge of the structure.
Sat, Nov 23, 1974
John takes up photography and constantly pesters Roy for candid shots. The firemen assist a teenager suffering from smoke inhalation during a fire at a school he doesn't attend; he then becomes violent and attacks Dr. Brackett until Dr. Morton and the boy's mother calm him down. A woman is bitten by a scorpion, a fellow fireman mistakes a heart attack for stomach problems brought on by his chili, and a truck driver hauling dynamite is pinned in his vehicle when it catches fire. Dixie and Dr. Brackett assist in the delivery of a baby at a restaurant during their lunch hour.
Sat, Dec 7, 1974
John talks about settling down after another date goes wrong. Station 51 is responding to a traffic accident; en route another accident occurs and Squad 51 has to handle it before responding to the other accident; one dead, two injured, and the injured man asks about his wife, who was badly burned. The woman hit in the first accident takes a shine to John. A man is suffering from watching too many medical TV shows instead of stomach cancer. A belly dancer overdoses on diet pills, then flirts with Dr. Early until Dixie catches her and offers a career change. The paramedics assist a child (who turns out to be one of three children John's love interest has) who has a dog bite after the child bit the dog first, and a victim in a fire that gets so intense John & Roy have to jump to safety.
Sat, Dec 28, 1974
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.