Emergency!
Dilemma
Season 1, Episode 9 · Aired 1972-03-25
Synopsis
John and Roy are sent on a call to rescue people stuck in an elevator, in-between floors, and then the brake drum fails; inside, a woman suffers a heart attack. Nurse Walters admires Dr. Brackett, when he sets her off, much to her pleasing him, when he's around, therefore, Dixie diagnoses her medical student with Bracketitis. A firefighter enthusiast has a crush on John, who wants to get rid of her. At the junkyard, John and Roy takes care of an injured man. An industrial accident takes place at a railroad yard. Thanks to Dixie's encouragement, and before Nurse Walters smiles in front of both her and Brackett, they all take care of a man with a pulmonary embolism.
In the series
This episode is part of Emergency! (1972–1979) on NBC.
Squad 51 rolling — paramedics as heroes before medical dramas went steadicam.
Key cast
- Robert Fuller as Dr. Kelly Brackett
- Julie London as Dixie McCall
- Randolph Mantooth as Firefighter John Gage
- Kevin Tighe as Firefighter Roy DeSoto
- Bobby Troup as Dr. Joe Early