Emergency!
Crash
Season 1, Episode 11 · Aired 1972-04-15
Synopsis
Before Dr. Brackett takes care of a football player, who tackles too hard, John and Roy rescues him, before they take care of a burglar that is suffering from a heart attack. John asks Roy to apologize for calling his partner, "some kind of nut." Realizing she is dying, except for the real problem is north of the neck, both the man and a woman asks Dixie and Dr. Early for help. A child, who swallowed pentobarbital, who's being brought in at Rampart, by a babysitter, and that Dixie talks to her about this situation. John and Roy both rescue the occupants of a light plane that had crashed in a tree.
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