Emergency!
The Professor
Season 2, Episode 15 · Aired 1973-02-03
Synopsis
A professor working with the Secret Service is experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia, and Dr. Brackett resents the interference of the government agents in the professor's care, where the professor's wife talks to Dixie, whose husband was brought over to the hospital for a physical examination. (The professor proves to have had MAO inhibitors prescribed to treat depression that had stricken him, but his physician had neglected to give him or his household staff proper dietary instructions.) Roy has an admirer calling him everywhere, despite Johnny saying, to both Dixie and Dr. Early, his partner has no "charisma," and needles him relentlessly about it. Between the phone calls, the paramedics assist a plane crash victim, deliver a premature baby, and help prevent a suicidal man from jumping off a building under construction.
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