Emergency!
How Green Was My Thumb?
Season 3, Episode 18 · Aired 1974-01-26
Synopsis
Roy and Johnny save a man who had his partial dental plate stuck in his trachea and stopped his breathing, a problem whose discovery and solution require treatment from Dixie, Drs. Early and Morton. Roy takes care of a young woman's plants while she is hospitalized while Johnny tries to woo a young nurse. A young girl who had a fall injury suffers a dog bite, and when her religious parents prevent Dr. Brackett from treating it, Dixie summons the hospital chaplain. The paramedics rescue two men (one trapped in a vat of wine) from a winery fire to which the station has responded, and a gun collector who has accidentally fired an unexploded grenade round into his own abdomen undergoes emergency backyard field surgery conducted by Drs. Brackett and Morton
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