Emergency!
Election
TV Flash files “Election” as hour 79 of 128 in the TV Flash guide — Emergency! (1972–1979) on NBC, season 5, episode 3, aired 1975-09-27, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E03: listed hour 79 of 128 in the Emergency! guide, hour 3 of 22 in season 5. It aired 1975-09-27 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Old Engine Cram” (S05E02). Next is “Equipment” (S05E04).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Roy and John become candidates to represent Station 51 on the welfare committee. The firefighters first save a man who got his arm stuck in a drainpipe, then his brother, who swallows a beverage-can pull tab and aspirates. A woman seems more concerned with making a plane flight than her son, admitted with Reye's Syndrome, where Dixie and Dr. Morton encourage Dr. Brackett to ask the parents to making that decision for their son. A sculptress calls the Squad to get her model out of a plaster cast which could otherwise suffocate the model, then the firefighters save a construction worker trapped on a crane.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Election sit in the Emergency! guide?
S05E03 is listed hour 79 of 128 — hour 3 of 22 in season 5, season 5 episode 3.
When did Emergency! S05E03 air?
Election aired 1975-09-27 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with Squad 51 and Rampart as a closed loop: Gage, DeSoto, and the ER doctors. Rescue-of-the-week structure does not need a binge map.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Squad 51 rolls before medical dramas discovered handheld cameras and hallway shouting. Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe play paramedics as civic heroes while Jack Webb's shop keeps the procedures honest. The series that sold America on paramedic programs, sirens included, without turning the station house into a soap.
Squad 51 rolling is the whole assignment: L.A. County firefighter-paramedics answer rescue calls while Rampart Hospital doctors support from the ER, and NBC's Emergency! (1972–1979) keeps the procedures honest before medical dramas discovered handheld cameras and hallway shouting. Harold Jack Bloom, R.A. Cinader, and Jack Webb's Mark VII shop put Randolph Mantooth's John Gage and Kevin Tighe's Roy DeSoto in the squad with documentary-style urgency. Robert Fuller's Dr. Kelly Brackett, Julie London's Dixie McCall,…
Filed against
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- Julie London as Dixie McCall
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- Randolph Mantooth as Firefighter John Gage
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- Kevin Tighe as Firefighter Roy DeSoto
Kevin Tighe's Firefighter Roy DeSoto rolled Squad 51 on Emergency! before medical dramas discovered hallway shouting — paramedics as civic heroes, Jack Webb's shop keeping procedures honest, sirens as a public argument. TV Flash files him…
- Bobby Troup as Dr. Joe Early
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