Emergency!
The Great Crash Diet
TV Flash files “The Great Crash Diet” as hour 96 of 128 in the TV Flash guide — Emergency! (1972–1979) on NBC, season 5, episode 20, aired 1976-02-21, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E20: listed hour 96 of 128 in the Emergency! guide, hour 20 of 22 in season 5. It aired 1976-02-21 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Grateful” (S05E19). Next is “The Tycoons” (S05E21).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Roy and John rescue a man stuck in a fish tank at an aquarium. Dr. Morton conducts an experiment on firefighter nutrition, but it turns into an obsession with Chet. A teenager celebrates his birthday by eating two loaves of raw dough and suffers a painful stomach ache. John reveals to Dixie a picture of a baby, weighing 8 ounces. The station responds to a woman having chest pains when her pregnant daughter suddenly goes into labor. The station responds to a traffic accident, during which Capt. Stanley is severely injured when he gets an electric shock from a fallen power line, forcing his apparent immediate deputy to take over for Stanley and direct Stanley's rescue.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Great Crash Diet sit in the Emergency! guide?
S05E20 is listed hour 96 of 128 — hour 20 of 22 in season 5, season 5 episode 20.
When did Emergency! S05E20 air?
The Great Crash Diet aired 1976-02-21 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
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- Bobby Troup as Dr. Joe Early
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