Emergency!
Season 7
6 listed hours · 1972–1979 · NBC
From the desk
How this season is filed
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.
TV Flash files Season 7 of Emergency! (1972–1979) on NBC as the last listed season of 7 — 6 listed hours, 1978-01-07–1979-07-03 from “the steel inferno” (S07E01) to “The convention” (S07E06). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S07E06 The convention
The convention is the 1979 tail. Seven seasons of paramedic virtue, then a gathering-title bow: the series that taught the living room what a squad actually did.
- S07E01
the steel inferno
An office building erupts into a high rise fire.
- S07E02
Survival on charter #220
Gage and DeSoto find themselves needing help in the field in the suburbs when a midair collision causes a plane crash in their vicinity.
- S07E03
Most deadly passage
Gage and DeSoto come to Seattle, Washington to observe the operating practices of the Medic One unit. Part I of a two part Made for TV Movie. Johnny and Roy are sent to Seattle to study the techniques used there. A skydiver jumps off the Space Needle, a worker is trapped at the top of the Kingdome, and a fuel pumper mistakenly loads a ferry with gasoline instead of diesel fuel, which sets the ferry on fire in the middle of the Elliott Bay.
- S07E04
Greatest recues of Emergency
Now with each newly promoted Captain with separate commands, Gage and DeSoto reminisce about their adventures of their now concluded partnership
- S07E05
What's a nice girl like you doing...?
Gage and DeSoto travel to San Francisco, where they observe some topnotch women paramedics in action during major rescue missions. An injured worker is stranded on the Golden Gate bridge. Ambulance squads treat a heart attack victim at a dance bar and an epileptic at a coffee shop. A bad driver causes a traffic accident involving an ambulance carrying the heart patient, resulting in his death and five other injuries. Johnny dates a nurse interested in a long-term relationship. Careless workers and deadly chemicals combine to spark an explosive fire at a pier on the Embarcadero.
- S07E06
The convention
San Francisco firefighters and paramedics rescue a man trapped on the rigging of a schooner. A paramedic convention brings Gage and DeSoto back to San Francisco, where they assist a choking victim in a restaurant, then deliver a baby while two female paramedics treat a sniper's shooting victims. While attending a picnic, SF firefighters and paramedics are called back to work for a mutual aid response in Marin County; Gage and DeSoto tag along and rescue the victims of a lab explosion.
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