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0. Pilot [aka: The Wedworth-Townsend Act]

Airdate: 1/15/72
Writer: Harold Jack Bloom and R.A. Cinader
Director: Jack Webb
Guest Cast: Martin Milner, Kent McCord, Jack Kruschen. Ann Morgan Guilbert, Lew Brown, Art Balinger, Virginia Gregg, Herb Vigran, Colby Chester, Kathryn Kelly Wiget, Don Ross.

Roy convinces John to join the paramedic program. They must deal with the opposition from both medical and civil authorities, including one of their staunchest opponents: Dr. Brackett. Eventually seeing the advantages of the program, his testimony proves the key to getting paramedic legislation passed. The paramedics assist the victims of a car accident (including Dixie, who is injured at the scene) and rescue workers from a tunnel cave-in.

Note: This was a 2-hour episode, which was re-aired in a two-part frame format: returning from a run, Roy and John recall how they became paramedics.

1. Mascot

Airdate: 1/22/72
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest Cast: Patricia McAneny, Linda Watkins, Jock Mahoney, Beverly Powers, Jeff Davis, Roland Barton, Candace Howerton, Susan O'Connell.

A woman involved in a car accident is concerned about her dog so John agrees to take care it, which complicates his life. At the hospital, doctors treat a girl who has difficulty breathing and a man who appears to be drunk. When a man has chest pains at a party, his guests think he is joking. The paramedics rescue an injured hunter.

2. Botulism

Airdate: 1/29/72
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest Cast: Calvin Bartlett, Anne Whitfield, Paul Langton, Virginia Vincent, William Stevens, Virginia Gregg, Susan Seaforth, Joshua Albee, Harlen Carraher, Bruce Powers.

Johnny plots his revenge after being the repeated target of practical jokes. A man breaks his back falling off a tower. A woman fakes an illness. Dr. Early’s stethoscope becomes lodged in his ear. A man brought into the hospital from a movie set is the first indication of an outbreak of botulism. A boy is trapped in a condemned building.

3. Cook's Tour

Airdate: 2/12/72
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest Cast: Frank Aletter, Jacqueline Russell, Dennis Rucker, Dorothy Green, Virginia Gregg, Lew Brown, Bill Henry, Scott Smith, Barbara Sigel, Dorothy Konrad.

John delivers a cyanotic baby. The firemen give Roy a bad time about his cooking. A boy gets his hand stuck in a vase; Johnny rescues a kid in handcuffs. A man repairing a washer gets an electric shock. The paramedics rescue a man trapped on a crane.

4. Brushfire

Airdate: 2/19/72
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Guest Cast: Gary Crosby, Ellen Moss, Bob Hastings, Tony Dow, Trent Lehman, Edith Evanson, Lillian Bronson, Vince Howard, Art Balinger.

Station 51 is called up to fight a wildfire. John and Roy rescue an elderly woman and her sister, treat an injured fireman, deliver a baby, catch a looter, and find a boy's lost dog.

5. Dealer's Wild

Airdate: 2/26/72
Writer: Carey Wilber
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest Cast: Lou Krugman, Coleen Gray, Marian Collier, Mitch Carter, Buddy Foster, Sonja Dunson, Ron Pinkard, Susan Madigan, Peggy Drier.

John keeps losing at cards and being stuck with doing the dishes at the station, so he creates his own card game. Roy talks down a boy in a plane after the pilot (his father) has a heart attack. The paramedics respond to an attempted suicide, an overturned truck and a teenage overdose victim.

6. Nurses Wild

Airdate: 3/4/72
Writer: Fred Freiberger
Director: Herschel Daughtery
Guest Cast: Royal Dano, Ron Pinkard, Kip Niven, Christine Dixon, Victor Izay, Chris Forbes, Patricia Mickey, Sarah Fankboner, Vince Howard, Colby Chester.

A store owner shoots an armed robber and is filled with remorse. Sparks fly between Johnny and a nurse. Dr. Early treats an alcoholic. A dog delays the rescue of an unconscious woman. Dr. Morton assumes an unconscious hippie is on drugs. The firemen rescue a man trapped at a chemical plant.

7. Publicity Hound

Airdate: 3/1172
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest Cast: Gene Raymond, Gary Crosby, Sallie Shockley, Barry Higgins, Ron Pinkard, Bill Baldwin, Edith Diaz, Scott Allen, Ted Gehring, William Bryant.

John is envious of the publicity given to another paramedic. After Roy and John rescue a man trapped in ship's rigging, John gets seasick. Dr. Brackett clashes with a tycoon over a diagnosis. The paramedics rescue a horse from a ditch and a child stuck in a well.

8. Weird Wednesday

Airdate: 3/18/72
Writer: Daryl Henry
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest Cast: Jeanette Nolan, Arnold Stang, Ron Pinkard, Henny Backus, Sherry Bain, Helen Baron, Anne Collings, Chris Forbes, Patricia Mickey, Pam Peters, [William Katt].

John is convinced that weird things will happen on their shift: a parachutist lands in a tree, an obese man collapses while jogging, an 80-year old woman breaks her ankle while dancing, a man can’t stop the hiccups, a boy tries to cryogenically freeze himself, an golfer is bitten by a snake, a prostitute brings in a customer suffering from chest pains, and John is injured during the rescue of a drunk driver.

9. Dilemma

Airdate: 3/25/72
Writer: Michael Donovan
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest Cast: Seymour Cassel, Benny Rubin, Patricia Mickey, Chris Forbes, Hal Baylor, Marilyn Hassett, Bill McLean, Scott Allen, Robert E. Kline.

An elevator gets stuck between floors, and then the brake drum fails; inside, a man has a heart attack. A nursing student is in awe of Dr. Brackett; a fireman buff develops a crush on John, who tries to get rid of her. A man is injured in his junkyard. An industrial accident takes place at a railroad yard.

10. Hang-Up

Airdate: 4/8/72
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest Cast: Mort Sahl, John Smith, Shelly Novak, Chris Forbes, Art Balinger, Savannah Bentley, Vince Howard, Don Ross, Lew Brown.

Johnny misses the end of an Adam-12 episode. A jewel thief is trapped in an air-conditioning duct. Two battered men continue their brawl in the hospital. A man ruins his cast by going surfing. Dr. Brackett treats a woman with a neurological disorder. Radioactivity impedes the rescue of a lab worker.

11. Crash

Airdate: 4/15/72
Writer: Gerald Sanford
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest Cast: Cicely Tyson, Gary Crosby, William Bramley, Don Matheson, John Smith, Jeff Donnell, Francine York, Sandy deBruin, Edmund Cambridge, Eric Laneuville, Patricia Mickey, Buddy Lester, Ronne Troup, Chris Forbes.

John and Roy bring in a football player who was tackled too hard. A burglar has a heart attack. Johnny wants Roy to apologize for calling him "some kind of nut." Dr. Early treats a hypochondriac. A babysitter brings in a child who has swallowed some pills. Roy and John rescue the occupants of a light plane that crashed in a tree.

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