12     Problem (Decision)                2x1      Airdate: 9.16.72

Vitals: Roy contemplates leaving the paramedics after a doctor questions his actions on a rescue.

Rescues: An engine falls on a man.  A house traps a boy and his dog, Roy saves them both.

Rampart: A doctor has an attack. 

Critique:  Dixie's freak out on the doctor is very effective as is Roy's dilemma.     A+

13     Kids                          2x2      Airdate: 9.23.72

Vitals: A stray dog finds the station and is welcomed as the mascot.

Rescues: A boy gets his head trapped in an opening under his house, a young man is injured in a fall in a canyon and is discovered by the new mascot.  A boy gets his finger caught in a steering wheel.  Another boy falls in a hole.

Rampart: Bracket is convinced a boy is being abused and must find a way to prove it.

Critique: The abusive mother was a nice twist.  B+

Of Note: John Travolta plays the canyon victim.

14     Show Biz                  2x3      Airdate: 9.30.72

Vitals: A photographer uses the boys in a photo shoot with Johnny as the main beefcake.

Rescues: A country doctor becomes the victim when he helps the boys with a trapped man.  A stunt goes awry and a men are trapped on a waterfall.

Rampart: A woman kills a child in a crash and then dies herself.

Critique: The woman's death was a shocker but the photo shoot didn't reach it's comedic potential.  B

15     Virus                          2x4      Airdate: 10.7.72

Vitals:  An infectious monkey carries a new virus that threatens the city.

Rescues:  A sick woman with a virus is treated. A boy with inner ear problems is rescued from his tree house.  A man is injured on a scaffold.

Rampart: Johnny, Bracket and another firefighter are treated for the virus.  Will Rampart find a cure on time?!!!

Critique: How many movies and shows have since copied this creative storyline?     A+

 

 

16     Peace Pipe                 2x5      Airdate: 10.14.72

Vitals: Mr. politically incorrect Chet Kelly teases Johnny about his native American heritage.

Rescues: A drunk drivers injures a child in a car wreck.  A woman is trapped in her girdle.  A boy gets his finger stuck on a gumball machine.     A flash fire in a toilet injures a man and the station tracks down the flammable contaminant in the water line.  A sniper injures a man on a scaffold and continues shooting as the boys attempt a rescue.

Critique: An odd storyline with the Indian teasing thing but good rescues.     B-

 

 

17     Saddled                     2x6      Airdate:10.21.72

Vitals: Johnny wants to be a rodeo star.

Rescues: A diner patron has a soda bottle explode in her face, and later the diner explodes from a faulty heater.  A child with a spleen disorder falls from a tree.  A school bus full of children and a nun falls off an embankment.

Rampart: Dixiehurts her foot when it is run over by x-ray equipment.

Critique: Roy and the nun are a very nice touch and a hidden gem in an otherwise mediocre episode.     B

18     Fuzz Lady                    2x7      Airdate:11.4.72

Vitals: Johnny falls for a female police officer and boot returns.

Rescues: A hurt mugger.  An elderly man is trapped in a house fire caused by his questionable senility.  Cuts and bruises are treated from a model rocket explosion.   A thief is trapped high up on a crane after attempting to steal a boat.

Rampart: A thief is on the loose and the female officer is on the case.  

Critique: It looks like no woman can resist Johnny.      B-

Of Note: Sharon Gless's second appearance.

19     Trainee                         2x8      Airdate: 11.11.72

Vitals: Roy and Johnny train a new paramedic who's ego causes tension and close calls.

Rescues: A purse is snatched, a man falls down a cliff, a diabetic, and a prescription overdose.

Critique: Possibly the finest episode, great drama, not from a rescue, but from the character's interactions with each other.      A+

20     Women                         2x9      Airdate:11.25.72

Vitals: A female journalist rides along with the boys and points out their sexist ways, much to Johnny's chagrin.

Rescues: Man trapped in a truck under power lines, 2 victims in a bombed building1, man trapped in a sleeper sofa, a man with his arm in a garbage disposal

Rampart: A girl on drugs.  A boy eats poison hemlock.

Critique: A good idea wasted.  There was no reasoning  why she is so hostile towards the guys, they should have had an incident she witnessed to react that way. Definitely a male writers perspective on the events of that era (E.R.A. get it?).       C

 

21     Dinner Date                 2x10      Airdate:12.2.72

Vitals: The seventies "just say no show". Plus Roy tries to pimp Johnny with his wife’s cousin.

Rescues: A woman with an epileptic fit, a choking boy, a girl with her arm in a pool drain.an overweight man.

Rampart:  A man with tetanus, a woman with gangrene, and a girl who's drugs were laced with sodium Hydroxide.

Critique: The anti-drug theme while a good one is a little too forced. B-

 

Vitals: Chet teases Johnny about his lack of musical ability, forcing Johnny to prove him wrong.

Rescues: A gardener with tetanusa teen overdoses, an ice cream truck is trapped under power lines, a man trapped in a glider, a collapsing house pins a man underneath it.

Rampart: A boy with lead poisoning and a growth disorder with overly stereotypical hick parents afraid of them city docs.

Critique: Very corny.    C-

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Vitals: Roy and Joanne have a fight about spaghetti and Johnny tries to help.

Rescues: A car driven off an off-ramp, A man falls while rescuing his dog off the roof, 2 children are lost in a storm drain as the rains come down. (hmm, I think ER saw this one)

Rampart: A new doctor wears herself thin working 3 jobs.

Critique: Good rescues.     B

 

 

24     Drivers                      2x13      Airdate:1.6.73

Vitals: Johnny's upset over people not giving the right of way to emergency vehicles or knowing how to react in emergencies.

Rescues: A boy stuck in a tree, a college Q.B. has a back injury, a hotel fire with a man having an attack.

Rampart: a doctor friend suffers complications after choking.

Critique: Everything comes full circle.      A-

 

 

25     School Days           2x14      Airdate:1.13.73

Vitals: A trainee is unsure of his abilities.

Rescues: An old man trapped under a bookcase, an ambulance is hit by a car, boy is injured by chemistry experiments, a man is trapped in a car at a salvage yard. Baseball player has a head injury.

Critique: Solid     B+

26     The Professor        2x15      Airdate:2.3.73

Vitals: Roy is chases by a girl while Johnny tries to convoke him he lacks charisma.

Rescues: A man freaks out due to a reaction from prescription drugs.    A suicidal man is rescues from a building ledge, a plane is down and can only be reached by rescue boat.2

Rampart: Bracket must work through the secret service to try to save a patient.

Critique: Mediocre. B-

 

27     Syndrome                  2x16      Airdate: 2.10.73

Vitals: Johnny and Roy fight over whether or not Roy has tonsillitis

Rescues: Kids trapped on top of a large gas container, a women's college lacrosse game turns into a giant fight, a fire in an abandoned hospital. (Chet)

Rampart: An old boyfriend of Dixie's is admitted for an MSG overdose.

Critique:  2 good side stories and good rescues.      A

 

28      Honest                       2x17      Airdate:2.17.73

Vitals: Is honesty the best policy?

Rescues: A spine injury from a diving accident, newlyweds blow up their kitchen in a gas explosion, a house fire with a blind old man and a baby inside.

Rampart: A stressed grad student with psychosomatic symptoms.  A boy with formaldehyde poisoning puzzles doctors for a diagnosis.

Critique: A good story idea carried out through all the rescues, although I doubt even Johnny would have been dense enough to believe honest was always the best policy.     A-

 

39     Seance                        2x18      Airdate:2.24.73

Vitals: A woman is convinced her dead sister is responsible for bad things happening to her house and husband.

Rescues: At the "possessed" house: the woman collapses at a séance, a small fire, and the husband injures his head.  Elsewhere a man is injured and trapped at a warehouse, and a man is trapped underwater in his car.

Rampart: A teen who takes too many tranquilizers.

Critique: Would have been more interesting if the woman was right instead of crazy.   B-

30     Boot                              2x19      Airdate:3.3.73

Vitals: The boys search to find out why Boot (the mascot) becomes listless and refuses food.

Rescues: A car is pinned under a gas tanker truck, a woman keeps having problems in her kitchen including a small fire

Rampart: An explosion and fire at an outside lab.

Critique: Good fire.    B+

Of Note: John drives

31     Rip-Off                          2x20      Airdate:3.10.73

Vitals: Johnny and Roy are accused of stealing a wallet during a rescue.

Rescues: Man with a heart attack, 2 men in a plane leaking an explosive liquid, a pregnant woman gives birth in the ambulance after she and her husband are in a collision.

Critique: The boys being read their rights is priceless.       A