Emergency! (1972) Season 2 Episode 5 - Peace Pipe

Airdate: 1972-Oct-14

Episode summary:

A drunk driver rams into a car, trapping a little girl inside, and the doctors are concerned the girl may have brain damage, which leads Dixie (before Dr. Brackett), into explaining her parents about that disability, as well as paralysis, if surgery is successful. Firefighter Chester B. "Chet" Kelly pesters John about his Native American Heritage. The paramedics have to rescue a man on a scaffold while a sniper is pinning them down. Other rescues include a boy getting his hand stuck in a gumball machine, a woman whose extremely tight girdle is causing breathing problems, and a fire caused by a workman mixing fuel into water lines.

About Emergency! (1972) series:

Filmed in a semi-documentary style, Squad 51 takes on life-or-death challenges.