Emergency! (1972) Season 5 Episode 20 - The Great Crash Diet

Airdate: 1976-Feb-21

Episode summary:

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.

About Emergency! (1972) series:

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