The WORST episodes of Nightwatch
Every episode of Nightwatch ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Nightwatch!
Follow the men and women who keep the citizens of New Orleans safe during the night. Ride along with the police officers, the firefighters, and the paramedics as they tackle the evils of the night.
#1 - Heartbeat of the City
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/22/2021
EMS first responders keep their cool and maintain their spirits as they face a series of challenges across New Orleans, including a shooting and stabbing victim and a woman whose slot machine experience takes a bizarre turn.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Drama Calls
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/17/2021
The team faces a slew of dramatic nightshift calls including a pregnant woman who has been assaulted, a 4-year-old boy with abdominal pain, a gunshot victim, and a potentially devastating car accident involving the St. Charles trolley.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Cold Hands, Warm Hearts
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/27/2021
New Orleans first responders battle freezing temperatures as they treat a driver trapped after a serious car accident, a man hit by a streetcar, a delirious patient who doesn't want to part with his dog, and a woman with a surprisingly poignant backstory.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - Heart and Soul
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/20/2021
An EMS captain juggles the challenges and rewards of being a wife and mother of twins with the never-ending drama of the job, as the night shift includes a bloody car accident, a major apartment fire, and multiple victims struggling to breathe.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - A Light in the Darkness
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/15/2021
With Covid-19 raging across the city, the New Orleans EMS responders face a series of crises that include a vehicle rollover from a police pursuit, a victim with close-range gunshot wounds, and a race to save a woman in respiratory distress.
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#16 - Life on the Line
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/9/2017
In the premiere Tampa episode, we meet the brave members of the police and fire rescue departments that risk their lives every night patrolling the city to protect its residents. Police officers Robb and Bethany find themselves in an armed standoff with a suspect who has been holed up in an apartment complex. And fire rescue team Mayville and Stokes must put out a trailer fire that threatens to incinerate the rest of the residential park.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - The End is Just the Beginning
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/2/2017
Each and every call on the Nightwatch can go in one of two directions. But, when calls come from every direction, the New Orleans EMTs rely on skill, experience and luck to save their patients. From gunshot victims to seizures or a moped rider playing Pokemon Go, they see everything on one more busy night before they can celebrate the end of the summer.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - Brotherhood
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/26/2017
As anyone in New Orleans could tell you, when times are tough, family and friends are more important than anything in the world. Those bonds shine when the brother of a paramedic gets sucker punched and a pair of best friends are both in an accident. After one of the newer members of the Nightwatch comforts a suicidal patient, he reflects on the bonds he's forged in his first year in New Orleans.
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#20 - Family Matters
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/4/2023
The NOEMS first responders treat children across the city, from kids involved in a car accident to a one-year-old having a seizure, and find themselves touched by the connection they feel to their youngest and most vulnerable patients.
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#25 - Down (But Not Out)
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/13/2023
The New Orleans EMS crew reaches out to lend a hand to some down-and-out citizens, including a homeless man fighting an uphill battle on multiple fronts, a man having a panic attack, and multiple shooting victims in the streets.
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