The BEST episodes of Rescue 911
Every episode of Rescue 911 ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rescue 911!
Rescue 911 was a reality show hosted by William Shatner. The show consisted of re-enactments of emergency situations and documentaries of hospitals, police, and firefighters. The show ran for seven seasons on CBS from 1989 to 1996.
#1 - Episode 107
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/1989
Spelunker trapped in flooded cave (July 1, 1985. Spring Mill State Park, Indiana); San Francisco neonatal hospital documentary (March 1989. San Francisco, California); A family is robbed at home (February 12, 1989. San Dimas, California); Apartment Fire (San Francisco, California); Girl is accosted by a child molester outside a bowling alley (April 30, 1988. Hayward, California)
#3 - Episode 116
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/9/1990
"Chemistry Hero" (January 31, 1989 Durham, North Carolina) A chemistry student accidentally creates an explosive compound, and his teacher fails to rush the smoking beaker out of the building before it explodes in his face; "De-Fib Phone" (June 25, 1989 St. Louis, Missouri) An ER nurse helps a man use a home defibrillator for the first time ever when the man's wife has a massive heart attack while waiting for a transplant; "Amtrak" (January 4, 1987 Chase, Maryland) An Amtrak passenger train crashes into three Conrail locomotives.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Episode 114
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/19/1989
Seattle Cop Shooting: Police officer is shot, good samaritans aid in the chase (May 15, 1989. Seattle, Washington); Carbon Monoxide Save: elderly couple are overcome by Carbon Monoxide fumes (November 6, 1988. Skokie, Illinois); Santa Catalina Rescue: a scuba diver surfaces too fast, needing in the hypobaric chamber (May 14, 1989. Santa Catalina Island, California); Baby Toss: A woman must toss eight babies from her top floor burning apartment (February 9, 1989. Washington, D.C.)
#5 - Episode 112
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1989
Woman outsmarts her assailant (May 5, 1989. Tucson, Arizona); Dispatcher's husband has heart attack (July 1, 1989. Kingwood, Texas); Cocaine user hijacks ambulance and takes four paramedics hostage (October 18, 1985. West Windsor, New Jersey); Husband must deliver wife's baby (September 3, 1989. Huntington Beach, California)
#6 - Episode 108
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/20/1989
A toddler falls into a feed chute and suffocates (South Franklin Township, Pennsylvania); Following a high-speed chase and foot pursuit, an officer gets stuck in a swamp (Baltimore, Maryland); A woman is trapped in her burning house (December 1986, Olympia, Washington); Ride-along with a Miami undercover cop (Miami, Florida).
#7 - Episode 113
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/1989
Woman shot by mentally ill brother (July 20, 1989. Dallas, Texas); New Years Eve fire at a Puerto Rico hotel (December 31, 1986. San Juan, Puerto Rico); Boy performs Heimlich maneuver on choking bother (April 24, 1989. Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Rescuers search for missing girl (July 31, 1987. Chesterfield, Virginia)
#8 - Episode 105
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1989
Toddler falls into narrow hole (April 24, 1986. Colts Neck, New Jersey); Helicopter pilot attempts to locate a kidney recipient before the donor kidney expires (March 25, 1989. Glamis, California); Children burned in propane explosion (June 21, 1988. Ellicott, Colorado); Accident sends trucker plummeting over a 40 foot bridge and into a swamp (August 11, 1988. Atchafalaya Swamp, Louisiana)
#9 - Episode 213
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/18/1990
Logger's find abandonned newborn baby (December 7, 1989. Klamath Falls, Oregon); Dog being strangled by phone cord calls 911 (July 19, 1990. Ridgecrest, California); Chief firefighter suffers a heart attack (May 21, 1990. New Canaan, Connecticut); Man in Santa suit saves choking boy (December 13, 1988. Phoenix, Arizona)
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - Episode 102
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1989
Construction workers trapped upside-down in collapsed cherry picker; Mother must perform CPR on her baby (May 16, 1988. Xenia, Ohio); Toddlers play on tracks as train approaches (May 1, 1989. Ramsey, New Jersey); Teenage car accident victim is treated at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center (Baltimore, Maryland); Teen touches power line with pool pole (May 27, 1989. Houston, Texas)
#12 - Episode 104
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1989
Bystander attempts to rescue two women trapped in a submerged car (Elkhart, Indiana); Woman stabbed by intruder (October 16, 1988. Lansing, Michigan); Rafter caught in dam's undertow (May 24, 1989. Hamilton, Ohio); Documentary of three patients awaiting organ transplants at Presbyterian-University Hospital (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Girl swept down storm drain (June 26, 1989. Houston, Texas)
#13 - Episode 202
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1990
Divers trapped in underwater cave (May 19, 1990. Gainsville, Florida); Man shot over seven times (January 17, 1989. Fresno, California); Heart transplant on a newborn baby (1987. Vancouver, Canada/Loma Linda, California)
#14 - Episode 101
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/1989
Boy swept away in flooded arroyo (June 10, 1988. Albuquerque, New Mexico); Skydiver is knocked unconscious (April 18, 1987. Coolidge, Arizona); Robber takes grocery store employee hostage (August 1, 1987. Elkhart, Indiana); Documentary of New York City firefighters (July 4. New York, New York); Seven-Year-Old girl helps deliver her mother's baby (May 16, 1989. Bartow County, Georgia)
#15 - Episode 103
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1989
High school football player goes into cardiac arrest (November 7, 1986. Springdale, Arkansas); Helicopter rescue of a hiker who fell from a cliff (July 1, 1989. Los Angeles, California); Prospector trapped underwater by boulder (Red River, California); Plane with stuck landing gear (March 12, 1985. St. Augustine, Florida); Burglar trapped in glass store calls 9-1-1 (May 19, 1989. Los Angeles, California)
#16 - Episode 203
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1990
Magician falls forty feet from burning rope (September 22, 1989. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Woman shot by ex-husband (June 16, 1989. El Cajon, California); Girl dangles from ski lift (January 1990. Ogden, Utah); Electrocuted Bear (August 14, 1989. Albuquerque, New Mexico)
#17 - Episode 204
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1990
Woman trapped in burning car (April 26, 1990. Osage City, Kansas); Man holds his four-year-old son hostage (May 10, 1990. Tampa, Florida); Boys struck by lightning (July 24, 1987. Gulfport, Mississippi); Woman at home alone pinned against wall by sofa screams for help (February 11, 1990. Beaverton, Oregon)
#19 - Episode 305
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1991
#20 - Episode 201
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1990
Peeping Tom in apartment complex (October 9, 1986. Gainsville, Florida); Girl saves sister from fire (November 29, 1989. Dallas, Texas)
#21 - Episode 610
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/22/1994
Boys buried in avalanche (February 15, 1993. Deerfield, New York); Cat trapped in air vent (April 1994. Bowie, Maryland); Girl pinned under pickup truck (August 8, 1994. Hammond, Indiana); Woman returns home and discovers an intruder (July 11, 1994. Lafayette, California)
#22 - Episode 206
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1990
Elderly woman goes into shock after being bitten by a black widow spider (June 2, 1990. Las Vegas, Nevada); Father and children trapped in burning trailer (November 19, 1988); Man with car phone tails bank robber (April 11, 1990. Miami, Florida); Child drowns while fishing in a pond (April 29, 1990. Rushville, Indiana)
#23 - Episode 307
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1991
Boy falls through ice on frozen lake (December 20, 1990. Englewood, Colorado); Robbers stab video-store owner (July 11, 1988. Bedford, Indiana); Neo-natal documentary (Cincinnati, Ohio)
#24 - Episode 520
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/22/1994
Man unconscious in burning house (December 13, 1992. Rogers, Arkansas); Four-year-old boy chokes on peas (August 23, 1993. Calgary, Alberta, Canada); Water truck runs over boy on rollerblades (July 20, 1992. Corona, California); Teenager collapses after inhaling butane (April 11, 1992. Tulsa, Oklahoma)
#25 - 200 Lives Saved
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1993
Christmas tree catches fire, trapping family in basement (December 20, 1992. Dover-Foxcroft, Maine); Toddler impaled through throat with toothbrush (January 12, 1993. Germantown, Maryland); Girl stops runaway car when her mother collapses at the wheel (July 1, 1993. Sacramento, California); First grader saves his friend who chokes on candy (February 22, 1993. Arcola, Mississippi)