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.

Last Updated: 2/28/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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Episode 105
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#1 - Episode 105

Season 1 - Episode 7 - 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)

Writer: Jean O'Neill
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Episode 104
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#2 - Episode 104

Season 1 - Episode 6 - 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)

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Episode 114
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2 votes

#3 - Episode 114

Season 1 - Episode 16 - 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.)

Writer: Jean O'Neill
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Episode 112
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#4 - Episode 112

Season 1 - Episode 14 - 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)

Directors: Mary Hardwick
Writer: Jean O'Neill
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Episode 110
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#5 - Episode 110

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/7/1989

Funny car explodes (July 22, 1989. Denver, Colorado); Helicopter pilots use infrered device to track burglary suspect (July 18, 1989. Fort Worth, Texas); Teenager on motorcycle falls off cliff (August 16, 1989. Amarillo, Texas); Elderly couple lost at sea (January 19, 1989. Charleston, South Carolina)

Writer: Jean O'Neill
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Episode 106
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#6 - Episode 106

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/10/1989

Writer: Jean O'Neill
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Episode 111
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#7 - Episode 111

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/14/1989

Woman hides from intruders (September. Los Angeles, California); Aerovac documentary-Helicopter picks up victims of a head on collision and a girl kicked in the face by a horse (Phoenix, Arizona); Car accident with downed power lines (July 20, 1989. US Highway 50 in Nevada); Girls lost in the Rocky Mountains (June 10, 1989. Arapahoe, Colorado)

Writer: Jean O'Neill
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Episode 103
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9.00
2 votes

#8 - Episode 103

Season 1 - Episode 5 - 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)

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Episode 213
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9.00
1 votes

#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)

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Special 2
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8.50
6 votes

#10 - Special 2

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/9/1989

Houston cardiac documentary (Houston, Texas); Arsonist plays phone tag with police (January 29, 1989. Houston, Texas); other segments unknown

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Episode 102
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2 votes

#11 - Episode 102

Season 1 - Episode 4 - 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)

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Episode 202
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#12 - 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)

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Episode 101
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#13 - Episode 101

Season 1 - Episode 3 - 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)

Directors: Chris Pechin
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Episode 203
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6.00
1 votes

#14 - 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)

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Episode 204
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#15 - 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)

Directors: Mary Hardwick
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Episode 208
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#16 - Episode 208

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1990

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Episode 305
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1 votes

#17 - Episode 305

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1991

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Pilot
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5.60
5 votes

#18 - Pilot

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/18/1989

Flood waters overturn a bus and forty-three children swept away in flooded river (July 17, 1987. Comfort, Texas); A stabbing victim and a baby injured in a car accident are treated at Ben Taub Trauma Center (Houston, Texas); Family faces armed intruder (December 14, 1988. Arlington, Texas); other segment(s) unknown

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Episode 201
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5.50
2 votes

#19 - 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)

Directors: Mary Hardwick
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Episode 206
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1 votes

#20 - 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)

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Episode 307
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5.00
1 votes

#21 - 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)

Directors: Mary Hardwick
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200 Lives Saved
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#22 - 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)

Directors: Jim Milio
Episode 511
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#23 - Episode 511

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1993

Two women in suburban stranded in flooded river (May 9, 1993. Gainesville, Texas); Girl calls 911 for ailing mother with endometriosis (February 7, 1992. South Bend, Indiana); Boy gets tongue stuck in canteen (June 16, 1993. Union, Maine); A boy who fell from a barn roof is treated at Kosair Children's Hospital (August 13, 1993. Louisville, Kentucky)

Episode 504
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#24 - Episode 504

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1993

Snowmobiler falls through thin ice (December 19, 1992. Minnetrista, Minnesota); Members of the Acadian Air Med service pick up a victim of a speedboat accident and a child burned by hot grease (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Sisters at home alone report intruder (December 22, 1992. Lexington, North Carolina); Firefighter has heart attack (July 26, 1991. Kilgore, Texas)

Episode 512
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#25 - Episode 512

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1993

Girls, after dialing the wrong number, call an elderly man with chest pains during Christmas; Farmer/Doctor has a hay bail fall on him; Child accidentally starts Chirstmas tree fire; Intruder gets stuck in the chimney (January 4, 1993. Oceanside, California)