The BEST episodes written by John Groves

Paperwork
star
8.50
14 votes

#1 - Paperwork

Emergency! - Season 6 - Episode 11

Chet and Marco are drafted to sort out a filing dilemma caused by computer error. A kid falls in a storm drain and nearly drowns. The paramedics experience problems with a new supply nurse. A janitor drinks samples of an archeologists' Mesopotamian wine. The firemen respond to a warehouse fire.

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Breakdown
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8.44
16 votes

#2 - Breakdown

Emergency! - Season 6 - Episode 15

A sporadic electrical short plagues the squad but Roy and John are convinced they can fix it. A back-to-nature couple is ordered to cut back on their shrubbery; the wife is discovered to have a variant of anthrax. The paramedics rescue a man trapped at the top of a tower.

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Isolation
star
8.12
15 votes

#3 - Isolation

Emergency! - Season 6 - Episode 20

Roy and John are trapped at Station 86 when a rain storm washes out the bridge, and they become the only medical treatment in the area. They assist two victims of an auto accident and a child with bronchitis. Doctors at the hospital treat a policeman hit by lightning. With the aid of a female psychiatrist, the paramedics treat an elderly woman with a hip injury and a man with heart trouble. Copter 15 transports the victims to the hospital, where a power failure complicates matters. Dr. Morton accompanies the paramedics back to Station 86, where they respond to an auto accident with multiple injuries.

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Deathwatch
star
8.04
26 votes

#4 - Deathwatch

The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 15

Two fishermen (Colasanto and Caruso) decide to keep quiet after witnessing a human smuggling ring.

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Inventions
star
7.95
21 votes

#5 - Inventions

Emergency! - Season 3 - Episode 22

The firemen enter a contest to invent new firefighting tools. The paramedics handle victims of possible radiation poisoning. A comatose man is suffering from a mysterious ailment. A woman’s overweight son is wedged in her living room ceiling. The firemen respond to a leak at a chemical plant.

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The Tycoons
star
7.94
14 votes

#6 - The Tycoons

Emergency! - Season 5 - Episode 21

Johnny's got another of his brilliant ideas - he wants Station 51 to buy a nearby hot dog stand. Roy, as usual, is the wet blanket - but this time his caution pays off. The paramedics help a man injured while mowing his lawn and rescue the victims of a fire at a chemical factory.

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Daisy's Pick
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7.88
16 votes

#7 - Daisy's Pick

Emergency! - Season 4 - Episode 7

The bachelor members of Station 51 are in competition for first date with the beautiful new nurse at Rampart. The station rescues a man frozen to the floor of an ice house and a man from a theatre fire. Roy and Johnny help a man whose hands are glued to a model boat.

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Transition
star
7.87
15 votes

#8 - Transition

Emergency! - Season 4 - Episode 15

A high school classmate of John's is assigned as Squad 51's new paramedic trainee. The firemen rescue a man trapped in his kitchen after a hydrogen sulfide explosion. The paramedics help treat accident victims at the hospital and tend to child at an amusement park. When an intoxicated man turns out to be a snakebite victim, Roy is hit in the eyes with cobra venom. Back at the amusement park, a heart attack victim is trapped high in the air.

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Involvement
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7.81
16 votes

#9 - Involvement

Emergency! - Season 5 - Episode 17

Millie Eastman, once head nurse at Rampart but not retired, attempts suicide and finds herself at the hospital she once served. A paraplegic child nearly drowns in a swimming pool. At the hospital, she and Millie form a bond. The paramedics also help a family poisoned by carbon monoxide, a woman wrapped in plastic and a man pinned under a fuel tanker.

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I'll Fix It
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7.75
24 votes

#10 - I'll Fix It

Emergency! - Season 4 - Episode 2

Johnny and Chet try to fix a boy's motorbike. A woman's husband is trapped under their house where an inactive oil well has erupted. Johnny and Roy must remove a ring from a man's finger before the wife's jealous husband returns. A child is trapped in a pipe.

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Back-Up
star
7.73
15 votes

#11 - Back-Up

Emergency! - Season 4 - Episode 21

A young OD victim is brought into the ER. A man fakes back pain to get a free ride to the hospital. John gets peeved at all the frivolous calls the squad goes on while real emergency victims need help. A man is shocked after kicking in his TV screen. The ambulance carrying the paramedics and a heart attack victim is involved in a traffic accident.

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Tee Vee
star
7.71
16 votes

#12 - Tee Vee

Emergency! - Season 5 - Episode 11

Johnny and Chet manage to destroy the station's television, irking the other firefighters. Paramedics rescue a man from a manhole fire. At Rampart, Dr. Morton helps a man with a bleeding ulcer, while Dr. Brackett goes from physician to patient when he has a bad reaction to a catfish bite. A man carelessly glues his own eyes shut, and a mudslide traps Johnny and Roy with the man they came to rescue.

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The Firehouse Four
star
7.57
14 votes

#13 - The Firehouse Four

Emergency! - Season 4 - Episode 11

The station (sans Roy) enters the fireman's barber shop quartet contest. A man keeps having to be rescued while trying various ways to exercise. A woman overdoses on sleeping pills.

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Terminal Rock
star
7.50
2 votes

#14 - Terminal Rock

War of the Worlds - Season 2 - Episode 4

Rock and roll ruins young minds...especially when the aliens are involved. Loner Kincaid and newly-adolescent Debi experience growing pains while the team tries to deal with a new, dangerous kind of music.

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Election
star
7.39
22 votes

#15 - Election

Emergency! - Season 5 - Episode 3

A construction worker trapped on a crane forces a perilous high rescue. A man finds himself trapped in an appliance drain, and his brother has an entirely different emergency. A sculptor cannot free her model from a full-body plaster mold. And Roy and Johnny stand for an election.

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Hustle
star
7.31
87 votes

#16 - Hustle

CHiPs - Season 1 - Episode 9

A leather-clad duo on dirtbikes heists cash from area supermarkets; an eccentric defendant from traffic court vows to demonstrate that Ponch is incompetent.

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