Emergency!/The Nuisance

The Nuisance
Season 5, Episode 22
Airdate	March 6, 1976
Production Number	42824
Written by	Robert Hamilton
Directed by	Randolph Mantooth
Produced by	Edwin Self
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Emergency! — Season Five

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The Nuisance is the twenty-second episode of the fifth season of Emergency!, and the ninety-ninth episode overall.

Starring: Robert Fuller (Kelly Brackett, M.D., F.A.C.S.) (credit only), Julie London (Dixie McCall, R.N.), Bobby Troup (Joe Early, M.D., F.A.C.S.), Randolph Mantooth (Firefighter John Gage), Kevin Tighe (Firefighter Roy DeSoto)

Guest Stars: Gretchen Corbett (Mary Lynn Smith), Carole Cook (Nurse)

Special Guest Star: James G. Richardson (Craig Brice)

Co-Starring: Joan Shawlee (Heather), Coleen Gray (Clair Brightweiser), Joseph Perry (Mike)

with Tim Donnelly (Firefighter Kelly), Michael Norell (Capt. Stanley), Marco Lopez (Firefighter Lopez), Mike Stoker (Firefighter Specialist Stoker), Ron Pinkard (Dr. Morton)

Uncredited: Matthew "Stymie" Beard (Bar Owner)

Plot Overview

After Station 51 responds to a call of a non-responsive customer at a bar, Gage gets hit by a hit-and-run driver and is taken to Rampart Hospital, where he flirts with a physical therapist that Dixie assigns to him, but he gets stymied by a no-nonsense nurse. With Gage temporarily out of commission, DeSoto gets a substitute partner, by-the-book paramedic Craig Brice, who ends up clashing with DeSoto over treatment methods in the field after a patient with chest pains being treated by DeSoto and Brice suffers a panic attack and aggravates his condition when Brice mentions that the man may be in the early stages of a heart attack. At Rampart afterward, Brice justifies his earlier actions matter-of-factly, but DeSoto pulls rank and points out that what he did was the wrong thing to do under the circumstances. Later, Station 51 is one of several stations called to a warehouse fire (which Gage watches live in a TV news bulletin with the therapist), during which DeSoto and Marco are injured but Brice ironically escapes unscathed. New Rampart patients DeSoto and Marco are visited in their shared room by Gage, but then end up meeting the same stern nurse who gave Gage fits earlier.

Trivia

The Show

• This was the only episode of Emergency! in the show's syndication package recently airing on MeTV (until a new batch of digitally remastered prints of the show's episodes began airing on MeTV, beginning with "Dilemma" on October 6, 2014) which airs as it originally did when it first aired on NBC (including its original opening credit sequence), as this version of the episode as aired on MeTV is a digitally remastered print. Until the release of the new episode prints, all other MeTV-aired episodes of Emergency! were older syndicated film prints, which feature the show's sixth-season opening credit sequence with its revised theme music (including radio voice-overs of the show's cast), which has been used for all episodes of the series in syndication until recently (as opposed to the DVD box set releases of the show, which have restored each season's original opening credits via digital remastering)