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Rescue 911

Rescue 911

1989 - 1996

Episode 101

5th September 1989
Episode 1
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)

Episode 102

12th September 1989
Episode 2
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)

Episode 103

19th September 1989
Episode 3
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)

Episode 104

26th September 1989
Episode 4
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)

Episode 105

3rd October 1989
Episode 5
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)

Episode 106

10th October 1989
Episode 6
No overview available.

Episode 107

17th October 1989
Episode 7
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)

Episode 108

20th October 1989
Episode 8
No overview available.

Episode 109

27th October 1989
Episode 9
No overview available.

Episode 110

7th November 1989
Episode 10
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)

Episode 111

14th November 1989
Episode 11
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)

Episode 112

28th November 1989
Episode 12
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)

Episode 113

12th December 1989
Episode 13
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)

Episode 114

19th December 1989
Episode 14
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.)

Episode 115

2nd January 1990
Episode 15
Dynamite explodes in construction worker's hand (August 17, 1989. Western Washington); Ex-convicts rob a winery (September 1988. Brookfield/New Milford, Connecticut)

Episode 116

9th January 1990
Episode 16
No overview available.

Episode 117

19th January 1990
Episode 17
No overview available.

Episode 118

26th January 1990
Episode 18
No overview available.

Episode 119

8th February 1990
Episode 19
No overview available.

Episode 120

27th February 1990
Episode 20
Fighter pilot crashes into runway at air show (April 24, 1988. El Toro, California); Documentary of the Charles Stuart murder case (October 23, 1989. Boston, Massachusetts); Man has heart attack while driving car (February 14, 1989. Jackson, Mississippi)

Episode 121

28th February 1990
Episode 21
No overview available.

Episode 122

10th March 1990
Episode 22
No overview available.

Episode 123

17th March 1990
Episode 23
No overview available.

Episode 124

27th March 1990
Episode 24
Intruder in a deaf mother's house (October 25, 1989. Chattanooga,Tennessee); Lumberjack pinned between logs (August 10, 1989. Bellingham, Washington); Racer trapped in submerged speedboat (August 12, 1989. St. Louis, Missouri); Documentary of a New Orleans police officer (New Orleans, Louisiana)

Episode 125

3rd April 1990
Episode 25
Elderly man shot outside his home (October 24, 1989. Taft, Florida); Toddler drowns in pool (September 24, 1989. Claremont, California); Climbers stranded on Mt. Whitney (July 25, 1987. Mount Whitney); Paramedics pick up elderly women involved in a car accident and a man stabbed with a barbecue fork (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

Episode 126

10th April 1990
Episode 26
Parrot alerts sleeping family of gas leak (September 23, 1983. East Boston, Massachusetts); Boy's clothes catch fire (October 30, 1988. Pasadena, Texas); Fishing boat sinks, leaving three men adrift at sea (October 16, 1989. Bradenton, Florida); Paramedics from Denver General Hospital pick up victims involved in a drunk driving accident (October 15, 1989. Denver, Colorado)

Episode 127

23rd April 1990
Episode 27
No overview available.

Episode 128

28th April 1990
Episode 28
No overview available.

Episode 129 (Best of Season One)

8th May 1990
Episode 29
This special episode re-aired some the first season's best stories: Police officer stops runaway boxcars pushing automobile down train tracks (October 3, 1985. Northville, Michigan); Husband must deliver wife's baby (September 3, 1989. Huntington Beach, California); Woman pulls man from burning car (June 10, 1988. Northern California); 4-year-old boy calls 911 when his mother chokes on a cough drop (October 10, 1989. Van Nuys, California) Other stories briefly highlighted in this episode: The flooding of the Guadalupe River; Construction works trapped upside down in a collapsed cherry picker; A firefighter who saved a boy from a flooded arroyo; A woman who was stabbed by an intruder; A woman trapped in her smoke-filled house; A boy who called 911 when his sister was accidentally shot; A boy who preformed the Heimlich maneuver on his choking brother; A family's encounter with an armed intruder

Episode 130

15th May 1990
Episode 30
Girl accidentally stabs brother (December 1989. Atlanta, Georgia); Prisoners escape by taking four paramedics and prison personnel hostage (April 13, 1988. Nashville, Tennessee); Girl run over by school bus (November 28, 1989. Smyrna, Delaware)
Top Cast
Director
Mary Hardwick
Writer
Paula Deats
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Rescue 911 is an informational reality-based television series that premiered on April 18, 1989 and ended on August 27, 1996. The series was hosted by William Shatner and featured reenactments of emergency situations that often involved calls to 911. Though never intended as a teaching tool, various viewers used the knowledge they obtained watching the show. Two specials, titled "100 Lives Saved" and "200 Lives Saved," were dedicated to viewers who had written to CBS with their stories on how the knowledge they obtained watching the show allowed them to save the life of someone else. At least 350 lives have been saved as a result of what viewers learned from watching it. The show's popularity coincided with the widespread adoption of the 911 emergency system, replacing standalone police and fire numbers that would vary from municipality to municipality. The number is now universally understood in the United States and Canada to be the number dialed for emergency assistance nationwide.

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