Rescue 911
Season 1
TV-PG
In this early example of police-based reality TV hosted by William Shatner, we are treated to reenactments of real-life 911 rescues. Recordings of the actual calls, interspersed with interviews with the paramedics and other rescue workers, provide a vivid look at the life-or-death dramas that occur every day.
Where to Watch Season 1
30 Episodes
- Episode 101E1
Episode 101Boy 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 102E2
Episode 102Construction 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 103E3
Episode 103High 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 104E4
Episode 104Bystander 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 105E5
Episode 105Toddler 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 107E7
Episode 107Spelunker 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 108E8
Episode 108A 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). - Episode 109E9
Episode 109A boy accidentally shoots his friend's sister with a rifle (August 1, 1989 - Indianapolis, Indiana); Former NFL player Jerry Anderson dies while saving a boy from drowning (May 27, 1989 Murfreesboro, Tennessee); A 16-year-old boy home sick from school helps the woman living above him rescue her two small children when the apartment catches fire (October 26, 1987 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania). - Episode 110E10
Episode 110Funny 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 111E11
Episode 111Woman 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 112E12
Episode 112Woman 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 113E13
Episode 113Woman 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 114E14
Episode 114Seattle 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 116E16
Episode 116"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. - Episode 117E17
Episode 117"Blind Hero" (December 31, 1987 Novato, California) A blind man helps evacuate his neighbors when his apartment catches fire; "Runaway Garbage Truck" (August 4, 1989 Frankfort, Kentucky) When a garbage truck being towed breaks loose and falls, it crushes 3 occupied cars, belonging to a 17-year-old girl, a middle-aged couple, and a state trooper's family; "Motel Hostage" (September 13, 1989 Richmond, Virginia) A Red Roof Inn is robbed by two thieves, and one of the suspects takes the clerk hostage. - Episode 118E18
Episode 118"Hugo I" (September 21, 1989 Charleston, South Carolina) A radio tower falls on an occupied house during Hurricane Hugo, and an elderly woman is buried alive in the rubble; "Woman Car Rescue" (June 10, 1988 Northern California) A major crash on Highway 4 leaves a man trapped in a burning car and a woman is the only one willing to save him. "Maryland Med" (July 28, 1989 Baltimore, Maryland) A young man paralyzed by diving into shallow water is treated at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. - Episode 119E19
Episode 119"Resurrection Rescue" (August 30, 1988 Washington, D.C.) Firefighters revive children pulled from their grandmother's burning house, but some of the children die; "Runaway Boxcars" (October 3, 1985 Northville, Michigan) Two runaway boxcars push an elderly couple's car down train tracks and a cop risks his life trying to stop them, but the wife is killed. "Kidnapped Kids" (April 16, 1989 Tyler, Texas) A boy sees his friend get kidnapped while walking together, and immediately runs home and has the friend's family and other friends call for help. "Supermarket Hero" (April 19, 1989 Stafford, Virginia) A Giant Food employee is injured while preventing a pregnant woman from getting hit after a toddler puts her grandfather's car in gear. - Episode 124E24
Episode 124Intruder 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 125E25
Episode 125Elderly 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 126E26
Episode 126Parrot 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 129 (Best of Season One)E29
Episode 129 (Best of Season One)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
