
The dedicated members of Squad 51 of the Los Angeles County Fire Department's newly created Paramedical Rescue Service take on a series of life-or-death challenges in this drama filmed in semi-documentary style. Partners John Gage and Roy DeSoto put their lives on the line to save people from all sorts of mishaps.

Gage annoys the squad with his attempts to snap a candid photo; Brackett and McCall deliver a baby in a restaurant; guest Ron Masak.

A pregnant prison inmate in the San Francisco rescue unit goes into labor as the paramedics try to help a sniper victim.

A man's disastrous attempts at exercise repeatedly disrupt the paramedics' barbershop-quartet rehearsals; guest Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

A dog-bite case sheds a new light on Gage's current love interest; an aging stripper collapses in a nightclub; guest Erik Estrada.