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Rescue 911

Season 1 1989 - 1990
TV-PG

  • 1989-04-19T00:00:00Z on CBS
  • 1h
  • 1d 8h (32 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama, Documentary
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 9-1-1. 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 these 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. At its height, the show was adapted in 45 countries.

32 episodes

Series Premiere

1989-04-19T00:00:00Z

1x01 Pilot

Series Premiere

1x01 Pilot

  • 1989-04-19T00:00:00Z1h

Flood waters overturn a bus and forty-three children swept away in flooded river (July 17, 1987. Comfort, Texas); A stabbing victim and a baby injured in a car accident are treated at Ben Taub Trauma Center (Houston, Texas); Family faces armed intruder (December 14, 1988. Arlington, Texas); other segment(s) unknown

1989-05-10T00:00:00Z

1x02 Special 2

1x02 Special 2

  • 1989-05-10T00:00:00Z1h

Houston cardiac documentary (Houston, Texas); Arsonist plays phone tag with police (January 29, 1989. Houston, Texas); other segments unknown

1989-09-06T00:00:00Z

1x03 Episode 101

1x03 Episode 101

  • 1989-09-06T00:00:00Z1h

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)

1989-09-13T00:00:00Z

1x04 Episode 102

1x04 Episode 102

  • 1989-09-13T00:00:00Z1h

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)

1989-09-20T00:00:00Z

1x05 Episode 103

1x05 Episode 103

  • 1989-09-20T00:00:00Z1h

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)

1989-09-27T00:00:00Z

1x06 Episode 104

1x06 Episode 104

  • 1989-09-27T00:00:00Z1h

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)

1989-10-04T00:00:00Z

1x07 Episode 105

1x07 Episode 105

  • 1989-10-04T00:00:00Z1h

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)

1989-10-11T00:00:00Z

1x08 Episode 106

1x08 Episode 106

  • 1989-10-11T00:00:00Z1h

1989-10-18T00:00:00Z

1x09 Episode 107

1x09 Episode 107

  • 1989-10-18T00:00:00Z1h

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)

1989-10-21T00:00:00Z

1x10 Episode 108

1x10 Episode 108

  • 1989-10-21T00:00:00Z1h

1989-10-28T00:00:00Z

1x11 Episode 109

1x11 Episode 109

  • 1989-10-28T00:00:00Z1h

1989-11-08T01:00:00Z

1x12 Episode 110

1x12 Episode 110

  • 1989-11-08T01:00:00Z1h

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)

1989-11-15T01:00:00Z

1x13 Episode 111

1x13 Episode 111

  • 1989-11-15T01:00:00Z1h

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)

1989-11-29T01:00:00Z

1x14 Episode 112

1x14 Episode 112

  • 1989-11-29T01:00:00Z1h

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)

1989-12-13T01:00:00Z

1x15 Episode 113

1x15 Episode 113

  • 1989-12-13T01:00:00Z1h

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)

1989-12-20T01:00:00Z

1x16 Episode 114

1x16 Episode 114

  • 1989-12-20T01:00:00Z1h

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.)

1990-01-03T01:00:00Z

1x17 Episode 115

1x17 Episode 115

  • 1990-01-03T01:00:00Z1h

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

1990-01-10T01:00:00Z

1x18 Episode 116

1x18 Episode 116

  • 1990-01-10T01:00:00Z1h

1990-01-20T01:00:00Z

1x19 Episode 117

1x19 Episode 117

  • 1990-01-20T01:00:00Z1h

1990-01-27T01:00:00Z

1x20 Episode 118

1x20 Episode 118

  • 1990-01-27T01:00:00Z1h

1990-02-09T01:00:00Z

1x21 Episode 119

1x21 Episode 119

  • 1990-02-09T01:00:00Z1h

1990-02-28T01:00:00Z

1x22 Episode 120

1x22 Episode 120

  • 1990-02-28T01:00:00Z1h

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)

1990-03-01T01:00:00Z

1x23 Episode 121

1x23 Episode 121

  • 1990-03-01T01:00:00Z1h

1990-03-11T01:00:00Z

1x24 Episode 122

1x24 Episode 122

  • 1990-03-11T01:00:00Z1h

1990-03-18T01:00:00Z

1x25 Episode 123

1x25 Episode 123

  • 1990-03-18T01:00:00Z1h

1990-03-28T01:00:00Z

1x26 Episode 124

1x26 Episode 124

  • 1990-03-28T01:00:00Z1h

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)

1990-04-04T00:00:00Z

1x27 Episode 125

1x27 Episode 125

  • 1990-04-04T00:00:00Z1h

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)

1990-04-11T00:00:00Z

1x28 Episode 126

1x28 Episode 126

  • 1990-04-11T00:00:00Z1h

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)

1990-04-24T00:00:00Z

1x29 Episode 127

1x29 Episode 127

  • 1990-04-24T00:00:00Z1h

1990-04-29T00:00:00Z

1x30 Episode 128

1x30 Episode 128

  • 1990-04-29T00:00:00Z1h

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

Season Finale

1990-05-16T00:00:00Z

1x32 Episode 130

Season Finale

1x32 Episode 130

  • 1990-05-16T00:00:00Z1h

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)

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