Emergency! (TV Series) Peace Pipe (1972) User Reviews

Favorite Scene

[bigden1962 · 8/10 · 30 August 2019]

Love the scene where Gage is hi in the face with the Girdle so funny, and this has a running plot in it the Drug Box getting left behind

So, what are you smoking in that peace pipe?

[LA-Lawyer · 9/10 · 21 November 2013]

This was an average episode of an extraordinary show; but contrary to some goofy/inane perceptions herein offered, the first action in the episode pertained to Little Debbie versus The Drunk and not heredity or singularity. REVIEWERS, kindly get your facts in order before you seek to opine. Certainly, there was the usual mindless "firehouse chatter" between the guys; all regular viewers know Chet for a harmless, charmless, brainless wonder (our friends across the Atlantic call this type of person a "prat.") And, we definitely know cute and winsome Johnny Gage is no mental giant, himself. Later the guys leave their TV movie at the firehouse to view other features, such as "The Young, The Old & The Ugly Gumball Machine" and "Fat Chick Versus The Girdle". But the episode ends with happy tears over healed wounds and a psycho with a loaded firearm ... a typical day at Rampart.

Somehow, An Outstanding Episode

[richard.fuller1 · 10/10 · 20 September 2012]

Apparently this is the episode that begins with Johnny's explanation of manipulating an inquiry about his being a native American to his own advantage. Clearly Randolph Mantooth offered this information for real, as no one would have been able to conceive the dialogue he spoke.

This then gives way to a very tragic auto accident in which a drunk has run into a parked automobile with a young girl inside. As they search in vain in the darkness to find her, they finally spy with the flashlight a small sneakered foot sticking ouf of the debris.

This episode then further offers a hilarious bit with Ken Lynch (best known today for Star Trek ep Devil in the Dark, as well as a disagreeable agent on an early Andy Griffith) and a scene-stealing Richard S. Steele (8 time emmy winner for sound editing, shame he got out of acting) as a kid with his finger stuck in a gumball machine. Lynch and Steele (how are those for names?) are not fond of one another.

Further standouts in the episode is a woman (I always thought was Kaye Ballard guesting) who is stuck in a very tight girdle. Johnny has to cut it off of her, and it pops him in the face in the process.

With Brooke Bundy and Kip Niven as the little girl's parents, she from the car crash at the beginning, somehow this episode has always emerged as a bit of a standout.

I really didn't know all these stories were in this one episode.

Several interesting stars

[carollynnmcmath · 23 October 2020]

The episode starts with a drunk driver Who turns out to be played by William Campbell perhaps well known for playing one of the 3 Recurring Klingon characters (Koloth) and Trelaine in " the Squire of Gothos" episode on Star Trek.