The show ran six seasons (129 episodes) with seven two-hour television movie specials including a pilot film, "The Wedsworth-Townsend Act". and averaged 30 million viewers each week. Tighe directed four episodes of "Emergency!": "Gossip" (1974), "Inventions" (1974), Equipment (1975), and "Fair Fight" (1977). and wrote one episode for the show, "Up all Night" (1977). Tighe and Mantooth did many of their own stunts in the early years of the show. Mantooth has been quoted as saying, "If you could see our faces, it was us doing the stunts, if you couldn't, it was our stunt double."