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EMERGENCY WELL ALWAYS BE A GREAT SHOW. I LOVE IT!!!ALAWAYS WELL. COME-ON FOR GOD,S SAKE. THE GENERATION OF 2000 IS WATCHING ER AND CHICAGO HOPE. WHOPAVED THE WAY FOR THEM? I ALWAYS LOVED CAP, MARCO, CHET, ROY, JONNY, MIKE. LIVE ON 51 IT ROCKED THEN AND IT ROCKS NOW.MV
Caught the reruns in syndication and a couple of the movies as a kid in the early '80's. I still have that urge to become a firefighter/medic sometimes. Cool show and cool truck!
my father was a fire fighter so every saturday night at 8 our world stopped to watch Emergency!! i think what made it a good show was like in real life not everybody lived . they would pull out all the stops but alas the victim didn't make it. this show found the right balance of drama and light hearted moments.
Emergency! was a great show!
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for more on Emergency! check out the ew site as part of tv-series.com
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A site and forum dedicated to Gage, Desoto and the cast and crew of Emergency!
What I meant was that 'Adam 12' only covered the city of Los Angeles. The sheriff department was the police protection LaCo had. The paramedics were only certified to work LA County only. That was stated a few times over the seasons. Once more paramedic programs started, then the certification was probably state wide instead of just the county. There are a few smaller cities within the county that 'Squad 51' covered, but not LA as far as I remember.
"professionally they don't cover LA County only the city"
Squad 51 didn't, but they made several mentions of there being a certain number of paramedics throughout LA County to cover the needs of the citizens.
Squad 51 didn't, but they made several mentions of there being a certain number of paramedics throughout LA County to cover the needs of the citizens.
The only thing that was unrealistic was the Adam-12 crossover. LAPD would never have been anywhere near there, professionally they don't cover LA County only the city. What real harm did it do though? No big deal, at least some good guy flirted with Dixie!
Did you know that Engineer Mike Stoker was portrayed by Mike Stoker? He was a real life Engineer/firefighter for the LaCoFD. He had he Screen Actors Guild Membership and they wanted someone who drove the trucks everyday to do so on the show.
Bobby Troup and Julie London were married for over 10 years when the show began. She was previously married to Jack Webb the creator of the show. He and Bobby Troup were good friends and he cast them both. Troup and London both died only about a year apart. They were married almost 40 years.
One of the last years of the show Randy Mantooth lost his ranch in Southern California in a massive wildfire, bitterly ironic isn't it?
Bobby Troup and Julie London were married for over 10 years when the show began. She was previously married to Jack Webb the creator of the show. He and Bobby Troup were good friends and he cast them both. Troup and London both died only about a year apart. They were married almost 40 years.
One of the last years of the show Randy Mantooth lost his ranch in Southern California in a massive wildfire, bitterly ironic isn't it?
First off Doctors and Medics are not the same thing. Secondly the nurses do more running around like chickens with their heads cut off then Doctors. Just ask a nurse.
All of the cases both in the hospital and paramedic calls were actual real life cases. So the ones that seems so fake really happened.
This show NEVER JUMPED! The series was cancelled by the network. The stars of the show were ready for another season.
Back in the day for any emergency services hair length was almost as severe as the military. It had to be a certain length and no facial hair. Although with firefighters the facial hair still stands by NFPA standards.
It wasn't overacting. This style was the standard for the 70's shows. Not overacting even by today's standards.
I happen to prefer 70's and 80's standards for filming and direction. I don't care for the frantick speed shooting where in some shows you get dizzy just watching the camera shots.
All of the cases both in the hospital and paramedic calls were actual real life cases. So the ones that seems so fake really happened.
This show NEVER JUMPED! The series was cancelled by the network. The stars of the show were ready for another season.
Back in the day for any emergency services hair length was almost as severe as the military. It had to be a certain length and no facial hair. Although with firefighters the facial hair still stands by NFPA standards.
It wasn't overacting. This style was the standard for the 70's shows. Not overacting even by today's standards.
I happen to prefer 70's and 80's standards for filming and direction. I don't care for the frantick speed shooting where in some shows you get dizzy just watching the camera shots.
The best part of EMERGENCY was and still is the chemistry between the hospital staffers. The show JTS when they started making the hospital staffers less important than the medics. I have the 3 seqasons out on DVD and am planning to get season 4.
The only thing better than watching Johnny and Roy was growing up to be them. I loved being a Paramedic and then I married a firefighter. Better know what your kids are watching, they might grow up to be their heroes
Never jumped...This was one of my favorites back in the 70s. I was in elementary school back then.
My friends and I would play our own version of the show. We had walkie-talkies. A few kids would stay in a garage up the hill. Someone else would ride their wagon or bike down and wreck at the bottom. They would call on the radio up to the garage making that sequence of buzz sounds( I won't try to spell those sounds. You know them ). The kids up the hill would open up the garage and come racing down. Regularly, we would end up with a pile of bikes and wagons at the bottom of the hill. Ah, childhood memories.
I always liked it when they took out that defribulator( spell check ) and jump started someone's heart.
I also took a tour of our local firehouse as a kid. It was similar to station 51. One truck and one paramedic pickup truck like the guys on TV. I was disappointed that they didn't get a call while I was there. The station was not too far from my house, so I usually would see them going out. I was a bit surprised that the frequency of calls was so low. The guys on TV didn't go long at all before that alarm would sound.
My friends and I would play our own version of the show. We had walkie-talkies. A few kids would stay in a garage up the hill. Someone else would ride their wagon or bike down and wreck at the bottom. They would call on the radio up to the garage making that sequence of buzz sounds( I won't try to spell those sounds. You know them ). The kids up the hill would open up the garage and come racing down. Regularly, we would end up with a pile of bikes and wagons at the bottom of the hill. Ah, childhood memories.
I always liked it when they took out that defribulator( spell check ) and jump started someone's heart.
I also took a tour of our local firehouse as a kid. It was similar to station 51. One truck and one paramedic pickup truck like the guys on TV. I was disappointed that they didn't get a call while I was there. The station was not too far from my house, so I usually would see them going out. I was a bit surprised that the frequency of calls was so low. The guys on TV didn't go long at all before that alarm would sound.
I absolutely LOVED John Gage, and always had a tender spot in my heart for dark-haired firemen; so much so that I married one in 2004! My husband is still the cutest fireman I've ever seen, next to John Gage, of course. But, even my mother reminded me when I got engage- Remember that huge crush you had on John Gage when you were a kid???? LOL!!! Fantasy met reality!
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