Emergency!

Show Summary

Aired: 1972 - 1977
Show Type: Live Action
Country of Origin: US

This program focused on the implementation and development of the new concept of the paramedic. The show begins with introducing our heros Roy Desoto and Johnny Gage assembling the first paramedic team and breaking new ground with unheard of new ideas, a mobile unit, equipped to stablize a patient and ready them for the ambulance to take the patient to the hospital.
The program featured a real fire station in Los Angeles, and real fire apparatus. First Engine 60 which was an actual 1965 Crown Firecoach powered with a throaty rumbling 935cc Hall-Scott engine. Sadly replaced later with a 1975 Ward-LaFrance. Squad 51, the paramedic truck was a 1974 1/2 ton Dodge Rescue truck that is now living in the Smithsonian Institute. The Crown Firecoach is in the Los Angeles Fire Museum and fully functional and the Ward is at Yosemite National Park in service.
Each episode featured daring rescues and simple cat-in-a-tree rescues, patients from electricution victims to drownings to kids stuck in bad spots.They even had to drive a vintage pumper to a call, it was a fully functional and did the job. When they weren't doing the paramedic job, they would show antics at the station, Chet's lovely cooking - which was often interrupted by a call.

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MayzeePosted: 07/30/2006

Emergency! seasons 1 and 2 are out on DVD and season 3 is due for release shortly. This was a groundbreaking series... good viewing for the whole family... and accelerated the creation and acceptance of EMT/paramedics as a part of rescue operations. Lives have been saved due to this old show. Good on them.

scrabblechickPosted: 08/18/2006

Great to see that Emergency! is out on DVD. I loved this show, never missed it. Randolph Mantooth (Gage) was one of my first crushes. It was a good show. My mom is a retired lab tech and said they practiced pretty good medicine, too.

sirscooterPosted: 02/16/2007

i grew up watching EMERGENCY, and because of that, i now have a police and fire scanner of my own, which is very active in my home town, thanks to the crew of station 51

MegtheEgg86Posted: 08/01/2007

I honestly can't say enough about this show. It shares the title with "Magnum P.I." as my favorite show of all time. For the record, Season 3 is now out as well!

Doug4422Posted: 07/17/2008

Actually, the original Squad 51 is not in the Smithsonian, but in the Los Angeles County Fire Museum, in one of their storage warehouses, and only shown to the public twice during the week.

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