Unusually, Lopez, Stoker and Dick Hammer play characters named after themselves, though in two episodes, Hammer's character is played by John Smith. Lopez speaks Spanish, and occasionally translates for the crew when a victim or onlooker spoke Spanish but no English. Lanier, an actual LACoFD Dispatcher, retired from the department shortly after Emergency! finished.
LACoFD Dispatcher Samuel Lanier portrayed himself in an uncredited voice role (over the radio) throughout the series, and he is also occasionally shown in a brief clip at the dispatch office just before a dispatch is heard in later seasons. "Chet" Kelly (Tim Donnelly), Marco Lopez ( Marco Lopez) and Mike Stoker (LACoFD firefighter Mike Stoker as himself). Other regular characters are the firefighters of Station 51's "A" shift, one of whom was played by an active LACO FD firefighter.
Michael "Mike" Morton ( Ron Pinkard, who, in the earliest episodes, also portrayed another intern, Dr. Joe Early (played by London's real-life husband Bobby Troup), and young intern Dr. Kelly Brackett ( Robert Fuller), head nurse Dixie McCall ( Julie London), neurosurgeon Dr. The paramedics are supervised by the Emergency Room (ER) staff of Rampart General Hospital: head physician Dr. They crew the rescue squad, Squad 51, and, in addition to providing emergency medical care, also carry out some technical rescues such as vehicle extrication. The focus is on two young firefighter-paramedics John Roderick "Johnny" Gage ( Randolph Mantooth), a young, immature man who is always unlucky in love, and Roy DeSoto ( Kevin Tighe), a more mature family man.
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The series is set at the fictional Fire Station 51 of the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), where one fire engine and the paramedic rescue squad are stationed. The vehicles of Station 51 are a part of the collection of the Los Angeles County Fire Museum.Ĭast of TV's Emergency! (1973), L-R: Kevin Tighe, Robert Fuller, Julie London, Bobby Troup and Randolph Mantooth Nearly 30 years after Emergency! debuted, the Smithsonian Institution accepted Emergency! memorabilia into its National Museum of American History's public-service section, including the firefighters' helmets, turnouts, Biophone, and defibrillator. The series is credited with popularizing the concepts of EMS and paramedics in American society, and even inspiring other states and municipalities to expand the service. The series aired at a time when ambulance coverage in the United States was rapidly expanding and changing, and the role of a paramedic was emerging as a profession. Page served as a technical advisor, and the two main actors underwent some paramedic training. However, the series aimed to be much more realistic than its predecessors as it portrayed emergency medical services (EMS). In the show's original TV-movie pilot, Webb was credited only as its director. Harold Jack Bloom is also credited as a creator Webb does not receive screen credit as a creator. Cinader, who had also created the police dramas Adam-12 and Dragnet. They work in concert with the fictional Rampart General Hospital medical staff (portrayed by Robert Fuller, Julie London and Bobby Troup), and with the firefighter engine company at Station 51.Įmergency! was created and produced by Jack Webb and Robert A.
The duo formed Squad 51, a medical and rescue unit of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The series stars Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe as two rescuers, who work as paramedics and firefighters in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. It debuted on NBC as a midseason replacement on January 15, 1972, replacing the two short-lived situation comedy series The Partners and The Good Life, and ran for a total of 122 episodes until May 28, 1977, with six additional two-hour television films during the next two years, 19. It was a joint production of Mark VII Limited and Universal Television. Emergency!Įmergency! is an American television series that combines the medical drama and action-adventure genres. For other uses, see Emergency (disambiguation).
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