My Brother and I Love that show when we was 15 im glad they are bringing them back and alot of those show in the 50,60,and 70 and 80. Thank you ME TV.😊
Still one of my all time favorite shows.Johnny Gage was my first crush. Emergency has inspired a life long respect and admiration for firefighters and EMS .I got to work at a firehouse when i was 16.I loved it❤
Thank you for the video. Kevin Tighe is pronounced "Tie". You forgot the Actor that played Captain Stanley, Michael Norell, who was not only an actor but a director. Also, the actor that portrayed Dr. Morton, Ron Pinkard, had a successful career in politics after the show. One thing of interest, is that 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, and is credited with popularizing the concepts of EMS and paramedics in American society, and even inspiring other states and municipalities to expand the service. Items from the show are in the Smithsonian Institution.
As a child of the 60/70's i was 8yo when Emergency aired in 1972, i was hooked. Im now retired after spending almost 30 years as a Firefighter/EMS Medical First Responder. I still watch occasionally today!!
I were 9yo When I viewed the pilot episode of Emergency on Jan 13th 1972.Went to see Fire sta 127 in 2005 where the Fire station was the studio station in the tv series.
I had the privilege of hanging with Randy while I was the Videographer for Project 51 that led to the squad in the Smithsonian. During my time with them I shot Marco cooking chili and Bob Fuller at Harbor General Hospital, AKA Rampart. I also spent a lot of time Gino Grimaldi. Gino was a great person and had some great stories at meetings and in between shots. I had a great time working and traveling with the whole Project 51 crew. Randy has a great sense of humor and because of him I have my own stories to tell. Thanks for the video!
Oooo, ring my bell! I too have a crush on Randy Mantooth and could watch him forever, lol. But I know that I can't so I watch him and Kevin Tige on my DVD set of Emergency! Love from Marysville California KMG 365
Great show. It still airs on Saturday nights in the San Francisco Bay Area. For any new fans too young to know, Julie London was a very popular singer in the 1950s-early 60s and many of her albums are still available on cd or streaming. Her husband Bobby Troupe was a composer and jazz pianist who wrote "Get Your Kicks On Route 66".
This show came out about the same time as the Rookies, as a very young kid back then, I can remember how my friends and I would talk about these shows the next day after they aired.
I grew up watching Emergency and Adam-12🚒🚔As a child I went to the Fire Station they used on the outside scenes in Carson Ca. It is really station 127😁I still watch Emergency every weekday morning📺Excellent upload👍🏻ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
I wasn't born until 1979, way past this series. However I'm watching reruns on tv and I fell in love with the show. Too bad it was cancelled, so glad it made the EMS and paramedics in America so popular
"Emergency" was in a way a spin-off of Adam-12. It inspired a good number of people to get involved in either fire fighting or to be a medical professional.
@@74Spirit1 I was thinking that Emergency came out a little bit later however... But not by much. I kinda remember an episode of Adam-12 having a program that involved the fire department in it. In a way paving the way for that show to be produced.
Adam-12 was there to bring their suspects to Rampart in the pilot, was a topic of discussion in "Hangup" and the hospital staff tended to a diabetic boy in "Lost and Found ."
At the end of the credits, they would say Thank you to the LA County Chief for their support. The last two seasons were Chief Garrard. I went to school with his son. He would tell us what was up with the next episode but not all of it. Loved this show. One of my friends became a Fireman explorer because of this show. He retired as a 911 operator.
In the later seasons of this show, John DeLancie (of Star Trek fame) also appeared as a doctor. You also can’t forget that a very young Mark Harmon was on this show as an animal control officer, I believe it was a failed pilot for an animal rescue series.
John was also in a soap opera I used to watch...Y & R. He played a character named Eugene was was amazingly quirky. I think he incorporated some of Eugene when he played Q.
One part that I think you missed on was Robert Fuller‘s western experience. He played on the western series Laramie for quite a while and he was also in bit parts and other half hour western TV shows.
Yeah, I'm surprised he didn't mention Laramie and Wagon Train, especially considering that Fuller didn't think he'd be a good fit for Emergency since he was primarily in Westerns up to that point.
bob fullers jess harper was the fastest chactor i ever saw that i think could give clint eastwood a run for his money as a fast draw gun slinger. i seen him draw on laramie, he was greased lightning with a fast draw. i think clint could beat him but gave him a real run for his money back in them days
Robert Fuller didn't want to do Emergency! Because he was waiting on his western pilot to get picked up. When he found it wasn't going to be, he still reluctantly took the part of Kelly Brackett.
There was at least one episode featuring Bobby Sherman as an intern at the hospital who did a few ride-alongs with the paramedics. I heard that after his time there, he left entertainment and became a paramedic.
It's amazing how you could write to these people in the old days and they would actually answer your letter and personally sign their autograph picture. People were a lot more kind and respectful of these actors and the actors often took a personal role in answering their own mail. I remember Susan Dey from The Partridge Family talking about answering some of her fan mail in those days. Things were so much more innocent. What a shame that things are so different now. This world we live in is crazy and downright dangerous today. 7:08
There was two African-America actors on the series. Ron Pinkard played Dr. Morton in over 80 episodes and Vince Howard played a Policeman in over 50 episodes.
After Emergency ended its prime-time run, there were six TV movies between 1978 and 1979, so the series actually ended with the final TV movie in 1979. They were (in airing order): The Steel Inferno (featuring future Dallas star Linda Gray), Survival on Charter 220, Most Deadly Passage, The Greatest Rescues of Emergency! (supposedly the finale, but aired out of sequence), What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing...., and The Convention. Those movies are now considered Season 7. I remember when it was in syndication in the late 70s and it was called Emergency One since the show and TV movies were still on the air; they aired on the late WKBS-48 in Philly. The reruns reverted back to Emergency! title once the final TV movie aired in 1979.
I agree about the movies being out of sequence. They should have aired the movies and ended with the Greatest Rescues of Emergency when they were promoted as captains.
As I kid, I watched this show weekly. Back then, if you missed an episode, reruns would take a while because you couldn't record it to watch it later. The pilot was interesting because it talked about how paramedics came to be.
Yeah, but today you have to pay to watch it, along with other great classics from the '70s and '80s that they now charge for! Total greed! It wasn't like that during the '90s and early 2000s when you could still watch those shows without being nickeled and dimed.
I'd like to see Michael Norell - Capt Stanley (always on the radio saying KMG365) and Ron Pinkard - Dr. Mike Morton. I think the Dispatcher Sam Lanier is crucial to this list as well. This show inspired me and still inspires me even to this day...........
Michael just passed away this year, and Sam passed away several years ago. I think he was in an accident while helping someone, which was what he became a firefighter for…to help save others.
Robert Fuller was in TV westerns ("Laramie", "Wagon Train") before "Emergency", which is why he was included in the "Maverick" cameo with other TV western stars.
I saw an interview with Robert Fuller where Fuller said Jack Webb had to twist his arm to take the roll of Dr. Kelly Brackett. Fuller considered himself as a western actor and was concerned that he would be believable as a doctor.
I watched the show growing up as a kid and was one of my favorites. I was able to be on the set of one of the Emergency films(The Convention)When I was in High School, and was able to speak with many of the actors on the set. I was sent a whole set of 8x10 photos of my time on the set which included photos of my father and me talking with the producers and stunt coordinator. Yes also pictures of Randy(Johnny) and Kevin(Roy).
Emergency 51 tv show was the best show to watch every day also and I still watching the show every day on cable television 📺 now from Brendon have a blessed day also
Emergency was an advertisement for paramedics. When they started there were only 2 counties in America with paramedics. So at least one of the shows I watch as a child was use for good. Saved many lives.
Thank you so much for bringing back so many great memories. I absolutely love this show I remember tuning in and it came on after Lawrence Welk I have his song goodnight embedded in my head. I grew up from the show wanting to become a firefighter I ended up doing the exact opposite I'm a welder! This show and these wonderful people will always be a part of my childhood that I'll never forget thank you again!
Emergency was popular with kids. It aired on Saturday nights and kids wanted to be fire fighters, police officers, Emergency medical, doctors, and nurses. Jack Webb who produced the show had a lot of carte blanche with the city and county of Los Angeles. The show combined emergency services IE law enforcement, emergency medical, hospitals, fire fighting, search and rescue.
I had dreamed of becoming a doctor in the 70’s. I used to watch “Emergency!” with a notebook and pen, and I would write down the medical terminology that was used. Then later on, I would look up the words in the dictionary or encyclopedias that we had in our basement, or I would go to the library at school for medical books! I did learn a lot of new things! I didn’t go into medicine (I became a teacher instead), but the knowledge was helpful in many areas, particularly when I started college .
I loved this show as a kid. I can't really say it inspired me to become a wildland firefighter since that happened kind of by chance, but it was quality entertainment.
You left out one doctor Mike and one police officer Vince also the captain of station 51 Captain Stanley. To this day I still watch emergency everyday. 🚒🚨🚓🚑
“Emergency” is still one of my favorite shows. It, and other shows of roughly the same timeframe like “Adam 12”, often shot scenes in the SanFernando Valley where my wife grew up back then, so memories sometimes come back in color in those scenes. Wonderful.
Thank you so much. Was watching Emergency! this morning; such a sweet show And human beings (us) doing right and being compassionate And humour. And, the actors are 'real men' ! 👍😍👏 Need more shows on the 'tele' Like this today!
Oh man, my susters and i all different spread out ages loved this show. Scary to hear of their current ages, and deaths. In my memory they are still riding Engine 51 and calling Rampart General. I did grow up to be a Nurse, influenced by so many great RNs on TV from Dr Kildare to Emergency. My youngest suster married a paramedic who is about to retire. Life goes ny quickly!
As a kid growing up, every house in my neighborhood would be watching Emergency, windows and doors open, the entire neighborhood would echo of the siren noise.
In 72 I was 10. The show was very influential to me and others. Retired now, but the ringtone for when my mom calls is the klaxon and call out. Sure get funny looks when it rings in hardware store. Guys have come over to see if I need help! They would have. KMG 365.
Station 51! Station 51! We watched this show religiously and used to joke about various aspects of it. It seemed like almost every patient had to be given "D5W with Epinephrin" or "Ringers lactate" (whatever the hell those are). For years after, every time my brother or I would see anyone get injured, we'd say "Give 'im some D5W, or some Ringers Lactate". LOL The first time I drove through LA I freaked out when i saw "Hey, that's Rampart! Rampart Hospital. THE Rampant hospital! Cool!" Someone else in the car got the joke (loved that show too!).The others thought i was nuts (its just a hospital dude). Great stuff.
It was and IS a damn good show, I watch it daily here in october 2023, I see a lot of story lines that have effected me, Good bless the ones who have passed and the ones that are still with us.
I was a kid when Emergency! first aired. Always wanted to be in ems, but back then, girls didn't work as firefighters. Went into something else, got married, then quit working to raise family, etc. Finally got the chance at age 62 to go back to school and get certified as an EMT. The moment I stepped into the back of the ambulance, I knew I was home. BTW: Just about everyone in EMS, no matter how old or young, has seen episodes of Emergency! and speaks highly of it.
Kevin Tighe had a role in one episode of West Wing. He had a confrontation with Charlie. Don’t remember much about the episode. Loved that series. Genius writing!
I loved Emergency! as a kid and even had the toy fire helmet they marketed at the time. But when I saw Kevin Tighe years later in the excellent John Sayles films Matewan and Eight Men Out (glad you mentioned them), I had no idea it was someone from this show. He’s a terrific actor.
I'm in the Midwest. Sitting here watching Emergency on Cozi tv. And up pops this post! How crazy is that!????? If you don't think you are being "watched" you're living with your head underground!
This was MY show, back when I was a kid!!!!!!! I STILL enjoy it today!!!! Michael Norrill, who played Capt. Hank Stanley (Cap). I heard he recently passed away, too.
I watch it every single day, Monday thru Friday on COZI TV. The movies i dont really care for. I had a mad crush on Johnny Gage❤️ Thanks for the wonderful update. Always have the best uploads. Dr. Brackett was nice on the eyes too. Love your channel 😊
Mantooth guested on Criminal Minds, in the S4 episode Cold Comfort. He and Cybill Shepherd played the wealthy parents of the serial killer unsub of the week. They told BAU they’d broken off contact with their son. In fact dad was still secretly in contact with the young man, and had been sending him money which enabled his crime spree to continue. Shepherd was absolutely chilling in the scene where mom finds this out. That was the parents’ final scene, and left the viewer wondering what she did to him after BAU left.
I love this show. I use to live a few block's from the Los Angeles county dispatch center and firemen training school. There was also the water dropping helicopter and rescue landing pad as well. This was located in City Terrace, East LA. God Bless those actors who passed away. Great video. I still watch the reruns today.👍🧑🚒❤
Randy Mantooth was also on a t.v.show as the owner of a small store with Andy Griffith, and his daughter, along on Diagnosis Murder.I know because I was watching the Diagnosis Murder and saw Randolph Mantooth, and said that's John Gage from EMERGENCY!
When I was a kid seeing these reruns, paramedics seem so cool that I wanted to be one when I grew up. But I ain't got the stomach for broken bones and blood. 😅
🎉 Retro TV greetings from coastal Mississippi. I watched this over 50 years ago. Loved the series
My Brother and I Love that show when we was 15 im glad they are bringing them back and alot of those show in the 50,60,and 70 and 80. Thank you ME TV.😊
Still one of my all time favorite shows.Johnny Gage was my first crush.
Emergency has inspired a life long respect and admiration for firefighters and EMS .I got to work at a firehouse when i was 16.I loved it❤
Thank you for the video. Kevin Tighe is pronounced "Tie". You forgot the Actor that played Captain Stanley, Michael Norell, who was not only an actor but a director. Also, the actor that portrayed Dr. Morton, Ron Pinkard, had a successful career in politics after the show. One thing of interest, is that 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, and is credited with popularizing the concepts of EMS and paramedics in American society, and even inspiring other states and municipalities to expand the service. Items from the show are in the Smithsonian Institution.
You also Capt. Hammer who was a real life Captain in the L.A.co fire department. He was also a Marlboro Man and NFL QB Sam Darnold’s grandfather.
I couldn't remember Dr.Mortons name Thank you
Michael Norell passed away a few months ago.
And chet he did the doritos commercials
Yeah, I was wondering what happened to the Captain.
Emergency! and Adam 12 were my favorites as a kid. ❤
Ditto! I LOVED Captain Stanley and most of the rest of the cast! I didn't like Chet. It took me years to figure out what "KMG 365" meant.
As a child of the 60/70's i was 8yo when Emergency aired in 1972, i was hooked. Im now retired after spending almost 30 years as a Firefighter/EMS Medical First Responder. I still watch occasionally today!!
I were 9yo When I viewed the pilot episode of Emergency on Jan 13th 1972.Went to see Fire sta 127 in 2005 where the Fire station was the studio station in the tv series.
This show is the reason I became a firefighter/Paramedic. Awesome.
I had the privilege of hanging with Randy while I was the Videographer for Project 51 that led to the squad in the Smithsonian. During my time with them I shot Marco cooking chili and Bob Fuller at Harbor General Hospital, AKA Rampart. I also spent a lot of time Gino Grimaldi. Gino was a great person and had some great stories at meetings and in between shots. I had a great time working and traveling with the whole Project 51 crew. Randy has a great sense of humor and because of him I have my own stories to tell. Thanks for the video!
Really loved this show as a child. Thanks for letting me visit that time for a brief moment.
Boy did I have a crush on Randolph for my entire life! He's never not been incredibly handsome!
Oooo, ring my bell! I too have a crush on Randy Mantooth and could watch him forever, lol. But I know that I can't so I watch him and Kevin Tige on my DVD set of Emergency! Love from Marysville California KMG 365
Thanks for the vid. .56 years here I miss them all especially Julie London 😮❤💋 A time that will never be again 😢
Great show. It still airs on Saturday nights in the San Francisco Bay Area. For any new fans too young to know, Julie London was a very popular singer in the 1950s-early 60s and many of her albums are still available on cd or streaming. Her husband Bobby Troupe was a composer and jazz pianist who wrote "Get Your Kicks On Route 66".
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When I was a teenage girl Emergency was must see tv for me. I was in love with Randolph Mantooth.
This show came out about the same time as the Rookies, as a very young kid back then, I can remember how my friends and I would talk about these shows the next day after they aired.
It was actually a spin-off from Adam-12
Watch this Show as A Kid and now Retired as a Capt. Fire Fighter
Paramedic ....I could not have had a BETTER LIFE !
Mike Norrell Who played Capt Hank Stanley passed away a few months ago. He was a prolific writer and even wrote a few episodes of Emergency!.
Which episodes did he write??
@@kathrynthayne7350 "Details," "The Indirect Method," "Grateful" and "Upward and Downward."
One of my favorite shows growing up. Thanks for the memories.
Jilie London was a fantastic singer,"Cry Me A River".
A Very Beautiful Song ( 1955 ) and Haunting Melody ( especially the last verse, with Julie’s sultry voice-over echo, “I cried a river over you” ❤️🎼😢 )
I grew up watching Emergency and Adam-12🚒🚔As a child I went to the Fire Station they used on the outside scenes in Carson Ca. It is really station 127😁I still watch Emergency every weekday morning📺Excellent upload👍🏻ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
I wasn't born until 1979, way past this series. However I'm watching reruns on tv and I fell in love with the show. Too bad it was cancelled, so glad it made the EMS and paramedics in America so popular
"Emergency" was in a way a spin-off of Adam-12. It inspired a good number of people to get involved in either fire fighting or to be a medical professional.
It wasn't. The shows were siblings.
The inspiration is correct
@@74Spirit1 I was thinking that Emergency came out a little bit later however... But not by much. I kinda remember an episode of Adam-12 having a program that involved the fire department in it. In a way paving the way for that show to be produced.
Adam-12 was there to bring their suspects to Rampart in the pilot, was a topic of discussion in "Hangup" and the hospital staff tended to a diabetic boy in "Lost and Found ."
@@74Spirit1 I had thought there was a connection!!
It WAS a spin off of Adam-12. Jack Webb produced programs.
At the end of the credits, they would say Thank you to the LA County Chief for their support. The last two seasons were Chief Garrard. I went to school with his son. He would tell us what was up with the next episode but not all of it. Loved this show. One of my friends became a Fireman explorer because of this show. He retired as a 911 operator.
In the later seasons of this show, John DeLancie (of Star Trek fame) also appeared as a doctor. You also can’t forget that a very young Mark Harmon was on this show as an animal control officer, I believe it was a failed pilot for an animal rescue series.
Randolph Mantooth appeared in several episodes of the original Battlestar Galactica
This is what I was looking for here. Can't take this video serious without mentioning that. @@Dave-in-MD
Also was in an episode of "Vegas" as a tennis player & a "Diagnostic Murders " as a fire fighter.@@Dave-in-MD
John was also in a soap opera I used to watch...Y & R. He played a character named Eugene was was amazingly quirky. I think he incorporated some of Eugene when he played Q.
Mark Harmon would go on to be in "240-Robert" along Joanna Cassidy and John Bennett Perry.
One part that I think you missed on was Robert Fuller‘s western experience. He played on the western series Laramie for quite a while and he was also in bit parts and other half hour western TV shows.
Yeah, I'm surprised he didn't mention Laramie and Wagon Train, especially considering that Fuller didn't think he'd be a good fit for Emergency since he was primarily in Westerns up to that point.
bob fullers jess harper was the fastest chactor i ever saw that i think could give clint eastwood a run for his money as a fast draw gun slinger. i seen him draw on laramie, he was greased lightning with a fast draw. i think clint could beat him but gave him a real run for his money back in them days
Robert Fuller didn't want to do Emergency! Because he was waiting on his western pilot to get picked up. When he found it wasn't going to be, he still reluctantly took the part of Kelly Brackett.
There was at least one episode featuring Bobby Sherman as an intern at the hospital who did a few ride-alongs with the paramedics. I heard that after his time there, he left entertainment and became a paramedic.
Yes he did, for the police.
@@74Spirit1no, he was an EMT, then a Deputy Sheriff
@@McFlys64 he brought EMS to law enforcement, starting with the LAPD. THEN he became a Deputy. He taught EMS to that department.
The episode was "Fools".
I loved watching this show and Adam 12 when I was a kid - they sometimes overlapped in storylines being they were in the same 'world'.
Adam 12 was a spin off from Dragnet. Emergency fromAdam 12. All 3 were created by Jack Webb who was also married to Julie London before Bobby Troup.
Loved it I have been a RN for almost forty years ☺️
They had left out, Sam Lanier, who was a dispatcher for LACFD in real life and on the show. 🚒🚑
And he's dead also, died a year prior before their 26th reunion
And ( tongue-in-cheek) that dispatcher never went home, never slept- talk about dedication.
One fun thing to do on shows from that era is to look for addresses as they drive around LA, and then look them up and see what they look like now
It's amazing how you could write to these people in the old days and they would actually answer your letter and personally sign their autograph picture. People were a lot more kind and respectful of these actors and the actors often took a personal role in answering their own mail. I remember Susan Dey from The Partridge Family talking about answering some of her fan mail in those days. Things were so much more innocent. What a shame that things are so different now. This world we live in is crazy and downright dangerous today. 7:08
Our family watched this every week - I was in love with Dr. Bracket ! Like really badly.
Me too 🔥
He's still a great looking man
@@susanking9033 He was attractive even when older but I thought he passed away?
Still with us. Thank goodness!
@@janhart1592 AGREE. I'm so happy to hear this ! Yes he was HOT
There was two African-America actors on the series. Ron Pinkard played Dr. Morton in over 80 episodes and Vince Howard played a Policeman in over 50 episodes.
The dispatcher too. He was a real LACO dispatcher.
Was his brother Ron directing those? ;-P
Don't forget about Sam the dispatcher!
"There was two." I love it!
Thanks! You brought back a bunch of very fond childhood memories!
After Emergency ended its prime-time run, there were six TV movies between 1978 and 1979, so the series actually ended with the final TV movie in 1979. They were (in airing order): The Steel Inferno (featuring future Dallas star Linda Gray), Survival on Charter 220, Most Deadly Passage, The Greatest Rescues of Emergency! (supposedly the finale, but aired out of sequence), What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing...., and The Convention. Those movies are now considered Season 7. I remember when it was in syndication in the late 70s and it was called Emergency One since the show and TV movies were still on the air; they aired on the late WKBS-48 in Philly. The reruns reverted back to Emergency! title once the final TV movie aired in 1979.
I was on the set of The Convention for the "laboratory explosion".
I agree about the movies being out of sequence. They should have aired the movies and ended with the Greatest Rescues of Emergency when they were promoted as captains.
It was Emergency! 51 in syndication.
Cool! I need more trivia in my head! 👍👍
As I kid, I watched this show weekly. Back then, if you missed an episode, reruns would take a while because you couldn't record it to watch it later. The pilot was interesting because it talked about how paramedics came to be.
Thank goodness for DVR
Yeah, but today you have to pay to watch it, along with other great classics from the '70s and '80s that they now charge for!
Total greed! It wasn't like that during the '90s and early 2000s when you could still watch those shows without being nickeled and dimed.
I'd like to see Michael Norell - Capt Stanley (always on the radio saying KMG365) and Ron Pinkard - Dr. Mike Morton. I think the Dispatcher Sam Lanier is crucial to this list as well.
This show inspired me and still inspires me even to this day...........
Michael Norell passed away on May 12, 2023
If you like that kind of show, I recommend a new one....9 1 1. It is awesome.
Michael just passed away this year, and Sam passed away several years ago. I think he was in an accident while helping someone, which was what he became a firefighter for…to help save others.
@@FlowerGemsGirl Sam Lanier died in 1997 when an accident occurred near his house and he suffered a massive heart attack trying to help.
Robert Fuller was in TV westerns ("Laramie", "Wagon Train") before "Emergency", which is why he was included in the "Maverick" cameo with other TV western stars.
I loved Emergency when I was young. I had a crush on Randolph Mantooth.
OMG, me too!!! He was a stud!! He aged good!😉
Didn’t we all??!! 😂🤪
Wow. I remember having the "matchbox" toy of their little truck! Wow this is awesome What an awesome memory you just gave me...wow.😊
Isn't that cute! Brought a smile to my face😊
Robert Fuller also starred in Laramie, a western before the program Emergency. His character name was Jess Harper.
I saw an interview with Robert Fuller where Fuller said Jack Webb had to twist his arm to take the roll of Dr. Kelly Brackett. Fuller considered himself as a western actor and was concerned that he would be believable as a doctor.
I watched the show growing up as a kid and was one of my favorites. I was able to be on the set of one of the Emergency films(The Convention)When I was in High School, and was able to speak with many of the actors on the set. I was sent a whole set of 8x10 photos of my time on the set which included photos of my father and me talking with the producers and stunt coordinator. Yes also pictures of Randy(Johnny) and Kevin(Roy).
That’s so cool. Can you tell us what Kevin Tighe was like?
@@sugarblossom3141 a very reserved guy at the time, very polite and enjoyed speaking with him.
I loved that show,we used to watch the reruns but lately they are hard to find.
It’s on Cozi three times a day, and at least twice on Saturday
My dad was an avid fan of Emergency! Hasn't let go of it ever since.
I did not watch much TV growing up.
But this was one show I do remember making a point of watching.
Emergency 51 tv show was the best show to watch every day also and I still watching the show every day on cable television 📺 now from Brendon have a blessed day also
Emergency was an advertisement for paramedics. When they started there were only 2 counties in America with paramedics. So at least one of the shows I watch as a child was use for good. Saved many lives.
Thank you so much for bringing back so many great memories. I absolutely love this show I remember tuning in and it came on after Lawrence Welk I have his song goodnight embedded in my head. I grew up from the show wanting to become a firefighter I ended up doing the exact opposite I'm a welder! This show and these wonderful people will always be a part of my childhood that I'll never forget thank you again!
Loved this show as a kid!
Emergency was popular with kids. It aired on Saturday nights and kids wanted to be fire fighters, police officers, Emergency medical, doctors, and nurses. Jack Webb who produced the show had a lot of carte blanche with the city and county of Los Angeles. The show combined emergency services IE law enforcement, emergency medical, hospitals, fire fighting, search and rescue.
I had dreamed of becoming a doctor in the 70’s. I used to watch “Emergency!” with a notebook and pen, and I would write down the medical terminology that was used. Then later on, I would look up the words in the dictionary or encyclopedias that we had in our basement, or I would go to the library at school for medical books! I did learn a lot of new things! I didn’t go into medicine (I became a teacher instead), but the knowledge was helpful in many areas, particularly when I started college .
I loved this show as a kid. I can't really say it inspired me to become a wildland firefighter since that happened kind of by chance, but it was quality entertainment.
This is one of my favorite re-run shows. There are some medical practices that are different now.
You left out one doctor Mike and one police officer Vince also the captain of station 51 Captain Stanley. To this day I still watch emergency everyday. 🚒🚨🚓🚑
Emergency was definitely on my short list of favorite shows when I was a kid. Thanks for the video.
“Emergency” is still one of my favorite shows. It, and other shows of roughly the same timeframe like “Adam 12”, often shot scenes in the SanFernando Valley where my wife grew up back then, so memories sometimes come back in color in those scenes. Wonderful.
I will always remember Bobby Troupe in the movie MASH. He was a jeep driver who would say "God Damn Army".
Especially funny as Bobby was a Marine! 🤪
Thank you so much. Was watching Emergency! this morning; such a sweet show
And human beings (us) doing right and being compassionate
And humour.
And, the actors are 'real men'
! 👍😍👏
Need more shows on the 'tele'
Like this today!
Una serie que cuando éramos chicos era imperdible.....
Oh man, my susters and i all different spread out ages loved this show. Scary to hear of their current ages, and deaths. In my memory they are still riding Engine 51 and calling Rampart General. I did grow up to be a Nurse, influenced by so many great RNs on TV from Dr Kildare to Emergency. My youngest suster married a paramedic who is about to retire. Life goes ny quickly!
One of my earliest childhood TV memories is the episode where some guy was sleeping in the park, and his friends put a rubber snake on him.
Loved that scene! The reactions of the two girls is PRICELESS!! 😂
You forgot to mention that Kevin Tighe also appeared in an episode of Star Trek Voyager.
Yes, the fifth-season outing "11:59" (OAD Wednesday, May 5, 1999 on UPN).
As a kid growing up, every house in my neighborhood would be watching Emergency, windows and doors open, the entire neighborhood would echo of the siren noise.
In 72 I was 10. The show was very influential to me and others. Retired now, but the ringtone for when my mom calls is the klaxon and call out. Sure get funny looks when it rings in hardware store. Guys have come over to see if I need help! They would have.
KMG 365.
Kevin was also in the tv movie Rose Red, writen by Stephen King.
Captain Michael Norell AKA Hank Season 2 passed away this year age 84.
May he rest in peace. And may his family and friends be healed and comforted.
The first movie I saw Kevin Tighe in was The Newsies from the early 90's. I've also seen him in 2 episodes of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.
Station 51! Station 51! We watched this show religiously and used to joke about various aspects of it. It seemed like almost every patient had to be given "D5W with Epinephrin" or "Ringers lactate" (whatever the hell those are). For years after, every time my brother or I would see anyone get injured, we'd say "Give 'im some D5W, or some Ringers Lactate". LOL The first time I drove through LA I freaked out when i saw "Hey, that's Rampart! Rampart Hospital. THE Rampant hospital! Cool!" Someone else in the car got the joke (loved that show too!).The others thought i was nuts (its just a hospital dude). Great stuff.
That was a great show to watch, and it was good to see where they went after doing the show. Thank you.
It was and IS a damn good show, I watch it daily here in october 2023, I see a lot of story lines that have effected me, Good bless the ones who have passed and the ones that are still with us.
Michael Norell who died on May 12, 2023. He was Captain Stanley from Season two onwards.
The show inspired me to become an EMT at the age of 15 !
I was a kid when Emergency! first aired. Always wanted to be in ems, but back then, girls didn't work as firefighters. Went into something else, got married, then quit working to raise family, etc. Finally got the chance at age 62 to go back to school and get certified as an EMT. The moment I stepped into the back of the ambulance, I knew I was home. BTW: Just about everyone in EMS, no matter how old or young, has seen episodes of Emergency! and speaks highly of it.
I loved this show as a kid, and even had the HotWheels truck.
As a fan of "EMERGENCY!", you didn't miss a thing! Everything you mentioned was accurate.
Yes they did, other supporting actors.
Yeah they did, they missed several key actors and they mispronounced Kevin’s last name
Kevin Tighe had a role in one episode of West Wing. He had a confrontation with Charlie. Don’t remember much about the episode. Loved that series. Genius writing!
He was also in Numb3rs playing a friend of the family whose son, also a family friend, was murdered.
Kevin also had a role in Law and Order SVU and was in the film K9 with James Belushi
I loved Emergency! as a kid and even had the toy fire helmet they marketed at the time. But when I saw Kevin Tighe years later in the excellent John Sayles films Matewan and Eight Men Out (glad you mentioned them), I had no idea it was someone from this show. He’s a terrific actor.
Mantooth also appeared on Sons of Anarchy and Tige appeared on the show Salem
Watched this as a kid and can still hear the intro song..that along the CHiPs theme. Loved the dodge rescue truck too and bought a scale one recently.
I did grow up with that show and I love it and it still my favorite show of all time
I was in love with dr bracket as a kid
Thank you for this video, I love Emergency. I have dialysis 3x a week and get to watch 2 full episodes.
I have this series and ADAM-12 on DVD. Great shows!
That show created a lot of fire rescue units thru out the country..
I'm in the Midwest. Sitting here watching Emergency on Cozi tv. And up pops this post! How crazy is that!????? If you don't think you are being "watched" you're living with your head underground!
Thanks for sharing this.
This was MY show, back when I was a kid!!!!!!! I STILL enjoy it today!!!! Michael Norrill, who played Capt. Hank Stanley (Cap). I heard he recently passed away, too.
This show was the reason I became an EMT in the 90’s ( total of 8 yrs in private service).
I watch it every single day, Monday thru Friday on COZI TV. The movies i dont really care for. I had a mad crush on Johnny Gage❤️
Thanks for the wonderful update. Always have the best uploads. Dr. Brackett was nice on the eyes too. Love your channel 😊
Sad those shows had to end , grew up with them.
Was 12 then now 64😢
Watching as a kid back in the day made me want to be a fireman. I'm still a fireman today at 53 in a volunteer fire department.
Loving all the reruns!! Great show❤
Mantooth guested on Criminal Minds, in the S4 episode Cold Comfort. He and Cybill Shepherd played the wealthy parents of the serial killer unsub of the week.
They told BAU they’d broken off contact with their son. In fact dad was still secretly in contact with the young man, and had been sending him money which enabled his crime spree to continue.
Shepherd was absolutely chilling in the scene where mom finds this out. That was the parents’ final scene, and left the viewer wondering what she did to him after BAU left.
Talk about irony. I was just thinking about this show. Those algorithms sure are spooky
5:55 Is that Wayne Rogers on the right? (Trapper John McIntyre...MASH)?
Kevin also played a reoccuring guest on FREAKS & GEEKS.
You forgot Diedre Hall who played Nurse Sally Lewis. Who John Gage (Randolph Mantooth) had the hots for.
Not only John! And, I think I'll add, she was plenty young in this show. I think she got prettier as she matured!
No, Johnny didn't pursue Sally. Sally just treated him for the Koki virus.
I once read that the Rampart neighborhood of Los Angeles was the most dangerous place in the world for a short time in the late 1980's early 1990s.
Hmmm, I went to both the station and the hospital in ‘96 and the neighborhood seemed safe to me.😊
I love this show. I use to live a few block's from the Los Angeles county dispatch center and firemen training school. There was also the water dropping helicopter and rescue landing pad as well. This was located in City Terrace, East LA. God Bless those actors who passed away. Great video. I still watch the reruns today.👍🧑🚒❤
Randy Mantooth was also on a t.v.show as the owner of a small store with Andy Griffith, and his daughter, along on Diagnosis Murder.I know because I was watching the Diagnosis Murder and saw Randolph Mantooth, and said that's John Gage from EMERGENCY!
I remember ROADHOUSE 😁🖤
I really dug that show man. I didn't dig when The Fuzz appeared on the show however.
When I was a kid seeing these reruns, paramedics seem so cool that I wanted to be one when I grew up. But I ain't got the stomach for broken bones and blood. 😅
Forgot to mention Bobby Troupe wrote "Get Your Kicks On Route 66"!!!
The thing I remember about most about this show is that the doctors first order was always "ringers lactate".