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- Now the show is celebrating its 51st anniversary year but you can still join in and enjoy COZI TV's most popular original special "EMERGENCY! 50! The Show that Saved Your Life," here in its entirety!
Behind-the-scenes stories from stars Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe and many more. Learn about the show's immense impact on real-life emergency services as we know them today.
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This was a bygone era of when TVs shows were worth something, and actually had a positive impact.
There's great TV out there now, you just aren't watching it.
@@pazza4555 That's what is wrong. Thanks for correcting me, mom.
Not like the crap that's on the small screen today.
@@pazza4555 Yeah but not much. I can name only a handful of shows right now worth watching. The rest are either these terrible reboots
evivals of actual classic tv shows or just a bunch of other mess.
@pazza4555 would you tell us what channels the good shows are on?
After high school in 79, I became an EMT, then a Medic for 22 years. Also 25 years as a professional firefighter. All because of those 2 guys...
Firefighters are the best thank you! As a kid grew up in the 70s watching emergency the one thing I learned in my neighborhood was the firefighters never let you down especially if you were born disabled😊
I thought it's 5 Guy's...
KMG 365
Thank you for your service Sir.
My story too, except I graduated high school in 89, went to EMT school and then a year later Paramedic school. Medic for 22 years and married an ER charge nurse. Got a Dixie of my own. I grew up in LA County when this show was on and the LAFD station down the street was 68. I can't imagine how many kids grew up and became Paramedics because of this show.
It’s so awesome that Kevin and Randy are still the best of friends after all these decades
theywheremyfavoriteactorsandtheshow.
@@juilebrown2461 same here and also Dixie too
@@lovepugs05 Dixie McCall a.k.a. Julie London was so stinking HOT 🔥🥵. Just my opinion. Have a great weekend everyone
Well actually Kevin Tighe-like most of the original cast- is gone now. Several passed in just the last few years. But Mantooth is still alive.
@@dr.valbell6427 I'm pretty sure that Kevin is still with us. He's getting up there in age, but I haven't heard anything about him passing.
This show was responsible for my marriage. I met my (late) wife in paramedic school. We'd both watched this show as children and went to paramedic school because of it.
Condolences to you
I was a paramedic and met my wife because she was (and still is) an ER charge nurse, MICN.
The characters that Kevin and Randy played were my heroes. I knew when I was 9 yrs old I wanted to be a paramedic. The show made a generation want to go into the fire and ems service. The show also helped to improve medical treatment in the field.
I remember the state hearings to get the paramedic program going in CA....the first show was great in accuracy
I'm surprised that this special didn't mention the fact that both Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe went through the actual paramedic course before the show started. They did everything but take the final exam, which would have let them legally be actual paramedics.
They should have taken the final exam.
They did NOT take the final exam because of something that happened to Kent McCord, while he was preparing to play Jim Reed for "Adam-12" -- McCord's home had been burgled, and some custom-embroidered clothing stolen. While on ride-along with the LAPD officer that was getting him up to speed, McCord spotted someone wearing some of those clothes. An arrest was made, and this led (or could have led, I forget the exact details) to some serious problems with the shooting schedule, as McCord was obligated to take time off for court, both as victim AND as the arresting officer!
While Tighe and Mantooth were in their training, Jack Webb decided that there was too much risk of a similar problem -- if they had been fully certified, they might have to meet legal obligations that would bring MAJOR problems with shooting.
Being certified would have required Mark VII and Universal Studios to pay them as fire/medical personnel, and they would have had to join the appropriate guild. The studio unions are VERY strong and into every slightest little detail of what people do and what they are paid. That's why they had to have Marco Lopez driving and operating the engine, and never certified anyone else to do so. He was paid as an actor AND if he touched a control, doorknob, or was in the driver's seat or standing next to the pump station on the engine, he had to also be paid as a firefighter, because of union requirements.
@@SoloPilot6 it wasn't Marco it was Mike Stoker that was an actual firefighter. He actually retired as a Captain, I believe.
@@ellenparker3445 Yep. My mistake.
@@SoloPilot6 no sweat. Just a love of Emergency! I had pin ups of Randy on my ceiling as a young girl.
My husband has been a paramedic for 44yrs on two continents and still going strong! He watched this show on TV back in the 70s and it inspired him. He started ambulance work at the age of 19, loved it and made a career. He's likely to retire someday soon. All the good he's done over all these years.🤗
I’m a young volunteer firefighter, and I heard some good things about the show about a year and a half or so ago, and in a rather backwards fashion, I actually introduced it to my dad. We both said to ourselves “ah it’s a silly old 70’s TV show, how good could it be?” But after watching the first few episodes, we decided we absolutely stop until we’d seen them all. We finished the show at the beginning of this year, and it was a little emotional. We’d laughed and laughed over all of Johnny and Roy’s antics, watching rescue after rescue, and then it was over.
those old 70's shows were the best! Along with the great 50's, 60's, 80's, 90's and 2000's shows. The classics will always live on because they were just the best shows tv ever had to offer. Very few if any shows today even come close.
Sweet story! The Highwayman is another fun old show…try that one.
This is an excellent show…this show is actually quite accurate with today…that series made me wanna be a paramedic at fire station…
I'm 65 and have to admit that Randy Mantooth has been my lifetime crush! This show encouraged me to go into nursing!! I've had a great life in healthcare!
I went to LPN then RN school in the mid 70’s because of this show. I spent most of my career in trauma critical care. Just retired after 51 years.
What an incredible show. Still changing lives fifty years later.
Still relevant, and still much loved today.
How many lives has this show saved?
And how many shows can compare.
I'm not sure if it saved my life; but it certainly did helped me.
The amount of lives that have been saved because of this show cannot be measured.
This show prompted me into a career in the Fire Service. From Firefighter/Paramedic all the way up to Fire Chief. This show saved lives. Thanks to all for what you've done and for a very rewarding career!!
Thank You COZI TV for having this special very well done !! - Long Live EMERGENCY !!
Couldn't agree more!
COZY still has Emergency every day during the week at 10am where I live.
Emergency was the best show out there. Most Fire/Rescue shows nowadays, are more focused on whose hooking up with who than doing actual rescues.
Yes!
I agree....that's why I don't watch the dreck that passes for emergency services shows now.
Agreed, don't even watch them anymore. Go back too what the show is about.
34 years in EMS (retired now); nothing they show now is really what it's like in the field.
I have to somewhat disagree with you about that as Chicago Fire is pretty darn close to it! How IRONIC is it though that it's also Station 51 as well?
Add my name to the nearly infinitely long list of firefighter/EMS folks that owe their careers to the influence this show had on, in my case, a ten year old kid from Buffalo back in the early 70s.
Rest in Peace, Tim Donnelly
Love him as Chet. I loved how they had him and johnny 'fighting'' and teasing each other but the second the bell rang it was all left at the firehouse. Chet to me seemed to me the most medical trained after Roy and Johnny so in my option he was a Basic EMT in today world since he was the one that seemed to be treating the minor wounds while Roy and Johnny was dealing with the big ones and he also seemed to know more about the medical Equipment than the others/.. Started watching in 2010s and was freaking out at how 'old' the equipment was and the turnouts being nothing but just a jacket.
@@sassbrat Sometimes Chet Kelly could be annoying but the show wouldn't be the same without him.Station 51 seemed like a family
@@cheriecraighead1502 So true. Chet was the one that could break the mold when things got to 'hard' on a shift. No matter what was going on between each person, they all had each other's back.
They left what was going on at the firehouse at the firehouse the second that bell rang.
Sorry to hear this. RIP
I worked at a car dealership. We had a Chet Kelly.
I used this show to convince my city council to go paramedic in 1990, twenty years after this aired, it was a big reason that I spent my life as a firefighter paramedic
This show did in fact saved my life, it had a major impact on my life.
I named my first born son Randolph. ❤🍁🏥🚑
Fantastic show that still relates to this day. Nothing they make nowadays can compete. They only focused on the job and the interaction between the FD, PD and hospital.
Great show! The reason why many of us got into public service!
Same thing goes for Adam-12 and Dragnet as well.
I want to thank you COZITvfor putting this loving tribute to Emergency up on TH-cam. Wasn't happy my cable provider did not provide COZITv in its line-up. The show was a first. It showed the front line of what was to be a NationWide Paramedic Program. Even Emergency Medicine was not yet an accredited specialty (that was to come in a few years). What was as important (in addition to the origins of EMS...your scripted words) was the incredible screen chemistry between Randolph and Kevin. You can have a good formula for a show (which Emergency has) but without the two leads to sell it....the show would not have been as popular and in many cases life changing. The whole cast was terrific from the (Icon) Robert Fuller (my words but I think they are true.) To the musical legends of Bobby Troup and Julie London. Julie is quite a good actress as well as a beautiful singer. Luv the guys on the squad. R.I.P. Tim Donnelly. We all know someone like "A Chet". But if you notice in those very difficult emergencies the character Chet was an able and solid team player. He helped Roy and John on numerous occasions. Plus put out fires too. Again, COZITv thank you for presenting this wonderful behind the scenes 50 Year Emergency Special.
I use to watch this show when I was 5yrs old. Never missed it.
A cartoon was made and I would watch it on Saturday mornings like my life depended on it..
Lol.
😊😊😊
Thank you to all of the cast of EMERGENCY!!
for the GREAT MEMORIES!!!
My mom introduced this show to me about 10 years ago. I really enjoy watching it. Such a good show.
This a great reminder of how an idea can turn into a reality and oh what a reality it turned out to be. To think that in 1971 a paramedic was just a concept!
Best show ever! Randolph Mantooth is the nicest guy, met him at station #127, years ago during the engine 51 back in quarters event. Wish Kevin Tighe had been there, what an awesome time! Although I never became a firefighter, I still love the firetrucks! Thanks COZI tv for taking the time and effort to make this tribute show.
@Arthur Ridus Man, did I goof!
Thank you for posting this! I was one of the lucky fans that attended the reunion. Bought my ticket to the autograph session and had two minutes, then attended the show the following night. It validated my research after rediscovering them because I 'rediscovered' them at a time I needed it most.
My mom liked Michael Norell. She was inspired to give me the middle name of Norell due to the show.
Love the middle name story!
i am 55, and Emergency was the first show i fell in love with. i wanted to be a paramedic. one day earlier this year, i was in Walmart just walking around. i walked by the DVD section, and i saw that they had the box set, of Emergency. i thought about it for a few minutes. i ended up purchasing it. i have been watching it. it has been decades since i saw the show. it is like watching something brand new. i can see why a very young me starry-eyed child fell in love with the show.
You made one of the best purchases on DVD you could ever make-- it is well worth the money, and an integral part of my collection.
I remember the show with a deep affection as it was a bright spot of my youth when family life isn't as good as we wish. I remember giving a friend a helmet set or similar for his birthday...I wish I had kept it:-) Thanks for the happy trip down memory lane...its great seeing childhood heroes again:-)
Next time I am in SoCal though the museum is a must see for this kid of the 70's.
frankly growing up in middle school i would come home to watch not only adam 12.. but i watched Emergency as well and u can learn a lot from them ^^
Show was WAY ahead of it's time! Still love watching it!
1000x better than Baywatch and other idiocy.
I remember the pilot episode.I were 9yo on Jan 13,1972.I am still in awe 50 years later.A great masterpiece.And the greatness of the show.I did visit fire station 127 in 2005.I would love to visit the museum one day.As a retired Naval Sailor,this is what makes America Great.Helping people.That is America's Greatness!
Just the sound of the theme music gives me warm fuzzies! I had Randy Mantooths poster on my wall as a young teen!
Been a volunteer firefighter, been an EMT... And one of my proudest moments was, as a cavalry scout in the army attending a Combat Lifesaver course in the 1990s, when I put in an IV catheter on a live fellow student and I did the Johnny Gage double cap flip before connecting the IV to the catheter... Man, I felt awesome! It is the little things sometimes...
This show inspired me to become an firefighter/emt as a career
I was 6 years old (1976) when I started watching this show. My parents said that I was so focused when it came home, they could put me in front of the tv, leave the house for an hour. Come back to see I didn't move. As a result of this show, I became a firefighter and EMT. I got to meet Randolph Mantooth in Vegas in 2008 at an EMS Conference. Got my picture taken with him which hangs on my wall besides his photo of thump popping the dextrose and syringe. I told him Roy & Johnny is what started my career. 33 years later, I'm still doing EMS in the field while working at a level 1 trauma center. Thank you NBC and Jim Page for making this a reality for so many 1st Responders
I love this show. I was born in 1972 the same year the show premiered on TV I loved it as a kid and I still love it today so happy 50th to emergency and happy 50th to me. R.I.P. Bobby Troop and Julie London, aka Dr. Joe early and nurse Dixie McCall.
You left out Tim Donnelly, "Chet Kelly" Donnelly died from complications of surgery at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on September 17, 2021, at the age of 77. RIP Chet.
@@Camman010 I did not know that. Thanks for the info.....oh poor chet.😥
@@Camman010 Tim Donnelly was the brother of actor/director Dennis Donnelly.
@@lonniebooker970 oh ok..I see. Thanks for the information...again.
I was an EMT for 27 years all because of this show. Thank you.
as a 19 year old firefighter i can say this show pushed me to become a firefighter and want to get my paramedic. i absolutely love this show and the meaning behind it
30 years as a paramedic/firefighter thanks too these guys
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to watch this!! Just moved to the Philippines and miss this show so much!! I'm glad I have a few of the DVDs.
Walmart has the complete series. You can probably order it online from them.
Became a Police Officer/Paramedic in 1979. The show was watched by EVERYBODY and we'd discuss the latest episode before, during and after class.
I'm retired now, but still have the knowledge and presence that learning gave me.
Thank you COZY TV for posting
Thank you so much for posting this. I don't get Cozi where I live. I am a big Emergency fan. I watch it every night and love the show.
Randolph Mantooth was my first adult crush and when I met him years later, he won my heart 💜 all over again!!! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY EMERGENCY! And THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORIES!!
I became a paramedic/firefighter because of this show! Served 30 years! Now enjoying retirement! The highlight of my career was getting to spend the day with Randolph Mantooth! Still love and watch this show!
I watched this show as a kid, but at the time I wanted to be a cop. Years later I was working a crap job and was flipping channels and this was on a rerun. I told my evil ex-wife that I had always wanted to do what they did and she suggested I go to school for it. I spent a decade as an EMT and loved it. I finally got to meet Randy Mantooth at the EMS Expo in Vegas a few years back. Honestly, just the absolutely nicest guy I have ever had the chance to meet. We discussed the popping of the caps on the dextrose and he had a very funny story to go along with it. It's funny that one guy was talking about crying while sitting in Rescue 51, because I honestly think I would too. Hell, I was like a little kid when I sat across from Randy. What a great show.
Well this is what got me into the fire service and an emr and plus my dad was the first first responders for the department in the 80s I love doing it every day
thank you for putting this on here. We were told it would not be on here. Some of us do not have cozi so it is nice to see it
Great show. I have a cousin who works for LAFD as a captain and my father and I are active vol. FF. in PA. Big Thanks to COZI TV for airing EMERGENCY 51 today.
Emergency debuted January 15th, 1972. I have all seven seasons on DVD, plus the post Emergency movies.
There were movies?! I know what I want for Christmas!
@@KathrineJKozachok The movies are actually labeled as season 7. :)
Me too!
The Emergency Pilot was the first thing we were shown the first day of Paramedic School at Stanford University Hospital. It immediately bonded the class together (and gave us a few laughs) through only 20 of the 34 students ended up completing the course. My biggest honor was meeting Jim Page at an EMS Conference. I wouldn’t have had a fantastic fire service career without his dedication and commitment to Pre Hospital Care!
The television show Emergency tought me as a 5 year old to never quit or give up because nobody on the show ever gave up or quit no matter what the challenge
I was blessed to have been allowed to sit in Squad 51 several years ago. I have the pix framed.
Ron PInkard was a US Navy Corpsman, or Medic. He could do all the medical stuff on the show. He Retired as a Commander from the Naval Reserve and was a technical adviser for "The Hunt for Red October"
Not true
@@justsayingopinion6730 Go look up the cast and crew for Hunt for Red October, he is listed at the end along with the other Technical advisers.
Thanks for posting Cozi TV and thank you Randy and Kevin. This brought back many after school memories from watching on TV. I understand Randy and Kevin's (as well as the creators) efforts in 'Emergency!' series propelled paramedics to be dispatched on-site to administer life support under a doctors care remotely, whereas it was unheard of prior.
On an additional note: I always loved listening to the "Motorola "Quik Call" codes" and would count the number of "engines" dispatched to a location. The most that I remember counting was six. I think is was something to do with a brush fire.
I was born in 1972 the year Emergency came out and I really didn't start watching it until later on but that show was and still is the best show on television.
The show was not only great entertainment, it showcased the fledgling paramedic profession and probably advanced its widespread adoption by several years. When this show first aired, many ambulances in North America were staffed by glorified orderlies with little to no actual medical training. Emergency! was a real harbinger of the rapid advances in initial trauma treatment that would occur over the next couple of decades.
I like that it shows men being heroic. That’s otherwise all gone now.
Randolph Mantooth was in our town about 15 years ago attending an EMS Banquet for our local service. During his visit, our Rescue Company was sent to assist PD with an Auto Accident involving a Police pursuit, 2 subjects trapped in a vehicle. While extricating the trapped victims, at a quick glance we seen Randy there watching us perform the Extrication! Randy stated afterwards, of all those years of doing the same thing on TV, it was the first time he ever witnessed it in real life. A memory I'll never forget!
Great presentation. I was an EMT in younger years. Because of Rescue 911 and especially this show. Watching this, realizing the impact on US EMS, I couldn’t help wondering how many of the NYFD 343 killed on 9/11/01…were inspired to serve by this show. Again, terrific job guys.
1976 the show does an Episode called "involvement" about a Family suffering from Carbon Monoxide poisoning from a faulty heater. Just a month before in real life, Randolph Mantooth, almost died from carbon monoxide poising due to a faulty furnace in his home. He said a Deputy found him passed out on his front yard and thought he was drunk or on drugs. He was going to take him to jail when Paramedics showed up and said he had to go to the hospital right now. Mantooth remember them fighting for a bit until the Paramedics said they had authority under LA County law because he was sick. Mantooth said he had a fatal level of CO is in his blood and Doctors had no idea how he survived.
Wow that was a miracle! Did they ever find out what happen?
@@talkieful1710 His gas heater was malfunctioning.
Thank goodness for the paramedics. Thanks to them Randy Mantooth is still alive today. And I think them where ever they are. Love from Marysville California KMG 365
Let me add that this show Decided my life. I was 5 watching the show and I told my Mom that I was going to be a fireman when I grew. In 1987 I was one of 2 females that passed the fire department Class. We had no female standards, you either made it or you didn't. I passed the class with 100% and I loved every single second on the rigs. That picture is me in my bunker gear.
Loved this show as a kid and I am 60 now and still love it. Always had a crush on Johnny Gage. Thank for such a phenomenal show to watch growing up. 😊❤️🇨🇦
RIP Mike Norrel and Tim Donlly. You will be missed. Love from Marysville, California KMG 365
I was about 5 years old when the pilot aired on TV. It's amazing to think that squads went from being pickup truck chassis with a utility bed like they were back then to the self contained mobile emergency rooms that they are today.
The show demonstrated the need for intervention to start out right there at the scene and open communication between EMTs and the ER personnel. This show heavily influenced my decision to go into nursing.
Born into the fire service; hated ambulances and sick people. Along comes EMERGENCY!… Fast forward many years…. Looking back at 40 years as a paramedic, more as an EMT and firefighter. Used the LifePak 5 and the BioPhone; flipped too many Bristo-Ject caps to count. Butted heads with medical control (Joe Hummel DO, my version of Kelly Brackett). Many great partners, several beloved lost friends. A few awards-not for heroism, just for doing my job. Saved some lives, prolonged many more. A little hearing loss from the sirens; some back issues from the lifting; maybe some (undiagnosed) PTSD from everything else. Still at it, now as a flight nurse getting ready to retire. It’s all their fault; wouldn’t have it any other way…. Thanks to Mssrs. Webb and Cinader, Chief Page, the great actors on the show and the real guys who inspired them. A life well lived and a career well done.
43 years as a paramedic and now retired. John and Roy were key for me going from Navy corpsman to paramedic in civilian community.
I have the sixth season of Emergency on DVD and I absolutely love it.
I moved to a more rural area and, largely because of this show, I joined the local volunteer fire department. After about 10 years, I helped start my town's EMS squad and have been serving actively on both since then. When an EMS call comes out, my phone announces it with the squad 51 tones from the show. That's my tip of the hat to Johnny and Roy.
I loved this show as a youth. We knew many fire fighters (uncle, brother, family friends) and I used to ask them about the rescues. I used the lingo I learned on Emergency! to ask them questions-"Did you use the port-a-power?" etc. They indulged me! Love seeing Randy and Kevin and the impact of the show. Thanks
These guys were my heroes when I was a kid. A shame they don't make shows like this anymore.
Thank you all for putting this together and for uploading it here!
Hands down the best and most interesting documentary I’ve seen on TH-cam. I was born in 1968 and EMERGENCY! Was my first favorite show. I had the toys. I had the lunchbox (and yes, with the thermos) created my own adventures that included many of other action figures of the day. I did the thing with my fingers too. But the thing that really put it over the top was ( that was almost science fiction to me ) the mobile phone use to communicate with Rampart Generals’ doctors. I too wanted to be a firefighter but discovered a larger interest in coming years- the magic of filmmaking. Not so much to be a player but a creator. I love storytelling. Thank you creators of EMERGENCY!
"But the thing that really put it over the top was ( that was almost science fiction to me ) the mobile phone use to communicate with Rampart Generals’ doctors."
That was called a Biophone, and IIRC, it's in the L.A. County Fire Museum as an artifact from the Emergency! series.
This show helped raise the bar for EMS nationwide.
This was a staple show for me. I had no idea that emergency helped to push awareness about the paramedic program. In 1976 my life was saved by paramedics when I was hit by a car that resulted in a major head injury for me. So much so that I remained unconscious, and in grave condition for several days in the hospital. I'm 59 years old today and I have had no ill affects from that tragic accident. Yet anyway. I also had the pleasure of meeting Randolph Mantooth back in the 1984, or so, at a celebrity softball event. Even got pics with him and my wife. This show was very impactfull on a lot of lives. Great memories.
Growing up in the 60’s this show was and still is my all time favorite show from the 70’s. Not a lot of people left from the show. May who all passed away from the show may they all rest in peace🙏🙏🙏
A girl I went to school with her Cousin is Actor Mario Lopez who played A Fireman on the show & wrote a Cook Book to sell to the public a Very nice. guy 👍😊
It's Marco Lopez and I have known him for 29 years
@@michaelgreen3648 Thanks his cousin reminded me of his name his other relatives own a hardware store & a huge strawberry farm Kool
@@ericromeiro6688 you're welcome!! Was that in Fresno?
@@michaelgreen3648 Hanford & Watsonville
That was fantastic! Thanks for posting it.
You never see a show like this ever again
I'M SO HAPPY THAT YOU GUYS MADE THE SHOW EMERGENCY, MY 3 GIRLS LEARN A LOT, WATCHING EMERGENCY, MY 3 GIRLS LEARN FROM WATCHING THE SHOW EMERGENCY, THAT HOW MY 3 GIRLS KNEW WANT TO DO , IF ANY EMERGENCY CAME UP, I THANK YOU GUYS FOR MAKING THIS SHOW EMERGENCY, I APPRECIATE ALL YOU GUYS WHO HAD PART OF THIS SHOW EMERGENCY, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
A BIGGEST FAN OF THE SHOW EMERGENCY FROM ME AND MY 3 GIRLS.🧑🚒🚒🚑🎬🎥🚨
I’m one of those folks who found this show at age 8 (in 1972), and thought that firefighter/paramedic looked like the coolest job in the world. I can say without hesitation (after a 38 year career as a FF/EMT-P) that it was.
Ironically, both Travolta and Glenn would go on to portray firefighters in feature films. Travolta as Capt./Deputy Chief Mike Kennedy in "Ladder 49" and Glenn as John "Axe" Adcox in "Backdraft".
Travolta? Wasn't he too young to be on this show?
@@Stache987 Try watching the entire video.
Randy Mantooth is still so handsome at 70+ years old! My mom had a huge crush on him and Robert Fuller. I remember watching this in syndication when I was younger with her. Now she’s gone and I still watch old episodes and love the memories.
They were both so handsome!
I wouldn't be a nurse (RN) today if it weren't for Emergency...Now 38 years later I am still doing what I do best becaue of this awesome show. Thank you, all the cast and crew who changed my llife bor the better!
There was one big omission from the cast.
Sam Lanier the voice of the show. A real life LA county Dispatcher who helped make the show even more realistic.
I loved the scenes where he was looking up the response matrixes and pushing all the station tones when a big call was coming in!
GJ////// I believe Adam 12 also used an actual police dispatcher's voice. I recognized it when listening to PD radio in LA.
@@k0smon Yes, she was a Real Dispatcher. And she did a audio tribute to Martin Milner after he passed.
Things changed a bit from the old days of Emergency, when I was working on the rig, we were switching to mobile telephones to talk with the receiving physician. Favorite little piece of history is the VHF Med-Ten. We had them as a backup radio system. Yes, the real handset seen in the show, it featured a tone encoder that was patched to the Electrocardiograph. Loved that warbling tone. We used 800 MHz trunked voice, and interpreted the EKG in the field. Still, the Med-10, the familiar beige box, was always live.
The hospitals in the county all had receivers active, and we tested them every shift. Working late night calls, we could let fellow medic crews know we were out and about, and loved it. The county dispatch center would sometimes chime in, "Unit on Med 10 identify?" We all smiled. Guess the radio check is good.
We all loved it, this is the exact radio handset from the show.
THAT'S what that sound is! I always wondered why their EKG made that sound, when no EKG I've ever had did. That makes perfect sense. Thank you!!
Thank goodness here in Puerto Rico there are no poisonous snakes in their forests at all, only scorpions and poisonous spiders. 🦂🕷🕸
My Dad and I didn't have that much in common but we both gathered in the living room to watch on saturday nights . Great show !
COZI TV thank you for sharing this, I can't see your channel in my area at the present time.
Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe, I'm 59 and want to thank you for the TV series Emergency. I watched as many episodes as I possibly could. I'd make believe I was one of you guys at the emergency scene. I'd call Rampart, talk to Nurse Dixie and relay to her the vital signs and injuries of the patients I was treating. She and Doctor Brackett would instruct me on how best to treat them.
That show was way cool and I cheered for you guys every episode I watched.
I remember watching the show in the 1970s. Almost 50 years later my nephew became a firefighter, then went on to become a paramedic.
Emergency! Was the best fire service related show ever on tv.
This show developed a whole new generation of firefighters .
And STILL DOES!
I would have thought somebody hasn't redone this show in our modern times.
These actors were fantastic .
Portrayed this profession , with dignity and pride .
Absolutely still my favorite show about Firefighting .
There's never been another even close .
The most famous show in my era . I became a Firefighter because of this show.
I got hooked 1st episode !
So grateful for this show.
"I got hooked 1st episode ! "
So did I (albeit it was with the first episode of the second season); from there forward, it just got better and better (not many shows I've gotten lately on DVD have had what it takes to come out all flags flying, and this is one of those few that had the best of the best).
I was born in 1999. I am a full time Firefighter Paramedic. My dad is a career Firefighter Paramedic. When I was in kindergarten, I’d come home from school and watch Emergency. Because of that show and the culture I was raised in, I am now a 4th generation firefighter. It’s safe to say that without this show, I wouldn’t have a job.
Like so many others, this show is what made a firefighter out me (after a hitch in the USAF).
Retired Assistant Chief, EMT-P.
Back in the late 50's, early 60's there was a show called "Rescue 8". Which I loved to watch, then "Emergency" came along and I was hooked. Thank you! 🇺🇸
0:23 they're swimming to a sunken Beetle. So much for "Volkswagens can float" LOL
Watched EVERY episode at least twice on FETV channel, love it, shows where paramedics started from and amazed how far they have come since then.
Best of the best! Emergency!! Yes!!!! I have the complete series and watch it every day in the evenings! Love the show, the characters, the realistic nature of every rescue, the humor, the representation of all firefighters and paramedics, and I have beyond words, total respect for all first responders that are out there to serve and save. Blessings to you all!
Just found this video, a year later. I have a multi-part story to relate in regards to it.
I was a small child when this show first aired. I had many of the related toys at the time. I loved the show, and it inspired me in many ways.
That's only the beginning. A girl that lived up the street from me, her father was a firefighter down at the end of our block, and he allowed us kids access to the two-story firehouse when we were behaving ourselves. Of course, Paramedics weren't a thing back then... but the firehouse became a "hangout" for us, because of that show.
Fast forward many years, to the late 80s, I was in college, and took an EMT/EMS class (we were told it could count as our "Health Credit"..... and despite some misinformation, it DID count as that for our class), and I learned basic life saving skills that have saved multiple lives in "Emergency!" situations (pun intended).
It was a set of events that started when I was a small child, and directly because of this series, that led me to be able to save the lives of a few people who would have died had I not been instructed with what it would take to save their lives. As I told one of the people whose life I saved, "You don't OWE me anything... but you've been given a second chance at life. Make the most of it."
Despite the show being "dated" in its look and feel, it was an important time and holds a very special place in the hearts of those of us affected by it, and more importantly, to the lives of those who were saved BECAUSE of the show that inspired us. Without that influence, history would be much different.
This was awesome! Coming from a family of Marines,cops and firefighters,I love this show
Great job Cozi crew. I was glued to my set every week watching the show and glad it’s still remembered so fondly and your tribute was all class. Now I need to go look for my copy of the game.
I loved this show as a kid….I didn’t realize that it was so revolutionizing …I rediscovered it recently on FEtv..