Emergency! debuted on NBC on 1/15/1972. Despite the changing protocols (paramedics haven't had to call the hospital for instructions for many years) and technology over the last 51 years, still holds up. In a probable homage to the show, the station in Chicago Fire is also numbered 51. I enjoyed it both then (early teens) and now.

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I wish it was available on TV or streaming. MeTV plays Adam-12 and Dragnet, but not Emergency. I always enjoyed the show and would love to watch it again.

I get it on FETV. Two back-to-back episodes also run on COZI-TV weekday mornings.

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That was one of the first TV shows I ever was a fan of. I was a little kid in the'70s, and I was so excited when they came out with the cartoon version of that show for Saturday Morning, Emergency +4. The first lunch box I ever brought to school was the Emergency one. I've been thinking about eBaying one for quite awhile now.

As a kid, that was my ALL-TIME favorite show. Still remember the call sign…

Station 51 KMG365

That show laid the ground work for almost all paramedic procedures today. It was actually ground-breaking…

Rampart…this is Squad 51. Nurse Kitty… EVERYTHING was “start IV with D5W ringers lactate”.

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Originally posted by LastCubScout:
....... they came out with the cartoon version of that show for Saturday Morning, Emergency +4.

Why does this look a scene from Scooby Doo ?

The writers kind of goofed in the canon of the whole thing here

https://www.metv.com/stories/a...-by-an-earlier-story

there was an episode of Emergency where they are watching Adam-12 on TV. Then later on Adam-12, Gage and DeSoto meet Reed and Moloy at the Hospital, face to face.

A bit of an writer's error, but still cool shows, both of them.

I still occasionally catch it on one of the OTA channels, don't recall which one at the moment. MeTV maybe? Julie London was uber hot.

Batman, superman, Gage, DeSoto, M. Dillon,.

Do Reed and Malloy make the cut ?

The show Chicago fire was touted as being an homage to Emergency,
When it first aired.

But when they strayed too far from the format by all the lying ,stealing ,cheating, fornicating ,
Boozing ,
Credibility went out the window to any semblance of Emergency

Yes , Iam sure today's responders experience all that but it's on 80 % of other tv shows.
It just gets old.

Ahhh
One of my favorite TV shows growing up

I don't remember it but my parents tell me I was addicted to it...

I still watch the show almost everyday on the cozi tv channel.

I love watching the scenes when they are being dispatched and pulling out of the firehouse.. There is almost no traffic..

(That goes the same for Adam-12)

Yeah I really like Emergency.

In that era, I watched shows like Archie Bunker, Little House on the Prairie, and many others. Today I just really can't stand to watch those anymore. The exception is Emergency.

I need to search and see if I can buy a DVD set of the series.
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An episode airing this morning had singer Bobby Sherman as a guest star. His character was a newly minted doctor who initially looked down on the paramedics, but went on a "ride-along" and held them in high respect afterwards. Not long after, Sherman became a real-life paramedic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...entertainment_career

I watched it as a kid growing up and started out taking my very first first aid course at 15, and I kept taking courses up to the senior industrial level

wanted to be a paramedic growing up

I still watch the show occasionally, and coincidentally I saw the one with Bobby Sherman

Back in Navy Hospital Corps School, we were instructed NOT to squirt medications, etc. out of a syringe as on "Emergency". Or a CPO or Nurse Corps officer would box our ears (figure of speech).

I had a serious crush on Dixie McCall.

Definitely one of the staple shows of my childhood along with “Adam-12,” “S.W.A.T.,” and “The Rookies” and similar.

In the early years of that show, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department collaborated on the production in that where scenes called for a law enforcement officer to be part of the storyline, LASD provided vehicles and proper uniforms to the actor(s). (Later in the show, I seem to recall that LAPD officers were depicted rather than LASD deputies).

My father was with LASD at the time and that was one of his assignments, coordinating such things with various elements in the TV and film industries. For some reason, I seem to recall that he liked Kevin Tighe (Roy DeSoto) but not so much Randolph Mantooth (Johnny Gage) for reasons that I don’t recall off-hand; I will have to ask him about this the next time I see him haha…

Great shown and one of my childhood favorites. Still watch it to this day. D5W can cure anything.

About one third of my paramedic class in 1985, myself included, became paramedics because of that show.

They went through a high angle rescue phase for awhile,

Do you remember the Sea Land episode where they were way the hell up there on top of the rotating elevator ?