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Emergency 1972 Seasons 01-05
Created by Robert A. Cinader
Harold Jack Bloom
Starring Robert Fuller
Julie London
Bobby Troup
Randolph Mantooth
Kevin Tighe
Tim Donnelly
Mike Stoker
Marco Lopez
Michael Norell
Ron Pinkard
Theme music composer Nelson Riddle
Composer(s) Nelson Riddle
Billy May
(incidental music)
No. of seasons 7
No. of episodes 134 (including 6 TV movies)
Production
Executive producer(s) Jack Webb
Robert A. Cinader
Hannah Louise Shearer
Producer(s) Robert A. Cinader
Edwin Self
William Stark
Editor(s) Richard Belding supervisor
and others
Running time approx. 50 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel NBC
Original run January 15, 1972 –
June 26, 1978
Chronology
Related shows Sierra
Adam-12
Emergency! is an American television series that combines the medical drama and action-adventure genres. It was produced by Mark VII Limited (Jack Webb’s company) and distributed by Universal Studios. It debuted as a midseason replacement on January 15, 1972, on NBC, replacing the short-lived series The Good Life, and ran until September 3, 1977. Emergency! was created and produced by Jack Webb and Robert Cinader, both of whom were also responsible for the police drama Adam-12. The show focuses on paramedics John Gage and Roy DeSoto (played by Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe) of the Los Angeles County Fire Department's Station 51 (actually Station 127 in Carson, California), and the hospital emergency room staff (played by Robert Fuller, Julie London and Bobby Troup) with whom the paramedics work to save lives. It was also the first show to feature paramedics who help rescue victimized or hurt patients. Emergency! and Adam-12 were similar in that they featured dedicated civil servants handling two or three varied and unrelated incidents during a typical shift; however, Emergency!, with its larger cast and sixty-minute running time compared to the half-hour allotted for Adam-12, typically allowed for more plot and character development.
Despite not being a Top 30 series for six seasons, Emergency! was still an audience favorite show, and despite good ratings, it was canceled in 1977. However, the show returned as a series of six "Movie of the Week" specials between late 1977 and the spring of 1979. Three of the TV movies have the two paramedic characters traveling to San Francisco (twice) and Seattle for EMS conventions. While in both cities they end up assisting the local agencies (San Francisco's Rescue-2 and Seattle's Medic One) with several rescues. The others were "Steel Inferno" (a high rise blaze), "Survival on Charter #220" (two airplanes crash over a residential neighborhood—at the time it was reportedly the most expensive TV-movie ever made)[citation needed] and a finale in which the firefighter/paramedics are promoted to captain.
Series stars, wife and husband (London and Troup), Mantooth and Tighe appeared in all the episodes of the series, throughout its run. Fuller, who appeared in all but two episodes, also stayed throughout its entire run.
Composers Nelson Riddle and Billy May are credited with the music for the series.
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