I recently bought season one of the 1970's show, Emergency!, going on my memory of enjoying it as a kid. I started watching it last Saturday, and it's just as much fun now as I remember it as a child. (I was 7 or 8 when it came out.)
The pilot episode covers the establishment of the paramedic program in California. We take such a program for granted and a given today, but who could imagine that it was ever not around, and that it could have been controversial. Apparently, the controversy arose over the paramedics not being doctors, and many doctors wanting true doctors to be doing everything (that is, if the show's plot had any basis in reality — and I believe it does, unlike any sit-com out there today, which has no basis in reality because people never act as stupid in these types of situations as they are portrayed).
Anyway, the vehicles look very dated, though I'm sure they looked quite modern at the time the show was made, but other than that, it's quite enjoyable.
2 comments:
well, I watched the pilot and the next episode...
I don't think I ever saw the pilot - thought it was interesting that Jack Webb directed it!
Definitely a seventies vibe, although the work affair with Dixie and Doctor Brackett looks a lot like a more sedate Grey's Anatomy plot.
The opening credits crack me up where HUGE titles show up completely obscuring the person they are introducing.
Hmm, after a little looking around, I see Jack Webb created the show. I'd either forgotten or didn't know that Julie London was Jack Webb's wife. Also saw photos of Julie London and Bobby Troup (doctor Joe Early) together in 50's movies/candids - a Rat Pack redux? And blatant croneyism in the casting? Say it ain't so!
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