ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

stalaro9 OK, I'm glad to know I'm not the only gal who thought Randolph Mantooth was an absolute heartthrob!! Even though I was born in 72 my mother always said that when she watched the show with me in her arms, I would fall asleep to the sound of the siren! Guess I was an Emergency fan from the cradle on!! As I grew up I remember my mom saying how Dr. Brackett made her heart go pitter-patter! Then one day I saw the reruns and was hooked, just like mom!! But it wasn't Dr. Brackett that made my heart go pitter-patter,(sorry Robert!) it was Johnny Gage!!! Sure the other guys were good looking, but Johnny was my main man! My mother just laughed and said "he is quite a hottie!" while I was glued to the screen! Soon, mom and I would sit down together every day and watch the reruns! It was more than just the excitement of the rescues and the chance to see my newest crush, it was the time I got to spend with my mother. Now I own every DVD I could find, all 6 seasons and the Final Rescue! As I've watched the DVD's and learned more about Randolph Mantooth, I realized that I couldn't have picked a better person to have a schoolgirl crush on!! Thank you Emergency, for giving us a crew of actors/actresses that were not only great on screen but off screen as well!! Each with unique attributes you would be hard pressed to find in today's big screen/TV actors/actresses! Randolph is still a heartthrob to this day!! Must be that Indian blood! But most of all, thanks Emergency for giving us all a show that parents and kids could watch together and show to their own kids when they got older!! Even though she is gone, when I watch the DVD's, I can still feel my mother's heart go pitter-patter along with mine when our two favorite heartthrobs are on the screen! Thanks guys!!

calvinnme I remember watching this great show on Saturday nights back when I was in high school. In those days, the networks put the good TV shows on Saturdays. Today, Saturday night is a graveyard for the pseudo-cancelled. It's hard to believe that almost 40 years ago the concept of the paramedic was a novel one, and this is a great show about the problems and personal lives of those involved in those early days of the program.Emergency kept the pace fast and interesting with a combination of strange, dramatic, and even humorous cases. More unusual cases I remember from the series include the rescue of a boy trapped inside his own homemade rocket, a man who has difficulty breathing because he has swallowed his partial dental plate, an amateur magician trapped in a safe, a bank robbery hostage has symptoms of a heart attack and the paramedics have to treat him at gunpoint, a patient with an earache caused by mothballs, and an artist trapped inside his own sculpture.The personal side of Emergency is interesting too. The chemistry between paramedics John Gage and Roy DeSoto is great and their various misadventures are frequently humorous. They're good friends but quite different people. Roy is a family man through and through, and John is a carefree single guy. I remember one particularly funny conversation in which John is actually thinking about marriage but is not sure he and the girl have known each other long enough. He asks Roy how long he knew his wife before they got married and Roy says 12 years. When John says that is a ridiculous period of time to wait, Roy mentions that he and his wife met in the fourth grade. That's a pretty typical conversation for the two. I highly recommend this series. If you've never seen it, even though medicine has changed drastically, it is still good entertainment. Highly recommended.

DKosty123 In a way, Jack Webb cloned his Adam-12 success with this series in 1972. The setting & cast are different, I mean how can anyone with a colorful name like Randolph Mantooth fail? The regulars on this series provided some spark for sure as like the Adam-12 team they provided some of the spark for this show too.Another similar thing is the action. Being set in a fire house & on the streets often on calls, Emergency has it's fair share of action sequences. Most of them are very well done too. One difference between this & Adam-12 is that it is set in a 60 minute format so the stories could be bigger & more extensive.This had to be an easy sell to NBC execs, as you have the experienced Jack Webb production team who seems to endlessly come up with good action stories & endlessly keeps finding cast members that play off each other well. This show was a very good show.Once again, rerun heaven for it might be established once it is released on DVD, as it might pick up some fans.

Brenden The beginning of the show, in the Wedsworth-Townsend Act, everything is quiet, your seeing the fire trucks, then you go up the pole, see all of the fireman and then, breaking the silence, the big loud fire alarm blasts waking not only you but also the fireman up. The fire trucks race to the scene and you can sense what the show is like from there. Johnny and Roy are one of the most memorable characters from the jokes to the rescues and then to serious matters, you can always know that they are ready for anything. The hospital always packs all kinds of scenarios from a lady getting stuck to a toilet seat to a doctor in Rampart Emergency dieing of a heart attack, the hospital always has something either unusual or something serious to show you. When squad 51 goes out on a rescue Johnny and Roy immediately start to provide the best medical care, they flip open the biophone, they get the information and they administer the drugs. After watching a couple of episodes of Emergency, you will never want to stop watching it. Buying Emergency! on DVD would be one of the greatest investments you ever made.