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'Emergency!'
Emergency! title screen
Also known as	Emergency One! (in original syndication to distinguish re-runs from first-run episodes)
Format	Drama
Created by	Robert A. Drama is the specific mode of Fiction represented in Performance. 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)	Billy May Nelson Riddle
Country of origin	United States
No. Harold Jack Bloom ( April 26, 1924 - August 27, 1999) was a Television producer and Screenwriter who scored a notable Robert Fuller (born) is an American Actor, best known for starring roles on the popular 1960s western series Laramie and Julie London ( September 26, 1926 &ndash October 18, 2000) was an American singer and actress Bobby Troup ( October 18 1918 - February 7 1999) was an American Actor, Jazz Pianist and Songwriter Randolph Mantooth (born September 19, 1945 in Sacramento, California) is an American Character actor, best known for Kevin Tighe (born John Kevin Fishburn on August 13, 1944 in Los Angeles California) is an American actor best remembered for his Mike Stoker is a retired Firefighter, Engineer and Captain with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Nelson Smock Riddle Jr ( June 1, 1921 &ndash October 6, 1985) was a well-known American bandleader arranger and William E May, better known as Billy May ( 10 November, 1916 – 22 January, 2004) was an American Composer, The United States of America —commonly referred to as the of seasons	6
No. of episodes	128 plus 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
Location(s)	Los Angeles, CA
Running time	60 min. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean.
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	January 15, 1972 – July 3, 1979
Chronology
Related shows	Sierra Adam-12
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Emergency! was a medical drama television series that was produced by Mark VII Limited (Jack Webb's company) and distributed by Universal Studios. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Events 588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah 's reign Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Sierra was a short-lived 1974 television Crime drama series focusing on the efforts of National Park Service rangers to enforce Adam-12 is a Television program which ran from September 21, 1968 until August 30, 1975 on NBC for 175 Medicine is the art and science of healing It encompasses a range of Health care practices evolved to maintain and restore Human Health by the Drama is the specific mode of Fiction represented in Performance. A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U Mark VII Limited was the production company of actor producer and director Jack Webb, and was active from 1951 to 1979. John Randolph "Jack" Webb ( April 2 1920 &ndash December 23 1982) was an Emmy -nominated American Actor Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios) a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is a major Global American 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. In North American (American/Canadian television a midseason replacement is a television show that premieres in the second half of the traditional Television season, usually Events 588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah 's reign Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's The Good Life was a Situation comedy which was aired in the United States by NBC as part of its 1971-72 lineup. Events 36 BC - In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays It was created and produced by Jack Webb and Robert Cinader, both of whom were also responsible for the police drama Adam-12. John Randolph "Jack" Webb ( April 2 1920 &ndash December 23 1982) was an Emmy -nominated American Actor Adam-12 is a Television program which ran from September 21, 1968 until August 30, 1975 on NBC for 175 The shows were similar in that they featured dedicated civil servants handling two or three varied and unrelated incidents during a typical shift.

The show returned as a series of six "Movie of the Week" specials between late 1977 and the spring of 1979. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) 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), and a finale in which the firefighter/paramedics are promoted to captain.

Noted composers Nelson Riddle and Billy May are credited with the music for the series. Nelson Smock Riddle Jr ( June 1, 1921 &ndash October 6, 1985) was a well-known American bandleader arranger and William E May, better known as Billy May ( 10 November, 1916 – 22 January, 2004) was an American Composer,

About the series

The series followed the early years of the Paramedic program in the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD) with the focus on the personnel of Fire Station 51, in particular Firefighter/Paramedics John Gage (Randolph Mantooth) and Roy DeSoto (Kevin Tighe). A paramedic is a medical professional usually a member of the emergency medical service, who primarily provides Pre-hospital advanced medical and Los Angeles County is a county in California and is by far the most populous county in the United States. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire This article lists characters of the television series Emergency!. Randolph Mantooth (born September 19, 1945 in Sacramento, California) is an American Character actor, best known for This article lists characters of the television series Emergency!. Kevin Tighe (born John Kevin Fishburn on August 13, 1944 in Los Angeles California) is an American actor best remembered for his The paramedics coordinated with the Emergency Room (ER) staff of Rampart General Hospital: Dr. Kelly Brackett (Robert Fuller), Dr. Joe Early (Bobby Troup), Dr. Rampart General Hospital is the fictional hospital in the series Emergency! and located in Los Angeles, California. This article lists characters of the television series Emergency!. Robert Fuller (born) is an American Actor, best known for starring roles on the popular 1960s western series Laramie and This article lists characters of the television series Emergency!. Bobby Troup ( October 18 1918 - February 7 1999) was an American Actor, Jazz Pianist and Songwriter Mike Morton (Ron Pinkard), and head nurse Dixie McCall (Julie London). This article lists characters of the television series Emergency!. Julie London ( September 26, 1926 &ndash October 18, 2000) was an American singer and actress

Other regular characters

The crew of Engine 51 was portrayed by Chet Kelly (Tim Donnelly), Marco Lopez (Marco Lopez, uses his real name), Mike Stoker (LACoFD firefighter Mike Stoker as himself), Captain Dick Hammer (LACoFD Captain Dick Hammer as himself, later John Smith, first season), Captain Hank Stanley (Michael Norell, remaining seasons). This article lists characters of the television series Emergency!. Mike Stoker is a retired Firefighter, Engineer and Captain with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. This article lists characters of the television series Emergency!. LACoFD Dispatcher Sam Lanier portrayed himself in an uncredited voice role (over the radio) throughout the series.

Marco Lopez spoke Spanish, and occasionally translated for the crew when a victim or onlooker spoke Spanish but no English. Lopez had done this occasionally on Dragnet as well. Interestingly, in the episode "Fools," Lopez and an onlooker speak Spanish using words and constructions not proper in real-life Spanish.

Other occasional regulars included Battalion Chiefs Conrad (Art Balinger) and McConnike (William Boyett), Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Vince (Vince Howard), and recurring ambulance attendants Albert "Al" (Angelo DeMeo) and his assistant, George (George Orrison). William Boyett ( January 3, 1927 &ndash December 29, 2004) was an American actor best known for his work as the low-key but authoritative Sergeant Los Angeles County is a county in California and is by far the most populous county in the United States. Vince Howard is an American actor who has made many guest appearances on television An ambulance is a Vehicle for transporting sick or injured people to from or between places of treatment for an Illness or Injury.

Highlights

The show highlighted the adventures of the then-fledgling paramedic program, and its popularity coincided with (and may have encouraged) the widespread establishment and improvement of emergency medical services paramedic programs across North America in the middle and late 1970s. Los Angeles County was one of the first communities - along with Seattle, Miami, and Pittsburgh - to start a paramedic program in connection with the fire department between 1969 and 1971. The show was also credited for demonstrating first aid techniques that enabled some viewers to save lives in real medical emergencies. First aid is the provision of initial care for an Illness or Injury. A medical emergency is an Injury or Illness that is acute and poses an immediate risk to a person's life or long term health When the medical community saw that the general public were using First Aid and CPR in response to this show, they started the teaching programs for CPR in every state. However, the show later had to add a disclaimer stating that the first aid techniques demonstrated should only be performed by trained persons. A disclaimer is generally any statement intended to specify or delimit the scope of rights and obligations that may be exercised and enforced by parties in a legally-recognized relationship

Actual local disasters were worked into some story lines, such as the 1971 Sylmar earthquake which destroyed the newly-completed Olive View Medical Center in the San Fernando Valley; and a 1973 brush fire on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The 1971 San Fernando earthquake (also known as Sylmar earthquake) struck the San Fernando Valley near Sylmar at 60055 a The San Fernando Valley or The Valley is an urbanized Valley located in the north-western section of the city of Los Angeles California, United States Palos Verdes is a name often used to refer to a group of rich people on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in southwestern Los Angeles County in California.

Spin-offs and crossovers

Emergency! was a third generation spin-off, having been spawned from Adam-12, which itself was spun off from Jack Webb's Dragnet. Adam-12 is a Television program which ran from September 21, 1968 until August 30, 1975 on NBC for 175

Characters from Emergency! and Adam-12 crossover on two occasions. The police officers appeared in the pilot episode of Emergency!, and the firefighter/paramedics appeared in the Adam-12 episode titled "Lost and Found". Strangely, in a different episode of Emergency!, there was a subplot in which the crew of Station 51 watched Adam-12 as a television show. Further complicating things, is the fact that the Los Angeles County Fire Department does not serve the City of Los Angeles. This makes the crossover somewhat factually dubious, which is not typical of the ultra-realistic Jack Webb productions. John Randolph "Jack" Webb ( April 2 1920 &ndash December 23 1982) was an Emmy -nominated American Actor

Emergency! spun-off an animated version called Emergency +4 which ran from 1973 to 1976, and featured four teenagers who participated in adventures with the firefighter/paramedics.

Johnny and Roy also appeared in the tenth episode of Sierra, another Webb/Cinadar production centered around a pair of National Park Service rangers, which appeared for only one season in 1974. Sierra was a short-lived 1974 television Crime drama series focusing on the efforts of National Park Service rangers to enforce The National Park Service ( NPS) is the United States federal agency that manages all National Parks, many National Monuments, and other conservation A Park ranger is a person in lead of protecting and preserving parklands - national state or provincial parks Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. In that episode, The Urban Ranger, the two paramedics participate in mountain rescue training and get involved in many of the episode's subplots. Mountain rescue refers to Search and rescue activities that occur in a mountainous environment although the term is sometimes also used to apply to search and rescue in Following recurring themes from Emergency!, Johnny continues to fail in his attempts to get a date, while Roy briefly considers changing careers to become a park ranger. ^[1]

TV movies and comic books

From 1977 through 1979, the show returned as a series of "Movies of the Week". Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) The movies included "Emergency: Survival on Charter #220 ", "Most Deadly Passage", "The Steel Inferno", "The Convention", and "Greatest Rescues Of Emergency". "Emergency: Survival on Charter #220" which was the first TV movie after the show was cancelled in 1977 and first aired in January 1978 would be the last time the entire original cast of the show was featured. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) After this, from "Most Deadly Passage" on, Gage and DeSoto were the sole original cast members in the remaining TV movies. The last movie aired "Greatest Rescues Of Emergency" aired on New Year's Eve 1978 and featured mainly flashbacks from the original series to the notable rescues and incidents involving Gage and DeSoto. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) The paramedics/firefighters were also promoted to captains in this final movie, capping the six season run of Emergency with a "happy ending" for both Gage and DeSoto.

The TV movies were in syndication on TV Land during 2001 and also were shown in syndication as two-part episodes starting in the 1980's. TV Land (originally Nick at Nite's TV Land) is an American Cable television network launched April 29, 1996. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989.

The "Most Deadly Passage" TV movie was actually considered a pilot for a proposed series "Medic 1 Seattle" about Seattle area EMS/Firefighters.

Charlton Comics published several issues of an Emergency! comic book in the mid-1970s. Charlton Comics was an American Comic book publishing company that existed from 1946 to 1986 having begun under a different name in 1944 One of the issues is notable for being among the earliest published work of John Byrne. John Lindley Byrne (born July 6 1950) is a British -born Canadian - American author and artist of Comic books Since the ^[2] Charlton also published four issues of an illustrated black-and-white magazine featuring art by Neal Adams and others. Neal Adams (born June 6, 1941, Governors Island, Manhattan, New York City) is an American Comic book and ^[3]

Syndications

When the program was first syndicated in reruns, it went by the title Emergency One! starting in 1976 to avoid confusion with the new episodes still airing on Saturday nights on NBC and continued to be called that when the TV movies aired as well. In Broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast Radio shows and Television shows to multiple individual stations without going through Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's It would revert back to Emergency in syndication in 1979. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Renaming programs for syndication was commonplace until the 1980s. It is rarely seen today because the series is now owned by the Jack Webb Estate.

In early 2008, NBC made the first season of Emergency! available on their website, with full episodes available for free viewing. [1]

DVD releases

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released the first four seasons of Emergency! on DVD in Region 1. Universal Studios Home Entertainment (formerly Universal Studios Home Video or MCA/Universal Home Video) is a Home video company founded in 1980

Name	Ep#	Region 1	Region 2
Season One	12	August 23, 2005	TBA
Season Two	21	February 7, 2006	TBA
Season Three	22	February 13, 2007	TBA
Season Four	23	January 29, 2008	TBA

Series format

Where Webb's Dragnet typically followed a pair of detectives investigating a single crime or a series of related crimes, Emergency typically followed the firefighters and paramedics of Station 51, and the Emergency Room staff of Rampart Hospital, through a series of incidents, some of which advance one or more overall plot threads that serve to unify the episode, and others of which are completely unrelated. Events 79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring on the feast day of Vulcan the Roman god of fire Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 457 - Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1074 - Battle of Montesarchio in which the Prince Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Dragnet, aka LA Dragnet (new title in USA is a long-running radio and television Police procedural drama about the cases of a dedicated Usually, the very first incident or its aftermath will begin the overall plot. Most episodes included at least one incident included strictly for comic relief, which usually involved someone or something humorously trapped in an unexpected yet basically harmless manner, yet which requires intervention by the crew of Station 51 and/or Rampart Hospital. Episodes frequently concluded with a spectacular fire or rescue taking up the entire final act, with the overall plot usually concluding in concurrence with the final incident in some way.

Where Dragnet and Adam-12 were half-hour shows, Emergency, because of the greater scope of its format, was a full-hour series. Dragnet, aka LA Dragnet (new title in USA is a long-running radio and television Police procedural drama about the cases of a dedicated Adam-12 is a Television program which ran from September 21, 1968 until August 30, 1975 on NBC for 175

Fire apparatus, equipment, stations and personnel

The creators of Emergency! made significant efforts to accurately portray the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD) by utilizing current apparatus and equipment in the series. A fire apparatus, fire engine, fire truck, or fire appliance is a vehicle designed to assist in fighting Fires by transporting Firefighters Note This list is incomplete. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it Although a few key items were fictionalized, such as the identification of Station 51 and its equipment, many of the locations and apparatus reflected the operating reality of locations used in some filming. The extensive cooperation of the LACoFD is repeatedly apparent in the program.

Apparatus

Squad 51

The vehicle which portrayed Squad 51 was produced by Universal crews as an accurate replica of the units built in-house on stock truck chassis by LACoFD at the time. The LACoFD shops were unable to fulfill a request from Universal to build a unit for the show within the short deadline the studio asked, but did provide the blueprints to Universal crews so the studio could build its own unit on a 1972 Dodge D300 chassis (this conversion was subsequently completed on a 1973 and 1974 Dodge D300 chassis as well). A blueprint is a type of paper-based reproduction usually of a Technical drawing, documenting an Architecture or an Engineering design Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A chassis (plural "chassis" (ˈʃæːsiː ˈtʃæːsiː consists of a framework that supports an inanimate object analogous to an Animal 's The replica's accuracy is evident in that after the filming of the show, the studio donated the unit to LACoFD in 1978, which pressed it into occasional service as a reserve unit before it was eventually retired from service. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar)

It is interesting to note that there is a visible red metal plate mounted on the box behind the back window. This is because there was a special compartment built in the box for mounting a camera so that the viewer can look over the men's shoulders as they were driving down the road.

In 1999, LACoFD donated the Universal-built squad to the County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association [2], and it has been restored by the museum and is housed in their South Gate warehouse at 8635 Otis St, South Gate, CA. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) The warehouse is only open two times a year or by special arrangement.

Engine 51

The original Engine 51 was a 1965 open cab Crown Firecoach, and was portrayed by LACoFD Engine 127's 1965 Crown in stock footage at the fire station (in reality LACoFD Station 127), and by LACoFD Engine 60's 1965 Crown (the unit assigned to Universal Studios) for filming on the grounds of the studio. Crown Coach Corporation was founded by D Brockway in 1904 as the "Crown Carriage Company" in Los Angeles California, eventually moving factory operations to In a few isolated instances from the first and second seasons, the regular apparatus borrowed from LACoFD and used for filming appear to have been unavailable as some scenes show a slightly different vintage Crown Firecoach pumper, most evident by the different style of emergency lights on the cab's roof. The mixing of stock station and response footage with footage filmed for specific storylines created continuity errors by mixing these apparatus.

Beginning early in the third season and through the end of the series, Engine 51 was portrayed by a 1973 Ward LaFrance P80 Ambassador triple-combination pumper. LACoFD was purchasing numerous P80s at the time, and Ward LaFrance donated a P80 unit to Universal Studios specifically for use in the show. The Ward LaFrance Engine 51 was thus not a disguised unit and did not require the use of LACoFD resources for filming.

Engine 127's 1965 Crown, one of the two originally used for the show, was later refitted with a closed cab. Eventually it was placed into reserve status when Station 127 received a new engine. In its reserve capacity, it was serving temporarily as Engine 95 when it was involved in a serious collision. Beyond repair, it was salvaged for parts and sold as scrap. ^[4] The County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association now owns and has restored the 1965 Crown which formerly served as Engine 60 at Universal Studios^[5] and appeared most often as the Crown version of Engine 51, while the Ward LaFrance P80 Ambassador that portrayed Engine 51 remains in active service today as Yosemite National Park's Engine 7. ^[6] According to an agreement with the Park, the County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association will obtain this vehicle upon its expected retirement from service at Yosemite in 2012.

Locations

Station 51

Station 51 was portrayed by LACoFD Fire station 127, located at 2049 East 223rd Street (between Wilmington and Alameda Streets) in Carson, California ( 33°49′28″N, 118°14′18″W), and it is still in use today^[7]. A fire station (also called stationhouse) is a structure or other area set aside for storage of firefighting apparatus (i Carson is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Universal was permitted to use the station number of "51" for the program because at that time there was no existing Station 51 since the closing of LACoFD Station 51, located near the intersection of Arlington Ave and Atlantic Ave, in the late 1960s due to the area being annexed by the city of Lynwood.

Station 127 was chosen for its natural lighting by series co-creator Robert A. Cinader, and the station was eventually named in his honor. A plaque honoring Robert A. Cinader is now mounted on the station, next to the office front door. At the time of filming, Station 127 housed Engine 127 and Truck 127.

For filming on location, Truck 127 was moved off-site and replaced with Universal's Squad 51, while Engine 127 was disguised as Engine 51. After Universal obtained the 1972 Ward LaFrance for Engine 51, both of Station 127's companies would be replaced by Universal's Engine 51 and Squad 51 for filming on location. While some filming of scenes set at Station 51 were done on sets at the studio, these sets accurately recreated the interior of Station 127.

Despite being "kicked out" of their own station for filming, Truck 127 still appeared in numerous episodes under its own callsign. The Carson location of Station 127 was directly referenced in one episode where a phone call was traced to a house "in Carson" that Engine 51 and Squad 51 eventually responded to.

"KMG365", which is said by the crewmember acknowledging a call for a unit at Station 51, is a real FCC call sign used by LACoFD, and it appears on the Station Patch for Station 127, which today still houses Engine 127 and Truck 127 (now known as Light Force 127) as well as Foam 127. In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise

In a nod to the lasting cultural impact of the show, LACoFD officially changed the designation of the fire station located on the grounds of Universal Studios from Station 60 to Station 51 in 1994, over twenty years after the debut of Emergency!. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) The companies at Station 60 were also changed so that this station is now indeed the home of Engine 51 and Squad 51 as well as Patrol 51^[8].

Rampart General Hospital

At the time of filming, Rampart General Hospital was portrayed by Harbor General Hospital, located in Torrance, California at 1000 West Carson Street, the intersection of Vermont Avenue and Carson Street at 33°49′49″N, 118°17′30″W. Torrance is a city located in the " South Bay " (southwestern region of Los Angeles County California. The pairing of Station 127 and Harbor General as "Station 51" and "Rampart" was accurate, since if a squad had actually been quartered at Station 127, it would likely have operated from Harbor General Hospital, since they are only 2. 1 miles (3. 4 km) apart. Truck 127 appeared in one episode where a rescue event occurred at Rampart (Harbor General), as the hospital really is in Truck 127's "first-due" district.

In 1978, by the approval of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Harbor General Hospital was renamed as Harbor-UCLA Medical Center [3]. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member non-partisan governing board of Los Angeles County California. Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is a Hospital located within the city of Torrance, California, USA.

Los Angeles County Fire Dispatch

Footage of a dispatcher used during the show appears to have been filmed at the LACoFD dispatch center in East Los Angeles. The screen he looked at to see the street maps is a rear projection from a Kodak Carousel projector built into the console.

Personnel

During a portion of the first season, LACoFD Captain Dick Hammer portrayed himself as a Station 51 Captain.

LACoFD Firefighter Mike Stoker portrayed himself throughout the entire run of the series as a driver/engineer of Engine 51. Firefighters are rescuers extensively trained primarily to put out hazardous Fires that threaten civilian populations and property to rescue people from car accidents collapsed Mike Stoker is a retired Firefighter, Engineer and Captain with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Since Stoker possessed a Screen Actors Guild card, it was helpful to Universal to have an actor who was also fully trained and qualified to actually drive and operate Engine 51. The Screen Actors Guild ( SAG) is an American labor union representing over 120000 Film and television principal performers and background Stoker retired from the LACoFD as a Captain in 1996. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar)

LACoFD Dispatcher Sam Lanier, although rarely seen on camera, portrayed himself as a dispatcher in virtually every episode. Despite being the recognizable voice over the radio sending Station 51 and other LACoFD crews to all sorts of emergencies, he was never listed in the show's credits.

Numerous uncredited LACoFD personnel were used throughout the course of the series when other actual LACoFD units were utilized during filming.

The character "John Gage" was named for James O. Page, a LACoFD battalion chief in charge of development of the paramedic rescue squads who was a technical advisor to Webb and Cinader. Page went on to become a lawyer and publisher of the Journal of Emergency Medical Services. Originally, Cinader requested that Randolph Mantooth's character be named after Page, but he turned it down.

Equipment

The tones heard before the station alarm is activated are actual Motorola "Quik Call I" codes, which were used by LACoFD until the 1990s. Motorola Inc ( is an American, multinational Fortune 100, Telecommunications company based in Schaumburg Illinois. Quik-Call I, also known as 2+2, is a selective calling method originally used in one-way paging receivers At the time of filming, an LACoFD station's main base station radio was usually in "quiet" mode, so the crew on duty wouldn't have to hear every transmission over the fire channel at all hours. The term base station can be used in the context of Land surveying, Wireless computer networking, and Wireless communications. Although only two tones could be heard for each station dispatched to an alarm, the Quik Call system actually used two sets of tones (four total) to activate station alarms. When a dispatcher selected one or more stations to be "toned out", the Quik Call system would transmit the first set of tones which would unsquelch the radio at one or more stations and turn on their loudspeakers, closely followed by a second set of tones for each individual station which could be heard and which activated the intended station's alarm klaxon. In Telecommunications, squelch is a circuit function that acts to suppress the audio (or Video) Output of a receiver in For the Marty Friedman album see Loudspeaker (album A loudspeaker, speaker, or speaker system is an electroacoustical Klaxon is a trademark for an electromechanical horn or alerting device The Quik Call tones for station 51 were LZPZ-HZKZ, also known as 1 second of 794. 3 Hz + 1084. 0 Hz followed by 3 seconds of 582. 1 Hz + 716. 7 Hz (the third tone was just a loud buzzer).

The electrocardiograph (ECG or EKG) machine used in the show was a Datascope model 850 Dual Trace Physiological Monitor. This model came out in 1971 and was the first portable, battery rechargeable unit of its time. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Its original price was $2000. 00. The paramedics also carried some medical equipment in a black model "PF-3300" Old Pal tackle box, which was commonly used by LACoFD at the time. The other medical gear terminology and jargon, and emergency medical practices at the time were usually represented as faithfully and accurately as possible, although the results of some rescue efforts were frequently dramatized to the point of the occasional unlikely outcome. Terminology is the study of terms and their use Terms are Words and Compound words that are used in specific contexts For Wikipedia jargon see WikipediaGlossary. For hacker slang see Jargon File. Because of the attention to detail, there were times when the actors had some difficulty pronouncing the "medical" words in the show convincingly, so some scenes show the characters from the back or behind a mask, which allowed them to dub in the correct pronunciations at a later time.

The protective clothing that the firefighters wore, including the MSA Topguard helmets, as well as nearly all other equipment such as insignia, were standard LACoFD issue at the time.

Off-Screen Relationships

Bobby Troup and Julie London had been married since 1959, well before being cast as Dr. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Joe Early and Nurse Dixie McCall in Emergency!. The role of Dixie McCall was originally written as a love interest for the character of Dr. Kelly Brackett, though the on-screen romance between Brackett and McCall was gradually downplayed and eventually ignored during the course of the series. London had previously been married to producer Jack Webb from 1947 to 1953, though the divorce seems to have been amicable as Webb had also previously cast Troup for roles in Dragnet and Adam-12. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dragnet, aka LA Dragnet (new title in USA is a long-running radio and television Police procedural drama about the cases of a dedicated Adam-12 is a Television program which ran from September 21, 1968 until August 30, 1975 on NBC for 175 Troup and London remained married until his death in 1999. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar)

References

^ "Sierra X-Over," Emergencyfans. The following criteria qualify a film for inclusion on this list Primary plot of film regards firefighting or related fire/rescue service work in general Note This list is incomplete. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it A fire apparatus, fire engine, fire truck, or fire appliance is a vehicle designed to assist in fighting Fires by transporting Firefighters A fire station (also called stationhouse) is a structure or other area set aside for storage of firefighting apparatus (i The Biophone was a combination voice and Telemetry radio communications system commonly used in the 1970s and 1980s by field emergency Paramedics (typically firefighters com. Accessed August 24, 2007.
^ Grand Comics Database Project, comics. org, accessed Feb. 8, 2008
^ Grand Comics Database Project, comics. org, accessed Feb. 8, 2008
^ [http://modena.intergate.ca/personal/pl8s/Manifest/EMF_CWN_17.htm Engine 127 - Deceased
^ County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association Collection - 1965 Crown Firecoach
^ [http://www.geocities.com/cnf_e32/apparatus/E51/E51.htm Engine 51 at Yosemite National Park
^ Los Angeles County Fire Station 127
^ Los Angeles County Fire Station 51

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