Emergency! Season One
by Randolph Mantooth, Kevin Tighe, Bruce Bilson (II), Cliff Bole, Alan Crosland Jr.
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Actor: Julie London, Kevin Tighe, Randolph Mantooth, Robert FullerDirector: Alan Crosland Jr., Bruce Bilson (II), Cliff Bole, Kevin Tighe, Randolph Mantooth
Brand: FULLER,ROBERT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 655 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Emergency! Season One
Movie Review: Get this show...STAT
Summary: 5 Stars
Most television shows attempting to be a PSA ultimately abandon audience interest in favor of being saccharine and preachy---and are subsequently forgotten years later. Despite the outdated medical equipment and protocol (the paramedics have to call their local hospital for treatment authorizations) this Jack-Webb directed series overall stands the test of time.
A show about the daily adventures of paramedics is not very revolutionary today, but in the early 1970's it was groundbreaking. In that earlier era, most people had grown up knowing that an ambulance could not patch people up en route to Rampart Hospital---something which my generation takes as a given today.
The people in this series are (of course) Hollywood actors, but the message they deliver is effective. Even with comparatively sanitized scripts (these paramedics apparently specialize in treating bloodless injuries!) and an eerily quiet hospital where Dr. Kelly Brackett (Robert Fuller) and Nurse Dixie McCall (Julie London) work, the scripts are amazing for what they were.
This TV drama even earned praise from then-Senator Alan Cranston (D-CA) for informing the public about the numerous benefits of the paramedic program. Receiving commendations from a Federal Legislator is a pretty impressive track sheet for a fictional television show. Today's so-called reality shows can only dream of having such cultural impact upon the American psyche.
11 episodes are included in the 1972-1973 season. Extras on this disc are the Wedsworth-Townsend Act (actually the first 'episode) which explains how the paramedic program is authorized--and the subsequent episodes themselves can exist.
The short season is compensated by realistic script writing acknowlleging that these paramedics are immediately and then constantly at work once they come into existence, this is not a job for the slacker. Plus, it certainly does not hurt that the two male leads themselves are very hunky--I'm genuinely torn between Kevin Tighe and Randolph Mantooh!
Because they do get easily scratched (including with careful handing!) I am concerned that Universal gave a show of such socio-cultural importance the double-sided DVD treatment.
Summary of Emergency! Season One
Complete first season of the television program focusing on the paramedic Squad 51, staff of Rampart Hospital, and the Los Angeles Sheriff and fire departments.Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 23-AUG-2005
Media Type: DVD
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