Emergency!

Yep. Watched it all the time. It was awesome. My uncle moved to LA in the early 70s and I made it out there to visit him in the 80s. Weird that a place I’d never been to seemed so familiar.

 

Actually IIRC most of the original series Star Trek character archetypes were derived from the classic science fiction movie "Forbidden Planet".

 

Perhaps so for the crew but there was much more to it. There was only one alien in Forbidden Planet. Star Trek had dozens. But that was their speculation, not mine.

 

There was another attempted spinoff from Emergency called "High Sierra Rescue" or something to that effect. About a mountain rescue team of course. In their pilrot episode Emergency's Gage and DeSoto guest starred and assisted with DeSoto being injured in a fall on a mountain.

I saw a recent episode where a patient suffering from a heart attack died mainly because for various reasons the paramedics couldn't get him to the hospital in time.

Emergency was one of the programs that promoted the idea that using the defibrillator or doing CPR could often save a patients life. In reality neither of those work very often. I've listed Emergency though as one of the most influential television programs in American history as it greatly encouraged the spread of emergency medical services across the United States. Though over most of the U.S. this has meant EMTs rather than Paramedics.

 

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