Posted on 03/11/2013 9:43:47 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
I'll Start. I LOVED "Emergency", I loved(what young boy doesn't?) Fire Engines and Sirens.
I think the best ever musical score for any TV series was Richard Rodgers score for Victory at Sea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ausVC2NhAo
One Step Beyond
Bishop Fulton Sheen
The Fugitive
Carol Burnette
In the pilot, Dr. Smith was a bad-ass, but then they turned him into a foppish fag for the series.
Really? Did we watch the same show?
I used to watch with Mom and Dad (both EMTs, Mom was an EMT instructor). They thought that it was hilarious, was more fun to point out what was going wrong.
I remember one episode where they were doing CPR on a backboard in a swimming pool. Painfully funny.
If you want "realism", watch "Mother, Juggs, and Speed" ... an old Bill Cosby comedy. Movie wasn't much to talk about, but the setups for it were right on. Someone got the right technical advisor for that one....for instance, there's a scene where they fall through the stairs while carrying a patient. Mom thought it was hilarious, as it had *just happened* to her, the same week she went to see the flick.
She was also one of Pappy's "Lambs" on Black Sheep Squadron.
Don’t know about that. ;-)
I meant “Branded”. But then, you knew that, didn’t you? :-)
I agree. ER was a great show, I actually have the whole series on DVD.
It took alot of innovation to make that show, it wasn’t just your sit-down living-room comedy type show from the 70’s
I also loved "Sledgehammer".
Mary Ann
Bailey
Marcia
Jeannie
Ellie Mae
Thalia
I am sure there are plenty more, just can’t remember them.
“Thalia”, who or what is that?
Remember it was filmed in the Late ‘60s/Early 70s so give it a break. it WAS the first of it’s kind.
Mexican soap actress and singer....Es muy guapa.
Thalia Menninger of “The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis”.
Played by Tuesday Weld possibly the hottest one of them all.
Thalia Menninger (aka Tuesday Weld), that was Dobie Gillis’ unattainable.
Radio, and some when they transisted to TV
The Lone Ranger &TV
When it came to TV-—Just before a commercial the Lone Ranger would have Silver rear up...And then when the commercial was over, he would come down. He stayed up through the whole commercial! LOL..
The Cisco Kid (and Poncho—Cisco’s horse was Diablo and Poncho’s was Loco) &TV
Fibber Magee and Molly &TV (famous for their hall closet)
Froggie The Gremlin w/Midnight the cat (Nice)(The Andy Show) &TV
The Shadow
The Green Lantern
China Smith (with Dan Duryea) Just TV
Amos and Andy...loved that show! &TV
Howdy Doody Just TV
Sky King
Topper (The dog Neil loooooved martinis!)
Batman TV
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Bob Newhart Show
WKRP in Cincinnati
Seinfeld (not when orginally aired, watched only reruns)
Columbo
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Groucho Marx &TV
Superman &TV
Boston Blackie
The Saint
I led three lives TV
Have Gun Will Travel TV
Hopalong Cassidy (Topper) &TV
Burns & Allen &TV
Jack Benny &TV
Our Miss Brooks
Johnny Carson
Dick Tracy
Read your post and realized I left a few out
SNL (the early years)
All in the family
Red Skelton Show
Peter Gunn
Dragnet
Smothers Brothers
Laugh-In
The Real McCoys
Roy Rogers
Dick Van Dyke
I Love Lucy
Days of our lives
The co-creater of “Emergency” was a first reponder who helped create and train the LAFD’s EMT units. The show was widely praised for its accuracy by LA police and firefighters.
I’m sticking with my original assessment.
Just to flesh it out:
-Real equipment
-Real settings
-Real FIREMEN, COPS and EMTS in both acting and consulting roles.
-REAL SITUATIONS (many of them pulled from the LAFDs files).
But, yeah, Bill Cosby in a hopped-up Ford van with Raquel Welch is much more realistic.
I’m 48 now, but I know at least three EMTs who swear that “Emergency” changed their future.
How unattainable? They could have used her for the definition of a "light year."
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