|click image for full size|

MOBILE VIEW: If you’re viewing OC,SH via smartphone, the website has a different look now! Thoughts?

Remember this series!? What catches your spying-eye radar!?

“Emergency!” originally aired 01/15/1972 to 05/28/1977, starting as a mid-season replacement (for “The Partners” & “The Good Life”) & ending with 6 2-hour TV movies 1978-1979. The show was created & produced by Jack Webb & Robert A Cinader, both of whom were also behind “Adam-12” & “Dragnet”. To be authentic & accurately portray the Los Angeles County Fire Department, apparatus & equipment (including trucks) currently in use were utilized as props in the show. While some items were fictionalized, the show used exterior shots from Station 127 (Carson CA) & Harbor General Hospital (Torrence CA). The fictionalized Station 51 (which later became an actual station for Universal City CA) was seen in an episode of “CHiPs”, an episode of “Quincy ME” & the 1990 TV movie ‘The Great Los Angeles Earthquake’. The cast included real-life personnel: fire captain Richard Hammer, firefighter Mike Stoker & dispatcher Sam Lanier. The cast also included Robert Fuller, Julie London, Bobby Troup, Ron Pinkard, Ralph Mantooth, Kevin Tighe, Tim Donnelly, Marco Lopez, Michael Norell, James McEachin & Vince Howard. Guest stars included Marion Ross, Mark Harmon, Nick Nolte, Robert Alda, Michael Lerner, Melissa Gilbert, Kim Richard, John Travolta, Sharon Gless, Dick Van Patten, Grant Goodeve, Martin Milner, Kent McCord, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mark Spitz, Mark Russell & Kevin Dobson. ~30 years after its debut, show memorabilia (helmets, turnouts, biophone, defibrillator) was accepted by the Smithsonian into the public-service section of its National History Museum.