Emergency!: The Wedsworth-Townsend Act (1972)
Season 1, Episode 0
Has not aged too well.....
10 September 2004
....but I loved this show as a kid. Heck, I even had the board game, which would be a real collector's item had I not lost the pieces at age 10. I saw an episode on TV Land recently and its age shows. Randoph Mantooth's character Gage was some sort of ladies man, something I didn't notice when I watched the show as a kid. I remember the realistic emergency calls--some really unusual, like a woman being caught in a huge cactus. And the show usually ended with a spectacular (for '70s TV, at least) fire.

Its influence can be felt in the current reality TV craze, not to mention a little show called "ER." But this was the first of its kind, and despite its corniness, we must praise it. The DVD release must be inevitable. I may just pick up a copy.
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