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Rampart General Hospital

Emergency!
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Also known as 'Emergency One!'
Created by Robert A. Cinader
Harold Jack Bloom
Jack Webb
Starring Robert Fuller
Julie London
Bobby Troup
Randolph Mantooth
Kevin Tighe
Tim Donnelly
Mike Stoker
Marco Lopez
Michael Norell
Ron Pinkard
Theme music composer Nelson Riddle
Composer(s) Nelson Riddle
Billy May
(incidental music)
No. of seasons 6
No. of episodes 129 (including 6 TV movies) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Jack Webb
Robert A. Cinader
Hannah Louise Shearer
Producer(s) Robert A. Cinader
Edwin Self
William Stark
Editor(s) Richard Belding supervisor
and others
Running time approx. 50 minutes
Production company(s) Mark VII Limited
Universal Television
Distributor NBCUniversal Television Distribution (current)
Release
Original network NBC
Original release January 15, 1972 –
May 28, 1977
Chronology
Related shows Sierra
Adam-12

Emergency! is an American television series that combines the medical drama and action-adventure genres. It was a joint production of Mark VII Limited and Universal Television. It debuted on NBC as a midseason replacement on January 15, 1972, replacing the two short-lived series The Partners and The Good Life, and ran until May 28, 1977, with six additional two-hour television films during the next two years.

Emergency! was created and produced by Jack Webb and Robert A. Cinader, who were also responsible for the police dramas Adam-12 and Dragnet. Harold Jack Bloom is also credited as a creator; Webb does not receive screen credit as a creator. In the show's original TV-movie pilot, Webb was credited only as its director.

The series stars Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe as two specially trained firefighters, who formed Squad 51, part of the then innovative field of paramedics, who were authorized to provide initial emergency medical care to victims of accidents, fires, and other incidents in the field in order to stabilize them for transport to medical facilities. The plot of the initial pilot film described the passing of state legislation, eventually signed by then State Governor Ronald Reagan, and was called “The Wedsworth-Townsend Act.” It authorized paramedic units to operate in the field without conventional medical personnel on site, albeit in radio contact with an assigned hospital. Squad 51 worked in concert with the fictional Rampart General Hospital medical staff (portrayed by Robert Fuller, Julie London, and Bobby Troup), who took over each patient's case from the paramedics who worked in the field.


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