Just watched the 2 part ep of The Six Million Dollar Man - The Secret of Bigfoot and the 2 part ep of The Bionic Woman - Kill Oscar Goldman, the one that introduces the fembots. Needless to say both of these villains scared the bejezus out of me when I was a kid. 😱

Had all the toys though! I was also a member of the Steve Austin fan club. Had to send away and got a signed 8x10 glossy portrait of Lee Majors as Col Austin. 🤓😅👍

Since I was on a retro TV kick I picked a random ep of the old Emergency! series and boy it was awesome! A two-part ep from S7 that was like a mini disaster flick where they have to rescue office workers from a raging inferno high rise. Really impressive for a TV show from the 70’s. Hundreds of extras, tons of physical burning sets, and high drama.

The S7 ep also had a very familiar, very YOUNG John DeLancie, better known to us as Q from #StarTrek TNG. Impressive, Mon capitan!

Watched a few ep of Emergency! now and I have to say it’s kinda TV comfort food. Parts are hokey but other parts are super sincere and the leads are just well acted. Gage and DeSoto both are professionals w/ awesome bedside manners. They take pride in their job and their squad, it’s refreshing. 🚨

More fun things:
- Always checking the map before a run (No GPS!)
- Writing *everything* down (no tablets!)
- Have each other’s backs
- Rampart staff is a little stiff compared
- Animal rescues YAY!

Time for another episode of Emergency! Crazy how a show about life or death situations and people in dire need of help can be so relaxing but damn if it isn’t. The vibe back in the 70’s was just so removed from what it is today. If the ER on #ThePitt is running on steroids, the ER at Rampart General ran on gin and tonic.

So I asked ChatGPT what was the episode of #Emergency where Fireman John Gage was hit by a car. It gave me a long, dramatic answer citing S3 ep 19 called “The Hard Hours”. Went and read the description on Peacock and it said nothing about Gage being hit.

Then I googled the question and found it was actually S5 E22 ‘The Nuisance’.

I’m starting to think AI is a complicated plot by Google to make web searching relevant again.

My wife and I were taking bets if Gage and DeSoto would have to defibrillate one of the victims in this tiny plane that crashed atop a tree deep in the forest 100 feet up. #Emergency

Yes/No?

When #Emergency is good it’s *really* good. I’m starting to understand why it became the smash hit it did with S2 E1 ‘Problem’.

DeSoto considers quitting being a paramedic after a quick decision in the field and the victim is lost. The ep culminates with a thrilling house fire where Roy goes in to find a boy and his dog and rescues both.

This is a *real* structure fire on a real street in LA. No CGI no back lot at universal. How they did it I dunno but it’s damned fine TV.

Another #StarTrek alum makes an appearance on #Emergency S2 E5, this time it’s William Campbell from Trek TOS, better known as Trelayne from The Squire of Gothos. 🖖

Campbell plays a drunk driver who plows into a little seven year old girl and puts her in critical condition for most of the episode. Despicable doesn’t do his performance justice. Of course this is #RetroTV and she finally recovers in the end thank goodness. 🙏

One of the more harrowing rescues from S2 of Emergency! Guy was being chased by police and went over a freeway overpass and became trapped, sustained head injury. Pretty great, realistic rescue too, the show continues to impress me. #Emergency #RetroTV

Just crazy the stars you run into when watching old TV shows like #Emergency.

She’s only on screen for like a minute and her appearance in S2 E10 ‘Dinner Date’ is uncredited but this is a very very young Melissa Gilbert.

It might be her very first TV appearance, I’m not sure. This was in 1972, two years before the premiere of Little House on the Prairie in ‘74. I almost missed her completely! #RetroTV

They drink A LOT of coffee on #Emergency. No joke. Between Brackett, DeSoto, Gage, Chet, Dixie, Dr Early and the rest they keep the entire columbian coffee syndicate in spades. #RetroTV

How times change! Gage and DeSoto rescue a child locked in a hot car at a shopping plaza who’s been trapped for an hour unattended.

They get him out and he seems to be okay thankfully and the child’s mom comes running out from a hair salon not to thank them but to berate them for breaking into her car without permission.

I was SURE they would call a cop to arrest her and take the kid but nope! They hand the boy back and apologize and go on their merry way.

1973, BABY!! 😱 #Emergency #RetroTV

@gedeonm Kevin Tighe looks so helpless in that photo. 😏
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@tompeterson Heh I’ve taken to repeating this on every single call when they go out on the show. It’s so much fun.
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When I was a kid I always wanted a phone that rang with the sound of the red line from the Flint movies. My iPhone 3G was my first cell phone, and the first two ringtones I created were the Flint ring and the Station 51 tone. Even though my wife politely declined that I use the Flint ring for her ringtone, I still carry both on my phone to this day.
@gedeonm the lieutenant at my first station assignment gave me the first rule of the firehouse: “always make sure there is a pot of coffee. If it’s empty, make coffee. If it’s low, make more coffee. As the rookie on the crew this is your first housekeeping duty.”
That has been true of every station I have ever been in, there is ALWAYS coffee & the rook better keep on top of it.
@gedeonm Little Firehouse on the Prairie.
@gedeonm “if you go to Pra’ire, you will die”
@gedeonm Sorry if you posted this before but what service are you watching this on? https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/emergency doesn’t show any availability other than buying by the season.
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@BillSaysThis I’m watching on Peacock streaming.