Am I the only fan of Emergency! here? I’m talking about the 70’s show about the LA firefighting paramedics. Every night at 8pm EST I am GLUED to the set…watching TV Land.
Zette
PS- does anyone get repeats of “Barney Miller” on any of their stations? I have Direct TV and it’s not on any of my channels…
Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high.
Not enough and you’re gonna die…-(Sweet)
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Zette, when I was a kid, I wanted to marry Randolph Mantooth. I loved that show. I haven’t watched it recently, but by, does thinking about it bring back some very pleasant memories. Thanks!
I had just become addicted to it all over again – 9:00, seven nights a week – and then the weasels moved it to 5:00 pm PT 
I wish TV Land had two feeds.
I loved that show as a kid, and it holds up surprisingly well. They did seem to go out of their way to hire bad actors, but the stories move right along, and the special effects were first-rate for its day. Gage is a charming character; I’ve known guys like that, with one goofy enthusiasm after another. Though Roy, to my eye, is cuter 
Catrandom
I don’t like it, but my sister is crazy about it. She’s only 24, so this is the first time around for her. She likes it so much that she will actually hang up on me if I call her during the show. I get “oh, it’s you, I’m watching Emergency, call me back later”::click::.
No Barney Miller reruns showing here. I wish there were. I loved that show.
Princess of the Time and Space Continuum since 1969 (upgraded to Goddess 01/07/00)-
OK, we have enough youth. How about a fountain of smart. =^…^=
Another Emergency! fan here My husband won’t let me watch the show on TVLand… I think he’s jealous of my residual childhood crush on Johnny Gage
My sister has gone completely ga-ga over the show, though. Not only is she taping every episode, but she is collecting anything firefighter related, Emergency! merchandise or not. Her apartment is becoming a museum of new and antique toy firetrucks. She’s even marrying the man who found her an Emergency! lunchbox. (I hope there’s more to the relationship than that ;))
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
Emergency was my favorite show when I was a young 'un. I haven’t seen it in 20, maybe 25 years now…but if y’all say it’s still good, then I’ll have to watch a rerun.
Didn’t they make a Saturday morning cartoon out of it? Emergency +4 or something?
Funny…I haven’t thought about that show in over a decade! Amazing what comes back to you…
-David
My second favorite show as a kid, after “Adam 12”.
I was flipping through the channels a while back and TV land was running a mini-marathon of those Jack Webb-produced shows. I was supposed to go see The Phantom Menace" with some friends that night. I lied and told them I was sick so I could stay home and watch “Dragnet”, “Adam-12” and “Emergency”.
Is there really a hospital in LA’s Rampart district? Kinda crappy part of town, if I remember right.
On Emergency about a week ago, I saw :::drumroll::: Ralph Malph (you know, from Happy Days). It was tragic. He got his girlfriend pregnant, and then wrecked his car and got himself paralyzed from the neck down. But it managed to have a happy ending. Did that show ever end on a low note?
Ok – if you are all such Emergency! fans, can you please help me resolve a childhood question? The question is:
What does “KMG 365” mean?
Right before the guys go out on a call, and after the address has been announced by the dispatcher, the station chief guy goes to the microphone and says something like:
“Squad 51, Engine 51, ETA 5 minutes, KMG 365”
At least, that’s my recollection (I haven’t seen the show for 15 years). So, what does he mean, KMG 365?
Is he a member of the Illuminati?
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from an Emergency! website:
I think I need an IV of D5W…
Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high.
Not enough and you’re gonna die…-(Sweet)
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Hopefully this isn’t a double post…
From an Emergency! website:
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What is KMG365?
The KMG365 that the Captain says is the FCC station license number for the base radio at that station. It is similar to the station license munmbers like KTLA, WTBS, etc. that TV and radio stations use and the N6ACY, W5TZB, etc. that ham radio operators use to ID themselves per the FCC regulations. For instance, KA4993 is the FCC station license number for all the mobile radios (car, motorcycle, truck) that the Calif. Highway Patrol uses. Additionally, each CHP station’s base radio (and each regional CHP dispatch center) has a different station license number.
http://www.emergency.simplenet.com/
stop by that website for some excellent Emergency! info.
Zette
(I think I need some D5W)
Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high.
Not enough and you’re gonna die…-(Sweet)
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Zette: Thanks for clearing up 15 years of uncertainty!
Eissclam
“Emergency” is probably the most moronic show on TV.
I watch it all the time.
Stop telling God what to do.
To my knowledge there was only one episode of Emergency! that ended on a low note. (I have made audio recordings of all 128 episodes; this required about 65 90-minute audio cassettes.)
The last episode of the 1973-74 season is one I titled “Johnny vs. the Hospital Sow.” Early on in the episode–which had an unbilled cameo by Stymie of Our Gang–Johnny was seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver. He spent most of the episode in the hospital, where he was treated to severe verbal abuse by the worst battle-ax ever to be a TV character–a nurse in the fracture ward, played by Carole Cook. Near the end Roy and Marco wound up there too when a building they were inside caved in; they were treated to the same abuse. Thankfully, I have never seen her in anything else since then.
The episodes are available uncut, from Columbia House.