I would have thought so.
matter of fact, I still do.
All I had was the Emergency! View-Master. Adam-12, too.
Hey, you’re on to something. A new tv show that features regulatory inspectors, or better yet support staff for regulatory inspectors! The name of the show could be something like “Section 12.8, (B) Administrative Regulations” It would draw HUGE audiences with everyone that is fascinated by the process of administering regulations!
Episode 6 Season 1: “The Binder”
Carl: Say, Jill did you finish those Section two reports yesterday?
Jill: No. I mean I finished, but when I forwarded it to the deputy department head, they handed it back to me and told me I forgot to attach the required supplementary riders to the part A submissions.
Carl: Don’t take it personally. You’ve been with Section two, what, maybe for four months? I remember when I first started they didn’t even HAVE a form 812-F and all supplementary riders had to be MANUALLY filled out, if you can believe that!
Jill: That was in the stone age…
Jill’s love interest could work in the on scene inspection unit. Lots of funny interactions with weirdos. Canned laughter.
It’s on NBC, right after Law and Order: Elevator Inspectors
And you know, I’m a sucker for procedurals, I’d probably watch it. 
With a golden nit?
How about recreations of actual industrial disasters?
The refinery explosion that wiped out the safety committee as they were meeting in an office a few feet away, the guys who died after climbing into confined spaces, the crew dismantling the “empty” gas tank who test if it’s fully vented by lighting a match.
Regarding the name “Gage” and other spellings becoming an increasingly popular baby name: Yeah, OB nurses asked about it, and you guessed it: The parents had been “Emergency” fans, liked the name, and decided to give it to their baby.
It’s mostly a boys’ name, but I’m sure there are girls out there with that name too.
Contacting the network might lead to the strobe being edited one way or another in future screenings.
Then came Pet Sematary…
I heard about someone who reacted that way to a woman TV host, IIRC Katie Couric.
I met a 50-ish white woman the other day. She said her name was “LAY-uh”. Which I thought a bit odd and which thought my expression might have betrayed. Then she sheepishly continued “It’s actually LEE-uh, but I pronounce it LAY-uh.” I said “Uh huh. You’re the right age for that. I know what happened.” She ruefully said “Yup.”
It was evident she did not really enjoy being named after a Star Wars princess. She was a fun and free-spirited character though.
I ain’t that concerned about it. I’ll probably never see it again.
Speaking of which, wouldn’t the flashing lights that caused Dr. Reid in that movie to have a seizure also have triggered seizures to those watching the movie? I don’t recall any warnings when I saw it in the theater.
I’m a nag:
Wouldn’t you think the designers of the underground lab would fabricate a warning system that didn’t rely on blinking lights. It’s kind of like, So, you think you’re going to sneak your epilepsy into our lab? F#^k you, have some thermonuclear heat. That’ll show you!
Mary Hart, from Entertainment Tonight. Which was parodied in an episode of Seinfeld.
I knew a guy with the middle name Gage - and he was 1) born in the 1920s and 2) a Junior.
A few years ago, someone was working on a system to automatically detect strobes in streamed movies, so people could be warned if they chose to be, but there were DRM issues
I remember this as well. Yes, Mary Hart.
This was prior to my Phil Collins experience.
mmm
Guilty as charged, your honor - but firefighter, not paramedic.
I met Randolph Mantooth in 2013 and had about 75 minutes of time with him and a few of my fellow firefighters (I got to drive Johnny Gage in a fire engine! We may or may not have let him drive as well, I’m not at liberty to discuss… a true high point of my career). I told him, and I’m sure he’s heard it a million times, that he and Emergency! was a big reason for where my life went. He took in stride, but then said that it’s not him, it’s us. He may have helped us identify the desire, but that we’re a unique breed that he gets to meet everywhere he goes, and it’s all us.
The guy is a top of the line class act. There’s always a fear when you meet one of your childhood heroes, that they won’t be what you expect or hope. Randy Mantooth was nothing short of amazing. A true gentleman and a great guy to spend some time with - and handled four superfans like it was nothing.
Lemme, lemme come in with one more industrial safety clout to the thread, but it does relate to epilepsy:
Warehouses and big box stores will have fire alarm units installed in regulated intervals in the ceiling. Also on the units are strobes to alert the deaf, or determinedly obtuse. A communication wire connects all the units, but by code they MUST be powered by independent batteries. PITA to install and maintain compared to one long power line in conduit. But that would cause them all to flash in unison, which could trigger immobilizing seizures in people whose efforts might be better employed in evacuating the building.
Mantooth went on to be in a couple of soaps. And other movies. He was never the big movie star.
I liked his character on Emergency!
Lemme make it two. Back in the mid 1970s Illinois future Senator Paul Simon was a relatively unknown Congressman from downstate. He worked for months on a bill to compel railroads to install strobe lights on their locomotives, because people could more easily gauge the movement of the train than a standard headlamp. He also worked with neurologists and epilepsy groups to determine the safest strobe frequency to not trigger seizures. II can’t remember the number, but it was something like two flashes per second.