Trivia: This show was so procedurally accurate, that on set there was always a Technical Adviser/Technical Consultant. The Executive Producer gave the TA (who was a real fire fighter/paramedic) the power that if he watched a scene being done, and if it wasn't how LA County would have done it, he was instructed to go to the director and say, "That was done wrong, it was not how we would do it," and then back away to avoid getting into an argument with the director. If the director didn't go back and change the scene, then that director would not be on the show the next week. (From an interview with Randolph Mantooth on The Morning Blend).
Trivia: At the end, when Johnny's tape recorder idea doesn't quite work out the way he and Roy had hoped, Johnny gets very flustered and frustrated with the recorder, and sets it down on the table, then Johnny looks right up into the camera lens and gives viewers an indescribable look, thereby "breaking the fourth wall."
Trivia: After John gets his paycheck with a salary overpayment of $5,365, when he starts walking out of the kitchen he mumbles the amount completely perplexed, then turns and looks directly at the camera, and gives a bewildered look to the TV audience, thus "breaking the fourth wall."
Trivia: During dinner Johnny's voice is hoarse again, and after watching the news that incorrectly stated that Brice rescued the other firemen, when it really was the other way around, Roy makes a crack about Johnny never sounding better which irks Johnny, and as the scene closes he looks up at the camera with quite a perturbed look directed at the TV audience, which "breaks the fourth wall."
Trivia: By early 1971, battalion chief and certified emergency medical technician Jim Page was assigned the responsibility to coordinate and implement the Los Angeles Countywide Paramedic Rescue Services program. On May 11, 1971, at Fire Station 7 on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood, Jim Page met with producer, Robert Cinadar, who was interested in developing a TV show based on the L.A. Fire Department's emerging Paramedic Rescue Services. When Emergency! premiered in 1971, there were only about a dozen paramedic units across the U.S., but soon after, the show brought recognition of the Paramedic program to viewers in U.S. and ultimately around the world. The realistic rescues on the TV show were widely praised and were used as instructional material by many fire departments, and by 1973, Congress passed the EMS Systems Act which gave financial support for the development and improvement of EMS. Jim Page served as technical consultant and writer of the show, for two years. The character name, John Gage was an homage to Jim Page.
Trivia: Season, 1 episode 11, 'Hang up': At the start of this episode, since the guys at the station house must go on a call right in the middle of watching an episode of Adam 12, DeSoto and particularly Gage try to inquire about that episode's conclusion. Adam 12 is another show by Emergency's creator, Jack Webb.
Trivia: In most episodes over the entire run of the show, Randolph Mantooth's cigarette pack is visible in his front left shirt pocket, even though the character never once lit or took a drag from a cigarette.
The Wedsworth-Townsend Act - S1-E1
Trivia: During this episode Reed and Maloy from Adam 12 appear as real cops. In a later episode the guys at Station 51 are watching an episode of Adam 12 and have to leave on an emergency before it ends.
Dinner Date - S2-E10
Trivia: When the desk nurse calls Dixie over, she comes from sitting next to a woman who was in an earlier episode "School Days" as the wife of the baseball player. The woman is in the same dress and in the same chair in the same position.
Answer: It is standard practice to wet down driveways so that they stand out in a long shot.
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