EMERGENCY! 50! The Show that Saved Your Life (FULL LENGTH)

Now the show is celebrating its 51st anniversary year but you can still join in and enjoy COZI TV's most popular original special "EMERGENCY! 50! The Show that Saved Your Life," here in its entirety!

Behind-the-scenes stories from stars Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe and many more. Learn about the show's immense impact on real-life emergency services as we know them today.



#EMERGENCY #COZITV

[duenge]

After high school in 79, I became an EMT, then a Medic for 22 years. Also 25 years as a professional firefighter. All because of those 2 guys...

[thomasdaily]

This was a bygone era of when TVs shows were worth something, and actually had a positive impact.

[thephantomeagle]

It’s so awesome that Kevin and Randy are still the best of friends after all these decades

[thomasbohannan]

This show was responsible for my marriage. I met my (late) wife in paramedic school. We'd both watched this show as children and went to paramedic school because of it.

[maranyavalkonan]

I'm surprised that this special didn't mention the fact that both Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe went through the actual paramedic course before the show started. They did everything but take the final exam, which would have let them legally be actual paramedics.

[Kaless]

Emergency was the best show out there. Most Fire/Rescue shows nowadays, are more focused on whose hooking up with who than doing actual rescues.

[medic]

The characters that Kevin and Randy played were my heroes. I knew when I was 9 yrs old I wanted to be a paramedic. The show made a generation want to go into the fire and ems service. The show also helped to improve medical treatment in the field.

[helenbrennan]

My husband has been a paramedic for 44yrs on two continents and still going strong! He watched this show on TV back in the 70s and it inspired him. He started ambulance work at the age of 19, loved it and made a career. He's likely to retire someday soon. All the good he's done over all these years.🤗

[johnc]

This show prompted me into a career in the Fire Service. From Firefighter/Paramedic all the way up to Fire Chief. This show saved lives. Thanks to all for what you've done and for a very rewarding career!!

[kellyharper]

I'm 65 and have to admit that Randy Mantooth has been my lifetime crush! This show encouraged me to go into nursing!! I've had a great life in healthcare!

[johnfelts]

I used this show to convince my city council to go paramedic in 1990, twenty years after this aired, it was a big reason that I spent my life as a firefighter paramedic

[AlanRoehrich]

What an incredible show. Still changing lives fifty years later.

Still relevant, and still much loved today.

How many lives has this show saved?

And how many shows can compare.

[tmondaro]

Thank You COZI TV for having this special very well done !! - Long Live EMERGENCY !!

[PauwerFurry]

I’m a young volunteer firefighter, and I heard some good things about the show about a year and a half or so ago, and in a rather backwards fashion, I actually introduced it to my dad. We both said to ourselves “ah it’s a silly old 70’s TV show, how good could it be?” But after watching the first few episodes, we decided we absolutely stop until we’d seen them all. We finished the show at the beginning of this year, and it was a little emotional. We’d laughed and laughed over all of Johnny and Roy’s antics, watching rescue after rescue, and then it was over.

[VTfirefly]

Add my name to the nearly infinitely long list of firefighter/EMS folks that owe their careers to the influence this show had on, in my case, a ten year old kid from Buffalo back in the early 70s.

[lyndaporter]

This show did in fact saved my life, it had a major impact on my life.
I named my first born son Randolph. ❤🍁🏥🚑

[johnharris]

1976 the show does an Episode called "involvement" about a Family suffering from Carbon Monoxide poisoning from a faulty heater. Just a month before in real life, Randolph Mantooth, almost died from carbon monoxide poising due to a faulty furnace in his home. He said a Deputy found him passed out on his front yard and thought he was drunk or on drugs. He was going to take him to jail when Paramedics showed up and said he had to go to the hospital right now. Mantooth remember them fighting for a bit until the Paramedics said they had authority under LA County law because he was sick. Mantooth said he had a fatal level of CO is in his blood and Doctors had no idea how he survived.

[Spirit]

Thank you for posting this! I was one of the lucky fans that attended the reunion. Bought my ticket to the autograph session and had two minutes, then attended the show the following night. It validated my research after rediscovering them because I 'rediscovered' them at a time I needed it most.
My mom liked Michael Norell. She was inspired to give me the middle name of Norell due to the show.

[margueritefan]

I want to thank you COZITvfor putting this loving tribute to Emergency up on YouTube. Wasn't happy my cable provider did not provide COZITv in its line-up. The show was a first. It showed the front line of what was to be a NationWide Paramedic Program. Even Emergency Medicine was not yet an accredited specialty (that was to come in a few years). What was as important (in addition to the origins of EMS...your scripted words) was the incredible screen chemistry between Randolph and Kevin. You can have a good formula for a show (which Emergency has) but without the two leads to sell it....the show would not have been as popular and in many cases life changing. The whole cast was terrific from the (Icon) Robert Fuller (my words but I think they are true.) To the musical legends of Bobby Troup and Julie London. Julie is quite a good actress as well as a beautiful singer. Luv the guys on the squad. R.I.P. Tim Donnelly. We all know someone like "A Chet". But if you notice in those very difficult emergencies the character Chet was an able and solid team player. He helped Roy and John on numerous occasions. Plus put out fires too. Again, COZITv thank you for presenting this wonderful behind the scenes 50 Year Emergency Special.

[sabrinaprince]

I use to watch this show when I was 5yrs old. Never missed it.
A cartoon was made and I would watch it on Saturday mornings like my life depended on it..
Lol.
😊😊😊
Thank you to all of the cast of EMERGENCY!!
for the GREAT MEMORIES!!!