Randolph mantooth actor emergency veterinary
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The NBC television show Emergency!, which ran 123 episodes on NBC from 1972 to 1977, plus six made-for-TV movies that aired in 1978 and 1979, did a lot to make the public aware of professional Medics, playing a significant role in elevating the profession from mere “ambulance drivers.”
The show starred Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe as Paramedics Johnny Gage and Roy Desoto, running out of the fictitious Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Station 51. It was the last show created by Jack Webb (of Dragnet and Adam-12 fame).
That one hållplats seemed to cover it all: the mountains to the seashore, small neighborhoods to downtown highrises, and industrial complexes — whatever it took to get a fresh angle on rescue and medical intervention and tell the story.
And it helped draw a lot of new Medics into the business in the 1970s, including myself (in 1977).
While Mantooth, now 67, still works as an actor, he is also still active in promoting professional EMS
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Randolph Mantooth definitely fit the bill when he made a bankable name for himself in the TV medical series Emergency! (1972) as strong but sensitive paramedic/firefighter "John Gage".
Tall, dark and good-looking, Randy is of Seminole Indian heritage, born in Sacramento, California on September 19, 1945. One of four children born to a construction engineer, his childhood was somewhat physically unsettling in that his father's job career had the family moving frequently from state to state. Randy attended San Marcos High School in the Santa Barbara area of California where he participated in school plays. He received a scholarship to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York following his studies at Santa Barbara City College.
Randy was discovered in New York by a Universal talent agent after performing the lead in the play "Philadelphia, Here inom Come" and returned to California. He slowly built up his resume with work on such dramatic series as Ada
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Mantooth? You Can’t HANDLE the Mantooth! (And Others Matters of Emergency)
A tribute today to a favorite TV show of my youth, Emergency! (1972-1977). Emergency! was a Jack Webb show (co-produced by others) that transplanted the successful “partners” motif he’d employed in Dragnet and Adam-12 to a firehouse milieu. Of even greater interest was the that the show’s two stars, Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe, portrayed paramedics, which was a completely novel concept at the time.
Each episode typically shifted back and forth between three settings: down time in the station-house, full of boredom and and banter; exciting rescues; and interaction with hospital staff, played by the husband wife team of songwriter Bobby Troup and singer Julie London (old friends of Webb’s from his jazz days; London was actually Webb’s ex-wife); and Robert Fuller (best known from western TV shows like Laramie and Wagon Train).
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