Ep38—An Emergency! Budget Inferno

Seen on the Small Screen Podcast

Take a trip back to the groovy decade of the 1970s with Sammy the cat, Jake, Becky, the EMTs of Station 51, and the doctors of Rampart General Hospital in the first of many TV movie from the television show Emergency! (And most of the original cast are back, which is pretty good for a near reunion TV film.) When a sketchy painter, a bunch of inflammables, and his cigarette mix together in a skyscraper stairwell, the resulting cocktail starts a conflagration the likes of which summons a host of firefighters, paramedics (including John Gage and Roy de Soto), and three whole battalion chiefs. This isn't a series of rescues from a variety of places like from the Emergency! series. Here you have one building and all its potential victims: office gals in distress, a fellow paramedic with a feather-weight noggin, and a rather odd if not entirely oblivious coin collector. Daring heroics and a treacherous climb down an elevator shaft are the only way Johnny and Roy can survive the raging steel inferno, which has nothing to do with an Irwin Allen inferno of the same name. The boys in blue and their fine slip-proof dress shoes are back!