Product Details

• Actors: Julie London, Frank Aletter, Art Balinger, Boot, Eve Brent
• Directors: Christian I. Nyby II, Georg Fenady, Randolph Mantooth, Robert A. Cinader
• Writers: Christian I. Nyby II, Edwin Self, Hannah Louise Shearer, Harold Jack Bloom
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Universal Studios
• DVD Release Date: March 29, 2011
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001JAHQ0M
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,913 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Emergency: The Final Rescues" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Courageous paramedics Roy DeSoto (Kevin Tighe) and John Gage (Randolph Mantooth) take the pulse-pounding action from Los Angeles to San Francisco and Seattle. Golden Globe nominee Julie London is on board as the heroic nurse Dixie McCall. Here are the explosive final adventures!

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101 of 110 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Emergency Movies, January 31, 2010

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D. Pauley "Splankna" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Emergency: The Final Rescues (DVD)

Warning: some possible spoilers in this review.

After Emergency! finished its 6 year TV episode run, the show then had 6 "made for TV" movies that were released in 1978 (the year following the last season of Emergency!) and 1979. So, technically, this is not "Season 7", although there is about 12 hrs. worth of programming on this set. It would be cool if they released the Emergency +4 cartoons with this final movie set - but I seriously doubt that will happen.

These movies included:

"Survival on Charter 220" - where a small plane collides mid air with a larger passenger jet. They land in a neighbor and the havoc ensues. If I'm not mistaken, Squad 51 is crushed by a part of a plane and Johnny and Roy are trapped inside a house. (2 hr. movie)

"The Steele Inferno" - basically a high rise building fire stretched into a 2 hr. movie.

"What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing?" - Johnny and Roy travel to San Francisco. (2 hr. movie)

"Greatest Rescues of Emergency" - Johnny and Roy are promoted to Captain and reminisce about their days on the squad. The movie is made up mostly of flashback scenes from the TV series, but it is still nice to see Johnny and Roy promoted to Captain (2 hr. movie)

"Most Deadly Passage" - Johnny and Roy travel to Seattle (2 hr. movie)

"The Convention" - Johnny and Roy return to San Francisco (2 hr. movie)

For those who have never seen these two hr. movies, be forewarned that you don't see A LOT of Johnny and Roy in most of these movies (with the exception of "Greatest Rescues of Emergency" - where you see A LOT of Johnny and Roy - but this "movie" consists mostly flashbacks). In fact, there are a number of very long segments in the other movies with no Johnny and Roy. Some of the movies almost come across like they were trying to create a spin off series - because so LITTLE time is spent with Johnny and Roy and so much time is spent with new characters. Further, you won't be seeing any of the other fireman from the series on these TV movies - so no Chet, no Cap, no Marco. You do get to see the Rampart medical staff a bit.

Personally, I am not very fond of these TV movies (with the exception of "Greatest Rescues"). Remember, when I say this, I am a HUGE Emergency! fan. I grew up watching the TV show. I owned a Squad 51 helmet, an Emergency! Jigsaw puzzle, etc. and soon all of the TV seasons on DVD (as soon as Season 6 comes out). I personally met Randolph Mantooth in 2001 (along with other crew members from the show) when Code 3 Collectibles was dedicating their new Emergency! toys at Station 127 in Carson (the station used for the TV series) - got to sit in the refurbished squad. I have visited the station 3 times in the last several years. This is my favorite show of all time (along with the Saint and Mission Impossible) - but these TV movies, honestly, put me to sleep. In my opinion, they are slow moving and have too little of our favorite cast from the series. I will probably buy this set to complete the series, but IMHO, you aren't missing much if you don't own them - but perhaps some of you enjoyed these movies.

While these final movies haven't been released yet, don't expect much in the video quality if the last few seasons are any indication.

Hope this "preview" or review helps. But, remember, at the time I am writing this review, the set has not been released yet.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Witness Some Pieces of History, December 19, 2010

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D. McSherry (Dallas, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Emergency: The Final Rescues (DVD)

This will complete the collection. I will pre-order this.

I purchased "Greatest Rescues of Emergency!" on VHS when JEMS carried it. You really see how Johnny and Roy worked together as partners, and after going through their adventures for six years, the bonding that took place. They looked out for each other, and worked as a team. My favorite line is, "Were going to be staying in touch with one another. Right, it's not like we are moving out of town or anything. We are still here, still in the same department, still friends." I was a little kid when I saw this episode on December 31, 1978, and nearly cried that Johnny and Roy were departing ways.

About six years ago, a local independent showed re-runs, and I purposely stayed up late the week the movies were shown. I felt OLD seeing the San Francisco EMS ambulances, because the manufacturer no longer makes those "converted Winnebago ambulances", and San Francisco EMS no longer exists - it merged into the San Francisco FD sometime in the 1990's. Another part that made me laugh really hard was when the Haz-Mat unit showed up at the chemical explosion - that Hazardous Materials gear looked useless.

I read that the idea was for R.A. Cinader to resurrect "Emergency!" at a different location, and the San Francisco movies were intended as pilots for a spin-off (unfortunately, NBC didn't pick it up). The format of San Francisco seemed like a good place to do this, where the filming crew could spend a third of the time on Rescue (at the fire station), a third of the time at the hospital (note that John De Lancie from Star Trek played a doctor), and the rest on the ambulance. I remember the discussion of navigating San Francisco streets, which are narrow and hilly. I would think a medium duty truck size ambulance body (International or Freightliner) today would have a hard time, but a Ford E450 Type III would probably be OK.

The Seattle movie was good too, although I felt OLD at the King Dome rescue - since the King Dome was imploded sometime in the 1990's. This was also before Starbucks and Microsoft took off in Seattle too - 500,000 population in 1978. I was also glad to see that Harborview was mentioned , since Seattle got the Medic One program up and running in 1969. During that episode, I appreciated the discussion on the "tiered system", when Rocky and Swede explained to Johnny and Roy the difference between the Aid Units (BLS) and the Medic Units (ALS). Rocky and Swede served on a Medic Unit, and this discussion was probably intended to explain the "tiered system" to the audience, since different cities do different things. My current city runs fire department ALS ambulances (paramedic engine companies are around too - most cities in the past 20 years have implemented them), and the paramedic program didn't start here until circa 1974. Several cities (like Fort Worth, Pittsburgh, and Boston) currently run third service EMS transport, much like San Francisco did until 1997.

The Journal of Emergency Medical Services (JEMS) has a DVD titled The History of Modern EMS: Making a Difference 2.0 that can be found for purchase. The impact of the Emergency! TV series is mentioned in here.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Emergency Season Seven, September 29, 2009

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Carolynne Anne Reed (Kalispell Montana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Emergency: The Final Rescues (DVD)

I can not remember the exact episodes of this season but as a young child of 10 I very much enjoyed every show that came of on Saturday night at 8 p.m. If you like watching how our medical history came about. You will enjoy how it was that we now have parametics and how hard it was for they to start out in Ca. I still enjoy watchen this show and I will alway will enjoy sitting down to watch Emergency after a long day. I will never out grow the show that turned me towards the medical field and I have never looked back. I am very much waiting for season 6 and I can hardly wait for Season 7 and all the 2 hour movies that were made after the series ended. Enjoy like I have.