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Emergency! Season Six

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I love this series! When I was a kid I could hardly wait for Saturday night to watch Johnny and Roy. I own the first 5 seasons and am so thrilled the 6th season is coming soon! I have no problem with the quality of the videos. Back in the 70's I usually watched the show on a 15 inch black and white TV. So to see it in color is great! This is a show I can let my kids watch. It is wholesome, still educational, and I'm not nervous about inappropriate material suddenly popping up on the screen. Thanks Universal.

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The website tvshowsondvd.com announced a few days ago that Emergency! season 6 will be released on April 13, 2010.

Here's a few episodes of memory:

1. The guy who was launched into a tree when his son tied off his line to the bumper of his wife's van.

2. Gage and Desoto rescuing a guy off the observation tower at Ocean Lab Park (i.e. Marineland.

3. A few episodes featuring Craig Brice. One I recall is where Robert's Rules of Order and parliamentary procedures are used on a paramedic committee - Bob Belleveau, a real Los Angeles County paramedic, acts in this episode.

4. An episode where Johnny and Roy are on a fishing/camping trip and help out a sheriff in a rural community. This was a good depiction of bringing EMT's and paramedics out to rural areas, and the sheriff is motivated by Johnny and Roy to begin training a batch of EMT's. (Remember -this was 1976).

5. Another episode worth recalling is when heavy rains washed out the roads in one of the canyon areas of Los Angeles County. Johnny and Roy end up at Fire Station 86 for a few days, and Station 86 becomes the family clinic. They get standing orders via the biocom from Rampart.

Look forward to seeing this. The tvshowsondvd.com article says that Universal Studios is being persuaded to release the six movies sometime in 2011, with a tentative title called, Emergency! - Movie Collection.

I bought the 1st 5 years of this show on DVD...waited a long time for season 6....and now season 6 is finally out..never get tired of watching this show over and over.

I hope the rumor of the movies out next year is true! It will make my Emergency! collection complete!

However, how can you neglect to mention the episode in Season 6 where Dr. Kelly Bracket is involved in a car crash that kills the drive of the other vehicle and leaves the child riding in that vehicle unwilling/unable to speak!? Classic episode.

Now if only they will pickup on the release of CHiPs seasons. It stands at two seasons released. Not even halfway through!

Love Emergency! however. FF/PM Roy DeSoto and FF/PM Johnny Gage were two characters that always gave their all to save the victim. We could do with more shows like this on today's airwaves and a lot less of the "reality shows" that have consumed the TV lineups in past years....

Emergency! You just have to love it and season six delivers in a big way. The episodes are excellent, the rescues are more exciting than ever, and the special effects (explosions and such) are fantastic. Furthermore, the sound and picture quality is far superior to seasons four and five. (During season four I had to have my television set turned up all the way to even understand what they were saying!)

If you grew up watching Emergency!, you know that it is much more than a television show. Johnny and Roy become a part of your life and you find yourself thinking about being a Paramedic. You probably did it as a kid, and will do it again as an adult.

Let me put it this way...I am 44 years old and recently sold my small business. I have an appointment at a local college in a few weeks to check out their Paramedic program.

KMG-365!

I've been collecting the EMERGENCY! DVDs since they started releasing them about 5 years ago, and I've been sorely disappointed by the picture and sound quality of the episodes on the DVDs during the last few seasons. The prints appeared to be taken from 16MM prints (scratched and beat to hell, riddled with green lines and splices), and the audio was pretty muddy and scratchy.

Well, I'm pleased to say that it appears Universal finally listened, because these Season 6 DVD prints look and sound amazing! They have clearly gone and remastered these new digital transfers, possibly even in high definition, and the audio is crisp and clear. My only quibble is that they have crammed 5 episodes to a disc for this 5-disc set, which is a bit much, but even so, it doesn't appear to have affected the stunning video and audio quality.

The episodes themselves are entertaining as always; this is one show that seemed to get better and more interesting with each season. There's lots of great character interaction, the rescues are very exciting and well-staged, and there's a new face in the firehouse this season--that of a basset hound who makes the station's couch his home. It's nice to see a show go out at the top of its game writing-wise, and as everyone knows, this was Emergency's final season (to be followed by a series of TV movies, which Universal is supposedly going to release as well).

I highly recommend Season 6 both in terms of DVD quality and the show's content! Thanks again Universal for doing justice to this last season, and hopefully they treat the TV movies just as well.

This season is as good as any of the others and makes you wish they had made more episodes. I would recommend this season to all.

At last, we have a season with decent video and sound. I watch the show all the time with my 4 year old son and we were so used to the lousy transfers, as we go through season six it seems kind of weird having decent quality.

That said, all six seasons are worth every penny for good family entertainment. My son loves to watch "Fire Truck Show" with me. Our car is the "engine" thus he has declared that I am Stoker, Mom is Capt. Stanley, and he is Lopez. He used to be Chet Kelly, but switched over to Lopez after he found out nobody likes Chet's cooking.

We love racing to be the first to call out "danglers"(one of the hundreds of Emergency! rescues where they have to save someone dangling from some tall tower, crane, power line, bridge, building, tree, etc.)

The other day, Johnny and Roy were working on a patient and my son said, "Dad, I think he's throwing PVC's" (premature ventricular contractions). So funny!

Great Show!

Station 51 KMG365

I was amazed to find this on the shelf about a week ago at a local mall. They put it out early and initially they were not going to sell it to me. I complained to the manager and she said since it was out, they had to sell it to me! Great episodes! I have all of the other accompanying seasons. Emergency fans- this is a MUST have! The quality is fantastic and of course the episodes are classic. Buy it ASAP!

Have Fun - Paramedic Joe

i started watching emergency season 6 on netflix because i thought universal wasnt going to release it on dvd.i only watched 8 episodes but from i watched it was fantastic as always. For you people who complain about the picture quality of every emergency saeson please pipe it down. There wasnt HD back then, it was a classic 70's show and i enjoy seeing it the way it was shown on tv back in the 70's. Not everything has to be HD or blue ray to be great and enjoyed. if you dont like how universal released the series dont buy it and dont watch it.Thank you universal for releasing Emergency! on dvd I loved them all.