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Emergency!: Hypochondri-Cap (1977)
Everything That Made This Show Great
Like many reviewers,, this program was a childhood staple. I anxiously awaited Saturday night when I could stay up a little later to watch Roy, John, Chet, The Cap, Lopez, and the staff at Rampart General help the hapless citizens of LA County.
As a 4 old, I couldn't wait to hear that beeping sequence of alarms that would send the trucks rolling. Watching this show for the first time in over three decades, that excitement came right back. I still remember the big set piece from this episode from when I saw it new in 1977. Seeing it again, it's still an impressively filmed and rather lengthy display of tense action when a refinery fire requires an incredible deployment of manpower and machines, along with a clever rope rescue sequence by Gage and DeSoto.
There's also a good sub-plot involving the lovably gruff captain, who is reluctant to visit a doctor regarding a nagging pain that he thinks is arthritis.
Throw in yet another sub-plot involving rogue plastic surgery, and I realize now as an adult how many serious topics this show worked into an hour's entertainment.
Reading reviews of health care professionals who testify to the realism presented, along with others who credit this show with introducing most of the country to what amounts to revolutionary change in the field of fire fighting and emergency response happening in larger cities at the time, has only given me greater appreciation for this show.