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''Emergency!'' was an American Television Series which ran from January 1972 to 1979 on NBC . It was produced by Jack Webb and co-produced and created by Robert A. Cinader . The series followed the ), Dr. Joe Early ( Bobby Troup ), and chief nurse Dixie McCall RN ( Julie London ). Other regular characters included: Captain Dick Hammer (first season alternately portrayed by Dick Hammer and John Smith ), Firefighter engineer Mike Stoker (who, in real life was a Los Angeles County firefighter). Chet Kelly ( Tim Donnelly ), Marco Lopez (uses his real name), Captain Hank Stanley ( Michael Norell ) (seasons two through seven), Dr. Michael Morton ( Ron Pinkard ) (in the pilot episode, his character is "Dr. Tom Gray"), and Dispatcher (uncredited Sam Lanier ). Other occasional regulars included Battalion Chiefs Conrad ( Art Balinger ) and McConike ( William Boyett ), and Los Angeles County Sherrif's Deputy Vince ( Vince Howard ) While Troup and London were married in real life, the character of McCall was written to be a love interest for Brackett. Further muddying the picture, before marrying Troup in 1959 , she had been married to Webb from 1947 to 1953 . That divorce must have been amicable, as Webb had repeatedly hired Troup for roles on '' Dragnet '' and '' Adam-12 ''. The show highlighted the adventures of the still fledgling paramedic program and its popularity encouraged various communities in North America to establish and improve emergency services as hiring paramedics. The show was also credited for demonstrating First Aid techniques that enabled some viewers to save lives in real Emergencies . However, the show later had to add a disclaimer, stating that the first aid techniques demonstrated should only be performed by trained persons. The series spun-off an animated version called ''Emergency +4'' (featuring four teenagers who participated in adventures with the paramedics) which ran from 1973 to 1976. The series itself was considered a spin-off of an earlier Jack Webb series, ''Adam-12''. Strangely, the characters in ''Adam-12'' appear in one episode, while another episode had a subplot in which one of the paramedics watched ''Adam-12'' as a television show. Further complicating things, is the fact that the Los Angeles ''County'' Fire Department does not serve the ''City'' of Los Angeles, it makes the spin-off somewhat factually dubious, which is not typical of Jack Webb productions. Charlton Comics published several issues of an ''Emergency!'' comic book in the mid-1970s. When the program was first Syndicated it went by the title ''Emergency One''. Renaming programs for syndication was commonplace until the 1980s. It is rarely seen today since the series is now owned by the Jack Webb Estate. Universal Studios (the series' original distributor) has so far issued domestic DVD editions of the series' first two seasons. The North American DVD release date for season 1 was August 23 , 2005 . The North American DVD release date for season 2 was February 7 , 2006 . TRIVIA
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