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<blockquote data-quote="bmasters9" data-source="post: 428786" data-attributes="member: 77">I also got hooked on Emergency!, but not by seeing any episodes beforehand-- I got the all-in-one on DVD of that NBC 70s medical/action hit in 2022, and started with the second go (1972-73); over time, I got really invested in how these magnificent firefighters and paramedics of that fictional L.A. County fire station, and the doctors and nurse they worked with at Rampart General Hospital, worked together to put out the worst fires, pull off the toughest rescues, and (in the case of the doctors and nurse of Rampart) save most of the lives of those who came into that hospital (I say save most because there were a few who did not make it; even so, their success rate was quite astronomical, IMO). I eventually saw the rest of the series, then saw the later TV movies of 1978 and &#039;79, which were okay, but not quite up to the series standard; I then saw the pilot that started it all from Jan. 1972, and the short first season that followed (it was good, and showed promise of what the show would eventually become; most shows do/did have to go through those growing pains).The DVDs did have picture quality that was all over the place (many episodes were good quality, but a lot of them [especially of the fourth and fifth gos] were quite marginal, with much dirt and film splotches, among other anomalies); that didn&#039;t deter me, however, because it was the show itself that counted with me (like many of the shows that became selects with me, I had the attitude of &#039;the play&#039;s the thing&#039;-- that I was enjoying it on DVD despite the bad picture quality on a lot of the episodes simply because of what the show was and how much entertainment value it has had for me).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bmasters9, post: 428786, member: 77"] I also got hooked on [I]Emergency![/I], but not by seeing any episodes beforehand-- I got the all-in-one on DVD of that NBC 70s medical/action hit in 2022, and started with the second go (1972-73); over time, I got really invested in how these magnificent firefighters and paramedics of that fictional L.A. County fire station, and the doctors and nurse they worked with at Rampart General Hospital, worked together to put out the worst fires, pull off the toughest rescues, and (in the case of the doctors and nurse of Rampart) save most of the lives of those who came into that hospital (I say save most because there were a few who did not make it; even so, their success rate was quite astronomical, IMO). I eventually saw the rest of the series, then saw the later TV movies of 1978 and '79, which were okay, but not quite up to the series standard; I then saw the pilot that started it all from Jan. 1972, and the short first season that followed (it was good, and showed promise of what the show would eventually become; most shows do/did have to go through those growing pains). The DVDs did have picture quality that was all over the place (many episodes were good quality, but a lot of them [especially of the fourth and fifth gos] were quite marginal, with much dirt and film splotches, among other anomalies); that didn't deter me, however, because it was the show itself that counted with me (like many of the shows that became selects with me, I had the attitude of 'the play's the thing'-- that I was enjoying it on DVD despite the bad picture quality on a lot of the episodes simply because of what the show was and how much entertainment value it has had for me). [/QUOTE]

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