RIP, Randolph Mantooth…

[Maroon Eagle]

Best known for his role as Johnny Gage on Emergency!

Randolph Mantooth, Firefighter-Paramedic Johnny Gage on ‘Emergency!,’ Dies at 80

He partnered with real-life pal Kevin Tighe (Roy DeSoto) on the popular NBC series, then did lots of soap operas.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

(yeah, I’m old)

 

[Dogpatrol]

Me too.. watched it all the time.
Rampart was my favorite hospital

 

[PapaDawg]

I am old too.
Watched it every week

 

[jethreauxdawg]

Dorthy’s husband?

 

[L4Dawg]

Best known for his role as Johnny Gage on Emergency!

Randolph Mantooth, Firefighter-Paramedic Johnny Gage on ‘Emergency!,’ Dies at 80

He partnered with real-life pal Kevin Tighe (Roy DeSoto) on the popular NBC series, then did lots of soap operas.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

(yeah, I’m old)

We never missed that show when I was a kid.

 

[Dawgbite]

Recently saw an interview with him. Back in the 60’s he was on a flag football team and they regularly played Elvis and his entourage when Elvis was filming in Hollywood. He and Elvis became great friends and he was in a few of Elvis’s movies.

 

[patdog]

One of my first favorite tv shows.

 

[The Peeper]

I watched it too every Saturday night. My 12-15 year old self might have had a crush on nurse Dixie McCall aka Julie London. First 2 pics are her sexy older self. Last one, well, we make a big deal out of pointy elbows around here. Check out those pointy things on her , those babies would definitely put an eye out. And, they are, out of sink, or crooked, or something......


OUCH!

 

[doobeeadawg]

Best known for his role as Johnny Gage on Emergency!

Randolph Mantooth, Firefighter-Paramedic Johnny Gage on ‘Emergency!,’ Dies at 80

He partnered with real-life pal Kevin Tighe (Roy DeSoto) on the popular NBC series, then did lots of soap operas.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

(yeah, I’m old)

There with you !!!!!

 

[mcdawg22]

Dorthy’s husband?

That woman is a Saint!!

 

[dickiedawg]

Best known for his role as Johnny Gage on Emergency!

Randolph Mantooth, Firefighter-Paramedic Johnny Gage on ‘Emergency!,’ Dies at 80

He partnered with real-life pal Kevin Tighe (Roy DeSoto) on the popular NBC series, then did lots of soap operas.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

(yeah, I’m old)

I thought sure Randolph Mantooth was going to be a name on the Ole Miss pledge list this fall

 

[MaxwellSmart]

I still watch it in the evening if nothing else looks interesting.

 

[The Peeper]

I still watch it in the evening if nothing else looks interesting.

MeTV? I've watched it on there but it was awhile back

 

[TaleofTwoDogs]

Rip Mr. Mantooth

 

[MaxwellSmart]

MeTV? I've watched it on there but it was awhile back.

Right now it's on fetv but it's on one of the MeTv channels earlier in the day.

 

[Pink Floyd.sixpack]

Met him when I was 7 at the Choctaw Indian Fair. Was first show I watched that wasn’t a Saturday morning cartoon. Good times. I’m old too

 

[ETK99]

 

[Villagedawg]

Hee Haw seemed like it lasted 3 hours waiting for Emergency! To come on. Even had the lunch box.

 

[MSUDOG24]

Talk about getting old, that show started when I was in HS (should be peak TV awareness time) and don't remember ever watching it or even being on for that matter.

Interesting tidbit from the article and one of those things you simply take for granted these days that didn't even exist not all that long ago.
Emergency! aired for six seasons, from January 1972 through May 1977, then tacked on seven telefilms over the next couple of years. There even was a Saturday morning animated series in 1973-74.

When the show premiered, there were 12 paramedic units in all of North America. In the next three years, 46 states enacted laws that allowed paramedics to practice emergency medicine. Within 10 years, more than half of all Americans were within 10 minutes of a paramedic rescue or ambulance unit.

Experts say that growth simply would not have occurred without Emergency!