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Engine 51 is known for its time in the 1970s TV show Emergency!. Engine 51 is actually two very different fire engines. Both Engines 51 sit in the Los Angeles County Fire Museum right next to the famous Squad 51. The museum is building a new facility that will house the Squad 51 in Carson, California, where the show was filmed. [citation needed]
Emergency! is an American action-adventure medical drama television series jointly produced by Mark VII Limited and Universal Television.Debuting on NBC as a midseason replacement on January 15, 1972, replacing two situation comedy series, The Partners and The Good Life, it ran for a total of 122 episodes until May 28, 1977, with six additional two-hour television films in 1978 and 1979.
Dixie shows an ad to John and Roy about someone wanting to buy an old fire engine just like theirs; later, they help a man who injures his back doing stunts on his motorcycle. Dixie and Dr. Morton treat a boy with a sore throat while his mother begs for an antibiotic–but it turns out that the boy has polio .
Squad 51 is now residing with its co-star in Emergency!, Engine 51, which completed restoration in 2012. Squad 51 also made appearances in the hit TV show CHiPs at times including season 3 ep.17 "E.M.T.". Plans call for the museum to completely restore all of the period equipment used during the filming of Emergency!
In addition to acting in the show, Norell also wrote four episodes of Emergency! which began his career as a screenwriter. Norell commented on the show's writing process, "I would be invited by [executive producer] Bob Cinader to pitch ideas. You'd spend an hour or two throwing out ideas for rescues and hospital stories and firehouse stories ...
Robert Fuller (born Leonard Leroy Lee; July 29, 1933) is a retired American actor.Fuller was known for his deep “charcoal” voice, his roles on the popular Western series Laramie as Jess Harper and Wagon Train as Cooper Smith, and as Dr. Kelly Brackett in the medical/action drama Emergency!
The Little Drummer Boy (NBC, 1968) Directed by Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. and others. Written by Romeo Muller. Two years after CBS got heavy with A Charlie Brown Christmas, the Peacock network ...
Donnelly later won the role of fireman Chet Kelly in Emergency!, when he auditioned in casting. [6] After he won the role, Donnelly had to cut some of his hair and shave his beard. [6] After the series ended in 1977, he played starring roles in films Parts: The Clonus Horror [7] and his brother's Dennis Donnelly 1978 film The Toolbox Murders.