TheBigCat
03-23-07, 09:32 AM
I guess everyone has to have a cast member they champion, so I'm claiming Kevin. Simple reason for this is that a fond memory of my youth was watching Emergency! every week. Absolutely loved the show. Kevin as L.A. County Fire Department Paramedic Roy deSoto and Randy Mantooth as his partner John Gage. Also the staff of Rampart General, where they frequently took thier rescued victims for treatment, Robert Fuller as Dr. Kelly Brackett, MD, FACS, Robert Troup as Dr. Joe Early, MD, FACS, and Julie London once a popular singer most noted today for her wonderful duet with Louis Armstrong of What A Wonderful World, as Dixie McCall.
The program actually laid the ground for public acceptance of Fire Department Paramedics, with remarkable technological advancements such as radio telemetry of patient vital statistics. Yup. Brackett, Early and Nurse Dixie didn't just come running out when the ambulance showed up at the ER, they were in radio contact with Gage and DeSoto, who would hook up the victim to a mobile EKG (about the size of a small suitcase) which would send the signal back to Rampart where Dr. Brackett would read the EKG and order them to administer 5 mG of ringers lactate (whatever that is).
Later, Kevin was the guy who hired Patrick Swayzie to clean up his bar in Roadhouse, and has had a lot of small roles since then. As for Randy Mantooth, following the cancellation of Emergency he showed up in a TV series adaptation of the classic Cary Grant/Tony Curtis WWII submarine comedy Operation Pettycoat with John Astin in the old Grant role of the skipper of a pink submarine (long story, the approved colors for undercoat are either red or white, they had to scrounge their own, wound up with enough of each to paint half the sub, mixing them so that the color difference wouldn't show through when they put on the final grey paint, which the Navy refused to supply.) Great movie, see it, skip the series, although Curtis's daughter did appear as one of the Navy nurses (don't ask...just go rent it) before getting her breakthrough role in Halloween. Oh...if you didn't know that Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, shame on you unless you are under 25.
Tighe and Mantooth have remained good friends, with Kevin being the best man at Randy's 1999 wedding. London and Troup (he was a jazz musician himself) were married from 1959 until his death in 1999. She died the following year.
By the way, someone needs to smack IMDb.com upside the head on this one. I went there for confirmation of my memory and found that thier listing is sorely inadequate. Wikipedia proved much more useful. Oh, and I have always pronounced Kevin's last name "Tie", but I have never heard otherwise.
The program actually laid the ground for public acceptance of Fire Department Paramedics, with remarkable technological advancements such as radio telemetry of patient vital statistics. Yup. Brackett, Early and Nurse Dixie didn't just come running out when the ambulance showed up at the ER, they were in radio contact with Gage and DeSoto, who would hook up the victim to a mobile EKG (about the size of a small suitcase) which would send the signal back to Rampart where Dr. Brackett would read the EKG and order them to administer 5 mG of ringers lactate (whatever that is).
Later, Kevin was the guy who hired Patrick Swayzie to clean up his bar in Roadhouse, and has had a lot of small roles since then. As for Randy Mantooth, following the cancellation of Emergency he showed up in a TV series adaptation of the classic Cary Grant/Tony Curtis WWII submarine comedy Operation Pettycoat with John Astin in the old Grant role of the skipper of a pink submarine (long story, the approved colors for undercoat are either red or white, they had to scrounge their own, wound up with enough of each to paint half the sub, mixing them so that the color difference wouldn't show through when they put on the final grey paint, which the Navy refused to supply.) Great movie, see it, skip the series, although Curtis's daughter did appear as one of the Navy nurses (don't ask...just go rent it) before getting her breakthrough role in Halloween. Oh...if you didn't know that Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, shame on you unless you are under 25.
Tighe and Mantooth have remained good friends, with Kevin being the best man at Randy's 1999 wedding. London and Troup (he was a jazz musician himself) were married from 1959 until his death in 1999. She died the following year.
By the way, someone needs to smack IMDb.com upside the head on this one. I went there for confirmation of my memory and found that thier listing is sorely inadequate. Wikipedia proved much more useful. Oh, and I have always pronounced Kevin's last name "Tie", but I have never heard otherwise.