Emergency!/The Wedworth-Townsend Act

The Wedworth-Townsend Act
pilot movie
Airdate	January 15, 1972
Written by	Harold Jack Bloom & R.A. Cinader
Directed by	Jack Webb
Produced by	R.A. Cinader
— N/A	1x01 → Mascot
Emergency! — Season One

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The Wedworth-Townsend Act is the episode of the first season of Emergency!.

Starring: Robert Fuller (Kelly Brackett, M.D., F.A.C.S.), Julie London (Dixie McCall, R.N.), Bobby Troup (Joe Early, M.D., F.A.C.S.), Randolph Mantooth (Firefighter John Gage), Kevin Tighe (Firefighter Roy DeSoto)

Starring: Martin Milner (Officer Pete Malloy), Kent McCord (Officer Jim Reed)

and Jack Kruschen (State Assemblyman Michael Wolski)

with Ann Morgan Guilbert (Woman in Trouble), Lew Brown (Man with Ulcer), Art Balinger (Battalion Chief Conrad), Virginia Gregg (Wilma Jacobs R.N.), Herb Vigran (Committee Chairman), Colby Chester (Fireman Tony Freeman), Ron Pinkard (Tom Gray, M.D.), Kathryn Kelly Wiget (Joanne DeSoto), Don Ross (Man at Boatyard)

Plot Overview

Senior paramedic Roy DeSoto talks young Johnny Gage into trying out for the paramedic program, while facing their opponent, Dr. Kelly Brackett, Rampart's Chief of Emergency Services, who flies to Sacramento, in hopes of getting the legislation pass, thanks to his best buddy/partner, Ms. Dixie McCall, Rampart's Chief Nurse of the Emergency Room, who's also the mentor and mother figure to Johnny and Roy, after he was opposed to this. She also gets injured and is knocked unconscious, after running a couple separate calls with the boys.

Trivia

Behind the Scenes

• Before the series started, Robert Fuller met singer/songwriter, Julie London, when he stopped in for a beer at her club in Los Angeles, California, in 1955, after he returned from the Army. They embarked on a lifelong friendship (with her husband Bobby Troup), ending with her 2000 death. She worked with him in an episode of the second season of "Laramie," where she played the card dealer.
• Long before the show started, Randolph Mantooth was an avid, lifelong Julie London fan, by listening to her music.