Randy ManTooth- He's still with us, and he'll turn 80 in July.
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- As a young gayling of 9 or 10, I wanted all the men on EMERGENCY in a way I did not understand. Now I can put into words: Bukakke.
- Sorry, should have linked a dreamy photo!
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- R2, You have relayed my thoughts exactly. Along with Shatner on Star Trek and Lee Majors on Six Million Dollar Man, the Emergency! guys were my first gay crushes!
- Ugh, these linkies are stinky! Can anyone help?
- Have read some very enjoyable slash fan fiction centered on Roy and Johnny becoming a couple... Randy Mantooth never did much for me, but Kevin Tighe and his hairy chest and reddish blonde hair( at least it sometimes was...) Defintitely on my to-do list when I was in high school.
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- Robert Fuller today
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- Robert Fuller aged well.
I may be the only one but Emergency to me, always felt like the actors weren't actors. It seemed like someone found real doctors, EMTs, firemen and documented them. Even now, the rescue scenes are more realistic without the blood and guts I see on modern shows.
Fuller was hot but my heart went to Mantooth. There were a few eps though in which he appeared drunk. Did he have a drug or alcohol problem.
Who was the grey haired doctor? He seems so amatuer. That's why I thought the show was a documentary.
Of course, there's always a "ms Kitty" token woman. Julie London.
- A very young Robert Fuller.
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- The gray haired actor was married to the actress who played Dixie McCall in real life. Both of their backgrounds were primarily as musicians.
- (Not sure if my first post will work.)
The gray haired actor was Bobby Troup.
- I guess he wasn't the Bobby Fuller who fought the law (and the law won.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fuller
- [quote] Who was the grey haired doctor?
Bobby Troup. Married to Julie London (Nurse Dixie)
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- Troup composed the classic "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66."
- R8, R10, Julie London was a popular female vocalist of the mid-to-late '50s, singing pop and jazz standards ("Cry Me a River"), before branching out into film and television. Her husband, Bobby Troup, was a jazz pianist and songwriter, whose most famous work, "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66" has been covered endlessly.
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- I'm really digging "Emergency" too. It wasn;t a silly soap with ambulances. It was a no no nsense action show. They had some really cool stunts that were movie worthy. I wish they would bring it back with Mantooth as Johnny who went to Med school while working as a Paramedic and Kevin Tighe as the head of the hospital
- Kiss his whole face.
- If you watch very carefully you will spot a very young Robert Fuller in one of the musical numbers as a chorus boy (uncredited) in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
No (unfortuneately!), not at the gym with Jane Russell but in Bye, Bye Baby and one of the other numbers (I forget which one).
Henry Spofford III and valet
- That's interesting tidbit about Julie London and Bobby Troup. I somehow figured London was a Warren Beatty throw away, old maid. Wow, I was way off...
- I can't remember where I read this, but apparently "Emergency" played a large part in the establishment of paramedic units connected with fire departments throughout the country.
- Yes, I liked Robert Fuller, but he is the only one on the cast of Emergency that I lusted over. Mantooth turned me off completely, which is unusual for me, and Tighe just didn't have the pretty face that I like. But Fuller was always sizzling hot, while the deep voice seemed a little "Ted Baxter" fake, it did help to give him a masculinity that just gets my dick rock hard.
- I saw the show when I was a kid (and wanted to go home to live with Julie London and Bobby Troup) but seeing it again as an adult, I really appreciate the issues they explore -- issues that would never be aired today or so candy coated that nothing real or true would happen.
They did an intense episode on child abuse that had a child who was physically and emotionally battered and pulled no proverbial punches. And the MD failed in his legal attempts to protect the kid.
The other one took me by surprise -- an episode on child suicide. The kid who attempted to die in that show was only seven.
- For the 70's, they were great looking, here is a better pic.
They all had a sort of sexual undertone without being overtly blatant about it.
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- Like a lot of movies back then it really had a real life feel. Sort of raw like a bad porn but with good looking people.
- Julie London was married to Jack Webb before she married Troup. Webb's company produced Emergency.
- Wasn't Jack Webb a closet case???
- Randolph Mantooth was my first crush--I think I was 4. He's like a better-looking Taylor Lautner.
- I've been watching a lot of MeTV lately. Especially The Big Valley and The Wild Wild West.
- I watch MeTV every afternoon, R28. Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Big Valley, The Wild Wild West, Emergency, and then two episodes of The Rifleman. Emergency is a little out of sync, but it has Robert Fuller and California was still in the West even in the 1970s.
- I think Emergency! had a more realistic look to it because they shot episodes all over Southern California locations. Very little seemed to be done on a set in a studio.
So it's great research into middle class/working class Southern California life in the 1970s.
- [quote] I'm really digging "Emergency" too. It wasn;t a silly soap with ambulances. It was a no no nsense action show.
That's because it was a Jack Webb production. Just the facts, ma'am.
- Check out Fuller's first series, Laramie, where he played the hunky ranch hand who shared a bedroom with the blonde hunky ranch owner, Slim. They used to dunk each other in the water tub and one or the other was always rescusing the other one who had been kidnapped, tied up, etc. Very homoerotic.
- The tight jeans of Laramie and Wagon train (the 60's westerns really did have a fair ammount of gratutitous ass shots) showed of his ass a little better than that long lab coat he wore in Emergency.
- Did Robert Fuller retire after Emergency!??
