Emergency +4 Explained
Emergency +4 is a 1973–74 American animated television series based on the live action prime-time series Emergency![1]
The cartoon features the show's two main characters, young firefighter-paramedics John Roderick "Johnny" Gage and Roy DeSoto, voiced by the actors who played them on the prime-time series, Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe. It also added a "plus four" of young people trained in lifesaving techniques — Carol, Matt, Jason and Randy — along with their pets, Flash the dog, Charlemagne the hawk and Bananas the monkey.[2]
Broadcast run
The series began on NBC's Saturday morning schedule on September 8, 1973, and ran twenty-three 30-minute episodes over two seasons. The final episode aired on November 30, 1974. The show remained on the network until September 4, 1976 through re-runs.[3]
Casting
Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe provided the character voices for their respective Emergency! paramedic characters of John Roderick Gage and Roy DeSoto. (See below for other character voice providers.)
Format
Each episode of the adventure series revolved around the Paramedical Rescue Service. The "+4" of the series title referred to the four children who joined the paramedics in each episode's rescue activities.
Production
Universal Studios outsourced the animation to Fred Calvert Productions because, at the time, it did not have its own animation division.
Cast
Episodes
Season 2 (1974)
Credits
Season 1
- Produced and Directed by Fred Calvert
- Starring the Voices of Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe, with Donald Fullilove, Peter Haas, David Jolliffe, Sarah Kennedy
- Associate Producer: Clifford Alsberg
- Created by Harold Jack Bloom, R.A. Cinader
- Stories by Joel Kane, Carol Henning, David & Susan Dworski, Peter Dixon, Joe Bonaduce, Norman Maurer, Fred Freiberger, Michael Donovan
- Storyboard Director: Jan Green
- Storyboards: Bill Perez, Joe Bruno, Corny Cole
- Story Editors: Harriet Foster, Janis Fierstein
- Animation Director: Ray Patterson
- Animation: Edwin Aardal, Joan Drake, Daniel De La Vega, Shannon Lee Dyer, Robert Goe, Fred Hellmich, Robert Maxfield, Ambrozi Paliwoda, Morey Reden, Allen Wilzbach
- Production Designer: Don Jurwich
- Layout: Ray Aragon, Dale Barnhart, Kimie Calvert, Norm Gottfredson, Paul Gruwell, Alex Ignatiev, Michael Moss, James Mueller, Michael O'Mara, Norly Paat, Joel Seibel, Tony Sgroi, Craig Spaulding, Grace Stanzell, Al Wilson, Zygamond Jablecki
- Background Stylist: Walt Peregoy
- Background: Daniela Bielecka, Linda Langmade, Carolyn Lim, Cathy Patrick, Don Schweikert, Donald Watson
- Production Coordinator: Paul Shively
- Music by Sound Track Music Company
- Editing: Bill Shippey, Peter Aries
- Ink and Paint Supervisor: Pat Jencks
- Checking Supervisor: Jan Cornell
- Scene Coordinator: Rollie Greenwood
- Xerox Supervisor: Ralph Coffman
- Camera: Animation Camera Services, Inc.
- Sound Engineering: Tom Rees, Valentine Recording
- Production Assistants: Vanessa O'Meara, Carolyn Rosales
- Fred Calvert Productions in association with Mark VII Limited and Universal Studios
Season 2
- Executive Producers: Fred Calvert, Michael Jaffe
- Produced and Directed by Fred Calvert
- Associate Producer: Janis Fierstein
- Created by Harold Jack Bloom, R.A. Cinader
- Starring the Voices of Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe, with Donald Fullilove, Peter Haas, Sarah Kennedy, Bobby Diamond, Richard Paul, Jack DeLeon, Casey Kasem
- Story Editors: Harriet Foster, Janis Fierstein
- Art Director: Kimie Calvert
- Storyboard/Layout: Gerard Baldwin, Gordon Bellamy, Norly Paat, Michael O'Mara, Roy Wilson, Bill Perez
- Animation: Shannon Lee Dyer, Edwin Aardal, Ed DeMattia, Fred Hellmich, Don Schloat, Allen Wilzbach
- Background Stylist: Walt Peregoy
- Background: Daniela Bielecka, Cathy Patrick, Don Schweikert, Donald Watson
- Music by Sound Track Music Company
- Editing: Bill Shippey, Peter Aries
- Production Coordinator: Don Schloat
- Scene Coordinator: Rollie Greenwood
- Ink and Paint Supervisor: Laurie Curran
- Xerox Supervisor: Ralph Coffman
- Camera: Animation Camera Services, Inc.
- Voice Track: Larrabee Sound
- Fred Calvert Productions in association with Mark VII Limited and Universal Studios
References
- Book: Perlmutter . David . The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows . 2018 . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-1538103739 . 181 .
- Book: Woolery . George W. . Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981 . 1983 . Scarecrow Press . 0-8108-1557-5 . 14 March 2020 . 90–91.
- Book: Hyatt . Wesley . The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television . 1997 . Watson-Guptill Publications . 978-0823083152 . 19 March 2020. 145.
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