McPierogiPazza

My online spot to be a goofball. Special emphasis on '70s TV shows "Emergency!" and "Starsky and Hutch." We'll see what else happens.

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When I've read about the use of ventilators for Covid patients, I've actually found myself already understanding the specifics from having read so much Emergency! fanfiction.

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For the Starsky & Hutch fandom’s convenience, I have created Zebra Docs. It contains the following folders:

Zebra Three: all four seasons of S&H. My hope is that fans who are unable to buy the DVDs, or fans who need digital files for vidding can use this. Note that you can download entire folders at once.

Antonio: contains the episode of the French drama Cherif in which Antonio Fargas guest-starred as a hallucination of Huggy Bear.

Bernie: One Potato, Two Potato (1964) costarring Bernie Hamilton.

David: All 8 episodes of Unsub, sort of an 80′s Criminal Minds. 

Paul: nothing yet, but I hope to upload something soon.

Queer-themed 70′s TV:  Episodes of 1970′s TV with queer characters.  So far it contains an episode of M*A*S*H, Police Woman, Starsky & Hutch, and two episodes of The Streets of San Francisco. 

Feel free to share this around.  I’d love nothing more than to see a boom in S&H vidding, and I hope that having easy access to files might help that.

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A beacon of hope in a fucked up world. Bless you, my child.

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Hutch wonders what Dobey is planning. 

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Still all huddled up together 

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From Roach’s to Roaches – Stan & Ollie Meet Starsky & Hutch

Guest blogger Jim Dallape, creator with Robert Winslow of the remarkable Hal Roach Studios Backlot Tour, reports how TV’s Starsky & Hutch and Charlie’s Angles filmed in the same places as Laure…

Cool blog 

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David Soul the Ex-'Covered Man,' Is An Undercover Hit in Starsky and Hutch

The Ten O'Clock Scholar Club in Minneapolis was the place where a kid born Bob Zimmerman began to make his…

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Men at Work

How gender differences shape caregivers.

Insightful and very funny piece about gender, in this case in emergency medicine. 

“Perhaps men just need better examples set by their role models. Blame Emergency! How could we possibly get teary-eyed in front of a guy named Randolph Mantooth? Has there ever been a more alpha-male, in-your-face, don’t-touch-my-daughter name than Randolph Mantooth? I doubt it. Now, if Johnny Gage had been played by, say, Lyle Lovett, I think you’d see my male colleagues and me emoting more often.“

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Spending a long time in the ER with a sick relative (he'll be ok) is so much better when you get to spend an hour chatting with a paramedic who can talk Emergency! with you. I found out that some companies still use some of the older equipment like we see on the show, and some places still use the "mother may I?" permission requests you see on the show.

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Well, that’s changed

San Bernardino Sun, 18 April 1976

Randolph Mantooth, star of NBC's Emergency! doesn't even own a suit or sports jacket. When he makes public appearances on behalf of the show, his wardrobe is furnished by NBC. Otherwise, he dresses in denims and boots.

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Paramedics Graduate Sunday

Desert Sun, 12 October 1972

Two actors who portray paramedics in the NBC television senes “Emergency '" will be featured guests when six real-life paramedics are honored in a graduation ceremony at 2 p m Sunday in (he Sinatra Medical Education Center Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe, who depict rescue members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s innovative Paramedic Unit, will arrive in Palm Springs Saturday as guests of the Riverside County Heart Association. The association developed the desert area’s Mobile Coronary Care Unit (MCCU) which is staffed in the field by recently certified paramedics. Tighe will be the mam speaker and will discuss the role of paramedics. Mantooth will preside at ceremonies in which the paramedics receive MCCU pins Completing more than 290 hours of intensive classroom, clinical and in-field (raining, with the cooperation of the Desert Hospital and Eisenhower Medical Center, the six to be graduated are the first certified paramedics in the Coachella Valley. They include Dianne Reichle the only woman in California and possibly the nation, her husband. Allan, and Mark Bowen. Leroy Jones. Larry Sieh and Michael J Sullivan Because of limited seating capacity in the Sinatra Center auditorium, the graduation ceremony will not be open to the public. A flag ceremony will be conducted by Boy Scout Troops 81 of Cathedral City and 172 of Palm Springs The invocation will be given by the Rev Dean W. Miller of the Palm Desert Community Church An official welcome will be delivered by Dr Andrew Fitzmorris. chairman of the MCCU Committee Dr Roy V. Jutzy, past president of the Riverside County Heart Association, will award the certificates Expected to attend the event are Dr Elliot Rapaport. president of the California Heart Association; Dr Harold M. Erickson, Riverside County director of public health. Mrs Howard Wiefels, wife of the Palm Springs mayor: and Bill Schultz, mayor of Desert Hot Springs. Since April 24, when the MCCU program began, the specially equipped ambulances and crews have responded to more than 75 life-threatening emergencies The program has exceeded expectations for efficiency 

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TV’s Paramedic Star Aided By Real Thing

Desert Sun, 20 December 1975 

SANTA MONICA (UPI) - Randolph Mantooth, who stars as paramedic John Gage on the NBC-TV Saturday night “Emergency” series, got help Thursday from real paramedics when a leaky gas heater caused him to become groggy and in danger of asphyxiation. Mantooth, who was suffering from a heavy cold, began to have great difficulty breathing and called a Topanga Canyon neighbor who telephoned the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Paramedic Squad 125 from Calabasas arrived on the double, administered oxygen and took the actor to Santa Monica

Hospital where he was treated and released. Later investigation at his apartment disclosed a leak in a propane gas forced air furnace. “Those paramedics are fantastic.” said the actor. A County Fire Department information officer confirmed the incident was a genuine emergency.

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Randy Enjoys Rustic Setting

Desert Sun, 23 July 1973

HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - Randy Mantooth, the razor sharp paramedic of "Emergency,” is attuned to nature and the ecology. He lives a unique life for a television star. A 28-year-old bachelor, Mantooth whose father is a fullblooded Seminole Indian lives alone in a remote section of Topanga Canyon, midway between the San Fernando valley and Malibu beach. He rents a small, unpretentious house on an acre of land. A creek runs through the properly in the springtime. The setting is rustic. The aroma of chapparal, greasewood and sage assail the visitor in a pungent and heady mixture. Mountains plunge down to ravines all around the area. Smog is rare. The old house, consisting of four rooms living room, bedroom, kitchen and bath is furnished with odds and ends, about what you’d expect of a young man on his own. Nothing fancy. There are no gas lines to the house. Everything runs on electricity. There is insufficient power for an electric range, however, so Randy relies on hot plates to cook his meals. He also has a portable oven. Even with a star spangled modern gas range Randy would be lost. He’s a terrible cook and cheerfully admits it. “I’d starve to death if i didn’t have a girl friend who likes to cook,” he says. But starvation is not threat enough to rush the dark-haired actor into matrimony. He is the product of a broken home and doesn't want to marry or have children until he feels such a union would be lasting.

Randy is essentially a loner. When the NBC series is not in production he spends hours walking the trails into the mountains just outside his front door. A mile from his house there is no sign of civilization except an occasional jet vapor trail. On weekends he visits his mother in Santa Barbara, but more often he jumps into his Land Rover and heads for the desert or “anywhere there aren’t people.” He camps out under the stars, fixes a few spare meals and simply sits and contemplates the beauties of the surroundings. If he feels the need for company Randy will invite a girl friend to accompany him on one of his treks to the desert or mountains, but she must enjoy isolation and cooking over a campfire. There is no set pattern to Randy's life except when he is working. Then he is required to report to Universal Studios at 6:30 a.m. It is a 28-mile drive from his hideout, but he thinks it’s worthwhile. Mantooth is pleased with the success of the series, but the show is a mixed blessing to him. “The more popular the series is the less freedom from telephone and people there is for me,” he says. "1 love solitude, and I can’t say it has anything to do with my Indian heritage.” Randy’s principal companion is a cat named Che, for Cheyuma (translation: black spirit). Until recently Randy was accompanied everywhere by his collie, King. But the dog died at the age of 10. Mantooth still speaks of him fondly and one day hopes to buy another dog.

[UPI piece was retitled by different papers that ran it. Weird one was “Living in Canyon Hide-away... Randy Mantooth, Paramedic On 'Emergency/ Real Loner.” The other papers used titles about being a nature lover.]

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Johnny and Roy keep me [more or less] sane

The amount of time I spend in Emergency! land goes up and down with my levels of stress or depression, and I sometimes feel silly for enjoying it as much as I do when things get rough. It just hit me how I need to stop with the judgements. I get to retreat into stories and characters I love when I need it. That's to be treasured.

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When Fan Fiction and Reality Collide

The topsy-turvy power dynamics of internet culture are on display in “FANtasies,” a new fan-fiction-inspired web series.

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David Cassidy, Shirley Jones, and Shaun Cassidy, c. 1960.

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Johnny throwing Vince’s gun on top of the squad after head-injured Vince threatened him. What I want to know is if anyone remembered to remove it before driving the squad.