Old fandoms

[cornerofmadness]

FETV shows ancient shows and they started playing Emergency! For my entire life I thought it was Emergency 51 so I was shocked to learn it was wrong.

Anyhow Johnny Gage (Randolph Mantooth) was one of my first fandom crushes. (right after Spock and Sulu). I haven't seen this show since high school or maybe even junior high. Now I was apprehensive about watching it. It was filmed in the 1970s and it's a first responder/medical show. Now that I went through med school I find medical shows mostly unwatchable.

I decided what could it possibly hurt? If it sucks delete it. Of course if it sucks it might take my former joy. that's what it could hurt.

Shockingly it didn't suck. It's actually quite good for it's time. For one, it was rather progressive with an African American doctor, a Latinx firefighter, technically a Native American one in Johnny (though as far as I can remember it's never mentioned that he's Native) and a middle-aged woman calling a lot of the shots in Dixie. They never talk down to her because she's just a woman or a nurse (or at least not in the dozen or so I've watched from 1973) and that's saying something because 20 years to the year after these aired I was a resident in a hospital and they DID talk down to me because I was a woman.

It's been fun remembering Roy and Johnny (I didn't remember Johnny was a little well not dumb but not the sharpest knife in the drawer and walks around with his mouth half open all the time)

So do you have an old fandom you'd like to revisit or are you nervous too?

Speaking of fandoms have some recs

Prodigal Son

Watching over you

Triton ch 2

Touch

To Sleep (Perchance NOT to Dream) art

Other Fandoms

Soulstones Supernatural

Catch The Rainbow Teen Wolf

the sacrifices we make 21 Jump Street

Nowhere to Run Stranger Things

Brooklyn's Purrfect Fix Captain America

The Road Trip Stargate Atlantis

A Pretty Little Love Story What We Do in the Shadows (TV)

Passionately Curious The Trixie Belden Mysteries & The Three Investigators

The Way It Really Was MCU

for you 21 Jump Street

Rewrite the Stars Batman

Willing to Learn/A> Stargate Atlantis

The Secret at the Abandoned Farm The Sentinel

Comments

[sylvanwitch]

I was a huge fan of Emergency! as well, and I caught part of an episode not too long ago and got the same happy impression that you did. I also had a crush on the same actor/character you did!

[cornerofmadness]

Randolph Mantooth was a cutie back in the day. It really was well done for its time.

[mxcatmoon]

Hi! Here via my Network page, because I love talking about old fandoms. I have a lot of them. ;) I think I do avoid re-watching some of the older ones for that fear, even though I may still read and/or write fanfic for them. (Heck, sometimes they aren't even that old and I can't bring myself to rewatch!). I recently watched some Star Trek TOS and found that it was still great, but also deserving of a lot of eye-rolling in places. I'm glad you found Emergency to be enjoyable. It must be well done, if you as a medical expert had no big issues with that part.

Thanks for the Sentinel rec! Such a cute story. I hope they write a sequel to it, I want to know what happens next!

[cornerofmadness]

Welcome. Yeah it's always hard going back to an old tv show or book because some of them do not stand the test of time. I mean there is a lot of hokiness in Emergency but they did a lot of things right, like the episode where there was head trauma. They were checking for a babinski sign and had the actress do the toes correctly for the positive and the negative sign so there was definitely some medical consultants on this.

glad you enjoyed the story. Brumeier writes a lot but i'm not sure I've seen a lot of Sentinel fic from them

[mxcatmoon]

Yes, it definitely sounds like they were good about having consultation and accepting direction from them. That's always a good sign.

I've probably read some of Brumeier's Sentinel fic years ago, since I was very big into TS at one time. I haven't had any time to read more, but there are over 60 which is quite a lot, to me.

[cornerofmadness]

Ah I did not know they had that many stories. 60 is plenty

[goddess47]

The hubby mostly but we've been watching Adam-12... some of it is eye-rolling but Reed and Malloy are such boy-scouts it's nice to watch something that, well, nice...

And thanks for the 'rec... that was fun to write...

[cornerofmadness]

I remember liking Adam-12 too and I guess Emergency is a spin off of that in a way. I did see some of that again last year but not enough to really get a feel for it again

you're welcome

[the_siobhan]

I tried re-watching WKRP once and man. I couldn't get through the first episode with all the sexual harassment being played off as funny.

[cornerofmadness]

I can believe that. There is some womanizing in this but Johnny takes no as no so that's something for 1970

[spikedluv]

I remember Emergency! I have a sentimental soft spot for that show, though I haven't watched it again.

If it was on NBC in the 70s - early 80s, I probably watched it. (That was the only channel we got, even with an antennae.) BJ and the Bear is something I also remember fondly. I had a crush on Greg Evigan, ngl. *g*

ETA: Also meant to say thanks for the rec!

[cornerofmadness]

you're welcome for the rec

ah the days of antennas and putting foil on your bunny ears.

BJ & the bear, I watched that too. Greg was cute. I have a feeling that one might not hold up any more but I'd look at it and see

[aien_hime]

Oh I have so many old fandoms I don’t dare to go back to! Like power rangers (that is bound to be awful) and The Tribe. I used to love both in my late teens but now I’m so afraid it would shatter my memories if I rewatch them.

[cornerofmadness]

It's always a risk to your happy memories revisiting the loves of your youth.

i'm not sure I know The Tribe.