905-Wild

Several reviews are pretty negative because they treat a goat. I think watching the ep from the perspective that it was essentially a test for some new series is all the more interesting especially with the guest stars including a very young Mark Harmon. Just from the guest stars it is a good ep, having the animals makes it even more so, and so one can think of what series was never to be makes it worthy of watching.

This was easily THE BEST episode on EMERGENCY! And I need like 5 seasons of animal rescues! It was definitely ahead of its time. But I'm gonna need them to find a way to recast this, and shoot it in today's time with that 70's flair! I need tiger rescues, and little dogs saved from terrible humans and sent to good homes!

I loved every second! I can't even begin to emphasize how fun this episode was, maybe it is improbable, as I saw someone else say, and maybe a bit cheesy, but that was the 70's! With quick wit humor, and the writing, and whatnot, but under it all, 905-Wild held so much potential and I am so sad that it didn't get its own show! I would've watched it.

Emergency! 905-Wild. Jack Webb wanted to show and praise some other public servants. The Animal Rescue squads with a TV Show of their own.

It wasn't to be, but the pilot appears to have been chopped up and turned into an Emergency! episode. I just saw it and many of the edits show up as what reminds me the way torn film splices from old movies looked.

Getting to see a very young Mark Harmon as one of the stars was really cool. The Emergency! regulars look a bit uncomfortable at times. Probably cause they didn't understand what was going on.

Jack Webb, R.A. Cinader and guys like that who wanted TV shows that really showed how some of our First Responders worked and even their domestic issues, was something I have always thought as valuable. Many mocked his Dragnet deliveries, but he really didn't want the actors to be the stars. Just wanted to show people 'The Facts, ma'am, just the facts'

Like so many, Emergency! was one of my favourite shows as a child. I have no recollection of this episode, thankfully. Im sure they were trying to promote the Idea for a new show about animal rescue. The characters are uninteresting and the entire episode is a bore. I gave it a 3 because there is a bit of Gage and Desoto but skip this one and view the rest.

This episode was very awkward. According to the other review, it might have been pieced together from a longer sequence, but it was awfully cheesy in a lot of respects. The premise would be interesting (wildlife personnel), but I don't think it would have been a good regular series (i.e., week-to-week).

{{Wow, they want these reviews to be at least 10 lines long!}}

Anyway, it's always interesting to watch shows featuring wild animals, as the filming is often choppy... the star of the show rarely being seen with the wild animal, it's usually just hands, or from the back, etc., and you know it's not the star. Like I said, I like the idea of a show like this, but I'm glad it didn't get made. Nowadays we can watch "Animal Cops" on Animal Planet.