905-Wild

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 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.

I can't figure out why this series would not have garnered at least an attempt, from this Pilot! It is easily MY favorite, of the whole series! Would have been good to see some crossover episodes worked in as well! Too bad they decided not to persue it. This episode kept my interest from start to finish!

OK this might not have been the best of the best Emergency episodes ever made but knowing what Animal Control officers go through on their day to day work load this was close to some of the adventures my Dad had gone through working in the City. Of course he never met a Tiger or Lion other then those who played on the Detroit Home Teams. But other then that he did come across some interesting events where they had to rescue Cat's and Other animals in house Attic's and other wild animal you might be surprised to find in a Big City.

I liked seeing a Very Young Mark Harmon in only his third TV appearance I'm surprised that the writers of NCIS haven't made a In-Joke about the team going after a Tiger or other Animal would be a Wink at the followers of Mark Harmon saying see where he got his start?