i remember watch it back in the 70 . never miss an episode . along with the excite rescue and there be also some amusing situation . there be the call they get for a guy who get his big toe stuck in the tub faucet . another be for a guy who be build a ship model and accidentally super glue his hand to the model . he wouldn not let them cut the model from his hand and so they bring him into the hospital with the ship still attach to his hand a nautical music play in the background . another be the one where they respond to a toilet on fire . when they arrive and they go to use their fire hose and but the hose caught on fire . meanwhile and outside and a man throw a cigarette on a lawn where a sprinkler be go . the lawn catch fire . they figure out that the gas and water line get cross at a work site . but you could always count on a huge incident to climax each show . i seem to remember one episode where they be respond to a house fire and and while they be work that fire and a house across the street also catch fire . another be a man who climb out to the end of the crossarm of a 100 ft tall construction tower to commit suicide . he change his mind and but then be afraid to move . when i hear about the new nbc show trauma and i be so hop it would be much the same and however trauma concentrate too much on the everyday life of the character and not enough on excite rescue . also and instead of the camaraderie and humor that the station 51 crew on emergency have and trauma crew seem to be conflict and at odds with each other . the first episode of trauma be the most exciting and but after that and thing seem to go downhill . i hear that trauma have be cancel . i wish it would have work . tv need another show with the excitement and humor of emergency . i just get the season 1 dvd set . for the most part and it great . there be one problem with disk 2 and side 2 and 2nd episode publicity hound . when it get to the scene near the end when they be bring the child up the ladder and it stick then cut out to the menu . there be only 4 scene selection option and the last start before that rescue . the problem continue with the beginning of the 3rd episode and wierd wednesday . after a bit of the beginning and it skip to the opening credit . i miss the first rescue and something about a parachutist stuck in a tree . now that comcast be in the process of buy nbc or universal and i hope they add this show to their on demand tv show section .