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Rescue 77 (1999)

Rescue 77 poster
Genre
drama
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 8 episodes
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A TV series about paramedics in Los Angeles. It shows their work responding to emergencies and their personal lives outside of work.

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What happens

Rescue 77 is an American medical drama television series about the professional and personal lives of paramedics in Los Angeles, California. The series created by Gregory Widen and aired from March 15 to May 3, 1999, on The WB. The creator and executive producer was Gregory Widen, a former Southern California firefighter and paramedic, and the writer of the 1991 firefighting drama Backdraft. His goal for the show was to provide a more realistic depiction of the lives of firefighters and paramedics than previous emergency medical television series such as Emergency! (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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