Yeah watching first responders deal with “emergencies” (multiple ones per episode - I think I remember one with a cat stuck in a tree lol) is not my cup of tea. Sounds like they took the medical show concept which was popular at the time (Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, Marcus Welby) and wanted to spice it up by adding fire trucks and the like to appeal to the younger generation and the kiddos. Add in an occasional explosion and the kids get their action quotient. Of course all this is really tame by today’s standards but I guess it was all that was available at the time for the kiddos. On the other hand I know that something like S.W.A.T. certainly was more action-heavy and must have appealed greatly to the kiddos at the time. So I imagine they would be more excited by something like that. But then again you can never underestimate the excitement of a rolling fire truck with its sirens blazing so maybe that was enough to keep the kids glued to the set watching EMERGENCY! You’re certainly not gonna see many kids tuning into Marcus Welby. So I guess EMERGENCY! was a more exciting version of that. But again the word “exciting” is all relevant here. I never found it exciting. But then I never watched it as a 9 or 10 year old. At that age I was obsessed with KNIGHT RIDER!! Now there’s a show that will definitely appeal to every kid!!!! Performing CPR or getting a cat out of a tree? Not so much. LOL!