Emergency - "One of Those Days" - 4:00 pm Thursday, February 12 on KSTC MeTV

Robert Fuller (Actor) .. Dr. Kelly Brackett

Born: July 29, 1933
Birthplace: Troy, New York, United States

Trivia: Robert Fuller spent his first decade in show business trying his best to avoid performing. After his film debut in 1952's Above and Beyond, Fuller studied acting with Sanford Meisner at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse but never exhibited any real dedication. He tried to become a dancer but gave that up as well, determining that dancing was "sissified." Fuller rose to nominal stardom fairly rapidly in the role of Jess Harper on the popular TV western Laramie (1959-63). Once he found his niche in cowboy attire, he stuck at it in another series, Wagon Train, turning down virtually all offers for "contemporary" roles. When westerns began dying out on television in the late 1960s, Fuller worked as a voiceover actor in commercials, earning some $65,000 per year (a tidy sum in 1969). On the strength of his performance in the Burt Topper-directed motorcycle flick The Hard Ride, Fuller was cast by producer Jack Webb as chief paramedic Kelly Brackett on the weekly TVer Emergency, which ran from 1972 through 1977. In 1994, Robert Fuller was one of several former TV western stars who showed up in cameo roles in the Mel Gibson movie vehicle Maverick.

Charles Robinson (Actor) .. Mike Larson

Born: November 09, 1945
Birthplace: Houston, Texas, United States

Trivia: African-American supporting actor. He was a regular on the TV sitcom Night Court.

Penelope Windust (Actor) .. Jane Larson

Born: July 13, 1945

Julie London (Actor) .. Nurse Dixie McCall

Born: September 26, 1926
Died: October 18, 2000

Trivia: Sultry blues vocalist Julie London began her film career long before she achieved fame as a recording artist. In 1945, 18-year-old London was selected to play a bargain-basement jungle princess, appearing opposite a gorilla in the PRC cheapie Nabonga. She was pretty bad, but no worse than the film itself. By the time she was cast as a sexy teenager in The Red House (1947), her acting had improved immensely, and by the time she played the female lead in the 1951 programmer The Fat Man, it looked as though she actually had a future in films. Still, London's greatest claim to fame was her long string of hit records ("Cry Me a River" et. al.) of the 1950s; many male admirers bought her albums simply to gaze upon her come-hither countenance on the dust jacket. Her status as every red-blooded American boy's wish dream was gently lampooned in Frank Tashlin's The Girl Can't Help It (1956), in which she appears as a spectral vision who transfixes a wistful Tom Ewell. Her best dramatic film appearances of this period include her leading-lady gigs in Voice in the Mirror (1958) and Man of the West (1958). From 1945 through 1955, Julie London was the wife of actor/producer Jack Webb; years after the divorce, London played Nurse Dixie McCall on the popular Jack Webb-produced TV series Emergency, in which she co-starred with her second husband, actor/jazz musician Bobby Troup.

Bobby Troup (Actor) .. Dr. Joe Early

Born: October 13, 1918
Died: February 07, 1999

Carol McEvoy (Actor) .. Iris

Died: May 13, 1994

Trivia: Actress Carol McEvoy may best be remembered by Los Angeles residents as the lady who translated television station KTTV's local newscasts into sign language for hearing-impaired viewers. She won an Emmy for her five years there. McEvoy, the daughter of deaf parents, appeared in the feature film The Towering Inferno as Mrs. Albright, a deaf-mute woman. When not acting, McEvoy pioneered the movement towards making closed-captioning a common feature on television.

Kevin Tighe (Actor) .. Roy DeSoto

Randolph Mantooth (Actor) .. John Gage

Born: September 19, 1945

Bill Mclean (Actor) .. Hotel Clerk

Lara Parker (Actor) .. Betty Grinnell

Born: October 27, 1938
Birthplace: Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Trivia: Blonde American leading lady Lara Parker came directly from the stage to daytime drama. Not so unusual, that: what was unusual is that Parker was not your typical long-suffering soap ingenue. She was, in fact, a witch--not a witch by disposition, but by birth, for she played glamorous 200-year-old Angelique on the Gothic serial Dark Shadows (1966-71). Lara was later more conventionally cast as Linda Vandenburg on another daytime cliffhanger, Capitol (1982-1987). Most recently, Lara Parker appeared in the 1990 TV movie The China Lake Murders.

Tim Donnelly (Actor) .. Chet Kelly

Born: September 03, 1944

Marla Adams (Actor) .. Rita Hudson

Born: August 28, 1938

Dick Hammer (Actor) .. Capt. Hammer

Ross Elliott (Actor) .. Harry Grinnell

Born: June 18, 1917
Died: August 12, 1999
Birthplace: Bronx, New York

Trivia: "Everyman" American character actor Ross Elliot established himself on Broadway, served in World War II, returned to the stage, and made his film bow in 1948. Elliot's many movie appearances include minor roles in such science-fiction favorites as Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953) and Tarantula (1955). A prolific television performer, Elliot lost count of his video appearances after he passed the one-hundred mark. From 1967 to 1970, Ross Elliot was seen as Sheriff Abbott on the TV western The Virginian.

Sam Lanier (Actor) .. Dispatcher

Shirley Mitchell (Actor) .. Mrs. Larson

Born: November 04, 1919
Died: November 11, 2013

Jack Perkins (Actor) .. Joseph R. Healey

Emergency: One of Those Days

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Thursday, February 12 on KSTC MeTV (5.3)

One of Those Days

Season 5, Episode 8