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Stories featured
Situations
Crimes, automobile accidents, medical emergencies, fires, choking/asphyxiations, miscellaneous injuries, and amazing stories of survival were the most common situations presented on the show. Other situations commonly presented on Rescue 911 included near-drownings, people getting themselves or their body parts stuck in tight places, baby deliveries, animal rescues, search and rescue situations, swiftwater rescues, rescues of people stranded in high places such as cliffs or trees, and aircraft-related emergencies. The show occasionally presented stories involving gas leaks, electrocutions, suicide attempts, scuba diving accidents, drug overdoses, train-related accidents, and natural disasters.
Although Rescue 911 mostly featured serious emergencies, the show occasionally featured humorous stories of non life-threatening situations and false alarms. Examples include a burglar who got stuck upside-down when he tried to enter a house through the chimney, a young boy who gets stuck in a laundry chute while playing hide-and-seek, a young man who got a plaster mask stuck on his face, a woman who got a plaster mold stuck to her torso, a woman who called 911 when she mistook her parents’ new mannequin for an intruder, a young boy whose tongue froze to the inside of his freezer while attempting to get ice cream, a toddler who got her foot stuck in the toilet drain, a dog that stepped on the 9-1-1 speed dial button after getting tangled in the phone cord (although the dog was in danger of being strangled), a raccoon whose head was stuck in the hole of a tree, and a woman who got stuck in her bathroom when the lock on her door failed.
Deaths
In the majority of stories featured ended with all lives being saved. There were some exceptions, however, in which one or more victims died, although such occurrences became exceedingly rare later in the show’s run. Deaths on the show usually occurred in documentary segments, or in segments reenacting multiple causality incidents in which other victims survived. These occasions included:
Pilot episode (also Season 1, episode 17): Ten children do not survive on a church bus that gets swept into floodwater
Season 1, episode 1: Police shoot & kill grocery store robber
Season 1, episode 6: A restaurant employee is murdered
Season 1, episode 9: Former NFL player Jerry Anderson drowns saving a boy from a river
Season 1, episode 13: In the Dupont Plaza Hotel arson, while many are rescued, 98 people die
Season 1, episode 16: Sixteen people die in the Chase, Maryland rail wreck
Season 1, episode 19: A woman is killed when the car she is riding in is hit by a runaway freight train car; her husband survives
Season 1, episode 20: Charles Stuart murders his pregnant wife; later his child dies, and then commits suicide.
Season 2, episode 2: Two out of three scuba divers are successfully rescued from an underwater cave; one dies
Season 2, episode 5: One man dies in a hotel fire later found to be arson; all other tenants escape or are rescued
Season 2, episode 8: Slick Johnson is killed in a crash during an auto race; a paramedic injured aiding another driver survives.
Season 2, episode 10: Woman dies from complications a year after being shot by her husband (she was alive when this episode originally aired)
Season 2, episode 19: A man is murdered at a bar; officers chasing the suspects are threatened by gunfire, but survive and are later able to apprehend the suspects
Season 2, episode 27: The pilot of an aircraft dies while flying the plane; his wife brings the plane to a safe landing, surviving and preventing the plane from causing danger to others
Season 2, episode 29: A fleeing bank robber being chased by police strikes and kills a detective, and the suspect is later killed in a shootout with police; the gunman’s hostage survives unharmed
Season 3, episode 14: A prowler is shot dead after seriously injuring a Police Officer
Season 4, episode 8: Teen’s friend killed in car accident caused by drunk driver
Season 4, episode 21: Police shoot & kill man that stabbed his girlfriend
Season 5, episode 18: Teen is brain dead after car accident; her family donates her organs, saving three people in need of organ transplants
Season 5, episode 20: A teenage boy dies from huffing butane
Season 6, episode 13: A drunk driver kills a man and seriously injures a woman.
Season 7, episode 10: Gunman holding hostages at library is shot dead by an undercover sheriff’s deputy posing as a hostage
Presentation
Stories were usually presented in the form of re-enactments. Many stories included the actual recorded 911 call, as well as brief clips of people who had a part in the story recalling the situation. Occasionally, recorded video footage of all or part of the event itself, the rescue efforts or the aftermath (usually amateur video or television news coverage) would be included in the segments. Many of the re-enactments required complex presentation, such as the recreation of house fires, automobile accidents, police chases, explosions, pregnant women in labor, and even natural disasters.
Some stories took place in the form of a documentary. In these stories, Rescue 911 camera crews would ride with paramedics or police, or wait in hospitals and film whatever happened to unfold. These stories sometimes involved more than one event in a single segment at the same medical facility. Examples of such type episodes include the Charles Stuart murder case, which happened when Rescue 911 was filming in Boston.
High-profile incidents
A few segments featured on Rescue 911 gained (or had previously gained) national news coverage. These incidents included the New Year’s Eve 1986 fire at Puerto Rico’s DuPont Plaza Hotel, the 1987 Amtrak train wreck in Maryland, two segments on Hurricane Hugo, the June 1990 Ohio tornado, the Stuart murder case, the Salt Lake City Public Library hostage incident, and the Oklahoma City bombing.
Show formats
Original format
When it originally aired on CBS, Rescue 911 episodes normally ran 60 minutes and typically featured four stories, although some episodes featured three or five stories. Episodes with three stories were common during the second and third seasons, but became less common during the later seasons. Because Rescue 911 was paired with The CBS Tuesday Movie for most of its run, episodes with irregular running times were occasionally created to accommodate movies that did not fit the regular two-hour time slot. Most of these episodes ran 30 minutes and containted two stories. Other such episodes included a 90-minute episode, a 50-minute episode, a 45-minute episode, and a 15-minute episode containing only one story. From seasons 1-5, an opening disclaimer was shown in the original introduction before the start of the show, although the credits varied from season to season. Shatner’s voice was heard by saying:
“This program contains true stories of rescues. All of the 9-1-1 calls you will hear are real. Whenever possible, the actual people involved have helped us reconstruct the events as they happened.”
In a few of the earlier episodes, the last sentence of the disclaimer instead said:
“Unless indicated, the actual people involved have helped reconstruct the events as they happened.”
From seasons 6-7, a modified version of the introduction was used. Instead of showing the “This program contains true stories of rescues…” disclaimer, the show started by previewing three of the segments from the episode and then faded into a shortened version of the original opening. Some re-runs from earlier seasons that aired after the beginning of the sixth season had their old introductions replaced by the new version of the introduction.
The Family Channel (FAM) began airing re-runs of Rescue 911 in the 60-minute format circa 1993, although episodes were edited for running time, and censored for profanity and religious references. At first, FAM showed the opening disclaimer at the beginning of the episodes, but the disclaimer was later replaced with a short teaser, which previewed one or two segments from the episode. Season six episodes that aired on FAM had their introductions replaced with the season 1-5 introduction, although the opening credits were not changed accordingly, and were sometimes incorrect. Seventh season episodes were never shown on FAM. When the Family Channel became the FOX Family Channel in August of 1998, Rescue 911 was removed from its lineup.
Syndicated format
In 1994, a re-formatted version of Rescue 911 was sold into off-network syndication. This version of the show ran 30 minutes and typically included two stories, although a few episodes contained one long-running story. Some syndicated episodes featured stories that began on one episode and concluded on the next episode, which was never done in the show’s original format. These syndicated episodes contained no new material. They consisted of two stories taken from two different original 60 minute episodes. Stories featured on syndicated episodes were often edited for running time, omitting short scenes that were shown in the original broadcast. Three-hundred of these syndicated episodes were made, and featured segments from first season through the sixth season.
The following networks have shown Rescue 911 in syndicated format:
Numerous local affiliates
The Family Channel (also showed the original format)
Odyssey/The Hallmark Channel
Discovery Health Channel
Reality TV/Zone Reality
Living
CI (Australia)
AXN
Episodes
Main article: List of Rescue 911 episodes
Ratings and Broadcast History
By Season
Season
TV season
Regular
Timeslot (EDT)
Episode
Count
Season premiere
Season finale
Rank
Rating
1
1989-1990
Tuesday 8:00 pm
30
September 5, 1989
May 15, 1990
#54
2
1990-1991
29
September 11, 1990
May 14, 1991
#31
3
1991-1992
27
September 17, 1991
May 19. 1992
#27
4
1992-1993
28
September 15, 1992
May 25, 1993
#13
15.1
5
1993-1994
28
September 14, 1993
May 24, 1994
#29
13.2
6
1994-1995
29
September 13, 1994
May 23, 1995
#48
10.8
7
1995-1996
Thursday 9:00 pm
15
September 12, 1995
August 27, 1996
#84
7.7
By Episode
Additional/Alternate Time Slots
Season 2
Wednesday 8:00 PM: April 1990 (in addition to Tuesday 8:00 PM)
Season 3
Friday 8:00 PM: January-February 1992 (in addition to Tuesday 8:00 PM)
Season 7
Tuesday 8:00 PM: September 1995, August-September 1996
International versions
Rescue 111
In New Zealand TV2 began screening the first season of Rescue 911 in 1991 and subsequent seasons following this. At the start of each episode the network would display a reminder to viewers that the emergency number in New Zealand is 111. In 1992, with the permission of CBS, the show was renamed to Rescue 111 in New Zealand, this followed reports of New Zealanders calling 911 in an emergency instead of 111. The show starting was shortened with a Rescue 111 title replacing the Rescue 911 title. The format of the show remained the same and William Shatner still addressed the show as Rescue 911 along with all stories mentioning calling 911. When the final series screened in New Zealand in 1996 the show was simply called Rescue.
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German network RTL started its own version with a mix of cases from Germany and the US in 1992. The show ran for over 14 years, with the last episode broadcast on August 27, 2006.
Merchandise
Home Video Releases
In its earlier seasons, ads were shown after the end credits of the Rescue 911 that gave an 800 number that viewers could call to order a copy of that night’s broadcast. This ad was not shown in later seasons.
On May 27, 1997, “Rescue 911: World’s Greatest Rescues” was released on VHS. This video featured five stories of rescue attempts from around the world; segments were taken from both the U.S. and international versions of Rescue 911. The segments on the video were edited for running time, and the original narration on all segments (including those originally narrated by William Shatner) is dubbed over by an uncredited narrator. The two stories taken from the U.S. version were about a New Zealand girl pinned beneath a flaming gasoline tanker, and the infamous documentary of the Stuart murder case in Boston, Massachusetts. The other three stories, taken from international versions of the show, were about a Belgian family trapped in a car hanging precariously from a high bridge, a Russian hostage crisis in which a terrorist held two woman captive, and an Austrian skier who fell into an underground glacier river.
No plans have been announced for additional home video releases of Rescue 911
Books
Several books were written that recounted stories featured on Rescue 911:
Rescue 911 Extraordinary Stories by Linda Maron
Rescue 911 Kid Heroes by Alison Hendrie
Rescue 911 Amazing Rescues by Alison Hendrie
Rescue 911 Humorous Rescues by R. M. Ferrara
Rescue 911 Animal Rescues by R. M. Ferrara
The Rescue 911 Family First Aid & Emergency Care Book by Julie Motz
Toys and Games
Model Kits: In 1993, AMT-ERTL released three Rescue 911 themed emergency vehicle model kits. Each of the three kits contained decals with the Rescue 911 logo, and each box had on its side panel a synopsis of a relevant story from Rescue 911. These models were:
Police Car (1990 Ford Taurus). The side panel contained a synopsis of “911 Sister Abduction”, in which a police officer rescued a six-year-old girl who was kidnapped from her back yard.
Rescue Ambulance (Dodge). The side panel contained a synopsis of “911 Cribbage Choke”, in which paramedics performed a risky procedure on board an ambulance to save a young boy choking on cribbage piece.
Rescue Helicopter (Civilian Medical Rescue Helicopter). The side panel contained a synopsis of “The Helicopter Horse”, in which an injured horse was lifted out of a canyon by helicopter.
Slot Car Set: In 1993, Marchon, Inc. released a slot car set called “Rescue 911 Chopper Rescue”. The set included two slot cars (a fire truck and a police jeep) and a complete racetrack. A unique feature of this track was that it allowed racers to jump their cars over a canyon with the aid of a magnetic helicopter.
Pinball Machine: In May 1994, Premier Technologies, trade-name Gottlieb, released a Rescue 911 pinball machine. It featured a helicopter that magnetically captured the ball as well as a red revolving light on the backbox.
Awards
Year
Award
Result
Category
Recipient
1990
People’s Choice Awards
Won
Favorite New TV Dramatic Series
–
1992
BMI Film & TV Awards
BMI TV Music Award
Scott Roewe and Stu Goldberg
1993
BMI TV Music Award
Scott Roewe and Stu Goldberg
1994
BMI TV Music Award
Scott Roewe and Stu Goldberg
References
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^ The Washington Times. 19 April 1990. Deborah Hastings. “In the end, `Roseanne’ is No. 1 – She beats out `Cosby’ for week and season”. p. E5
^ Austin American-Statesman. 14 April 1991. “What we watch, what we don’t . . .”. p. 15
^ Austin American-Statesman. 19 April 1992. A. C. Nielsen Co. “What we watch, what we don’t . . .”. p. 15
^ a b c d , Top Rated Programs – 1990-1995
^ a b , Complete TV Ratings 1994-1995
^ a b , Complete TV Ratings 1995-1996
^ “The Internet Pinball Database Presents Rescue 911”. ipdb.org. http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?gid=1951&puid=14026.
External links
Rescue 911 at the Internet Movie Database
Rescue 911 at TV.com
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