What’s your second-favorite way to waste time on the internet?

[FileNotFound]

The ‘70s show with station wagon ambulances?

When I was a little kid, my favorite TV shows were Emergency! and Adam-12

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Emergency with Gage and DeSoto and Nurse Dixie and Rampart General were appointment TV for me, but my mom spoiled it by pointing out they saved the big calls for last every episode.

 

[Batman]

Emergency with Gage and DeSoto and Nurse Dixie and Rampart General were appointment TV for me, but my mom spoiled it by pointing out they saved the big calls for last every episode.

When you heard the tones at Station 51 going off for about 30 seconds staraight, you knew some **** was about to go down.
Nowadays, when I hear the office scanner hitting the tones four or five times my ears automatically perk up because of that. Thanks to Emergency! I know that's the signal for something really serious happening.

Fun fact: One of the bedrock rules that Jack Webb had for Emergency! was that every call on the show had to be a call that happened somewhere, some time in real life. So the producers would go through God only knows how many emergency dispatch logs to find actual scenarios.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

When I was a little kid, my favorite TV shows were Emergency! and Adam-12

I also was a little kid, and while I never saw “Emergency!”, I do remember having a plastic kids fireman’s hat from the show.

 

[swingline]

Emergency with Gage and DeSoto and Nurse Dixie and Rampart General were appointment TV for me, but my mom spoiled it by pointing out they saved the big calls for last every episode.

Damn. You ever hear of a spoiler alert? Sheesh.

 

[mpcincal]

When I was a little kid, my favorite TV shows were Emergency! and Adam-12

Same here. I was so into "Emergency," my parents actually got me Gage and DeSoto action figures and a few accessories for my birthday one year.

 

[outofplace]

I spend way too much time on YouTube. Some of it is nerd culture stuff like Death Battle, Screen Crush, How it Should Have Ended, or Honest Trailers. Sometimes it is just random videos that the algorithm puts in front of me.

 

[Octave]

I honest to goodness used to fall asleep surfing Baseball Reference at night. Very relaxing.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

All the Emergency! mentions reminds me that Cozi TV used to be an absolutely awesome clearinghouse for '70s & '80s hour-long cop/cop-adjacent shows 10 or so years ago. I absolutely loved Simon & Simon as a kid and was able to watch basically the whole show start to finish (there were a couple random episodes missing). Then I watched Miami Vice, which holds up remarkably well outside of the mailed-in final season. They also had Adam 12, Hart To Hart, Murder She Wrote, Starsky & Hutch and others I'm sure I'm forgetting. Alas, only Emergency! and Little House on the Prairie remain from the glory days. The sked is now loaded with recent claptrap like Frasier, Roseanne, 3rd Rock From the Sun, The Nanny Bones & Monk. Actually most of those shows are fine, but they're so recent and easy to find. Oh well.