Paramedics

TV-PG1998•45m•7.0/10

Reality

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Paramedics was a medical-based television reality show that ran on TLC from 1999 to 2001 and now runs infrequently on Discovery Health Channel. A spin-off of Trauma: Life in the E.R., Paramedics followed the activities of teams of EMTs and paramedics in a number of large urban centers in the United States. The show had no regular cast; every week featured a different city and a different group of paramedics. Actor Michael McGlone narrated the series. Composer Chuck Hammer scored the series. The excitement as well as the occasional tedium of being a member of a paramedic team is evident, as cases ranging from life-and-death to broken wrists to false calls are all featured. The show differed from Trauma: Life in the E.R. in that it did not show surgeries and hospital discharges. Instead, it focused on the importance of a paramedic's immediate care and social skills in dealing with a variety of people.

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Production

Discovery, Discovery Channel Pictures

Language

Status

Ended

First Aired

March 15, 1998

Last Aired

May 25, 2005

Networks

TLC

Where to Watch

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season

On The Streets

Air date: 1998-03-15

Denver: Four patients from a collision involving a drunk driver; A man suspected of a heroin overdose collapses outside a homeless shelter; A confused 83-year-old woman complains of an unspecified ailment; A seven-year-old boy is having a bad asthmatic attack; a 22-year-old man has two stab wounds from an ice pick; An airplane carrying a 54-year-old man having a heart attack is diverted to Denver so that he can be treated; A man as been smashed over the head with a beer bottle.

Seven Minutes

Air date: 1998-03-15

Phoenix: A motorcycle cop has been hit by a that crossed the center line; A 19-year-old seven months pregnant is giving birth in a parking lot, A 38-year-old woman has injured her back in a boating accident; A 25-year-old gang member sufferers chemical facial burns when his cousin knocks acid out of his hand in an attempted suicide; A drunk driver going in the wrong direction collided with three other cars; has had acid thrown in his face; A min breaks his leg when his car crashes into a van.

The Night Shift

Air date: 1998-04-05

San Francisco: Two men have been in an accident on the Bay Bridge; A bodyguard at a nightclub has been beaten up; Another man has been beaten up in a street fight, and is struggling to breathe; An HIV+ man is evaluated after ingesting alcohol and Valium ; A woman has been slashed in the throat with a broken bottle; A 25-year-old man is suspected of a heroin overdose; A paramedic receives an accidental needle stick; A four-year-old child has sprayed herself with pepper spray.

Knights of Newark

Air date: 1998-04-21

Newark, New Jersey: A family is pinned in a car after being rear-ended by a stolen vehicle; A man hits his brother with a baseball bat in a drunken argument; A construction worker has fallen 30 feet at a site; A woman was slashed by another woman; A man has suffered a massive heart attack; An off-duty police officer and his brother are struck by a man driving a stolen vehicle; A child is having a bad asthma attack; Another car crash involves cops and a stolen vehicle; A man is stabbed in the arm; A woman is very upset after a pharmacist accuses her of shoplifting.

Rush Hour

Air date: 1998-04-21

A motorcyclist is hit by a car; A man calls 911 when his Porsche stalls on the freeway; A woman injures her neck in a car accident; A driver has been shot in a drive-by; A man has been beaten up; A woman hits her son-in-law over the head with a beer bottle after he assaults his wife, her, and his father-in-law; A man who is in an argument with another man repeated slams his head against a car; A young child is having a bad asthma attack; A man suffers a seizure, then becomes combative.

Double Dose

Air date: 1999-01-08

Tampa: A street kid has been stabbed in the leg; A teen suffers a neck injury in and is pulled unconscious from a spring after a diving accident; A man suffers a concussion in a fender bender; A 36-year-old man has fallen 35 feet at a warehouse; A three-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has a pediatric seizure; A 21-year-old man wrecks after falling asleep at the wheel; A man in an area of town known as "The Box" is stabbed in a knife fight; A rancher has been gored by a bull.

Chaos Theory

Air date: 1999-01-15

Desert Jackpot

Air date: 1999-01-22

Las Vegas: A construction worker sufferers a serious head or neck injury after falling off a two-story building; A man is hospitalized with a heatstroke after drinking two much alcohol and passing out in the baking Sun; An incoherent man is found sitting in a parked car near a freeway; A 42-year-old man has been assaulted in a parking lot; An 80-year-old woman with ulcers is complaining of stomach pains; An emotionally disturbed man roaming in a parking lot after terrorizing a day-care center suffers second degree burns from the hot pavement after he is wrestled to the ground after trying to grab one of the paramedics; A construction worker has fallen off a scaffold; A woman stoned on drugs is found on the ground complaining of pains all over her body; A 80-year-old man is possibly suffering a heart attack.

We the People

Air date: 1999-02-05

Washington, DC: A firefighter suffers facial and inhalation burns when his mask comes off fighting a fire; A man has a bullet lodged just underneath his skin after being shot in the back in an argument; A woman goes into labor; A tourist has dislocated her knee; A man has collapsed outside a burning building where his home and business were relocated; An out-of-towner who has been shot in a rough part of town while trying to procure drugs has driven to a police station with a broken thigh bone after having been shot; An HIV+ man is having trouble breathing; A 61-year-old inebriated mugging victim has been hit in the head; A woman on the mall waiting for a July 4 fireworks display is having an asthma attack.

E10

After Dark

Air date: 1999-03-12

Detroit: A 10-year-old girl, whose mother is agoraphobic and has not been out of the house in seven years, has been hit by a car while riding her bike; A gunman who has barricaded himself in a home invasion has been shot in the head; A 14-year-old asthmatic boy has had a reaction to a bee sting; A car has crashed into a street light, and a sawed-off shotgun was found under the seat; A man is unconscious after having fallen in a bathroom; A woman sitting on her porch has been shot in the hand in a drive-by; A man with one leg is beaten up in a carjacking.

E11

Force Five

Air date: 1999-05-03

Oklahoma City: Paramedics have to set up triage in rural areas after a Force 5 tornado strikes.