Regarding Emergency’s Disappointing Finale

[Sgt. Saunders]

I found “Emergency’s” final episode to be somewhat disappointing in that when John Gage and Roy DeSoto were each promoted to captain, none of their fellow colleagues from Station 51 were there for the ceremony. You would think that Captain Hank Stanley, Marco, Mike and even John Gage’s irrepressible “nemesis,” Chet Kelly, would have been there for such an obviously important occasion. By the way, wouldn’t Roy’s wife and children have also been at his promotion ceremony? (I guess Mrs. DeSoto was too busy watching “All in the Family” or “Happy Days” to bother to go see her husband’s promotion?)

And, we never got to see John and Roy’s Rampart Hospital colleagues and good friends at the end. Wouldn’t Nurse Dixie McCall and Doctors Brackett, Early and Morton have been there to congratulate and cheer on the new fire captains?

I also noticed there were a couple of episodes on “Emergency” where John and Roy were on temporary duty in San Francisco. Were those SF-based episodes the basis for a possible spin-off series from “Emergency”?

I think the show’s producers and writers could have provided the loyal fans of the show with a much better and satisfying series conclusion than just having the newly-promoted Captains Gage and DeSoto merely schmoozing and reflecting back on their more memorable rescues on the show