{"id":18238,"date":"2026-08-26T21:22:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=18238"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:22:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:22:54","slug":"beloved-emergency-star-randolph-mantooth-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=18238","title":{"rendered":"Beloved \u2018Emergency!\u2019 Star Randolph Mantooth Dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Randolph Mantooth, best known for playing firefighter and paramedic John Gage on NBC\u2019s <em>Emergency!<\/em>, has died at 80 after a long illness, his family announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mantooth became a beloved television star through the groundbreaking 1970s series, which helped introduce millions of viewers to paramedics and emergency medical services. The show\u2019s influence went far beyond entertainment, helping raise awareness of the growing field of paramedicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After <em>Emergency!<\/em>, Mantooth continued a long career in television, film and theater, appearing in shows including <em>Loving<\/em>, <em>The City<\/em>, <em>One Life to Live<\/em> and <em>As the World Turns<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His legacy lives on not only through his memorable role, but also through the impact <em>Emergency!<\/em> had on emergency medicine and the way first responders were portrayed on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=-9L5b9wO294%3Fsi%3DJYNfuG2RipMyR5JT\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randolph Mantooth, best known for playing firefighter and paramedic John Gage on NBC\u2019s Emergency!, has died at 80 after a long illness, his family announced. Mantooth became a beloved television star through the groundbreaking 1970s series, which helped introduce millions of viewers to paramedics and emergency medical services. The show\u2019s influence went far beyond entertainment, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18241,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238\/revisions\/18241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}