Craig Brice was Asperger's or autistic
- I didn't notice myself until someone else posited it, but he has a lot of the symptoms. Rigid, inflexible way of doing things, bad social skills, intense need to be organized and neat.
- One fanfic author also thinks Gage might have had Asperger's, but not sure I quite buy into him having it. Brice, on the other hand...
- Brice I would for sure go with (and I'm saying this as an Autistic adult myself). Johnny, on the other hand, has always struck me as a poster child of Hyperactive-Impulsive Type ADHD.
Johnny was an abused child
- Apparently, a lot of fans have noticed mannerisms that suggest it, like awkwardness about being touched, and some eye-contact reluctance.
There were two Craig Brices in the dept.
- It's as good a theory as any to explain the black Brice in the "Greatest Rescues" movie.
- So, you're saying, like in real life, there wasn't a one Craig Brice limit.
John has a brother who's a paramedic at another station. We saw him in "How Green Was My Thumb"
- It was Randolph Mantooth's brother Don,and it was never said John was an only child so it's possible.
Craig Brice's half brother Tim Cassidy works as a mountain rescuer on Sierra
- The actor played on both shows, which are in the same 'verse. And if the characters had the same mother but different fathers, it would explain why their last names are different.
Adam-12 is a Cops-style documentary series about real police officers in the shared Dragnet/Adam-12/Emergency! universe.
- That's how Reed and Malloy were able to visit Rampart General Hospital in the Emergency! pilot and still have their own series.
- This is implied by Johnny in the episode wherein he gets obsessive about wanting to know what happened in the latest Adam-12 episode after the squad went out a call.
Chet Kelly was a LODD-Line of Duty Death-sometime after season 6 but before the "Greatest Rescues" movie.
- This is believed by some because of Johnny's line about Kelly being "a good man in the clutch" and Randolph Mantooth's delivery of the line. It was ambiguous though, which is good for many fans.
John and Roy's captain promotion was more honorary than functional,and they continued to work in some aspect of the paramedic program later on.
- This was brought up by some wondering how the guys were able to go from one of the department's lowest positions to a much higher one without being engineers or anything else in between. Although, there was the episode with Captain Stone, so hard to tell. Anyway, it would be kinda cool if the reason they went to San Francisco AFTER the promotion is because they were still working together from time to time on behalf of the program, helping to exchange ideas and things like that. Or maybe they did get stations and were still asked to work together on occasion? This troper just thinks it's better than them being apart so darn much.
- They could be assigned to staff positions, or Training Division (which would make a lot of sense).
EMERGENCY!, Adam 12, CHiPs and Quincy, M.E. all exist in the same universe.
- Engine 51 and Squad 51 appear on CHiPs.
- Engine 51 and Squad 51 appear on Quincy, M.E. Patients are sometimes brought into the Rampart ER. In at least one episode, LA County paramedics call in a cardiac case to Rampart over a Biophone.
- Adam 12 is confirmed to be in the same universe, as Reed and Malloy appeared on EMERGENCY!
- Likewise, Johnny and Roy appeared in at least one episode of Adam-12.
Eddie Lapeer, the boy in fifth-season episode "Right at Home," was simply bored sitting at the fire station, and didn't get enough stimulation, so that's why he acted out like he did and drove Roy crazy.
- Also, he possibly didn't mean to be destructive— he just wanted attention. Dixie solved that problem easily (possibly by giving Eddie the stimulation kids usually want [Disneyland or one of the other theme parks in the area], and not putting up with any bad behavior in the process), as by the end of the episode, Eddie's attitude changed remarkably; he sat quietly and respectfully in the hospital hallway/waiting area, thanked Johnny and Roy for helping him, and even spoke to Dixie with respect ("Yes, ma'am"). Johnny and Roy were astonished, and asked Dixie how she managed to do it; she said it was nothing, and was the same way she handled Dr. Brackett and Dr. Early.
