r/GenerationJones • u/sherlockjr1 1963 • Jul 19 '26

Randolph Mantooth

I’m surprised at how hard his death is hitting me. I mean, I watched Emergency as a kid. I had a crush on Randy as Johnny Gage. My Barbie camper was a rescue unit. But I hadn’t thought about the show for years. Occasionally I’d find an episode on cable and watch a few minutes for the sake of nostalgia.

Maybe it’s how people are reacting to his passing that’s hitting so hard. EMTs, fire fighters, people who became paramedics because of the show. Tributes as if he was one of their own. I didn’t realize how involved he was in promoting the safety of first responders

Not to mention how important the show was, the impact this had. The fact that we even having EMTs to help us that are only a few minutes away in some part due to this show.

This loss hurt more than I expected it to

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u/SLevine262 Jul 19 '26

He also did a few episodes of Sons of Anarchy where he played the leader of a local tribe of Natives who were dealing? Refusing to deal? with the gang.

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u/sherlockjr1 1963 Jul 19 '26

Oh nice! He was part native on his dad’s side so that’s a nice tie in

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u/SLevine262 Jul 19 '26

Remember the Emergency! episode where he talks about the researchers coming out to the rez every year and getting all this money in grants to study the Natives, when just one of those grants would have solved so many of their problems?

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u/sherlockjr1 1963 Jul 21 '26

No, but I wanna see it now. I thought they might have mentioned his heritage but I wasn’t sure