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    Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976)

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    The privately-run F&B Ambulance Service is a ragtag company in Los Angeles owned by the cantankerous and loud-mouthed Harry Fishbine (Allen Garfield).

    On his staff are smart-aleck veteran driver “Mother” (Bill Cosby); the company’s dispatcher and Girl Friday “Jugs” (Raquel Welch) who has just earned her EMT certificate and wants to drive the ambulances; and “Speed” (Harvey Keitel), a former cop who left the force after allegations of drug dealing.

    Leroy (Bruce Davison) is a naive rookie and Murdoch (Larry Hagman) is a sleazy sex fiend who humps female patients while they are unconscious in the back of the ambulance as his partner drives them to the hospital.

    The day-to-day story of ambulance people in Los Angeles provided comedy, pathos and occasional moments of high drama – a fat black woman with a broken hip taking a joyride on a stretcher down a hilly street; a young ambulance driver (Davison) killed by a shotgun-wedding junkie (Toni Basil); ambulance crews bribing the cops; a mother dying during childbirth because she is denied access to a hospital; drivers drinking beer on duty and scaring nuns with the ambulance siren – showing that an EMS crew never knows what the next call may bring.

    The end of the film sees Murdoch and Walker (Michael McManus) holding the boss’s wife (Valerie Curtin) hostage in the company’s office, complete with an unexpected bloody shootout.

    An unsuccessful ABC pilot for a TV sitcom based on the film – retitled Mother, Juggs & Speed – was produced in 1978 starring Ray Vitte, Joanne Nail and Joe Penny in the title roles.

    “Mother” Tucker
    Bill Cosby
    Jennifer (“Jugs”)
    Raquel Welch
    Tony (“Speed”)
    Harvey Keitel
    Harry Fishbine
    Allen Garfield
    Murdoch
    Larry Hagman
    Davey
    L.Q. Jones
    Leroy
    Bruce Davison
    Rodeo
    Dick Butkus
    Barney
    Milt Kamen
    Miss Crocker
    Barra Grant
    Bliss
    Allan Warnick
    Naomi Fishbine
    Valerie Curtin
    Harvey
    Ric Carrott
    Moran
    Severn Darden
    Charles Taylor
    Bill Henderson
    Walker
    Michael McManus
    Addict
    Toni Basil
    Marsha
    Erica Hagen
    Albert
    Arnold Williams

    Director
    Peter Yates

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