H.E.L.P.

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H.E.L.P.
Format	Drama
Starring	John Mahoney
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	1 hour
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	1990 – 1990

H.E.L.P. was a United States ABC television drama series which appeared for only one season, in 1990. John Mahoney starred as Chief Patrick Meacham of the New York City Fire Department. Wesley Snipes played police officer Lou Barton.

The premise of the show was based on an experimental combined emergency services station (the Harlem Eastside Life-saving Program, or HELP) in New York City that co-located the resources of the Fire Department, Police Department and Emergency Medical Services.

Although H.E.L.P. was canceled after its first season, the concept of a show involving all three branches of NYC emergency services was successfully reintroduced nine years later with the 1999 debut of Third Watch, which ran for six seasons.