H.E.L.P.

H.E.L.P. is an American television drama series which aired on ABC for one season as a mid-season replacement for Mission: Impossible, which was a replacement for Mr. Belvedere in March 1990. The series was created by Christopher Crowe and Dick Wolf, and starred John Mahoney as Chief Patrick Meacham of the New York City Fire Department. Wesley Snipes played police officer Lou Barton and David Caruso played police officer Frank Sardoni of the NYPD.

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.

The series was canceled after its brief six episode run. 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 on NBC.

Cast

 * John Mahoney as Chief Patrick Meacham
 * Tom Bresnahan as Jimmy Ryan
 * David Caruso as Off. Frank Sordoni
 * Lance Edwards as Mike Pappas
 * Kim Flowers as Suki Rodriguez
 * Wesley Snipes as Officer Lou Barton
 * Fionnula Flanagan as Kathlenn Meacham