A.E.S. Hudson Street | |
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Genre | Situation comedy |
Created by | |
Directed by | Noam Pitlik |
Starring | |
Theme music composer | |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 5 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Danny Arnold |
Producer | Roland Kibbee |
Running time | 24 mins. |
Production company | Four D Productions |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | March 16 – April 20, 1978 |
A.E.S. Hudson Street is an American comedy television show that aired on ABC in 1978 on Thursday night from 9:30 pm to 10:00 pm ET.
The series follows the antics of the staff of a run-down Ambulance Emergency Service hospital on Hudson Street, on the lower west side of Manhattan. It was cancelled after five episodes. [1]
The series pilot aired July 21, 1977, with F. Murray Abraham starring as Dr. Tony Menzies. When the five series episodes were filmed, only Dishy and Stewart remained from the original cast. All of the other characters were either dropped or re-cast. In the pilot, A.E.S. stood for Ambulance Emergency Service. [2]
The series was remade as Stat in 1991. That version lasted 6 episodes.