H.E.L.P.

For other uses, see Help (disambiguation).

H.E.L.P.
Created by	Dick Wolf Christopher Crowe
Starring	John Mahoney, Wesley Snipes, David Caruso, Tom Bresnahan, Lance Edwards, Marjorie Monaghan, Joe Urla, Fionnula Flanagan
Country of origin	USA
Production
Running time	1 hour
Production companies	Wolf Films ABC Productions Universal Television
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	March 3, 1990 – April 14, 1990

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. John Mahoney starred 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.

Although H.E.L.P. was canceled after only a brief initial 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 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 Off. Lou Barton
• Fionnula Flanagan as Kathlenn Meacham