Two privately owned ambulance companies compete for the city contract in LA. The focus, F+B Ambulance Service, has the wildest crew on the block. Cosby (Mother) plays the veteran driver to whom rules are meant to be bent. Keitel (Speed) is a cop on suspension for suspicion of drug peddling to minors who needs to pay the rent. Welch (Jugs) is the dispatch secretary with secret ambitions who won't give the boys in the bunkhouse the time of day. Drama and comedy bleed together over who makes the right decisions to land them in the money and keep them out of the hospital.

Mother's last name, Tucker, is mentioned only once during the film, when Naomi Fishbine is calling Unit 1 on the radio.

Murdoch:
You know Mrs. Fishbein, you are a hell of a good-looking woman.


Mother:
[overhearing on the radio] He really IS stoned.

Revealing mistakes: As Murdoch and the other orderly are trying to bring the big woman down the stairs in the stretcher, you can see the pull wire attached underneath it.

Performed by Michelle Phillips
Arranged and adapted by Gene Page