H.E.L.P.

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| creator = {{ubl|Christopher Crowe|Dick Wolf}}

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David Black
Dick Wolf }}

| screenplay =

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| director = {{ Plainlist|

Christopher Crowe
Vern Gillum
Michael Ray Rhodes
E. W. Swackhamer }}

| creative_director =

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John Mahoney
Wesley Snipes
David Caruso
Tom Bresnahan
Lance Edwards
Marjorie Monaghan
Joe Urla
Fionnula Flanagan }}

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| narrated =

| theme_music_composer = Jerry Goldsmith

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| country = United States

| language = English

| num_seasons = 1

| num_episodes = 6

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| executive_producer = {{ Plainlist|

Christopher Crowe
Dick Wolf }}

| producer = Michael Rauch

| editor = {{ Plainlist|

Mark Newman
Drake Silliman }}

| location =

| cinematography = Constantine Makris

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| runtime = 60 min

| company = {{ Plainlist|

ABC Productions
Wolf Films
Christopher Crowe Productions
Universal Television }}

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| network = ABC

| released =

| first_aired = {{Start date|1990|3|3}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1990|4|7}}

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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.{{cite web|url=https://nostalgiacentral.com/television/tv-by-decade/tv-shows-1990s/h-e-l-p/|title=H.E.L.P.|website=nostalgiacentral.com|date=|accessdate=2023-12-07}}

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.{{cite web|title=SHORT TAKES : 'Mission Impossible' Scrubbed, Will Be Replaced by 'H.E.L.P.'|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-02-14-ca-839-story.html|date=February 14, 1990|last=|first=}}{{cite web|title=First Ills: Barbara Bush was having health...|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-02-16-vw-605-story.html|date=February 16, 1990|last=Toure|first=Yemi}}{{cite web|title=Sitcom to star Mull, Faracy|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-02-20-9001150233-story.html|date=February 20, 1990|last=|first=}}{{cite web|title=Firemen, cops and paramedics all work together in 'H.E.L.P.,'...|newspaper=United Press International|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/02/28/Firemen-cops-and-paramedics-all-work-together-in-HELP/2809636181200/|date=February 28, 1990|last=Hanauer|first=Joan}}{{cite web|title=H.E.L.P.' Series needs more than Mahoney to do better|newspaper=The Buffalo News|url=https://buffalonews.com/news/h-e-l-p-series-needs-more-than-mahoney-to-do-better/article_3b01fc0d-7ade-5610-9b6a-ff654006aefc.html|date=March 1, 1990|last=Pergament|first=Alan}}{{cite web|title=ABC's H.E.L.P. has P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S.|newspaper=Deseret News|url=https://www.deseret.com/1990/3/3/18849134/abc-s-h-e-l-p-has-p-r-o-b-l-e-m-s|date=March 3, 1990|last=|first=}}{{cite web|title=TV Reviews: 'H.E.L.P.': There's Life in the Rescue Genre Yet|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-03-ca-1222-story.html|date=March 3, 1990|last=Rosenberg|first=Howard}}{{cite web|title=PRIME-TIME PICK|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times|url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1990/03/03/prime-time-pick/?outputType=amp|date=March 3, 1990|last=Burlingame|first=Jon}}{{cite web|title=Review/Television; Adventures in the Fight Against Drug Dealers|newspaper=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/09/arts/review-television-adventures-in-the-fight-against-drug-dealers.html|date=March 9, 1990|last=O'Connor|first=John J.}}

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.