by The Creeping Spleen » Sun Oct 10, 2021 8:42 am
Third Watch, season 1.
For the benefit of those who've never heard of the series, it was a US drama series focusing on a group of NYPD cops, and FDNY firefighters and paramedics working the same fictional 55th Precinct and FDNY Squad 55/Ladder 100/Battalion 24 firehouse, on the same 3pm to midnight shift - the titular "third watch".
Co-created by John Wells (ER, The West Wing), and originally airing between 1999 and 2005, it was one of the first US shows of its kind - if not the first - to deal with the aftermath of the September 11th attacks.
Channel 4 showed it about twenty years ago in the Friday night/Saturday morning post pub slot.
Another sunrise with my sad captains, with who I choose to lose my mind,
And if it's all we only pass this way but once, what a perfect waste of time.