Rapid Response: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Rapid Response follows the life-threatening and emotionally charged situations encountered by St John Ambulance Officers as they tend to and save the lives of people in their homes, work-places and on the streets.

Narrated by Harry Lyon, Rapid Response delivers diverse and moving real-life medical emergency stories.

In this all-new series, we accompany previously featured Advanced Paramedics such as Nick Scott who is called to a viscous dog attack; John Takerei as he is confronted with the trauma of a Boy Racer car crash and an alcohol fuelled assault; and Mike McAuley when he tends to a man suffering his sixth heart attack.

In the previous series, Advanced Paramedic and volunteer lifeguard Stefan Gabor, attempted to save a man swimming out to sea with his bible. In this latest series he arrives at a party that has turned ugly and is confronted by a man dressed as Jesus. Stefan also tends to a couple when a wedding ends in tears, and for the first time, our cameras go beyond the workplace and join Stefan at his own wedding

Series details

• Title: Rapid Response
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Medical
• Premiere date: 2010-06-21
• Final broadcast date listed: 2015-04-29
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: TVNZ 1
• Network country: New Zealand
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 18149
• TVDB ID: 179341

Cast and credited roles

• Harry Lyon — Narrator

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 3: premiered 2010-06-21; final listed air date 2010-08-02; episode order: 7.
• Season 4: premiered 2012-01-16; final listed air date 2012-02-13; episode order: 5.
• Season 5: premiered 2013-01-21; final listed air date 2013-03-25; episode order: 10.
• Season 6: premiered 2014-04-09; final listed air date 2014-06-11; episode order: 10.
• Season 7: premiered 2015-02-25; final listed air date 2015-04-29; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

Adapted from Rapid Response on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.