LEWISTON – The emblem of Lewiston’s police – which incorporates a beehive, a train and a mill – is still waiting for its TV debut.

“I was looking for it,” Lewiston Police Chief William Welch said Thursday. His department sent patches that feature the city seal to producers of Stephen King’s new series, “Kingdom Hospital.” The show is set in Lewiston.

So, Welch waited for a cop to walk across the screen.

Then he saw a hospital security guard. Gaunt and wearing oversized eyeglasses with Coke-bottle lenses, the guard alternated between sleep and skimming through a girlie magazine.

“I said to myself, ‘Please don’t be wearing the patch,'” Welch said. “Please.”

The guard wasn’t.

In fact, Lewiston references were rare in the TV show, shot in Vancouver, British Columbia. The only reference Welch heard Wednesday was on a make-believe newscast announcing the injury of a famous painter.

“I was a little disappointed that they didn’t show more of Lewiston,” Welch said.

The program did feature the emblem of a local ambulance company, United Ambulance Service. Leaders there declined to say whether they transported King to Central Maine Medical Center after he was hit by a van while walking on a rural road in Oxford County. However, producers for the TV show contacted United Ambulance, just as they did Chief Welch.

And when King re-imagined his accident in the TV show, the paramedics who came to the scene wore the United patch.

Yet, neither David White, United’s operations manager, nor Paul Gosselin, its executive director, saw the show.

“I saw it in the previews,” said Gosselin, who liked knowing that United made the show. But he was elsewhere.

“I was at the Lewiston Maineiacs game,” said the administrator. “I’ll see the show at some point.”

More than 12 million other people did watch the show, according to preliminary numbers by Nielsen Media Research Inc. The horror series beat out news shows, science fiction and dramas.

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