• 1958
  • 30m
Rescue 8

Summary The missions of a rescue squad of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. View more details

  • 1958
  • 30m

Rescue 8

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Lang Jeffries Jim Davis Nancy Rennick Mary K. Cleary

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Genres : Action Adventure Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 22, 1958

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Screen Gems Cinefilm Wilbert Productions

Summary The missions of a rescue squad of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. View more details

Details

Genres : Action Adventure Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 22, 1958

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Screen Gems Cinefilm Wilbert Productions

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 22, 1958
The Ferris Wheel
A woman, recently released from a mental institution, and her young daughter are trapped at the top of a Ferris wheel. Cameron and Johnson must devise a plan to rescue the pair from their precarious perch.
Episode 2 • Sep 29, 1958
102 to Bakersfield
While an engineering company closes a road to do hillside dynamite blasting, bus # 102 to Bakersfield crashes through the " road closed " barricade just as the dynamite charge is set off which sends the bus off the road and down the hillside. The ensuing rock slide buries the bus and Wes and Skip must devise a plan to save the passengers.
Episode 3 • Oct 06, 1958
The Cliff
Tom Hickey is a former member of RESCUE 5 who is now wheelchair bound. He is also a former partner of Wes Cameron. Tom sends his son Jimmy to summer camp where the boy falls about 50'off Devils Bluff. The camp leader goes to the Maywood Canyon Ranger Station to request assistance and to call Tom Hickey to tell him his son has been injured. Tom calls Wes to ask him to go to Jimmys aid and Wes can't refuse because Wes is Jimmys godfather. When Wes & Skip arrive they devise a plan to work with the on duty members of RESCUE 5 to save Jimmy.
Episode 4 • Oct 13, 1958
Subterranean City
While searching sewer tunnels looking for a lost child, Wes & Skip encounter 3 thugs who are using the sewer tunnels as a hideout only to find out that one of the thugs is Skips nephew Pete. When Pete is ordered to throw a bomb at Wes and Skip, Pete just can't do it & throws the bomb in the other direction. After Wes and Skip subdue the other 2 thugs, Pete joins in the search for the lost girl.
Episode 5 • Oct 20, 1958
The Cage
A woman visiting a zoo with her boyfriend is stalked by her estranged husband. After shooting the boyfriend, the estranged husband is chased by the police where he hopes to hide out in one of the zoo's buildings. While hiding in the building,he falls into a shaft that is part of the polar bear exhibit.As Skip tends to the boyfriend who is shot, Wes repels into the polar bear exhibit to subdue the estranged husband.
Episode 6 • Oct 27, 1958
The Crackup
While off duty, Wes and Skip wait alongside an airport runway for Wes' friend Riley Jackson who is arriving in a plane he is piloting. When Riley is making his final approach to the airport, he successfully avoids a mid air collision with another plane but then crashes his plane in a valley outside of the airport. Wes and Skip see all this and take some airport extinguishers and drive their car to the crash site & rescue Riley and his wife from the plane.
Episode 7 • Nov 03, 1958
The Ammonia Trap
When an earthquake traps three men in an ice vault, Wes and Skip work to rescue them, aware that leaking ammonia may kill them all at any moment.
Episode 8 • Nov 10, 1958
The Chasm
A worker at a dam walks out on a catwalk to clean an oil spill from the face of the dam. The catwalk collapses leaving the worker dangling along the dam wall. The workers son in law sees this and attempts to help his father in law but then he too needs to be rescued. Wes & Skip arrive and must devise a plan to save both men.
Episode 9 • Nov 17, 1958
The Steel Mountain
A man and his girlfriend go to a storage yard where old trolley cars are stacked and stored. They are looking for money that was hidden under the rear seat of trolley car #1392. After finding the money, the man attempts to get down from the old stacked trolley cars when he slips and gets trapped. Wes and Skip must devise a plan to free the man without causing the stacked trolley cars to collapse.
Episode 10 • Nov 24, 1958
Find That Bomb!
A man places a bomb on-board his mother-in-law's yacht in order to kill her before she can change her will. The rescue team attempts to find the explosive before it can detonate.
Episode 11 • Dec 01, 1958
The Cave In
An elderly man using a shovel and bucket, manually excavates the ground in his back yard to build a swimming pool for his grandchildren. Without using proper shoring, the sidewall gives way partially burying the old man. Wes and Skip must devise a plan to rescue the old man without causing further collapse.
Episode 12 • Dec 08, 1958
The Bells of Fear
Why trying to repair the chimes on a church clock before Christmas Eve services, an old clockmaker becomes trapped in the mechanism that works the bells.
Episode 13 • Dec 15, 1958
Danger! 20,000 Volts
An express train derails trapping its passengers under exposed electrical wires.
Episode 14 • Dec 22, 1958
The Scrap Iron Jungle
Two female hitch hikers wanted by the police accept a ride from a truck driver who ends his route at an auto salvage yard. Afraid that they might be caught, the women decide to hide out and sleep in on of the abandoned autos. Without knowing it, the women have fallen asleep in an auto that is scheduled to be crushed and awaken to find the crane has hoisted the car high above the car crusher. After screaming to alert the crane operator there is a problem with the cranes cables & the car can't be lowered. Wes and Skip must devise a plan to get these women down safely before the car falls.
Episode 15 • Dec 29, 1958
Calamity Coach
While filming a movie scene, a stagecoach goes off the trail and tumbles down the mountain side trapping 3 actors inside. Wes and Skip must devise a plan to rescue the 3 actors without causing the stagecoach from falling further down the mountain side.
Episode 16 • Jan 05, 1959
The Secret of the Mission
The roof of a small church collapses, trapping a priest and a would-be thief under the wreckage. Wes and Skip must rescue the pair before they are crushed by the weight of the beams.
Episode 17 • Jan 12, 1959
Trial by Fire
Skip has a falling out with fellow rescue squad member, which has perilous consequences during a fire in a factory.
Episode 18 • Jan 19, 1959
High Hazard
A woman plots to kill her husband's uncle by switching medical charts.
Episode 19 • Jan 26, 1959
Rubber Gold
An ex-boxer who is nearly blind becomes an unwitting pawn in a payroll robbery. The man is wounded during the hold-up and becomes buried under a mountain of tires.
Episode 20 • Feb 02, 1959
Flash Flood
When flash floods threaten the outskirts of Los Angeles, Wes and Skip are asked to evacuate an eccentric man and his daughter from a remote canyon. The man doesn't want to be rescued and sets traps to prevent it.
Episode 21 • Feb 09, 1959
Initiation to Danger
During a school initiation challenge, a boy must climb to the top of a water tower, enter it through a scuttle hatch door and retrieve his keys that his peers have dropped into the water inside the tank. After the boy that is monitoring the initiation locks the scuttle hatch door from the outside, he falls a short distance and is knocked out. A passing motorist sees this and calls RESCUE 8. Wes & Skip rescue the monitor and when he awakens they find out about the initiation pledge that is still locked inside the water tank. With the water level in the tank slowly rising, Wes & Skip must devise a plan to rescue this young man.
Episode 22 • Feb 16, 1959
Disaster Town
While looking for her son in a ghost town, a woman is trapped after falling through the floor of an abandoned building.
Episode 23 • Feb 23, 1959
A Handful of Vengeance
A deranged pyromaniac attacks a forest fire warden, shoots the fire wardens wife and locks their 2 young children in a storage room. When Wes and Skip arrive, they get locked in the basement by the pyromaniac. As the pyromaniac starts a fire in the house, Wes and Skip free themselves from the basement by kicking their way out of the basements second exit. As Wes saves the fire warden and his family from the fire, Skip and 2 arriving police officers chase the pyromaniac into the woods where the police shoot the pyromaniac.
Episode 24 • Mar 02, 1959
Forty Five Fathoms, Dead or Alive
Men working for a undersea salvage business become trapped on a boat supposed to contain a cargo of gold.
Episode 25 • Mar 09, 1959
Children of the Sun
Skip's mother-in-law joins a phony cult.
Episode 26 • Mar 16, 1959
International Incident
Wes and Skip must avoid an assassin's gunfire as they attempt to rescue a foreign prince from a car wreck.
Episode 27 • Mar 23, 1959
Nine Minutes to Live
Wes and Skip must rescue a mining engineer who breaks his leg in an abandoned shaft after setting a time bomb.
Episode 28 • Mar 30, 1959
No Trespassing
Wes and Skip are forced to perform an appendectomy on a patient while a surgeon provides instructions over the phone.
Episode 29 • Apr 06, 1959
Three Men in a Vault
Wes and Skip work to rescue three men trapped in an air-tight bank vault.
Episode 30 • Apr 13, 1959
Walking Death
Wes and Skip join the search for an AWOL sailor suspected of carrying typhoid fever.
Episode 31 • Apr 20, 1959
Tower of Hate
A former of prisoner-of-war discovers the man who tormented him while he was incarcerated and decides to exact revenge.
Episode 32 • Apr 27, 1959
Danger in Paradise
Wes and Skip must rescue an elderly night watchman who became trapped after chasing intruders on a catwalk high above a studio's sound stage.
Episode 33 • May 04, 1959
Hour of Rage
Wes and Skip try to save the life of a woman having a heart attack, but fail. Her husband blames Wes and Skip for her death and seeks vengeance on the two men.
Episode 34 • May 11, 1959
If the Bough Breaks
A man becomes pinned between a tree trunk and a half-cut tree branch.
Episode 35 • May 18, 1959
High Pressure
Episode 36 • May 25, 1959
One More Step
When an actress falls from a theater balcony and becomes entangled in hoist ropes, the Rescue 8 team must figure a way to rescue her without knocking the woman from her precarious perch.
Episode 37 • Jun 01, 1959
Left Hook to Hades
Gangsters attack a boxer who refuses to throw a fight.
Episode 38 • Jun 08, 1959
The Trap
A convicted felon is working at a chemical plant. An explosion at the plant traps a man under a vat of chemicals. After the plant and neighborhood are evacuated, the felon stays to help Wes & Skip rescue the trapped man.
Episode 39 • Jun 15, 1959
Death for Hire
A fisherman agrees to take two kidnappers and their captive, a political figure, to a ship anchored off-shore.
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