Rescue 8
{{Short description|American adventure TV series}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox television
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| creator = Robert G. Walker and Herbert B. Leonard
| writer = Cy Chermak
Loren Dayle
George Draine
Jesse Lasky, Jr.
Arthur Rowe
Jerry Thomas
| director = William Beaudine
Dann Cahn
Robert G. Walker
William Witney
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| starring = Jim Davis
Lang Jeffries
Nancy Rennick
Mary K. Cleary
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| country = United States
| language = English
| num_seasons = 2
| num_episodes = 73
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| executive_producer = Herbert B. Leonard
| producer = Robert G. Walker & Leroy Smith
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| location = Los Angeles, California
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| runtime = 30 mins.
| company = Cinefilm
Wilbert Productions
| channel = Syndicated
| first_aired = {{start date|1958|9|23}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1960|5|12}}
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Rescue 8 is a syndicated American action adventure drama series about Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACFD) Rescue Squad 8. It premiered in 1958 and originally ran for two seasons with syndicated reruns continuing for almost a decade thereafter.{{cite book|last1=Brooks|first1=Tim|last2=Marsh|first2=Earle|title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present|date=1999|publisher=The Ballentine Publishing Group|location=New York|isbn=0-345-42923-0|page=852|edition=7th}}
Premise, cast, and characters
Rescue 8, like 26 other rescue units with the LACFD, responded when people faced life-and-death situations. Attached to Fire House Station 8, the unit was headed by veteran rescueman Wes Cameron. Skip Johnson was his assistant.{{cite book |last1=Terrace |first1=Vincent |title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed. |date=January 10, 2014 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-8641-0 |page=887 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YX_daEhlnbsC&dq=%22Rescue+8%22+television&pg=PA887 |access-date=March 13, 2023 |language=en}}
The show starred Jim Davis as Wes Cameron and Lang Jeffries as Skip Johnson.{{cite book|last1=McNeil|first1=Alex|title=Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present |date=1996|publisher=Penguin Books USA, Inc.|location=New York, New York|isbn=0-14-02-4916-8|page= 692|edition=4th}} Nancy Rennick portrayed Patty Johnson, and Mary K. Cleary portrayed Susan Johnson, the wife and daughter, respectively of Skip Johnson. Tom McKee played the chief.
Production
Created by George Draine and Paul Frees,{{cite book |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987' |date=1989 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |isbn=0-7864-1198-8 |page= 40}} the series was produced by Screen Gems, with directors Dann Cahn and William Witney.{{Citation needed |date=March 2023}} Rescue 8 produced 73 half-hour episodes. The first season ran on Tuesday evenings, and the second season on Wednesdays.{{Citation needed |date=March 2023}} Bert Leonard was the producer.{{cite news |last1=Witbeck |first1=Charles |title=Stars of 'Rescue 8' Do Their Own Stunts |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31947159/hartford-courant/ |access-date=March 13, 2023 |work=Hartford Courant |date=August 9, 1959 |page=TV Week - 7|via = Newspapers.com}}
Davis and Jeffries learned fire department procedures at a training school, and they did most stunts themselves.
Selected episodes
In the series premiere, "The Ferris Wheel" (September 23, 1958), the firemen must devise a plan to retrieve a woman, who was recently released from a mental institution (Jeanne Bates), and her young daughter (Gina Gillespie) from the top of a Ferris wheel on which they are trapped. Rand Brooks guest stars in the first of his two appearances as Tom Hickey.
In "Subterranean City" (October 14, 1958), rescuers Wes and Skip search for a lost girl in the sewer tunnels and encounter three criminals hiding out underground, one of whom is Skip's nephew, Pete, played by Warren Oates. Pete breaks with his companions and joins the firemen in finding the child.
In "The Cave-In" (December 2, 1958), Will Wright played an elderly man who attempts with shovel and bucket to build a backyard swimming pool for his grandchildren with disastrous results because of the lack of proper shoring.
In "The Bells of Fear" (December 9, 1958), an elderly clockmaker who is trying to repair the chimes in a church clock is trapped inside the instrument just before Christmas Eve. Joe Flynn and Russell Johnson appear in this episode.
In "Calamity Coach" (December 30, 1958), Wes Cameron and Skip Johnson seek to rescue three actors on location when a stagecoach tumbles down a mountain, Douglas Kennedy guest stars.
In "The Secret of the Mission" (January 6, 1959), J. Pat O'Malley plays a priest who is trapped with a would-be thief named Carlos (Rafael Campos) under the roof of a collapsed church.
In "Disaster Town" (February 17, 1959), Gail Kobe plays Ellen Mason, a mother looking for her son, Jimmy, in a ghost town. Jay North, some six months before the premiere of his CBS situation comedy, Dennis the Menace, played the missing son. Craig Hill, the co-star of Whirlybirds, played the father, Chuck Mason. The rescue team is called when the woman is trapped after falling through the floor of an abandoned building.
In "A Handful of Vengeance" (February 24, 1959), Pete Brocco played Stephano, a deranged pyromaniac, who threatens the lives of a warden, his wife, and their two children and then turns on the rescuers as well.
In "International Incident" (March 17, 1959), Robert Cabal plays a foreign prince, Raj Tamal, who is trapped in an automobile accident and is also the target of an assassin, portrayed by Vito Scotti. Denver Pyle guest stars as Sergeant Frank Hogan.
In "The Third Strike" (December 2, 1959), John Beradino, a professional baseball player-turned-actor, was cast in the role of a baseball player who loses consciousness when struck by a wild pitch. He soon awakes with short-term amnesia.
On January 6, 1960, Jay Silverheels of The Lone Ranger played an American Indian fireman fighting a forest fire in the episode "Leap of Life".
In "Breakdown" (March 31, 1960), one of the last episodes of Rescue 8, Robert Redford plays Danny Tilford, a mentally-disturbed young man trapped in the wreckage of his family garage.
Other guest stars
{{Cast listing|
- Lee Aaker
- John Archer
- Malcolm Atterbury
- Roy Barcroft
- Charles Bateman
- James Best
- Patricia Blair
- Walter Burke
- John Carradine
- Wally Cassell
- Richard Chamberlain
- Virginia Christine
- Mike Connors
- Ellen Corby
- Robert Cornthwaite
- Walter Coy
- Joel Crothers
- Michael Dante
- Douglas Dick
- Don Durant
- Ross Elliott
- Bill Erwin
- Frank Ferguson
- Dabbs Greer
- James Griffith
- Gloria Henry
- Tommy Ivo
- Brad Johnson
- Robert Karnes
- Brett King
- Ruta Lee
- Suzanne Lloyd
- Ann McCrea
- Tyler McVey
- Dennis Moore
- James Philbrook
- William Phipps
- John M. Pickard
- Richard Rust
- Walter Sande
- Johnny Seven
- Hal Smith
- Harry Dean Stanton
- Naomi Stevens
- Hope Summers
- Jack Weston
- Robert Warwick
- Francine York
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Comparisons
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The real Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 8 is at 7643 West Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. The real Station 8 was also depicted as "Station 10" in the opening scenes of the pilot movie for Emergency! in 1972.
The Rescue 8 truck depicted in the series was a 1958 GMC Suburban equipped with classic, front-bumper General Motors "dagmars". According to several Internet sources, the real Rescue 8 squad that existed during the 1958–60 timeframe of the series employed the use of a 1956 Chevrolet panel-van truck (a somewhat less robust version of the nearly identical GMC truck).
Rescue 8 shows more physically oriented rescues than seen 14 years later in the debut of the television series Emergency! (1972–77), which also featured the Los Angeles County Fire Department's rescue squads. The latter show had physically oriented rescues, but also included emergency medical rescues. This is because rescue firemen were not then trained as paramedics until 12 years after the premier of Rescue 8, acquiring this expanded role with the passage of the Wedsworth-Townsend Pilot Paramedic Act in 1970. The creation of Paramedic Act itself was the main plot theme of the pilot movie of Emergency!.
Episodes
=Season 1 (1958–59)=
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Walker |WrittenBy=Jesse L. Lasky Jr. |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|10|14}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=5 |EpisodeNumber2=5 |Title=The Cage |DirectedBy=Robert G. Walker |WrittenBy=Jesse L. Lasky Jr. |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|10|21}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=6 |EpisodeNumber2=6 |Title=The Crackup |DirectedBy=Robert G. Walker |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|t=Wilton Schiller & Jack Laird|s=Arthur W. Rowe}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|10|28}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=7 |EpisodeNumber2=7 |Title=The Ammonia Trap |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|11|4}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=8 |EpisodeNumber2=8 |Title=The Chasm |DirectedBy=William J. Hole Jr. |WrittenBy=Jack Gariss |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|11|11}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=9 |EpisodeNumber2=9 |Title=The Steel Mountain |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|11|18}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=10 |EpisodeNumber2=10 |Title=Find That Bomb! |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|11|25}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=11 |EpisodeNumber2=11 |Title=The Cave-In |DirectedBy=Robert G. Walker |WrittenBy=Jerry Thomas & Howard J. Green |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|12|2}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=12 |EpisodeNumber2=12 |Title=The Bells of Fear |DirectedBy=Robert G. Walker |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|t=Jesse L. Lasky Jr.|s=George Draine}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|12|9}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=13 |EpisodeNumber2=13 |Title=Danger! 20,000 Volts |DirectedBy=Robert G. Walker |WrittenBy=Jerry Thomas |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|12|16}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=14 |EpisodeNumber2=14 |Title=The Scrap Iron Jungle |DirectedBy=Robert G. Walker |WrittenBy=Jesse L. Lasky Jr. |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|12|23}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=15 |EpisodeNumber2=15 |Title=Calamity Coach |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|12|30}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=16 |EpisodeNumber2=16 |Title=Secret of the Mission |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|1|6}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=17 |EpisodeNumber2=17 |Title=Trial by Fire |DirectedBy=William Beaudine |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|1|13}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=18 |EpisodeNumber2=18 |Title=High Hazard |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|1|20}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=19 |EpisodeNumber2=19 |Title=Rubber Gold |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|1|27}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=20 |EpisodeNumber2=20 |Title=Flash Flood |DirectedBy=Lew Landers |WrittenBy=Jesse L. Lasky Jr. |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|2|3}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=21 |EpisodeNumber2=21 |Title=Initiation to Danger |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|2|10}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=22 |EpisodeNumber2=22 |Title=Disaster Town |DirectedBy=William Beaudine |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|t=Jesse L. Lasky Jr. & Jerry Thomas|s=Gene Feldman}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|2|17}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=23 |EpisodeNumber2=23 |Title=A Handful of Vengeance |DirectedBy=Robert G. Walker |WrittenBy=Jesse L. Lasky Jr. |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|2|24}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=24 |EpisodeNumber2=24 |Title=Forty Five Fathoms, Dead or Alive |DirectedBy=Robert G. Walker |WrittenBy=Cy Chermak |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|3|3}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=25 |EpisodeNumber2=25 |Title=Children of the Sun |DirectedBy=Robert G. Walker |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|t=Jerry Thomas|s=Stanley H. Silverman}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|3|10}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=26 |EpisodeNumber2=26 |Title=International Incident |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy=Jerry Thomas |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|3|17}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=27 |EpisodeNumber2=27 |Title=Nine Minutes to Live |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|3|24}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=28 |EpisodeNumber2=28 |Title=No Trespassing |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|3|31}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=29 |EpisodeNumber2=29 |Title=Three Men in a Vault |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy=Jesse L. Lasky Jr. |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|4|7}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=30 |EpisodeNumber2=30 |Title=The Walking Death |DirectedBy=William Beaudine |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|4|14}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=31 |EpisodeNumber2=31 |Title=Tower of Hate |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy=Arthur Rowe |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|4|21}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=32 |EpisodeNumber2=32 |Title=Danger in Paradise |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy=Jesse L. Lasky Jr. |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|4|28}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=33 |EpisodeNumber2=33 |Title=Hour of Rage |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|5|5}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=34 |EpisodeNumber2=34 |Title=If the Bough Breaks |DirectedBy=William Beaudine |WrittenBy=Jesse L. Lasky Jr. |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|5|12}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=35 |EpisodeNumber2=35 |Title=High Pressure |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|5|19}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=36 |EpisodeNumber2=36 |Title=One More Step |DirectedBy=Robert G. Walker |WrittenBy=Jerry Thomas |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|5|26}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=37 |EpisodeNumber2=37 |Title=Left Hook to Hades |DirectedBy=Robert G. Walker |WrittenBy=Jerry Thomas |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|6|2}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=38 |EpisodeNumber2=38 |Title=The Trap |DirectedBy=William J. Hole Jr. |WrittenBy=Jack Gariss |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|6|9}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=39 |EpisodeNumber2=39 |Title=Death for Hire |DirectedBy=William Beaudine |WrittenBy=Arthur Rowe |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|6|16}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} |
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=Season 2 (1959–60)=
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| style="background:#;"| No. overall ! style="background:#;"| No. in ! style="background:#;"| Title ! style="background:#;"| Directed by ! style="background:#;"| Written by ! style="background:#;"| Original air date {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=40 |EpisodeNumber2=1 |Title=Suitcase Fireman |DirectedBy=Robert G. Walker |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|9|23}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=41 |EpisodeNumber2=2 |Title=The Rock Prison |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|9|30}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=42 |EpisodeNumber2=3 |Title=Fool's Gold |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|10|7}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=43 |EpisodeNumber2=4 |Title=Paid in Full |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|10|14}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=44 |EpisodeNumber2=5 |Title=Dangerous Salvage |DirectedBy=Robert G. Walker |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|10|21}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=45 |EpisodeNumber2=6 |Title=3 Mile Bomb |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|10|28}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=46 |EpisodeNumber2=7 |Title=Not for Glory |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|11|4}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=47 |EpisodeNumber2=8 |Title=Forced Landing |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|11|11}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=48 |EpisodeNumber2=9 |Title=Smashout |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|11|18}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=49 |EpisodeNumber2=10 |Title=Runaway |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|11|25}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=50 |EpisodeNumber2=11 |Title=The Third Strike |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|12|2}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=51 |EpisodeNumber2=12 |Title=Pitfall |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|12|9}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=52 |EpisodeNumber2=13 |Title=Heat Wave |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|12|16}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=53 |EpisodeNumber2=14 |Title=The Birdman |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|12|23}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=54 |EpisodeNumber2=15 |Title=The Collision |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|12|30}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=55 |EpisodeNumber2=16 |Title=Leap of Life |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|1|6}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=56 |EpisodeNumber2=17 |Title=The Squatters |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|1|13}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=57 |EpisodeNumber2=18 |Title=Backfire |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|1|20}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=58 |EpisodeNumber2=19 |Title=High Explosive |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|1|27}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=59 |EpisodeNumber2=20 |Title=Add a Pinch of Death |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|2|3}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=60 |EpisodeNumber2=21 |Title=Ten Minutes to Doomsday |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|2|10}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=61 |EpisodeNumber2=22 |Title=Square Triangle |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|2|17}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=62 |EpisodeNumber2=23 |Title=Ti-Ling |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|2|24}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=63 |EpisodeNumber2=24 |Title=Lifeline |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|3|3}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=64 |EpisodeNumber2=25 |Title=High Lonely |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|3|10}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=65 |EpisodeNumber2=26 |Title=Comeback |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|3|17}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=66 |EpisodeNumber2=27 |Title=Quicksand |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|3|24}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=67 |EpisodeNumber2=28 |Title=Breakdown |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|3|31}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=68 |EpisodeNumber2=29 |Title=School for Violence |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|4|7}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=69 |EpisodeNumber2=30 |Title=The Devil's Cavern |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|4|14}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=70 |EpisodeNumber2=31 |Title=13 Stories Up |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|4|21}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=71 |EpisodeNumber2=32 |Title=Deep Danger |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|4|28}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=72 |EpisodeNumber2=33 |Title=I Don't Remember |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|5|5}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=73 |EpisodeNumber2=34 |Title=Second Team |DirectedBy= |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}} |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|5|12}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor= }} |
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0051307|title=Rescue 8}}
- [https://ctva.biz/US/Adventure/Rescue8.htm Rescue 8] at CVTA
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