Rescue 8
| Rescue 8 | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Action/Drama |
| Created by | Robert G. Walker and Herbert B. Leonard |
| Written by |
Cy Chermak Loren Dayle George Draine Jesse Lasky, Jr. Arthur Rowe Jerry Thomas |
| Directed by | William Beaudine Dann Cahn Robert G. Walker William Witney |
| Starring |
Jim Davis Lang Jeffries Nancy Rennick Mary K. Cleary |
| Country of origin |
 United States
|
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 74 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Herbert B. Leonard |
| Producer(s) | Robert G. Walker & Leroy Smith |
| Location(s) | Los Angeles, California |
| Running time | 30 mins. |
| Production company(s) | Cinefilm Wilbert Productions Screen Gems |
| Release | |
| Original network | Syndicated |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Audio format | mono |
| Original release | September 23, 1958 – May 12, 1960 |
Rescue 8 is a syndicated American action drama series about Los Angeles County Fire Department Rescue Squad 8. It premiered in 1958 and originally ran for two seasons with syndicated reruns continuing for almost a decade thereafter. It starred Jim Davis as fireman Wes Cameron (much later cast as Jock Ewing on CBS's Dallas), and Lang Jeffries as the fireman Skip Johnson. Nancy Rennick and Mary K. Cleary each appeared in twenty-four episodes as Patty Johnson and Susan Johnson, the wife and daughter, respectively of Skip Johnson. The series was produced by Screen Gems, with directors Dann Cahn and William Witney. Rescue 8 produced seventy-four half-hour episodes. The first season ran on Tuesday evenings, and the second season on Wednesdays.
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.
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