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''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. ==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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Ferris Wheel on ''Rescue 8'', September 23, 1958 )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Subterranean City on ''Rescue 8'', October 14, 1958 )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Cave-In" on ''Rescue 8'', December 2, 1958 )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Bells of Fear on ''Rescue 8'', December 9, 1958 )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Calamity Coach on ''Rescue 8'', December 31, 1958 )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Secret of the Mission on ''Rescue 8'', January 6, 1959 )〕 In "Disaster Town" (February 17, 1959), Gail Kobe plays Ellen Mason, a mother looking for her son, Jimmy, in a ghost town. Some six months before the premiere of his CBS situation comedy, ''Dennis the Menace'', Jay North was cast as the missing son. The rescue team is called when the woman is trapped after falling through the floor of an abandoned building.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Disaster Town on ''Rescue 8'', February 17, 1959 )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Handful of Vengeance on ''Rescue 8'', February 24, 1959 )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=International Incident, ''Rescue 8'', March 17, 1959 )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Third Strike, Rescue 8'', December 2, 1959 )〕 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".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leap of Life, ''Rescue 8'', January 6, 1960 )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Breakdown, ''Rescue 8'', March 31, 1960 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rescue 8」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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