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Rescue 8 Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

39 Episodes 1958 - 1959

Episode 1

The Ferris Wheel

Tue, Sep 23, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 2

102 to Bakersfield

Tue, Sep 30, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 3

The Cliff

Tue, Oct 7, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 4

Subterranean City

Tue, Oct 14, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 5

The Cage

Tue, Oct 21, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 6

The Crackup

Tue, Oct 28, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 7

The Ammonia Trap

Tue, Nov 4, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 8

The Chasm

Tue, Nov 11, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 9

The Steel Mountain

Tue, Nov 18, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 10

Find That Bomb!

Tue, Nov 25, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 11

The Cave In

Tue, Dec 2, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 12

The Bells of Fear

Tue, Dec 9, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 13

Danger! 20,000 Volts

Tue, Dec 16, 195830 mins

An express train derails trapping its passengers under exposed electrical wires.

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Episode 14

The Scrap Iron Jungle

Tue, Dec 23, 195830 mins

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 one 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 crane's cables and the car can't be lowered. Wes and Skip must devise a plan to get these women down safely before the car falls.

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Episode 15

Calamity Coach

Tue, Dec 30, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 16

The Secret of the Mission

Tue, Jan 6, 195930 mins

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.

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Episode 17

Trial by Fire

Tue, Jan 13, 195930 mins

Skip has a falling out with fellow rescue squad member, which has perilous consequences during a fire in a factory.

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Episode 18

High Hazard

Tue, Jan 20, 195930 mins

A woman plots to kill her husband's uncle by switching medical charts.

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Episode 19

Rubber Gold

Tue, Jan 27, 195930 mins

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.

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Episode 20

Flash Flood

Tue, Feb 3, 195930 mins

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.

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Episode 21

Initiation to Danger

Tue, Feb 10, 195930 mins

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.

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Episode 22

Disaster Town

Tue, Feb 17, 195930 mins

While looking for her son in a ghost town, a woman is trapped after falling through the floor of an abandoned building.

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Episode 23

A Handful of Vengeance

Tue, Feb 24, 195930 mins

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.

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Episode 24

Forty Five Fathoms, Dead or Alive

Tue, Mar 3, 195930 mins

Men working for a undersea salvage business become trapped on a boat supposed to contain a cargo of gold.

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Episode 25

Children of the Sun

Tue, Mar 10, 195930 mins

Skip's mother-in-law joins a phony cult.

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Episode 26

International Incident

Tue, Mar 17, 195930 mins

Wes and Skip must avoid an assassin's gunfire as they attempt to rescue a foreign prince from a car wreck.

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Episode 27

Nine Minutes to Live

Tue, Mar 24, 195930 mins

Wes and Skip must rescue a mining engineer who breaks his leg in an abandoned shaft after setting a time bomb.

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Episode 28

No Trespassing

Tue, Mar 31, 195930 mins

Wes and Skip are forced to perform an appendectomy on a patient while a surgeon provides instructions over the phone.

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Episode 29

Three Men in a Vault

Tue, Apr 7, 195930 mins

Wes and Skip work to rescue three men trapped in an air-tight bank vault.

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Episode 30

Walking Death

Tue, Apr 14, 195930 mins

Wes and Skip join the search for an AWOL sailor suspected of carrying typhoid fever.

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Episode 31

Tower of Hate

Tue, Apr 21, 195930 mins

A former of prisoner-of-war discovers the man who tormented him while he was incarcerated and decides to exact revenge.

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Episode 32

Danger in Paradise

Tue, Apr 28, 195930 mins

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.

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Episode 33

Hour of Rage

Tue, May 5, 195930 mins

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.

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Episode 34

If the Bough Breaks

Tue, May 12, 195930 mins

A man becomes pinned between a tree trunk and a half-cut tree branch.

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Episode 35

High Pressure

Tue, May 19, 195930 mins

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Episode 36

One More Step

Tue, May 26, 195930 mins

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.

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Episode 37

Left Hook to Hades

Tue, Jun 2, 195930 mins

Gangsters attack a boxer who refuses to throw a fight.

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Episode 38

The Trap

Tue, Jun 9, 195930 mins

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.

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Episode 39

Death for Hire

Tue, Jun 16, 195930 mins

An old college professor is brutally attacked and kidnapped by operatives of a dictator in South America, who intend to bring him there for a show trial. To get there, they force a fishing boat captain to sneak out of the harbor, but the unsafe ship takes on water after an accident.

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