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Rescue 8 Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

39 Episodes 1958 - 1959

Episode 1

Ferris Wheel

Tue, Sep 23, 1958 30 mins

A woman and child are trapped in the top seat of a ferris wheel. Wes: Jim Davis. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Patty: Nancy Rennick.

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Episode 2

102 to Bakersfield

Tue, Sep 30, 1958 30 mins

A robber hijacks a bus and takes it into an area being dynamited. Wes: Jim Davis. Nick: Douglas Dick. Terry: Toni Gerry.

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Episode 3

The Cliff

Tue, Oct 7, 1958 30 mins

The rescue men try to save a young boy who fell to the ledge of a cliff. Wes: Jim Davis. Tom: Rand Brooks. Skip: Lang Jeffries.

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Episode 4

The Subterranean City

Tue, Oct 14, 1958 30 mins

Wes and Skip search for a child lost in a storm-sewer system. Wes: Jim Davis. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Patty: Nancy Rennick. Pete: Warren Oates. Whitey: Ralph Votrian.

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Episode 5

The Cage

Tue, Oct 21, 1958 30 mins

Wes tries to save a crazed killer trapped in a bear pit. Wes: Jim Davis. Ann: Ruta Lee. Walt: Jack Weston. Skip: Lang Jeffries.

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Episode 6

The Crackup

Tue, Oct 28, 1958 30 mins

Wes realizes he will not be able to free a pregnant woman from a plane wreck before her baby is born. Wes: Jim Davis. Riley: Bruce Bennett. Joan: Gloria Henry. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Patty: Nancy Rennick.

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Episode 7

The Ammonia Trap

Tue, Nov 4, 1958 30 mins

An earthquake traps three men in an ice vault---with a broken ammonia pipe line. Wes: Jim Davis. Skip: Lang Jeffries.

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Episode 8

The Chasm

Tue, Nov 11, 1958 30 mins

The rescue team must save a man and his son-in-law from the side of a dam. Ollie: Ralph Moody. Jim: William Phipps. Wes: Jim Davis.

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Episode 9

Steel Mountain

Tue, Nov 18, 1958 30 mins

Searching for stolen loot, a man gets trapped between two trolley cars. Wes: Jim Davis. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Mickey: Michael Dante.

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Episode 10

Find That Bomb

Tue, Nov 25, 1958 30 mins

The team makes a frantic search for a time bomb left aboard a yacht. Joe: Mike Connors. Kit: Barbara Hayden. Wes: Jim Davis.

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Episode 11

The Cave-in

Tue, Dec 2, 1958 30 mins

A man is buried waist-deep in a dirt pit---with the soil level rising each minute. Ezra: Will Wright. Wes: Jim Davis. Lucy: Grace Field.

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Episode 12

The Bells of Fear

Tue, Dec 9, 1958 30 mins

On Christmas Eve, a clockmaker gets caught in the bell mechanism of a church clock. Ben Kopak: Eduardo Ciannelli. Wes Cameron: Jim Davis. Skip Johnson: Lang Jeffries.

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Episode 13

Danger! 20,000 Volts

Tue, Dec 16, 1958 30 mins

A derailed train is trapped under exposed high-voltage wires---so that any passenger trying to leave will be electrocuted. Wes: Jim Davis. Martha: Anne Gwynne. Fred: John Pickard. Skip: Lang Jeffries.

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Episode 14

The Scrap-Iron Jungle

Tue, Dec 23, 1958 30 mins

Fleeing police, two girls hide in a junked auto, not knowing it's about to be dropped into a hot press. Wes: Jim Davis. Candy: Sue George. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Madge: Rebecca Welles. Salesman: Ray Walker.

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Episode 15

Calamity Coach

Tue, Dec 30, 1958 30 mins

A young actor is uncooperative when Wes tries to rescue him from the side of a cliff. Ric: Robert Lowery. Wes: Jim Davis. Linda: Jolene Brand. Skip: Lang Jeffries.

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Episode 16

Secret of the Mission

Tue, Jan 6, 1959 30 mins

A young thief is trapped at the scene of his crime when a church ceiling collapses. Wes: Jim Davis. Carlos: Rafael Campos. Father Flynn: J. Pat O'Malley.

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Episode 17

Trial by Fire

Tue, Jan 13, 1959 30 mins

Skip makes a deadly enemy of another rescue man. Then the two meet at a factory fire. Wes: Jim Davis. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Chad: James Best. Patty: Nancy Rennick.

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Episode 18

High Hazard

Tue, Jan 20, 1959 30 mins

A man's life is endangered when his nephew's wife switches medical records. Stanton: Howard Wendell. Wes: Jim Davis. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Sandra: Regina Gleason.

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Episode 19

Rubber Gold

Tue, Jan 27, 1959 30 mins

In a tire plant, Wes and Skip must find a wounded man who is half blind. Rocky: Mike Mazurki. Kolb: Roy Barcroft. Wes: Jim Davis. Skip: Lang Jeffries.

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Episode 20

Flash Flood

Tue, Feb 3, 1959 30 mins

Threatened by a flood, a demented man (John Carradine) sets a series of traps to discourage his rescue. Wes: Jim Davis. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Millie: Virginia Christine.

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Episode 21

Initiation in Danger

Tue, Feb 10, 1959 30 mins

A freshman hazing ends in disaster: a boy is locked in a water tank with the water running. Wes: Jim Davis. Rocklin: James Beck. Paul: Tommy Ivo. Skip: Lang Jeffries.

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Episode 22

Disaster Town

Tue, Feb 17, 1959 30 mins

While searching for her son in a ghost town, a woman falls through a rotting floor. Wes: Jim Davis. Ellen: Gail Kobe. Jimmy: Jay North.

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Episode 23

A Handful of Vengeance

Tue, Feb 24, 1959 30 mins

A madman locks a family---and the rescue team---in a burning house. Stephano: Peter Brocco. Wes: Jim Davis. Mary: Anne Bellamy.

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Episode 24

Forty-Five Fathoms, Dead or Alive

Tue, Mar 3, 1959 30 mins

A man is trapped on the ocean floor when his brother accidentally jams the winch that could save him. Wes: Jim Davis. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Fred: John Archer. Janet: Ann McCrea. Norris: Don Durant.

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Episode 25

Children of the Sun

Tue, Mar 10, 1959 30 mins

Skip's mother-in-law must be rescued from an earthquake area. Wes: Jim Davis. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Mrs. Curtis: Louise Lorimer.

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Episode 26

International Incident

Tue, Mar 17, 1959 30 mins

A prince's life is endangered by assassins who tampered with his car's brakes. Wes: Jim Davis. Prince: Roberto Cabal. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Panda Lal: Lou Krugman.

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Episode 27

Nine Minutes to Live

Tue, Mar 24, 1959 30 mins

An engineer is trapped in a mine---with a time bomb set to go off. Wes: Jim Davis. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Barston: Frank Ferguson.

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Episode 28

No Trespassing

Tue, Mar 31, 1959 30 mins

Wes is forced to operate on an appendicitis victim while a doctor instructs him by phone. Wes: Jim Davis. Clem: Jason Johnson. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Jane: Patricia Blair. Ronald: Richard Rust.

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Episode 29

Three Men in a Vault

Tue, Apr 7, 1959 30 mins

Trying to thwart a robbery, a man locks himself---and the crooks---in an airtight vault. Wes: Jim Davis. Crotty: John Alvin. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Trig: James Anderson.

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Episode 30

The Walking Death

Tue, Apr 14, 1959 30 mins

An AWOL sailor is suspected of having typhoid fever. Wes: Jim Davis. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Ralph: Johnny Seven.

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Episode 31

Tower of Hate

Tue, Apr 21, 1959 30 mins

The rescue team must save a wounded man who is clinging to a girder 400 feet above water. Wes: Jim Davis. Bill: Ross Elliott. Heinrich: Jack Kruschen.

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Episode 32

Danger in Paradise

Tue, Apr 28, 1959 30 mins

A night watchman at a movie studio chases a pair of intruders onto a shaky catwalk high above the stage. Wes: Jim Davis. Marge: Suzanne Lloyd. Pete: William Swan.

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Episode 33

Hour of Rage

Tue, May 5, 1959 30 mins

A man swears revenge when Wes and Skip fail to revive his dead wife. Johnny: Harry Landers. Wes: Jim Davis. Skip: Lang Jeffries.

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Episode 34

If the Bough Breaks

Tue, May 12, 1959 30 mins

A huge branch crushes a man against the trunk of a tree he's sawing. Dora: Hope Summers. Wes: Jim Davis. Dot: Sally Fraser. Charles: Emerson Treacy. Skip: Lang Jeffries.

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Episode 35

High Pressure

Tue, May 19, 1959 30 mins

Two men trapped in a chasm are menaced by oncoming flood waters. Wes: Jim Davis. John: Paul Langton. Foley: Morris Ankrum.

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Episode 36

One More Step

Tue, May 26, 1959 30 mins

An actress falls from a catwalk into a network of hoist ropes. Wes: Jim Davis. Melinda: Kaye Elhardt. Skip: Lang Jeffries.

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Episode 37

Left Hook to Hades

Tue, Jun 2, 1959 30 mins

A boxer refuses to throw a fight---and is attacked by gangsters. Lou: Walter Duke. Wes: Jim Davis. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Thompson: Walter Burke. Terry: Lester Maxwell.

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Episode 38

The Trap

Tue, Jun 9, 1959 30 mins

A man is trapped in a fire with enough nitroglycerin to level the entire area. Wes: Jim Davis. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Fred: Terry Becker.

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Episode 39

Death for Hire

Tue, Jun 16, 1959 30 mins

A fisherman gets pinned under the boat he was launching. Wes: Jim Davis. Skip: Lang Jeffries. Rocha: Joe Vitale.

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