Rescue 8 is a syndicated

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 American

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 action drama series

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 about Los Angeles County Fire Department

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 Rescue Squad Number 8. It premiered in 1958, and originally ran for two seasons with syndicated reruns continuing for almost a decade after. It starred Jim Davis

Jim Davis (actor)

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 as fireman Wes Cameron, and Lang Jeffries

Lang Jeffries

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 as fireman Skip Johnson. The series was produced by Screen Gems

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, with directors Dann Cahn and William Witney

William Witney

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. A total of seventy-three half-hour episodes were produced.

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. This series showed more physically oriented rescues than the later, similar television series Emergency!

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, as firemen

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 were not trained as paramedics at the time of its production.

Guest stars appearing in this series included Walter Coy

Walter Coy

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, Brad Johnson, James Philbrook

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, John M. Pickard

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 and Tyler McVey

Tyler McVey

Tyler McVey was an American character actor.-Early life and career:McVey was born in Bay City on Saginaw Bay in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. His first screen role, uncredited, came at the age of 39 in 1951, when he portrayed Brady in the The Day the Earth Stood Still...

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