Script #37422; Episode #3.15; Airdate: 1/12/1974
Writer: Dennis Landa
Director: Richard Newton
Guest Cast: J. Pat O'Malley, Ann Prentiss, Karl Swenson, Carol Lawson,
John Shawlee, Paul Bryer, Vince Howard, Tammy Harrington, Paul Sorenson, Lance Kerwin.
Story: Johnny is besieged by the phantom aka
Chet. A child is trapped in a burning tree. A bulldozer drives off a cliff and lands on
top of a garbage truck injuring three men. A loveable old hypochondric has a real illness
for a change. The owner of a gas station has stomach problems. A man is speechless
after his wife gives him sap from her houseplant. Roy and Johnny need Vince's help
to treat a child who has swallowed ant poison.
Goofs: (1) When bringing out the kid that swallowed the ant poison on the stretcher the
left strap is over the side bar. When putting him into the ambulance it's not over the
side bar.(2) When Roy and Johnny return from a run, Roy backs the squad in next to
the old crown engine. The next run, the new Ward LaFrance engine is there as it should be!
(3) There is a tree fire at the beginning of the story. When Chet and Marco are connecting
the nozzles to the inch and a halves at the back of the truck, you see that it is a Crown.
However this episode the Ward La France. Also, Captain Stanley has Roy pull the reel line.
You see the reel line being pulled off the left side of the rig. Next thing you see it
coming off the right side. (4) Every time engine 51 rolls out in a call Mike
Stoker gets in wearing his black jacket then drives off. However when he gets out at the scene, he is wearing his turnout coat. There is no way he could
have put it on enroute.