Unlike most episodes, this one begins with a run that's called in while Gage and DeSoto are on the road.
A toddler named Billy is trapped in a Ford Pinto that broke a fire hydrant, hit a tree and brought down two live power lines on the car.
It looks like it might be big trouble, but the paramedics solve it easily enough and save Billy. The star of the scene is Billy's mother, who had left the car just before it rolled down a hill with Billy inside. She runs up hollering, and Gage has to physically stop her from running to the car. I can't tell who the actress is, but she emoted well.
"It's mommy's fault," she tells Billy. "I didn't curb the wheels."
Back at station, Roy is about tell Johnny about a letter sent to both of them by Mrs. Rosendahl, whom they saved a year ago and has since died. Just as he's about to get into it, they get a call.
The secretary of a commodities trader phoned for help after her boss, Mr. Winthrop (well played by Warren Berlinger), collapsed temporarily.
When the paramedics arrive, Winthrop is talking on three phones, giving buy and sell orders frantically. He doesn't want to take time away from trading for medical tests and tells the paramedics to leave. Just then he has chest pains, and they go to work on him. As they wheel him out on a gurney he says, "This better be necessary or I'll get you guys for this." Winthrop's story is revisited periodically throughout the episode, as Brackett and Early have their problems in getting him to cooperate, too. It would be less entertaining if they hadn't found such a good actor for the part. Berlinger really dives in and chews scenery.
Be sure to watch for Marion Ross (a.k.a. Mrs. Cunningham of Happy Days) as Winthrop's secretary.
After the Winthrop run the boys discuss the letter saying they were named in Mrs. Rosendahl's will. Gage assumes they'll be rich and fantasizes aloud what he will do with the money. Roy eventually gives in and throws out his own ideas, although his are more practical than Gage's.
You have to wait for episode's end to see how it turned out, but a lawyer explains to them that the estate was worth $1.2 million, but there are "deductions." It takes five minutes for him to name them all, and the boys are left with $37.50. Adding insult to injury, the lady's cat got $15,000.
There's a strange filler scene at Rampart where a boy about six-years-old, apparently unaccompanied by an adult, finds Joe Early and says his friend Pete is outside, and can he buy a bandage with seven cents to patch Pete up? Joe gets Pete to come inside, applies a bandage, then has a conversation with the boys, showing them how to use a stethoscope. Then they all say goodbye, and it's on to the next thing.
I was saying, "Why aren't you asking these boys where their parents are and why they are in the hospital without them?" But the writers didn't address that. Sometimes I think this stuff is inserted into episodes because they are short a few minutes to fill their allotted time.
The next paramedic call is a teenager who collapsed after consuming 19 hamburgers in an eating contest. It's done mostly for laughs, as the teen who won the contest by eating 20 hamburgers is skinny as a rail and says he just feels a little "full." The other teen is fine after they get him to Rampart. The marquis run is a fire at Acme Paint. It's a great visual, as they really did set a building on fire, had windows blowing out and a truck exploding. One man ran out on fire, so the paramedics had someone to treat.
The scene where the lawyer explains that the boys are getting chump change from the estate comes after the paint factory fire, and a call comes in, so the boys have to get moving again.
Gage is bummed out because he didn't inherit a bundle. DeSoto says, "Cheer up, it's a rich neighborhood."
A toddler named Billy is trapped in a Ford Pinto that broke a fire hydrant, hit a tree and brought down two live power lines on the car.
It looks like it might be big trouble, but the paramedics solve it easily enough and save Billy. The star of the scene is Billy's mother, who had left the car just before it rolled down a hill with Billy inside. She runs up hollering, and Gage has to physically stop her from running to the car. I can't tell who the actress is, but she emoted well.
"It's mommy's fault," she tells Billy. "I didn't curb the wheels."
Back at station, Roy is about tell Johnny about a letter sent to both of them by Mrs. Rosendahl, whom they saved a year ago and has since died. Just as he's about to get into it, they get a call.
The secretary of a commodities trader phoned for help after her boss, Mr. Winthrop (well played by Warren Berlinger), collapsed temporarily.
When the paramedics arrive, Winthrop is talking on three phones, giving buy and sell orders frantically. He doesn't want to take time away from trading for medical tests and tells the paramedics to leave. Just then he has chest pains, and they go to work on him. As they wheel him out on a gurney he says, "This better be necessary or I'll get you guys for this." Winthrop's story is revisited periodically throughout the episode, as Brackett and Early have their problems in getting him to cooperate, too. It would be less entertaining if they hadn't found such a good actor for the part. Berlinger really dives in and chews scenery.
Be sure to watch for Marion Ross (a.k.a. Mrs. Cunningham of Happy Days) as Winthrop's secretary.
After the Winthrop run the boys discuss the letter saying they were named in Mrs. Rosendahl's will. Gage assumes they'll be rich and fantasizes aloud what he will do with the money. Roy eventually gives in and throws out his own ideas, although his are more practical than Gage's.
You have to wait for episode's end to see how it turned out, but a lawyer explains to them that the estate was worth $1.2 million, but there are "deductions." It takes five minutes for him to name them all, and the boys are left with $37.50. Adding insult to injury, the lady's cat got $15,000.
There's a strange filler scene at Rampart where a boy about six-years-old, apparently unaccompanied by an adult, finds Joe Early and says his friend Pete is outside, and can he buy a bandage with seven cents to patch Pete up? Joe gets Pete to come inside, applies a bandage, then has a conversation with the boys, showing them how to use a stethoscope. Then they all say goodbye, and it's on to the next thing.
I was saying, "Why aren't you asking these boys where their parents are and why they are in the hospital without them?" But the writers didn't address that. Sometimes I think this stuff is inserted into episodes because they are short a few minutes to fill their allotted time.
The next paramedic call is a teenager who collapsed after consuming 19 hamburgers in an eating contest. It's done mostly for laughs, as the teen who won the contest by eating 20 hamburgers is skinny as a rail and says he just feels a little "full." The other teen is fine after they get him to Rampart. The marquis run is a fire at Acme Paint. It's a great visual, as they really did set a building on fire, had windows blowing out and a truck exploding. One man ran out on fire, so the paramedics had someone to treat.
The scene where the lawyer explains that the boys are getting chump change from the estate comes after the paint factory fire, and a call comes in, so the boys have to get moving again.
Gage is bummed out because he didn't inherit a bundle. DeSoto says, "Cheer up, it's a rich neighborhood."
