 "Rescue 8" produced seventy-four half-hour episodes.The first season ran on Tuesday evenings, and the second season on Wednesdays.In the series premiere, "The Ferris Wheel" (September 23, 1958), the firemen must devise a plan to retrieve a woman, who was recently released from a mental institution (Jeanne Bates), and her young daughter (Gina Gillespie) from the top of a Ferris wheel on which they are trapped.