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Time Bomb

Episode Number: 8    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Monday October 22, 1979    Prod Code: n/a
Trap wants to transfer because Morgan is about to become the unit's first woman sergeant, but Trap and Thib must first cope with a lion running wild in the streets, and then face underwater death when given just seconds to disarm a time-bomb set to blow up an oil tanker.

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Writer: Patrick Mathews
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Star: Peter J. Pitchess (Sheriff),  Margie Foster (Dispatcher, Kam Francis),  Jeff Galucci (Deputy DeVito),  Brian Frishman (Deputy),  Andrew Robinson (Wilson),  Pamela Hensley (Deputy Sandy Harper),  Jay Varela (Lieutenant Vetter),  Tori Lysdahl (Deputy Michelle),  Michael Toland (Deputy "Phone Number" Fedderson),  Brant van Hoffman (Deputy Bottendott),  Mark Harmon (Deputy Dwayne Thibideaux or "Thib"),  Thomas Babson (Deputy Terry Caster),  John Bennett Perry (Deputy Theodore Roosevelt Applegate III or "Trap"),  Steven Ford (Deputy Burgess),  Mac Wilkins (Deputy "Big Bird"),  Stephen W. Burns (Deputy Brett Cueva),  Joe Al Nicassio (Deputy Gary Roverino),  Steve Tannen (Deputy Frank Kestenbaum),  Rene Levant (Deputy Hamilton),  Taylor Lacher (Captain Berman),  Burt Marshall (Deputy Hamilton (pilot episode only)),  Lew Saunders (Deputy C.B. Harris),  Jeffrey Bannister (Deputy Price),  Joanna Cassidy (Deputy Morgan Wainwright)
Guest Star: Jeff Gallucci (Deputy DeVito),  Robert Dunlap (Erving),  Eda Reiss Merin (Lady #3),  William Giorgio (Melvin),  Rick Garcia (Lenny),  Socorro Swan (Pregnant Woman),  Marie Denn (Lady #2),  Claudia Bryar (Lady #1),  Ron Burke (Tommy),  Greta Blackburn (Carmen),  Stephen Pharr (Sergeant Deputy Wainwright),  Peter Tomarken (Director),  Jay Varela (Lt. Vetter),  Don 'Red' Barry (Lion Tamer),  Robert Corff (Bruce)

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Original Air Date (in US): 22nd October 1979 (edit)
RADIO CALL HQ SPEAKER: "Two calls. 902 R movie crane operator stranded. 905 lion cited. Both at Sunrise Point."

240-R-2,
240-R-5 and
240-R-Air all respond. Bronco winches secure the camera boom crane.
Trap walks on crane to secure cameraman (Tony) with a safety line who is hanging upside-down by his feet.
240-R-Air brings in a harness to airlift Trap & victim out to top of cliff. (edit)
Meanwhile...
At a deli shop...Erving the employee empties trash out back and sees a lion. Erving jumps over a fence into a dumpster, but he leaves the back door to the deli shop open. The lion walks in. The 4 women customers panic and break the front windows glass by throwing cans of food in order to get out. (edit)
Then the lion then sees a poodle and begins to chase it down the street. A woman driving sees the lion walking and gets into a car crash. 240-R team springs in to action. The woman is trapped in her car and is pregnant. She also speaks Spanish. Trap asks for "survive air" and give her a face mask of air. They use the Bronco's winch to pull off the crushed car door to free the pregnant woman. The woman is very thankful. 240-R-Air airlifts the pregnant woman to the hospital. (edit)
Morgan wants to speak to Trap alone at "Maloney's at 9:00pm after work." (edit)

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RADIO CALL HQ SPEAKER: "Two calls. 902 R movie crane operator stranded. 905 lion cited. Both at Sunrise Point." (edit)
RADIO CALL: "905 V (Victor) at meat market at Foothill and Vidugal." (edit)

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