The Firehouse Five Plus Ghost

Episode aired Nov 20, 1969
TV-PG
30m

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

YOUR RATING

Slapstick Comedy Fantasy

The Keystone Cops meet the Schooner Bay Fire Department via Claymore's misspending of civic funds. Carolyn does her due diligence to bring the department into the 20th Century.The Keystone Cops meet the Schooner Bay Fire Department via Claymore's misspending of civic funds. Carolyn does her due diligence to bring the department into the 20th Century.The Keystone Cops meet the Schooner Bay Fire Department via Claymore's misspending of civic funds. Carolyn does her due diligence to bring the department into the 20th Century.

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Trivia
The title references the Dixieland jazz band "The Firehouse Five Plus Two," whose members worked in the Walt Disney Studios animation department in the 1950s.

Goofs
Claymore leaves the kerosene can right up against the fireplace grate. If there had been a fire in the fireplace instead of smoke, there could have been a serious emergency. In fact, when Capt. Gregg rids the house of smoke, all the wood in the fireplace has been charred, so there must have been a fire in there somewhere that somehow failed to ignite the kerosene.

Quotes
Martha Grant: That's a switch, the house putting out the fire engine.

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7/10

The Keystone Firemen

Claymore (Charles Nelson Reilly) accidentally starts a fire at Gull Cottage and housekeeper Martha (Reta Shaw) calls for the volunteer fire department of which he is chief. Captain Gregg (Edward Mulhare) and his ghostly ways puts out the fire, but the Keystone Cops-esque firefighters arrive only to see their antiquated fire engine catch fire. They've left their hose nozzle back at the fire house and Mrs. Muir (Hope Lange) puts it out with her garden hose. "That's a switch," says Martha. "The house putting out the fire engine." Mrs. Muir insists the city buy a modern fire engine to protect them against the wishes of council president Claymore who has misappropriates funds for past trips to the Bahamas. She visits bumbling Fire Commissioner Lilly (Avery Schreiber) who writes an order for the engine to be inspected. Claymore finds loopholes in the regulations, but the Captain will have his input in the inspection to comedic effect.

There's finally some crisp comedy in this episode that had been lacking for some time in the series, in my opinion.