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240-Robert is an American drama series that ran on ABC from 1979 to 1981. The series title is a reference to the call-sign designation for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's search and rescue/paramedic teams.
Episodes
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- E1 The ApologyNext upAug 28, 1979 · 60 min
Synopsis
In this special preview movie the rescue team of the Sheriff's Aero Bureau and Emergency Services Detail save the occupants of a plane that has crashed into the ocean and a woman trapped on a mountain.
Guest stars: Irene Tedrow (Fake Sissie), Karen Lamm (Donna), Pamelyn Ferdin (Nikki), Janice Lynde, Christian Brackett-Zika (Jimmy Kline), Lew Saunders (Deputy C.B.)
- E2 StuntmanSep 3, 1979 · 60 min
Synopsis
The 240 rescue team have to take drastic action after a famous retired stunt man makes a daring comeback attempt by trying the most death-defying feat of his career.
Guest stars: Bettye Ackerman, Jenilee Harrison (Jill), Bill Williams, Karrie Emerson (College Girl), Matthew Faison, Lew Saunders (Deputy C.B.)
- E3 BathysphereSep 10, 1979 · 60 min
Synopsis
The 240 rescue team are forced to act quickly when a speedboat cuts short the test of an experimental diving bell by severing the air lines and imprisoning the two students 120 feet below the surface. In another development, a woman rescued by Thibideaux is an important person in the recording industry and vows to make him a star.
Guest stars: Randee Heller, Raymond O'Keefe, Lew Saunders (Deputy C.B.)
- E4 ModelsSep 17, 1979 · 60 min
Synopsis
The 240-Robert rescue team faces a harrowing experience when they try to rescue two window washers clinging from a broken scaffold 40 stories up on a skyscraper, while beautiful members of a modeling agency inside the building watch with astonishment.
Guest stars: Kaye Stevens, Lew Saunders (Deputy C.B.)
- E5 Acting SergeantSep 24, 1979 · 60 min
Synopsis
An isolated mountain cabin becomes a makeshift operating room when Thib is forced to perform emergency surgery on an injured student after the 240 rescue team are stranded by fierce weather and rugged terrain.
Guest stars: Stanley Kamel, Lew Saunders (Deputy C.B.)
- E6 Bank JobOct 1, 1979 · 60 min
Synopsis
A routine dive by Trap and Thib in a reservoir to recover stolen bank money takes a perilous turn when an attendant trips a valve, drawing Trap toward a huge drain that could crush him to death.
Guest stars: Claudia Jennings (Barbara Rice), Matthew Perry (Arthur), Lew Saunders (Deputy C.B.)
- E7 Out of SightOct 15, 1979 · 60 min
Synopsis
Thib's career seems to be over when he loses his sight after a high-speed crash, and two doped-up kids in a car turn a gas station into a deadly inferno.
Guest stars: Eric Server, Harvey Lembeck, Hunter von Leer, Lew Saunders (Deputy C.B.)
- E8 Time BombOct 22, 1979 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Peter Tomarken, Marie Denn, Don 'Red' Barry
- E9 Double TroubleOct 29, 1979 · 60 min
Synopsis
Trap and Thib receive some unusual support from sun worshipers at a nude beach as they attempt to rescue one of the nudists trapped in an awkward position, and Morgan is forced into a deadly situation when she must crash-land her chopper with two young boys aboard.
Guest stars: Dick Clair, Lew Saunders (Deputy C.B.)
- E10 Poison AirNov 5, 1979 · 60 min
Synopsis
After the spectacular rescue of a panic-stricken woman stranded in a hot air balloon, Trap suits up for a pleasure dive with Morgan, unaware that a vengeful youth has spiked his air tanks with poison gas, and Thib undertakes a desperate off-shore race against time to save his buddy.
Guest stars: Al Mancini, Val Bisoglio (Carmine), Shelley Morrison (Angie), Alex Hyde-White (Michael), Jon Gries (Brad), Hoke Howell (Breward)
- E11 EarthquakeNov 19, 1979 · 60 min
Synopsis
An earthquake rocks the county, spelling disaster and almost certain death for Trap and Thib when they become sealed in an underwater cave with two stunning but frightened models, as the water rises and a voracious moray eel goes on the prowl.
Guest stars: Anne-Marie Martin, Janet Julian
- E12 The ApplicantNov 26, 1979 · 60 min
Synopsis
In a spectacular rescue high atop a collapsing Ferris wheel, Trap and Thib receive some daring support from a stunning policewoman, but then they're confronted by terrifying jaws of death when they must save a brash new member of the unit who panics in shark-infested waters.
Guest stars: Theresa Saldana (Rosie), Jenilee Harrison (Jill), Dinah Shore (Dinah Shore), Sal Lopez (Tommy), Enrique Castillo (Pepe), Michael Leon (Carlos)
- E13 Oil and WaterDec 3, 1979 · 60 min
Synopsis
A man in a hang glider entangled in power lines brings Thib perilously close to a high-voltage death and Trap starts playing detective when he learns about Morgan's new love life.
Guest stars: Peter Mark Richman (Marcus), Hugh Warden, Lew Saunders (Deputy C.B.), Frank Farmer (Masters), Robert Dowdell (Dr. Lewis)
Cast & crew
Created by Rick Rosner
John Bennett Perry
Stephen W. Burns
Pamela Hensley
