The Fire Brigade

The Fire Brigade
Premiere date	September 14, 1974
Run time	20:37
Director(s)	Charles A. Nichols Gordon Hunt
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"The Fire Brigade" is the second episode of These Are the Days season one. It aired on September 14, 1974 on ABC. It was directed by Charles A. Nichols.

Grandpa is showing signs of his age when he fails to help the fire brigade in a timely manner.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Jeff Day	Henry Jones
Homer	Frank Cady
Ben Day	Andrew Parks
Danny Day	Jack E. Haley
Jonas	Unavailable
Logan	John Stephenson
Martha Day	June Lockhart
Kathy Day	Pamelyn Ferdin
Caesar	Don Messick
Mr. Jenkins	John Stephenson

Organizations

• Fire brigade
• Daily News

Locations

• United States
  • Great Plains
    • Elmsville
      • General store
      • Barber shop
      • Day residence
    • Logan's
• Africa (indirectly mentioned)
  • Sahara (mentioned)

Objects

• Daily News newspaper
• Mighty Master Mixer

Vehicles

• Fire wagon

Production

Development

Every episode was credited with the same group of writers, who consisted of Bernie Khan, Leo Rifkin, Gene Thompson, Same Locke, Milton Pascal, Dick Wesson. The executive story consultant and story editor were Myles Wilder and Ed Jurist, respectively.

Music

Hoyt Curtin was credited as musical director, with supervision by Paul DeKorte.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 14, 1974 on ABC

Behind the scenes

• Grandpa is called Jeff Day in this episode, and Martha calls him "Pa" at one point, which would seem to suggest that the Day family name comes from him, yet Martha is supposed to be a widow, so shouldn't the Day name come from her late husband?
• Martha's name is revealed.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning