The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV Series)
The Firehouse Five Plus Ghost (1969)
Avery Schreiber: Fire Commissioner Lilly
Quotes
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Fire Commissioner Lilly : [following the fire department's life net test] Well, at least the sidewalk broke its fall.
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Fire Commissioner Lilly : [timing the Schooner Bay fire department] It's taken them twenty-eight minutes to get here.
Carolyn Muir : Don't forget, Commissioner, they've had to come a whole mile.
Fire Commissioner Lilly : My grandmother made better time riding sidesaddle for the Pony Express, and she fell off a lot.
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Claymore Gregg : [citing the current regulations that have not been changed since 1911] There's not one thing on this paper, Commissioner, that that engine can not meet.
[the fire brigade all starts to concur at once]
Claymore Gregg : At ease, men, steady, 'tention!
[back to Commissioner Lilly]
Claymore Gregg : Including the emergency pair of blinders we carry for the horses.
Fire Commissioner Lilly : [dryly] You got a pair for me?