The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV Series)

The Firehouse Five Plus Ghost (1969)

Avery Schreiber: Fire Commissioner Lilly

Quotes 

• Fire Commissioner Lilly : [following the fire department's life net test]  Well, at least the sidewalk broke its fall.

• 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.

• 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?