In the premiere episode, a man is lost over the channel in a runaway hot air balloon, two skindivers are trapped in an underwater cave, and a buffalo prefers the Lighthouse Bar in town to his Home on the range indicating it is rescue time again for the members of the Island Rescue Forces.

The first annual beauty contest on the island has the full attention of Rick and George two of its judges, but their concentration is diverted by, among other things, a sailboat accident, an auto accident, and a mine shaft cave-in.

A rescue team must get a boy out who is trapped in a freezer. After 3 people wash ashore unconscious the crew must do a detective work to determine what happened. Three foreigners, who have been adrift for weeks in a small boat, are unconscious when they wash ashore on the island; George has the unhappy task of tying up a dangerous World War II mine; and Rick finds himself in the midst of a blooming romance.