Trevor's Boot Sale

Release Details

Series

4

Number

4.05

Released

6 October 1994 (WEL, UK)
8 November 1994 (ENG, UK)^[1]
31 October 1995 (AUS)

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Trevor's Boot Sale (renamed Trevor's Bus Boot Sale in one VHS release) is the fifth episode of Series 4.

Summary

Trevor is collecting old unused objects from the residents as he and Bella are hosting a Boot Sale, but he then gets trapped under Elvis' burnt out cooker at the rubbish dump and is in danger of suffocating from inhaling the poisonous fumes of linking household cleaners and sodium hypochlorite. Sam and Elvis rescue him by wearing Chemical Protection Suits and patching up the hole in the Sodium drum. Afterwards Trevor brings a big surprise for his hero, Norman, a pair of rollerblades.

Characters

Vehicles

Locations

Pontypandy Fire Station
The Park
Bella's Cafe
Price's General Store

Trivia

This is the only time we see the firefighters wearing a Chemical protection suit over their normal firefighter uniforms.
The stirrup pump from Jupiter's chimney gear (from Thief in Pontypandy) makes a return in this episode.
At Trevor's tip, numerous discarded items can be recognized from earlier episodes of Fireman Sam which include the runaway tyre from Flat Tyre, the broken TV of Bella's from Telly Trouble, the burned-out fire station cooker from Spot of Bother and the bed push bed from All in a Good Cause. A Biggott's box from Joshua Jones can also be seen at the tip.
This is the only chemical-related emergency until Battle of the Birthdays, most likely because most chemical emergencies, particularly when asphyxiating chemicals like sodium chloride are involved, would be too dramatic/traumatic for children to watch.
Release Date: March 21, 1994.

Goofs

Trevor appears to not suffer from the fumes as much as a person in real life would.
The oxygen mask given to Trevor when rescued should’ve gone over his nose instead of under it.